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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Sep 24, 2008
Sol, really, at some point, no hot water is a health hazard.
Then again, the brilliant architects of my neighborhood went cheap back in the 1960s, and put the pipes *under* the concrete slab foundations. All well and good in a place on bedrock, mayhap, but in a place known to have upwards of 50 earthquakes a day (mind you, we only feel them when they're over 3, but still). So we have "slab leaks" on a regular basis. And it doesn't help that there's no money to fix them, or that at this point, it would be cheaper to raze the whole lot and start over.
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Mrs Zen Posted Sep 24, 2008
50 a day? Eeek.
Sol, if you get the chance to go to Wandsworth town hall, do. The area just inside the public entrance comprises melodramatic marble columns several storeys high and turns up in films draped in Nazi Flags and masquerading as the interior of a 3rd Reich Schloss, or simlar.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_E26BsTbsoXo/RwOOY9AuISI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ni6b_azTRMg/IMAG0102.jpg
The bloke I was visiting there was sweetly very proud of it.
Manchester Town Hall on the other hand is like the bastard offspring of a cathedral.
http://www.ifip86-2007.salford.ac.uk/venue/
Ben
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Bagpuss Posted Sep 24, 2008
Z - If laughing at people's spelling mistakes is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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Mrs Zen Posted Sep 24, 2008
Bum. That wandsworth link should have been:
http://picasaweb.google.com/derekjames110/WandsworthTownHallStaircase#5117090160968605986
B
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Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) Posted Sep 24, 2008
> I'm a marked man.
Irv, did the orange cat raise his leg to you?
I've eaten at the Magnolia Cafe and Katz's, and I think I've been to the Threadgill... It's hard to find a bad place to eat in Austin. There's a vegetarian restaurant called Mama's which is quite good. When I was visiting my grandparents in San Antonio we always went to Carem's. I always ordered the cabrito, which was quite tasty. When I heard it was baby goat, it didn't hurt my appetite at all. Not much does.
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Gw7en (V 2.0) Posted Sep 24, 2008
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FG, you and Sporky were in town and you didn't say hi?!?!?!
Now I'm hurt. 
Threadgill's has great fried okra, though.
*sips 
*
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Sep 24, 2008
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Sep 25, 2008
Mornin All 
Welcome to Thursday, all quiet here way out West. Loved the Beethoven got me off to good start.
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Sep 25, 2008
eee. I have to start class tomorrow, and I soooo don't want to!
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Teuchter Posted Sep 25, 2008
I don't have classes or sunshine or studying. What I do have this morning is a huge guilt trip, courtesy of my ex boss who's just asked me to wo*k this afternoon and who I've just refused, on the grounds that I have Stuff To Do to ready myself for going away on Saturday.
Can't win. Either feel guilty at letting someone down - or resentful at having to do something I haven't got time for and didn't want to do anyway.
Harrumph.
Titania, I meant to say that your most recent photo surprised me because I'd always imagined you to be in a more urban setting. For some daft reason, I had a picture in my head of Kurt Wallander's apartment and had inserted you into the scenario 
How lovely to walk that route every day, though perhaps a bit more difficult in the depths of winter?
Right now, I'm off to the gym to see if I can dispel these guilty feelings with some physical exertion.
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Phil Posted Sep 25, 2008
[p]
Yes Manchester Town hall is a rather traditional neo-gothic building. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse, like the Natural History Museum building in Nodnol.
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Sep 25, 2008
The last three days have been a very long month. It really needs to be tomorrow so I can sleep in.
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WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. Posted Sep 25, 2008
What? sleep in on a Friday, lucky you 
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Sol Posted Sep 25, 2008
Well, if the hot water doesn't come back on on Friday, the Star and I are going home to Mother's.
Does anyone know how to get oil out of carpet? I have knocked the Star's sunflower oil over and inevitably it has missed the changing mat and the waterproof thing I have under and around the changing mat and gone all over the carpet.
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lostmonalisa Posted Sep 25, 2008
i would try dish soap. it's the best thing for getting grease out. Or sprinkle something on teh carpet that would absorb the grease, first. i think i've heard baking soda?
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FG Posted Sep 25, 2008
Threadgill's *does* have good fried okra. I ordered it myself! Sorry, Gwen, I didn't realize you lived in Austin.
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- 2841: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2842: Mrs Zen (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2843: Bagpuss (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2844: Mrs Zen (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2845: Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2846: Gw7en (V 2.0) (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2847: Mrs Zen (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2848: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Sep 24, 2008)
- 2849: Z (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2850: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2851: Santragenius V (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2852: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2853: Teuchter (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2854: Phil (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2855: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2856: WanderingAlbatross - Wing-tipping down the rollers of life's ocean. (Sep 25, 2008)
- 2857: Sol (Sep 25, 2008)
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