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bystander



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,02:42   

Quote (Ptaylor @ May 21 2008,13:44)
Quote (nuytsia @ May 20 2008,10:09)

It could be worse, you could be living in Tasmania.

Think I might be the most isolated lurker here.
I wait to be proven wrong. ;)

We could perhaps argue that one - North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand is where I work and play.

And yes - rugby, watching, not having played since secondary school (it hurt).

Before this, living in Islington and working in Covent Garden, London. Once long ago 2 years in Bethesda, Md, just out of DC.

A small town 2hrs south of Sydney so a long distance hello to you both.

  
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,03:37   

Quote (dheddle @ May 21 2008,02:49)
Hey all you Brits, I am in Yorktown, VA.

You know--that place where you--well you know--you gave up. Surrendered. Cried "uncle." Had an upper lip that wasn't stiff. Sir Robin-ed. Decided not to show up for the deposition...

Don't get too snippy:

a) Only the involvement of the French won you that war. Get used to that fact.

b) You cheated by fighting at tea time and weekends. No gentleman fights at tea time.

Louis

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,03:41   

Quote (stevestory @ May 21 2008,05:45)
this is a good thread. I hope people who're finding out they live near each other are making plans to get a beer.

Also, I'm now going to do a huge vacation, where I travel sequentially to each of your places, sleeping on your couches, just for fun. Hasta la vista!

You would me most welcome.

We'll have a party in your honour. My parties tend to be raucous affairs. There'll be some drinking. There'll be some dancing. There'll be some fighting. And if you're lucky there'll be some sex.

Sadly no one else can make it.

Bring galoshes.

Louis

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,03:43   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ May 21 2008,06:02)
[SNIP]

i bet if you tossed out an overboiled potato with a some soggy parsnips that half of these rugby queers would kill the other half trying to cram the potato into their nether regions

[SNIP]

Yes. And?

Inserting potatos into the nether regions is an ancient tradition that goes back to the reign of King Knut (some pell it Canute, but we all know he was really a Knut). Are you trying to force your imperialist, American, cultural hegemony upon we happy few? You hegemoniser you!

Louis

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Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,04:08   

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b) You cheated by fighting at tea time and weekends. No gentleman fights at tea time.


Well, you should have taken advantage of the two-hour French lunch-break. Too gentlemanly by half!

  
huwp



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,04:18   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,04:08)
Well, you should have taken advantage of the two-hour French lunch-break. Too gentlemanly by half!

But that wouldn't have been cricket!

  
Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,04:25   

Just to set light to the oil-soaked strawman of irrelevant nationalism, sights to see when you drop by:
The highest genuine bridge in the World. The biggest passenger plane in the World. The fastest train in the World.

  
RupertG



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,06:06   

Quote (huwp @ May 21 2008,04:18)
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,04:08)
Well, you should have taken advantage of the two-hour French lunch-break. Too gentlemanly by half!

But that wouldn't have been cricket!

And besides, we were operating under a mad king called George, who could barely speak English, ignored his advisors and kept getting involved in overseas wars with woeful lack of preparation and no sort of sensible exit strategy vowing "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal."

Thank God those days are past.

R

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Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,06:19   

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And besides, we were operating under a mad king called George, who could barely speak English, ignored his advisors and kept getting involved in overseas wars with woeful lack of preparation and no sort of sensible exit strategy vowing "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal."

Thank God those days are past.


LOL

  
Advocatus Diaboli



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,07:49   

Quote (Bob O'H @ May 20 2008,13:30)
Well, I'm in Helsinki, home of the Moon Language.  At least I am as long as I can con them into paying me a wage.  Feel free to drop by.

Whoa! I live near Tampere. It could be theoretically possible for me to be in Helsinki in the next week(s) or so.

Fancy a pint?

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guthrie



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,08:10   

Quote (RupertG @ May 21 2008,06:06)
Quote (huwp @ May 21 2008,04:18)
Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,04:08)
Well, you should have taken advantage of the two-hour French lunch-break. Too gentlemanly by half!

