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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:10 pm Post subject: IS THERE ANYBODY HERE?
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Is there anybody here? either on "vacation" or "staycation", which in English is on holiday either at home or abroad.
Wherever you are enjoy your holiday but please, please, avoid the dreadful crude American slang of vacation and staycation, both of which are not within the English language or grammar but American slang which is destroying the English language.
In a local dialect: I'm onmiolliday, wi mi spit, truck an swimming drawers.
Hope I catch some crabs, but not from the local wimmin.
Happy holidays.
Jojo
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:39 pm Post subject:
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I'm very surprised that nobody on here has posted that yesterday, 13th August, was one of the days in 1917 when an apparition of Our Lady of Fatima was seen by the three children at the Cova da Ira, Fatima, Portugal.
Kind regards,
J
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Odometer: 20799 Location: In a state of anticipation...
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:38 am Post subject:
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Just for you JoJo
Honey bee day. Leathercraft day and relaxation day (relax in leather?); break the monotony day. Have a lemon meringue pie especially on acadian (French Canadian language) day. Cycle to work or geocaching. Homeless animals day & check the(ir) chip.
In Local News:
1388 Battle of Otterbourne: Scots under James, Earl of Douglas defeat & capture Henry Hotspur's English. Both Douglas and Percy die, but Harry 'Hotspur' Percy gets the Poem ~ Kipling's 'English Way'.
Today:
1057 Battle of Lumphanan: Malcolm III Canmore defeats King MacBeth of Scotland.
1261 Constantinople falls to Michael VIII of Nicea and his army.
1598 Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, leads an Irish force to victory over the British at the Battle of Yellow Ford.
1842 The first regular British detective force was formed as a division of the Metropolitan Police, under the joint command of Inspector Pearce and Inspector John Haynes. In 1878 it became known as the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
1872 The first ballot voting in England is conducted in a by-election at Pontefract, when Hugh Childers, a Liberal MP and minister was re-elected
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
1935 American comedian and “cowboy philosopher” Will Rogers dies in an aeroplane accident, along with American aviation pioneer Wiley Post.
1939 The Cunard liner Queen Mary recaptured the Blue Riband from the SS Normandie, crossing the Atlantic in 3 days, 22 hours and 40 minutes.
1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs was executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12 a.m. making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
1942 The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat, carrying vital fuel supplies for the island’s defences, as part of Operation Pedestal.
1944 American, British and French forces land on the southern coast of France, between Toulon and Cannes, in Operation Dragoon.
1947 Britain grants independence to India and Pakistan.
1962 Unhappy with Pete Best's role in The Beatles, Brian Epstein and the other three members decided to sack him. He played his last gig at The Cavern, Liverpool, two years and three days after he first performed with them.
1963 The execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland and the first to be hanged in Aberdeen since 1891. Burnett was tried at the high court in Aberdeen in July and found guilty of the murder of merchant seaman Thomas Guyan.
1969 Over 400,000 young people attend a weekend of rock music at Woodstock, New York. And so the Festival is born.
1971 Controversial horse rider Harvey Smith was stripped of his £2,000 winnings and a major show jumping title for allegedly making a rude V-sign gesture.
1973 Athens: Black September bomb, 3 die, 55 injured.
1985 Richard Branson's speedboat Virgin Atlantic Challenger capsized off the south-west of England. He was just two hours short of completing the fastest-ever Atlantic crossing. Rescued by the Royal Navy.
1987 Caning was officially banned in British schools (excluding independent schools & it never did me any harm).
1988 Glasgow passport office started to issue the new EEC passports. It was the first office to be computerised to dispense the burgundy coloured documents, which replaced the traditional blue ones. Reception to them was mixed.
1994 The infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal is captured in Khartoum, Sudan.
1998 A bomb blast in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 28 people and injured more than 300 others. A 29th victim died a month later. It was the worst attack in 29 years of paramilitary violence in Ulster.
2001 Astronomers announce the first solar system discovered outside our own; two planets had been found orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2011 A teenager who stole a laptop from a west London flat during the riots was traced on Facebook by the computer's owner. Greg Martin, an information security professional and former Nasa and FBI employee had installed a tracking device on the laptop and got the suspect's ID from the social networking site. The information included the man's name, school, address in west London and information about his wireless internet connection. Soheil Khalilfar, 18, was later charged with handling stolen goods.
2013 Google announced that it was to loan out its Trekker wearable backpack to the Canal & River Trust, who would use it to capture footage of some of most scenic parts of Britain's 200-year old waterway network.
Born on August 15
1171 King Alfonso IX "the Slobberer" of León and Galicia .
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1804-1815) and military leader, adventurer.
1771 Sir Walter Scott, sometime volunteer cavalryman, novelist ("Ivanhoe"), Scottish fantasist.
1856 James Keir Hardie, Scottish politician. He founded the British Labour Party and was its leader from 1906.
1888 T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia for his military exploits against the Turks in World War I.
1924 Robert Bolt, English screenwriter and playwright best known for A Man for All Seasons.
1950 Princess Anne, The Princess Royal.
__________________________________ The ex-Difflock Ambassador to Naples, Sir Nightbar DCJC DFS and 2 bars.
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:09 am Post subject:
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Thanks Nightbar. Good of the Royal Navy to rescue Richard Branson but it would have been better if they saved the boat and left him behind.
J
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Mr Tyre Mr Tyre
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:19 pm Post subject:
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I do keep popping in to see who is about, but try not to get too excited.
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scoots Gate Opener
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 3:23 pm Post subject:
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Likewise
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Odometer: 20799 Location: In a state of anticipation...
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 6:10 pm Post subject:
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I'm just watching you all
__________________________________ The ex-Difflock Ambassador to Naples, Sir Nightbar DCJC DFS and 2 bars.
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:56 am Post subject:
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I'm watching you watching me.
J
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:04 am Post subject:
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i`m here occasionally.
i was invited by a few people to join the difflock old guard page on facebook, but mysteriously, it was declined.
i wonder who`s behind that.!
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:27 am Post subject:
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Curiouser and curiouser....
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:33 pm Post subject:
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Nightbar wrote: | Curiouser and curiouser.... |
is that navy speak for pathetic, insecure and laughable.....?
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:09 am Post subject:
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** GED ** wrote: | Nightbar wrote: | Curiouser and curiouser.... |
is that navy speak for pathetic, insecure and laughable.....? |
It's navy speak for seeing what else can fit in a pair of sea boots.
J
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:06 am Post subject:
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After hearing on the news that there was some one driving the wrong way on the M1 northbound, a bloke rang his girfriend who was driving on the motorway at the time to tell her to be careful as there was some idiot driving the wrong way. When she answered the phone (handsfree of course) she sounded quite alarmed and said there is more than one driving the wrong way, they all are.
J
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:44 am Post subject:
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A US warship was visiting the UK and was approaching the coast. There was a dead still calm and one of those thick sea fogs reducing visibility to zero.
The ship's radar pinged up something directly ahead which appeared to be on a colision course so the US ship radioed "This a United States warship calling unidentified vessel. You are directly ahead of me and on a collision course, alter course to Starboard."
The reply came "Negative, maintaining station".
The US warship called again "This is a United States warship, you are directly ahead of me and on a collision course, please alter course to Starboard."
The reply came "Negative, maintaining station".
By now the Captain of the US was getting quite concerned so he called again "I am an 85,000 ton United States warship, fully armed and nuclear capable. You are on a direct collision course with me it is imperiative that you alter course to Starboard immediately to avoid a collision".
The reply came "Negative, I am a lighthouse".
J
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