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I've tried juggling, but can only manage three balls (with no fancy moves) _ for a fairly short time _ so far... I tried plate-spinning once, when I was a lot younger, but when my mother saw what I &
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There's a lot of it about at the moment. Where I work in London at the Department of Health (oh, the irony) loads of people of been coming down with it. I have been fending it off with Yorkshire Tea
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You're getting the idea, but at what point in walking through the forest are you suddenly walking out rather than further in, even if you're still going in the same direction?
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The posts get longer and longer ... something has to be done about this or we'll all end with terrible headache ...
I'll try to be short.
I didn't try to kick out the cats (I would never be beastly
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I realised after I posted that would be the case, when I'm at home it comes up with (---.btopenworld) or something
Hmm. Best have a word with the boys in Tech. We've not been Addleshaw Booth for quit
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Skiffle - exercise machine for cats: this is a drastic solution, admittedly, but I suggest kittens. I know of nothing better!
As for the box, I should like it to contain a large cheque; an envelope
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criterion for minions this morning only - please leave your clothes at the door and proceed in an orderly fashion to the selection panel
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Twas brillig...
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Oh, come, one of you must be rich. Surely?
Even sloths have to move sometimes - everybody over to another thread!
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That is very odd, and I'm afraid I don't know how to put it right. The account certainly exists, because it's showing up on my friends list.
I suggest you click on Support (top of screen, on the hom
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No, I don't mind being volunteered to make costumes. What is Dave R going to do, apart from continually boost the morale of the ladies involved by means of virtual marshmallows and other fflirtation?
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Shouldn't a Ghurka regiment's chaplain have been a Hindu, or maybe a Buddhist?
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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"
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you need to read 'Superheroes' by John Varley - it's set of short stories that he edited, all about vaguely crap superheroes. Very entertaining.
Captain Housework is one of my favourites..
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My friend, Tony, was startled the first time a Sheffield shopkeeper addressed him as 'love' - he's from Brighton and they don't say that kind of thing down south.
I was chuffed (pleased, made up) whe
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Having eaten the egg rolls prepared with far too much peanut butter by my father's second wife, I can tell you with some certainty that peanut butter flavored cabbage is not particularly appetizing.
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Intrigue _
The novel "Donnerjack", by Roger Zelazney & Jane Lindskold (He had the basic ideas and wrote some of it, she completed it after his death...) asks a similar question about hybr
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I think there needs to be some relation or connection to what you are writing. The stuff i wrote about my attacks is obviously personal, but it gets hard to see how something like WOLP could be person
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I'm going to SULK.
I took my proofs to get signed at the croquet game so i didn't get them stamped.
And i'm too poor to go to leeds so I didn't get a Goliath badge...
And I want to be a stalker (Lo
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