From: SIRPip on
S'mee wrote:

> On a side note I'd LOVE to have a snooker table but last I checked
> a proper table was going to cost me $27,000usd and that was without
> cues or balls and let's be honest is there anything more pointless
> than a ballless snooker table?

A friend I cross cues with had a need for a snooker table, having a
triple-width garage while all the cars lived on the driveway. Scouring
eBay, he scored one (complete with proper tasselled light, walnut and
brass scoreboard, cue rack and accessories cupboard) for �300. A bit
more swift research and he found a lovely old boy who went and
collected the thing, transported it 200 miles and assembled it in the
garage complete with new cloth and cushions for another �300.

Six hundred quid and he was operating. The additions to the garage
cost a bit more - two beer fridges, widescreen TV and DVD player, that
sort of thing - but bearing in mind his best cue cost him over �300 it
isn't bad. And his 14-year-old boy has just qualified for the Junior
World Masters and will be playing for the England Youth Snooker Team
next season, thanks to the practice availability (and a pro coach who
goes round there every other week).

> Oh you are thinking of that horrible canned dish america inflicted on
> this reality...SPAM. Sorry about that...it was a rush job and things
> and times were tough.

Nothing the matter with spam fritters, you know. In a butty with
plenty of HP Sauce.

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From: Beav on


"Adrian" <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:88n3tkFgelU5(a)mid.individual.net...
> "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>
>> Bruce, a question. Does the openoffice prog work on 64bit systems?
>
> Of course.

Oooh, goodo.

Off to darnload it.

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Beav

From: YTC#1 on
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:49:08 +0000, Adrian wrote:

> "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>
>> Bruce, a question. Does the openoffice prog work on 64bit systems?
>
> Of course.

What he said.

Some OS manufactures were behind on the 64bit trail... by many many years.

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There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

From: frag on
In article <xn0gvvpw630tebw00n(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
gingerbloke(a)gmail.com says...
>
> One so often ignores stuff that's on the doorstep, to one's eventual
> disbenefit when it isn't there when one wants it.
>
> I travel to the only chippy for miles that still uses fat rather than
> oil. The smell, man, the smell - and the haze of fatsmoke in the
> street, it fair makes your mouth water.

<bottom lip wobbles...>

And which one would that be?

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From: SIRPip on
frag wrote:

> In article <xn0gvvpw630tebw00n(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> gingerbloke(a)gmail.com says...

> > I travel to the only chippy for miles that still uses fat rather
> > than oil. The smell, man, the smell - and the haze of fatsmoke in
> > the street, it fair makes your mouth water.
>
> <bottom lip wobbles...>
>
> And which one would that be?

In a back street, behind the market square in Biggleswade.

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