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Great Plum
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by Great Plum Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:08 pm
Actually, I didn't take it...
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englishangel
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by englishangel Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:22 pm
Great Plum wrote: Actually, I didn't take it...
I assume the accent is on
I there.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
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by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:01 pm
or on the take ... "I didn't take it, the man at the railway station gave it to me" JR don't say a word
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Euterpe13
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by Euterpe13 Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:13 pm
or on didn't - as in " I didn't take it, I found it ( before it was lost)"
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Euterpe13
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by Euterpe13 Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:16 pm
or indeed on actually in the sense that what might have been perceived then as purloining is now " liberating" or " recuperating for posterity " and thus no longer reprehensible....
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huntertitus
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by huntertitus Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:49 pm
or yet again on "it" as in "I didn't take IT I just took the poles out of the ground and it was attached to the top, your honour"
J.R.
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by J.R. Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:17 pm
Ruthie-Baby wrote: or on the take ... "I didn't take it, the man at the railway station gave it to me" JR don't say a word
.................AS IF !!!!! John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.
englishangel
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by englishangel Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:12 am
I think we have rendered Plum speechless (a first) or he is working hard (allegedly also a first).
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
J.R.
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by J.R. Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:53 am
I think you'll find that Friday's is piccolo practice day !
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by huntertitus Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:19 am
But does a rusty piccolo make any noise?
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by J.R. Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:02 pm
huntertitus wrote: But does a rusty piccolo make any noise?
Probably requires some Valseline, then !
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DavebytheSea
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by DavebytheSea Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:23 pm
..... to play a Valse Triste, no doubt.
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Great Plum
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by Great Plum Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:36 pm
I had a day off!
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by kerrensimmonds Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:59 pm
It is posited that ST stands for Samuel Travers, who gave his bequest to Christ's Hospital in 1729, and that the number 48 on the rim may be a number given to it, like a limited edition.
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