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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: DoctorBeaver on 25/02/2008 00:32:36
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I saw this emote & thought of you
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I am so flattered!
Been caught in any good traps lately? Looks like you are limping a little.
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I stubbed my toe on a shoddy piece of human engineering.
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Never can trust an animal around furniture. They either break it, eat it, or hurt themselves. Just goes to show the superiority of Humans.
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If it had been put together properly, the bit I stubbed my toe on wouldn't have been hanging loose.
Shoddy, I tell you - SHODDY!
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I tried to be subtle last time, sir. What you perceive as shoddy, animal, is what those Order Rodentia teeth have destroyed in your wanderings around the house. You're NOT house trained yet. So stop complaining or we will send you back to the pond.
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oooOOOoooh, get you!
I stubbed my toe on a piece of a metal fireguard. I don't eat metal. I don't even nibble it. It's SHODDY. Probably made in Texas!
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If you wouldn't imbibe as much as you do, there would be no stubbed toe.
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Denial in the disease of over-indulgence causes one to blame everything but themselves for their troubles. Please seek professional help.
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How's the head this morning? Did you get the
kits kids to school safely?
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Imbibe? You are having a laugh, aren't you! I hardly drink at all these days. I had 1 glass of cider on Saturday and that's all since before Christmas.
Brat 1 gets thrown at the school bus & brat 2 doesn't go until 1pm.
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Denial in the disease of over-indulgence causes one to blame everything but themselves for their troubles. Please seek professional help.
Oh dear. You appear to have overstretched your ability in English language yet again. If you use the singular impersonal, the sentence should be...
"Denial in the disease of over-indulgence causes one to blame everything but oneself for one's troubles"
I would also query your use of "Denial in...". That should more-correctly be "Denial of...".
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Again, the insistence of pointing to the way the message is delivered and ignoring the substance of said message, indicates denial. I am so sorry.
I do believe that your were stoked to the gills when you tried to eat firewood as a midnight snack and stubbed your toe on the andiron. There, carefully laid wood the for morning fire was all over the place and incisor teeth marks were found on many of the pieces that had apparently been tasted, thrown over your shoulder in rejection. The fireplace was a shambles and the decanter of scotch had been drained dry. Butler said I should never have allowed you the dignity of staying in the main house.
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That must have been quite some dream you had. What had you been smoking before you went to bed?
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The usual, Dunhill Marrakesh Gold.
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[:D]
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It still begs the question of Butler's recollection. He doesn't indulge in anything - he is a Presbyterian.
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Presbyterian? That explains it. Too much blood in his alcohol stream.
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Just the obverse of your situation, eh?
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Oh I wish. Unfortunately alcohol clashes with my medication.
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The anti-psychotic stuff?
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That's the beastie. Alcohol with it makes me fall asle... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Perhaps you need more anti-psychotics so you won't tear up the fire again.
This is a blanket I am putting over you - NO, it isn't a shroud. Just sleep it off where you are.
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zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz hmph rrrrmph... WHAT THE...!
Who put this tarpaulin over me?
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Well, actually it was a shroud for the trash but, what the heck, the castor glands are just too much. They would ruin a decent blanket. It was as kind as I could bring myself to be. Be glad I didn't let you freeze. It was 23° F (- 5° C) for the imperially challenged) at the air port here last night.
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what were you two doing sleeping in the airport? Wow! Doc that must have been some party.
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Madame,
Being as matronly as you are I will indulge this interruption in our discussion as an inadvertent faux pas. Had you been younger, a general castigation would have been in order.
Had you read the dialogue of our complete discourse, you would see that Doctor Beaver is staying at the main house of my estate here in Texas. After a complete beach of gentlemanly conduct - drinking tequila with the help, of all things - he passed out at the back garden entrance. I was awoken by Butler at 1:30 AM and asked if we should bring the reprobate into the coal cellar. I decided against this as it would involve waking more of my staff and went myself, grabbed the tarp over the compose heap and put it over the recumbent form of the Beaver. 'Let him suffer the consequences of his actions' were my thoughts. I did want him to survive so that he might have the opportunity to repent of his ways in the future.
Speaking of the future, I am sure we would appreciate a personal message before just jumping into the discussion between two individuals uninvited. Thank you for your future thoughtfulness.
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oops! sorry not done this forum thingy before. It is harder than it looks. I'm going out to get drunk now and to sob, and on my birthday too. I will not speak to you again.
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Ever
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Ever
Promise?
[;D]
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Madame,
Being as matronly as you are I will indulge this interruption in our discussion as an inadvertent faux pas. Had you been younger, a general castigation would have been in order.
Had you read the dialogue of our complete discourse, you would see that Doctor Beaver is staying at the main house of my estate here in Texas. After a complete beach of gentlemanly conduct - drinking tequila with the help, of all things - he passed out at the back garden entrance. I was awoken by Butler at 1:30 AM and asked if we should bring the reprobate into the coal cellar. I decided against this as it would involve waking more of my staff and went myself, grabbed the tarp over the compose heap and put it over the recumbent form of the Beaver. 'Let him suffer the consequences of his actions' were my thoughts. I did want him to survive so that he might have the opportunity to repent of his ways in the future.
Speaking of the future, I am sure we would appreciate a personal message before just jumping into the discussion between two individuals uninvited. Thank you for your future thoughtfulness.
You've been watching too much Sesame Street and have got delusional. In any case, there is no such thing as an estate in Texas. There were proper estates in England when Texas was still home to the primordial sludge (nothing much changes).
What actually is Texas famous for? Oil, absurdly large hats, and unnatural practices with cattle! Oh, and didn't Texas steal George Dubya from Connecticut? That was a really good move. [::)]
(by the way, is it common knowledge in the U.S. that your illustrious president was once a cheerleader?)
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Yes, we are aware of the shortcomings of W., who was born in Heartford, CT. - he is a thorn in our side but he is an immigrant to Texas.
We cannot be held responsible for foreigners. They invade and devour like locust and it is darned hard to get away with killing one no matter how much you want to do so. And hired gunslingers are getting very hard to come by these days.
