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Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> I say, "Good morning mr magpie where's your wife"

> then wink. Don't really know why.


I forgot, I have to say something similar on the third greeting...''Good morning Mr Magpie, how's the wife and kids?''



MrBen Wrote:

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> And when there are two together...what's your

> tack?


Nothing for two, but if I'm with someone and I see one Magpie, then I say ''One Magpie seen by two, double good luck to me and you''...apart from Magpies, I'm very rational...honest!

red devil Wrote:

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> Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I say, "Good morning mr magpie where's your

> wife"

> > then wink. Don't really know why.

>

> I forgot, I have to say something similar on the

> third greeting...''Good morning Mr Magpie, how's

> the wife and kids?''

>

>

> MrBen Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > And when there are two together...what's your

> > tack?

>

> Nothing for two, but if I'm with someone and I see

> one Magpie, then I say ''One Magpie seen by two,

> double good luck to me and you''...apart from

> Magpies, I'm very rational...honest!


Good morning Mr Magpie, how's your wife and family, I'm sorry they can't be with you today.....

???? Wrote:

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> People's basic missunderstanding of probablility

> leads to some pretty stoopid believes. My uncle

> has 10 grand children his first 9 were girls, just

> before his 10th was born (a boy) he was saying to

> me "what are the odds of this one being a girl eh

> must be 200,000 -1!?" er, no uncle ,Evens


Down four generations, there's only been one girl born on my father's side.


My Great Grandfather had two boys, my Grandfather had two boys, my Dad had two boys, his brother had two boys and the anomoly, my Dad's brother's anomoly had two boys, her younger brother had two boys, her other brother hasn't had kids, my brother has had a boy and i've not had kids.

MrBen Wrote:

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> A cabbie recently told me I've been doing it wrong

> as I'm supposed to say "Good morning Mr Magpie".

> Seems he does it too and once won ?220 on the dogs

> because of this.



Ha and how much did you win at Newbury MrB.

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I walk under ladders whenever possible. I think

> science has proven that you are less likely to be

> hit on the head by a dropped tin of paint if you

> do so.



What if the ladders collapses and you get a builder on top of you ?


Still go round :)

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Feathers ahead of you would appear to rule out a

> feathered stalker...


Unless the stalker had already worked out their quarry's regular route and laid down the feathers accordingly...

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> A lot of people seem to believe that a brand or

> designer label says something about you. (It says

> you're an idiot.)


Bollox - all that money Quids has wasted.

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