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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Thu 1 Feb, 2007 07:11 pm
You know full-well that I play either sweeper ...

http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/3739/beckenbauervv3.jpg

... or stopper.

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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 02:49 am
My admiration for Tico grows by leaps and bounds..... if such a thing were possible, so great is it already.

How could an American have such a wide knowledge of the beautiful game?
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 02:51 am
Americans know everything Twisted Evil
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 02:55 am
Jack **** and diddly squat come to mind...these are the Stockport County fullbacks.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 02:57 am
Eng 293 (50 overs)
Aust 3/79 16 overs

You're in with chance men.
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 02:59 am
dadpad wrote:
Eng 293 (50 overs)
Aust 3/79 16 overs

You're in with chance men.


What???? Did the English team all took Viagra or what last night???
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 03:31 am
Page 24 of the London Evening Standard had a most interesting letter

Walter Hinteler wrote:


Water meters were invented in 1851 by Wilhelm Siemens - in London. They have been in use in Germany since 1858. To liken the use of meters to a "new tax" seems astonishing for someone from a country where everyone pays exactly and only for the amount of water they use. But then again, we pay our rent by the square metre, not by the number of bedrooms.


...does anyone know who Wilhelm Siemens is/was? His name seems familiar. Or am I getting him mixed up with that well known polymath Walter Hinteler.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 04:35 am
aus 8/200

need 93 off 48

strike that

9/200

congrats pomms symonds retired hurt and will not return
you've won one

YJOLLY GOOD SHOW
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The Pentacle Queen
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 04:39 am
gustav wrote

Quote:
Since I am self-employed and feel guilty about going on A2K during working hours, I stop paying myself the minute I get on and do not start re-payment until I have logged off.

I feel much better about myself that way


Which brings me on to a question I have always wated to ask:
How come there are always so many of us on here during the day?
Shouldn't you all be at work?

At college, i tend to use A2k as a reward system for my good behaivior. Write a paragraph. check email. another paragraph. a2k. paragraph. Facebook. etc.
Although normally it ends up as: email. a2k. facebook. Self discust at having done no work. a2k. email. Panic over not having done the work i was meant to, and so forth.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 04:43 am
dadpad wrote:
aus 8/200

need 93 off 48

strike that

9/200

congrats pomms symonds retired hurt and will not return
you've won one

YJOLLY GOOD SHOW
I would say thanks if I thought you meant it.
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:15 am
Pentacle Queen, some of us are retired - early of course!

Florence Nightingale invented Pie Charts. I learnt that on QI yesterday.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:20 am
dadpad wrote:
aus 8/200

need 93 off 48

strike that

9/200

congrats pomms symonds retired hurt and will not return
you've won one

YJOLLY GOOD SHOW



"The English, the English, the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest..."
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:24 am
Okay I'm off to Jocky-land for a couple of days.

You'll just have to manage without me as best you can.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:25 am
Clary wrote:
Pentacle Queen, some of us are retired - early of course!

Florence Nightingale invented Pie Charts. I learnt that on QI yesterday.
nah Mrs Beeton.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:30 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
Clary wrote:
Pentacle Queen, some of us are retired - early of course!

Florence Nightingale invented Pie Charts. I learnt that on QI yesterday.
nah Mrs Beeton.


Nah Hernando Cortez:

"Lay me a course for the Land of Pies, Sailing Master! We seek El Dorado! On to glory! Where's me shirt?"
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:45 am
McTag wrote:
Steve 41oo wrote:
Clary wrote:
Pentacle Queen, some of us are retired - early of course!

Florence Nightingale invented Pie Charts. I learnt that on QI yesterday.
nah Mrs Beeton.


Nah Hernando Cortez:

"Lay me a course for the Land of Pies, Sailing Master! We seek El Dorado! On to glory! Where's me shirt?"
wot you doin here you supposed to be in Jock land


And I should be elsewhere bye have nice time
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smorgs
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 05:51 am
PQ, I work full time, but manage to post ocassionally during the day (in my break, of course).

Talking of pies...

Going to get the new Stuart Marconie book about the North of England, calld Pies and Predjudice.

Have a safe journey McT.

x
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 06:20 am
Hope it's as funny as his last book, Sarah. That was very good, I thought.


He's had a bit of a slating from a fellow "Northerner" though. A Yorkshireman left this review.....


The North starts at Crewe?.......






















Disclaimer........Neither I, nor any of my mates, their wives/partners or associates, owns a cappucino machine, or have ever used sun dried tomatoes (whatever they are).
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 06:25 am
Queenie-

I'm at work but I'm the boss so I can do anything I want. I'm very glad I don't want to go to Scotland. Or anywhere else for that matter.

It must be a terrible affliction wanting to go to places. I call such things the psychotax. That's a tax on what you get left over when you have paid all the other taxes.

You obviously have what is known as the Protestant Work Ethic.
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margo
 
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Reply Fri 2 Feb, 2007 01:32 pm
dadpad wrote:
aus 8/200

need 93 off 48

strike that

9/200

congrats pomms symonds retired hurt and will not return
you've won one

JOLLY GOOD SHOW


aaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!

I was having dinner with friends in the city last night (cricket on telly, but no sound!). From their apartment you can see the lights of the Sydney Cricket Ground. I was driving through Chinatown in peak hour traffic on a Friday evening (never brilliant) when Gilly got out first ball! Shocked Almost drove into oncoming traffic, Crying or Very sad

We were amazed the lights didn't go out immediately when we lost - the whole place will be in mourning!
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