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<t>:-6 Dear Trunk Monkey, Surely you are a bit slow to think up this game. Politicians have been playing this game for ages - probably back in Babylonian times or earlier. Now tell me honestly when at any political discussion you ever heard a politician ac...

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<t>:-6 Dear Stardust, Just come across your post about eating habits. Is it a gender thing? I remember visiting my much elder sister when I was about twenty and I think she served a common Scottish dish of minced steak, boiled "tatties" and "neeps (Turnip)...

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<t>:-6 Many thanks SuzyB and Lon for your advice, A lot has happened since you wrote your replies and the holiday was safely navigated and thoroughly enjoyed. My wife and I did try all the holiday insurance companies - and the Post Office - but surprisingly enough it...

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<t>:-6 YOU ALL KNOW that I am as old as the hills. YOU PROBABLY ALL KNOW that age discrimination is alive and well and thriving. My daughter in Tampa has told us that she wants us to go out on the 28th November because our fourteen year old grand daughter is playing ...

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<t>:-6 THIS IDIOT - randall, Has just sent an e-mail to his only granddaughter who has just passed her fourteenth birthday in Tampa, Florida. I do not claim it is original but it is certainly truer nowadays than it was when I was young. Always keep a daily...

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<t>:-6 Carla44, Do have a "Great Big Book Of Favourite Jokes." like one famous English comedian - who incidentally kept turning two pages instead of one - or do you just have a bottomless memory like some church ministers and priests??? God Bless All randa...

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I feel just rotten after writing about wars that I cannot be anywhere a cheerful as all you lucky people.

God bless all

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15/10/2007

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<t>:-6 What learning CURVE? To me the Americans have never learned one thing from the Vietnam War or any other. In my long lifetime they simply repeat the same mistakes over and over again despite the warnings and advice of "friendly allies". I honestly an...

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<t>:-6 I always thought that the Australians were the ones who added "bloody" to every sentence? I am afraid that I am one of those long suffering husbands who has to shut off the TV if there is swearing or sex on it. Doesn't leave me much to watch nowadays - digger....

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How do you tell when it has gone down???

I never seem to notice any difference?

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PINKY DEAR, is it warm or cold where you live?

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<t>:-6 Looks like I was a frontiersman? Now it is officially in the news that I am not the only one who had to pull out their own tooth/teeth. It appears I just got it published first. I believe Alexander Graham Bell only manged to get a patent on his tele...

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<t>:-6 (By GMC) As an outsider I find the way Americans talk about these things sometimes a bit bizarre. Government seems to be something detached from you, You talk about government and rights and your freedom and how it's protected and what govt should and should do and then...

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My Aunts, Uncles and cousins in Detroit would disagree with you Minks.

They have claimed that Scotland is the 52 nd state for a long time - the 51st State before Alaska nudged Texas off its perch.

God Bless All

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<t>:-6 All I can say chrisb84uk is "join the gang." It is a very long time since I was infected by that incurable disease. Related - One writer once wrote. "All kinds of writing mistakes can be cured except, perhaps. chronic misspelling." Whilst working in...

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<t>:-6 Dear Betty Boop, Your reference to a hammer has brought back another sea going memory. If you were a lowly junior engineer and usually treated like S... the ultimate horror when you were on watch below during the night was the appearance of a "SUPER" <br/...

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<t>:-6 randall asking the "BIG QUESTION" How are these forums all over the internet worked Are there a large team of people (paid - unpaid?:)) watching every little post as it comes in and vetting it thoroughly before allowing it to be published. OR is it ...

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<t>:-6 WonderWendy3;662599 wrote: what is a cps? Dear WonderWendy3 I am so old fashioned that many of your games I just do not understand - especially word games. During my lifetime the word "gay" has meant many things and usually they were complimentary? ...

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<t>:-6 I told you somewhere about all those offers of money sent to mer if I would pose as a the only living relative of a man or family killed in a aeroplane crash. Some have been very funny in their construction. However, an EVEREST GLAZING salesman at our door tod...

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<t>:-6 As a Scot I am convinced that we received a very much censored and sanitized version of the relations between Scotland and England. Sometimes I feel that it was totally whitewashed to lean toward the amorous relations between Scotland and England. "The Auld Alliance" whi...

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<t>:-6 Probably this is irrelevant to what you are all talking about but randall thought that it might be worth tossing into the billy-can. Fascinated by history of the so-called "Wild West". The "Prairie Schooners " wagon trains and all that since childhood I thought I had bet...

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<t>:-6 I know that this an old thread but a memory came back into my head. Once whilst having to fend off some of those who walk about with the bible in their back pocket and keep asking you, "Are ye saved laddie.?" I had a brilliant inspiration. I retorte...

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How Is Suzy Now????

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It would appear that a bad tooth or abscess can prove fatal in the USA if you a (A) Poor and (B) Black.

According to the BBC news yesterday.

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Hello there Paula,

Nice to have you aboard.

I hope that you have a long, pleasant and relaxing voyage on the good ship "Forum Garden."

God bless

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<t>:-6 The visiting preacher got up to speak in the pulpit. "I have just asked your paster what like the congregation is tonight and he has just told me,'..about average..'" "This reminds me of a joke I once heard. When the recording of "Twenty Tiny Finge...

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<t>:-6 Thanks PaulaH, I get a bit tired of writing individual e-mail and ordinary letters to the Mandarins and leaders of the government in London and Edinburgh - any party will do. I believe in being heard and tell everyone who tells me I am just wasting my time tha...

