My dear Lady Angela, If it was called "Charles or something" it most certainly would be LORD Charles or something. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angela & Kostas Nicolaou" <titina23@spidernet.com.cy> To: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk>; <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Photo > another guess Brian, > > A ventriliquist's dummy called Charles or something ? > > angela > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

The only Radio 2 programmes I listen to are [1] the one which gives the free pens. Don McLean is an old pal [and he gives out the free pens] and [2] the Lost Friends programme [I can't remember what it's called] by Steve Wright [I think}. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk>; <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] 26 May Trivia and Happenings > Brian, I suspect that this is not strictly true. I suspect you of listening > to some programmes on radio 2. We listen to it on Sunday evenings, and > Sunday afternoons. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

We all know your feelings about people YOU regard as perverts! However, Brian, I think you are right to bar this person from walking in to your home uninvited. Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

My neighbour has fallen out with me. He returned the screwdriver he borrowed and [not smoking] walked in as though he was a friend rather than a detested weirdo. "What are you doing", he asked. I replied, "Whatever it is it is no concern of yours and please don't think that because you borrowed a screwdriver that makes us friends. Now, if you will excuse me, I am busy and need to get on". This is the neighbour with wardrobes full of women's dresses, etc. Makes me shudder. Pam knows my feelings about these perverts. Where are you, Pam? Still asleep? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

Brian, I suspect that this is not strictly true. I suspect you of listening to some programmes on radio 2. We listen to it on Sunday evenings, and Sunday afternoons. Mostly we have Radio 3 (the old Third Programme) on in the car, and in the house too, and hear some of our favourite music on there. Switch it off when they get too "modern" (modern classical music hasn't come in to its own yet) Marj > > Because I go to bed early I switch off Radio 4 even though it is the only > radio station for me, just because of that programme. The theme tune even > winds me up. Radio 1 is for idiots kids, Radio 2 is for frustrated > housewives, Radio 3 is for the classics and Radio 4 is for people with > brains, except for the Archers. You would think they'd have the decency to > take it off now and give us all peace. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I didn't dare to ask! Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean White" <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] 26 May Trivia and Happenings > I see my hand slipped. It was 47 years ago not 400+. Must just seem that > way. > > Jean > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

I had hoped to have been able to send you a photo of my friend today because there was supposed to be a photo shoot yesterday but all didn't go according to plan. Never mind, you won't be kept waiting too long now. And, although sometimes a second wind is needed it is not for blowing up rubber. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

He wasn't Welsh, was he? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: Blow up dolls > Yeah, look what happened to Gary Glitter. > > Jim Sharpe > Shaw, Oldham, UK > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jean White <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:01 AM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: Blow up dolls > > > Wes has the Sayings of Khomeini. Sinning with sheep seems more acceptable. > > Do you suppose thats why? or maybe they are wolf decoys. > > > > Jean --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

My neighbour just knocked to borrow a screwdriver and he followed me [uninvited into the house while I looked for it. After he left, leaving an invitation for me to "go and look at his computer" which I declined, I realised he had been smoking. How can these disgusting people inflict their disgusting habit of us all after all the publicity. It is the first [and most certainly the last] time anyone has smoked or will smoke in my home. Dirty people. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

I thought that was last night. Some foreigners won it, did't they? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] TONIGHt > Don't forget the Eurovision Song Contest - I'll be out! (Thank you, Lord) > > Marj > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

Yes, Jean, it's still as boring as ever. Because I go to bed early I switch off Radio 4 even though it is the only radio station for me, just because of that programme. The theme tune even winds me up. Radio 1 is for idiots kids, Radio 2 is for frustrated housewives, Radio 3 is for the classics and Radio 4 is for people with brains, except for the Archers. You would think they'd have the decency to take it off now and give us all peace. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean White" <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] 26 May Trivia and Happenings > Is the Archers still going. We used to listen to it on CBC Radio at > lunchtime 487 years ago. My Grandmother never missed it. > > Jean > > 1989: The BBC broadcast the 10,000th episode of the daily radio serial The > Archers, with Terry Wogan as a guest. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

Strange - I tried to download that too, and I did have problems similar to Jim's last week, if you remember! Teach us to download stuff we don't know about! I got mine direct from the other list, Angela, so I am not blaming you. Marj > > That programme I recommended was sent to me from someone on another list who > is usually very reliable. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

Who won? Marj > I watched it as usual, never miss it, ha ha i know how much you like it > Marged ! > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I saw one fragment when during the local natural break when a couple who resembled a latter day Anne Zeigler and Webster Booth sang. Terry Wogan quipped, "I suppose there's something to be said after all for advertisement breaks. Actually we got off rather easily, I'm told he also plays the accordion. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 3:08 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] TONIGHt > Don't forget the Eurovision Song Contest - I'll be out! (Thank you, Lord) > > Marj > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Double your drive space - delete Windows! > > ============================== > 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 > >

Yeah, look what happened to Gary Glitter. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean White <jphwhite@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: Blow up dolls > Wes has the Sayings of Khomeini. Sinning with sheep seems more acceptable. > Do you suppose thats why? or maybe they are wolf decoys. > > Jean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 10:36 AM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Re: Blow up dolls > > > You browse some funny stuff Dave - aren't you afraid of all these little > implants on your computer? > > Marj > > > > Of course I may be completely wrong ; it may not be a blow up doll. > > There are far more entries on Google for inflateable sheep than there are > > for dolls !

I do understand how hard it can be, and extra stress doesn't help any... If you can quit, it does get easier over time... It took me over a year to completely get past the urges... Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. -----Original Message----- From: jan [mailto:janis.burns@ntlworld.com] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 2:03 PM To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] smokers George ,my husband stopped smoking 3 months ago ,I stopped for 6 weeks and started again ,will be trying to stop again soon but with my Dads health problems it is difficult. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Elting" <justgeo1@attbi.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:33 PM Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] smokers > Being allergic to cigarette smoke does make it easier to enforce that rule, > but I'm also an ex-smoker... Quit in 1969 after smoking 3 packs a day... > Went cold turkey and haven't had one since... :) > > > Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. ==== 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

The Archers is still going and in this mornings Mail on Sunday there is a interview with one of the past writers who has just written a book named "Humbridge" which is about it. The present editor is a feminist who he said has turned it from a country village into a suburb of Birmingham. She intruduced a Asian lady solicitor who in the course of a couple of weeks was so thoroughly integrated that she was carrying indian sweetmeats into the cowshed. The editor also introduced a new black character who married one of the established cast, they had a child but no mention at all was made of colour. She also would have no mention of the troubles about hunts until forced to. His point being that village life just isn't how she wants to portray it. It was slipped in that she is also a lesbian. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK

Oh well, that ruins my vacation plans........I'm a smoker too. Sue* ----- Original Message ----- > My neighbour just knocked to borrow a screwdriver and he followed me > [uninvited into the house while I looked for it. After he left, leaving an > invitation for me to "go and look at his computer" which I declined, I > realised he had been smoking. > > How can these disgusting people inflict their disgusting habit of us all > after all the publicity. It is the first [and most certainly the last] time > anyone has smoked or will smoke in my home. > > Dirty people. > > Brian --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/24/2002

Thanks! Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. -----Original Message----- From: Marged [mailto:marged@btinternet.com] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 1:51 PM To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! This is the link, George > > > > You may pick it up at the following address: > > > > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2069-8060-49853 > > > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== When there's a will, I want to be in it. ============================== 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

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