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23rd September 2021, 00:54
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Read "The Demon Haunted World" by Sagan. I reread Sagan fairly regularly. 
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23rd September 2021, 06:11
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I'm a "Wind in the Willows" man myself. Brer Rabbit comes a close second. Does anyone remember the scribbles of Erich Anton Paul von Däniken who started many rows in the Smokerooms of the 1970's?
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23rd September 2021, 06:29
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Nice one E.S.
First book I remember having as a child was 'The wind in the willows', Recently purchased hardback version off fleabay (as new) for a couple of quid and read it again. What a gem! Stay safe and well all.
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23rd September 2021, 07:39
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I have a VHS tape of an animated version somewhere from when the kids were little. I must have a search for it sometime when I have a month to spare. Why is it that I imagine you as Mr Toad.?  Regards. Ratty
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23rd September 2021, 08:03
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Bit scary though. It started with a loud 'air borne' rumbling that could be felt as much as heard; then a few seconds later the house started to shake for, I guess, 10 seconds or so. I was standing in the bedroom looking at the ensuite door frame and it was a bit like a very out of focus photo. I reckon the door frame (and the whole house, of course) was oscillating sideways a couple of inches. A better description is perhaps looking at one of those old three dimension red and green photos without the 3 D glasses. Everything was sort of beside itself. No real damage thankfully. Only our daughter's wedding photo which rattled off a cabinet and smashed plus an inherently unstable vase that fell over but didn't break. Some of those old Matchbox model vintage cars also ran about amongst stuff in the crystal cabinet. Thanks again for asking. Stay safe. Geoff
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23rd September 2021, 08:31
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They were interesting, not for his theories, but from his system of argument. It is something that academics and legal folk still hold up as how NOT to prove a proposal. A string of concepts, opinions and what-ifs is presented as ‘proof’ because they are put across in such a manner that they appear be linked and supporting, which mostly, they are not. On the other hand newspapers continue to use the same technique.
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23rd September 2021, 10:21
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In terms of reads most have probably heard of, or read 'Watership Down.' I wonder how many have heard of or read 'Duncton Wood ?'
It's based on Moles and although many compare it to 'Watership Down,' ... it is darker and goes much deeper. (No pun intended.) 
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23rd September 2021, 11:30
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I'll leave the moles to John Le Carre. (The "e" ought to have a wee thing over it but this is an Nicaraguan keyboard.)
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#236
23rd September 2021, 15:48
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I read some more "Cosmos" last night, to the end of the chapter on the Voyager missions. Very interesting ideas, hypotheses and a surprising view of future missions showing, I think, the considerable forward vision of the scientists and technicians of the project.
I would also recommend "Tales from the Riverbank", a favourite of mine when a kid and it still causes chuckles! My wife, who loves "talking animal" jokes, goes into a kind of reverie when she watches it! What out for Guinea Pig in my daughter's (not) Jeep! (She has a Patriot, not a Willy's) Rgds. Dave
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23rd September 2021, 20:44
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23rd September 2021, 21:45
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I am delighted to hear that the earth moved for YM. At his age pleasure has to be taken when the opportunity arises, Arises?
Would that we had a little trembler here in Dublin.
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23rd September 2021, 22:18
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ES, would that be a Knee Trembler by any chance.
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24th September 2021, 01:32
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Come to Mexico - The last "knee trembler" was 6.9 on 7th September at 20:57 hours! I was getting undressed to get in bed early. First, the bed moved N/S, then E/W. Mrs. Makko was watching the chandelier over the stairwell "dancing"!
In 2017, I went to Managua - It rumbled. Then I went to Chile - It rumbled. Then I came back to Mexico, 7th and 19th September, it rumbled! The last was a "big'un". It took six hours to get home (13 Kms.). Rgds. Dave
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24th September 2021, 03:23
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Biggest knee trembler I was ever in was when I lived in Alaska.
The 1964 Alaska earthquake, the strongest earthquake ever recorded in North America, struck Alaska’s Prince William Sound, about 74 miles southeast of Anchorage. Most of Alaska’s mainland felt the magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which wobbled Seattle’s Space Needle some 1,200 miles away. The earthquake was so powerful it registered in all U.S. states.
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24th September 2021, 06:01
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24th September 2021, 09:15
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24th September 2021, 22:53
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I'm at 560 Ft.
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25th September 2021, 02:41
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I heard that there are divers in Sydney Harbour working from a Collins class submarine jacking up the fort to maintain the water levels.
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#249
25th September 2021, 10:48
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The Flat Earthers aren't bothered. They will only have to lift up one edge to make the water run back.
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25th September 2021, 11:32
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I suppose it is just possible that these fiendish wet earth conspirers would claim that they have weighted their observations to account for the state of the tide.
I understand that the Insititute for Planetary Discoid Flatness has suggested that it is a natural syphon situated somewhere along the East Indian edge that accounts for both the stability of the tidal range and the tide. The mechanism for making water remains a subject for study, seemingly the consumption of beer may have some effect on the quantum.
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