As for estates, they do exists. They are called "ranches" and "haciendas" here. I made it "estate" as I did not think another person from the UK could understand the grandeur of the ranches here. Below is the small estate across the pond from mine - it pales in comparison to mine, an old 17th century Spanish mission I have restored to its original grandeur.
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As for the unnatural practices, what about the English shepherds? They are also well know for the reason they wear gum boots. It isn't for the mud, that is for sure.
The Home of NASA, the worlds leading cancer research hospital, The home of the first by-pass heart surgery, and so much and you call it a place of primordial sludge? I think not.
And what about your African upbringing? Do I hold that against you. No, you are a guest in my home. And this is the way I am repaid my kindness - dispersions and innuendo. Primordial mud, herumph.
For shame, Sir. For shame.
Take more anti-psychotics. You need them, especially now that you are over the hill.
AND NO MORE TEQUILA!
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it pales in comparison to mine, an old 17th century Spanish mission I have restored to its original grandeur.
17th century? Modern dross! You should see my ancestral home. The land encompassed most of what is now North Essex & Cambridgeshire and parts of Hertfordshire. Stansted airport is built on the land.
http://www.mountfitchetcastle.com/ (http://www.mountfitchetcastle.com/)
New entry:
Newcomer, usurper, NORMAN! - I am of Welch ancestry. JimBob (Ah, the privilege of rank)
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oh my head! my computer fan is far too loud and I seem to have a Hindu statue in the hall. What a night. Are you too still at Stansted airport. Thumb a lift home Doc and JimBob, pretend to be a member of greenpeace, that way they will let you climb onto the back of a plane back to Texas and grand chaparral [V]
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Thumb a lift home Doc...
One has a chauffeuse
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Oh its OK. just found out that my son is drawing the statue for his RE project so I hadn't stolen it from the Indian restaraunt last night. Thank goodness, I was beginning to wonder what else I may have done last night.
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I was beginning to wonder what else I may have done last night.
You'll find out if you buy the News Of The World this Sunday
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What is left of the restaurant looks in worse shape than what is left of Kenilworth Castle. I saw ITN, CNN, BBC, and al-Jazeera among the throng. I understand charges are pending.
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I don't care coz I got my second star! My son showed me how to do my profile too coz he's 13 and knows about these things. Al-Jazeera hey! what did I do to deserve that?
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One must behave well in public - actually in one's whole life - or there will be unexpected consequences. I must admit to indiscretions in the past but I learned from them and became a better human being because of this. To tout ones indiscretion and then not care just shows a lake of breeding.
Perhaps the good doctor and I might be of service in this endeavor. You could be our "Liza Doolittle" project, becoming a modern embodiment of the Greek Pygmalion myth.
But one must wish to change. This is the crux. If you wish to continue as a rowdy east-ender, we are utterly constrained.
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Not everyone in England is a cockney. I personally hale from the north originally. I assure you I am normally a lady in everyway but one has to let one's hair down from time to time.
Can't bare 'My Fair Lady.' all those Londoners and the smog. Give me the clean air of the country, riding on the downs and shooting the commoners.
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riding on the downs and shooting the commoners.
Hear, hear, it is a popular pastime on the border here as well.
I wish I were kidding. There are ranchers who do this. It is appalling. They don't play fair, they use automatic weapons bought illegally from dealers in Mexico and coming originally from Israel and South Africa or even China.
Now as for Doctor Beaver. How shall I put this sir? Your behavior is utterly reprehensible but it should be noted that I also overstepped my bounds by editing your message, above. But a Norman castle? Really sir. The original inhabitants Brittan, we Welsh, do not harbor much resentment but would waylay you in a dark ally anytime. And I am surprised that a wooden hill fort would, in your opinion, be of greater grandeur than a fully restored stone mission building covering over an acre of inside living space sitting on over 10,000 acres of land. It just shows what the newcomer Normans lack in their sense of history and permanence.
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10,000 acres? PAH... that's not even a front yard! Our family land was once over 4,000 square miles!
Also, who told you that the Welsh were the original inhabitants of Britain? If you are referring to the Celts, they came hundreds of years after the Beaker People and even they were probably not the originals.
And don't forget that the Normans were actually Vikings. That means we kicked your Celtic butts on numerous occasions and forced you to run away to the coldest, wettest & foggiest parts of Britain!
Your being of Welsh descent would explain your interest in the baggy wellies favoured by shepherds.
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Yeh, but it took another two hundred years for you Viking cast-outs and outlaws to get control of Wales, you inept piece of tripe. Even then it was not until the 15th century things finnaly settled down. Even the Danes aided the British against you mongrels. And you consider yourself the "old guard." What a farce.
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Beaker people? Do these have anything to do with Dr Bunsen Honey Dew's assistant from the Muppets?
Being of welsh decent myself we Celts were driven into the hilly regions of Britain where we through rocks at all invaders and generally annoyed people.
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Being of welsh decent myself we Celts were driven into the hilly regions of Britain where we through rocks at all invaders and generally annoyed people.
Nothing much has changed, then [:P]
And "Welsh decent"? That's an oxymoron!
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An oxymoron such as "Old Guard?"
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Who said I consider myself part of the "Old Guard"? I am English through & through although I have some very distant Norman-Viking blood.
And don't forget that the Celts migrated across Europe from Central Asia so you may well have some Afghan or Uzbek blood somewhere.
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Touting your relationship to the infamous Montfitchet family, who robbed and enslave the peoples they ruled over so harshly that the original Baron's son had to change his name from Gernon to Montfitchet to hide from the court his connection to his father's crimes.
A Norman doesn't seem very English if you are talking about the longevity of a peoples residence in one place.
So what if we have Afghan or Uzbeki origins? At least we had the intelligence to move to a better place than the forests of northern Europe.
