Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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BTW folks, mundane stuff is also very welcome.

There's no elitism here, so if it's your cat's birthday, or you spilled ketchup of your tie, we want to know about it.

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Morning Mr Red.

I just started to read that Holocaust thing and I had to stop. Thinking about what it was that I didn't like was that it was written in the present tense and I hated the style of it. Still at least I have found out that I don't like books written in the present tense. Do you have any past tense Holocaust things?

Is this more your bag Mr h?


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sliding-Snow-Stone-ebook/dp/B005OSABPC#reader_B005OSABPC

[Laxie]

BTW folks, mundane stuff is also very welcome.

There's no elitism here, so if it's your cat's birthday, or you spilled ketchup of your tie, we want to know about it.

In that case, I can spill the beans on Jack here.  Did you know that every morning after he splashes a bit of aftershave / cologne on himself, he proceeds to rub the leftovers from his hands on to each of the dogs?  Says that way they'll smell nice for their girlfriends in the park. 

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BTW folks, mundane stuff is also very welcome.

There's no elitism here, so if it's your cat's birthday, or you spilled ketchup of your tie, we want to know about it.

Even art?

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You know those toothy bulldog clip things that girls put in their hair? Well which do you reckon hurts most, clipping one on your ear or on your nose?

I've just tried both and I think it's nose, but perhaps that's because I can still see it when it's clipped to my nose.

BTW- Both positions hurt less if you scream during the process.

[Laxie]

Definitely nose

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BTW folks, mundane stuff is also very welcome.

There's no elitism here, so if it's your cat's birthday, or you spilled ketchup of your tie, we want to know about it.

In that case, I can spill the beans on Jack here.  Did you know that every morning after he splashes a bit of aftershave / cologne on himself, he proceeds to rub the leftovers from his hands on to each of the dogs?  Says that way they'll smell nice for their girlfriends in the park. 

OMG! I love that story.

I bet the dogs hate smelling like a tart's handbag though. Do you find they often roll in something horrible to kill the odour?

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Definitely nose

That sounds like the voice of experience.

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You know those toothy bulldog clip things that girls put in their hair? Well which do you reckon hurts most, clipping one on your ear or on your nose?

I've just tried both and I think it's nose, but perhaps that's because I can still see it when it's clipped to my nose.

BTW- Both positions hurt less if you scream during the process.

There are other protruding parts of a male anatomy that I'd imagine would hurt more if you clip it on.(No, i haven't tried it)

[Laxie]

Definitely nose

That sounds like the voice of experience.

My kids have always teased me about my big nose.  One day Sarah asked to see how much bigger it'd look with one of those clipped to it.  They laughed.  I didn't.  It hurts.  Especially if you're made to leave it on an extra few minutes so everyone in the house can have a look.  

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I wasn't upset until I read 'Newtown Unthank'.  WHO NAMES A TOWN THAT?!     Geeeeeeeeeez louise.  I shake my head every time we drive past the place. 

This is the most reasonable explanation I can find Dawn. It's from a site called the Surname Database.

I bloody love history me.



Last name: Unthank

Recorded as Unthank and sometimes Onthank, this is a most unusual and rare English surname. It has nothing to do with not thanking somebody, but is locational. It originates from three villages called Unthank, two in Cumbria, the other in the neighbouring county of Northumberland, on the Scottish border. According to the Oxford Directory of English Place Names, the place and hence the surname derives from a pre 7th century Olde English word "unpance" which means literally "without leave," and described an area of land which was occupied unlawfully. If this was the case it seems strange that the powerful landowners of the time did not trouble themselves to remove these interlopers, before the places became established, but clearly they did not. This suggests that since the villages were in an area of continual dispute between the English and the Scots, it may have suited the overlords perhaps the famous Percy family, to leave well alone, particularly if the villagers gave allegiance to them. All three places were first recorded about the year 1200, just about in time for four hundred years of strife, before the accession of James V1 of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603. After that with unification, peace gradually returned to the area. The first recording is probably that of William de Unthanc in the History of Northumberland in 1233, with Richard de Unthank in the Hundred Rolls of Landowners of Cumberland in 1273, and Henry Onthanke who married Margery Maye, in London, in 1577.

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You know those toothy bulldog clip things that girls put in their hair? Well which do you reckon hurts most, clipping one on your ear or on your nose?

I've just tried both and I think it's nose, but perhaps that's because I can still see it when it's clipped to my nose.

BTW- Both positions hurt less if you scream during the process.

There are other protruding parts of a male anatomy that I'd imagine would hurt more if you clip it on.(No, i haven't tried it)

Hmmm...

That also sounds like the voice of experience.

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And it would explain why you are the last.....

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And it would explain why you are the last.....

 

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Speaking of mundane...

I found half a pot of chilli flavoured humus in the fridge today. So I mixed it with a little olive oil and used it as a lively salad dressing.

It was delishamundo!