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A late night/early morning laugh.

The makers of Maigret

Simenon and Rupert Davies

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Texting for Seniors

ATD At the doctor’s

BTW Bring the wheelchair

BYOT Bring Your Own Teeth

CBM Covered by Medicare

CUATSC See You At the Senior Center

DWI Driving While Incontinent

FWB Friend with Beta Blockers

FWIW Forgot Where I Was

GGPBL Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

GHA Got Heartburn Again

IMHO Is My Hearing Aid On?

LMDO Laughing My Dentures Out

LOL Living on Lipitor

LWO Lawrence Welk’s On

SGGP Sorry, Gotta Go Poop

TTYL Talk to You Louder

WAITT Who Am I Talking To

WTFA Wet the Furniture Again

WATP Where Are the Prunes

WWNO Walker Wheels Need Oil

GGLKI Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking In

Graham Hill

Fot those interested in F1 there was a fascinating review of his life and career on BBC 2, last night. It is available on i-player. He was one of my idols. I saw him race in the 60’s.

You want a guitar solo – watch this!

Eric Clapton

You are thus warned.

I have decided to put in for graduate school in the Netherlands. If successful, I will likely travel to both the UK and Portugal.

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again, learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Cicero – 55 BC

Some equal rights are more equal than others.

Oh, this is a right pain in the bum! After several incidents in which Christians who ran beds and breakfasts were told that they had no right to control who frequented their establishments; to be more precise: even if they only wanted married, heterosexual couples to sleep in their houses their desires were “bigoted” and “illegal”, there is no concern are self-pity because “gay hotels” are now being investigated for discriminating against heterosexual couples. It is also not a stretch to imagine that there will have to be investigations about the rights of women to stay at any establishment they choose are being infringed upon! Is one to infer from this that some rights are more equal than others?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8335716/Gay-hotels-investigated-for-breaching-equality-laws.html

Right, then. I need to hope that no one in San Francisco reads this as I would become an object of ridicule.

Enjoy – 3

Did you play space Invaders?

A long time ago Alan Coren published what I thought was a very funny article parodying the use of computer technology by a national newspaper. The piece Coren wrote for Punch was about the use of a newspaper database supposedly used at The Guardian newspaper, or The Grauniad as it was known. How ‘The Guardian’ became called ‘The Grauniad’ is the stuff of urban legend.
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