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Motty
|  08 Sep '10 13:07 : 0 recs
J someone was Bruno, I suspect. |
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Merlin
| 07 Sep '10 11:18 : 0 recs
Nothing wrong with thrashing servants.... |
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Merlin
| 07 Sep '10 11:17 : 0 recs
Kay why do the USA think Blair is good- when everyone in the Uk thinks he is slimy self serving liar ? are Americans easily fooled ? |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 07 Sep '10 11:16 : 0 recs
Ray Cooper,
She is very firm on such matters won't hesitate in delivering a sharp slap to my face if I am taking too long with the ironing or washing up
Forget dish washers, vacuum cleaners and blenders. The best labour-saving device I ever bought was my trusty cattle-prod. Previously chastising the help could be rather physical work.
WBC |
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prudence
| 07 Sep '10 08:29 : 0 recs
I think it is fortunate Mr Cooper that you cannot afford a maid.... |
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Kay
| 06 Sep '10 21:17 : 0 recs
Weird...one person with one post....In the US the emergency number is 911, jesrsikaa..For mental health, I suspect it's easier to find help if you live in Germany....
Meanwhile, will anyone read Tony Blair's biography? It must be interesting. I have never read a biography because i think it's boring and self serving, but I might make an exception this time. Tony Blair is so well spoken, and he writes well too. I expect a pleasant read when the book comes out.
My last reading, a complete book that actually finished, first in about 10 years, was Mary Shelly's "The Last Man". Alas, it was depressing. Literally, the writer was the last man left on earth. That's it!...What the h***.... |
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Merlin
| 06 Sep '10 18:56 : 0 recs
with what ? |
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jesrsikaa
| 05 Sep '10 17:10 : 0 recs
I need Help................... |
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bankrupt old farmer
| 04 Sep '10 21:50 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 04 Sep '10 21:53
Quite so, Ray.
There's an old saying in these parts, common enough hereabouts some sixty years ago but since corrupted by others :- If you ain't hurting, you ain't working.  |
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Ray Cooper
| 04 Sep '10 16:17 : 0 recs
The media are up in arms over a comment made by Rehana Mohamed:
"That ****** maid needs a good slap"
Telegraph
My partner and I laughed at this. Its is political correctness gone mad. We cannot afford a maid but if we did, my partner would expect them to adapt to our ways. She is very firm on such matters won't hesitate in delivering a sharp slap to my face if I am taking too long with the ironing or washing up. She says it helps sharpen me up and I agree. The world may have gone mad but in the Cooper household, old fashioned values still count for something. |
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little c
| 03 Sep '10 17:37 : 0 recs : edited 3 times : last edit 03 Sep '10 19:23
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading 'Serious Topics' is cordially invited to the proms this evening.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/0309.shtml
The Proms Literary Festival is free, so please all feel free to drop into the Royal College of Music right now. If you cannot make it in person, you can still follow events here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tkp2d
Philip Kerr argues that Berlin is the 'Ur' city of the twentieth century: it was the city to which people fled after the Russian Revolution, the permissive, cultural heart of the Weimar Republic and the centre of the Cold War. 3dc may prefer 'Three Days of the Condor'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
We recently saw 'El Secreto de Sus Ojos' in London.
http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/the_secret_in_their_eyes
I commend the film to everyone reading 'Serious Topics'. As for Kay, thank you for such a wonderful autumnal poem. Here is my personal favourite: 'To Autumn'.
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw279.html |
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3dc
| 02 Sep '10 18:09 : 0 recs
chief shill at Righthaven:
sfrederick@reviewjournal.com |
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Merlin
| 01 Sep '10 09:13 : 0 recs
Thank You Kay |
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Kay
| 01 Sep '10 07:56 : 0 recs
The Autumn--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)
Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them —
The summer flowers depart —
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing heart.
How there you sat in summer-time,
May yet be in your mind;
And how you heard the green woods sing
Beneath the freshening wind.
Though the same wind now blows around,
You would its blast recall;
For every breath that stirs the trees,
Doth cause a leaf to fall.
Oh! like that wind, is all the mirth
That flesh and dust impart:
We cannot bear its visitings,
When change is on the heart.
Gay words and jests may make us smile,
When Sorrow is asleep;
But other things must make us smile,
When Sorrow bids us weep!
The dearest hands that clasp our hands, —
Their presence may be o’er;
The dearest voice that meets our ear,
That tone may come no more!
Youth fades; and then, the joys of youth,
Which once refresh’d our mind,
Shall come — as, on those sighing woods,
The chilling autumn wind.
Hear not the wind — view not the woods;
Look out o’er vale and hill —
In spring, the sky encircled them —
The sky is round them still.
Come autumn’s scathe — come winter’s cold —
Come change — and human fate!
Whatever prospect Heaven doth bound,
Can ne’er be desolate.
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3dc
| 01 Sep '10 01:01 : 0 recs
YouTube video remix: North Korean People's Army Funky Get Down Juche Party |
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Merlin
| 29 Aug '10 22:55 : 0 recs
Here the berries are plentiful -we are going to have a very hard winter. |
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3dc
| 29 Aug '10 16:50 : 0 recs
Leaves are all falling on the Black Walnut tree as it prepares for a long winter.
It's the most chicken**** of all of my trees. The rest are still in summer mode. |
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Motty
| 29 Aug '10 11:02 : 0 recs : edited 2 times : last edit 29 Aug '10 11:07
Why you hate autumn Thoughtful, it is such a lovely season. Everywhere in the world. Is this something to do with financial reporting season? It is a bargain time for all. 7o% off, except medical services, which won't change its prices regardless of seasons.
In NZ, it will be the beginning of spring. Would be nice to revisit there.
Anyhow, here is a music by Joe, a music that would remind people to finish off all reporting things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCRX-EXR3_U |
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little c
| 28 Aug '10 17:59 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 28 Aug '10 18:16
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading 'Serious Topics' is cordially invited to an evening at the British Museum.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/september_2010/world_history_trade_and_travel.aspx
It is free, so please all feel free to drop into the Great Court between 18:30 and 20:30 on Thursday 23 September 2010. It could be rather busy, so if you cannot make it in person, you can still follow events here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/
As for Thoughtful and zorro, let the story unfold. |
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ssaines
| 25 Aug '10 01:20 : 0 recs
I blame it on the vodka, Condor:
Polar Bear Vodka
I blame Capitalism for selling the stuff to bears. They can't handle it, and get aggressive. |
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