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4663 lucisept61 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
7:16 am
I'm taking a leaf out of Psamiad's book this morning and making multiple posts just in case you don't want to read part of my prattle.<br><br>Though to be ...
4664 picicata Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
8:09 am
Could be wrong(have been before you know!) but I think you'll find that the 'Emerald Isle' refers to just Ireland(north or south) rather than to England, ...
4665 bzugda_hiara Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
9:53 am
Ta Psamiad, I thought the words barge and narrowboat were interchangeable. The path alongside a canal is called a towpath, so if anyone wondered about the ...
4666 Cormicz Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
10:39 am
When people talk of an Emerald Isle I would agree with Picicata that it Ireland springs to mind - but in the interest of internationl friendship and the fact ...
4667 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
11:56 am
Someone has just suggested to me an A-M Cluedo!<br>You know Rincewind in the Shades with the Aardvark! You always need an aardvark or so I've been told! Anyway...
4668 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
11:57 am
And of course you knew that regimental drummers were protected by the regiment almost as fiercely as the colours (flags)!!!!...
4669 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:03 pm
Along the towpath silly!!! The British canal system has ingenius bridges for the horse to swap sides of the canal when the towpath side changes so that there...
4670 Davo_12345 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:23 pm
I'm afraid Pratchett has beaten you to it. Discworld (or at least the gods) already have cluedo. Interesting times pg.1<br>(Fate speaking)'I accuse the High ...
4671 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:31 pm
Is there no crocodile/aligator in there? I just showed it to my friend and she went, "mmmm ... yes ... OK" and promptly went back to reading Queen fan fic!...
4672 nereid55 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:37 pm
Luci - regardless of Corm's generosity (heresy! outrage! blasphemy!) the "Emerald Isle" is strictly Ireland - I refuse to acknowledge any other country's right...
4673 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:38 pm
Oh yeah thanks for reminding me I'll have to go home and change my calender! Slight party last night and I got lost in time!...
4674 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:46 pm
You're right about the waxy paper, I think its tracing paper but hey. They seem to put it in most touristy places, why, no idea I'm not a tourist, but it does...
4675 psamiad69 Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
12:47 pm
Can we not be Ruby or Topaz?...
4676 Cormicz Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
1:28 pm
If you want to be the Ruby Isle you can but I cannot really think of Tom Jones singing the "Red Red grass of home"<br><br>Oh and never mind Nereid - she's mad...
4677 picicata Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
1:49 pm
'its easy to make an entrance, its making an exit thats difficult'<br><br>*D*...
4678 DerienME Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
6:07 pm
*D*/picicata wrote: 'its easy to make an entrance, its making an exit thats difficult'<br><br>Is this a "guess the quote" game? I haven't been reading the club...
4679 DerienME Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
6:34 pm
I get the meaning of most slang from the context, but I always wonder _why_ they get this meaning. Like, Someone told me a while back that "pull the other one,...
4680 lady_aka_donna Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
7:34 pm
I didn't find anything on Pain Awareness Day on Aussie sites, but I did find some serious info from U.S. sources. Those reading for light entertainment better...
4681 lady_aka_donna Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
7:37 pm
My sister-in-law had exactly the same problem on their honeymoon trip to Scotland. Every place they went seemed to have a different way to flush the toilet....
4682 lady_aka_donna Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
7:57 pm
How about Shakespeare's "scepter'd isle" from Richard II? From John of Gaunt's speech in Act 2 - Scene 1:<br><a...
4683 lady_aka_donna Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
8:02 pm
I suppose if you cross a pig with a fish you could get an alligator.<br>What's Queen fan fiction? Fan fiction about the band Queen, or what?<br>Peace ~ Donna...
4684 nicornuay Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
8:14 pm
hello, i'm new and i'm glad to see i'm not the only one with a ::ahem:: *slight* obsession!...
4685 lady_aka_donna Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
8:19 pm
I thought "pull the other leg, it's got bells on" originated from Morris dancing? Although Morris dancers usually have bells on both legs.<br><br>Here's the ...
4686 knobbie69uk Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
9:13 pm
bye god it makes you proude (sighs out loud.)...
4687 bahrae Offline Send Email Jun 1, 2001
9:31 pm
Excuse me I;m irish.<br><br>That is all.<br><br>~bahrae...
4688 undisputedmasterofmou...
undisputedma... Offline Send Email
Jun 2, 2001
1:03 am
gday people. whats doing? i just got into discworld 3 or so months ago and so far ive read 6 books. anyway, hope to catch up with ya and have a talk about...
4689 lucisept61 Offline Send Email Jun 2, 2001
3:13 am
Thank you, Donna! That is exactly what I was thinking, though obviously I killed the quotation. <br><br>My apologies to those offended. <br><br>Like many of ...
4690 lucisept61 Offline Send Email Jun 2, 2001
3:22 am
mountaindew ... well, that's going to be an easy handle to type when we want to talk to you.<br><br>Welcome. Currently "whats doing?" is that I've just ...
4691 lucisept61 Offline Send Email Jun 2, 2001
4:57 am
Just wondering if it's Mountain Dew the highly caffeinated carbonated drink with the incredibly creative commercials on television ... or the highly...
4692 drink-me Offline Send Email Jun 2, 2001
6:46 am
bartender! a drink to quaff, my good man! anyone for a game of cripple mr. onion?...
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