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Thought of this thread when I read the following on Jim Greenhalf's blog. As Mr Speaker Bercow might say ' The spoilers have it, the spoilers have it'.

"Subsequently: Ian Greenwood (Council Leader), did lose his seat, after four recounts, by 17 votes. There were 22 spoiled ballot papers"

Not sure if what I wrote above yesterday is true or not, but leaving that aside, I have been quite unable to get it to work. I've given up and uninstalled it.

Circular slide rule?
Cheated a bit here - if you get the magnifier out you can see the word 'calculator' on the dial.

This is a first Richard - I agree with everything you have written.

You lot have much to answer for. :smile: I joined this dropbox last night as a result of reading this thread. I join nearly everything I come across - I have a filofax book full of things I have joined. Anyway it seems appealing, but I wasn't ready for it to go through my entire drive, and seemingly...

PM called back from electioneering to answer " emergency question" The situation was very carefully designed to be deniable by the minister involved - and what do you know - he denied it. I like Occam's take on this type of situation - the simplest explanation is probably the best. If an e...

Radio 5 Football pundit ref new potential England manager.

"I don't think he will be haggling over the odd £500,000 a year."

" mail bringing news of a shift in my small personal world"
Not connected with the Queen's birthday list is it ?

Welcome to the site China - we could do with some new blood, and you certainly give a different slant on things. We could have done with you last year when we had a query from a member regarding some Chinese characters. We got there in the end, but your wife would have been quicker. I have just look...

Thanks for that Elise - concise and authoritative as ever. Still not sure about the grocer though. Did he wear a badge, or perhaps his customers did, but if they were paupers on relief, they wouldn't be using the shop. I'm puzzled.

Germaine Greer on TV last night -

"When Gordon Brown smiled birds fell dead from the sky"

Sorry - don't know. I've come across "badgers shop" again in a dialect dictionary. Anyone got any idea where this word derives? Is it related to the animal or perhaps they all wore a badge? Here's the link to a remarkable site. [url]http://gerald-massey.org.uk/waugh/c_poems_(6).htm Hope th...

I recently did some searching on the old site, but found it still impossible to see it all. For example I found a topic I was looking for but was quite unable to see the page content. PS. - how do I change the time to show British Summer Time rather than UTC? Any offers - I can't find out how. PPs H...

I watched some snooker yesterday, but soon got tired of it, and changed to racing. Combination of thinking Higgins should still be banned, and no big red/black breaks like there used to be...... The rest is history as they say.

Welcome back . I was beginning to get a bit worried about the future of the site due to the retirement of many of the regulars. Rapidly becoming a refuge for grumpy old men - and that would never do.

Sounds like Frankie Howard to me. Just a simple word 'cocoa' which if delivered with the right amount of innuendo could mean anything.

" looks good (acceptable) for the growing season" A farmer on local TV here who last month was saying his farm was a dustbowl, is now complaining that it is too wet to plant his seed potatoes. He actually said (tongue in cheek I think / hope ) that he would like it to rain all night, and b...

Isn't it weird when you come across a word you have never heard of - then see it again in quite another context the next day. This just happened. I saw the word badger in an antique book about Failsworth, by Sim Schofield. The story was called "How Robin got credit at a badger's shop". and...

Some hope for the antis...Not sure if your proposed development is classed as smaller or bigger though? Mr Clarke is set to unveil radical changes this week in a bid to halt the decline of the largest UK supermarket. He is expected to say that all new plans for building new superstores are to be put...

"Tomorrow, I'll be having a bet on the National"

Just had a casual look at the runners. The standout for site members would appear to be the Irish horse "TREACLE". Jockey's colours - all black - they say he's a bit of a dark horse.

It's in small print - but it's there... "All from Chatterbox Annual for 1908."

I wonder how many of these ads would be allowed today, considering the contents of the cures, the Trade Descriptions Act and the Advertising Standards Authority?

This made me smile - an advert on the local Gumtree.
For sale - Very nice print of horse and cart with cottage in the background.

In fact it was John Constables "The Hay Wain"

" Bamford's 'Body of Secrets'" It's gone all spookey again. (Literally ) I've got that very book lined up in the 'awaiting reading' queue. I think I got it in a charity shop in Harrogate, which is probably significant.

I'd say they all "want watching" . Redwood is not particularly egregious. Take the current candidates for London mayor - a bumbling idiot, a charlatan, and a few makeweight nonentities. Is there a none of the above option? Yes, but then Pans would shout at us for not voting... :smile: I do...

"and when we got old " we would do the decent thing and pass away within a few years of retirement.