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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 5:12 pm

Nice try. But the person shouting "Order! Order!" Is a friend of Brussels so he'll be fine despite the chaos he has encouraged.

BTW is Belgium on that map? I am told I've been a few times but I don't recall. It doesn't have any personality to remember.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 7:20 pm

You mean, you've not been to Waterloo? 


that spy on the Willingdone from his big white harse, the Capeinhope. Stonewall Willingdone is an old maxy montrumeny. Lipoleums is nice hung bushel- 
lors. This is hiena hinnessy laughing alout at the Willing-done. This is lipsyg dooley krieging the funk from the hinnessy. This is the hinndoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy. Tip. This is the wixy old Willingdone picket up the half of the threefoiled hat of lipoleums fromoud of the bluddle filth.
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 7:34 pm

You mean, you've not been to Waterloo?
Nah, St Pancras.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 7:36 pm

You mean, you've not been to Waterloo?
Nah, St Pancras.
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 8:37 pm

There is no life outside M25.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 8:40 pm

There is no life outside M25.
OK, who then is the patron saint of soccer? 
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 9:55 pm

There are no saints in soccer. Only sinners.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 10:16 pm

There are no saints in soccer. Only sinners.
St. Mirren.

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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 11th, 2019, 11:58 pm

"Saint Mirren" is an oxymoron.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 15th, 2019, 6:44 pm

"Saint Mirren" is an oxymoron.
Not quite. 'Mirren' is not evil.

Examples of word play include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, double entendres, and telling character names (such as in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Ernest being a given name that sounds exactly like the adjective earnest).

OK then, which football team in England or Scotland has the best educated players?
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 15th, 2019, 10:40 pm

I never said Helen Mirren is evil, but she's not a saint either.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 15th, 2019, 10:59 pm

And the notion of a European professional sports team being well educated is awkward. While big money US college sports is rife with abuse, most American professional athletes actually do have a university degree, whereas finding a European pro football player with a degree is like finding a very unusual straw in a hay stack. So, I have no idea.
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 16th, 2019, 7:54 am

And the notion of a European professional sports team being well educated is awkward. While big money US college sports is rife with abuse, most American professional athletes actually do have a university degree, whereas finding a European pro football player with a degree is like finding a very unusual straw in a hay stack. So, I have no idea.
Hamilton Academicals started as a school team

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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 16th, 2019, 7:32 pm

Now for some humour

Revived Stormont Assembly could help resolve Brexit impasse - NI Secretary

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0916/1076126-julian-smith-meeting-dublin/

Brilliant
 
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Re: Brexit - the last 50 days

September 16th, 2019, 11:52 pm

And the notion of a European professional sports team being well educated is awkward. While big money US college sports is rife with abuse, most American professional athletes actually do have a university degree, whereas finding a European pro football player with a degree is like finding a very unusual straw in a hay stack. So, I have no idea.
Hamilton Academicals started as a school team

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I was going to make some snide comment, and then realized that I have actually only heard of about approximately four Scottish football teams, so may not be all that qualified to address the details. But I did read somewhere that they were unique, as in the only British professional sports team with academic roots. Or something to that effect.