But that wouldn't have been cricket!

And besides, we were operating under a mad king called George, who could barely speak English, ignored his advisors and kept getting involved in overseas wars with woeful lack of preparation and no sort of sensible exit strategy vowing "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal."

Thank God those days are past.

R

Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.

  
Alan Fox



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,08:27   

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Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.


I thought the name George, and difficulty with language, suggested another national figure.

  
Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,10:44   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,09:27)
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Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.


I thought the name George, and difficulty with language, suggested another national figure.

So did Dickie.

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,10:54   

Quote (Louis @ May 21 2008,01:43)
Are you trying to force your imperialist, American, cultural hegemony upon we happy few? You hegemoniser you!

Of course not, Louis.

By the way, that should be 'hegemonizer'.

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dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:04   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,08:27)
   
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Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.

I thought the name George, and difficulty with language, suggested another national figure.

George II??  ;)

Which reminds me:
@Lou FCD.
I didn't want this to be a downer so I didn't post it to your birthday thread, but when I learned you had turned 41, I thought, "A year from now, you will be done with 41, and we will be done with 43."

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Robert O'Brien



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:09   

Quote (Richard Simons @ May 20 2008,23:32)
I'm in the sticks in Manitoba, an 8-hour drive north of Winnipeg and 3 hours south of Thompson, in a place where the cultural highlights are the Trappers' Festival and the ice fishing derbies.

I've also family in the UK (I grew up in the Manchester area) in Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, plus Calgary and Vancouver in Canada.

At least you don't live in Regina, Sasquatchewan (or however they spell it.) Whose idea was it to pronounce Regina like the female part?

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Robert O'Brien



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:12   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ May 20 2008,09:38)
[quote=lkeithlu,May 20 2008,07:13]Rural Middle Tennessee


(Oh, San Francisco Bay Area in California, BTW. Actually grew up here. But then again, I think Robert O'Brien did too, so whaddaya gonna do?)

Yes, although I am from the Peninsula and you are from the East Bay (IIRC).

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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:14   

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[quote=Arden Chatfield,May 20 2008,09:38]
Quote (lkeithlu @ May 20 2008,07:13)
Rural Middle Tennessee


(Oh, San Francisco Bay Area in California, BTW. Actually grew up here. But then again, I think Robert O'Brien did too, so whaddaya gonna do?)

Yes, although I am from the Peninsula and you are from the East Bay (IIRC).

Which is gayer?

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Robert O'Brien



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:16   

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[quote=Robert O'Brien,May 21 2008,11:12]
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ May 20 2008,09:38)
Quote (lkeithlu @ May 20 2008,07:13)
Rural Middle Tennessee


(Oh, San Francisco Bay Area in California, BTW. Actually grew up here. But then again, I think Robert O'Brien did too, so whaddaya gonna do?)

Yes, although I am from the Peninsula and you are from the East Bay (IIRC).

Which is gayer?

The East Bay has Berkeley, so I think they win.

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guthrie



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:35   

Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,08:27)
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Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.


I thought the name George, and difficulty with language, suggested another national figure.

Hey, don't mind me, I'm just dragging politics into things.
:p

  
Bob O'H



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:36   

Quote (Advocatus Diaboli @ May 21 2008,07:49)
Quote (Bob O'H @ May 20 2008,13:30)
Well, I'm in Helsinki, home of the Moon Language.  At least I am as long as I can con them into paying me a wage.  Feel free to drop by.

Whoa! I live near Tampere. It could be theoretically possible for me to be in Helsinki in the next week(s) or so.

Fancy a pint?

Certainly.  PM me when you have the details.

The rest of you should be aware that Tampere is known as "the Manchester of the North".  It even has black pudding.

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:43   

[quote=Robert O'Brien,May 21 2008,09:16]
Quote (Richardthughes @ May 21 2008,11:14)
Quote (Robert O'Brien @ May 21 2008,11:12)
 
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ May 20 2008,09:38)
 
Quote (lkeithlu @ May 20 2008,07:13)
Rural Middle Tennessee


(Oh, San Francisco Bay Area in California, BTW. Actually grew up here. But then again, I think Robert O'Brien did too, so whaddaya gonna do?)

