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In a memorable line, commenting on his son's heady application of after-shave, old Albert Steptoe once said to Harold,
"Some nights you go out of here smelling like an Algerian brothel."
Now *that's
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Are dreams supposed to mean anything? It seems that people have automatically assigned them meaning, or said that they are supposed to have meaning, but what if they actually don't? Or maybe they are
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Aren't things bred out there sort of smaller than the full size version Carla, I'm thinking shetland ponies, shetland sheepdogs.....
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I'VE GOT A ROOM!!! If only you guys could see the beaming smile on my face right now! I finally pulled my finger out and rung up, now we've got a room, and dodoanon's ringing up for the tickets tonigh
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Hee hee - I love everyone's sense of humour here! Hullo, I'm quite new. Name's Jen, a.k.a. Jeff. Drama student at the Uni of East Anglia (go Norwich!), absolutely adore Jasper Fforde, totally hyped ab
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well - yes I am from the states but that doesn't make me a bad person- if it makes you feel better, I wish I lived in the UK. But we can't always get what we want.
(such as the book) :(
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Heh, I've got my AS English Lit exams tomorrow morning..."Dr Faustus" by Marlowe, "High Windows" (the collection, not the single poem) by Philip Larkin and "The Spire" by good old Golding. That's rig
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but how many people would actually say to their teacher, "I know that I'm a student, and you have a master's degree, but I think that you aren't teaching sufficiently" ?
If you're still at high schoo
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Ooohh, so now there's cake on this thread!! :)
Sazzle, I'm reading "The Lyre of Orpheus" right now, but I also picked up "Happy Alchemy" and "The Merry Heart" recently, and will read those too.
Best
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Bach had 20 kids...but only 1/2 survived to adulthood.
(Hmm...Thinking of all this reminds me of my fav. band, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which combines rock and classical music. I can see Bach
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Oh I dunno we have very errrm poisoned fish here in the Thames... good choice Nicky. We'll look after him for you, promise!
Oh no, hang on, that's what you're worried about isn't it? Damn.
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Well...that went over pretty well, I suppose.
The subject line of this thread is actually a quote from The Ah-Hah Phenomena that seemed to fit (and "Not without eagerness to converse while you stil
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