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Not-so-bald-eagle Started conversation Jul 8, 2009
1936, U.S. slang for a woman paid to encourage customers at a bar to buy her drinks.
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Jul 8, 2009
'plant'?
Barfly? (I'm at the blindfolded and grasping at straws game again!)
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Queeglesproggit - Keeper of the evil Thingite Avon Lady Army and Mary Poppins's bag of darkness.. Posted Jul 8, 2009
Bird.
Hasn't everybody heard?
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Jul 8, 2009
Shrill. No, shill.
But that is perhaps too generic and not specific to the enticement of alcohol consumption.
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Christopher Posted Jul 8, 2009
The shape made in the sky by recordings of the position of the sun at the same time every day over the course of a year.
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Rudest Elf Posted Jul 9, 2009
Perhaps this is what you're looking for:
Analemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma
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Rudest Elf Posted Jul 9, 2009
Thought so.
Casting no aspersions - well, perhaps a few :
A bludger who wastes their own and their workmates' time by chatting.
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Jul 9, 2009
bludger?
Oh and in my workshop they are known as 'lazy sh*ts' or timewasters...
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