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In the vain hope.... Is it ethical to buy a Mexican Strat?

There's a clue. Whoever is The Chair thinks that talking about guitars qualifies as a ~SERIOUS~ discussion. I will shortly be entering the Drawing Room to launch a discussion about 1950s Tri-Ang dolls houses.

Shorty, I tried too, but here you are dealing with the celebrity worship generation.

Shorty, About a year ago I uploaded a photograph of what is supposed to be the East Dulwich ARP team. Is your Dad in the photo? Photograph here. MacRoban

This book - Blake L, Red Alert: The Story of South East London at War, 1939-1945 - published about 25 years ago is a local historian's view of trying to make sense of the deception. I believe Mr Blake lived in Beckenham and had noticed that Bromley and Beckenham had a disproportionate incidence of V1 impacts (far more than East Dulwich). As for V1 accuracy: ram-jet guidance was pretty rudimentary in 1944. I still have a nagging suspicion from examining a plot map of actual impacts and spurious impacts reported back to the Germans that the German re-targeting of V1s moved from the West End and North West London 5-10 miles South-Eastwards towards the Pas De Calais.

Chapter 8 "Crossbow: The Flying Bombs June-December 1944" in Volume 5 of of "British Intelligence In The Second World War: Strategic Deception" edited by Michael Howard covers in detail the subject misleading impact reports sent to the Germans. Details of book here...

I thought I was on topic. I will try to explain. The absence or restriction of supply of phosphates as inputs to fertilisers will make "organic" the default option thus reversing today's relationship between organic and non-organic. As we move towards this position it will temper Marmora Man's statement: "If money's the question and you simply need enough protein and carbohydrates to subsist - go for the cheaper, non organic, option.".

Get Out Of My Life Woman - Allen Toussaint

Peak phosphate/phosphorus will be more serious than peak oil. Agricultural output per hectare will start slipping backwards to 1880s levels even with extensive GM modifications to crops. Morocco has about a third of the world's reserves of phosphate. No doubt the People's Republic of China will discover WMDs in Morocco and lead a coalition of the willing. Edited: for slip of the finger

There was a tram switch-man's hut on Goose Green next to where the roundabout is now. He changed the points. May also have had some local responsibility for sorting out (tram) shoes caught in the conduits. The Goose Green junction around the tram rails was built with oak blocks surfaced with tar/pitch.

Sandperson: > Did you not see? Last week it was. There was police tape up and everything. William rose was devastated and in Liquorice several cocktails were spilled. Well perhaps Sandperson didn't have relatives or family friends involved.

No need to be coy: you can name the one, two, many people.

> Penguin68 Today, 11:43AM > Sandperson Today, 11:59AM Neither funny. MacRoban

VAT gets interesting when it comes to very low value purchases. Hundreds and thousands are liable to standard rate VAT at 15%. A strict reading of the VAT legislation means that: [A] the sale of one hundred and thousand at one penny including tax incurs a VAT liability of one penny, the sale of one hundred and thousand at one penny excluding tax incurs a VAT liability of one penny. Not many people know that. Edited: to remove the stupid B in parenthesis smiley Admin has implemented.

This book has the plans.

Bah! It don't work.

Another thread insulting the old of East Dulwich.

Never mind, Fuschia. Even relevant threads get lounged sometimes. MacRoban

I hope this article in The Times is incorrect.

Tonight my vote goes to Karla Bonoff.

Good man.

Prompted by the death of Harry Patch I'm re-reading my copy of The Wipers Times. The Wipers Times was written by members of the "officer class" and not by Tommies like Harry Patch. Underneath the satire lies the repeated failures in supply-chain logistics. The failure to supply the front-line troops with the equipment they needed.

For tonight only my vote goes to the amazing Annie Crummer. A little information here - but the discography is incomplete. If you get the chance hear her performance on the Netherworld Dancing Toys "For Today".

> It's just a cultural thing, you guys grew up in UK thinking starting from around 2 is the right thing to do. If so, only for the younger generations. In the 1950s you got worried if your child wasn't "clean" by 15 months.

> I'd make sure I looked good so I could get a very rich husband who could pay for things. That won't work in East Dulwich.