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8 Jul 2024 04:55:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Long threads  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 29 Jul 2016 14:20:14
Message: <579b9e5e$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 09:28:02 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>> I can't bear it.  Paddington.
>>
>>
> 
> This is the point when I ask if we are playing to Southern Rail rules or
> the traditional GNR variation? It is important as the GNR variation puts
> any Marmite eating personage, in Huff. And the Widdershins fairy slips a
> Mickey into the pork pie of life.
> So it is John's turn, if you would be so kind as to wind him up. :)

Obviously, the Southern Rail rules.  Otherwise I wouldn't have moved to 
Paddington. :)

>>>>> Interestingly, also the name of an arcade at the shopping mall near
>>>>> me when I was growing up.  Never got to go there - my dad couldn't
>>>>> see the sense in spending money in an arcade on something so
>>>>> nonessential as entertainment.
>>>>>
>>>>> My older half-brother used to give us bicentennial quarters (which
>>>>> were supposed to be good luck for kids playing arcade games), and we
>>>>> never actually got to use them for the intended purpose.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> So what purpose did you use them for?
>>
>> I think ultimately, they ended up in the bank.  Which I guess means
>> they could be anywhere, including in my PSN account as games now. :)
>>
>>
> You track quarters? ^ ^

Well, not individual ones.  Once they're in the bank, that becomes a 
challenge. :)

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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