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Aug-31-15
| | offramp: At about twelve o'clock he left the club and took his way homewards. But he did not go straight home. It was a nasty cold March night, with a catching wind, and occasional short showers of something between snow and rain,--as disagreeable a night for a gentleman to walk in as one could well conceive. But he went round by Trafalgar Square, and along the Strand, and up some dirty streets by the small theatres, and so on to Holborn and by Bloomsbury Square up to Tottenham Court Road, and then through some unused street into Portland Place, along the Marylebone Road, and back to Manchester Square by Baker Street. He had more than doubled the distance,--apparently without any object. He had been spoken to frequently by unfortunates of both sexes, but had answered a word to no one. He had trudged on and on with his umbrella over his head, but almost unconscious of the cold and wet. And yet he was a man sedulously attentive to his own personal comfort and health, who had at any rate shown this virtue in his mode of living, that he had never subjected himself to danger by imprudence. But now the working of his mind kept him warm, and, if not dry, at least indifferent to the damp. He had thrown aside with affected nonchalance those questions which his wife had asked him, but still it was necessary that he should answer them. He did not suppose that he could continue to live in Manchester Square in his present condition. Nor, if it was necessary that he should wander forth into the world, could he force his wife to wander with him. If he would consent to leave her, his father-in-law would probably give him something,--some allowance on which he might exist. But then of what sort would be his life? He did not fail to remind himself over and over again that he had nearly succeeded. He had been the guest of the Prime Minister, and had been the nominee chosen by a Duchess to represent her husband's borough in Parliament. He had been intimate with Mills Happerton who was fast becoming a millionaire. He had married much above himself in every way. He had achieved a certain popularity and was conscious of intellect. But at the present moment two or three sovereigns in his pocket were the extent of his worldly wealth and his character was utterly ruined. He regarded his fate as does a card-player who day after day holds sixes and sevens when other men have aces and kings. Fate was against him. He saw no reason why he should not have had he aces and kings continually, especially as fate had given him perhaps more than his share of them at first. He had, however, lost rubber after rubber,--not paying his stakes for some of the last rubbers lost,--till the players would play with him no longer. The misfortune might have happened to any man;--but it had happened to him. There was no beginning again. A possible small allowance and some very retired and solitary life, in which there would be no show of honour, no flattery coming to him, was all that was left to him. He let himself in at the house, and found his wife still awake. 'I am wet to the skin,' he said, 'I made up my mind to walk, and I would do it;--but I am a fool for my pains.' She made him some feeble answer, affecting to be half asleep, and merely turned in her bed. 'I must be out early in the morning. Mind you made them dry my things. They never do anything for my telling.' 'You don't want them dried to-night?'
'Not to-night, of course;--but after I am gone to-morrow. They'll leave them there without putting a hand to them, if you don't speak. I must be off before breakfast to-morrow.' 'Where are you going? Do you want anything packed?'
'No; nothing. I shall be back for dinner. But I must go down to Birmingham, to see a friend of Happerton's on business. I will breakfast at the station. As you said to-day, something must be done. If it's necessary to sweep a crossing, I must sweep it.' |
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Aug-31-15
| | offramp: As she lay awake while he slept, she thought that those last words were the best she had heard from him since they were married. There seemed to be some indication of purpose in them. If he would only sweep a crossing as a man should sweep it, she would stand by him, and at any rate do her duty to him, in spite of all that had happened. Alas! she was not old enough to have learned that a dishonest man cannot begin even to sweep a crossing honestly till he have in very truth repented of his former dishonesty. The lazy man may become lazy no longer, but there must have been first a process through his mind whereby his laziness has become odious to him. And that process can hardly be the immediate result of misfortune arising from misconduct. Had Lopez found his crossing at Birmingham he would hardly have swept it well. Early on the following morning he was up, and before he left his room he kissed his wife. 'Good-bye, old girl,' he said, 'don't be down-hearted.' 'If you have anything before you to do, I will not be down- hearted,' she said. 'I shall have something to do before night, I think. Tell your father, when you see him, that I shall not trouble him here much longer. But tell him also, that I have no thanks to give him for his hospitality.' 'I will not tell him that, Ferdinand.'