And while you Gremanic throw-backs were still wearing caribou (reindeer) hides, the Celts, no matter what our origins, were weaving advanced textiles and making some of the most beautiful gold- and silver-work in all of history. The Classic Hallstatt culture gave rise to the Illyrians, the group of peoples who in waves, settled Greece as first the Dorians and then the Ionians. While you were building long houses and living with your cattle inside them, these aforementioned decedents of the Celts were building the Parthenon, the temples at Delphi, the Temples of the original Olympic Games, etc. and starting scientific thought.
In addition, another Celt, Alexander the Great, conquered the world.
And as for being English, Celts have the older claim.
Please, learn you place, newcomer.
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Beaker people? Do these have anything to do with Dr Bunsen Honey Dew's assistant from the Muppets?
Being of welsh decent myself we Celts were driven into the hilly regions of Britain where we through rocks at all invaders and generally annoyed people.
Isn't it "throw"? See what those Anglo-Saxon-Germanic-Viking snots did to our beautiful language. They can't even sing.
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You've just got the hump because you are descended from a bunch of hairy-assed, freckly ginger-mops! And they didn't go anywhere near Greece.
600 B.C.: *600 B.C.: Many Celtic tribes came to Central and Western Europe: the Boyards, the Noricae, the Vindelici and, in the mountains between Hungary and Switzerland, the Helvetians. Two groups of Celts existed in Gaul: those between Garonne and the Pyrenees, and those between Garonne and the Seine: the Arverni, the Haeduers, the Veneti, the Parisii and the Serones. The Allobroges settled in the area around the Rhône and the Maritime Alps. The last to arrive were the Belgae between the Seine and the Rhine, the Bellovaci around Beauvais, and the Remi between Marne and Meuse. Some Belgae settled on the British Islands, near London. The Brigantes lived in the Pennine Chains in England, while the Caledones occupied an area to the north. The Boyards, the Insubrians and the Serones influenced Italy while in western-Spain Celts mingled with Iberians to give rise to Celtiberian tribes.
(from http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter113.html (http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter113.html))
The Vikings, on the other hand were in Greece & were prominent in the court of Byzantium. They founded the city of Kiev, and Russia grew from the settlement of a Viking tribe called the Rus.
The Viking trading empire covered the whole of northern Europe, Italy, Greece, much of Turkey and East past the Black Sea, and they even had trading links with the Arab lands.
Vikings were also the first Europeans to venture to the Americas.
It was the Vikings who smegged another Celtic tribe, the Gauls in northern France.
Of course we can sing. Haven't you seen "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis?
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Oh, facts just fly over your genetically addled brain?
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The Vikings, I remeber that TV program. Didn't they send him off to sea in a burning boat at the end? I cried. Oh and the signiture tune was good to my whole faminly used to hum it. Being Welsh, we can do that.
Sorry about the spelling, it's the dislexya, no dysluxia. Oh god why did the make the name for a problem with spelling so hard to spell.
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It isn't dyslexia, it is a lack of a functional brain, woman. And I can't believe one would waste ones time with tele when there is such great literature to read. Ah, the commoners. Even we Welsh have them. Tisk, tisk. It is good that we were once Gwynedd royalty.
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You've just got the hump because you are descended from a bunch of hairy-assed, freckly ginger-mops! And they didn't go anywhere near Greece.
600 B.C.: *600 B.C.: Many Celtic tribes came to Central and Western Europe: the Boyards, the Noricae, the Vindelici and, in the mountains between Hungary and Switzerland, the Helvetians. Two groups of Celts existed in Gaul: those between Garonne and the Pyrenees, and those between Garonne and the Seine: the Arverni, the Haeduers, the Veneti, the Parisii and the Serones. The Allobroges settled in the area around the Rhône and the Maritime Alps. The last to arrive were the Belgae between the Seine and the Rhine, the Bellovaci around Beauvais, and the Remi between Marne and Meuse. Some Belgae settled on the British Islands, near London. The Brigantes lived in the Pennine Chains in England, while the Caledones occupied an area to the north. The Boyards, the Insubrians and the Serones influenced Italy while in western-Spain Celts mingled with Iberians to give rise to Celtiberian tribes.
(from http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter113.html (http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter113.html))
This is all iron age (late) history:
"The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age and preceded the Iron Age throughout most of Northern and North-eastern Europe. Depending on the interpreter, the culture is linked to the Celts or to their predecessors and the Illyrians]. Other theories link this culture to the Adriatic Veneti as predecessors of modern Slavs. It is named for its type site, Hallstatt a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture
Also, you lack of knowledge of the classics makes it clear that you have are not a person of breeding.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrians
" 'Illyrians' has come to refer to a broad, ill-defined[1] "Indo-European" group of peoples who inhabited the western Balkans (Illyria, roughly from the Albanian and Montenegro border to southern Pannonia) and even possibly Messapia in southern Italy (if the Messapian language is to be considered an Illlyrian dialect). Illyrians were part of the Hallstatt culture."
These peoples became the Ionians, Dorians and Macedonians.
For determining ancestry and lineage, it is the language that is most important - your insinuations are based on the situation during the iron age, not the stone and Bronze Age.
The Vikings, on the other hand were in Greece & were prominent in the court of Byzantium. They founded the city of Kiev, and Russia grew from the settlement of a Viking tribe called the Rus.
The Viking trading empire covered the whole of northern Europe, Italy, Greece, much of Turkey and East past the Black Sea, and they even had trading links with the Arab lands.
Vikings were also the first Europeans to venture to the Americas.
It was the Vikings who smegged another Celtic tribe, the Gauls in northern France.
Of course we can sing. Haven't you seen "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas & Tony Curtis?
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All the above were after the golden age of Greece. Your historical timing sir, does not substantiate you claims.
"Douglas" - From Clan Douglas in Celtic Scotland
"Curtis" - hired Italian swords that William brought with him. They held lands in Warwikshire given them after 1066.
