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#1 Shilling
I get it. Pushing hard on the pedals this a.m. it suddenly came to me.
' to take the king's shilling'
Once you did this, voluntary or not you owed total obedience to the king.
I spect loads of you got this ages ago but it cheers me thst I'm not brain dead yet.
' to take the king's shilling'
Once you did this, voluntary or not you owed total obedience to the king.
I spect loads of you got this ages ago but it cheers me thst I'm not brain dead yet.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
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#2 Re: Shilling
Probably right, but how does it become a verb?
The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in their flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert air into tree.
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#3 Re: Shilling
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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#4 Re: Shilling
In the same way spamming doesn’t involve tinned meat any more.
Whenever an honest man discovers that he's mistaken, he will either cease to be mistaken or he will cease to be honest.
#5 Re: Shilling
one thing always leads to another...
I was listening to Simon Mayo(at least my wanting memory tells me it was he) last evening and a listener phoned in asking why spam still comes in a tapered oblong tin with a key....unfortunately I was busy and didn't hear the listeners replies....
did anyone hear this, and the replies to the question?
I was listening to Simon Mayo(at least my wanting memory tells me it was he) last evening and a listener phoned in asking why spam still comes in a tapered oblong tin with a key....unfortunately I was busy and didn't hear the listeners replies....
did anyone hear this, and the replies to the question?
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#6 Re: Shilling
Spam and some corned beef.ed wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:36 pm one thing always leads to another...
I was listening to Simon Mayo(at least my wanting memory tells me it was he) last evening and a listener phoned in asking why spam still comes in a tapered oblong tin with a key....unfortunately I was busy and didn't hear the listeners replies....
did anyone hear this, and the replies to the question?
https://www.quora.com/Food-Packaging-Wh ... ed-in-tins
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#7 Re: Shilling
my bad...you are sooo right, it was corned beef........
never mind, it just proves my point about the wanting memory.
never mind, it just proves my point about the wanting memory.
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#8 Re: Shilling
Yeah but Spam did come in such a tin when I were a lad.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
#9 Re: Shilling
as it did for me....does this mean that you are me and we are all together? yellow matter custardandrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:02 pm Yeah but Spam did come in such a tin when I were a lad.
but the radio show question was about corned beef, and I'm only being pedantic because I really really wanted to know the answer.....why is it still in oblong tapered cans with a key?
diet: just read Phils link, panic over, I now know why...
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#10 Re: Shilling
Cos if you didn't have the key you couldn't get the stuff out?
Frippin' Jeanyus or what.
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#11 Re: Shilling
Hmmmmm good point.
I'd ask an Argentinian producer from Frey Bentos. - cultural thing?
I'd ask an Argentinian producer from Frey Bentos. - cultural thing?
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
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#12 Re: Shilling
Did you know Fray Bentos was also a port city in Uruguay ?
Possibly where the corned beef was shipped from ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Bentos
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Possibly where the corned beef was shipped from ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fray_Bentos
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#13 Re: Shilling
Yes...
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#14 Re: Shilling
I grew up on this stuff.......fried! Heaven help me!
BTW that 'serving suggestion' was not the way I ate it........
BTW that 'serving suggestion' was not the way I ate it........
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
#15 Re: Shilling
I think you'll find that Spam cans were parallel sided.andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:02 pm Yeah but Spam did come in such a tin when I were a lad.
Sorry, I couldn't resist!