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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    My sister received her first compliment from strangers regarding her vintage look. Going into the cinema wearing a 50s style coat dress, stockings, vintagesque hair and correct make up, a trio of girls dressed in the height of contemporary fashion looked her up and down and said to her 'You make...
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    It certainly adds to the experience. The local cinema had the brilliant idea of converting two of the smaller, older upstairs theatres into a special 'gold class', with attached bar and cafe, with meals available from a nearby restaurant. Small cocktail menu, but the lowest price in town at...
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    SPAM and the Second World War?

    Long historical tradition in Europe. The pig was for most of the past millennia the most common Western domesticate, being able to convert any old scraps into high quality protein. Pork was thus cheap and common, beef being considerably more expensive until agricultural improvements in 18th...
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    Unfortunate food, fortunately forgotten

    I'm rather fond of jelly when flavoured with the juice of real fruit and whatnot, the flavoured stuff that comes in satchels is not high on my list of delicacies. Jelly is an integral part of one of the great puddings, Trifle, which melds it with cream, custard and cake. I do love offal...
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    I had my first Cosmopolitan at the cinema.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The third season of 'Castle'. It really is getting better with each season, in my opinion. Not to mention its great to see Nathan Fillion in something which doesn't get cancelled after the first series despite it being the best show that Network produced in years. From Hells heart I stab at...
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Oh I don't dislike Mozart, quite the contrary, I just prefer Bach.
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    Unpopular music opinions

    I loathe Elvis. I really can't emphasise just how much I can not stand everything about his music. To his credit, he invented some nifty sandwiches. Probably should have stuck with that in my opinion. Oh, and Johann Sebastian Bach is better than Mozart.
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    "I want to feel like a new man"

    Getting a suit used to be rite of passage for a young man, hardly something restricted to the eldery. Shorts, on the other hand, were for boys, sport or the tropics. I found the article rather good, nice to see a chap trying to raise his standards to boost his own self image. Good luck to him.
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    The Kings Speech - a Critique

    As brilliant as Dame Judi Dench is, i'm not sure she could play the part of a Queen Elizabeth in her thirties convincingly. I thought the film uniformly superb, nice to Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth together again, albeit in a rather small way.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    'The Kings Speech'. The best film I've seen in a very long time.
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    "The man in black who never smiles": how to build a great collection and not enjoy it

    Well, models trains as nifty as they are hardly national treasures (I say this as someone with a modest collection of model trains, including some rare ones my Grandfather acquired). His approach to collecting I would find reprehensible for something like artwork antiquities where the objects...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Disney's Sleeping Beauty, rather impressive, like a moving quattrocentro painting. A Christmas Carol, that animated production with Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. Not a bad effort.
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    Cricket - willow and leather

    Hard to believe, I know. We are usually such good sports... I wouldn't venture an opinion on Ponting, but in my acquaintance at least people tend to blame the selectors more than the captain.
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    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    I was goingto say 'chimney sweep', but they still exist, so huzzah.
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    Cricket - willow and leather

    It will do us a world of good, in my opinion, we became insufferably arrogant about our successes.
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    So, I got me this Fez see.....

    I disagree with Mr Dhermann on this, not that I claim to be an expert. This method of construction is (or was) usual, and goes back to the fezes ancestor, the Ottoman turbans which were wound over a felted core of some kind (wicker, usually, or sometimes just felt). A cheap touristy fez a friend...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    I was wearing my new Hanna Hats Irish linen cap as I walked to the butchers today, and some young chap stuck his head out a window and said 'Great hat!" and something I didn't catch as the car sped off. I don't think he was being sarcastic either, and if he was, I will take it as a compliment...
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    Does anyone read "Biggles" books?

    I've only read a few, quite a fan though. Called my cat Bigglesworth.
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    20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback

    I prefer poodlefaker, myself. One can engage in the act of act of cake consumption without being a poodlefaker, but I think it would be dashed difficult to practise poodlefakery without being a poodlefaker.

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