As for the Gauls, they sacked Rome before they were subsequently subdued, but it took the Romans and the Germainc Franks working together to do it.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul
In English, the word Gaul (French: Gaulois) may also refer to an inhabitant of that region, although the expression may be used more generally for all ancient speakers of the Gaulish language (a derivative of early Celtic) who were widespread in Europe and extended even into central Anatolia by Roman times. The Gauls were Celts which was a word coined in the 17th century[citation needed] to describe the people that inhabited the British Isle and Gaul which not only consisted of France but parts of Spain and northern Italy.
Gauls under Brennus sacked Rome circa 390 BC. In the Aegean world, a huge migration of Eastern Gauls appeared in Thrace, north of Greece, in 281 BC. Another Gaulish chieftain also named Brennus, at the head of a large army, was only turned back from desecrating the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece at the last minute — he was alarmed, it was said, by portents of thunder and lightning.[1] At the same time a migrating band of Celts, some 10,000 warriors, with their women and children and slaves, were moving through Thrace. Three tribes of Gauls crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor at the express invitation of Nicomedes I, king of Bithynia (which was a small geographical location just south of the bosphorus and the Euxene (Black Sea) in the northern area of modern-day Turkey, i.e just south and southeast of the latter-day city of Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul), who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother. Eventually they settled down in eastern Phrygia and Cappadocia in central Anatolia, a region henceforth known as Galatia."
E.G. Paul's book to the Galatians
Please know the historical context and the sequence in which they occurred before posting such hollow arguments.
And you cite Italians an Celts to prove Vikings can sing. Shame, sir, shame. Haver you ever had to bear the excruciating hollering of Wagner's operas? I will give you Bach, but he was late, a 16th century German who was only able to achieve greatness because of the benefits of the Italian Renaissance.
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What? brain only understands science. Failed History A level! Can only remember the story about Elizabeth I. A man farted in her presence and was so embarrassed that he exiled himself to Europe for 7 years. On his return to court the Queen said "I have not forgotten the fart." Knowledge of History complete.....beep, beeep, beeeeep!
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What? brain only understands science. Failed History A level! Can only remember the story about Elizabeth I. A man farted in her presence and was so embarrassed that he exiled himself to Europe for 7 years. On his return to court the Queen said "I have not forgotten the fart." Knowledge of History complete.....beep, beeep, beeeeep!
Someone please press the 'droids reset button.
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JimBob, where is Beaver Doctor? Is he on his Hol's or has he got a life....oh,no!
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Mating again. How do you think he got his moniker? You don't really believe he us a real beaver, do you?
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Got the post. I think the Doctor is whatever you want him to be. I'm a bit worried that he might be your imaginary friend though. I've been humouring you all along!!!
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Oh dear, Jim. Oh deary, deary dear.
In the Aegean world, a huge migration of Eastern Gauls appeared in Thrace, north of Greece, in 281 BC. Another Gaulish chieftain also named Brennus, at the head of a large army, was only turned back from desecrating the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in Greece at the last minute — he was alarmed, it was said, by portents of thunder and lightning. At the same time a migrating band of Celts, some 10,000 warriors, with their women and children and slaves, were moving through Thrace. Three tribes of Gauls crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor at the express invitation of Nicomedes I, king of Bithynia (which was a small geographical location just south of the bosphorus and the Euxene (Black Sea) in the northern area of modern-day Turkey, i.e just south and southeast of the latter-day city of Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul), who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother. Eventually they settled down in eastern Phrygia and Cappadocia in central Anatolia, a region henceforth known as Galatia.
I direct you to the opening sentence "...appeared in Thrace, north of Greece, in 281 BC.". North of Greece. NORTH OF IT - not in it!
'Illyrians' has come to refer to a broad, ill-defined "Indo-European" group of peoples who inhabited the western Balkans (Illyria, roughly from the Albanian and Montenegro border to southern Pannonia)
Jugoslavia, in other words. Hmmm... has Jugoslavia ever been in Greece? I think not.
"The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age and preceded the Iron Age throughout most of Northern and North-eastern Europe. Depending on the interpreter, the culture is linked to the Celts or to their predecessors and the Illyrians]. Other theories link this culture to the Adriatic Veneti as predecessors of modern Slavs. It is named for its type site, Hallstatt a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg."
Maybe Salzburg is in Greece? Nope, wrong again.
All that just goes to prove that Americans are totally crap at geography [::)]
I did not say that the Vikings were present during the Golden Age of Greece. And where did I use Italians and Celts as proof of my claim that Vikings could sing?
And to correct another of your erroneous connections - Wagner was German; nothing whatsoever to do with Vikings. Yes, Gotterdammerung is based on Norse mythology. But Holst wrote The Planets Suite. That doesn't mean he was from Jupiter!
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Oh doctor, your history is so lacking and you don't understand what you read.
It seems a loosing cause to get your tiny Rodentia brain to comprehend what I am saying. The Illirians were the amcestors of the Celtic and Greek populations and later of the the the Dorians and then the Ionians who came in the preceeding order from the WESTERN BALKINS. The Celts and Illirians were established buy 1800 BC in Europe.
"During the Iron Age, Celts lived across a wide range of lands, from the Iberian Peninsula to Anatolia (Turkey), but the ultimate origin of the Celts is a subject of controversy. Before the archaeological discoveries of the 19th century, the Celts were considered to be inhabitants of the south of Europe (Websters Dictionary 1828). Since then, some scholars have placed the Celtic homeland in what is now southern Germany and Austria, associating the earliest Celtic peoples with the Hallstatt culture. (see List of Celtic tribes for the names of specific, early Celtic peoples). However, more recently the southern homeland has regained adherents, such as Simon James and Stephen Oppenheimer.
Although more recently restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe (known as the 'Celtic fringe'), Celtic languages were once predominant over much of Europe, with territory largely ceded to expanding Germanic tribes and the invading Roman Empire. Archaeological and historical sources show that at their maximum extent in the third century BC, Celtic peoples were also present in areas of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor."
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"There are few written records of the ancient Celtic languages produced by the Celts themselves. Generally these are names on coins and stone inscriptions. Mostly the evidence is of personal names and place names in works by Greek and Roman authors. The date at which the proto-Celtic language split from Indo-European is disputed but may be as early as 6000 BC, with it reaching Britain and Ireland by 3200 BC, according to Forster and Toth."
