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  • scottycelt

    Originally posted by mangerton View Post
    Exactly! I believe that it is no longer permitted to have prayers before council meetings, but as far as I know, we can still quote from KJV. In any case, I'm sure scottycelt will back me up.
    Always to the hilt, mangerton ... though I must point out that Papists are generally not really that well-versed and modern when it comes to Bibles.

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 13298

      Originally posted by mangerton View Post
      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      I could have forecasted that this would arise - and it has arised.

      Should that not be "arosed"? Or possibly "ris", as in this famous poem:

      "The spring is sprung, the grass is ris,
      I wonder where dem boidies is."
      ... ah yes! - the voishn I woz told woz -


      "Spring is sprung,
      the grass is riz,
      I wonder where the boidies is.

      They say the boid is on the wing.
      But that's absoid.
      The wing is on the boid!"

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      • amateur51

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        ... ah yes! - the voishn I woz told woz -


        "Spring is sprung,
        the grass is riz,
        I wonder where the boidies is.

        They say the boid is on the wing.
        But that's absoid.
        The wing is on the boid!"
        But do mares eat oats?

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
          But do mares eat oats?

          Yes, Mairsy doats n dozy doats bud liddl lamsy divy (I think)

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          • Flosshilde
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7988

            I'm afraid that wayward apostrophes are old hat -

            Suddenly, quotation marks are turning up in all the wrong places โ€“ but one blog is out to show misusers the error of their ways

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
              Yes, Mairsy doats n dozy doats bud liddl lamsy divy (I think)
              YAY!!



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              • Flosshilde
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7988

                If I remember rightly it was my first boss who taught me that. She also commented on the interesting ideas for using daisies & forget-me-nots in 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' - I was very into flower arranging at the time.

                (My first boss was the borough librarian: a white-haired - probably in her 50s - spinster, who used to ride around town on her bright red moped)

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