<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/oly720man" class="quote" target="_blank">oly720man</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>To be pedantic, it's "Woolf", not "Wol...
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Jump to postI find the "Dambusters March" that was composed for the movie (?) a curious piece. There are parts of it that I really like and other parts that just sound too frivolous.
Jump to postApril 18th was actually the 71st anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.
Jump to postI got 27,812 which I am happy with. I had a general idea where every European city was but I was surprised how vague I was on the location of Oslo and Stockholm.
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Jump to postThe only good American TV is the British stuff on PBS.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ER757" class="quote" target="_blank">ER757</a> (<a href="#28" class="quote">Reply 28</a>):<br/><i>Speak for yourself - for us early risers, we j...
Jump to postI think the presence of a member of the "Old Guard" "walking the mat" actually detracts from the solemnity of the location and draws attention away from the Tomb towards a "performance". There are always would-be visitors to "hallowed ground" who just don't get it and need to be either tuned up or t...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Maverick623" class="quote" target="_blank">Maverick623</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>It deeply offends me that her suicid...
Jump to postWow, Fifty Years ! I had just entered high school and was thoroughly enjoying everything about Grade 9. When the crisis started I thought that all that would come to an end. I remember asking Mom what we would do for a fall-out shelter. She said "I guess we'll get into the fruit cellar". When the cr...
Jump to postI'm surprised that a Canadian trucking company would come all the way to Tunisia to recruit drivers. It sounds a little fishy. I hope you haven't paid the recruiter any of your own money, have you ?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NAV20" class="quote" target="_blank">NAV20</a> (<a href="#138" class="quote">Reply 138</a>):<br/><i>Six feet isn't 1.83m., it's 1.8288m</i></fon...
Jump to postIn the "imperial" system of units, we also have the "yard" which I don't think anyone has mentioned above. The yard is very roughly equivalent to the metre. The yard is used very little compared to the "foot" for the same reason I think that some of us are saying the metre is inconvenient - it's jus...
Jump to postOkay, but I'd very much prefer to walk to school on a windy morning when it's 0 deg C rather than 0 deg F !
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Never mind these usual cases of unhappy Muslims demonstrating on their lunch hours, think of the furor in the Christian world when the Python's came out with that blasphemous "Life of Brian" !
.....aaaahh, never mind.
I like to take units from both systems... In carpentry work, a millimetre is as accurate as I can get, and a centimetre is a little more precise than an inch for the estimating that I do. Working with those friggin' fractions is eliminated. For distances, I've accepted kilometres after some reluctan...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/1337Delta764" class="quote" target="_blank">1337Delta764</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>Well, these minimum federal standa...
Jump to postAppliances ?
I'd like to see something for electric toasters. We've had a real run of crappy, crappy toasters.
Funny you should mention "bilingual" and "Fort Gratiot". I often go into the Lowes store over there, just for the same price difference reasons you talk about. I'm always amazed by the complete bilingual (English / Spanish) signage in the store. You'd think they were on the Mexican border at Laredo,...
Jump to postThere's another way of looking at this...
I have a Polish friend name Jerzy. He goes by "George" here in Canada.
Why: Because he can't stand listening to people mangle the pronunciation of his proper name.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MadameConcorde" class="quote" target="_blank">MadameConcorde</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>This to me is the most ...
Jump to postMy thinking is that it was inappropriate for you to identify a guest of your employer, particularly on the same day that he boarded.
I suggest you be more discrete in your future postings or else you might be looking for a new job.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MD11Engineer" class="quote" target="_blank">MD11Engineer</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>It is quite possible that Rongli...
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Jump to postI enjoyed that piece but it would be nice to learn that the lady is just an ordinary woman who got fed up with these guys rather than a woman of privilege (Saudi Princess or the like), who these V&V boys tangled with by mistake
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/danielmyatt" class="quote" target="_blank">danielmyatt</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>... to think of it, our <acronym tit...
