President Bush Soon To Resign:

Increasing the proportion of apple in the mix will lighten the pudding, though proper steaming should ensure it is not dried-out...

All the best from Fredrik

PS and EDIT: I thought the discussion of puddings was over Christmas Puddings, where increasing the proportion of apple does lighten the result. There is no apple to increase in Spotted Dick for example! My error, sorry.

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Increasing the proportion of apple in the mix will lighten the pudding, though proper steaming should ensure it is not dried-out...

All the best from Fredrik

I'm actually a blackberry & rhubarb man myself Fredders, but I'm sure the principle is the same, innit! I was just pondering over the even more than usual senselessness, of the married Muslim couple, who carried out a suicide bomb attack at a Muslim Wedding ceremony in Jordon recently, the wife being a survivor, but having the inner peace of knowing that her husband is now safely in heaven with all those celestial virgins and stuff!

I saw a bloke walking down my road earlier with a cat shaped instrument case, it reminded me of you for some reason, me old Jam expert !

Dear Fritz,

Bishop John shaped case? See the Survey Thread on this very page of the Cell!

As for people blowing each other up, I just don't get it. I never really have understood it, but the idea of paradis as the result of murdering others up just shows how distorting of human decency religeon can be. I gave it all up at the end of my adolescense. I retain and employ my conscience, and consider religeon a guide only. Crikey that was serious for a Sunday morning, wasn't it.

All the best from Fredrik

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:

I was just pondering over the even more than usual senselessness, of the married Muslim couple, who carried out a suicide bomb attack at a Muslim Wedding ceremony in Jordon recently, the wife being a survivor, but having the inner peace of knowing that her husband is now safely in heaven with all those celestial virgins and stuff!

Phritters me old naim upgrade consultant,

Bit of an own goal don't you think? It used to be moslems against the rest of the world. But how many moslems will forgive them blowing up fellow moslems at prayer and at a moslem funeral?

Nasty taste from the Bosnian connection too. There are a lot of them scattered all over Europe who may soon be looking at a one-way trip home if public opinion keeps moving to the right.

You know me, I ain't sayin Nuffin !!!. I recently recieved a cash voucher for the princely sum of €6,00 to be spent at a local supermarket. This was a result of a few months market research questioning (once a week, overall total 5 minutes work), of which I'm now continuing over the long term foreseeable future (watch out the taxman !!!), and actually represents the very fist real-terms cash I've had in my hand to spend as a result of computer home-work/use; that I've ever had. A pittance that it is, the bread & wine that I acquired with it tasted most sweet, and that's also why I persisted in asking Our Rodders if the cheque he'd happily finally recieved from the Council actually evolved into real cash in his account at long last, and not just imaginary IFA sweettalk customer/client bullshit, innit


P.S. Our Mick! make sure you mallet those tentpegs well in Sir, or your floppy boozer might well blow orf !!!

I've often wondered why Churchill & His Yanky pals stopped at Berlin ?

Bloody Iron Curtains Should've Pulled Themselves Together:

Six thousand five hundered and sixty five posts, Mr Fritzy?!

With the retirement of the "NB" persona a while back I reckon that makes you "Father of the Forum" by quite a stretch, old man

FATHERS BECOMING MORE IMMATURE:TRUE!

Wot he said.

Dear Fritz,

I think just about the only reason that the US stopped at Berlin is the very real risk that they would have lost against the Russians, who certainly lost far more in very courageous fighting in the closing battle for Berlin than the Western Allies did fighting through Western Germany, which is not to diminish the effort of the Western Allies, but rather to point out that the Russians were considering payback time for Stalingrad and so on. I don't think the Western powers were very much in a position to argue with their Communist Ally at that stage, whether it was sending White Russians back (to ceratin massacre) from Austria, or the selling out of formerly free and developing countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia into another fifty odd years of totalitarianism. What ever the rights and wrongs of it, the peace settlement was the compromise sorted out at Yalta, and it shows the West's rather weak bargaining possition at the time. I don't think any attempted invasion of Russia would ever be successful They are a very fierce people when pushed into a corner. Hitler and Napoleon both found that out.

All the best from Fredrik

Our Mick put a nice little few lines together there earlier about enjoyíng his latest 'well-earnt' system, plus a single malt to-boot from his large selection, at the end of a long days horse trading. My large post count, obviously doesn't imply quality, and likewise neither do Our Micks choice in toys & juice denote his taste in sounds, innit

P.S. I see the Vatican Times boasts headlines of Da Vincian proportions this moaning :-

"Pope confirms ever brewing reports of Bishops toppling iminent" STOPPRESS::::STOPPRESS:::

How much do you have to sort through to find gems! Still worth the effort! I don't understand all of it, but then I am a bit slow...