This is earlier than any of the peoples you suggest migrating in 600 BC from Asia. It appears to be the opposite, as stated above, that the Celts migrated from Europe into Anatolia.
It is obvious that reasoning with lower life forms is a useless endeavor.
I am truly sorry you cannot comprehend even the most simple of concepts of time. Celts -> Illirian and eastern European, as well as Irish and Brits, Illirian -> Greek Dorian and Ionian
Too simple for you to grasp.
My sympathies.
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As for you claim that vikings could sing you used the movie "The Vikings" with tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas. In this movie, which I have seen several times, they are singing Vikings.
"Douglas" - From Clan Douglas in Celtic Scotland
"Curtis" - hired Italian swords that William brought with him. The family held lands in Warwikshire given them after 1066.
This was provided above. Do you read well or simple lip-speak the words?
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"Douglas" - From Clan Douglas in Celtic Scotland
"Curtis" - hired Italian swords that William brought with him.
I understand your reference now.
As for my history, for me it's not history - it's memories! I can't help it if people's re-constructions are awry.
Anyway, what have the Celts left for posterity? Kilts, leeks, haggis and a language that sounds as if you're trying to alleviate the nastier symptoms of bronchitis.
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As for my history, for me it's not history - it's memories!
GAWD! You are ancient. Can you still use your ear? (RE: private communication)
Anyway, what have the Celts left for posterity? Kilts, leeks, haggis and a language that sounds as if you're trying to alleviate the nastier symptoms of bronchitis.
And the Normans gave us poverty and George Dubuah Bush, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2263945.stm & http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/sep/18/netnotes.markoliver)
The last is inexcusable!
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Now you're just being silly
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But you do not challenge the validity of the Guardian's and BBC's articles, do you?
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JimBob, where is Beaver Doctor? Is he on his Hol's or has he got a life....oh,no!
I spy an abused apostrophe! [:(!]
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But you do not challenge the validity of the Guardian's and BBC's articles, do you?
The Guardian is a socialist propoganda sheet and the BBC - well, the least said the better about that organisation these days.
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JimBob, where is Beaver Doctor? Is he on his Hol's or has he got a life....oh,no!
I spy an abused apostrophe! [:(!]
NIT
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But you do not challenge the validity of the Guardian's and BBC's articles, do you?
The Guardian is a socialist propoganda sheet and the BBC - well, the least said the better about that organisation these days.
Picker
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JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION, Tricky.
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I had meant to put a full stop but my touch typing is rubbish and my cat insists on helping. Why do they do that? As for my History my Mum is welsh and my Dad's family were originally Venables. One of my relatives was a dragon slayer. The family used to own Delamere forest in Knutsford and the locals called them The Meres which was corrupted later to Mayer. I think changing your surname is rather weird.
Venable goes back to heraldry though.
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Doctor,
BUSH derives from the Norman "Boucher" - pronounced "bo-shay"
See a reference to Francois Boucher, the artist, on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois_Boucher
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Read about my ancestor:
www.foolishpeople.com/foolishpeople/2005/11/british_dragon_.html - 91k -
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From http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/a/english.htm (http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/a/english.htm)
Other local surnames derive from descriptive landscape features such as hills, woods, and streams which describe the original bearer's residence. This is the origin of surnames such as Sykes (marshy stream), Bush and Attwood (near a wood).
You were saying?
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Just another Norman diversionary tactic - it does not answer the question about the Bush-Spencer connection or the fact that the Bush family is Norman.
Mountfitchet Family Motto - Evade, Evade, Evade
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Read about my ancestor:
www.foolishpeople.com/foolishpeople/2005/11/british_dragon_.html - 91k -
I always thought there was something wormy about you.
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Well it just goes to show that Normans still rule (even if that particular 1 has been tainted with inbred, redneck blood that has turned him mad)
In any case, I can't find anything that says Henry Spencer was Norman.
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Read it again JimBob, you need to go to the section on Cheshire. This tells of my Dragon Slaying past. And no comments about me being a dragon!
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Read it again JimBob, you need to go to the section on Cheshire. This tells of my Dragon Slaying past. And no comments about me being a dragon!
Then why didn't you say so - you need to be specific, the link was to the page on dragons - GAWD - Poor communication skills.
How should I know you last name????????????????
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I'm not one for busman's holidays so they do tend to go up the swany when I've just done a show. Sorry!
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Well it just goes to show that Normans still rule (even if that particular 1 has been tainted with inbred, redneck blood that has turned him mad)
In any case, I can't find anything that says Henry Spencer was Norman.
Yes , Normans still rule and with the same despotism that they have during their whole miserable existence. The Bush family is pure New England patrician. Nothing Texas about them. they just came here to rape and pillages as they had been doing in the northeast of this Country.
I never said Spencer was a Norman - the family is related to the Bush's.
Don't you read?
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I'm not one for busman's holidays so they do tend to go up the swany when I've just done a show. Sorry!
You are forgiven - this time
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I'm not one for busman's holidays so they do tend to go up the swany when I've just done a show. Sorry!
You are forgiven - this time
Admiral Ozzel got off easy!
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I never said Spencer was a Norman - the family is related to the Bush's.
Don't you read?
You tried to use the connection to show that Bush is a Norman.
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Read it again JimBob, you need to go to the section on Cheshire. This tells of my Dragon Slaying past. And no comments about me being a dragon!
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
What has Mr Needell got to do with it?
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
It appears to be a menage a trois now the dragon has also taken up arms. [:D]
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
It appears to be a menage a trois now the dragon has also taken up arms. [:D]
Will the three of you get out of my horse riding arena!
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I had meant to put a full stop but my touch typing is rubbish and my cat insists on helping. Why do they do that? As for my History my Mum is welsh and my Dad's family were originally Venables. One of my relatives was a dragon slayer. The family used to own Delamere forest in Knutsford and the locals called them The Meres which was corrupted later to Mayer. I think changing your surname is rather weird.
