Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#1
"Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
Samuel Johnson
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#2
Oh dear, another woke one .................
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#3
The monstrous regiment or the sacred feminine? Odd, we only re-watched The Da Vinci Code the other evening.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#4
And I re-watched Conclave! Strange ending? Just saying.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#5
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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#6
No.1 granddaughter arrived this morning (the first girl in the family in 65 years) and it makes me wonder what the future holds for her: high priestess, queen consort, PM, astronaut, rugby/football/cricket international, music megastar - the list goes on. I suppose the correct answer is: anything, really (though inevitably a Thomas The Tank fanatic).
Providing I can give her back!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#7
Congratulations to all Button.
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
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#8
Thankyou, that means a lot! Her arrival, and potential, has hit me somewhat - in a good way. I think one can have too much of Channel 4 News; we've been averaging about 5 minutes before the subject matter, and sometimes the choice of it, causes us to stick our fingers in our ears and dig out last week's recorded Bake Off.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#9
Button,
I will also add my congratulation.
I found girls were a bigger worry than boys, but when they have their children they realise why their mother sometimes nagged and worried about them.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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#10
Well, as Baloo said: Forget about those. They ain't nothing but trouble! Sexist, but true
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#11
Congratulations to you all Button, but Thomas the tank engine for a girl? Maybe a review of your toy and interest options for a girl is likely to change as she grows. thumbsup:
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Button- Location: Dover
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#12
Bob, many thanks for the congratulations but the suggestion that we ought to go into gender stereotyping? Well, I was truly shocked and appalled!!
Besides, My Little Pony is soooooo boring!
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