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[dales]

I thought it was the pastie contest winner.

[rubato]

Secret symbols of the 24 Cornishmen (#17)

We've got about 50 million white leghorn chickens (like those in the picture) in California. WGAF? Cheap poultry is cheap poultry.


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rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Congrats rubato for getting the correct answer: Cornish Nationalist!

Your free year's supply of awful warm cider will be shipped out by taff any day now.

Liberty - Bootyca; some foxy Iceni she was eh? Free Anglia!!!! We'll deal with the Cornish later

Meade

[liberty]

Congrats rubato for getting the correct answer: Cornish Nationalist!

Your free year's supply of awful warm cider will be shipped out by taff any day now.

Liberty - Bootyca; some foxy Iceni she was eh? Free Anglia!!!! We'll deal with the Cornish later

Meade

Yes general, she was in more than one way; if you know what I mean. I have it on almost competent authority that Gob's people where the Iceni that hid out in the wilds of Wales for generations to avoid the wrath of the Romans. That makes us, Gob and I, Celtic cousins.

Hey cous, you want to buy some cheap land in the country that will soon be known as the former England. How many English are there and how long will it takes us to evict them?
How about you General, you want to buy the queen’s palace or London Bridge?
Wait a minute General, “Anglia” wasn’t that an Anglo-Saxon kingdom? You are not one of those are you?

[Lord Jim]

If he wants to buy London Bridge, he'll have to talk to the city fathers of Lake Havasu City Arizona about it:

In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London began to look for potential buyers for the London Bridge. Lake Havasu City founder and entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch placed the winning bid of $2,460,000 on April 18, 1968. McCulloch came by this figure by doubling the estimated cost of dismantling the structure, which was $1.2 million, bringing the price to $2.4 million. He then added on $60,000 -- a thousand dollars for each year of his age at the time he estimated the bridge would be reconstructed in Arizona. (Contrary to popular belief, McCulloch was not under the impression that he was purchasing the Tower Bridge.) Each block was meticulously numbered before the bridge was disassembled. The blocks were then shipped overseas through the Panama Canal to California and trucked from Long Beach to Arizona. Following reconstruction of the London Bridge, Lake Havasu City rededicated it in a ceremony on October 10, 1971.

The London Bridge, Arizona tourism’s second-largest attraction after the Grand Canyon, attracts thousands of visitors each year and is a popular stroll for people on romantic getaways in Arizona.

The Lake Havasu City Visitors Center conducts a 45-minute walking tour of the London Bridge. Arizona tourists can see the strafing scars from WWII that mar the bridge’s granite surface and stroll over sparkling Bridgewater Channel. The bridge is also a popular hangout for the Arizona boating crowd and you’ll see all kinds of boats anchored in the shadow of this piece of history.

http://www.golakehavasu.com/activities/ ... ridge.aspx

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yes general, she was in more than one way; if you know what I mean. I have it on almost competent authority that Gob's people (were) the Iceni that hid out in the wilds of Wales for generations to avoid the wrath of the Romans. That makes us, Gob and I, Celtic cousins.

Hey cous, you want to buy some cheap land in the country that will soon be known as the former England. How many English are there and how long will it takes us to evict them?
How about you General, you want to buy the queen’s palace or London Bridge?
Wait a minute General, “Anglia” wasn’t that an Anglo-Saxon kingdom? You are not one of those are you?

My name means "dweller in a hollow" in AS apparently, said the formerly fair-haired Londoner. And 'Anglia' is an accurate enough description of the present-day Norfolk and Suffolk (lovely counties those) where the Iceni hung out, toadying to the Romans and generally paddling about in the bogs. I'd be surprised if they trekked all the way across God's kingdom (Angle-land) just to get to Wales after the Romans knocked seven bells out of them.

Elton's selling his house? I couldn't afford it.

Meade

[Gob]

If he wants to buy London Bridge, he'll have to talk to the city fathers of Lake Havasu City Arizona about it:
history.

