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Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. Posted Mar 21, 2003
Le Corbusier, the famous French architect lost out on a competition to design the League of Nations building because he didn't draw his design in indian ink, as specified in the rules.
Liam.
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egon Posted Mar 21, 2003
The artist Edward Hopper was once a judge on an art competition that his wife, Josephine, entered.
He didn't vote for her, she didn't win, and she wouldn't speak to him for a week.
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Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. Posted Mar 21, 2003
The American architect Walter Burley Griffin, who is credited with desiging the Australian capital Canberra, 'borrowed' the design from his wife.
Liam.
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Saavik2 Posted Mar 22, 2003
The pork pie I was sooo looking forward to for lunch is past its sell-by date
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Lou, (Listy) Not around too much, don't be offended if I don't reply.. I'LL TRY! Posted Mar 22, 2003
Fish can get sea sick.
Lou xxxxx
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Mauritania Posted Mar 24, 2003
More estcay uses die from water inherlation than the drug itself!
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Jay and Silent Bob Posted Mar 26, 2003
Or a water over-dose
Or an allergic reaction
it can vary quite alot thats the main reason its a class A drug
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Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. Posted Mar 26, 2003
I am a fool. Le Corbusier was Swiss, not French.
Liam.
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Just Justin... (ACE) Posted Mar 26, 2003
Oh dear... most of the anagrams of my name end up with jar, wright, cut... Nothing special...
J.J
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Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Posted Mar 26, 2003
The original crystal palace was purpose built for the 'The Great Exhibition of 1856' it was afterwards moved to a hilltop in Sydenham South London it burnt down in 1936 a sit clearly visible for many miles across the North Downs
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Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Posted Mar 26, 2003
The original crystal palace was purpose built for the 'The Great Exhibition of 1856' it was afterwards moved to a hilltop in Sydenham South London it burnt down in 1936 a sit clearly visible for many miles across the North Downs
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Laura Posted Mar 27, 2003
The cabbage stem flea beetle is a major pest of oil seed rape and several other crops of the brassica family
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Mauritania Posted Mar 31, 2003
A riot can be defined as a "a popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders", as in the case of Meadow Well!
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Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Posted Apr 1, 2003
In certain parts of Somerset the term 'back along' is used to describe some time in the past. There is no need apparently to date an event with anymore precision than this the listeners instinctively that the speaker probably means last Thursday.
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Jay and Silent Bob Posted Apr 2, 2003
My T-shirt and pants were made by Fenchurch. Ooooooh soft
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Limitless Posted Apr 2, 2003
The name Orca (Killer whale) means demon from hell and came from the norse. When the vikings first saw them a pack of Orca apparently sunk one of there boats and killer all of the men... 
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Limitless Posted Apr 3, 2003
-If you could scale up a thread of spider-web it would be as strong as any steel bar of the same size..
-The crater left by the meteor that apparently killed the Dino's off had an impact of 91 million mega-tons..
-A man once fell over 18,000 ft from a burning plane, landed in 3 ft of snow and walked away with minor injurys..
-I do more work and longer hours than the people in charge of me and they get payed twice as much..
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- 2301: Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. (Mar 21, 2003)
- 2302: egon (Mar 21, 2003)
- 2303: Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. (Mar 21, 2003)
- 2304: Saavik2 (Mar 22, 2003)
- 2305: Lou, (Listy) Not around too much, don't be offended if I don't reply.. I'LL TRY! (Mar 22, 2003)
- 2306: Mauritania (Mar 24, 2003)
- 2307: Jay and Silent Bob (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2308: manda1111 (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2309: Jay and Silent Bob (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2310: Captain_SpankMunki [Keeper & Former ACE] Thanking <Diety of choice> for the joy of Goo. (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2311: Just Justin... (ACE) (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2312: Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2313: Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... (Mar 26, 2003)
- 2314: Laura (Mar 27, 2003)
- 2315: Mauritania (Mar 31, 2003)
- 2316: Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... (Apr 1, 2003)
- 2317: Jay and Silent Bob (Apr 2, 2003)
- 2318: Limitless (Apr 2, 2003)
- 2319: Limitless (Apr 3, 2003)
- 2320: Jay and Silent Bob (Apr 3, 2003)
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