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Model lock - in London we have a belief that the past (empire, toffs, Sherlock Holmes) is inherently more valuable than the future. However the future cannot be avoided so we have to fudge it in like this.
The area of London (Bermondsley) where my grandfather was brought up and worked all his life is a good case in point. The orphanage he lived in is now a block of trendy apartments and the dock he worked is a yachting marina. This change was inevitable but we have a strange paradox in that we move the people out (who are the authors of history) and leave the building facades behind (that are the artefacts of history).
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In Italy too, and I think in most of Europe. Probably because we HAVE a history, while the colonies are pretty new historically speaking.
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One, who afraid of the future, can definitely avoid it...
And the past was ... in the past - "one who comes from afar, can say whatever wants"...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: so we have to fudge it in like this
No, you don't have to! Retaining a facade can be done well and there are many fine examples up and down the country. Planning committees should be much more insistent on the integration of facades into the new building, not allow them to be bolt-ons in this ghastly manner.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I would only reply, as did Bill (Gates) when challenged about appropriating product ideas, "you shouldn't show them to me." Those London facades are a spot-on metaphor for Microsoft Windows, grin. Using Microsoft products is like having a well-loved dog that unfortunately keeps biting you when you least expect it.
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Sorry for the delay, I had to deal with a soon-to-be-dismembered birdie and the cat...he wasn't keen on letting go...
Peas! Pelicans! Escape! Hold my camera? (6)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Does this animal have less than four legs?
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Animal?
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I have two, yes...and I make sure they reach the ground at all times when walking.
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Sorry, but no...
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Tripod
I'm not quite sure about the explanation.
Tri: Three terms
Pod: All of them are pods (pea pod, pelican beak?, escape pod / capsule)
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 you put a camera on a tripod.
veni bibi saltavi
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Ha, I opened the Lounge, the IT Director rocked up behind me, minimised the window, stopped talking to someone for 5 minutes, then I brought my browser to the front, solved, saw that I was 5 minutes late.
I cannot believe he's done me a favour - your go tomorrow.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I thought of a tripod immediately when sawing it but it took nearly ten minutes until I could explain it as non-native English.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: Pod: All of them are pods (pea pod, pelican beak?, escape pod / capsule)
Collective noun for pelicans is a pod.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thank you.
Note to myself: Always scroll down the site when looking up a word in the dictionary. A pod as in a school / flock / swarm of animals.
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And it sure has less than four legs! I didn't fancy setting it tomorrow. "Animal" was just obfuscation.
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Pea POD is obvious; a group of pelicans is a POD; you can often use an escape POD (but not in real life).
Three PODs, TRIPOD - hold your camera?
Well done - you are up tomorrow!
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TRIPOD
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Are you sure Jochen isn't your IT director? 
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Movie Quote Of The Day
You know, I can't help wishing you had inherited a little bit of his promiscuity.
Which movie?
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Rambo 1: Thirst blood
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