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Post by Verbivore on Dec 19, 2014 21:06:54 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Jan 23, 2015 11:30:23 GMT
The allegedly wealthiest man in Asia is Li Ka-Shing.
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Post by Verbivore on Jan 23, 2015 11:47:45 GMT
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Post by Twoddle on Jan 23, 2015 13:32:23 GMT
Mr Ka-shing's company owns one of the four mobile-'phone networks in the UK and has just bought a second one.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 1, 2015 9:32:06 GMT
Not quite ND, but I'm sure the name is a bother to its owner.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services officer Neil Dover
I wonder: is he related to Ben Dover?
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Post by Bertie on Feb 3, 2015 10:25:32 GMT
Does he have a sister called Eileen? You know, the one who wrote the book (published posthumously) 'Cliff Walks in Britain'.
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Post by Verbivore on Feb 3, 2015 13:40:42 GMT
Does he have a sister called Eileen? You know, the one who wrote the book (published posthumously) 'Cliff Walks in Britain'. Bertie! LOL I'm sure that among ourselves here we could fill a separate thread with a collection of book-title/author jokes. I even had a teacher (my Latin Master, no less) who spent too much class time exchanging with us silly book title/author lists -- which we would later share with our whacky female French teacher. It was, after all, all about language -- in its own way, perhaps more a Cambridge Footlights approach than an Oxford Pedants. First one that comes to my memory is Spot on Wall by Hoo Flung Dung.
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Post by Twoddle on Feb 3, 2015 14:09:34 GMT
My mother's favourite one, back in those days of innocence, was Twenty Years in the Saddle by Major Bumsor
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 23, 2015 21:52:53 GMT
Discovered this morning: Ted Swab, an Aussie former nurse.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 23, 2015 11:47:28 GMT
True or not I don't know, but these were quoted on QI:
AJ Splatt and D Weedon -- urologists Amy Freeze and Larry Sprinkle -- meteorologists Will Drown -- life-jacket fitter.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 29, 2015 6:08:48 GMT
With the name Randy one is perhaps destined for trouble in the sex department: Miami Sun Times. And then there was the German psychoanalyst Karen Horney (1885–1952) – aptly named in this context – who argued that Freud’s penis envy notions were questionable.
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Post by Verbivore on Apr 29, 2015 6:49:01 GMT
The one person to be spared from today's government-sanctioned drug-related murders in Indonesia is perhaps aptly named Mary Jane Veloso.
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 29, 2015 7:12:22 GMT
[quote author=" Verbivore" source="/post/31534/thread" timestamp="1430290141" ... aptly named Mary Jane Veloso.[/quote] Don't get it. Does 'Mary Jane' have a meaning?
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Post by Alan Palmer on Apr 29, 2015 8:04:33 GMT
'Mary Jane' is a common slang term for marijuana.
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Post by Dave Miller on Apr 29, 2015 8:24:13 GMT
'Mary Jane' is a common slang term for marijuana. Thank you, Alan!
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