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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 16 May, 2007 02:24 pm
Fraudulent ain't the word! It's a form of pickpocketing off the vulnerable.
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 03:29 am
Vulnerable is often nowadays pronounced without the L, which seems lazy. Lazy speech reduced Augustum to Août in French.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 03:40 am
French shortened the word because the chiggers (Aoûtats) were itching them. Have your ever been to a place with chiggers around?
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 05:59 am
Around what cities and marshes do chiggers exist? I think I've been lucky to avoid such pests.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 06:07 am
Pests like that are very common around Paris in August and September. One cannot avoid them.
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 06:09 am
Them months I'll try to avoid in future, though I will probably skim past Paris at the very tail end of August.
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whiteviolet
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 07:51 pm
August is my least favourite month - it's too hot. But it's great when it gives way to my favourite month, golden September.
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Dutchy
 
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Reply Thu 17 May, 2007 11:56 pm
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. September begins in western tropical astrology with the sun in the sign of Virgo and ends in the sign of Libra.
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whiteviolet
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 12:52 am
Libra, Virgo - astrology is codswallop in my view! I cannot understand how it can have any validity and it seems so primitive.
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 01:14 am
Primitive art is a bit of a con. My inner Parent thinks so, anyway.
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Francis
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 02:09 am
Anyway, primitive art was Chirac's hobby. The new president is a primitive and knows nothing about art.
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 02:18 am
Art of politics I suppose he knows. I'm more interested in the new prime minister, Fillon, what do you think of him?
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 01:54 pm
Him heap big chief of Muckiebum tribe. Him speak with fork tongue; him no good!
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 02:49 pm
Also, he started that poison pen letter chain that hit Devon and Cornwall with a vengeance in 1997
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 03:18 pm
1997 was the year the British Government returned Hong Kong to the Chinese and when Mr Blair became prime minister. It is also just long enough ago for the onset of deterioration of the brain cells to reach a stage such as to be unable to follow the simple rules of this game.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 03:21 pm
Good grief, Spendy, you don't pull your punches. Good for you.
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 03:21 pm
Games and the rules that go with them are a load of codswallop, put down seductively to control the masses.
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hamburger
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 04:57 pm
masses of the unwashed must definetely be told what's good for them rather than be allowed to think for themselves !
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2007 06:21 pm
"Themselves" is a word which I have some suspicions about. It seems to separate oneself from the rest of humanity in a vaugely haughty tone and when it is used in a manner which not only breaks the most important rule of this game, which is to leave an easy starter for the next player, it makes Mathos look like an intellectual and that takes some doing.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2007 12:54 am
"Doing What Comes Nat'cherlee" was a catchy tune heard in the 1950s. I think it came from a Broadway musical, maybe Calamity Jane or some other such- it has a Doris Day feel about it.
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