Originally posted by FiveTimes
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evening all 
It's a bit quiet in here tonight...
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Evening mate
It's a bit quiet in here tonight...The squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to grave -
Evening denizens
I'm off to the pub, so later
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Hello
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I popped over to Wikipedia to see what the state of play was with the page I wrote about one of my favourite (though sadly neglected) authors several years ago - I didn't create the page, but it was merely a stub paragraph which didn't correctly describe the subject.
So I dug around, and pulled various editions from the shelves, and wrote a version which better reflected the author's work.
I'm pleased to see that since then, others have taken the trouble to expand and improve upon my endeavours
(Though I'm also glad that such phrases as "the sailors' own fecklessness and credulity" have remained - I was always rather pleased with that one
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(And, FWIW, I had to subvert the naughty words filter to get "fecklessness" past it - come on, ferret, the English language does have words that were thought up before Father Ted, or indeed television, arrived on the scene
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(And then I had to subvert it again to get it into that explanation... stop the madness! English can't be parsed by Regular Expressions, so don't bother trying... Yahoo! have a whole bunch of geniuses working on preventing naughty words in dozens of languages, but they still finish up paying a load of actual humans to check posts before they're finally censored)
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Morning Nick
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Nobody seems to have noticed my change of location - I thought it was quite witty, but maybe not
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Yep - nights again mate.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHi EO
On nights again?
I do like your new location, btw.The squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
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Thank youOriginally posted by EqualOpportunities View Post
If you get bored, try visiting the Wikipedia page I mentioned above and following the "Works by W W Jacobs at Project Gutenberg" link at the bottom - you'll find some excellent reading there
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I'll be sure to take a squizz...Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThank you
If you get bored, try visiting the Wikipedia page I mentioned above and following the "Works by W W Jacobs at Project Gutenberg" link at the bottom - you'll find some excellent reading thereThe squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
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