Venable goes back to heraldry though.
Because, JimBob, I already told you but you were too busy talking to your imaginary friend, the Beaver.
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
It appears to be a menage a trois now the dragon has also taken up arms. [:D]
Will the three of you get out of my horse riding arena!
are you awaiting your jockey?
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No I am awaiting my knight.
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No I am awaiting my knight.
i'll gladly get out of the arena to watch that!
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No I am awaiting my knight.
i'll gladly get out of the arena to watch that!
[:0]
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Sorry, we are off to bed now. I need my beauty sleep being s dragon and all.
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Is this 'tiff' still going on? haha
It appears to be a menage a trois now the dragon has also taken up arms. [:D]
Will the three of you get out of my horse riding arena!
Here's Tango in my arena...
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Goodnight, Lady
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gnight.
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Now the both of you have left me alone with a rabid beaver. And Lady is going to need a LOOOOOOOOOOONG sleep to get any beauty.
And he isn't imaginary - he is on a computer in Oxfordshire planning to take over the world.
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Does he have a white cat with long fur that he strokes while he plots his world domination? I realise he has a white horse in his menage but I'd hate to try and sit that thing on my lap! I do like to have a visual picture of any evil madmen that might be in my area. Does he look like Odd Felt from James bond or the other guy with the bowler hat. Blow.... ooh I got their names muddled up how embarrassing...EEK!
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No, more like a partially decayed body, like the crypt-keeper on the the HBO horror show of which I have forgotten the name. (Please note the correct usage of grammar in the previous sentence, it is so important if one wishes to seem refined.)
His cat is just a plain old diversionary Griffin.
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Does he have a white cat with long fur that he strokes while he plots his world domination?
Cat? CAT? Don't be daft. You've obviously not met my little doggies.
Here's 1 of them...
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Here's another...
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And 1 more for luck...
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There are a few more, but I won't post pics of all of them. I think you should get the message.
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Then it would not be wise for me to post the pictures you posted on this thread a while back, I guess.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8592.0
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Not mine. That scratty thing belongs to Sandra and the brats.
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If you are disclaiming any relations to these felines, then why does the title of the post include "Our," as well as also the sentence "We got him today.", "This is Candy (our other cat).", and We had our pick of 4 kittens and chose..."
It just doesn't make the denial meaningful.
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"Our" in the sense of he is part of the family (pfft!). "We got him" because Sandra & I went to collect him. "Our other..." in the same sense as my first reply. Etc, etc.
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Pathetic - but what I have come to expect.
By the way, I found a portrait of you for Lady.
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You've been at my photo album! [:(!]
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Why not, you just left it sitting around, it wasn't like I was reading your journal - but that wild woman you had a date with last Maso.... Oh, just forget about it.
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Wow! Now I know where he got the nickname from. Those Beaver like teeth. It is nice to know he is actually real.
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What did you think? He and I are not wrapped too tightly? I may assure you we are very sane.
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What did you think? He and I are not wrapped too tightly? I may assure you we are very sane.
We?
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Someone help that man to the toilet.
I'm supposed to be working now but I'm doing the usual 'putting it off' stuff. This is the problem with being a freelancer, motivation is a tough thing. Another freelancer, my knight, Taff has joined the forum. Make sure you make him feel as welcome as you made me, in other words, declare war upon him, insult him and generally give him a hard time. He likes it. He'll probably toute for work for a while but it is only because he is passionate about what he does. I wish I had his enthusiasm. Got to write some advertising stuff for some make and take science I'm doing in the summer. Yawn! Like doing the workshops, hate the rest.
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What did you think? He and I are not wrapped too tightly? I may assure you we are very sane.
We?
OK, Ok, you wish to carp about this. I shall thus redefine "We" to be used in the "royal" sense. If you, my good sir, wish to remain on the mentally deficient list, "We" will allow you to do so. May the goodness of the Ephemeral Powers show mercy on you for your decision.
Is Taff a nickname for your friend's daft personality? Or are you just dragging in the rubbish?
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I thought you said that you were Welsh JimBob. Any man from Wales is called Taff once he steps foot in England. It is short for taffy. What does it mean in the US. See Doc, I knew he was pretending about his roots.
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Is Taff a nickname for your friend's daft personality?
He's called Taff because he likes wearing taffeta. He's called Jane at weekends. [:D]
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Is Taff a nickname for your friend's daft personality?
He's called Taff because he likes wearing taffeta. He's called Jane at weekends. [:D]
"Lady?"
Welsh ancestry, not living there now, droll wench.
beaver
Look, my personal life has nothing to do with this and I prefer Becky.
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But what does Taff mean in the US?
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"Daft" is what I was alluding to.
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oooOOOoooh... alluding, were we? How la-di-da!
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Sarcasm ill becomes you, rodent. The partial brain transplant that gave you your abilities seems to be starting to degenerate. Perhaps you need to go back to your neurologist.
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It's not a transplant. Beavers are an intelligent species. It just suits us to play dumb to fool you apes.
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I see they did a memory wipe and reprogramming of you as well.
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Who are "they"? The white mice who run the universe?
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Yes, Pinky and the Brain
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Who? [???]
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It is an American carton Show that had a short run - too much adult level humor in it. It is about two lab mice, oh well ....
here is a link
http://www.google.com/search?q=pinky+and+the+brain&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
The brain, the one with the microphone on this page, is out to take over the world.
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It is an American carton Show...
A show about cartons? Isn't that a bit boring? (unless, of course, you're in the carton trade)
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It is like watching Monty Python in cartoon form. I am am sure you have watched Monty Python. Or are you above that?
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Python is 1 of my all-time favourites. Incidentally, Cleese & Chapman are Cambridge graduates. [^]
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Bragging now, are we?
A least I went to a school with an all encompassing curriculum. The University of Texas (before it became the University of Texas at Austin.) It is also one of the 10 best schools of Geology in the world. Alas, Cambridge is not among the list of such schools.
