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I wouldn't know, Borrie, I only work here.

This is not very topically political, Borry, but we'll let it go on the grounds of you not being back in the swim of things yet.

passionate opinions, informed views, and challenging new angles
Yea ...

Hatty drew attention to the importance of this:

Becket’s library then, shelved unassumingly in a passageway in the cathedral, was spared the reformers’ zeal
The point being is that if you've g ...

Thank God the office gibbon is back. Edward Gibbon, as we affectionately call him.

If I were Vespasian and Titus I would have reservations about being commemorated on ducts generally. Coins, yes; public monuments, yes; even facing bricks in the Colosseum, but lead piping? That's mor ...

Today's figures are truly alarming
Deaths 8
New cases 1,062
On a Saturday? The deaths figure shows it's an ordinary weekend day, with deaths continuing to fall. But if new cases are over a thousand ...

This is done with a lightness that belies De Hamel’s pre-eminence as a manuscript scholar – the telling is brisk, with a light foxing of anecdote, even as the evidence is rigorously lined up.
The ...

I've always been radical in my politics, conservative in my yogurts. Always have been. I was the last kid in our street to go over to Express Dairies' pink-flavoured yogurt. But I like to keep abreast ...

How is it 'clearly a penalty' when a defender is trying to clear the ball and Lionel Messi sticks his foot in from behind, touches the ball, but the defender who is innocently going about his normal e ...

De Hamel – author of the wonderful Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts – shows us all the tools of the bibliographer’s trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks lef ...

This is where De Hamel’s intervention begins. In the Parker Library at Corpus Christi college is a psalter dating from the late Anglo-Saxon period.
And a librarian called Christopher de Hamel but ...

I have deleted your posts for a coupla days, Ishmael. Keep 'em dry for later when I tell you why.

That last point is especially good. We are used to fathers-and-sons and other helpful factors to combat Prisoner's Dilemma (monastic orders, Jews, secret societies, revolutionists) but I don't recall ...

My predictions were even more spot on than normal. I hadn't realised at the time it was the second biggest run chase in the entire history of Old Trafford and the biggest run chase in the entire histo ...

Good grief, I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. No wonder Allen Lane are pitching it at the airport market. You begin to wonder how far back the Parker Library goes. I'd say these people are shamele ...

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Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 2567 Views: 184464	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:33 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 2567 Views: 184464	I wouldn't know, Borrie, I only work here.
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 2567 Views: 184464	Forum: Politics Posted: 11:13 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 2567 Views: 184464	This is not very topically political, Borry, but we'll let it go on the grounds of you not being back in the swim of things yet. passionate opinions, informed views, and challenging new angles Yea ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 10:02 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Hatty drew attention to the importance of this: Becket’s library then, shelved unassumingly in a passageway in the cathedral, was spared the reformers’ zeal The point being is that if you've g ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 4:18 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Thank God the office gibbon is back. Edward Gibbon, as we affectionately call him.
Topic: Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Mick Harper Replies: 74 Views: 18282	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:03 pm Subject: Recent Archaeological Discoveries
Mick Harper Replies: 74 Views: 18282	If I were Vespasian and Titus I would have reservations about being commemorated on ducts generally. Coins, yes; public monuments, yes; even facing bricks in the Colosseum, but lead piping? That's mor ...
Topic: The Flu
Mick Harper Replies: 490 Views: 48553	Forum: Health Posted: 5:52 pm Subject: The Flu
Mick Harper Replies: 490 Views: 48553	Today's figures are truly alarming Deaths 8 New cases 1,062 On a Saturday? The deaths figure shows it's an ordinary weekend day, with deaths continuing to fall. But if new cases are over a thousand ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 11:12 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	This is done with a lightness that belies De Hamel’s pre-eminence as a manuscript scholar – the telling is brisk, with a light foxing of anecdote, even as the evidence is rigorously lined up. The ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 1193 Views: 107691	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:43 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 1193 Views: 107691	I've always been radical in my politics, conservative in my yogurts. Always have been. I was the last kid in our street to go over to Express Dairies' pink-flavoured yogurt. But I like to keep abreast ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 1868 Views: 129817	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:28 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 1868 Views: 129817	How is it 'clearly a penalty' when a defender is trying to clear the ball and Lionel Messi sticks his foot in from behind, touches the ball, but the defender who is innocently going about his normal e ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 4:35 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	De Hamel – author of the wonderful Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts – shows us all the tools of the bibliographer’s trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks lef ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 4:26 am Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	This is where De Hamel’s intervention begins. In the Parker Library at Corpus Christi college is a psalter dating from the late Anglo-Saxon period. And a librarian called Christopher de Hamel but ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 11:05 pm Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	I have deleted your posts for a coupla days, Ishmael. Keep 'em dry for later when I tell you why.
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 9:42 pm Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	That last point is especially good. We are used to fathers-and-sons and other helpful factors to combat Prisoner's Dilemma (monastic orders, Jews, secret societies, revolutionists) but I don't recall ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 1868 Views: 129817	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:25 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 1868 Views: 129817	My predictions were even more spot on than normal. I hadn't realised at the time it was the second biggest run chase in the entire history of Old Trafford and the biggest run chase in the entire histo ...
Topic: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Forum: British History Posted: 9:15 pm Subject: Meetings with Remarkable Forgeries
Mick Harper Replies: 675 Views: 60884	Good grief, I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. No wonder Allen Lane are pitching it at the airport market. You begin to wonder how far back the Parker Library goes. I'd say these people are shamele ...