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Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy.

He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...

Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338

Win a trip to the Paralympic Games
thanks to Visa
This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...

Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...

Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2

Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.

A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.

This state religion evolves into Christianity.
True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...

According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water.
Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...

You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'.

So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East,
They were adopting ...

I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music.
I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.

The most useful purchase I ever made has finally run out. A box of toothpicks. And yet I have never picked a single tooth.

When it did arrive, there was no ring of the bell, no note through the letter box, no email. I found it propped against the front door when I sallied forth to Tesco. If I was the king I would demand m ...

Changing Ends (ITV-1)

Not the sort of broad comedy I would watch (or I would watch and keep quiet about it) but this has two oddities that commend it (1) a real football manager, Graham Carr, of No ...

Having now watched half-hour highlights of Palace 4 Utd 0 I have to say the situation is far worse than I thought. Palace may be shoe-string but they just toyed with their Rolls Canardly opponents. Wh ...

Bayern Munich are in for Ten Hag so that should take care of one stumbling block. Sir Jim Ratcliffe was given a tour last week and was horrified at the mess everywhere. He ordered a tidy-up so everyth ...

I can remember the days when they were struggling in the second division and nearly being taken over by the bloke who took over Carlisle instead. City reached the third!

It is instructive to compar ...

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Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:35 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy. He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:06 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338 Win a trip to the Paralympic Games thanks to Visa This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 553227	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:49 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 553227	Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:11 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2 Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:48 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	Forum: History Posted: 6:45 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	This state religion evolves into Christianity. True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	Forum: History Posted: 8:55 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water. Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	Forum: History Posted: 8:44 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 208391	You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'. So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East, They were adopting ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music. I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:54 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	The most useful purchase I ever made has finally run out. A box of toothpicks. And yet I have never picked a single tooth.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:52 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2678 Views: 644861	When it did arrive, there was no ring of the bell, no note through the letter box, no email. I found it propped against the front door when I sallied forth to Tesco. If I was the king I would demand m ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 553227	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:43 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 553227	Changing Ends (ITV-1) Not the sort of broad comedy I would watch (or I would watch and keep quiet about it) but this has two oddities that commend it (1) a real football manager, Graham Carr, of No ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:19 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Having now watched half-hour highlights of Palace 4 Utd 0 I have to say the situation is far worse than I thought. Palace may be shoe-string but they just toyed with their Rolls Canardly opponents. Wh ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:14 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Bayern Munich are in for Ten Hag so that should take care of one stumbling block. Sir Jim Ratcliffe was given a tour last week and was horrified at the mess everywhere. He ordered a tidy-up so everyth ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:11 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 741760	I can remember the days when they were struggling in the second division and nearly being taken over by the bloke who took over Carlisle instead. City reached the third! It is instructive to compar ...