Hey Mike,
Congratulations, you must be thrilled. Best wishes to you and HL on the birth of your Grandchild.
Oh, yeah -and that business with Pompey, well, good luck in premiership. Hope you can stay up.
Duncan
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BOOM BLOODY BOOM! It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
by Englishman init happened all on the same day.. firstly, a fine bouncing first grandson!
his name is charlie hooper, and he arrived yesterday weighing in at 7 pounds 13 ounces.
he's pink and round and absolutely delightful.
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BOOM BLOODY BOOM! It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!
by Englishman init happened all on the same day.. firstly, a fine bouncing first grandson!
his name is charlie hooper, and he arrived yesterday weighing in at 7 pounds 13 ounces.
he's pink and round and absolutely delightful.
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Lets discuss the MOST IMPORTANT issue today
by searchfothetruth inof course there are many important issues facing the world today but the most important, obviously, is:.
who is the greatest football team of all time.
of course it's liverpool football club, but i'm sure i may be called an idiot or worse.
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....AND they went and scored 7 (SEVEN!) today!
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Lets discuss the MOST IMPORTANT issue today
by searchfothetruth inof course there are many important issues facing the world today but the most important, obviously, is:.
who is the greatest football team of all time.
of course it's liverpool football club, but i'm sure i may be called an idiot or worse.
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Okay Search,
Liverpool might well have done/won all that stuff, but WHAT team is it who:
ONCE finished runners-up in the old First Division
ONCE were runners-up in the FA Cup, but didn't actually play very well.
SCORED the record lowest-ever number of points in the Premiership, the year they were relegated
I think those achievements simply HAVE to be taken seriously.
they also gave the world Football's all-time greatest ever strip (the red and yellow one, sadly not much used this season), AND..
The greatest goal ever scored by England (v Brazil in ? 1984 by Barnes) was scored by a then-Watford player... AND..
Watford's Chairman (honorary, these days) has sold more records than ANY OTHER PREMIERSHIP CHAIRMAN. er PUT TOGETHER!!
I now - in You Know-esque fashion (everyone remember him?) - declare myself to be the winner of this debate, and exit the arena with a smug self-satisfied air.
Duncan.
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Remember what Day it is today.
by Duncan indear all,.
... well, it's a friday, right?.
this is significant.
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thankth for the thmile, Englith...
May the Fourth be with YOU, too.
Duncan
(actually more concerned with April 13th: "Carm on Yew 'Orns!")
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Remember what Day it is today.
by Duncan indear all,.
... well, it's a friday, right?.
this is significant.
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Dear all,
... well, it's a Friday, right?
This is significant. One of the first things I do every new year, when I see a calendar, or get a new diary, is check what day of the week April the fourth is.
Its usefulness lies in the fact that every year, whether it's a leap year or not, whatever day of the week the 4/4 is, that will also be true for 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and 12/12. Works every year.
This little-known fact is, I think, a very useful thing. It can map out for you great chunks of the year. Want to know what day Christmas falls this year? Without looking at a calendar? You already know now that 12/12 is a Friday, which means that 19/12 and 26/12 are also Fridays - there you go! Christmas is a Thursday!
Amaze your friends! Ask them their birthday, and if you're lucky, and can do a quick bit of mental arithmetic, there'a a good chance you can tell them what day of the week that is.
This little nugget of useful info is brought to you by:
Duncan's little-known-facts Inc. All rights reserved.
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reponse letter to JW-fleshly-brother about my leaving the WT
by AhHah indear (jw-brother), .
i was pleased and pleasantly surprised to receive your thoughtful letter.
thank you for your concern and for taking the time to write.
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AhHah
I think your letter is simply wonderful. Well done.
I hope the day dawns soon when you and he will be able to look back on this Watchtower-mandated estrangement with disbelief and wonderment. I'm sure that day will come.
Keep smiling through.
Duncan.
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Life in a Peaceful New World
by Duncan inlisten, i know this has been done a million times before on this board, but
this morning i was called on by jehovahs witnesses.
you see, today, the whole world is at war
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Listen, I know this has been done a million times before on this board, but…
…this morning I was called on by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Well, just one actually. A grey-haired chap, around 60 years I guess. There were others working the street also, I noticed. He offered me a leaflet.
I’m looking at it as I write. It’s called “Life in a Peaceful New World” and shows the usual Watchtower imagery: rural landscape, mountains in the distance, lake in the middle distance, assorted people, all different races, all grinning inanely, all clothed in exotic national dress.
I decided it would be a bit of fun to engage him in conversation, to see where it went.
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful” he said “if the world looked like this?”
On the whim of the moment, I decided upon a style: dumb, not-quite-following-his-logic.
