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  • Vote Up0Vote Down BottleheadBottlehead
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    "Mornington Crescent"
  • Vote Up0Vote Down PetPet
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    Bottlehead said:

    "Mornington Crescent"



    I don't think that's a valid move this early in the game.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    Indeed not! I prefer a full moon at midnight.
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    Pet said:

    Urban_Tribesman said:

    Suddenly feel like I'm travelling on the Innuendo line, which I think goes between Swiss Cottage and Wood Green.



    Tsk!  I suspect (though I may be wrong) that some of you have intended rude things by your posts.  It may be that you're cheeky monkeys who deserve to be spanked, but I can overlook that.  When it comes to playing fast and loose with tube map, though, I must draw the line.  There is no direct line between Swiss Cottage and Wood Green.  The journey involves changing at Green Park.  If you all limited yourselves to journeys on that sort of scale, you wouldn't need to pack a suitcase, and wouldn't be tempted into double entendres.  As Carole King asked, why does no one stay in one place any more?  The album in which posed that question includes a song called Smackwater Jack, which title nobody is to construe rudely.  Is that clear?  Tsk!

    Actually Pet, my info was out of date. I have just discovered that the Innuendo line has been extended to Mudchute.
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    Is Mudchute similar to Highway 422, which splits Hershey, PA right up the middle?
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    I was amazed to discover Mudchute actually exists! Obviously not named by someone with a working knowledge of sexual slang otherwise they would have realised there is a direct line between Swiss Cottage and Mudchute !
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    I might have to jump on that train.
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down PetPet
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    Mudchute is on the DLR.  I've been there.  It's on the Isle of Dogs.
    My website: http://petjeffery.co.uk/
    See also: http://chomupress.com/our-books/jane/
    And on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B009CAXH8G
  • Vote Up0Vote Down PetPet
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    I saw a television programme about planned obsolescence recently.  One of the things it said was that iPod batteries were designed to give out after eighteen months.  I thought that my iPod was a lot older than that and (touch wood) it still works.  So, I checked and found that I bought it in November 2009.  It's more than four and a half years old... more than three times eighteen months.  That leaves me wondering how come.  These possibilities occur to me:

    1. The television programme was wrong.
    2. Apple have mended their ways.
    3. I have rogue iPod batteries.
    4. Other people's ideas of batteries failing are different from mine.  (My batteries need charging more often than they did when they were new, but they still seem good enough to me.)
    5. It's because mine is a pink one.
    6. It's because I charge my iPod with a recharger rather then connecting it to a computer and iTunes.  This may have caused Apple to lose track of it, so they haven't sent it a message telling it not to recharge the batteries again.

    I find 2 less plausible than 5.  6 seems to me the most intriguing idea.

    Post edited by Pet at 2014-07-17 04:13:24
    My website: http://petjeffery.co.uk/
    See also: http://chomupress.com/our-books/jane/
    And on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B009CAXH8G
  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    For someone of such superstitious....accommodation, you probably shouldn't have said anything.
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down PetPet
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    I did touch wood to obviate tempting fate.
    My website: http://petjeffery.co.uk/
    See also: http://chomupress.com/our-books/jane/
    And on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B009CAXH8G
  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    Whew!
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    I went through a similar set of either/or rationale questions once, each time picking the most sensible answer and then posing a new pair of questions and eventually proved to my satisfaction that there is no God.
    Touching wood now (and then, perhaps, a piece of timber??)
    ;)
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down iuventusiuventus
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    Why didn't you just read Nietzsche?
    If I were dead, could I do this?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Urban_TribesmanUrban_Tribesman
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    “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

    Albert Camus, a French Existentialist ( a label he himself rejected) took great issue with this view and considered the human need and reliance on a higher order absurd. He argued that the concept of God's death was inconsequential and that humanity did not require the intervention of a higher authority, or the threat of divine wrath and eternal torment, to live a good and moral life. Contemporaries of Camus were less prepared to give up the concept of a higher authority and instead postulated an absolute morality that didn’t depend on the existence of a supreme being.

    A bit heavy for here.
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
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