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Bunkers
Beginning high-school the lowest class he lent me rugby toggs and a jersey from someone for my first rugby game, I was on lock even being the...
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Collecting Pocket Calculators
I collect old calculating machines for a hobby, anything, like shop counter adding, specialised scientific calculators, financial ones etc. Any old...
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Confusing the Complicated Man
The secret of Archimedes According to the Archimedes buoyancy principle a floating object displaces its own weight in water. The proof it turns out...
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Escape of the Boer Swimmers
During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...
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Class of '84
Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...
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I was on a blind date once too
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
I was on a blind date once too it was the ugliest woman I've ever seen, and she wouldn't even let me have a beer. Then she wanted to kiss me. That is where the "blind" part comes in.
Tom
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A wonderful story
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
A wonderful story a famiily business! "I remember my young son “squaring up” his pile of little cards like he saw his Dad" that is how we learn hey?
All the best, and for writing and publishing! Tom
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we shall not cease
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2009
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
– TS Eliot
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Justice
Posted on Sat, 25 Oct 2025
Bin Laddin and George Bush were having tea when Bush remarked, "In my country we believe it is better to spare ninety-nine guilty men than execute one innocent", at which Bin replied "better for whom?"
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The black dog
Posted on Mon, 27 Oct 2025
Mother of hang-overs, or ever had your head in the black dog's jaws and swear with every vow and curse never to touch the stuff again, only next night and soon forgotten and to just start again. That is the insanity of it.
Or find yourself...
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brilliant humour!
Posted on Thu, 23 Oct 2025
This must be story of the month or something! Must be hard, I mean you can stop drinking and stop smoking even stop cursing but you can't stop eating!
All the best, better to be fat and jolly than fat and miserable! Tom
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To see the Light
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
In the beginning was light, and the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness could not overcome it.
You don't need a flashlight to see the Sun!
Cheers Luigi! Tom
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a very expensive restaurant
Posted on Wed, 22 Oct 2025
It is a very expensive restaurant leave the kids at home for a night of romance!
See you! Tom
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The Ivory Tower
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
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THE IVORY TOWER
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I found that too
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
I found that too Rhiannon, some song, poetry or hymns with such very beuatiful lovely words and without you really understanding as being too young, with insight actually understanding came only much later, with maturity. Think e.g. Of the...
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