Fredrik

Thank you kindly Fredders, spoken like a true Finn, though I trust you're aware of why I made the comment in the first place me old conserver of jellies & quinces?

P.S. Finn, refers to Resisting the Ruskies by the by:

N.B. Stalin, apparently had a pet ant named Gregor!°

Stange as it might sound, the Finns are the only people to have really given the Russians a bloody nose, and pause for thought. It is notable the the three Baltic States fell to Russia, and Finland did not. I think you will know of the huge affection Finns and Norwegians hold for each other. Far more I suspect than any two other Scandinavian countries...

All the best from Fredrik

Don't forget the Hungarians now Fredders!, now I'm off for some buttered tea cos i Is bloody freezin in here, and if I'm not careful I might catch Our Nimes cold, and that wouldn't do at all, at all

Up the Hammers:

Two things. I instantly regretted leaving out Hungary, and I was not quite sure why you posted the post [at 13:56], which I replied to so seriously. Was it because I questioned why Bush the Elder stopped on the road to Bagdad, when the military action was justified at the time by the Kuwait invasion. The shuffling of reasons why we are there again, now, should have totally discredited Bush the Younger and Blair by now, but seemingly not that many actually care what our leaders do in our name or require our military to do, to carry out their plans. I do, and I don't like it. But every one should at least have a view (whether it is similar to mine or not!), but what gets me is the apathy.

All the best from Fredrik

My point was Fredders old son that Winnie himself often expressed such an opinion in respect of going all the way to Moscow at the time, and as well as he coining the Iron Curtain phrase, he also can be acreditted for being first with the term United States of Europe I believe, innit

Cheers anyway for your sincerity, and let's hope I haven't inadvertantly begun yet another Winnie fan club thread so close to Christmas!, my greatest new pondering at present is wether a Moonie can marry a Sunny?

P.S. Used to get a decent pint in the Half Moon years back !

Shush! Fred

I didn't know Our Mick was in Egypt durin the War !

Steamin Puddings, as opposed to steamy windjers waddle through Glasgows meandering streets fairly often of a late eve, so I'm reliably infoamed, innit

Couldn't O'Driscoll possibly be speared with asparagus next time ?

'Shush Said Fred' sounds promising !!!

My top respect goes to Rep, Congressman John Murtha at present, who speaks more sense than I've heard coming from all of Yankyland for many a blue moon


Goodnight:

Hello Fritz et al.

The cheque from the council cleared fine thanks, and as promised the proceeds were donated to the DEC. I do find it a bit of an indictment on our society that a natural disaster that occurs on Boxing Day elicits enormous public generosity and one that occurs ten weeks before Christmas does not. Which says something about guilt-trips I think (not to mention the relative "westerner victim" levels). Anyway that's an aside, I beat the council, which for me is priceless, and thanks for noticing!

I was in Finland last year (Tampere) which rejoices in a Lenin museum (very fascinating) and I'm sure somewhere whilst there I read that Finland was one of only a small number of countries technically still at war with Britain (although I cannot fathom how this could be the case. But I did do a fair bit of "binge" drinking to be sure).

Anyway, thoroughly lovely people I found, and I ate one of the best - if weirdest - meals of my life which was chateaubriand and liver of elk in a something-(cloud?)berry sauce. Sounds dreadful I know, but was absolutely delicious.

Cheers

Rod

It would be cloud-berry, and they are common enough in Norway too.

All the best from Fredrik

Yes! a cloud & Hallie berry pie sounds quite heavenly dunnit! Heavy on the cream


As the 'media' has quite rightly 'for once' made such a fuss about yesterdays British soldiers death in Iraq being number 98, it doesn't take a genius to contemplate the aims of the 'insurgents/whatever' wanting to soon make it the psychological & politically significant round 100 to get the pre-Christmas British 'let's get our lads home campaign going'. It seems to me that the Yanks are finally seeing sense in that, they simply can do no more 'militarily' as the 'Civil War' sets in proper, and anybody who thinks differently in the real world 'simply isn't living in it, innit'. The oil revinues that originally were meant to pay for all this are just not appearing, and the bottom line of that in Congress speak is 'No money no honey' as it is just about everywhere else too, except for Halliburtons profits of course, but that's another matter which will no doubt come to light long after VP.Dicky boys demise? and our lot, and others close to us won't leave before the Yanks do, I feel, (irrespective of what that prize prat Reed says)!