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<t>:-6 Sorry Lon to break your record. As one British "CENTURION" SAID A WEE WHILE AGO it is nothing to get to 100 years old, you only have to live long enough. CRAZYGAL you have my sympathies as I also am stupid with money and credit cards are dangerous in my hands....

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<t>:-6 To the frustration of todays industries and employers Maggie Thatcher seemed to have thought that all apprenticeships were either useless or bad. She had the mistaken idea that great wealth at the top always percolates down to the poverty ridden masses. Howeve...

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Oh your making me go over all shy Kathy Ellen.

I don't think that I'm so cute when I haven't shaved for a few days?

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<t>:-6 Thanks for asking buttercup. Helen is coming along as well as can be expected, I suppose that is the right phrase because she needs a walking stick to help her but insists on doing far too much and then complains about the pain it causes. My neighbour has the ...

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Crikey! I never noticed that the old "Random Thoughts" had stopped.????

I must be getting dottled - now where are these pills that help my memory????

Good Bless All

Lots Of Love

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<t>:-6 Not Much Actually, And we don't even get that! They should remember where they or their forefathers came from and in what circumstances they lived. They should at least try and remember some of the trillions of promises they made to get elected in t...

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<t>:-6 For many years the People of Peterhead had the opposite problems. One famous manager of a bank argued with you against taking any of your money out. He even wanted to know exactly what you were going to spend it on.??? Was that a favour also???? God...

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<t>:-6 To Buttercup and one and all, My computer gave up the ghost a few weeks ago and then having been ill more or less constantly since last November my wife, Helen, four days out of bed fell against a garden seat cast iron arm rest and broke two ribs and bruiseda couple more...

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Mucho Gracias KB.

I feel like you have given me a gold star today.

God Bless You

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<r>:-6 Have "THEY" been after you too Buttercup. I mean the Spelling Police? The very first forum I ever tried nearly stopped me from trying forums altogether. I asked a reasonably sensible question but fatally addressed it "Dear Sir" - as is my wont (?) ...

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<t>:-6 Ah ken fine wha ye mean, GMC, "Thousands that are living will never die." I have rare sport with them at the door - never inside - my wife always sends me to speak to them knowing that I will not be back for half an hour or more. They are apparentl...

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<r>:-6 Dear Bez, Not to worry, randall is still around but he hasn't seen or heard of Arnold Layne or Lady Cop recently. We, my wife and I, have had an unfortunate six months caused by both being seriously ill over Christmas and New Year up to the present. <br/...

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<r>:-6 Dear Spot, GMC and peer wee chookie, There is not much I dislike intensely but it drives me mad when travelling that the same sentence keeps coming up. "Y're a Scat. Y' MUST be Presbyterian." Hold the Faith Brother, spread it gently. God...

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<r>:-6 A Million Thanks SPOT, Not only have you proved that my memory is not so bad as some people tell me - including my eighty odd year old sister *Ye' were far too young tae mind on at!" I remember both of them vividly - we had no wireless but a widowed Aunt allo...

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<r>:-6 Dear K.B. - randall here again - ain't he a nuisance???? Just found an address which might interest you and, perhaps, pay you.? Look up "HELIUM BLOGS" on Google Search Engine. They appear to take anything however small and, on the surface , offer t...

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<r>:-6 Dear Joe 2005, Nothing you can tell me about the so-called British Secret - and not so secret - Services will come as a surprise to me. I advertised a camera in the local paper and in the "Exchange and Mart" with full address. etc My wife and I had...

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<r>KB.;644125 wrote: I am going to send in a story to a contest to The Writer, I'll link the details below. I have a week, which means I have three days really. <URL url="http://www.writermag.com/wrt/default.aspx?c=a&id=3323">http://www.writermag.com/wrt/default.aspx?c=a&id=3323<...

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<r>:-6 Dear KB It used to be the name of a wireless (sorry RADIO - Koster Brand) If you have a book ready for pubishing I came across "Trafford Publishing" but you need money to do it - not tooooo much! About Â£400 - Vanity publishing will cost you Â£2,000 at least....

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<r>:-6 Dear Buttercup, The computer is back - John ...... - says he cannot find anything wrong with it but hinted that the monitor may be on its way out. I can't complain as I got it free from his boss - it was either that or dump it - it is so small I keep a verrrry large mag...

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<r>:-6 Dear Spot, I've always considered Scotland to be a Calvinistic Nation or why else do we carry so much invented guilt on our backs. Worry about neighbours thinking we are lazy if we actually do nothing on a day off? Calvin, through John Knox, who se...

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<r>:-6 Glad you agree with me GMC, We oldies, as Lon said some time ago come in handy at times. What is in the the history books (frequently rewritten and whitewashed - a Japanese History Professor got kicked out because he objected the the "revision".) is only "yesterday" to ...

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<r>:-6 Dear All (for and against), My wife and I were shopping a few years ago in TESCO'S in Linlithgow and who should be next to us. "Good afternoon Alex," says my wife. He looked up and a flash of recognition went over his face. I thanked him for all he...

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<r>:-6 Dear Abbey, I just can forget that "Agony Aunt" of the 1950's. Your really must be hot stuff with those tiles to burn your fingers. In the 1960's Majon jogn was forbidden in Hong Kong after 2300 hours - they were making so much noise slapping thos...

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