General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchett

http://fukung.net/v/113/hkpcrypt.jpg

http://www.2wheels.org.uk/blog/2006_04_01_archive.asp

“A punctured bicycle,
On a hillside desolate”

“Sympathy, love and care (1952):

A baby gets a most precious sense of security when cradled in his mother’s arms.

Encouraging children to love animals and sympathize with others helps to develop healthy emotions.”

http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos54/2007/03/invisible_man.html

`York in Daffodil Time’, BR poster, 1950.

Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to York. The poster shows a picturesque view of York with a slope full of daffodils in the foreground and the minster in the distance.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/02/21/3652300-ap.html

“I might have preferred iron but bronze will do,” Thatcher said

Back in 1987 I was in the ‘Strangers Gallery’ of the House of Commons during Prime Ministers Questions and watched in awe as Maggie gave a barnstorming performance and wiped the floor with the hapless leader of the opposition, Neil Kinnock.

Whatever your opinions about Mrs Thatcher, and you either love her or loathe her, she was a great performer and a great parliamentarian.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street
&
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_for_honours

Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes

This week:

AQUARIUS 22 January-19 February

Another Aquarian phase almost over for the year.

And what a spectacular one it was, even allowing for the exploding boiler and that accident involving a pet and a crochet hook.

But time moves on, and so must you.

Lucky Detergent: Shake ‘n’ Vac

Uncle Nolli’s Horoscopes now even more accurate due to extra “Hello Kitty” content, hmmm, nice.

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Congratulations to Clogiron http://clogiron.stumbleupon.com/ and the Mason’s Arms Ladies Arm Wrestling Team for lifting the All Yorkshire Theakston’s Old Peculiar Trophy.

“The development of a child’s emotional health depends upon parental love:
Children should neither be spoilt nor deprived of love.

Those who lack parental love will grow up to be short-tempered.

Corporal punishment and scolding are not the right way to teach children.

Just as flowers and grass need rain and sunlight, children need an appropriate degree of love and care for healthy bodies and minds.”

Reel around the fountain,

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.

From the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=145551639&size=m

“Oh, find me … find me, nothing more,…”

巧言令色，鮮矣仁!

“Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a ‘too-smiley’ face is seldom considered a humane person.” – Confucius

一切反动派都是纸老虎。看起来反动派的样子是可怕的，但是实际上并没有什么了不起的力量。从长远的观点看问题，真正强大的力量不是属于反动派，而是属于人民。

“All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.” Mao Zedong

http://www.harrys-stuff.com/

票

Q: What do you call a cow with no front legs?
A: Lean Beef

Q: What do you call a cow with no legs at all?
A: Ground beef

http://www.extremeironing.com/modules.php?set_albumName=ReadersIrons&id=ei_japan_Mt_Tsukuba&op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Events listing from the:

Master Li’s http://master-li.stumbleupon.com/ Extreme Ironing Classes for beginners will start this Saturday at 10:00am on the roof of the town hall.

Ironing boards and Irons included – please bring your own laundry.

Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes

This week:

PISCES 20 February – 20 March

Think those are wildly original ideas you’ve been having lately?
Saturn the planet of Windows XP, is moving into Pisces, the sign of obsolete operating systems.You may be giving yourself too much credit; your alleged powers of independent thought are being steadily eroded by Microsoft cognitive imperialism.

Next time try pencil and paper.

Lucky Operating Systems: Mac OS 8.6 and Ubuntu

He knows when your are sleeping,
He knows when you’re on the can,
He’ll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
Ohh,
You better not breathe, you better not move,
You’re better off dead, I’m telling you, dude.
Santa Claus is gunning you down!

Now taking bookings.

Only 6d for the stalls and 1/- for the circle.

Buy a programme and you get the chance to win a slap up tea at Mrs Miggins Pie shop.

Contact Cloggy:
http://clogiron.stumbleupon.com/
for more details.

http://nukingbabyjesus.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Amusing Flash animation / promo vid of ‘We Three Kings’ taken from the album ‘An Imaginary Christmas’ by the ‘Imaginary Trio’ who are in reality one man and his computer.

Members of the winning Royston Vasey ‘Welly Wanging’ Team proudly displaying the Compo Simmonite Memorial Trophy at the National Championships held recently in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

Paul Collingwood

The first England batsman to score a double century in Australia since Wally Hammond 70 years ago.

Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes

This week:

22 June-22 July
With Jupiter, the sign of green vegetables moving into Aries, you could find fulfilment this week in an organically grown courgette roasted lightly at Gas Mark 6 for 10 minutes on a revolving toasting fork with some Patum Peperium.

But you should avoid contact with haddock. Don’t ask me why;
I’m just doing my job.

Lucky cheese: Lymeswold

P.S. Don’t forget the Chianti, or failing that some nice moderately priced non-vintage domestic champagne.

Sign my guestmap?
Don’t bother.
We know where you live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet

Baaaa!!!!!!!!!

Stumbleupon’s newest group:

http://sock-puppets.group.stumbleupon.com/

How many times can you join?

Uncle Nolli’s Astro-Tarot-Feng Shui Horoscopes

This week:

Neptune, the planet of true and eternal love, moves into Pisces, the sign of feeling angry because the dishwasher has been filled up badly. Meanwhile, Mercury attempts to reverse into a really small space in Capricorn this week, and ends up scraping the paintwork. He should have used his wing mirrors, and so should you.

Lucky Motor Oil: Castrol GTX

http://db1.maopost.com/wcat=mao&wlan=en&wreq=posterpagew&posterid=0982-001M&navi=2

Be strict and conscientious, be scrupulous about every detail.

NTL take note

On this day 57 years ago the people of China ‘stood up’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/30/wjcurve30.xml&page=1

Ian Bremmer’s J-Curve has got the chattering classes all excited.

From the page:

The “J curve” is an explanation for the way the world works that is so simple that you can draw it on the back of a paper napkin.

How does the curve work?

The J is suspended between a vertical axis, “stability”, and a horizontal axis, “openness” (to both political and economic reforms).

At the top left of the graph are totalitarian dictatorships.
North Korea is the classic example.
At the top right are Western democracies, such as the United States and Britain.

“Think about the presidential election here in 2000,” says Bremmer. “The other guy got more votes, the result was decided by a controversial Supreme Court vote, and what happened? Nothing.

That’s stability.”