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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Graham." wrote in message
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http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc34.htm
Not too far from a place called Little Lever.
When I was young I wondered why the internationally
known pop-star who sang "The Locomotion" would
name herself after a small place near Bolton ;-)

Ahh, childhood misapprehensions. In infant assembly we sung 'There is a
green hill far away.' The headmistress had the absurd name of Miss
Greenhouse and I assumed we were singing a song that would somehow
magically make her 'far away' -- which I saw as being a common good. Later
we should have chanted "Hallowed be thy name . . " but since the Prime
Minister was Harold MacMillan we always said "Harold be thy name . . ". It
seemed reasonable to pray to such an important man. (Many years after this
I was to work for Mr MacMillan's nephew, who told me amusing stories about
him. In return I told him how we would pray to his uncle, which bemused
him.)

I can't remember if this was infants or junior, but the teacher was reading
a story aloud to us, and one of one characters was a "Would-Be Thief"
I had never encountered this concept before, I could only imagine
this forest inhabiting insect with Magpie like tendencies

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Questions about new channels on Freeview
 

On 5 Mar, 23:18, Sofa - Spud wrote:
Tony wrote:
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:32:59 +0000, Joseph opined:

In French we also have J'ai vu (I saw.....) which is close to 'ja vu'

hmmmmm... "I have seen" would be a closer translation.

Do theyb have * ******** I've seen this three times this week!*

Yes, but it's for some reason spelled Film4

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Mike wrote:
On 5 Mar, 23:18, Sofa - Spud wrote:
Tony wrote:
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:32:59 +0000, Joseph opined:
In French we also have J'ai vu (I saw.....) which is close to 'ja vu'
hmmmmm... "I have seen" would be a closer translation.
Do theyb have * ******** I've seen this three times this week!*

Yes, but it's for some reason spelled Film4

Indeed - I see they re showed Independence Day on Saturday, is this
because its all digital now - they can show stuff loads of times before
it wears out :)