Posts by Ross Mason
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banal thought that they should have done it in in landscape format.
It was good that the subtitles weren't comic sans eh.
The 'friend' who is the enemy of my enemy's enemy is indeed a friend in need..... but hang on....wasn't I fighting them last week?
Jesus! Allah! What a ballsup this whole world is.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Tony Abbott did marry a Wainuiomartian........
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WTF is going on! Two games and they have been cracker!!! Even the Dutch are playing open football. Lets hope the Germans and Italians join the party!!! Oh...and England too.......
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
How they think Fieldays works is beyond me?
Feel days. Farmers day: "Gidday, howsit garn?". "Aww mate. Feelin priddy gud."
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Here is the Inquest.
Post natal depression I think it would be classified. I think she had 4 or 5 under 6years of age by this time. She was 32.
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Papers Past make fascinating reading and one discovers all sorts of family surprises ansd tragedies. These one is about my Great Grandfather’s first wife. Ne Louisa May Batt.
They did things differently back then. Brutal, and to the point. Here is a column of suicides from the Auckland Star. The jpg are the items from her death. Note the inquest was held the next day.
Frightening.
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to David Haywood,
But your dates of the wedding and Winifred’s birth put paid to my admittedly unworthy hypothesis that Alington may have knocked up his soon-to-be-wife as well.
Knocked up. A fascinating phrase. The internet never lies so here is an explanation of it's history that might be embellished a bit but, you know, has some semblance of truthiness.
"Knocking" began as a term for serious flirting circa 1800. Originally it was because you were knocking on the maiden's "door" trying to "get in". Understandably, this reference quickly changed to the actual act of "getting in" because beds knock against walls. If you leave your boots on, literally done at that time, you are "knocking boots"- a Southern U.S. term. Around 1813, the term "knocking up her boots" was common. A reference to the "missionary" position. By 1830, "knocked up" began as a reference to what we now know it as today. Sadly, it was a reference to a slave woman who became pregnant. {This can be verified via "Bing" search, and through searches of various history sources for; African-American History, Southern & Western U.S. History, Women's History, etc:}
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to Dianne Mitchell,
William “The Lamp” was Mayor of Wichita 1923-1924. He died there. Married Fanny Sheldon and had 2 kids.
That boy could have ancestors from Wick.....
His other products were good for cooking along with the lamp. Combined they prevented camp a la black out.
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to David Haywood,
Oh, to have children who would just keep their mouths shut and not interrogate the nice lady from the church.
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Southerly: Who was George Hildebrand…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
The additional JP was definitely written by a different hand than the crossed out JP.
The loops in the "J" and the "P" would be hard to separate them as two different ones. I'll go with my idea still. The big "dots" are a giveaway as well I think. Check the dot in "Geo." in Coleman's signature. Especially the little hook to them.
