Crusoe
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Post by Crusoe on Aug 9, 2005 5:26:00 GMT -5
<an aside> my nephew is the only one who can, and he is somewhere in the vicinity (probably looking for his  Crusoe Not wishing to interrupt the game, I’d just note that I do not see him anywhere. Your nephew, that is. Nursie. <as you were> |
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 9, 2005 5:43:42 GMT -5
full of doom and misery and woe, one of my favourite quotations, the full text being:
proclaim loudly, with waving arms
St Albans is ta'en? Sayest thou St Albans is ta'en?
Then Rain Down doom and misery and Woe!
And let the sun shine no more, if St Albans in rebel hands is sure[/i]
shuffle off stage left
my nephew knows this book, too
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 9, 2005 5:51:12 GMT -5
''but on the other hand'', said Bruce, ''if it's not taken, we'll all go out and get totally Olivered,'' which is precisely
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 9, 2005 6:06:31 GMT -5
the opposite of what the Gamekeeper meant, when he started licking his
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 9, 2005 6:15:02 GMT -5
mistress's boots, fawning over her generally and slipping into unaccustomed familiarity by calling her 'Connie' whenever he found himself in the position
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 9, 2005 6:27:41 GMT -5
adopted by missionaries when faced with a sardine tin without a
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 9, 2005 6:34:35 GMT -5
label and mistaking it for shoe polish, which could cause quite a sticky mess all over their
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 10, 2005 9:57:01 GMT -5
pith helmets, which
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 11, 2005 3:19:01 GMT -5
is fine as long as one doesn't habitually lisp, as was the case with
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 11, 2005 4:31:12 GMT -5
Sir Jammy Fishpaste, who had an unexpected rhotocismus, meaning that he couldn't even pronounce the name of his own
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 11, 2005 4:50:36 GMT -5
optician, which wasn't totally surprising as she came from Harlech, which was in North Wales and over a hundred and fifty miles from his Cotswold retreat, where he loved to
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 11, 2005 5:00:14 GMT -5
pose in his driveway with his braces dangling obscenely, singing Deutschland Deutschland Über Alles to the tune of
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Benbow
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Post by Benbow on Aug 11, 2005 5:10:14 GMT -5
"Oh bury me not on the lone prairie" a mournful little ditty often heard echoing around the hallowed
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Aug 18, 2005 11:10:10 GMT -5
"Oh bury me not on the lone prairie" a mournful little ditty often heard echoing around the hallowed cricket ground, by the Australians in a few weeks' time, when England regain the Ashes. Ta Daa. Mystic Nursie Prediction.  Crusoe and Cricket Lovers everywhere |
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