You recall Bush senior retreating at the border (Mandate line), at the end of the first Gulf escapade, which obviously proved catastrophic for Saddams opposition, and as has also happenned in other UN 'controlled' conflicts, as we all unfortunately know with our collective guilt afterwards to prove the fact, the hard alternative often being home boys bodies being dragged about foreign towns behind wagons full of jeering local Militia of whatever ilk (but in their own lands). Bush senior's bash was paid for up front (in total) by European countries etc, in UN agreement but not wanting to (or unable) to militarily participüate themselves (Japan & Germany for instance). The job was done, Saddam's knuckles were rapped (no long-term financial debt incurred), 'sanctions' came in later, but more importantly the oil flowed, and big business continued from all sides, as it also did with Iran, etc. As well as the current 'highly hypocritical' witchhunt against Irans desire to better itself, I feel a few incidents up and coming in Syria, as well as being isolated by former allies, will soon pit it too into turmoil & freefall, though what actually will be the result of it all, besides serious regional destabalisation (not a factor under Saddars ironically, as he hated religious fundamentalists as much as the next man, though he ruthlessly downed them as opposition, whoever they may have been) unlike Our God loving, free speech believing Western Philosophies, as Dubya has recently so pointedly shown down in Old China on his bike!


N.B. Rodders old chap! Glad you got the dosh John, and watch where you park in future, or, er, a repeat offender ticket might land your way old son, and you'll never get rid of that bastard, stigma and all in a mirrion years, innit


P.S. Dunnit take a lot of coppers these days to drive a few 'Suspects' to the shop for inquiry helping excercises! hardly one to be found when you need one is there? apparently many folk order them a day in advance these days, strange, but very unfortunately true it seems, but come on Chaps,let's not dwell on the -5% silly old negative stuff, eh?

Can't wait to read Ian Blairs book when he retires, and can really say what he thinks, innit (If it gets cleared that is?)

Davis is the Conservatives only serious future, you know it makes sense! the other young turk is more of a spin jonnie than Alisdaire & Tony combined (a hustings clone), though the British 'electorate' are so bleedin apathetic and 'I wont say it' does it really matter, now that England's in €urope at last anyway?

Milk Coffee time methinks : Good Day

So swinging England & Wales will soon be right up there with the Europeans, boozing, jigging, and chundering on pavements around the clock. Great news of course for many a business, and all those associated with them, and what with more than 80,000 pubs and cafes affected, it should be quite a party, innit.

Yes Swinging England & Wales are finally getting over the Great War munitions workers, class discrimintaion, antiquated Victorian booze licencing Laws:

That's why out of the over 80,000 Devilish watering holes, nearly 170 have applied for a 24 hour drinking permit.


YES THAT's AN AMAZING 170 ESTABLISHMENTS NEAR YOU RIGHT ACROSS ENGLAND & WALES, HOW ON EARTH WILL THE POLICE & 'AUTHORITIES' COPE WITH THE NEW DELUGE OF DRUNKEN THUGGERY & VIOLENCE?


I didn't know that most Muslims never touch alcohol, it's against their religion you see, innit

Please feel free to comment on above stats, I sincerely hope that somebody can prove me very very wrong and contradict everything I've so negatively said


Wotta load of old Bollocks, really

FAA Dog

A man is sitting in a plane which is about to takeoff when another man with a dog occupies the empty seats alongside.

The dog is seated in the middle, and the first man is looking quizzically at the dog when the second man explains that they work for the FAA.

The dog handler says to the first man "Don't mind Rover he is a sniffer dog, the best there is, I'll show you once we get airborne and I set him to work."

The plane takes off and levels out when the handler says to the first man "Watch this."

He tells the dog "Rover, search."

The dog jumps down, walks along the aisle and sits next to a woman for a few seconds, it then returns to its seat and puts one paw on the handler's arm.

He says "Good boy."

He turns to the first man and says, "That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of this, and the seat number, for the police who will apprehend her on arrival."

"Fantastic!" replies the first man.

Once again he sends the dog to search the aisles.

The dog sniffs about, sits down beside a man for a few seconds, returns to its seat and places both paws on the handler's arm.

He says "Good boy."

He turns to the first man and says, "That man is carrying cocaine, so again, I'm making a note of this, and the seat number."

"That's marvelous, I never seen anything like it!" says the first man.

Once again he sends the dog to search the aisles.

He goes up and down the plane aisle and after a while sits down next to someone, and then comes racing back and jumps up onto the seat and shits all over the place.

The first man is surprised and disgusted by this, and asks "What the hell is going on?"

The handler replies "He's just found a bomb!"




Britain, the land of choice, so long as you only choose what's officially on offer that is !!! Good Grief