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#1001 User is offline   Vanessa 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 01:49 PM

James Marsh, on Dec 1 2004, 01:40 PM, said:

johnboy, on Dec 1 2004, 01:14 PM, said:

Miss J, on Dec 1 2004, 01:10 PM, said:

Adam, on Nov 29 2004, 11:02 AM, said:

John - sorry to here about the CD's. Have never had a problem with the post-people, but maybe they are not into cook books?

I was reading not long ago that certain sorting centres in London have bigger problems with missing post than others. Unfortunately I can't remember whether or not your local was on the list, John.

Considering that the Whitechapel sorting office is one of the main ones for London it really wouldn't surprise me if it was a 'missing post' hotspot.

I just think that it is awful that you can't trust that your post will get from A to B because it might be stolen by the very people whose job it is to deliver it!

Whitechapel is indeed the very worst - see here.

At least it was only CDs though. I was sent a new credit card (which I wasn't expecting - my old one wasn't due to expire for another three months) which never arrived. I only realised when I got my next statement and found that someone had spent 600 quid in sports shops across London :D

Hey - look who the author of that article is :D

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authenticity is a fog that recedes just when you think you may be getting near it - R Schonfeld

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#1002 User is offline   GG Mora 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:00 PM

It's not just grey and cold and raining today, it's dark. As in, crepuscular at 9 in the morning. Doesn't bode well for us melancholics.
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#1003 User is offline   MyKong 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:26 PM

GG Mora, on Nov 29 2004, 01:00 PM, said:

It's not just grey and cold and raining today, it's dark. As in, crepuscular at 9 in the morning. Doesn't bode well for us melancholics.

It is raining here too. Was supposed to snow. :D Now it is just soggy.
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:38 PM

nerissa, on Dec 1 2004, 09:26 AM, said:

GG Mora, on Nov 29 2004, 01:00 PM, said:

It's not just grey and cold and raining today, it's dark. As in, crepuscular at 9 in the morning. Doesn't bode well for us melancholics.

It is raining here too. Was supposed to snow. :D Now it is just soggy.

Yes, well, there is pretty much here, no? :D
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#1005 User is offline   galleygirl 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:49 PM

GG Mora, on Dec 1 2004, 10:38 AM, said:

nerissa, on Dec 1 2004, 09:26 AM, said:

GG Mora, on Nov 29 2004, 01:00 PM, said:

It's not just grey and cold and raining today, it's dark. As in, crepuscular at 9 in the morning. Doesn't bode well for us melancholics.

It is raining here too. Was supposed to snow. :D Now it is just soggy.

Yes, well, there is pretty much here, no? :D

And here, too....and I have to actually go out in this, as opposed to beginning winter hibernation....

Luckily, I have those big, black, Wellies.....
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:54 PM

Leslie, on Nov 30 2004, 11:56 PM, said:

A pigeon pooped on my head today while I was taking my walk. :D


Reminds me of an important life lesson I once learned - do not look up at low flying formations of migratory birds.
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 02:58 PM

Orik, on Dec 1 2004, 02:54 PM, said:

Leslie, on Nov 30 2004, 11:56 PM, said:

A pigeon pooped on my head today while I was taking my walk. :D


Reminds me of an important life lesson I once learned - do not look up at low flying formations of migratory birds.

Especially if your mouth tends to open in awe :D
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:04 PM

Or if your nom de internet is Wilfrid. :D
“And another thing. You don't have to "move on" either. Not until you're ready. People say, Oh, you should be grateful. They say, Oh, it's time for you to move on. I'm like, What are you, a cop with a nightstick? I'll move on when I'm done playing the blues on my harmonica, thank you very much.

Really, people will tell you all kinds of garbage. Don't believe it.

You don't have to move on until you're ready.”
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:05 PM

Orik, on Dec 1 2004, 09:54 AM, said:

Leslie, on Nov 30 2004, 11:56 PM, said:

A pigeon pooped on my head today while I was taking my walk. :D


Reminds me of an important life lesson I once learned - do not look up at low flying formations of migratory birds.

...and carry wet naps at all times.
It is better to have beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
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#1010 User is offline   Adam 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:15 PM

Just received some information on the origin of my surname. Traced back to the 14th century of Tartar origin (Turkish language), it derives from

- wait for it -

"salt-cured slice of fish"

Just call me Dr. Kipper.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born,
and sets a food discussion site?

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:23 PM

Adam, wish you've asked me - it'd have saved you all the hassle of the research :D
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#1012 User is offline   Adam 

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:34 PM

No research on my part, it was just sent to me. Well the mixed Tatar/Slavic ancestory explains a lot.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born,
and sets a food discussion site?

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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:48 PM

If your ten minute subway journey takes an hour, be sure to be wearing clothes soaked through by the torrential rain. :D
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:52 PM

Wilfrid, on Dec 1 2004, 10:48 AM, said:

If your ten minute subway journey takes an hour, be sure to be wearing clothes soaked through by the torrential rain. :D

Taking the subway to GCT for a panroast?
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 03:55 PM

Being told by the Passport Agency agent in Norwalk, CT that my daughter's birth certificate was not sufficient because it didn't have a raised seal one day after another agent in Stamford, CT told me it would suffice.

Now back to the Town Hall in Greenwich, CT to get a copy with a raised seal.
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