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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

Never said I did! It takes ages trying to work out what the pair of you of witter on about! It's like a whole 'nother language with you two. An archaic one at that!

Luckily I did my Masters in Archeology.

mairead · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

'Witter on' no no no . We ladies have intellectual discussions, although I do understand that it is beyond your feeble comprehension, after all, you are a man, but, we will make excuses for you.
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

So you say ... but the only things that really matter to women are ...

1) What colour lippie to wear.

2) Does your bum look big in whatever shroud you've decided to wear for the day!

Intellectuals. Ha! Very Happy

mairead · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:14 am Post subject:

Have you ever listened to a couple of men having a pint at a bar. My lord, but when it comes to wittering, they take the biscuit.
yak yak yak, football, golf, football, rugby etce etc
Very Happy

Anyway, what's wrong with the ladies wanting to look nice?
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

Nothing at all ... if they look like what we men want them to look like. A category you and Carol no longer fit into ... for lots of reasons! Very Happy

mairead · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

Strange comment from one who has never seen either of us, don't you think.
I think your mental images of us have let you down a bit there. Very Happy

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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. It seems your game is more than a bit off!

mairead · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

Life has dealt me a mixed hand so I'm happy enough
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

I think you've been playing SNAP!!!

mairead · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject:

Oh, I take it you know the game well then? My memory does not take me back quite THAT far.
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

I'm young enough to recall playing some silly card games. But I was banned from them after I ruined my Dad's pack.

He was teaching us (my siblings) to play poker one particularly cold night in the old sitting room (it's now just another day-room) and old Balders (Baldrick's dad!) had stoked up the fire so we were all warm and happy just cos Dad found time for a game with us. However, I was not all that familiar with card-terminology. When I picked up a card and showed it to him, he told me not to use that one. What he actually said was "Burn it!" A term I soon learned meant, "Put that one away!" I however, took him at his word and threw it in the fire! It was crisped instantly! Sad

Dad and siblings weren't best pleased. But my mum and two Aunties saw the funny side and howled with laughter. I was just confused.

So I no longer play childish card games. And in the casinos, I let others handle the cards. I learned my lesson!

mairead · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

LOL Kind of thing I probably would have done myself. Very Happy

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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

Oh good! I'm glad I'm not the only eejit on the boards ........ apart from Carol! Laughing

mairead · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

Oh, I can be as big an eejit as the next one, Trust me. Very Happy

Horses for courses and all that. LOL
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

My horses usually come in on time. The gee-gee man pays out a good whack on them quite regularly!

mairead · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:51 am Post subject:

Only laid a bet once and that was many years ago on a horse called Foine Avon in the Grand National. The odds on it winning were enormous and everyone laughed at my choice. Wink

I got the last laugh though, when nearly all the other horses went down at beechers and little Foine Avon ran across the line first. Seeing all the other horses go down though, put me right of betting again, especially in the national which I rate as cruelty to animals.
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

My mother won a stack on Foinavon. She nearly broke the local bookie. He was always understandably very nervous when "Lady B" sent Old Balders in with her bet.

The minimum I recall her betting was £25K. I was about six when I first saw the man nearly defecate himself over that bet!

mairead · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

Hope she laid the £25k on Foinavon then. She'd have had the bookie out of business that day alright. Suicidal even. LOL
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Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4297

She rarely gambled under £5K a week. Until the sanitarium fixed her. I suspect dad had her doped to prevent movement of any kind.

mairead · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:54 am Post subject:

True to form for the Blackadders then. LOL
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