'He shall know it though. But I do not mean to be cross to you. Good-bye, love.' Then he stooped over and kissed her again;-- and so he took his leave of her. It was raining hard, and when he got into the street he looked about for a cab, but there was none to be found. In Baker Street he got an omnibus which took him down to the underground railway, and by that he went to Gower Street. Through the rain he walked up to the Euston Station, and there he ordered breakfast. Could he have a mutton chop and some tea? And he was very particular that the mutton chop should be well cooked. He was a good- looking man, of fashionable appearance, and the young lady who attended him noticed him and was courteous to him. He condescended even to have a little light conversation with her, and, on the whole, he seemed to enjoy his breakfast. 'Upon my word. I should like to breakfast here every say of my life,' he said. The young lady assured him that, as far as she could see, there was no objection to such an arrangement. 'Only it's a bore, you know, coming out in the rain when there are no cabs,' he said. Then there were various little jokes between them, till the young lady was quite impressed with the gentleman's pleasant affability. After a while he went back into the hall and took a first-class return ticket not for Birmingham, but for the Tenway Junction, as everybody knows it. From this spot, some six or seven miles distant from London, lines diverge east, west, and north, north- east, and north-west, round the metropolis in every direction, and with direct communication with every other line in and out of London. It is marvellous place, quite unintelligible to the uninitiated, and yet daily used by thousands who only know that when they get there, they are to do what someone tells them. The space occupied by the convergent rails seems to be sufficient for a large farm. And these rails always run into one another with sloping points, and cross passages, and mysterious meandering sidings, till it seems to the thoughtful stranger to be impossible that the best-trained engine should know its own line. Here and there and around there is ever a wilderness of waggons, some loaded, some empty, some smoking with close-packed oxen, and others furlongs in length black with coals, which look as though they had been stranded there by chance, and were never destined to get again into the right path of traffic. Not a minute passes without a train going here or there, some rushing by without noticing Tenway in the least, crashing through like flashes of substantial lightning, and others stopping, disgorging and taking up passengers by the hundreds. Men and women,--especially the men, for the women knowing their ignorance are generally willing to trust to the pundits of the place,--look doubtful, uneasy, and bewildered. But they all do get properly placed and unplaced, so that the spectator at last acknowledges that over all this apparent chaos there is presiding a great genius of order. From dusky morn to dark night, and indeed almost throughout the night, the air is loaded with a succession of shrieks. The theory goes that each separate shriek,--if there can be any separation where the sound is so nearly continuous,-- is a separate notice to separate ears of the coming or going of a separate train. The stranger, as he speculates on these pandemoniac noises, is able to realize the idea that were they discontinued the excitement necessary for the minds of the pundits might be lowered, and that activity might be lessened, and evil results might follow. But he cannot bring himself to credit that theory of individual notices. |
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| | offramp: At Tenway Junction there are a half-a-dozen long platforms, on which men and women and luggage are crowded. On one of these for a while Ferdinand Lopez walked backwards and forwards as though waiting for the coming of some especial train. The crowd is ever so great that a man might be supposed to walk there from morning to nigh without exciting special notice. But the pundits are very clever, and have much experience in men and women. A well- taught pundit, who has exercised authority for a year or two at such a station as that of Tenway, will know within a minute of the appearance of each stranger what is his purpose there,-- whether he be going or has just come, whether he is himself on the way or waiting for others, whether he should be treated with civility or with some curt command,--so that if his purport be honest all necessary assistance may be rendered him. As Lopez was walking up and down, with a smiling face and leisurely pace, now reading an advertisement and now watching the contortions of some amazed passenger, a