Yes, although I am from the Peninsula and you are from the East Bay (IIRC).

Which is gayer?

The East Bay has Berkeley, so I think they win.

Tho San Francisco is on the end of the Peninsula. Make of that what you will.

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:44   

Quote (Robert O'Brien @ May 21 2008,09:09)
Quote (Richard Simons @ May 20 2008,23:32)
I'm in the sticks in Manitoba, an 8-hour drive north of Winnipeg and 3 hours south of Thompson, in a place where the cultural highlights are the Trappers' Festival and the ice fishing derbies.

I've also family in the UK (I grew up in the Manchester area) in Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, plus Calgary and Vancouver in Canada.

At least you don't live in Regina, Sasquatchewan (or however they spell it.)

'Saskatoon, Saskatchewan' is far sillier.

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Advocatus Diaboli



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:45   

Excellent. I'll contact you next week. Meanwhile, you can drool over the finest sausage in Finnish cuisine. The Black Sausage:



It's a sausage. Really!

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Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,11:46   

Quote (Advocatus Diaboli @ May 21 2008,09:45)
Excellent. I'll contact you next week. Meanwhile, you can drool over the finest sausage in Finnish cuisine. The Black Sausage:



It's a sausage. Really!

It looks like a severed body part that was sent by the kidnappers to scare the family into paying the ransom.

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Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,13:37   

better watch out or Louis will run off with that thing.  I bet he cried when he saw a fork sticking in it.  For God's sake, don't cut it!!!

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Lou FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,14:15   

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Quote (Alan Fox @ May 21 2008,08:27)
     
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Yes, Blair has left office, but Brown isn't any better.

I thought the name George, and difficulty with language, suggested another national figure.

George II??  ;)

Which reminds me:
@Lou FCD.
I didn't want this to be a downer so I didn't post it to your birthday thread, but when I learned you had turned 41, I thought, "A year from now, you will be done with 41, and we will be done with 43."

That sir, is cause to celebrate.

I've never really thought of Inauguration Day as a holiday, but there'll be one hell of a party at the FCD household on the one upcoming.  (Assuming he doesn't pull some "Emergency Martial Law" coup or something...)

January 20, 2009 ought to go down in history as a holiday just behind July 4, 1776.

Also, in honor of said celebration, His Holiness, The Glorified Houseplant Who Would Be Caesar and his entire top staff should be presented with the honorary steel bracelets and anklets before leaving the platform.  He should then be taken to the defendant's table in the nearest federal courthouse to receive his just desserts, and then escorted to a further celebration in the Netherlands where the rest of the world can join in the fun.

That would make for a very happy May Day Birthday next year.

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dogdidit



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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,16:30   

From your lips to Dog's ear. I will be among friends this evening and intend to hoist a refreshing beverage or two (well, fer starters). One of those toasts will be yours. Salud, skol, prosit, sani tate, naroc, slainte, kampai, cheers, mud in yer grill. Happy belated.

244 days.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,16:49   

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Born in Glasgow, lived lots of places, and now so central in London it would make your eyes water... As would the tiny size of my flat (or "apartment", for you colonials)  ...

A Londoner, eh?

I spent a few months in England in the mid 1980s, and spent several days in London.  I loved it.  

Me?  Central Vermont.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: May 21 2008,16:53   

Quote (Kristine @ May 20 2008,15:49)
I'm orginally from Minnesota too.

I recently moved to *redacted* not far from *redacted* still in good ole MN. ;) I've been to Germany, Austria, France, Jamaica, Ecuador/Galapagos, and Canada. I loved Paris. I COULD LOVE LONDON! (I want to go there in a major way, being that I was an English major and all.)

Are you going to the annual meeting of the SSB and ASN?

I wonder if ReMine is going.

  
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