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Previously on "Beating Shaun to it..."

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
    I don't see how it's any sort of competition to post an interesting link first.
    I don't get why d000hg imagined that I might be first to post any link relating to some ancient penguin shuffling off her mortal coils!!

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  • TykeMerc
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Happy as I am to agree with the sentiment AtW expressed, I have to agree with you that he's not actually making sense.
    It would be a major novelty if he ever did (or provided any entertainment come to that).

    I don't see how it's any sort of competition to post an interesting link first.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Happy as I am to agree with the sentiment AtW expressed, I have to agree with you that he's not actually making sense.
    No change there then!!

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Oh yes.................a searing indictment right enough..............muppet!!
    Happy as I am to agree with the sentiment AtW expressed, I have to agree with you that he's not actually making sense.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Yet another evidence that shaunbhoy is a loser
    Oh yes.................a searing indictment right enough..............muppet!!

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    BBC News - Oldest person Eugenie Blanchard dies at age of 114


    It was a more innocent time, when clergy could offer sweets to children without being accused of slipping them a Finger of Fudge.
    A time when boys wanted enter the priesthood, rather than the other way round....

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    yours is
    Your mum.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Isn't life expectancy dropping though?
    yours is

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    I wonder how common 114 will be when we are in our 80s and 90s.
    Isn't life expectancy dropping though?

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  • AtW
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    Yet another evidence that shaunbhoy is a loser

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  • TimberWolf
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    I wonder how common 114 will be when we are in our 80s and 90s.

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  • d000hg
    started a topic Beating Shaun to it...

    Beating Shaun to it...

    BBC News - Oldest person Eugenie Blanchard dies at age of 114
    French nun Eugenie Blanchard, certified as the world's oldest person, has died at the age of 114 on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy.

    On Saint-Barthelemy, she was known for giving out sweets to children.

    she acquired the nickname La Douchy - a Dutch Creole word for sweets - from the tactic she used to draw children into Bible readings.

    "She would offer the children sweets, saying 'douchy, douchy', and the name stuck," nephew Daniel Blanchard said.
    It was a more innocent time, when clergy could offer sweets to children without being accused of slipping them a Finger of Fudge.

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