certain pundit asked him his business. He was waiting, he said, for a train from Liverpool, intending, when his friend arrived, to go with him to Dulwich by a train which went round the west of London. It was all feasible, and the pundit told him that the stopping train from Liverpool was due there in six minutes, but that the express from the north would pass first. Lopez thanked the pundit and gave him sixpence,--which made the pundit suspicious. A pundit hopes to be paid when he handles luggage, but has no such expectation when he merely gives information. The pundit still had his eye on our friend when the shriek and the whirr of the express from the north was heard. Lopez walked quickly up towards the edge of the platform, when the pundit followed him, telling him that this was not his train. Lopez then ran a few yards along the platform, not noticing the man, reaching a spot that was unoccupied:--and there he stood fixed. And as he stood the express flashed by. 'I am fond of seeing them pass like that,' said Lopez to the man who had followed him. 'But you shouldn't do it, sir,' said the suspicious pundit. 'No one isn't allowed to stand near like that. The very hair of it might take you off your legs when you're not used to it.' 'All right, old fellow,' said Lopez retreating. The next train was the Liverpool train; and it seemed that our friend's friend had not come, for when the Liverpool passengers had cleared themselves off, he was still walking up and down the platform. 'He'll come by the next,' said Lopez to the pundit, who now followed him about and kept an eye on him. 'There ain't another from Liverpool stopping here till the 2.20,' said the pundit. 'You had better come again if you mean to meet him by that.' 'He has come part of the way, and will reach this by some other train,' said Lopez. 'There ain't nothing he can come by,' said the pundit. 'Gentlemen can't wait here all day, sir. The horders is against waiting on the platform.' 'All right,' said Lopez, moving away as though to make exit through the station. Now, Tenway Junction is so big a place, and so scattered, that it is impossible that all the pundits should by any combined activity maintain to the letter the order of which our special pundit had spoken. Lopez, departing from the platform which he had hitherto occupied, was soon to be seen on another, walking up and down, and again waiting. But the old pundit had his eye on him, and had followed him round. At that moment there came a shriek louder than all the other shrieks, and the morning express down from Euston to Inverness was seen coming round the curve at a thousand miles an hour. Lopez turned round and looked at it, and again walked towards the edge of the platform but now it was not exactly the edge that he neared, but a descent to a pathway, --an inclined plane leading down to the level of the rails, and made there for certain purposes of traffic. As he did so the pundit called to him, and then made a rush at him,--for our friend's back was turned to the coming train. But Lopez heeded not the call, and the rush was too late. With quick, but still with gentle and apparently unhurried steps, he walked down before the flying engine--and in a moment had been knocked into bloody atoms. |
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Sep-04-15
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[Site ""]
[Date "1956.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Druganov, "]
[Black "Panteleev, E"]
[Result "0-1"]
[NIC "KG 2.6.7"]
[ECO "C36"]
[PlyCount "42"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Nf6 5. c4 c6 6. d4 Bb4 7. Nc3 cxd5 8. Bxf4 O-O 9. c5 Ne4 10. Qc2 Re8 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Nxd5 Nc6 13. Nc7 Bf5 14. Bd3 Qxa2 15. Nxa8 Na5 16. Rdf1 Nb3 17. Kd1 Na1 18. Qb1 Qb3 19. Kc1 Nc3 20. bxc3 Qxc3 21. Kd1 Bxd3 0-1 |
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Sep-04-15
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[Site ""]
[Date "1956.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Druganov, "]
[Black "Panteleev, E"]
[Result "0-1"]
[NIC "KG 2.6.7"]
[ECO "C36"]
[PlyCount "42"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Nf6 5. c4 c6 6. d4 Bb4 7. Nc3 cxd5 8. Bxf4 O-O 9. c5 Ne4 10. Qc2 Re8 11. O-O-O Qa5 12. Nxd5 Nc6 13. Nc7 Bf5 14. Bd3 Qxa2 15. Nxa8 Na5 16. Rdf1 Nb3
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17. Kd1 Na1 18. Qb1 Qb3
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19. Kc1 Nc3
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20. bxc3 Qxc3 21. Kd1 Bxd3
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0-1. That is the actual game and the actual ending.
But after 19...Ne4-c3!!, Druganov might have tried to defend by threatening a quick mate in 1: 20.Re1!
