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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:59 am
Eppie has one of those English Obits I find entertaining.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Buist.html
As a small child she decided on her future life, and at the age of 21 took on her father's kennel of 64 dogs. Assisted by a head keeper and kennel boy, she began the training, breeding, feeding and cleaning which would preoccupy her for nearly 80 years.
Following Malcolm's death in 1965 Eppie Buist renewed her life's passion, and in Katewell's uncomfortable and impractical kitchen she would chop up sheep's heads and boil them with tripe to feed her dogs, of which there were never fewer than four in evidence.
She gave up driving at the age of 95, but retained her taste for excitement. Aged 96 she went up in a fibreglass T2 glider and a few weeks before her death stayed up half the night to watch a 128-some reel (an eightsome reel times 16) being danced at the 70th birthday party for her dear friend Jamie Grant of Roskill.
Her recipe for a long life was to eat lashings of cream, keep fudge in the car and consume a jar of ginger snaps on the way to church.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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AnnieCamaro
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by AnnieCamaro » Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:33 am
Lizbit looks a lot like those dogs in the picture with Miss Eppie. I wonder if my sister might be a descendant of one of Miss Eppie's pointers.
Maybe Mr. BobJ can find out.
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Sou iu koto de.
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christie1111
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by christie1111 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:28 pm
The knicker elastic part was pretty funny too!
How do you come across this stuff? It was a classic!
Thanks!
"A bed without a quilt is like the sky without stars"
