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Discussion in 'Stoke City' started by stoke-th97, Apr 20, 2014.

  1. Taffvalerowdy

    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Enjoy <laugh>

    Ravel - Renewal*

    * - as in lampshades
     
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    Bah Humbug <laugh>

    Renewal - Repeal
     
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    Repeal - Rapunzel*

    * - a bad hair day?
     
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    <laugh>

    A bad day all round Taff

    Rapunzel - Razorbill
     
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    Razorbill - Randall*

    * - surname of the heroine in Outlander, and of the live one opposite Hopkirk
     
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    AND one of the best England fielders ever - Derek

    Randall - Revel
     
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    <cheers>

    Revel - Rendall*

    * - paul, a decent English prop<cheers>

    Ruth - Not a bad crime writer as well (e rather than a, methinks)
     
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    Time to cut the lawn <cheers>
     
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    Back in - went like the clappers with dirty rain clouds all around....
     
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    15 minutes <yikes> Is this a record ?

    Back home, with just about enough ££'s for half a pint

    Rendell - Rental


    Apparently it was some game vs Fiji
     
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    48 mins Nick - started at 14.17 finished 15.05!

    Rental - Rational
     
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    oops, befuddled brain as a result of recent massive spending !!

    Had some book tokens for birthday, bought Chastise the other day, nearly quarter of the way through...you mentioned it...highly recommended.

    Rational - Rebuttal
     
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    About 9 or 11 years ago in January - we didn’t go in 2009 -, at Gatwick, I bought a book about the Dambusters. I read it on the beach in Barbados.

    A couple of days later, I was chatting to one of the other guests and he said that he’d bought (at a Charity Dinner auction) the menu (autographed) of the celebration dinner (at the Savoy or Dorchester from memory).

    I told him that there was a photo (in the book) of all the attendees of that dinner. I gave him the book to go alongside the menu card.

    In subsequent years, he referred to me as ‘The Welsh Dambuster’ <laugh>

    Rebuttal - Roll
     
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    A great story <ok>
    I think that Max Hastings is the pre-eminent military historian of our generation.
    All Hell Let Loose (WWII)
    Vietnam

    Simply outstanding, individual stories, quirky facts and the big picture. Inimitable.

    Roll - Retail
     
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    I will try and buy All Hell Let Loose!

    I have 2 further books on Normandy to get through as well

    Retail - Russell*

    * - other Squares are available
     
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    Russell - Raphael **

    ** other artists are available
     
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    .... not forgetting turtles <laugh>

    Raphael - Reel
     
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    Eh!!

    Reel - Recessional **
    ** a great poem by R Kipling re his killed in WWI
     
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo

    Recessional - Rail*

    * - to stay on track..... <laugh>
     
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    Ah

    Rail - Restitional

    Seeya the morn Taff, back to work first thing <cheers>
     
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