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My time in the Highways Agency was spent impressing senior officials with pivot tables and graphs derived therefrom.
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The queue to visit his compartment would need extra carriage stock.
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Not a mere Dame, a Baroness.
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Is that Idris? Can Jones the Steam be far away?
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So you're the Piper at the Gates of Dawn?
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I came here to say this! I'm an exile, but stil FC Halifax Town. The revamped Piece Hall is great. I remember it in the 60s and when the council wanted to demolish it in the early 70s.
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Our garden's full of the Handsworth variety, as is the fridge.
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That sounds about right. Another friend was a CPSA rep and negotiated for clerical staff to be given officer equality in the Falklands, because the mess had draught beer. This was in the days of the PSA.
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Equivalent ranks gave lots of fun in the day. A friend was a civil service SEO and found he was senior officer at a mess in Belize. There used to be an equivalent-rank table in our Staff Handbook.
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And of all the ways he spelled it that survive, none of them was "Shakespeare".
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The Winviz was up and down like [insert cliche] during that match. I thought WI had it till the last few overs.
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My Mum went to her grave embarrassed because she wore a white outfit at my wedding. She wasn't aware of that protocol. (Nor was I.)
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I agree that it rhymes with the animal, but I don't think they're rodents.
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You could spend the time wondering how the town's name is pronounced.
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The position of Organiiser is a key one in factional politics: control of the membership list gives an advantage.
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I think this statement should be approved, by people who approve such things.
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I'm looking forward to getting a CD and signed book about it.
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I hope the unions will keep an eye on these idiotic carry-ons.
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Pogonophobie a bas!
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Ta! I'll look for that. Currently I'm nil by mouth which doesn't help beer drinking. I take a bottle of wine through my Peg.
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Fruli scrumptious! Haven't had one of them since last time I was in Brugge.
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D'Oh! I didn't spot that there were tenor* clef versions of these; I'm now cos-playing soprano.
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Was Derek Rayner Maggie Thatcher's Elon Musk?
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We've had Nina the cleaner for a couple of years.
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The soloist was born in 2001! That's about 14 years ago, isn't it?
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Didn't you show this Crown Court a few months ago?
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If Ian Saville can explain surplus value using magic, I'm sure Alexei can use interpretative dance to expound dialectical materialism.
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And we weep for the Orthodox who must wait even longer.
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Farage should apply to join the Idle Working-Men's Club.
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Too right! I worked with a bloke from Leeds who did Shakey impressions at karaoke and the like. Twas funny.
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Cos he was hiding.
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Behind the green door.
Consider my coat got.
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*her*
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Anna Lapwood uses an iPad for all her concerts: apparently she turns pages of the score using here eye(s)(winking or something).
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Hmm. There was an expectation that Series 20 would be filmed in Birmingham in 2024 according to local news media.
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The new studio (in a converted warehouse) is being built in Digbeth. I haven't heard that it's complete, but work started as long ago as December 2023.
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... and this appears in my TL just as Albania's Eurovision entry is on the telly. The performers say that they don't watch Eurovision, as it's "not their type of music". Is Eurovision bourgeois devationism?
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Vaughan Williams?
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It's three weeks till Ascension Day.
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I think they haven't got as far as the third declension yet: they heard the announcement using an inflected "Leonem".
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I see you don't have anyone who knows simple Latin. It's "Leo".