Jump to postAssyrian ? I thought you were already wiped out ? The last time I heard "Assyrian" was in Grade 9 poetry: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on de...
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Jump to postMy wife came onto this program as something to watch after lunch.
I enjoyed it with her for awhile, but it wasn't too long before I got the feeling, just as "luckyone", that the whole thing was staged.
She watches it alone now.
[Tongue also in cheek] Yes those big things practically fly themselves so I would welcome discussing my problem with someone who has developed that firm, authoritative, can-do voice. In my heart I know that not much is really going to be done but for that brief moment, it would be a satisfying exper...
Jump to postWhy do Americans (or anybody else for that matter) need to have a special designation for the spouse of an elected official ? For myself, I'd like to see them keep a faily low profile - after all, nobody elected them. In Canada, the wife of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Harper, stays out of the limelight...
Jump to postCanadians received word about a week ago that the 1¢ piece (currently costing 1.6¢ to make) will no longer be produced and will be phased out. Prices will be rounded up or down to the nearest 5¢. It seems to me that continuing to divide our dollar into hundreds of a cent rounded to the nearest 5 cen...
Jump to postI'm really impressed with the number of members here who are taking the time and making the effort to educate a "16-20" year-old.
However, at some point, just like in Afghanistan, won't you have to give it up as a lost cause, and regret that you got involved in the first place ?
I don't suppose that you guys with the American flags in your headers, expressing a minimal sympathy to the dead, but then spending most of your post suggesting how this tragedy can be explained...i.e. showing sympathy and understanding towards the killer, realise that you appear just like the moder...
Jump to postMuslims remind me of the Italian-American with a cousin in the Mafia.
He doesn't approve of his cousin's career choice and behaviour, but sometimes it's useful to let other people know about that cousin and how he's related.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MadameConcorde" class="quote" target="_blank">MadameConcorde</a> (<a href="#32" class="quote">Reply 32</a>):<br/><i>I have always felt most welc...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>How about the Afghans taking some ...
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Jump to postI'm sorry if this sounds anti-American, but it seems to me that if the armed forces of any nation have the likelihood to step in it, it would be the American forces...and particularly the US Marines.
Jump to postHow about "Blondi" ?
(I seem to remember that name from somewhere)
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Checo77" class="quote" target="_blank">Checo77</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>I left it [t]his year to the last min...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/texan" class="quote" target="_blank">texan</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>I didn't agree with everything he said bu...
Jump to postIs changing over from left-side to right-side driving an issue for you? If it might be, I'd suggest doing so at the simplest and quietest rental location ...say the airport outside of rush-hours. When I occasionally rent a car, I'm usually in a rush to get on my way and I don't properly familiarise ...
Jump to postShe was just one ignorant woman mouthing off. The appropriate action of nearby riders should have been to just roll their eyes and ignore her.
But she was a white woman, right ? So the story went viral.
A significant loss to a.net.
I always made it a point to read all his posts, regardless of the subject.
Imiakhtar, let me just say that you did a very nice job in your opening post in how you brought this to our attention.
I'm with you zippyjet! I can understand the greedy commercial aspects of it all, but only a week ago I saw several houses with green wreaths and red ribbons already hung. It seems to be part of a general trend to rush things. As I recall, Halloween preparations got started here soon after Labour Day...
Jump to postIt seems to be impossible for a Muslim (even a moderate one) to discuss this topic without using the word "but". I just wish that any significantly-sized group of Muslims, recently migrated to the West, would say something to the effect that: "we recognise that there are elements within our religion...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/na" class="quote" target="_blank">na</a> (<a href="#104" class="quote">Reply 104</a>):<br/><i>The problem of the Islam nowadays is, that there a...
Jump to postWell, this is a pretty sad ending to the story. I have some connections with China and I know first hand that there is a callousness to others in China that is much more obvious there than in other countries. Don’t blame the Party so much - I think the Chinese have always been like that. The Communi...
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