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lovelace
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: This could be your life |
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www.councilworker.blogspot.com
Check this out - and be really grateful you do the job you do! |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: |
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What are we supposed to be reading exactly ... there are pages of the stuff and the title does little to tempt one into thinking it might be worth a read ...
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| For everyone who works for local or national government and who need their voices to be heard. |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| there are pages of the stuff |
Maybe you need to develop your reading skills. Ever heard of scanning?? The title obviously tempted you enough to open it.
The point was, there are so many whinges on this forum (mine included), but occasionally it hits you that life's a lot more boring in other places.. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Reminds me of Dignity by Deacon Blue
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There�s a man I meet walks up our street
He�s a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never seems to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a sunblest bag
The children call him bogie
He never lets on
But I know �cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He�s gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her dignity
And I�ll sail her u
p the west coast
Through villages and towns
I�ll be on my holidays
They�ll be doing their rounds
They�ll ask me how I got her I�ll say I saved my money
They�ll say isn�t she pretty that ship called dignity
And I�m telling this story
In a faraway scene
Sipping down raki
And reading maynard keynes
And I�m thinking about home and all that means
And a place in the winter for dignity
And I�ll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I�ll be on my holidays
They�ll be doing their rounds
They�ll ask me how I got her I�ll say I saved my money
They�ll say isn�t she pretty that ship called dignity
And I�m thinking about home
And I�m thinking about faith
And I�m thinking about work
And I�m thinking about how good it would be
To be here some day
On a ship called dignity
A ship called dignity
That ship
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I always did wonder why a Scottish 80s pop band was drinking Raki though. |
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lovelace
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| A Deacon Blue song taught me the word 'gloaming'. What a great word. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:59 am Post subject: |
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On the topic of crap Scottish bands. Have you seen the red nose comedy relief video with the Proclaimers.
I don't like it |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| Do they still have red nose day? The Proclaimers aren't crap. |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| there are pages of the stuff |
Maybe you need to develop your reading skills. Ever heard of scanning?? The title obviously tempted you enough to open it.
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What on earth are you talking about ... I clicked on a link ... I saw a title with bad grammar ... I continued and read ...
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| It�s Easter Monday and I�m relaxing. Ok, I�m also catching up with my blog but I�m still relaxing and having a great day. The sun is shining and I�m in the garden with the kids. Hubby is doing some labouring around the garden (he can�t do gardening so he�s restricted to labouring for his better half � me). |
I thought wtf .. this is 5hite .. I gave up ...
Your students don't have the luxury ... but in the real world people make decisions about what they choose to read ... put that in your scanner and copy it ... |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, 'cos I can see you've got loads of better things to do with your day |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:21 am Post subject: |
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I'll side step the attempt at a bit.chy remark ...
By right clicking on your mouse you can open a new window ... or if you have tabbed browsing it's even easier to visit several pages at onece ... I'm actually reading a few rather good articles about the search for Alexander's tomb ...
Popping one's nose into a cafe doesn't mean you have to sit down and occupy a table all day ...
Stick that in your scanner and copy it |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:29 am Post subject: |
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| The Proclaimers aren't crap. |
Without cheating, can you spell where the Reid brothers are from? I can't. |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Er, Fife? |
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dmb
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| I was looking for the answer 'Auchtermuchty ' I cheated. |
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justme
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| Hehe. Good one lovelace. Reminds me of when I worked at the US Census, except we were the swing shift and games were locked off the computers which couldn't access the Internet anyway. Good thing there was that hippie who brought special brownies... |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| I wish we could have had 'special' biscuits when I worked for the health service in England. One time there was an agenda item at a budget meeting to discuss what kind of biscuits we should have at meetings! Apparently the custard creams were too expensive. |
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