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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on February 13, 2009, 10:47:14 AM
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So Mrs Nick loses things all the time, especially watches. She wants to borrow my watches but two are heirlooms so the only one I let her use is the left handed one (which drives her nuts point:).
So I thought I would buy a watch for her for V Day. Nothing pricey as she will lose it.
Bought one online (a Swatch) and then got an e mail saying I could track its progress at DHL. I had a peek and am now transfixed. It has just been picked up in Lugano (!) apparently and will be flown to Scallypool. I expect a pantchnicon will turn up outside later with one tiny box in it rubschin:
At least it's DHL and not TNT. Mrs Nick was frightened of TNT lorries for a long time before I explained to her they weren't full of explosives (I kid you not!)
Just checked:it's airborne!
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When hospitalised in Paris I asked Mrs S#2 to DHL me my passport (that she had returned to the UK with) + some clothes, cash etc.
DHL "lost" the parcel, sending to to Paris via Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Madrid. Fortunately a nice French Matron from the Local Amex Office called in with some cash for me (Mrs S#2 had also managed to be robbed of my Amex card en route back to the hotel) and undertook to "Sort ZE DHL" and by golly she did. The parcel arrived one hour before I was due to be med-evacced back to the UK so I did have a passport to get me on the train.
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So it's going to be a Christmas present then noooo:
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Likely tunble:
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So Mrs Nick loses things all the time, especially watches. She wants to borrow my watches but two are heirlooms so the only one I let her use is the left handed one (which drives her nuts point:).
So I thought I would buy a watch for her for V Day. Nothing pricey as she will lose it.
Bought one online (a Swatch) and then got an e mail saying I could track its progress at DHL. I had a peek and am now transfixed. It has just been picked up in Lugano (!) apparently and will be flown to Scallypool. I expect a pantchnicon will turn up outside later with one tiny box in it rubschin:
At least it's DHL and not TNT. Mrs Nick was frightened of TNT lorries for a long time before I explained to her they weren't full of explosives (I kid you not!)
Just checked:it's airborne!
You have a thing in your family about heirlooms don't you Nick noooo:
Still a very nice thought and I'm sure Mrs Nick will appreciate it cloud9:
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My other 2 watches were both my dad's. Both presentation ones and inscribed. One is older than me and both werk perfectly. I wouldn't let her near them!!
I found the cordless phone in the fridge this morning eeek:. SHe must have finished a call while putting something in there noooo:
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My other 2 watches were both my dad's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuDYbnXBJQ
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DHL says it's landed in Scallypool. So that's the last I shall hear of that then evil:
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Just how much are you paying for this watch Nick?
Transport costs alone are getting silly.
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Delivery is included in the price!
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It's a swatch why on earth is it coming from so far away?
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Delivery is included in the price!
I realise that but to run a delivery van out from Scallypool airport is not cheap even for a small item. Ergo the cost of the watch, including delivery, must be more than it would cost you to buy a Swatch from Argos ~ who do sell them!
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I guess they are made in Switzerland shrugs:
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Delivery is included in the price!
I realise that but to run a delivery van out from Scallypool airport is not cheap even for a small item. Ergo the cost of the watch, including delivery, must be more than it would cost you to buy a Swatch from Argos ~ who do sell them!
Argos, you say? rubschin:
doh:
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It's a swatch why on earth is it coming from so far away?
Possibly ~ and I'm only saying possibly, because his willy needed the exercise. ;)
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http://www.buyaswatch.co.uk/index.php
Banghead
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Gosh
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http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Browse/ID71/12109237/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CJewellery+and+watches%7C12109210/c_2/2%7Ccat_12109210%7CLadies%27+watches%7C12109237.htm
284 to choose from Banghead
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This online shopping lark is trickier than it looks. Tesco have brought my shopping. Turns out the mussels were on some 2 for 1 offer. I have enough mussels to feed the whole of Birmingham
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This online shopping lark is trickier than it looks. Tesco have brought my shopping. Turns out the mussels were on some 2 for 1 offer. I have enough mussels to feed the whole of Birmingham
Invite friends round whistle:
I like mussels
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Ever heard of Mrs Gantry?
