Originally posted by Mandryka
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Richard the Third
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostWell, after thirteen years of Thatcher & Major, can you blame them for falling for 'Things Can Only Get Better'? ;whistle:
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostA headline in my paper suggests that the discovery of the eminent skeleton will make Leicester a popular tourist destination.... A trifle optimistic?
There's a cracking Wetherspoons and a gay pub that does Karaoke on Tuesdays and .....
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostA headline in my paper suggests that the discovery of the eminent skeleton will make Leicester a popular tourist destination.... A trifle optimistic?
Great curry (the best Dosa's outside Tooting)
Great music (DMU & De Montfort Hall)
Some wonderful buildings (Peacock Cafe for a start)
Great market
until recently the greatest prog record shop in the universe
what's not to love ?
and gay pub that does Karaoke on Tuesdays
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
Plus it's at the heart of some of the best place and street names in the country:
Kirkby Muxloe
Barton-in-the-Beans
Frisby-on-the-Wreake
Newtown Unthank
Flesh Hovel Lane
Raw Dykes
Butthole Lane
Along The Bottom
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAstonishing.
Plus it's at the heart of some of the best place and street names in the country:
Kirkby Muxloe
Barton-in-the-Beans
Frisby-on-the-Wreake
Newtown Unthank
Flesh Hovel Lane
Raw Dykes
Butthole Lane
Along The Bottom
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostSurely made up over a leisurely lunch....in Carlton Scroop?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAll true, me duck! ('cept the lunch bit)
"Ta Duckie." Like your own little bit of the East Midlands if you use it regularly !!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAstonishing.
Plus it's at the heart of some of the best place and street names in the country:
Kirkby Muxloe
Barton-in-the-Beans
Frisby-on-the-Wreake
Newtown Unthank
Flesh Hovel Lane
Raw Dykes
Butthole Lane
Along The Bottom
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Postinteresting expression that...I have heard some convoluted things about it coming from French , (Medoc?), but personally, I think it refers , in fact, to ducks.
"Ta Duckie." Like your own little bit of the East Midlands if you use it regularly !!
"Duckie" has a slightly different connotation...Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 05-02-13, 23:50."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostYou didn't read the article did you? It has to be all colour and movement with you
I did read the article, and it contains nothing whatsoever that is relevant.Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain.
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Originally posted by Anna View PostThere is an article in The Guardian about the form of DNA they were testing, mitochondria, which is not the same as the main DNA. I will not attempt to elaborate, being no scientist!
A mitochondrial DNA match does not always yield perfect results as two people could have the same type simply by chance
However, given what the article says about the DNA probably not being conclusive, I still believe that given the location, the wounds and the curvature of the spine that this is certainly Richard III. Also, it appears the skeleton has a very slight, effeminate, frame which also fits into historical descriptions of him. I would agree, as mentioned upthread, that he should be buried according to Roman Catholic rites (I think this has been done being when other pre-reformation skeletons have been disinterred and reburied on consecrated ground?) I have not as yet seen the C4 programme.
The reason that mitochondrial DNA isn't so useful for identification is that it's not 'stereoscopic' - it comes from only one parent, so there isn't a second line that intersects to pinpoint an origin. What the results mean so far is that the skeleton is from the same female line as the two known descendants of Richard III. There are two other types of DNA - what you could call 'general' DNA (the overwhelming majority of it) that carries exactly half its information from each parent) and Y-chromosome DNA, which carries information only from the father. It is the analysis of the general DNA that will allow identification to take place, because the 'stereoscoping' will be possible.
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