I don't know. Shall I ask him? Pam > Money? Is Brian rich? > > Jean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pamela Cotton" <pcotton@netcentral.co.uk> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:39 PM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] cookers > > > Brian, Why don't you try again now that you've won all that money this > afternoon? > > But it to something useful man! > Pam. > > > > I was waiting for Littlewoods Index to have their January sale. They > stock > > a table-top cooker with a sort of griddle surface, for about £70. When > the > > sale came on they were down to £45 - BUT THEY WERE OUT OF STOCK! > > > > Brian > > List Admin > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > > > > > > > Well, since you clearly don't need a 30 year guarantee, why didn't you > buy > > > one of those ELECTRIC frying pans? > > > > > > Keep on frying the eggs, and you won't have 30 years. > > > > > > Marj > > > > > > > > > > I bought a very expensive frying pan with a 30 year guarantee then > found > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 1/21/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 22/01/2002

Does it come complete with supper ! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] cookers > You want to get a cooker like that one of Angela's. You could have it in > the back garden. > > Have sent you a picture of it. > > Marj > > > You can guarantee to hear from a woman at the mention of money. > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I don't shop at Asda ever since I parked my car in the car park and forgot where I had left it. I spent what seemed like hours walking round and round with my trolley before I found it ! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > He shops at ASDA. > > Brian > List Admin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:57 PM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > > > > Oh no, it was Dave Allen who was always complaining, not Dave Spark! > > > > Marj > > > > > > > Marj, > > > > > > Less of the aspersions about Morrison's.I know that it is a Yorkshire > > based > > > company but "downmarket", NEVER ! > > > They get my custom every week ! > > > > > > David > > > > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

And that's another thing - Morrisons is the best place to park in Southport (except the park and ride) and it's cheap, especially since if you spend £17.50 you get two hours free parking. Marj > I don't shop at Asda ever since I parked my car in the car park and forgot > where I had left it. I spent what seemed like hours walking round and round > with my trolley before I found it ! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 22/01/02

I do ! And with bacon too. Davuid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: cookers > Do they do fried egg butties? > > Brian > List Admin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:16 PM > Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: cookers > > > > Have you been on line when their sale is coming up and checked all the > > stores? Lois got me a very cheap cd player this way. > > > > Marj > > > > ----- > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Suspect virus messages should be sent to the List Admin only, > NOT to the list, so they can be checked out before a panic starts. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Carol Vorderman was paid thousands and thousands of pounds for advertising it about 2 or 3 years ago. A lot of money for what appears to me to be a sort of margerine. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] UGH! > What is this BENECOL you are all going on about? > > Brian > List Admin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim SHARPE" <bigjim@britishlibrary.net> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] UGH! > > > > Roz, I agree, I do and I eat home cooked food and abhor the rubbish in the > > supermarket freezer chests. BUT I also love freshly baked bread from the > > local baker ( I really miss my mother-in-law for her bread) and I was told > > nay advised that butter was doing my blood sugar count no good so I > changed > > to non animal fat spread and found that Benecol was tasty, also the new > > Flora + . > > my sugar count tonight is 6.3 compared with usually 11 or 12 before. > > Sometimes the instrument nearly had a coronary itself with 17 or 18. > > > > Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Roz <roz12345uk@yahoo.co.uk> > > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:19 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] UGH! > > > > > > > What's wrong with butter!!!! Fancy spreading something made from wood > on > > > your bread just cos some tv star says it is ok :-))) > > > > > > Seriously, I cannot understand the low fat message at all. To achieve > the > > > low fat rating they have to pump it full of chemicals and sugar...or > even > > > worse, sweeteners. I believe that the reason other countries have a far > > > higher survival rate than this country is because they eat proper food > > that > > > is closer to its original state. This county is so unhealthy because > they > > > don't know what proper food is!!!! Convenience food, bung it in the > > > microwave and eat it.......no way for me!!!! > > > > > > If you eat sensibly, meat and three veg per day, then I don't believe > you > > > will come to any harm. For goodness sake, you can cut the fat off a > pork > > > chop!!! You don't have to slap a knob of butter on your vegetables. > > > > > > There is no way on earth I will eat margarine, let alone that rubbish > they > > > call Benecol. Another big con that, in a few years time, someone will > > > expose as being designed to earn the company that produces it massive > > > profits. > > > Roz > > > > > > > Jim, I have got to say straight away that this message was directed at > > > > BRIAN! > > > > > > > > You know how it is that you call someone "Slim Jim" when you mean the > > > > opposite > > > > > > > > Must confess I am on Benecol myself and don't find it any worse than > the > > > > other butter SUBSTITUTES, and I have the Flora Active ready to try > next. > > > > Doing my best. > > > > > > > > Do you reckon you can lose weight by eating this stuff and stay on the > > > same > > > > diet? Or do you have to count calories as well? I am fairly sensible > > > now, > > > > but would like to think these pro-active things are like Sacraments, > > they > > > > "work by themselves"! > > > > > > > > Marj > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Listen, Slim Jim. 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I Quite agree; a slice of fried bread with a fried egg on top............MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > I LOVE FRIED BREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 > > But you didn't see any on that plate did you? No! My life is RUINED! > > Marj > > > > > Who loves fried bread? > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow > Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Apology accepted ! My wife reminds me that we have been shopping at Morrison's for 32 years - apart from the 5 years when I was doing my missionary work in Merseyside !!! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: "davspark" <davspark@ntlworld.com>; <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > Oh no, it was Dave Allen who was always complaining, not Dave Spark! > > Marj > > > > Marj, > > > > Less of the aspersions about Morrison's.I know that it is a Yorkshire > based > > company but "downmarket", NEVER ! > > They get my custom every week ! > > > > David > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > >