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Elmer's mother?
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Character in a play by NF Simpson. The family always bought too much food and employed Mrs Gantry to eat the surplus. I see she was played in the film by Peggy Mount
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Ever heard of Mrs Gantry?
I knew her son, Crane... whistle:
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Character in a play by NF Simpson. The family always bought too much food and employed Mrs Gantry to eat the surplus. I see she was played in the film by Peggy Mount
Different movie then
Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published by Harcourt in March 1927.
Adaptations
* A Broadway play by Patrick Kearney opened on August 7, 1928 at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. The cast included Edward J. Pawley (later of Big Town fame) as Elmer Gantry and Vera Allen as Sister Sharon Falconer.
* The 1960 film of the same name starred Burt Lancaster as Gantry and Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer.
* A 1970 Broadway musical adaptation titled Gantry opened and closed on the same night.
* In November 2007, an opera by Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein premiered in the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville. New York Times article on new opera
The basic story is:
The novel tells the story of a young, narcissistic, womanizing college athlete who, upon realizing the power, prestige, and easy money that being a fundamentalist evangelist can bring, pursues his "religious" ambitions with relish, contributing to the downfall, even death, of key people around him as the years pass. Gantry continues to womanize, is often exposed as a fraud, and frequently faces a complete downfall, yet he is never fully discredited and always manages to emerge triumphant and reaching ever greater heights of social standing.
There were calls to ban it in the States and threats to imprison the author
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This online shopping lark is trickier than it looks. Tesco have brought my shopping. Turns out the mussels were on some 2 for 1 offer. I have enough mussels to feed the whole of Birmingham
It will normally tell you if things are on some sort of an offer you plonker!
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I smote her ::)
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I smote her ::)
For stating the obvious or for telling you that Tesco point out the special offers like?
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Because he's a plonker.
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I smote her ::)
For stating the obvious or for telling you that Tesco point out the special offers like?
For being a smartarse
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Enough of this idiocy - I will have a crisis tomorrow and need advice.
Do I tell the Post Office not to deliver the mountain of cards for me tomorrow (saving the postie a hernia) or do I let them/him deliver? If I let them, I may not be able to clear the mound inside the front door in time for the rugby. Wojafink?
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Of course they should be delivered - just make sure you don't get too many paper cuts when opening them all up.
You will just need to ensure postie gets there early tomorrow and not the usual saturday lunchtime slot. Should give you plenty of time then and I'm sure, as a regular customer, the postie will be more than happy to oblige.
Personally I'm gonna find a sandpit to stick my head in til all this nonsense subsides cry:
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Enough of this idiocy - I will have a crisis tomorrow and need advice.
Do I tell the Post Office not to deliver the mountain of cards for me tomorrow (saving the postie a hernia) or do I let them/him deliver? If I let them, I may not be able to clear the mound inside the front door in time for the rugby. Wojafink?
Tell postie to throw them over next doors hedge. You don't need the hassle of all those wimmin desperate to smother you in warm lard whilst you are watching the rugby.
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If tomorrow turns out anything like last year I shall be confused: followed by rubschin: followed by scared2:
and if it gets to that point, I'll be simply followed by ....
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Personally I'm gonna find a sandpit to stick my head in til all this nonsense subsides cry:
happy100
Just for you
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Dunno what the problem is whistle:
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Love the avatar Snoops lol: lol: lol:
Having a good day are you ;)
Thanks DS cloud9: - hope you didn't spend too much eeek: - apparently Asda do one for 7p !!!
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Thanks!
