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I was thinking of starting off a thread on this whole subject , but I couldnt be arsed . I thought someone was going to do it quite soon anyhow .



I must admit to being a bit partial to the 1992 Genesis masterpiece "Fading Lights " from We Can't Dance .... a nod to the days of Trick Of The Tail and Wind and Wuthering .... nice .



Fish Out Of Water by Chris Squire .... now theirs a good'n

Eliza.D Wrote:

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> Last nights curry for breakfast. Chicken Dansak,

> bombay potato and nan bread.



Now Eliza, how do you keep the nan bread good for the next day? I always find it's gone hard.


My guiltiest - Olivia Newton-John's Banks of the Ohio and a drunken Rustler

dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Evaporated milk.

>

> The House of Eliott.


Lol, I used to love House of Elliot too. I think it was all the art deco sets and the amazing clothes - love the 20s and 30s.


And evaporated milk with tinned fruit cocktail was a real treat for afters when I was a kid, mum had to make sure me and my sister both got a glace cherry or one of us would be unhappy

  • 3 months later...

Oh God..... The X-Factor auditions....


I know, I know, I hate myself.


Every year I promise myself I won't and then MrJ is out and I think I'll just have a quick look and the next thing you know it's the end of a disappointing day in London and Simon's already stormed out once, because it's all just too bad, and then the last audition of the day... it's a cheeky, shy-looking, primary school teacher... the judges aren't expecting much...but what's this? He's brilliant! Simon gives him a standing ovation and tells him it's the best first audition he's EVER heard... And I'm crying....


I am so ashamed.

annaj Wrote:

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> Oh God..... The X-Factor auditions....

>

> I know, I know, I hate myself.

>

> Every year I promise myself I won't and then MrJ

> is out and I think I'll just have a quick look and

> the next thing you know it's the end of a

> disappointing day in London and Simon's already

> stormed out once, because it's all just too bad,

> and then the last audition of the day... it's a

> cheeky, shy-looking, primary school teacher... the

> judges aren't expecting much...but what's this?

> He's brilliant! Simon gives him a standing

> ovation and tells him it's the best first audition

> he's EVER heard... And I'm crying....

>

> I am so ashamed.


Anna - heroin addiction/slight recovery/addiction/recovery of some sort/recovery but always chasing the high.

Anna, I'm not saying that's better than X-Factor. No not at all. Nor that it's any more socially productive.

But you never bastard well know, do you?

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