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- marger (121.45.39.104) - Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:30:05 +0100
He white washed it
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- Toxicological Jura (195.93.21.72) - Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:00:02 +0100
Ah but he complained ( wrongly) about getting painter′s colic .
You only get that from oil bound paints (Old ones at that .. lead based )
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- marger (121.45.39.104) - Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:38:01 +0100
Paint! It comes in a can and you use a brush. That′s about all my limited knowledge
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- Jura with brush (195.93.21.72) - Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:43:13 +0100
The one I am using now came ( years ago) in a pouch with a tube fitting.Originally it was fitted to a roller /pump sort of thing that was driven by two batteries .Never worked well .The rechargable batteries (Black and Decker) have long since gone phut.
As you say .. can and brush are best .
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:24:43 +0100
It was a real Heath Robinson affair .I managed to paint with it but(dl) after each use the whole thing had to be washed free of paint which was a hugly messy job.
Bah Humbug.
To do a useful job I feel I need help
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:37:49 +0100
Tom Sawyer was quite smart.Probem solved .
Or maybe I should say Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens
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- marger (121.45.39.104) - Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:36:47 +0100
Well, I finally think I have Beaten the Bird. A family of Murray Magpies live in the back garden and one has persistently attacked one half of the sliding glass door for months. Tried drawing the vertical blind half way across but it hasn′t worked. Think he can see his reflection in it. He flies from ground level, then from a plant pot. Yesterday noticed some marks on it, fortunately only dust, but it got me thinking he could pit the glass with his beak. Thought about it, then got some cream cleaner and covered the outside half way up. It dries white. Hopefully problem solved. This is a very friendly bird, hatched in the garden I suspect. When I sit outside quietly reading, he comes right up to me. I ignore him and he′s quite bold.
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:10:03 +0100
I was going to say teach it to say Pretty polly but(dl) that′s a Jackdaw not a Magpie .
Do you have Jackdaws Marger ?
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:41:28 +0100
On a perfectly serious subject for a moment .Linguists have shown that African Grey Parrots an amass a large vocabulary with basic grammar and use it in appropriate circumstances .I.e they can talk and not just repeat words or phrases a parrot fashion.
If they do have this quality why dont they use it in the wild ? It would seem that an area that brain is developed lingustically to a greater extent than in any other species except man but (dl) is latent . That to me does not seem to fit in with Darwininan logic
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- marger (121.45.39.104) - Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:35:01 +0100
Talking birds? We have the parrot family and budgieregars(sp) These birds imitate. We always thought it unnatural to teach a bird to talk. No Jackdaws here, Jura(that I know of) Reminds me of the poem "The Jackdaw of Riems" That′s interesting about the African Grey Parrot
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- Squawk (195.93.21.72) - Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:48:06 +0100
The Stephen Pinker brigade distinguish between imitating and constructed speech.
I dont follow it all that well but understand that using words more than as single nowns or single verbs . i.e. joined up speech is real speech rather than bird calls .The parrot family really seem to be able to do this with enough training.
Will search for the jackdraw of Rheims
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- Squawk (195.93.21.72) - Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:49:49 +0100
nouns
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:02:21 +0100
Ah Ingoldsby Legends and then plagiarised by lots of others . The Richard Barham version is a bit cynical about the clergy
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:48:34 +0100
Damn
Barham was the pseudonym of Ingoldsby (Sorry other way round)
Not had my coffee yet .
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:48:03 +0100
Available Spcless seems to be shrinking further !
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- marger (121.45.39.104) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:49:26 +0100
"Alice through the Looking Glass"
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- Jura (195.93.21.72) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:03:52 +0100
The Jaberwock
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- Anonymous (195.93.21.72) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:32:09 +0100
Hip hip hooray
Calloo caley
Look what we have come to slay
With dripping fangs
And razored teeth
And what a horird fetid breath
This nasty brutish Megasaur
That we told in days of yore
Would put the valient to the test
Ere they could overcome its might
Or face it in a mortal fight
Now buckle on your breastplates strong
And arm yourself with lances long
For if too near you chance to go
Its fiery nostrils all aglow
Will flame you in an instant dash
And leave you as a pile of ash
But if you spy its weakest flank
And thrust your spear with all your might
A mortal blow may then for you
Signal the winning stroke so true
This fiery lizard dead at last
Will make you champion of the host
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- Anonymous (195.93.21.72) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:34:31 +0100
verse 3
that we WERE told
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- Hamish McDogggerel (195.93.21.72) - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:08 +0100
Niblle nibble nibble
Said the caterpillar
Eat a little mushroom dear
Its taste is nothing you should fear
To the left you′re sure to grow
But to the right a minnie mo
You′ll shrink right down
Alice then in ′bedience true
(knowing not the awful stew)
That excess height was sure to bring
Ate a morsell far too big
( she awlays was a little pig)
And hit the moon
But as we know its made of cheese
That treats all pains and aches with ease
(Wensleydale the only type
To feed this grossly o′er grown mite
And so reduce her near to norm
Is now a neccessary boon
This tale from Lewis Caroll nicked
Is meant to tutor all who lick
Or chew , or nibble f′bidden fruit
(even just a tiny shoot)
Of things we are not meant to eat at all
In case they make us far too tall