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2 minutes ago, Parr8hed said:
CDs?
Ja, they’re these things for reproducing musicke with some kind of fidelity, relative to the other things that came later, but that only matters to people with good hearing, like. ?
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3 minutes ago, jsharr said:
Nature's way until the serpent talks you into stealing an apple off the tree, the don the fig leaves post haste ye must.
I has a fig tree out back, it self set in the wall about 6 feet up, right behind the soil stack, been there about 4 years or so, it is still puny: but I’ve seen these growing out of walls lining our rivers and streams here in Sheffield, and they can get to quite some size, some cut down in riverbank maintenance last year had trunks more than a foot across at the base emerging from the wall. This poo pipe is cast iron and will be broken when this sapling fig reaches its teens, and the sheot will hit not the fan, but the wall above head height, down in the garden, where I mess with my wood, so you see my dilemma, don’t you, similar to the cat in t’adage, I would have the figs, but I would not like the sheot shower.
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13 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said:
We had a car that the kids named "Parp".
I do something quite frequently that I call parp, it isn’t car related though <whistle>?
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1 minute ago, JerrySTL said:
I have an old Pioneer 6-CD player. It's strange as you have to put the CDs upside down in the cartridge. The silver side is up.
I have an original model Musical Fidelity CD player with valve (tube to you chaps) output stage, it still sounds stunning even against way later and more expensive kit. Using a NAD currently though, which has mod cons, like a remote control <lazy boy listener here, folks> ?
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6 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said:
I get it! but only because our kids subjected us to the Americanized version of this cartoon.
We had a car that the kids named "Parp".
It’s good to be got ?
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7 minutes ago, petitepedal said:
The price was right!!
My tuner was a bargain this week at a tenner, but you’ve beaten that ?
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8 minutes ago, Longjohn said:
I had a breakfast stout for lunch. Is that allowed?
A loud what? Belch following it? If people drink English breakfast tea in the afternoon, I think you’re ok with your stout at luncheon, john ?
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1 hour ago, Tizeye said:
Bought when stationed in Great Britain in 1986 and still ride today. A little large for me as I have shrunk a couple inches in the 20 years, but still rideable as the topbar doesn't stretch me out like newer geometries for that size bike. Worst thing I did was build new wheels (Mavic Open Road Pro on Chorus hubs) which took away my excuse to get rid of it. Had some closeup photos which have published here before but can't find them. Not where they should be in the "Bike" folder. Reynolds 531c frame, Campy downtube shifter and rear detailer - upgraded with wheels to 9sp Centaur from original Campy Triophe 6sp. The rest is more generic of the day. Here are a few photos I did locate.
I do have the original toe clips in the 'junk box' in the garage...but the leather straps (no nylon back then) has long since rotted.
Nice bike and post, the leather toe straps are still available new if you wanted to restore btw.
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Nude sunning and swimming at the beach and ocean are great - only done it once at a public site, though, that was in Torquay, South Devon, but times aplenty in secluded and lonely spots, inland lakes and rivers, too, home and abroad, it’s nature’s way.
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Could be out climbing tomorrow, though officially I’m retired from it. Ring Cycle part t first from t ROH Covent Garden will be my evening sorted, Sunday no plans thus beyond watching Lewis win in Mexico to wrap up the F1 title for this season, t last day of the month to a gig in towne that I’m excited about, the Ligeti Quartet, so all good stuff, a couple of live rugger matches on tv, too, that I never mentioned, Ha, quite the list.
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My latest kitchen gadget is a simple earthenware pot, the same humans have been making and cooking in for millennia, I seriously doubt it had ever been cooked in before I bought it for 2 quid in a charity shoppe, more the sort of thing they make and sell for room decor, these days, more’s the pity, for upon my wood stove it works beautifully, ameliorating any peaks or troughs in the fluctuating fire, and producing very fine dinners indeed. As in so many other things in life, Thom, it’s more about what you know and experience, than it is about fancy kit and gadgets. YMMV
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<just so much eye roll here>
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Not I, though I do have bikes with some of those things, eg the down tube shifters, but I did away with floppy cables for the modern versions, frame wrapped, did away with floppy brakes again just for ones that actually brake, you know? No more toe clips either, so for this reason I cannot enter the retro events on my Kirk Precision, which is a great pity, there are few of these about, and it deserves to be seen by the many, since when I’m out on it it allus turns heads and sparks interest.
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Q. Why have elephants got big ears?
A. Because Noddy won’t pay the ransom.
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n00bie?
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Where will they stow their now legal stash to keep it dry?
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11 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:
That it a good question why they have a dual moniker.
Etymology
The name "chickpea" traces back through the French chiche to cicer, Latin for "chickpea" (from which the Roman cognomen Cicero was taken). The Oxford English Dictionary lists a 1548 citation that reads, "Cicer may be named in English Cich, or ciche pease, after the Frenche tongue." The dictionary cites "Chick-pea" in the mid-18th century; the original word in English taken directly from French was chich, found in print in English in 1388. In neo-latin (modern Italian) it is known as a "cece" (CHAY-chay) in the singular, and "ceci" (CHAY-chee) in the plural.
The word garbanzo, from an alteration of Old Spanish arvanço, came first to American English as garvance in the 17th century, being gradually anglicized to calavance, though it came to refer to a variety of other beans (cf. calavance). The current form garbanzo comes directly from modern Spanish,[9] and is commonly used in regions of the United States with a strong Mexican or Spanish influence.
Thanks for that Ralph. Probably the best chicks I’ve ever had are the ones in Spain sold in jars, these are Mexican peas btw, also sold dried widely where I’ve travelled in the south of Spain.
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Looking great, pal, I love the stuff. Surprised to see you name those things chickpeas, I thought you called em garbanzos? And I do pity your bedcovers, and sympathies to them, and the cat. I soaked some puy lentils last night, they’ll be going into the slow cooker presently, and a casserole will be ready by supper time.
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3 hours ago, KrAzY said:
Yes.. her fat fingers grabbed the cookies without her making any words with her mouth.. she stole my cookies damnit
So, you saying if her fat mouth had first axed your leave you’d have allowed her fat fingers on your cookies?
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You need to pull those up, mate. ?
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Great stuff, keep them coming.
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15 hours ago, pedalphile said:
I agree with your last comment here, yes, it really is the only way to go with OJ, anything other than freshly squeezed is a waste of time. Fresh OJ with whisky, with gin or with vodka, delish. I also agree with those who say, eat the orange, just eat the bloody orange: actually, blood oranges, my absolute favourite orange of all, will soon be in the shoppes, one of the good things that winter brings ?
Rum, how could I forget rum? It’s probably best of all with rum, dark, strong navy rum
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5 minutes ago, Always Zipped said:
Just stating facts. These hard working people often do the work other host citizens don't want to do. Fact is, our state alone is now having trouble harvesting the fields because of new policies. Oops. Now I have done it. This thread moves to the P&R.
No mate, you’re good, you didn’t mench the G word, or touch on religion, that’s what gets a thread shifted before the ink has time to dry on it - 12 string’s post re his Mom’s Christmas vows being a very recent example.?
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57 minutes ago, 12string said:
What about Kirby's feelings about how the rest of us feel?
What about RG showing a bit of respect? HaHa, who am I kidding.
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New to me.....
in The Café
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No, I answered your query re CDs, though if I had meant records, which are an audiophile’s medium of choice, I would be saying the same things about them and the alternatives that followed, of course.