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THIS is the position often given as a chess puzzle: Black to play and win. It is very tough. Is it possible that when Panteleyev sent his 19th move, 19...Nc3, he added the note (as corres players do) "if 20.Re1, then..." and gave the full mating line? I think that is quite possible. You can find the position online by searching for
druganov panteleiev 1956 |
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Sep-06-15
| | offramp: Next Sunday there is a chess joust:
<La plus ancienne joute transfrontalière Le dimanche 13 septembre 2015, de 14h à 20h, le Cercle d’Echecs de Strasbourg organisera le 47ème match d’échecs Alsace-Bade, à Strasbourg, Salle du Bon Pasteur, 10-12 boulevard Jean-Sébastien Bach. Un match opposant les 32 meilleurs joueurs des deux régions, mais aussi une rencontre amicale, bien enracinée dans une histoire commune. En effet, cette rencontre traditionnelle est probablement la plus ancienne joute sportive transfrontalière. Le match Alsace-Bade est né quelques années après la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale (première édition en 1953) et a participé à restaurer l’amitié franco-allemande en créant et développant des liens entre les deux ligues (partenariats), mais aussi entre les villes et clubs (jumelages, échanges) et entre les personnes, dirigeants et joueurs. Cette manifestation est aussi symbolique, en cette période de réforme territoriale. En effet, elle démontre que les régions ne perdront pas leurs spécificités et qu’elles pourront continuer de développer leurs identités lors de telles manifestations culturelles et sportives. En avant-première, le match Alsace-Bade sera aussi précédé, la veille, par une rencontre entre les équipes de jeunes de Strasbourg et Karlsruhe. La meilleure joueuse française, Marie Sebag, grand-maître international, sera la «marraine» de l’événement. Elle jouera et donnera des conseils aux champions en herbe. Dimanche, le Consulat général d’Allemagne sera aussi représenté. Communiqué par Daniel Roos
Président du Cercle d’Echecs de Strasbourg.
Responsable de la ligue d’Alsace des Echecs pour les rencontres Alsace-Bade.> |
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Sep-06-15
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Sep-07-15
| | offramp: By Alice Philipson, Rome 5:32PM BST 07 Sep 2015
Italian chess player allegedly uses a spy pendant containing a hidden camera to cheat during Italian tournament An Italian chess player has been expelled from one of Italy’s most important tournaments after he allegedly used Morse code and a spy pendant containing a hidden camera to communicate with an accomplice. Arcangelo Ricciardi entered the International Chess Festival of Imperia ranked 51,366 in the world, but astonished rivals as he breezed through the early stages of the competition to reach the eighth and penultimate round. Jean Coqueraut, who refereed the tournament in Liguria, northern Italy, said he began to suspect something was wrong early on in the competition. “In chess, performances like that are impossible,” he told La Stampa newspaper. “I didn’t think he was a genius, I knew he had to be a cheat. “I kept on looking at him. He was always sitting down, he never got up. It was very strange; we are taking about hours and hours of playing. But most suspicious of all, he always had his arms folded with his thumb under his armpit. He never took it out.” Mr Coqueraut said he was also “batting his eyelids in the most unnatural way”. “Then I understood it,” he said. “He was deciphering signals in Morse code.” The referee attempted to expose Mr Ricciardi by asking him to empty his pockets, but nothing was found. When the Italian was asked to open his shirt, he refused. Tournament organisers then asked the 37-year old to pass through a metal detector and a sophisticated pendant was found hanging around his neck underneath a shirt. The pendant contained a tiny video camera as well as a mass of wires attached to his body and a 4cm box under his armpit. Mr Ricciardi claimed they were good luck charms. It is thought the camera was used to transmit the chess game in real time to an accomplice or sophisticated computer, which then suggested moves for Mr Ricciardi through a series of signals received in the box under his arm. Mr Coqueraut said Mr Ricciardi constantly drank from a glass of water and wiped his face with a handkerchief to conceal the pendant around his neck. An investigation has been launched and the Italian Chess Federation is deciding whether to press charges for sports fraud. Allegations of cheating are rare at the top level of chess but increasingly sophisticated technology is being used among those who break the rules. In April, a disgraced Georgian Grandmaster Gaioz Nigalidze was expelled from the Dubai Open after being caught pretending to be desperate for the loo so he could use a mobile phone to cheat. The device was found to be logged into Nigalidze's social networking account and had one of his games being analysed by a smartphone chess app. The Imperia Chess Festival is the longest running open event in Italy and attracts some of the biggest names in the sport. |
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Sep-07-15
