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    Real chips.

    News paper was softer than Izal bog paper but you had to scrunch it up into a ball to get an efficient wipe. Now chips always taste better when bought at the seaside I think.
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    burglar alarms going off

    Just a point about alarms I heard on the radio,(Jeremy Vine)it appears if you have an alarm fitted and go out without setting it and your burgled the insurance company won't pay out. I suppose the same applies if you have an old redundant one.
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    Win 7 question

    Has anyone installed the 3 machine license deal from Ms (£89) from the cd, Just wondered if both 32 and 64 bit install is a selectable option from the one cd. I have 3 machines 2 can have 64 bit but my older machine will need to be 32. Or will I have order seperate 32bit and 64bit cds (in...
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    Third World Clothing Collection

    Don't put anything in those bags that are posted through the door re use them as bin bags. I volunteer a couple of days a week for the local Hospice, we have unit not large we take in clothes furniture,basically anything. The clothes are sorted and the good stuff goes out to the shops and...
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    We need more people like this.

    Never saw Lightnings but loads of Hunters, Buccaneers,and Fairy Gannets all playing chase me down the valley at about 200 ft great days. :D
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    We need more people like this.

    Bet the septics wish they could get the shuttle up for£350, good vid though. I remember as a boy in west Wales early 60's we lived near Aberporth when they were testing Blue streak using Cardigan bay. A big whoosh vapour trail and a bang about 30 secs later. Bought my son a model rocket which...
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    We need more people like this.

    Good luck to them in their futures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfgOYsWnisk[/youtube]
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    Telephone Junction Box

    Erm not really what you have is a basic straight through conector, think of it as an 8 way electrical screw type block but punch down intead of screw. In other words what you connect on the left you get on the right. With punchdown it is recommended that 2 wires per terminal is max (using the...
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    master socket

    It sounds like you have an old piece of 4w connected, What you describe as brown is probably an orange the convention was Orange then Blue then Green then Brown. Orange was the A leg of the line Blue was the B leg those are the only ones that usually carry the line. The green and brown where...
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    The baseball cap

    Any one who feels the need to wear a hat in a car is without doubt a total dickwad, why would they need one is the roof not protection enough ?. If you see someone wearing a hat driving a car avoid them like the plauge because they will do something stupid, I sometimes follow them (at a safe...
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    At last they stir...

    So who do you think paid their taxes meekly into the system that enabled the MP's to get their university degree's for free. Probably you and your parents, so will the tax burden decrease because of these measures?probably not. So as a taxpayer wtf do I get for my money?sweet fa.
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    Speakers.

    Got a chance of some Accoustic Research speakers for free/ donation to charity, they stand about 4ft tall have what looks like 2 sub woofers at the bootom each, and various speakers running up bass mid range etc. 8ohm impedence (forgot to write down model no ) They are very big, I just...
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    The Bells! The Bells!

    Had a similar problem but was me and the next door neighbour on same frequency changed my settings little switch on back of unit and in bell push sorted, but the old girl down the road had a similar problem and it was water getting in the bell push and shorting out the contacts, quick squirt of...
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    Pope's visit, who cares?

    Nothing shows your faith in god more than a 3 inch bullet proof windscreen. Not my quote, heard on the radio or tele but quite apt.
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    Pope's visit, who cares?

    Ex Hitler youth, boy done good.
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    bt charges

    To be honest as ex Gpo/Bt that doesn't in the least surprise me,and is probably true. If you had water leaking underground on your property your problem,if your electric meter/consumer unit was covered in water your problem, if you have an internal gas leak your problem. I can however see a...
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    hypothetical moral dilema..

    In the early 70's worked for the MOD on a temp contract building glass fibre shields for Land rovers. The first weeks money payed in cash in the little brown packet came to triple what I was expecting, anyhow the chargehand came over and asked if the money was ok I said yes and he said right...
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    Airfix models..

    Best go for a specialist auction, catalouge them and send to auctioneer to get a rough value google it.
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    Airfix models..

    Have a look here. http://pws.prserv.net/gbinet.dbjames/
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    Airfix models..

    If they are genuine old ones, and unopened you sitting on a few bob.If they are the cheepo chinese ones a few quid each.
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