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Are there many brits on able2know?

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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:10 am
smorgs wrote:
Jello?!!!!

The yank-pandering bastard!

Ahem... just this:

Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams invented the Williams-Kilburn Tube and the first modern electronic computer in the world, the Manchester Mark 1.


Ah! But that must have been the gas powered one, though.

Or did they have little generators in those days as well?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:16 am
AND these:

Literature:

Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Ronald Gow, dramatist from Heaton Moor.
Walter Greenwood, novelist born in and inspired by Salford during the depression..
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of books, lived in Manchester for a while and first had the idea for the books whilst travelling from Manchester

Anthony Burgess went to the same college as my daughter.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:18 am
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Or did they have little generators in those days as well?


Why, yes...

Due to the fact it was invented in... oooh! Guess where?

I'll give you a clue - NOT LONDON!
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:30 am
You are obviously proud of your city, which is nice.

The problem with London though, is that we have had SO many great and wonderful people, we can't even remember them any more. They all gel into one.


I wish I had so few to pick from.....
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:31 am
The character of Daphne Moon in Frasier (the role which eventually made Jane Leeves was the highest-paid British actress on television) came from Manchester.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:32 am
A monument to Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Square marks the cotton famine of 1861-1865.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:33 am
You all ate cotton?

How simply dreadful for you. Were there no potatoes to be had?

Mars bars?
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material girl
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:42 am
smorgs wrote:
The character of Daphne Moon in Frasier (the role which eventually made Jane Leeves was the highest-paid British actress on television) came from Manchester.


But in reality she doesnt sound mancunian.Opting for the more appealing southern accent.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:45 am
And we (Mancunians) appeared in an episode of The Simpsons:

Homer was watching a television programme from manchester called 'Shut Yer Gob' - made me laugh for ages...

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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 08:58 am
Erik30, can you see what a can of worms you've opened?

There are now two young, vibrant A2K Brit girls, willing and ready to rip each other's clothes off in a jello wrestling contest, all because of you and this blasted thread.


Thank you from the bottom of my heart, old boy.
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material girl
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:02 am
Lord Ellpus wrote:
Erik30, can you see what a can of worms you've opened?

There are now two young, vibrant A2K Brit girls, willing and ready to rip each other's clothes off in a jello wrestling contest, all because of you and this blasted thread.


Thank you from the bottom of my heart, old boy.


Hehehehe, how about it smorgs?
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:05 am
<Ellpus hurries to find his camera>
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:17 am
I hear simply eeeeeverything is better in england than it is in the U.S. Tut tut and cheerio, etc.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:17 am
matgirl wrote:

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Hehehehe, how about it smorgs?


I'm stripping as I type, mat

CUMMON THEN MATGIRL!

If yer 'ard enough... which I doubt being from the South and a HUGE nellie!

Sorted...

You're twisting me melon now!

x
(you know I love you really mat - x)
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:20 am
littlek wrote:

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hear simply eeeeeverything is better in england than it is in the U.S. Tut tut and cheerio, etc.



Would you please use capitals when required, littlek...

After all, you have been shown by the British...

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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:21 am
Shown what by the British?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:22 am
How to read and write the ENGLISH language!

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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:23 am
Just right now, Smorgs......
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:30 am
Ellpus,

If I see you type JELLO once more...

I'll have to get the spatula out!

x
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 4 Sep, 2006 09:31 am
uhoh.
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