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London Bound (Partay! Partay!)
Posted Feb 26, 2007
Who knows London?
I've not been for ages, but I'm giving a conference talk there in a couple of weeks. Naturally I'm keen to take full advantage of my employer's largesse, so...Can anyone recommend decent restaurants? Nothing mega pricey. I'm particularly interested in sampling mega-ethnic stuff. Vietnamese, Arabic, that sort of thing. My hotel is just near Tottenham Ct tube, which is handy.
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A topical joke for today.
Posted Jan 25, 2007
An oldie but goodie for gthis day, 25th Jan...
Charles Windsor is visiting a hospital. He's shown into a ward, approaches a patient and says,
"Hello. And how long have you been a patient?"
And the guy in the bed says,
"Fair fa' yr honest, sonsie face!"
"Oh, jolly good..." says HRH, somewhat confused and moves to the next bed. "And are you a patient too?"
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us!" comes the reply.
Totally perplexed now he moves onto the next bed.
"Wee cowrin' timrous beastie!" says the patient.
Chuck turns to the hospital official accompanying him.
"I say, I can’t understand a word these chaps are saying. What is this? The psychiatric ward?"
"No," comes the reply, "It’s the Burns unit."
Make sure you celebrate with a spot of Houghmagandie!
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Latest reply: Jan 25, 2007
A topical joke for today.
Posted Jan 25, 2007
An oldie but goodie for gthis day, 2th Jan...
Charles Windsor is visiting a hospital. He's shown into a ward, approaches a patient and says,
"Hello. And how long have you been a patient?"
And the guy in the bed says,
"Fair fa' yr honest, sonsie face!"
"Oh, jolly good..." says HRH, somewhat confused and moves to the next bed. "And are you a patient too?"
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us!" comes the reply.
Totally perplexed now he moves onto the next bed.
"Wee cowrin' timrous beastie!" says the patient.
Chuck turns to the hospital official accompanying him.
"I say, I can’t understand a word these chaps are saying. What is this? The psychiatric ward?"
"No," comes the reply, "It’s the Burns unit."
Make sure you celebrate with a spot of Houghmagandie!
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Latest reply: Jan 25, 2007
I'll get around to them some day....
Posted Jan 10, 2007
I've become somewhat jaded with this site recently. Obviously recent events have played their part. Plus, as others have observed, the general level of discussion has deteriorated. And I never seem to see much of the people I like best. (You know who you are - I hope. Do try and post a bit more!)
Nevertheless, inertia is my guiding principle, so I'm not planning to shuffle off. There's still lots of Guide Entries I'd love to write. I enjoy the writing in general, and particularly get a buzz from the process of investigating a whole new topic. I'm not making a new year's resolution to get stuff done, but here's my wish list of what I'd like to cover:
The Baader-Meinhof gang
Bhagat Singh: Indian revolutionary.
Jessica - The Thinking Man's Mitford
Less Than Zero: Oswald Mosely and British Fascism
Cassowaries
Slime Moulds
Bonobos (About time, surely. A sub-section for Gnomon's Animal Sex entry?)
The Benin Civilisation
Interesting Ingredients From 'Ethnic' Food Stores
Tom Wintringham and the Revolutionary Origins of the Home Guard
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Latest reply: Jan 10, 2007
My First ASBO
Posted Dec 11, 2006
Hey! I've just been put on warning by the Italics. Seems that if I keep on doing whatever it was I was doing, I'll be put on pre-mod. People say that this is an important right of passage
.
And I've even been named and shamed. I *think* the italics have got hold of the wrong end of a stick and think I was being a nasty troll. It's hard to judge why. Perhaps they have office politics issues of their own.
(And, yes, I am allowing for the possibility that I've been something rhyming with a banker. I don't *think* so - but I would say that, wouldn't I?)
La-di-da!
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Latest reply: Dec 11, 2006
Edward the Bonobo - Gone.
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