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> London Babylon. What should I have called it? Oh Gawd, is it Christmas again already?

>I'd be interested to know what the response rate from the letter send out was If the letter was from the CEO and the donations are made to the Charity then shouldn't that, in principle, be impossible to find out?

> Although if I was a 15th century peasant and someone showed me the internet and lighting and that it wouldn't > take much to convince me I had witnessed a genuine miracle. That wouldn't make it one tho would it? Nah, same old universe. Totally commonplace. If you can buy it in Argos and switch it on, it's nuffink special, innit?

>guys there is nothing in the Torygraph magazine apart from the usual interesting recipes and wine reviews, over-priced >'fashion', interior design and this weekend, an article on 'Big hair, small egos' and the confessions of a monkey smuggler >.... Is the naked woman emerging from the sleeping bag on page 16 of Seven definitely airbrushed? Looks like it to me from the thumbnail, even without my magnifying glass. http://dailytelegraph.newspaperdirect.com/screenprint/viewer.aspx

> http://resize2mail.com/ Which on first trial I prefer to imageshack. More options too, including custom sizing, cropping and rotating. A page got stuck a couple of times in an unresponsive state and needed a quick reload, but it was generally very easy to use. It returned jpeg files smaller so probably a bit more compressed than my originals, but with no obvious loss in picture quality; a gif file slightly bigger; and it retained all colours.

>quire 2 (kwr) >n. & v. Archaic >Variant of choir. Still battling on. Try a search on quire with, eg, chapel, church, or prayer.

From the live departures board, it looks like buses only between London Bridge and Tulse Hill. http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/s/ldbboard/dep/EDW I see that the London Bridge-Victoria service replacement bus is also scheduled to call at East Dulwich.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Professional+or+amateur+burglars+will+break+into+your+home%2C+if+there+is+an+opportunity.+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

A number plate theft here. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?28,533146,533682

If it were Saturday's, they've a free chocolate offer to add to the temptation, and an 'intimate encounter' with Jilly Cooper. For Sunday, all they can offer, according to their promotional email, is the ability to claim a ?5 Body Shop voucher.

>I don't know if you've seen the letter in question I haven't, and I don't feel able to make any judgment without having done so.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reminded of me when I was 17 and the bishop of Liverpool came to speak to my sixth > form. He said that those without faith couldn't have any morality. I stood up and shouted BS > accross the room...and then recounted everything bad (since as far back as my knowledge of history > would allow at that time) bad in the name of religion, finishing with Northern Ireland, as it > was the 80's. 'Is that what you mean by morality' I asked. The headmistress hung her head in > embarassment.....and the bishop? Well let's just say he wasn't expecting that. David Sheppard?

Medley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh that's why I saw one in town yesterday. That was probably for the unveiling of the Sir Keith Park statue. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,532662

Yes. There was a bit of a recording with him on Parkinson that was played on the radio recently - might be here http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/sir_keith_park - in which he expressed the opinion that we (ie our air defence) were a week away from defeat when AH switched to civilian targets.

You could have half-followed Alan Coren's example and made it Hoovering for Cats. Or even that of those operating systems providers who give a different animal name to each release ... Hoovering for Hedgehogs, Hoovering for Frogs, Hoovering for Au Pairs, ...

Thank you. :)

I've trawled through all of the website and still have no idea of the choir's repertoire.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Property marking kits reduce burglary by around 80%. You place a sticker at each potential door > and window entry point so burglars know they can't fence any of the valuable. James, where does that figure come from? Do you have a reference to something I can look up? And what happens to burglars who ignore the sticker on the door?

I've not recently seen them collecting from blue boxes, but I've got the impression from seeing lots of filled ones that the plastic+tin vs glass distinction no longer applies. Is that so? Many boxes now seem to use no divider, and the stuff still gets collected.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://imageshack.us/ I've just tried it. It looks a good quick fix if you're happy with one of their pre-selected sizes, and no need even to register. Remember to view the _full-size_ version when the upload's done, then you can right click on that to copy its location for pasting in your forum ad.

Al&Em Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pasting it into a word doc usually works. But Word documents just add to bloat, surely. I use irfanview on a PC for all resizing. It's easy to install and use. http://www.irfanview.com

Matthew, there's a world of difference in style between your first two posts and the ones that look more like bad 'advertising features' of the sort that used to (? still do) appear in papers. If yours weren't genuine, you have skills that would be of value to a conman or MI5 operative.

I noticed a slight variant last week: two posters each starting with an initial innoccuous and symathetic follow-up post -- "Oh, I sympathise, the same thing happened to me once" kind of thing" -- which might go to establish them as good guys and belongers, followed a few days later by a more self-serving OP in their own thread. One now seems to have been disappeared. The other's involved in a more ambiguous scheme, but there's enough information about for buyers to beware.

binary_star Wrote: > take a look at the latest government data, specifically the graph on p. 15 here: > http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai/hbai_2009/pdf_ files/full_hbai10.pdf Which is a 242 page 1.2MB PDF file of Households Below Average Income: An analysis of the income distribution 1994/95 ? 2008/09 from the DWP. I'm attaching a copy of page 15.

>Erm, it's a place to lock your bike for a short period of time. What additional functionality do you want? I was questioning whether it's needed at all, if the post is already there.