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Kitten, you show your youth.
"Goon" is a corruption of 'flagon'... fla-goon.
Large, firken-sized bottles (flagons) was the way we used to buy @#$%& plonk before the Aussie bloke invented the bag-in-
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Because [ url=http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Bogan ], people [ /url ]people in [ url=http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Pakenham ], Pakenham [ /url ] buy VB.
And for those who read the article, the word "G
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...but nice @#$%& handbags. Occasionally.
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What a piece of work is man, How noble in reason, how infinate in...
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Disregard the last post, continue to name at will, I'll endure the pain and write them down somewhere, I'll find a way to watch them
My lobby for getting cable or satilite TV has started up again,
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I've been to all three, but I couldn't make any recommendations. My experiences in NYC have been of the @#$%&, nerdy college student type (i.e. a day at the Met or Natural History Museum and maybe McD
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they care for nothing!
They are carriers of the moronic plague which is fast spreading through the populace, especially the younger ones who have not had the priviledge of good education, @#$%& win
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gourmandising....I can honestly say that that's the first time I've read that word.
There's this website that I went to after I had first heard some of the Sweeney Todd musical and wanted to read
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I like it.
Old out of date encyclopedias are good candidates. Just don't hack up a set of Britannicas. I love my 1974 set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. Beautiful leather bound, color pics, great wri
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Sorry, meant to post this yonks ago. Did anyone (probably applies to UK/Europe - not sure re rest of world) go meteor searching back in July, i.e when the Pleides (forgive me if my astronomy is up the
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I wrote a love sonnet...Fourteen lines, classic English sonnet ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme, iambic pentameter(ish). See what you think.
You are my world, my life, my joy and sun,
Near me every moment I
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Another LIAGB spoiler:
When Thursday does get back to rescue Jack Schitt from The Raven, he's tied up the narrator and completely taken over the poem. This may explain why his thoughts make u
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Somehow the thought of @#$%& fusion power scares me more than baiting nuclears for energy. (Yes I am pushing it, but nuclear fishin' is OK)
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Disadvantages are mainly size and weight, but power consumpion is also a problem with CRT monitors. In larger sizes TFTs have a price advantage (although not as @#$%& as the zero cost of a monitor tha
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We use mainly Ikea Billy books cases. They are immensely strong, The shelves don't bow and as you can buy extra shelves, you can tailor them to your requirements. If you want them to all match and you
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Some people I know (not me, I swear!) have a xmas tradition I like to call berry picking.
Basically, they go out and 'pick' the a few lightbulbs from overly lit up xmas decorations.
It's very bad,
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Mooxico Wrote:
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> Interesting! I didn't know that about 60% of U.K.
> dvd players being able to play all regions. Do
> you have to seek out
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yes- that sex always sleeps late in the mornings.
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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap and sleep in thy...
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I think it's one far enough. We have got to do something about it.
Soon.
I'll gladly help out where I can. It's getting ridiculous quite frankly.
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I dunno if I agree with Martin's 2nd line. In practice it seems to work in reverse.
George, Tony and our own Little Johnnie had absolutely no knowledge about something but argued that it existed in ab
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