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I read that Errol Flyn had halitosis

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I smell a rat there - a vicious rumor with no substance - he was in fact supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to the point of taking your breath away!!

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Among the quiet hills and meadows in the middle of Devon, this small train of three spruce coaches was the only moving object,……………………….Exeter to Barnstaple, much of it along a stream called the River Taw which the train crossed and recrossed. It was the last rural branch line in the shire…………….favored by railway buffs……………their joy riding a mild form of necrophilia……….photographing the fluting and floriation, the pediments and barge-boards and pilasters…………………………….They knew that when the line was closed ……………..every beautiful station would be sold to anyone who could raise a mortgage to turn it into a bungalow for a boasting family.

P.Theroux; The kingdom by the sea 1984

Nb: the railway systems of the United Kingdom were IMO works of art as well as providing a useful service to locals and tourists. Dismantling it as they did was barbarous and now one of the Ministers involved has a TV program in which he ponces about showing the ‘new’ railway systems of the Kingdom – wot a ponce!!

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It is strange, that a generation has created it's own nostalgia, on a grand scale.

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been 'appenin for centuries - come out of ya sunhouse occasionally!

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I do sometimes, but mostly don't like what I see.

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Ya See, one is very nostalgic, but it really hurts.

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Watching the Olympic curling yesterday which has come on in leaps and bounds from it's origins, where it was played on frozen Scottish ponds and lochs.

It is no longer called 'The roaring game' for the sound the stone made travelling over the ice, which is a shame, but I suppose roaring has violent connotations and can't be encouraged and we have to think PC these days.

Anyway the game has been brought up to date and is now very technical. Is is quite a joy to watch those chaps fast broom sweeping whilst slipping and sliding on their Teflon sliding soled shoes.

However yesterdays match had to be halted because the handle on one of our chaps curling stone fell off. I jest you not on what I am about to type now. They had to call for the official Olympic Allen Key Holder. Isn't that wonderful. Who would have thought that the humble Allen Key would ever reach such lofty status.

Mind you I remember as a nipper when I was hurtling around the streets on my trusty tin skates when the same thing happened to me. Lucky for me I always kept an allen key on a tatty bit of string tucked in my knicker pocket

All praise for the allen key saver of dire situations

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I'm with allen keys on this one - wouldn't be without them; couldn't be without them - and I always impress the ladies with them! - BUT I came on tonight to find that we had lost the HOT spot on the general page - so let's lift our commitment to being a leader!!

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Y'know WHY it hurts,spitty?
It's because nostalgia just ain't what it used to be...


[cue "eeh,when I wert' kid,it were all fields roun-dear"...]