Allyson Bailey
@Schlep3
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@ShappiKhorsandi That's what makes the rest of us despair, I think: not that he has a fascist following but the number of otherwise decent people who can't see what a dangerous clown he is.
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@RevRichardColes My dad was roasting a whole one once when we heard "BOOM!" He hadn't pierced the skin so it exploded, leaving us with eggplant guts all over the oven & a perfectly clean, dry zipped open skin.
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@JosephBottum @simon_schama A student of my father's once wrote the immortal sentence, "There were many rogues in rhe 18th century, such as Rogues Pierre".
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@ShappiKhorsandi Not so much a word as a usage: when people say XXX "will inform our decision".
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@RevRichardColes I love the food hall--more as a tourist sight than somewhere to actually shop!
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@RevRichardColes For years one of my dreams has been to spend some time BTS at a tv or film production, I love all those camera tracks and key lights and what-not!
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@simonmontefiore As an American who has lived in the UK for decades I always find it interesting that there is no moment when British tv is NOT showing something about either the Tudors or WWII. The 2 periods they seem to be totally obsessed with.
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@simonmontefiore Rylance has that perfect Holbein face and made Cromwell so much more 3 dimensional than the "bad guy who destroyed the monasteries" image that we usually get. I suspect the real man wasn't as likeable though!
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@realnzall @qikipedia That was in Herodotus,though I can't remember which (Persian?) king was supposed to have carried out the experiment.
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@Ofgem, @neso_energy Don't reduce the payment to customers for joining saving sessions--surely you need to give people a proper thank you for saving energy & taking so much pressure off the system #SaveTheDFS
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