| | offramp: http://johno.jsmf.net/knowhow/ngram... ounce ginger powder. Work all is well melted in these are baked, and green cabbage, all in pepper and when the toast. Make in grated breadcrumbs, and ham, pour on the fire, add chopped hard- boiled is brought to your eggs, with pepper and wash them. Roll them over the knead into a pound of three carrots, and salt, till it an onion and let them into diamonds or gravy that fat bacon, season with a little salt water throw into fine tammy. Add a raw whiting, fillet up again afterwards. FISH SOUP Boil the green part, and the cook |
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Sep-07-15
| | offramp: ...shaved himself, and did eat there that sojourneth in Egypt and died; and dwelt in Horeb. And the inhabitants of life, from oft talking with thee, saying the name Gad. And the children of his rider hath found him at the goats from behind them; and in the ark; for hurt: but to me? For out from Elim, where it was so. And the younger and Aaron did eat. And Moses was our God. And it was gathered unto thee. And they named him Zaphenath-paneah; and he hath given thy people the king of God and has made a covenant... |
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Sep-08-15
| | offramp: Garry Kasparov et Ignatius Leong reconnus coupable d'avoir enfreint le code éthique de la FIDE. La décision a été prise par la Commission d’éthique de la FIDE. The Earth’s Biggest Selection Browse and buy on your tablet Selon l'agence TASS, le treizième champion du monde d'échecs Garry Kasparov et l'ancien secrétaire général de la Fédération Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), Ignatius Leong sont reconnus coupable d'avoir enfreint le code d'éthique de l'organisation. Cette information a été fournie aux journalistes par le service de presse de la FIDE. La décision a été prise au Congrès de la FIDE qui a lieu actuellement à Abu Dhabi. La Commission d'éthique pourrait bientôt priver Kasparov et Leong du droit d’assister aux évènements officiels de la FIDE, ainsi que de leur infliger une amende La Commission d'éthique a reconnu Kasparov et Leong coupables de violation du paragraphe 2.1 du code éthique de la FIDE. Il est écrit dans ce paragraphe: "Le code est violé quand une personne ou entité directement ou indirectement offre ou tente d'offrir ou d'accepter un pot de vin dans le but d'influencer le résultat d'un jeu d'échecs ou de l'élection au poste au sein de la FIDE". L’année dernière avant les élections du nouveau président de la FIDE Garry Kasparov, qui aspirait à cette position et le secrétaire général de la FIDE Ignatius Leong ont conclu un accord. Conformément à cet accord Kasparov a payé à Leong 500.000 dollars afin d’obtenir le vote de Singapour aux élections du président de la FIDE. D’après cet accord Leong a promis à Kasparov d’assurer pour les élections les votes de 10 fédérations de la région asiatique + 1. L'accord prévoyait également qu’en cas de la victoire Kasparov allait créer un nouveau bureau de la FIDE et que ce bureau allait être dirigé par Leong. En outre, l’organisation à but non lucratif "Kasparov Chess Foundation" et l’entreprise privée de Leong "Asiana Chess Academy" devaient créer une nouvelle organisation, « Kasparov Chess Foundation Asia » . Durant la période de quatre années cette nouvelle structure devait transférer à la société appartenant à Leong un million de dollars en quatre tranches, les deux dernières tranches étaient payables seulement en cas de victoire de Kasparov. Finalement Kasparov a perdu les élections, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov a été réélu au poste du Président de la FIDE. « La Fédération Internationale des Echecs, qui réunit 186 pays dans le monde, a été profondément choquée par ce qui est arrivé, - a déclaré le vice-président de la FIDE Georgios Makropoulos -. Nous croyons que Garry Kasparov, 13e champion du monde qui est légitimement considéré par de nombreux fans de ce jeu comme le plus grand joueur d'échecs au monde, doit se repentir et redorer d’une manière ou d’une autre son nom qu’il a terni. Je le répète encore une fois, nous sommes indignés de ce qui s’est passé! C’est bien triste de constater qu'un homme qui a exprimé publiquement son attachement à la démocratie et à la justice, est en effet impliqué dans de sales affaires. Par ailleurs, cette enquête a commencé après une publication dans le journal américain « The New York Times », qui est le porte-parole du monde libre et démocratique de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique. » En commentant les conclusions de la Commission d'éthique de la FIDE, Andrey Filatov, le vice-président de la FIDE et le chef de la Fédération russe des Echecs a dit qu'il s’agissait d’une décision grave et qui était soutenue par l'écrasante majorité. Aujourd'hui 186 pays sont membres de la FIDE, et, selon Andrey Filatov, M. Kasparov doit au moins présenter ses excuses pour ses agissements illégitimes. Et si Garry Kasparov est en désaccord avec cette décision, il doit faire un appel et prouver son innocence devant un juge. « Si quelqu’un ne doute pas de son intégrité et de son bon droit, il va en justice et défend sa réputation, » – a dit le chef de la Fédération russe des échecs. |
