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lezzles
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 02:37 am
Guilt is something that is not considered fashionable today. It suggests people should accept responsibility for their actions.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:05 am
"Actions speak louder than words" was a slogan used by the Tory party in the 60s. It didn't stop them all talking, speaking, ranting, verbalising, and giving tongue.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:12 am
Tongue in cheek is an expression widely used. Unfortunately, sometimes I dive in to it, too.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:15 am
Too many cars on the roads make Britain an unpleasant place to drive in. Especially when coupled with winter days which begin at 7.30 and end at 3.30.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 04:49 am
3.30 is the off time for the Qq.com Doug Moscrop Handicap Chase (4yo+, Class 3, 2m 6f 110y) at Kelso today. I hope to be sprawled across the sofa by then.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 04:57 am
3.30 hours is the time required to ascend to the top of Mount Lofty near Adelaide in South Australia. One has to be reasonably fit to climb this 3000 feet hill.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 08:42 am
Hill climbing was never one of my favourite activities. Penang Hill may be an exception, although there is a mini railway.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 10:03 am
Railway sleepers are very useful items. They can be used to make footbridges over streams, for supporting soil in tiered gardens, for firewood if one doesn't mind the smell, in the construction of silage pits and all manner of other things which it would be much to tedious to list in a short sentence such as I had hoped this one would turn out to be when I foolishly began it.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 11:23 am
It intrigues me that railway sleepers have a smell, what sort of smell is it? I can't imagine it would be very unpleasant.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 11:30 am
Unpleasant it's not. It's just the smell of the creosote, used to impregnate them.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 01:58 pm
Them bones, them bones, them dry bones is the first line of the chorus for that song about how we are all connected up. The last time I saw it done was with some skeleton puppets.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 02:13 pm
Puppets are figures or dolls made to look like a person or an animal. Puppets are controlled by people. Some puppets fit over the hand or a finger, others have strings or rods that are moved from above or below.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:05 pm
Below three on the ascending scale of numbers is two. Two is the maximum number of sentences allowed on this thread and it is also the minimum number.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:16 pm
Number one, thank you for that information. Number two, shall try to keep to the rules in future.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:28 pm
Future perfect is "I will have finished this by seven". English grammar rules are confusing to many foreigners.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 03:49 pm
Foreigners are people from outside a particular group or community. They are sometimes also called aliens.
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Clary
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 05:08 pm
Aliens comes from the Latin meaning "others". Any outgroup will do, but in the last 50 years aliens are often just creatures from outer space.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 06:57 pm
Space is a concept I have some difficulty with. It's alright in my immediate vicinity but it just seems to go on and on with seemingly no end to it.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Sat 4 Nov, 2006 07:26 pm
It never bothered me to ask anybody why is it so. However since watching a re-run of Julius Summer Miller's TV show, I have become an inquisitive person.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 5 Nov, 2006 09:20 am
"Person" is another of those words which seem, on the face of it, to be deliberately chosen to blunt the wit of players on this thread. The only other explanation is total stupidity which, one supposes, nothing can be done about.
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