“What do you mean? The world does look like this”
“Oh no, it doesn’t. Not like this”
“Yes it does. Some of it anyway. I stayed near a place like that last summer on my holidays” (This is actually true. We were in the south of Ireland in Kerry. There’s some stunning scenery there, mountains and lakes and stuff.)
“But no. Look at the people. Such peace”
I nodded, non commital.
“You see, today, the whole world is at war”
“Is it?” I said, with a touch of alarm. “The whole world? No one told me…”
“Yes, the whole world. Look at the evidence. Look around you”
Acting on his invitation, I made a big show of looking up the street and down the street. It was a beautiful, cloudless spring day today. Hardly a breeze stirring the trees, the loudest sound was birdsong.
“Pretty quiet here” I offered.
“No, I mean the world situation…” he said, with weary patience. At this point I think he had me marked down as a halfwit, and he decided to move on.
“…look, read the leaflet. If you like the message you can contact one of the addresses on the back.”
And he was gone. I went back inside with my leaflet.
I think the best bit of all was that “contact one of the addresses” line. He didn’t even direct me to the British one. Perhaps he thought too specific an instruction would be beyond me.
So, halfwit I may be, but at least I have some options in working out my path to salvation. There’s the Ghana office, or the Phillipines, Barbados…
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Brother Ted, Theocratic Economics and Card Run-outs
by Duncan indear all,.
i nearly met up with brother ted f. the other day.
i say nearly, because i arrived round my mothers house just a few minutes after he left.
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Old Hippie, you said:
I so much WANT the Paradise to be true, want it to happen, to be like that;
And Blondie said:
JW bubble burster from way back
- which is exactly what I am, in this instance.
OH, I hear your despair, and I sympathise. But it IS a fantasy, it will never do you any good longing for it.
I am reminded of a line from one of James Thurber’s modern fables (after someone has just debunked his peoples entire myth-system and they find they have nothing left to live for):
“Why must the Shattermyth also be
a Crumplehope and Dampenglee?”
Duncan
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Brother Ted, Theocratic Economics and Card Run-outs
by Duncan indear all,.
i nearly met up with brother ted f. the other day.
i say nearly, because i arrived round my mothers house just a few minutes after he left.
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Dear all,
Many thanks for all your responses. I got started on this late last night, finally finished and posted it at 2 a.m. I’m back in the office this morning reading all the replies.
I can’t really reply to everyone, I’ll just talk to a couple.
Old Hippie said:
I don't see why lions can't eat meat? Animals will get sick and will die, and so there will be a lot of sick and dead animals for lions and other animals to eat. Why do you want them to eat grass?
Old Hippie, old thing, it’s not me who says they’re going to go all veggie - it’s the Bible: Isaiah chapter 11, vs 6, 7
The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the oxMe, I’m quite happy to accept that verse as a wonderful piece of Hebrew poetry, a powerful and lovely image of peace and tranquillity. But the Watchtower teaches that it is, in fact, a prophecy of an everyday state of affairs that will literally happen.
But, taking up your point: Dead animals – same as grass - don’t fight back or run away. The lions powerful body is a superb killing machine, it is not adapted for a life of scavenging carrion flesh. It simply wouldn’t need all that power and strength. Even allowing for your point to be valid, a lion that does the job of a hyena or vulture, does not need to be a lion anymore.
Anyway, imagine yourself for a moment as a New Order lion. You’re hungry, you have a big heavy body to keep nourished and there’s not been much in the way of dead animals around your neck of the woods for a few weeks. You’ve been (discreetly) following a decidedly old and frail-looking zebra for a few days now, tracking him, just waiting for him to breathe his last, so you an move in and get a feed. But darn it! He just won’t keel over! But … there’s no one around… you’re big, and strong, and fast, he’s weak and frail; you have massive, strong limbs with claws and teeth that would finish him in an instant. Who would know if you were to just … help things along a bit, help events take their course a bit faster? Surely now, OH, you wouldn’t want to put our poor New Order lion in that appalling moral dilemma?
Hilary:
It is so hard to imagine older Ted in his sixties! Actually, hard to imagine myself in my fifties
Right enough. When I think of you and me – we’re in our teens, my folks are still in their fifties and Ted is still 30. But his golden-blond hair is all grey now, and at 63, or whatever, he’s still having to clean windows – in this bitter February weather. And, as I said in my post, despite his years, in some ways he’s still a child, still looking forward to the fantasy-Disney-land New Order. A lifetime of hopes wasted.
Englishman:
how about Pompey then, you seen 'em lately?
Told you I saw them a Fratton Park last year, against Watford, didn’t I? We actually did the double over Pompey last year, lucky to take a single point at home this year. Pompey look like they’ll survive in the premiership okay. But what about them GoldenBoyz? Cup quarter-finals!
Once again, thanks to all for their kind comments.
Duncan.