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Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 20 Jul 2014, 15:22
by airboatr
Airspeed wrote:While I have your attention, Joe,
Why do they teach sofa mores in US universities, don't the kids know how to behave on a couch?
indeed Mike, they act like fresh men.
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kids,....... youth is wasted on the wrong people.!
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 20 Jul 2014, 21:45
by emfrat
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 00:18
by nigelb
Airspeed wrote:While I have your attention, Joe,
Why do they teach sofa mores in US universities, don't the kids know how to behave on a couch?
They are not wise enough to know! σοφός μωρός , it's all Greek to me.
Nigel²
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 14:31
by Airspeed
nigelb wrote:.......
They are not wise enough to know! σοφός μωρός , it's all Greek to me. Nigel²
Nige♪,
Forget about the Daleks, that was a Corinthian model 3:18 I just saw. Duck!
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 21 Jul 2014, 17:01
by airboatr
oddly enough, moderate consumption of beer (alcohol) is memory booster.
, Mike.
have one
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 12:01
by Airspeed
Is that why blokes remember the words to "There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean" when they've had some?
On the subject of memory, I once knew a bloke who said that the last can in a slab of 24 was put there to remind us to buy another slab.
Sorry Eric, this hijack of your post is unkind.
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 23 Jul 2014, 03:48
by airboatr
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G.K.C.
Cheers
Re: A True Aussie Mike?
Posted: 23 Jul 2014, 10:32
by emfrat
airboatr wrote:Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G.K.C.
Cheers
My late Dad always referred to Chesterton as 'Geek' Chesterton...and that was in the late 1950's, when a small computer was a big as a three-storey building, and nerds and suchlike hadn't been invented yet
MikeW
