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    #51
    I got the original bible, you know the one handed to Moses on tablets of stone.
    'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
    Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.

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      #52
      To be fair, I do have one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Cost me an absolute arm and a leg. In ancient Hebrew.

      When I had it translated, the title was 'When Noah met Sally'.

      No idea what it's about?
      What happens in General, stays in General.
      You know what they say about assumptions!

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        #53
        I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.
        ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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          #54
          I also have a 2000 year old coin. That's not worth a lot either! Doh!
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #55
            Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
            I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.
            I've got hundreds of books, most of 'em over a year old!
            B00med!

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              #56
              Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
              I'm amazed so many people have 400 year old books. Dead impressed.
              I just had a look on eBay, you can join the club for not too much cash.

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                #57
                Originally posted by Scary View Post
                I just had a look on eBay, you can join the club for not too much cash.
                I shall look later, so I too can look educated and intellectual!
                ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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                  #58
                  We've got a 400 million year old plate.

                  As in something scultped from 400 million year old rock.

                  It's a black stone with lots of little white bits of fossils in it.
                  Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                  C.S. Lewis

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                    #59
                    I have a Haines Manual for a Mk2 Cortina does that count?
                    The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                    But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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