Is there any truth in the old saw, that the guy who bought London Bridge thought he was buying Tower Bridge?

[Gob]

22 years, not too shabby Sean's rello!!

A predatory paedophile priest was today jailed for 22 years for a campaign of abuse against young boys which spanned nearly two decades.

Alexander Bede Walsh used his ‘revered’ status to prey on his victims, abusing children aged eight to 16 in Coventry, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, his trial heard.

Walsh, 58, made some of his victims dress up in disposable nappies while he took photographs, the jury were told.

One of his victims tried to hang himself after an assault.

The abuse, described to the court as ‘serial and predatory’, took place between 1975 and 1993.

Jailing Walsh after a 10-day trial, Judge Paul Glenn told him: ‘Shameless accurately describes your attitude to these proceedings, you have shown no remorse at any time.

‘In fact, the jury was satisfied you lied repeatedly to them.’

He added: ‘You used God’s name as a lever... manipulating God’s teaching for your own devices.

‘The victims were all young, they were all vulnerable.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1ogq9JPlc

[The Hen]

Jailing Walsh after a 10-day trial, Judge Paul Glenn told him: ‘Shameless accurately describes your attitude to these proceedings, you have shown no remorse at any time.

‘In fact, the jury was satisfied you lied repeatedly to them.’

He added: ‘You used God’s name as a lever... manipulating God’s teaching for your own devices.

‘The victims were all young, they were all vulnerable.

‘Some had to suffer the additional degradation of being made to wear nappies and be photographed.’

Detailing the impact of the horrific abuse on one victim, Judge Glenn added: ‘Such was his religious conviction, he believed he was being touched by the hand of God... that he was on the path to God.

‘The fact that the victims came forward as late as they did is indicative of their continuing inner turmoil.’

Nicely sentenced, your Honour.

[Sean]

Excellent! I didn't expect that he would be allowed to hand down a sentence that long.

On ya Paul!

[Econoline]

If he wants to buy London Bridge, he'll have to talk to the city fathers of Lake Havasu City Arizona about it:
history.

Is there any truth in the old saw, that the guy who bought London Bridge thought he was buying Tower Bridge?

If he wants to buy London Bridge, he'll have to talk to the city fathers of Lake Havasu City Arizona about it:

In 1967, the Common Council of the City of London began to look for potential buyers for the London Bridge. Lake Havasu City founder and entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch placed the winning bid of $2,460,000 on April 18, 1968. McCulloch came by this figure by doubling the estimated cost of dismantling the structure, which was $1.2 million, bringing the price to $2.4 million. He then added on $60,000 -- a thousand dollars for each year of his age at the time he estimated the bridge would be reconstructed in Arizona. (Contrary to popular belief, McCulloch was not under the impression that he was purchasing the Tower Bridge.) Each block was meticulously numbered before the bridge was disassembled. The blocks were then shipped overseas through the Panama Canal to California and trucked from Long Beach to Arizona. Following reconstruction of the London Bridge, Lake Havasu City rededicated it in a ceremony on October 10, 1971.

The London Bridge, Arizona tourism’s second-largest attraction after the Grand Canyon, attracts thousands of visitors each year and is a popular stroll for people on romantic getaways in Arizona.

The Lake Havasu City Visitors Center conducts a 45-minute walking tour of the London Bridge. Arizona tourists can see the strafing scars from WWII that mar the bridge’s granite surface and stroll over sparkling Bridgewater Channel. The bridge is also a popular hangout for the Arizona boating crowd and you’ll see all kinds of boats anchored in the shadow of this piece of history.

http://www.golakehavasu.com/activities/ ... ridge.aspx

[Gob]

Yeah, but Jim posted that, who believes him?

[Sean]

Trust me Gob... the man knows everything there is to know about selling bridges. In fact, I would consider him to be the board expert on this and all other such shenanigans.

[liberty]

Elton's selling his house? I couldn't afford it.

Meade

You could if you were buying it from me. And after the land formerly known as England fills up will it rightful owner the property will be worth millions. General you could make killing.