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Word for the Day, Monday, February 1, 2010--slough
mark steyn column | 2/1/2010 | xs

Posted on 02/01/2010 5:43:51 AM PST by xsmommy

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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

i was a tot when i watched : )


41 posted on 02/01/2010 6:33:37 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Am I the only one who thinks Gitmo is an ideal site for all of them, via military tribunal trials?


42 posted on 02/01/2010 6:39:12 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: xsmommy

yankees awake to sanity
reject demonic inanity

lay claim again to liberty
and slough at last the kennedys


43 posted on 02/01/2010 6:39:21 AM PST by tsomer
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To: secret garden

it was literally CUSTOM MADE for them!


44 posted on 02/01/2010 6:55:12 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Slough by John Betjeman

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

45 posted on 02/01/2010 6:55:16 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

anywhere from 4 to 10 inches of Ol Man Winter’s refuse. I had about 9 at my house, though some may have been to drifting...


46 posted on 02/01/2010 6:56:14 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: tsomer

even better the second time, but you can only get one grade per homework submission! ; )


47 posted on 02/01/2010 6:56:29 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

excellent! A+++ i trust you are back home in the US of A?


48 posted on 02/01/2010 6:58:06 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: theDentist

i think the novelty has worn off of snow in VA and so it needs to moveon.org back up to NY state where it belongs!


49 posted on 02/01/2010 6:59:10 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Safe and sound. Now I just have to sort out these receipts.


50 posted on 02/01/2010 6:59:14 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

are they going to let you be in one place for a while this time?


51 posted on 02/01/2010 7:00:03 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: NeoCaveman
DISTURBING.
52 posted on 02/01/2010 7:01:40 AM PST by xsmommy
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Nothing is planned till my next visit to China, but who knows what may arise. The folks in Mexico still aren’t finished.


53 posted on 02/01/2010 7:03:47 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SAJ; xsmommy
While working in the fields trying to make some dough, the farmer coughed, and, thus distracted, drove his plough into a slough. Wow. It was tough getting through that sentence.
54 posted on 02/01/2010 7:09:31 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: xsmommy

IOW, fewer republicans and independents were sampled.


55 posted on 02/01/2010 7:18:30 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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To: xsmommy

What about Slough, the moderately unattractive town in Southern England? Only claim to fame that I know of: it was the setting for the UK (original) version of the TV show ‘The Office’.


56 posted on 02/01/2010 7:22:21 AM PST by Zajko
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To: secret garden

adn there’s a bump for SOTU apparently.


57 posted on 02/01/2010 7:31:46 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Zajko

And the inspiration for a lovely poem, posted above.


58 posted on 02/01/2010 7:34:30 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Zajko
you are correct, bonus points to you! A+++

Slough (slou) A borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London. Population: 126,000.

59 posted on 02/01/2010 7:35:10 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; CholeraJoe
i am postulating that obams suffers curvature of the spine which causes him to bow at the waist from time to time.
60 posted on 02/01/2010 7:44:25 AM PST by xsmommy
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