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Noticed yesterday for the first time that a title on my list of "perfect albums" can be read as "Tapes try".. Comments?...r
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Sign seen on a car park outside an Edinburgh school: "The dropping off or uplifting of children from this car park is prohibited". Apart from...
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by Christopher Green
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Hi, I often hear the phrase "hosed down suggestions", does "hosed down" here simply mean deliver, throw out..? Would "hosed down...
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by Brian Wickham
5 yr 93 days ago
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Australian Chantelle Newbery won a gold medal in diving (Congrats, Oz, for the first gold in diving for you since 1924) and was quoted as saying "I'm...
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by Harvey Van Sickle
5 yr 93 days ago
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I have a question about the numerals in the following sentence: " A ninethousand-year-old human skull and a eightthousandfivehundred-year-old marble...
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French people don't have a word for "both". Whatever it was, the French seem to have suffered a mass stroke of amnesia, and now, try as they...
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by CB
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The Bush Team in Iraq - Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts By Brian Cloughley Wednesday, August 25 2004 Contributed by: Admin It is acknowledged...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Hi folks, Recently I had a chat with an American parish priest living in California, but born and brought up in Chicago countryside. Intrigued by the scarceness...
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by Andrew Gwilliam
5 yr 93 days ago
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BREAKING: Russia: One Airplane Down, One Missing http://www.truthout.org/docs 04/082504V.shtml Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti
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In Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's memo to the panel set up to examine the prison abuse in Iraq and elsewhere by American soldiers: "It would...
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by Charles Riggs
5 yr 94 days ago
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MAN SAYS SEX WITH CHRISTIAN PRIEST BEGAN AT 11 Forwarded message from "G.Subramaniam" (Email Removed) ( From: "G.Subramaniam" (Email...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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CHRISTIAN PRIEST MOLESTS CHILD ON INDIAN RESERVATION Forwarded message from "G.Subramaniam" (Email Removed) ( From: "G.Subramaniam"...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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VATICAN SHIELDS CHILD-MOLESTING CHRISTIAN PRIESTS Vatican shields child molesting priests Forwarded message from "G.Subramaniam" (Email Removed...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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Hi friends, Is the sentence below grammatically okay? "The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's not an arbitrary...
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by Richard Chambers
5 yr 94 days ago
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I was wondering if someone would tell me if "former" and "latter" are used correctly in the following sentence: "The Chevy and...
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I am currently reading a book written in the late 1940s and the author (British) consistently writes 'shewed' and 'shew' for 'showed'...
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Forwarded message from MichaelP (Email Removed) ( Subject: Fahrenheit 9/11 independent intervention in world politics ( From: MichaelP (Email Removed)...
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by Richard
5 yr 94 days ago
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The New York Times lists 31 apartments in Manhattan in the $500 to $1000 a month range. Needless to say, most of them are far closer to the higher figure...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 94 days ago
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Hi there! Cold someone take a look at the offer below, please? Is this text compresensible? Could you suggest me, what could be improved? Be cruel, if...
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My Lakeland catalogue arrived today an Lo!: http://www.lakelandlimited.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/GBP/ParametricSearch-Start;sid=7qaObSDYyqmaUmH...
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Although no Bill Gates basher, for I'm jealous of no-one, I seriously wonder if Microsoft didn't screw up with Windows XP, releasing it before...
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by david56
5 yr 94 days ago
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Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims: http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Muslims urged to get US 'filth' out of Iraq http://tinyurl.com...
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by William Brennan
5 yr 94 days ago
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Hi, Which phrase is more correct? 1. This time last year I was in Turkey. 1. This time last year I was living in Turkey. Who knows, give me to know about...
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Quick and easy question: is it correct or redundant to use "also" with "besides" or "in addition to" in, for example, the...
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by CyberCypher
5 yr 94 days ago
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In the early 1990s, I remember that many teenage girls would have this croaking voice; I would like to know the model for that voice. Katherine Hepburn...
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by John Ings
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