erbs....herbs???
Oct 16th 2006, 3:56 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Thydney
If I recall he took the name Attaturk (Father of the Turks) as previously they didn't have surnames and he wanted to modernise Turkey, he also banned the wearing of the fez as he deemed it a symbol of how Turks were viewed as stupid and backward.
It was a hell of a queue in the kebab house
It was a hell of a queue in the kebab house
Oct 16th 2006, 3:59 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Rushman
I bet he hated Tommy cooper than!!
Oct 16th 2006, 4:09 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Thydney
yeah all his work undone.......just like that
Oct 16th 2006, 12:28 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Thydney
our school was so poor we could only afford 4 out of the 8
"The Merchant of Stoke-on-Trent", featuring a Pound of Tripe.
Oct 16th 2006, 12:29 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Or should that be Shake Asagi?
Oct 17th 2006, 3:51 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Dan725
When I first lived here in 2002, I was blissfully unaware of that one...until someone pointed it out to me - I still find it daft as well. Keep reading this forum, and helpful people will point out other great idiosyncracies as well.....like the snorting and grunting populace!
Oct 17th 2006, 4:31 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
As you deleted the quoted text it is very difficult to know what you are commenting on. There are a lot of posts.
What is "that one" that somone pointed out to you and which is so daft?
What is "that one" that somone pointed out to you and which is so daft?
Originally Posted by Dan725
When I first lived here in 2002, I was blissfully unaware of that one...until someone pointed it out to me - I still find it daft as well. Keep reading this forum, and helpful people will point out other great idiosyncracies as well.....like the snorting and grunting populace!
Oct 17th 2006, 4:35 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
I know I tend to be a picky bastard, Sydney, but his name is spelled Ataturk.
Originally Posted by Thydney
If I recall he took the name Attaturk (Father of the Turks) as previously they didn't have surnames and he wanted to modernise Turkey, he also banned the wearing of the fez as he deemed it a symbol of how Turks were viewed as stupid and backward.
It was a hell of a queue in the kebab house
It was a hell of a queue in the kebab house
Oct 17th 2006, 4:56 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by TRPardoe
I know I tend to be a picky bastard, Sydney, but his name is spelled Ataturk.
Oct 17th 2006, 10:51 am
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by TRPardoe
I know I tend to be a picky bastard, Sydney, but his name is spelled Ataturk.
Hey I know more about him than Dubya and he's president
Oct 17th 2006, 1:38 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
He thinks he is the President because his daddy's friends on the Supreme Court told him he was.
That's not quite the same thing is the proletariat voting him into the position.
......and I don't care who is reading this forum looking for subversives because it is true.
That's not quite the same thing is the proletariat voting him into the position.
......and I don't care who is reading this forum looking for subversives because it is true.
Originally Posted by Thydney
Hey I know more about him than Dubya and he's president
Oct 17th 2006, 2:41 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Rushman
Not as picky as me....he's names Thydney. You Thilly old Thod.
Oct 17th 2006, 3:29 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by Rushman
Not as picky as me....he's names Thydney. You Thilly old Thod.
Oct 17th 2006, 4:14 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
Originally Posted by paddingtongreen
or, it should be 'named'.
"....like not as picky as I....his gurt name be Thydney. Theet daft old buggar."
Oct 17th 2006, 4:55 pm
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Re: erbs....herbs???
"By any other name would smell as sweet." 
Thydney, please note I quoted the bard.
Thydney, please note I quoted the bard.