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quotePosted at 20:02 on 13th January 2009
On 13th January 2009 18:54, Bob T wrote:
On 13th January 2009 18:28, Barb wrote:
On 13th January 2009 17:57, Bob T wrote:

Little known fact:

Wedding dresses are white because the dishwasher should ALWAYS match the rest of the appliances...Laughing


SurprisedSurprisedSurprisedSurprised..BEHAVE!!!

 

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WOW! It took long enough for someone to catch that! A little slow on the uptake?

So it takes Barb to keep me straight!

Sealed

Ohhhhh a man that comes to heel! Hehe!!!

In my home city, Liverpool, It is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store!!!!! Sealed

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quotePosted at 20:06 on 13th January 2009
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament! Sealed
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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 04:15 on 14th January 2009

LOL, Barb.  Wonder what the penalty is!

There are approximately 5,000 species of mammals on planet earth and 1,000 of them are bats.

 

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Paul Hilton
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quotePosted at 04:54 on 14th January 2009
On 13th January 2009 20:06, Barb wrote:
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament! Sealed
the pentalty Ruth is you'd then be entitled to a state funeral and I suspect they'd prefer not to have go to to all the trouble !
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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 04:59 on 14th January 2009

Hi Paul:  That would most definitely blow the budget!  Laughing

 

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Diana Sinclair
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quotePosted at 13:55 on 14th January 2009
On 13th January 2009 20:06, Barb wrote:
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament! Sealed



Sounds like Disney Land. LOL! Sealed

Butterflies tastes with their feet.

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Jason T
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quotePosted at 14:03 on 14th January 2009
There are more planets and stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on our planet!!     Although i haven't counted them all!!!Laughing
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quotePosted at 14:02 on 16th January 2009
The song with the longest title is 'I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues' written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943.
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quotePosted at 14:12 on 16th January 2009

Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of British music group Queen, was born in Zanzibar and named Farrokh Bulsara. 

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quotePosted at 14:28 on 16th January 2009
Was Hoagy Carmichael the actor who was a solider that lost his hands? Know which one I mean? He was in  "The Best Years of Our Lives?"
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