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Bankers are expert in silk ties - as anyone who'd tried to borrow $100 million wearing a machine-washed and ironed silk tie would soon discover. They are trained to sum up a person from coiffured crown to leather soles in just thirty seconds.

Pristine, genuine, real silk ties.

The pudding shall set you free!

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mick Mac Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > "There is a strong possibility that the Q4 > > figures will be cocked cooked up," Revised.

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL9000 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > Silk tie - virtually impossible to iron back to > > pristine condition. > Mind you, you did use the catch-all..."virtually"....damn! > > *abruptly stops laughing* Hahaha. Yes I did, didn't I! > Seriously, [cringe-inducing washing details snipped]. Good as new every time! No chance! The silk will have lost its shine and the tie's beautifully rolled edges will have been ironed flat. It might look OK to you but it wouldn't fool an expert - sorry.

brum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks K You're not reading the forum whilst driving down the motorway, I hope?

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Noone told me the numbers were only draft. 'Fraid so - read all about it > British economy crawls out of recession, with bare 0.1 per cent growth

computedshorty - don't let it bother you. I believe you are who you say you are, I'm sure the majority do too.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hal - did not the IMF say Britian would take much > longer to come out of recession than it has? They > just don't want to admit when they are wrong so > they throw in a double dip warning. The warning was published on 18th January. Anyway, 0.1% is small enough to be accounted for by rounding errors. It's small enough to be reversed when the revised figures are published in due course. The fact that we are in an election year with a former Chancellor serving as PM is enough to raise my suspicions about the accuracy of that figure. I'm still hedging my bets.

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I do - every week...but not one jot of difference > does it make... How often have you fallen into a pile of poo, then? In case you've missed my point: many Mediterranean, Middle-Eastern and Asian cultures associate accidental contact with poo as a prelude to good fortune. > > - haven't you seen Slumdog Millionaire? > > I have - and for what it's worth I thought it was > utter tosh ...totally lacking in substance and > utterly bereft of entertainment (in my extremely > humble opinion)...vastly over-rated. The point being that Jamal fell in the poo prior to becoming a millionaire and winning the love of his life, Latika - although I'm not sure whether Danny Boyle grasped the symbolic significance of the poo sub-plot as the original story was written by an Indian author.

tonyw3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL9000 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > I can't believe for one moment that the > producers would have sacrificed a finger from each > hand of the Simpsons merely to save a few cents. Well, the standard for cartoon 'fingers' was set by Walt Disney and here is what he had to say about it: "Leaving the finger off was a great asset artistically and financially. Artistically five digits are too many for a mouse. His hands would look like a bunch of bananas. Financially, not having an extra finger in each of the 45,000 drawings that make up a six-and-one half minute short has saved the studio millions." > > Or, perhaps, it's God's way of encouraging us > > to adopt a base-10 maths system for some reason we > > have yet to fathom? > > As for the base-10 theory, this could have some > Android logic behind it as you would no doubt > appreciate. Actually, I mentioned God because, as I'm sure you've noticed, He is the only Simpsons character drawn with four fingers and a thumb (except in one episode which was explained as an ?animation error? ? although many religious fans continue to believe it was the work of the Devil).

I don't want to pour cold water on Mick Mac's parade but... IMF head in 'double-dip' global economy warning

Ha ha ha - if that had happened to me I'd be playing the lottery like mad - haven't you seen Slumdog Millionaire? Καλή τύχη

As if they don't have enough problems overcoming infantile penis envy without one?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We're not robots Present company excepted, presumably?

silverfox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lynn had suffered from ME for 17 years... > Unable to speak ... she called out to her mother ... > ummmmmh ... something not quite right here. Someone unable to hold a conversation may still be able to vocalise an utterance meaningful to his or her carer?

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone have any comments to make about the > fact in the first para I was describing white > middle class SE15 and the second paragraph I am in > what's fondly known as 'Little Africa' and the two > children and their respective adult carers I > witnessed pissing had black skins? I'm not sure if this adds anything probative to the discussion, but the practice known as "open defecation" is still the norm in much of sub-Saharan Africa (and South East Asia). The practitioners consider it natural, normal behaviour.

Whatever you're on, can I have some?

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... it was a case of poking around with a broom handle > to loosen the gunge and then sticking my arm down and > phyically removing as much of it as I could. It > was a foul job, it ponged like hell...absolutely > ruined my fingernails...and I needed a bath > immediately afterwards. You should save this post in case we have a "How did you choose your screen name?" thread in the future.

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL9000 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > (I sincerely hope you're using an automatic > > online HTML Encoder) > > Actually, no I'm not (you sound serious all of a > sudden)...does it matter? No, it's just that the encoder does it all with one click. > As you well know, I speak fluent Greek! I didn't realise you were that fluent - I thought you just knew a few phrases. I'm impressed. > Thanks for the link though, > but to be honest, so deficient is my pea-brain > that it has absolutely no chance of working out > what to do with such a tool. Just cut and paste the Greek text into the encoder's input box, click 'Encode!' and then cut and paste the encoded text from the output box into the Forum's post message box - voila! I know it sounds complicated but it's a lot easier than cutting and pasting the code for each letter one at a time (if that's what you're doing). How are you doing it, anyway? "κυρία βόρβορος" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Σας ευχαριστώ εσάς αγαπητέ ρομπότ. Είστε ευπρόσδεκτοι, βόρβορος κυρία. (I sincerely hope you're using an automatic online HTML Encoder)

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > However, I have bookmarked it and now use it to > cut and paste from Habile sabots!

I read somewhere that the Simpsons were designed with only three fingers and a thumb as a cost-saving measure because it is cheaper and quicker for the animators to draw the cartoons that way. Apparently, that decision has saved the producers a fortune over the years. As for why we have four-plus-one - we inherited them from an ancient ancestor species that probably acquired them through a random but ultimately useful mutation. Or, perhaps, it's God's way of encouraging us to adopt a base-10 maths system for some reason we have yet to fathom?

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "are progressive policies necessarily a good thing?" In a world desperately seeking stability, perhaps not. On the other hand, progress towards greater stability might be. Hmmm.

Ladymuck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL9000 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ... According to Jill Treanor, Deputy City Editor for > the Guardian, anti-avoidance measures are being > introduced with immediate effect ... How many times have we heard that only for some bright spark to drive a coach and horses through the legislation? I'll believe it when I see it. My bet is that HM R&C will be fobbed off with some piddling token tax payments while the real payouts vanish into a black hole; just like all the other money did - it's what banks are good at. > Perhaps the Government should ... make it virtually > impossible for banks ... to ... avoid taxation ... Ha ha ha. The government still hasn?t figured out what happened to all the western world's money in the first place - they don't stand a chance. > ? ? > (Incidentally how did you manage to include the > cedille and accent circonflexe in your post? Well, in this case I just cut and pasted them from another web page because I wasn't sure of the spelling but one can code them by hand with reference to HTML Special Entity Codes.