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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Well... a certain person clearly didn't take my

> advice on board, because they've now been banned!

> I guess that's one way of solving the problem.



poor poor Dulwich Doll, we shall miss her ..... :-S


or have I gotten the wrong person again ?

what gets me is how you all seem to know who has and has not been banned ? there is no list so i can only presume that by grassing up to admin or running to admin on masse (playground habits no doubt) you recieve a reply to your mulitude of complaining emails letting you know that action has been taken and calming you down. Then no doubt you pm all your other friends in the playground and feel somewhat empowered.


DulwichDoll return soon and lets get on with stealing their dinner money again !!

oh, don't be a silly billy AllforNun


Admin put a post up saying so, for all to see.

so no conspiracy theories needed at all...


Wrote:

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> what gets me is how you all seem to know who has

> and has not been banned ? there is no list so i

> can only presume that by grassing up to admin or

> running to admin on masse (playground habits no

> doubt) you recieve a reply to your mulitude of

> complaining emails letting you know that action

> has been taken and calming you down. Then no doubt

> you pm all your other friends in the playground

> and feel somewhat empowered.

>

> DulwichDoll return soon and lets get on with

> stealing their dinner money again !!

Not at all Daizie, the first is a spontaneous burst of music hall based on your moniker, the second is the vulgar wersion we used to sing as children.

I think in the second the implication is that our heroine is 'on the game', though I never realised this when singing it as a nipper.

Of course I am not implying anything about you or your profession.

Brendan Wrote:

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> That's not nearly as rude as some of the versions

> we used to sing as kids.


Actually Brendan I once overheard some of the servant's children singing a version which made me blush to my roots and burst into tears. When Mama demanded to know why my lacey collar was all wet I told her.

Within minutes Stebbings the butler had escorted the scullery maid, her husband the odd-job man and their four children off the premises. They were directed to the nearest gutter and told not to ask for references.

My father blamed my mother for "allowing servants to marry and breed on the premises".

I often wonder what became of them.

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