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Probably not. Cambridge is a foremost seat of learning in subjects such as maths (Steven Hawking now holds the Lucasian Chair in mathematics - a position once held by none other than Newton himself), science, technology, law (James Tully), divinity, history, cosmology & astrophysics (Martin Rees), computing (John Daugman) and psychology (especially autism - Simon Baron-Cohen).
And, of course, young Chris is a lecturer there (as, once, was yours truly [^] ).
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Yes but Newton didn't think up some of his best stuff whilst AT Cambridge. Wasn't he kept away for a while because of the plague and having time on his hands he would go out into the countryside and think about all his many theories. Sometimes having time out from the rat race can be rewarding.
I didn't realise that stephen Hawking can only move his eyes and his cheek muscles now. He has to be everybody's hero.
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Bragging now, are we?
A least I went to a school with an all encompassing curriculum. The University of Texas (before it became the University of Texas at Austin.) It is also one of the 10 best schools of Geology in the world. Alas, Cambridge is not among the list of such schools.
NO IN GEOLOGY !!
We both are elitist but, you sir, are a snob. Need a hanky to wipe your nose?
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Yes but Newton didn't think up some of his best stuff whilst AT Cambridge. Wasn't he kept away for a while because of the plague and having time on his hands he would go out into the countryside and think about all his many theories. Sometimes having time out from the rat race can be rewarding.
I didn't realise that stephen Hawking can only move his eyes and his cheek muscles now. He has to be everybody's hero.
Agreed
(GAWD! I am agreeing with a sworn enemy.)
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Bragging now, are we?
A least I went to a school with an all encompassing curriculum. The University of Texas (before it became the University of Texas at Austin.) It is also one of the 10 best schools of Geology in the world. Alas, Cambridge is not among the list of such schools.
NO IN GEOLOGY !!
We both are elitist but, you sir, are a snob. Need a hanky to wipe your nose?
Hanky? Hankies are for commoners. I use a kerchief.
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So what Red Indian tribe do you get your kerchiefs from? And how do they like you wiping your nose on them?
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Your daftness is peeking through again, Jimmy.
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HOW!
So what Red Indian tribe do you get your kerchiefs from? And how do they like you wiping your nose on them?
HOW!
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Exactly
How! white lady, do'um Ok today?
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How do you know she did 'um? [:0]
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If I throw him a stick, do you think he'll leave?
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If I throw him a stick, do you think he'll leave?
You'd have more luck hitting him with it.
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I am impervious to the insults, rising above the furry of your disdain. It appears you cannot appreciate the subtly of my posts so I will ignore the two of you as irrelevant to this discussion.
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I am impervious to the insults, rising above the furry of your disdain. It appears you cannot appreciate the subtly of my posts so I will ignore the two of you as irrelevant to this discussion.
"Furry" of my disdain? [:D]
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Only Doctor Beaver can do furry disdain.
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Only Doctor Beaver can do furry disdain.
Very true
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Yes, it's true. So why should we take him seriously?
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Yes, it's true. So why should we take him seriously?
You don't anyway
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I'll take you seriously when you stop wearing that pink dress whilst tap dancing and smoking a pipe.
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What - you fear that smoking a pipe will make me more attractive to you husband? Such insecurity!
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Unless you post a photo, I wont know if you are his type.
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I'll take you seriously when you stop wearing that pink dress whilst tap dancing and smoking a pipe.
KILLJOY! [:(!]
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Hi friendos!
today has been a big and busy one:
340 most on line!
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What - you fear that smoking a pipe will make me more attractive to you husband? Such insecurity!
sounds nice to me...
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I'll take you seriously when you stop wearing that pink dress whilst tap dancing and smoking a pipe.
KILLJOY! [:(!]
Are you threatening my life? Now that is not nice. You must be envious I look better in a dress than you do.
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I'll take you seriously when you stop wearing that pink dress whilst tap dancing and smoking a pipe.
KILLJOY! [:(!]
Are you threatening my life? Now that is not nice. You must be envious I look better in a dress than you do.
oops - that was not the intended semantics.
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I still think you are very envious that I look better in a dress than you do.
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Prove it [>:(]
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Why? - it is obvious that you are.
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You inhabit an island of absurdity in a sea of silliness
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You inhabit an island of absurdity in a sea of silliness
At least he's not lost on his own island.
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You inhabit an island of absurdity in a sea of silliness
At least he's not lost on his own island.
I believe several of you are joint owners
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Poetical allusion will not suffice in a substantive argument sir, it shows desperation and lack of substance and cahones.
And this last statement lacks full disclosure. You were the original inhabitant of the island, hold the deed and sold parcels to the rest of us. You also hold the mortgage on our parcels.
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You inhabit an island of absurdity in a sea of silliness
At least he's not lost on his own island.
I believe several of you are joint owners
I've never seen the island before so it's not me.
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Get off my dessert island, you are smudging the jelly!
Doc. you can stay, Idon't like drinking wine on my own.
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He can't drink. Neither can I so looks as if you're on your own with being a lonely drunk.
As for counseling if you continue to sway as your doing now.
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That's because I'm standing on jelly.
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pssst, Jim... lost marbles spring to mind.
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A full bag of them, too.
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P.S. - My annoying presence will be absent for a day and a half - if all goes well. If not, send flowers. I am driving on the highway to Fort Worth.
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Have a safe trip, Jim.
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P.S. - My annoying presence will be absent for a day and a half - if all goes well. If not, send flowers. I am driving on the highway to Fort Worth.
Thank God.
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Have a safe trip, Jim.
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What is he doing in that truck? Is he sitting on a jelly or is he doing something else?
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Have a safe trip, Jim.
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What is he doing in that truck? Is he sitting on a jelly or is he doing something else?
He's from Texas. There's probably an inflatable cow in the cab.
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Is he milking it?
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Doc if you are missing JimBob, take a look at the Hola hoop strand. the short clip I added reminds me of his silliness!
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Is he milking it?
