Fancy dress costumes

Horsetan wrote: Nigel wrote: I do have the gogle tool bar, so I have now downloaded it directly, and we will soon see if it works, just keep an eye out for horsey spotting any spilling mistakes. Ah, its OK with spilling mistakes, but then again I suppose spilling is a word......well K, it sort of works but it isn't Nigel proof ! Sailing close to the wind there, Nigel.

You've lost me Ivan, give us a clue !!

Horsetan wrote: Given that the WCUK Governmant were apparently busily shredding documents in advance of the Act coming into force, I prefer to regard it as the Freedom of Lack of Information Act....

You reckon? Gosh! You think it might just be another headline-grabbing "initiative" that doesn't actually achieve anything useful? You're so cynical ... it must be a lawyer thing...

Some day the country's gonna wake up and then ...

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I blame the Freedom of Information Act for all this disclosure.

Not sure where Spokey dug up those Disclosures, had a right job to dis-connect me Parental Control firewall thingy

I do have the gogle tool bar, so I have now downloaded it directly, and we will soon see if it works, just keep an eye out for horsey spotting any spilling mistakes.

Ah, its ok with spilling mistakes, but then again I suppose spilling is a word......well K, it sort of works but it isn't Nigel proof !

Praktisk wrote: Keep up the good work.

One does what one can.

Nigel - have you a pop-up blocker installed, e.g. the google toolbar?

is there one for Firefox? (spoolchiker that is, )

Ah, but, not quite, it tells me that IE spellchecker is not installed, click ok to go to the download page, then does nothing when I do click ok !

And Killian gave me a spellchecker !!!, now he just has to explain how to use it.

Nigel wrote: Your far to cultered for this forum horsey, either that or I'm too common !! What the blazes are you on about ?

I'm merely referring to Nostrils' posting, which rather neatly went on about Harry's near-total lack of tact (like father, like son).

If you go back in history, you will find that much of our present Royal family owes its existence to German blood, thanks to the House of Hanover (18th century right up to 1837). Even after that, there was further German influence thanks to Prince Albert (of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha).

The family name of "Windsor", if I remember correctly, is artificial. Technically the current mob are Battenburgs (or Mountbatten, if you prefer).

By sporting German (albeit Nazi) replica uniform, all Prince Harry is doing is going back to his roots in his usual tactless way. That is the irony. And I mean irony in the proper sense of the word, as reflected in Shakespeare's "Scottish Play".

In Act III, Scene I, Macbeth reminds Banquo (who he later arranges to have murdered) to attend a gathering:

"Fail not our feast"

to which Banquo replies:

"My Lord, I will not"

...and indeed he does not, because in Act III, Scene IV, having been murdered earlier, he does attend the feast - as a ghost....and visible only to Macbeth!

Hence Banquo failed not the feast....but not quite in the way Macbeth purported to remind him.

Too often, the word "irony" is used by journalists (who have combined to ruin the use of the English language in the last 15 to 20 years), when they actually mean "paradox" (the reverse of something). It really is painful to read.

Well, you asked me to explain, so ye did. Ah, sure you wouldn't expect anything less.....

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