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| Sep-09-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: Kibitzers seem unusually inhibited when it comes to "My Favourite Players". The lists seem to be identical to the list <"Players Who I Think Other People Think I Should Say Are The Best Players of All Time">. Wake up, dudes! Have some originality.>
-from Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966) For the record, let me state that my list of the best players of all time is actually the list of great players that I think everyone else should agree with me on them being the best of all time, and in the order I specify. |
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| Sep-09-15 | | thegoodanarchist: And of course my favorite movie line of all time is from "GI Jane", when Viggo Mortensen tells Demi Moore <When I want your opinion I'll give it to you>. |
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Sep-09-15
| | offramp: In the film Elvira, Mistress of the Night, she says, "When I want your opinion I'll beat it out of you." |
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| Sep-10-15 | | thegoodanarchist: That must be an outstanding cinematic work! |
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Sep-10-15
| | offramp: It's better than, for example, GI Jane. |
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Sep-16-15
| | offramp: Late night on a 280 bus travelling from Sutton to Mitcham. I was about to get off. I was with some friends including a man I have known since we were 11. He was about to go on a trip to Holland and I knew he didn't have much money. I took out the entire contents of my pocket, which I knew was £85, and stuffed it in the side pocket of his rucksack, which was on his knee. I said, "That's just something so you can have a drink in Holland." He said, "Thanks, Alan."
But when he got home it was late and he forgot about it. Next day his wife cleared out the rucksack, found the money and commandeered eighty of the pounds in an executive manner. Later, my friend found the lonely fiver.
He still thinks that that is all I gave him. |
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Sep-16-15
| | offramp: Which animals like rain, and which animals dislike rain? I think cows and horses like rain. But sheep don't like it. |
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| Sep-17-15 | | Tomlinsky: Fish like rain. |
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Sep-18-15
| | offramp: Mayim Bialik is right, sadly. The fact that she is Jewish and goes to Israel is enough to elicit hateful comments. Towards the end of his life my Hibernian dad became anti-Semitic. I still loved him. I like TS Eliot, and Evelyn Waugh, and Alexander Alekhine. I personally think that hating Jews is either inculcated by one's society or a sign of mental illness. It's unfortunate for Jews that if someone does become mentally unstable he is quick to use Jews as a bugbear. Woody Allen mentioned this in Without Feathers: "...the Jews who numbered one tenth of one percent of the population..." I'm a Freemason so I see similar stuff on the internet all the time. But here is one good thing.
I've never made a secret of being a Freemason at chessgames.com. No one has ever made a bad comment about it! Try that on YouTube! |
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Sep-28-15
| | offramp: So they came up with a new detergent and to demonstrate how easy to use and efficient, they set up a washtub in the local shopping centre and called for volunteers to have their underwear washed. Up steps a husky policewoman at the end of her 8 hour shift "Into the tub - scrub-a-dub-dub
Up to the light - lovely and bright
Up to the nose - fresh as a rose!"
And the crowd applauds.
Next, a burly female truck driver, after 10 hours behind the wheel: "Into the tub - scrub-a-dub-dub
Up to the light - lovely and bright
Up to the nose - fresh as a rose!"
And the crowd goes wild.
Up steps a dilapidated hobo:
"Into the tub - scrub-a-dub-dub
Up to the light - lovely and bright
Up to the nose - (GRIMACE)
"Into the tub - scrub-a-dub-dub" ... |
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| Sep-30-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <I've never made a secret of being a Freemason at chessgames.com.> I didn't know you were a Freemason. I never saw anything in your posts to indicate it. My Aunt's husband is a Freemason. He has some sort of indicator on his license plate. Apparently, other Freemasons are obliged to permit him to merge in front of them, and vice versa. If I ever live in Los Angeles, I want one of those free merge emblems on my license plate. |
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Oct-02-15
| | offramp: <thegoodanarchist: ...Apparently, other Freemasons are obliged to permit him to merge in front of them, and vice versa.> That can cause offramp problems. |
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Oct-04-15
| | offramp: CYMBELINE
Laud we the gods;
And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
From our blest altars. Publish we this peace
To all our subjects. Set we forward: let
A Roman and a British ensign wave
Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:
And in the temple of great Jupiter
Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.
Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace. |
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