Thought an appropriate avatar would cheer the old place up ~ having a wonderful day so far but the rest of the family are getting up now so I guess it's downhill all the way from here on. ::)
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Love the avatar Snoops lol: lol: lol:
Oh ffs. ::)
You a MAN or a bloody lovesick teenager? sick2:
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Love the avatar Snoops lol: lol: lol:
Oh ffs. ::)
You a MAN or a bloody lovesick teenager? sick2:
lol: lol: lol:
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Just because Morrisons haven't done a Valentines Cake with Marzipan and stuff you get all grumpy.
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I got a bottle of whisky. Which from where I'm sitting is the perfect Valentines pressie. cloud9:
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Love the avatar Snoops lol: lol: lol:
Oh ffs. ::)
You a MAN or a bloody lovesick teenager? sick2:
Just because Morrisons haven't done a Valentines Cake with Marzipan and stuff you get all grumpy.
Can't be doing with all this sloppy luuuurve stuff, I really can't. noooo:
I find it totally embarrasing tbqavvvh. redface:
CAKE? cloud9: Correct. Morrinsons have stopped making my cake until later on in the year, bloody bastards.
Asda are still doing the crimbo cake slice though, AND it's been reduced by 10p to £1.89, yum yum. cloud9:
How long before the dreaded Calamity kid comes in here bragging about his latest one that he's making? ::)
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I am making a cake today
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When he gets round to making a Quiche I'm outta here! 8)
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Mrs TMR (to be)'s card.
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Mrs TMR (to be)'s card.
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You sentimental old romantic. ;)
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Mrs TMR (to be)'s card.
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Does this mean you're (cough) fully functional again?
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I suggested to The Boy (mischievously) that he might get a card for his newly beboobed GF. NO WAY angry041:
He then said he might get one for 'Katy' rubschin:
Never heard of her. rubschin:
I said, 'OK, go to the shop and get one then.'
He insists that I must buy it as he doesn't wish to explose himself to public ridicule by being seen buying such a card noooo:
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Wonderful! My two are the same.
The older one has "discovered" girls but won't admit to it. The younger one calls them all "Kissy girls Yuck!"
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He insists that I must buy it as he doesn't wish to explose himself to public ridicule by being seen buying such a card
Probably he's right.
You are, after all, very much accustomed to public ridicule.
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I well remember the day when I suddenly noticed that girls had legs eyes:
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He insists that I must buy it as he doesn't wish to explose himself to public ridicule by being seen buying such a card
Probably he's right.
You are, after all, very much accustomed to public ridicule.
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I well remember the day when I suddenly noticed that girls had legs eyes:
That'll be the day they started treating you as a doormat would it?
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drumroll:
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Is it me or does that look rude redface:
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Really? rubschin:
It's the heart nebula.
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Or it's a pair of lips smoking a cigarette
or it's redface: redface: redface:
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Take more water with it dear.
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Valentine's day is a time for a couple to affirm love, lust and undying commitment. We did that, we also got hanging drunk and had a lovely curry.
Your, utterly tramped from Surrey xxx
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And how are your bollox?
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Is it me or does that look rude redface:
Just look heart shaped to me, or am I just too inocent? confused:
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shutup:
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And how are your bollox?
Sore at times, but still fully functioinal. The soreness is a result of nothing more than lying the wrong way during the night, thus crushing the old fellas a bit. So far, I am 16/50 for test purposes...
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And how are your bollox?
Sore at times, but still fully functioinal. The soreness is a result of nothing more than lying the wrong way during the night, thus crushing the old fellas a bit. So far, I am 16/50 for test purposes...
Portugese hand pump holding it's own so far then ey? lol:
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And how are your bollox?
Sore at times, but still fully functioinal. The soreness is a result of nothing more than lying the wrong way during the night, thus crushing the old fellas a bit. So far, I am 16/50 for test purposes...
Portugese hand pump holding it's own so far then ey? lol:
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Valentine's day is a time for a couple to affirm love, lust and undying commitment. We did that, we also got hanging drunk and had a lovely curry.
Your, utterly tramped from Surrey xxx
In plain english does that mean a guaranteed bunk up rubschin: