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Prior to being renamed Gordonvale in 1913, the town was called Nelson. I was born in Nelson.

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I reckon it looks like a young Winston Churchill.

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It's time we gave Bukta a go.

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Steve1956 wrote:Still not right though is it,the winners not receiving the most money.

Well then! What more proof does one need to realise the game isn't all about the money?

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I forget.

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He once called me "the most stupid poster on this board" or something similar.
His judgement is usually spot on.

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We denied them 4 in 68/69 though. I'm sure you remember!

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One Night

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On the other side of the coin, there's a baby due to be born in the UK, who will be forced to be a US citizen even though he/she will be 7th or thereabouts in line to our throne.

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@mdd2
I started there August '60, and Hewitt was head. Noel B Stokes took over later in the year.

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They started up in Oz about 20 years years ago. Now they are "moving out" due to lack of customers.

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I'm currently in Manila, escaping the heat/humidity of Cairns at this time of the year. The other night, we got a cab home, distance on its GPS stated 1.61km to destination. That's 1 mile I thought to my clever self. Journey took 1 hour 10 minutes. As stated earlier, avoid Manila if possible. Consid...

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My worse half is a Filipina. She sends a lot, a very lot, from Australia to the Philippines. Cheapest way is Moneygram and can be collected within an hour. Downside is you need to know a lot of id of the receiver such as address and passport (photo id doc) number. You simply tell them your transacti...

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fifa said all players involved in any breakwaway league would be banned from international football including world cup, added to that what teams supporters would seriously enjoy severing ties with the current league ? Thinking back to Kerry Packer's "World Series Cricket" which started up in 1977....

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Regardless of his on-field ability, his off-field contribution to the club and the league as a whole has been no less than magnificent.

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That's good.

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Where was Tony Waiters that day?

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I've got 3 memories of Mr McIlroy: * He would always leave the ground from the carpark on Brunshaw Rd. Spotting this from outside the players entrance, I would run, dressed in my elder brother's hand-me-downs, to catch up with him. He always "so mild mannerly" and "gracefully" signed my scrapbook pi...

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It's "cannot" or "can't" you Muppit.

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Harrythomsonscap wrote:Wasn't there are Carlines down the side of the bus station

i'll second Carlines. Was by the bus stops on St James St near Palace and Wimpy Bar.

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Hipper wrote:I got my state pension this year. As I was contracted out for twenty years or so I get £142 a week instead of £163, ............

I last worked/lived in the UK in 1978. I get a UK pension of £57.48 a week. This amount stays fixed until the clogs pop, no increases ever.

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Is he any good at gardening?

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How delightful

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Yep! Ger it booked.

Draw away - lose at home. That only ever happens once every 50 years or so.

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Personally I'd feel safer with Joe Corrigan.

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CCM are currently negotiating a trial with Usain Bolt

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Apart from Blacklaw and Angus there's the "Aberdonian" train. Quite noteworthy when I was alive.

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ontario claret wrote:Being approached by money changers at the central Budapest railway station. I thought for sure that I was going to die.

Wait 'til you sample my wife's cooking.

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Once met dave mckay at a sportsmans dinner. He must have been 75 then. I wouldnt have messed with him even at that age and with bad knees. I met Dave Mackay once. In the pub after the Irvine/Gilzean hattrick game at WHL. He didn't play that day and was firmly established in the pub not long after t...

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I wasn't alive then, but the reports of Bob Lord's diatribe against the "Jews at the BBC" doesn't really sit well, especially when the holocaust would have been so much fresher in the memory Back then in them good old days when I was a lad and proper plain English was spoken, the word "jew" was com...

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Croatia all the way - one united ethnic group.

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Free chips at the Bell-Waldron then.

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One of the Thai boys. Already got dive training.

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As the saying goes "There's shight at the end of the chunnel, but we won't be playing them".

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My mum used to do 6-10pm at Platers & Stampers. I'm pretty sure she "made" trafficators.

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If I was a neutral, I'd be saying "England has nothing". As a keen wannawin fan I say "England hasn't got much". Today I feel as though my disappointment has been delayed for a few days.

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Hope he's got his shoe mended.

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Yes they have, BUT the variety of goods for sale in .au has been cut by about 80%.

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Hopeful bounce.

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........... but had some student type who's never Cooked cooking! .......... But not being able to make an edible sandwich fits into the same category. So a young lad (gender assumption) gets his bum out of bed to earn a bit of readies for himself. Well done that lad. He doesn't do a good job, so y...

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Thank goodness for the internet; without it I'd never know the score. Nothing about cricket on the Aussie news, only World Cup, Aussie Rules and Netball. And to think, all day yesterday I was bombarded with "Watch the Aussies put the POMs back in their place".

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Is it a normal business practice for UK companies to collect taxes/duties on exports on behalf of foreign governments? If “yes”, how do UK companies know they should do it? My reason for asking is that Australia, where I live, will commence charging GST (VAT) on overseas postal/internet purchases co...

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Mine feels sorry for Hublot. He's always getting taken off!

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I was going to say he's finally checked out, but he never made reservations.

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LeadBelly wrote:The Chelsea "give him a red" protests .....

Just one example of the disgusting behaviour on display from so-called professionals.

If one of these blokes (you can probably call them that if and when they grow up) was my brother, my mum would have sent him to bed with no tea.

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By the time you arrive at the hospital, the worst will be over. Lie back, actually on your side, and take a good look deep inside yourself.

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paulus the woodgnome wrote:It was some Indian guy, Harry Webb and The Shadows. Guess the song.

"The Shadows" were called "The Drifters" when Harry was a lad so I'll go with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQXL8wPsCE

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I don't remember it, but here goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCeMMWslhc

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Sadly Leicester usually manage to spoil our party !!

Not when I was a lad. We usually put 6 past them even though Banks was their keeper.

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There are some folks in this world that don't have much respect for Aussie cricket.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/ ... teve-waugh

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