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P.S. - My annoying presence will be absent for a day and a half - if all goes well. If not, send flowers. I am driving on the highway to Fort Worth.
Thank God.
I hearing knees braking soon.
(Annoying little teen-aged snot!)
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Have a safe trip, Jim.
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What is he doing in that truck? Is he sitting on a jelly or is he doing something else?
He's from Texas. There's probably an inflatable cow in the cab.
In the first place my pickup is black and the pet in the front seat is a small carnivorous dinosaur - what competent geologist would have a cow as a pet? Or a pony?
Here is a picture of my pet.
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He seems to be doing the moon walk!
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It is NOT the moon walk. A dino is not a pedophile.
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It's a Tyrannosaurus Wrecked
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JimBo aren't you supposed to be away at the moment? We were expecting peace and quiet for a few days. DocB and I had opened a bottle of wine, put on the Bolero and then you came back.
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SO! If your husband is involved it is a ménage à trois!
CUT IT OUT!!
And I did leave you alone with each other for over 39 hours - isn't that enough time or is Doc on Viagra instead of Cialis?
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I left my Viagra in my jeans pocket. Now I've got a stiff leg.
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And by inference, not much else, huh?
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(muttering) what am I doing awake at this hour of the night - it is 5:30 AM - I don't get up this early. I need some more sleep. Where's the Earl Gray - no make that Irish Breakfast Tea - can't take strong coffee when I get up - oh, my bach hurts, my knees are creaking, my head feels like it is wrapped in felt - I am being insulted by the pressure in my lower abdomen and I can't figure out which of my bach's hurt, js or cpe. It is a cruel world.
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P.S. - My annoying presence will be absent for a day and a half - if all goes well. If not, send flowers. I am driving on the highway to Fort Worth.
Thank God.
I hearing knees braking soon.
(Annoying little teen-aged snot!)
What's with you and knees?
(muttering) what am I doing awake at this hour of the night - it is 5:30 AM - I don't get up this early. I need some more sleep. Where's the Earl Gray - no make that Irish Breakfast Tea - can't take strong coffee when I get up - oh, my bach hurts, my knees are creaking, my head feels like it is wrapped in felt - I am being insulted by the pressure in my lower abdomen and I can't figure out which of my bach's hurt, js or cpe. It is a cruel world.
Knees creaking? You must be old then.
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Ancient, me boy, ancient. I'm 63.
But you didn't get the point to the quoted post. You took it at face value. As one grows wise with age one learns not to take things at face value, but to delve into the deeper mysteries of the meaning of life, of people and of words.
As for knees, haven't you ever seen an old black and white gangster movie on the classic movie channel? Surely you do not neglect your cultural heritage (such as it is)? For shame, for shame!
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The meaning of life is to search for it's meaning.
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The meaning of life is 42. I'm 42 and I've realised this is the correct answer!!!
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You're wrong.
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pour qua?
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The meaning of life is 42. I'm 42 and I've realised this is the correct answer!!!
Tell me again what 42 is in dog years? [;D]
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If you are suggesting that I...I am a dog, I'm very, very hurt you...you Kerr, scoundrel..ney..monster. I will be sending my knight around to your house to defend my good name. You better practise your sword play, oh and put the kettle on. He likes a cup of tea before he fights. Milk and one sugar.
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Hey DocB. Taff told me that beaver in french is castor. Now I get your motto. Is the non-animal meaning of your name the same in France?
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Hey DocB. Taff told me that beaver in french is castor. Now I get your motto. Is the non-animal meaning of your name the same in France?
Mais oui. Veritablement, Je suis le castor supreme.
Castor Fiber is the European beaver , Castor Canadensis is the North American beaver. We are Castoridae.
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Castor fiber is what you get when you crush the stalk of a castor bean plant - don't let him fool you. He's a wiley one, he is. More like a coyote.
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Pleb!
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Pleb!
Yuk did you just cough up a fur ball?
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Oh, sir, please do not consider me as such. I am not a plebeian person, in the classical sense, I have a long lineage of the finest families in my past.
Neither am I in the category of one of the newer meanings of the word as perhaps used by you commoners on your small island in the North Sea. From the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pleb
1)one who's inferior intelligence results in them making a complete tit face out of themselves in public
2)one who has had their brain replaced with a mall cucumber whilst visiting the doctor for a routine check up
I particularly like both of these and I would suggest that since you are coughing up fur balls it is most likely both of these apply to you, Doctor.
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Do you find 'mall cucumbers' in shopping malls. This must be an American thing.
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Night JimBob, Night John Boy, Good night hairy melon.
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Do you find 'mall cucumbers' in shopping malls. This must be an American thing.
I just quote from dictionaries and do not associate with such lower class people.
Good night, Lady, (I use the term loosely.)
Doctor Beaver is a hairy melon - wonderful!
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harumph [:(!]
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Ok, Beaver - it is now time to gang up on her!
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If the brown thing really did hit that fan, wouldn't it spray out the other way?
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Chemist, that is not what the physics of the fan does. The angular momentum of the blade and their shape causes the brown stuff to fly backwards and away from the fan. Don't you know anything?
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My children fed potato chips (Crisps) into a fan during a sleep over. The crisps were spat out in even patterns in front of the fan. It took me a while to figure out how they had got such an even distribution pattern. Then I made them pick every last crumb up with tweezers, individually!
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My children fed potato chips (Crisps) into a fan during a sleep over. The crisps were spat out in even patterns in front of the fan. It took me a while to figure out how they had got such an even distribution pattern. Then I made them pick every last crumb up with tweezers, individually!
Nice! I'm so impressed! [;D]
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As my callousness albedo is quite high, I would suggest that Make It Lady needs a brain transplant.
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My Bwain hurts...anesthetic, anesthetic....no not the big hammer.....Umph!
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That's just the Saturday night Hangover - the transplant is next week.
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That's just the Saturday night Hangover - the transplant is next week.
You could do it using keyhole surgery [:D]
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Knowing my luck they'd lose the key!
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Or not find a brain at all.