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#221 Post by Slasher » Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:54 pm

All in we were a complete bunch of losers in sixth form and were chastised a few times by the headmaster for simply existing.

Not undeserved though. We were rude abnoxious little sh!ts from the outset. :ymdevil:

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#222 Post by 603DX » Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:26 pm

Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands usually have Rijsttafel on their menu. A temptingly scrumptious creation of many individual dishes, best shared at leisure with good companions - and it's advisable to leave items with tight-fitting waistbands in the wardrobe ... ;)))

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#223 Post by Slasher » Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:57 pm

Anterior - the inside of a certain insect's nest. 🐜

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#224 Post by 603DX » Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:16 am

Ordzhonikidze - the name of the Soviet cruiser central to a notorious and murky affair in Portsmouth harbour in the 1950s, with a storyline worthy of Alistair MacLean or Ian Fleming ...

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#225 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:32 pm

The Zebras the national football team here in Bots. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswan ... tball_team :o)
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#226 Post by 603DX » Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:50 pm

It seemed reasonable to assume that the playing colours of the Zebras would include some black and white, and lo and behold, they do! But are they predominantly black with white stripes, or white with black stripes I wonder ... ;)))

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#227 Post by Opsboi » Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:16 am

Mendacity - standard economy of truth offered by all mayoral candidates

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#228 Post by Capetonian » Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:43 am

TY is the abbreviation for a village in Lesotho, full name Teyateyaneng.

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#229 Post by 603DX » Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:25 am

Tyndale Monument - why do I love my country? Many, many reasons, including that it's the sort of place where the locals have a hill called Nibley Knoll, (that they prefer to call Nibley Knob), and on top of it they built a tall tower to commemorate a fellow called William Tyndale who was born nearby, and was a translator of the New Testament into English. They leave the tower door open for any passer-by to climb its stairs and admire the splendid views, free, gratis, and for nothing ... priceless! :) How can anyone not admire the marvellous dottiness of it all?

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#230 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:42 am

Leadwood not to be used to make a mokoro (dug out canoe )'cos it will sink. :D

We have a company in Maun called Leadwood and they make excellent furniture, a lot for the safari camps. The leadwood furniture is beautiful but very very heavy. Surprised the staff don't develop hernias. @-)

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#231 Post by 603DX » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:36 am

It's an oddity that Leadwood is so dense that it sinks in water, and makes heavy furniture. Another similarly strange wood is Lignum Vitae, which also has a density of about 1230 kgs per cubic metre. Players of lawn bowls used to have their balls made from it, which they called "woods", but now use man-made composition balls of similar density. I wonder what they call those?

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#232 Post by llondel » Mon Oct 15, 2018 3:19 pm

Tynecastle Park is the home ground of the Scottish football club Heart of Midlothian, located in Edinburgh.

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#233 Post by 603DX » Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:56 pm

Lenitive - soothing, emollient, palliative, expressed by a word not often used in anger ... :ymsigh:

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#234 Post by Slasher » Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:39 pm

Radar vector - what TS gave pilots during her ATCO days at the approach scope.


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#235 Post by 603DX » Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:00 pm

Oral - spoken rather than written.

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#236 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:51 pm

Allotrope - (Greek 'other form') The name given to different form of the same element. Diamond, graphite, graphene, nanotubes and fullerennes are all allotropes of carbon

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#237 Post by 603DX » Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:32 pm

Pejorative - expressing contempt or disapproval. In my youth I was quietly proud of being the first in my family to attend a King Edward VI Grammar School (founded in 1549 during the reign of Henry VIII's son). So during a CCF gliding course I was shocked to overhear two other cadets from a well-known fee-paying Public School refer to myself and my companion as "those Grammar School oiks". It hadn't occurred to me until then, that our school might be regarded as inferior by others. Later in life I was to learn that arrogant rogues and true gentlemen both come from the full spectrum of social classes. :-?

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#238 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Sat Oct 20, 2018 2:31 pm

Velcro didn't realise that it was invented so long ago. :)

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#239 Post by Slasher » Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:25 pm

Robust - an mechanical set of breasts.

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#240 Post by 603DX » Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:03 am

Studebaker Avanti - a short-lived supercharged American car type once owned by the Bond creator Ian Fleming. Scroll down to see a pic of him standing beside his. In 1963 he halted in it at a traffic census I was taking part in; not because we had selected him for questioning, but because he wanted to know why we were conducting it. The writer's enquiring mind, perhaps ...

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