Hey, that's great, Marj. And not like the damned irritating crosswords you usually send. I thought it was an igloo! Brian List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:46 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marged has sent you a digital photo! > Marged has sent you a digital photo! > > You may pick it up at the following address: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2005-6845-33072 > > Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or > copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. > ____________________________________________________________ > > Marged writes: > BRING ME THE HEAD OF ANGELA NICOLAU > > Photograph done by Photosuite > ____________________________________________________________ > > (Your photo will be available until Monday, February 04, 2002) > There is no charge for this service! > ************************************************************ > > SPECIAL COUPON OFFER (offer expires Friday, January 25, 2002) > Save $3.00 on PhotoParade E-Mailer! Just $9.99... click below: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/coupon.asp?code=EZ-EMAIL2 > > PhotoParade E-Mailer makes mailing digital photos easy. > * Send photos without messy e-mail attachments! > * Automatically resizes photos to fit on your screen. > * Photos can be seen in any web browser > > For more information about PhotoParade, visit us at > http://www.PhotoParade.com/ > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Suspect virus messages should be sent to the List Admin only, > NOT to the list, so they can be checked out before a panic starts. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

You want to get a cooker like that one of Angela's. You could have it in the back garden. Have sent you a picture of it. Marj You can guarantee to hear from a woman at the mention of money. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02

You can guarantee to hear from a woman at the mention of money. :-)) Brian List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean White" <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] cookers > Money? Is Brian rich? > > Jean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pamela Cotton" <pcotton@netcentral.co.uk> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:39 PM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] cookers > > > Brian, Why don't you try again now that you've won all that money this > afternoon? > > But it to something useful man! > Pam. > > > > I was waiting for Littlewoods Index to have their January sale. They > stock > > a table-top cooker with a sort of griddle surface, for about £70. When > the > > sale came on they were down to £45 - BUT THEY WERE OUT OF STOCK! > > > > Brian > > List Admin > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:29 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marj has sent you a digital photo! > > > > > > > Well, since you clearly don't need a 30 year guarantee, why didn't you > buy > > > one of those ELECTRIC frying pans? > > > > > > Keep on frying the eggs, and you won't have 30 years. > > > > > > Marj > > > > > > > > > > I bought a very expensive frying pan with a 30 year guarantee then > found > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 1/21/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

Billy Corkhill = Dean Sullivan. http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/neils/brookside/ Brian List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] TOM SLEME > Have just been watching a murder mystery documentary about the Julia Wallace > Murder (Liverpool 1921) and was amazed to see Tom Slemen in the program. > > He seems a nice young man, but I hear he is in trouble with the family of > the people (next door neighbour) he has accused of the murder. > > The narrator of this story is Billy Corkhill out of Brookside. Can't > remember his name. > > > Marj > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Visit List General Archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

Well that's delicious looking Marj mouth-watering - not possible here of course. I hope to indulge myself on arrival in London next month. Used to eat a Bengie's Builder in Earls Court Road - the works with unlimited coffee! Known locally as the heart attack breakfast. Mike --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.309 / Virus Database: 170 - Release Date: 17-Dec-01

Which programme, Marj? Brian List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] TOM SLEME > Have just been watching a murder mystery documentary about the Julia Wallace > Murder (Liverpool 1921) and was amazed to see Tom Slemen in the program. > > He seems a nice young man, but I hear he is in trouble with the family of > the people (next door neighbour) he has accused of the murder. > > The narrator of this story is Billy Corkhill out of Brookside. Can't > remember his name. > > > Marj > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Visit List General Archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

Has anyone seen the new keyboard with the USB slot[s] in it? They should be out by now and very handy for cameras and the like. Brian List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

Have just been watching a murder mystery documentary about the Julia Wallace Murder (Liverpool 1921) and was amazed to see Tom Slemen in the program. He seems a nice young man, but I hear he is in trouble with the family of the people (next door neighbour) he has accused of the murder. The narrator of this story is Billy Corkhill out of Brookside. Can't remember his name. Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02

Talking of green, my ex-wife bought a green swimsuit once. When she put it on she looked naked. Brian List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:34 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] WITCHES AT HALLOWE'EN > You just reminded me and set me off again. > > On Wednesday, Lucy noticed a mole on my face which is normally covered by my > specs. She thinks that if you have a mole on your face and it's green, you > may be a witch like the one in Snow White. > > Fortunately, mine is just flesh covered, but when she was looking at it in > the swimming pool, I said maybe one day it WOULD go green, and then I might > turn into a witch. > > She considered for a while, and then said "Grandma, you'll NEVER turn into a > witch, but if your lump goes green, I'll be the fairy and turn you back > again"! > > Ahhhhhhhh, sweet eh? > > Marj > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. > A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

I have sent you a new picture, not to be confused with the breakfast photographs. And don't say you didn't see this one Brian - you will be amazed. Done with Photosuite. Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/02

Well, persistence pays off. SmartCard Floppy Disk Adapter: £58 inc tax. Don't ask me how it works though, in theory it shouldn't. Brian List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/01/2002

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