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Bluespider
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:02 pm Posts: 140 Location: The Interwebs
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What's Grey and comes in pints? Answers on a postcard....
_________________ "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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The patient in the classic game 'Operation' is called Cavity Sam. The policeman in 'Monopoly' is called Officer Edgar Mallory, and the 'Monopoly' mascot is one Milburn Pennybags. Comic Book Guy from 'The Simpsons' real name is Jeff Albertson.
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Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:27 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That I'm to get a new boss, a woman. This could go either way...
_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:58 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That the character of Zeiss in the DC Universe was almost certainly based on this dude (who our photographers probably already knew about  ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss
_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:25 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Germany has had a surge in people applying for help from Soup kItchens!!
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:39 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That my boss is throwing a spanner in the works before he leaves us, shifting jobs and people around offices for little reason 
_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:24 pm |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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That John Prescott is actually Welsh.
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:36 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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When attacked, the Macaroni penguin chick will play dead until it's parents rescue it. (Or a keeper wades into the colony to sort it out, upsetting everyone.)
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Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:01 pm |
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lumbthelesser
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Fri May 21, 2010 11:38 pm Posts: 442 Location: Manchester
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I have learned that you should never offer to do sound for a play when the director is mostly deaf. 
_________________ According to a recent poll, over 70% of Americans don't believe Trump's hair was born in the USA.
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Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:44 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That this has gone the worst way possible 
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:08 pm |
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm Posts: 4141 Location: Exeter
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_________________ "The woman is a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma I've had sex with."
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:10 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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A new line of work, more responsibility for no extra pay, a potential pay freeze/cut later on*, a move to a pokey office and surrounded by even more nattering women... Oh, and having to move all my accumulated sh1te. All for no real reason whatsoever, and I'd be a lonely voice complaining Does something horrific happen to the human brain when someone reaches middle management? * We're owed years of backpay and a raise as it is.
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:43 pm |
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HeatherKay
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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I can't recall ever reading about this in my many history resources.
In June 1940, there was a firm proposal to form a Franco-British Union. It would have been a proto-EEC, designed to pool the resources of Britain with the flagging resources of France in order to continue the fight against Germany on French soil.
Citizens of France would have had free right of access to Britains, and vice versa. They stopped short of a single currency, though, but there would have been an agreement that each country would help the other to repair war damage.
Sadly, before the official communiqué could be passed to the French government, they had decided that further resistance was futile, and surrender to occupation by German forces was the only way forward.
How different things might have turned out if some bright spark had cooked up the idea before the Germans launched the May offensive across the Low Countries...
_________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:24 pm |
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belchingmatt
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri May 15, 2009 3:16 am Posts: 6146 Location: Middle Earth
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Ordeal. 
_________________ Dive like a fish, drink like a fish!
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:19 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Can they please restore that policy?
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:43 pm |
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