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if you do post them! probably sounding really stupid now :dunce: ....but is this true?
A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why?

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"Eskimos use Bauxite as snuff"

Don't even know if it is true, but we had it made into a poster on the living roon wall when I was a student.

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The duck's quack not echoing is one of those internet myths / urban legends.
See these links amongst others.
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/a.../duck/duck.htm

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae482.cfm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3086890.stm

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Hemerocallis (day Lily's) are edible (taste like lettuce).:scratch:

Also you could always check here to see if facts presented are really true or not http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax

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If you swallow chewing gum it takes 6 months to digest :erm:

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http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/

not really a fact....but it is random!

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Haha! :) thats what I used to thinl/heard but when watching sky's brainiac science abuse, they made some guy take a duck to a cathedral to prove it does echo.... :)
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The 'click' you sometimes get from joints is caused by a bubble of nitrogen imploding...............

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I think you may have been smoking just a few too many of them :p: :D

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Japan nearly ran out of 200 yen coins when space invaders was released.

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mole rats use the earths magnetic field to help navigate over longer distances, while underground - apparently the only mammal with this ability.

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Didn't they empty the machines then? ;) :D

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97.8% of statistics are made up on the fly.... :D

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100% of flys deny their role in 'made up' statistics :D

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Have you tried writing on flies?:D "not zips"!!!

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Masturbating makes you blind.


Although I am not blind but would explain why the majority of old people in 4x4's and BMWs dont indicate or notice you on the road.

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<insert witty comment about saxodrivers here>

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The tardis was real. It was stolen from Croyden high street by BBC props department in March 1968.

The 'illusion' that the inside was much larger than the outside was created by a BBC set designer 'Archie Tubbs'. Archie claimed that it wasn't an illusion and he had in fact created a temporal distortion in the space time fabric. In a bizarre accident Archie's plans and calculations perished along with him in Harpenden when a faulty pack of 'Walls' sausages caused his bed-sit to explode.


bizarre but true :)


Sian

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Someone's been eating mushrooms again :erm:

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The frisbee †“ the flying dish that people throw to each other †“ travels at over 70 miles per hour †“ TRUE

Some perfumes are made from secretions from animalsââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ bottoms - True

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a skateboard wheel often spins at a faster angular velocity than a Formula 1 car wheel ever will.

cats have a non-fatal terminal velocity.

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Doesn't that depend on starting velocity? Surely they can reach a fatal terminal velocity when used as a feline canon-ball?

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That's what I've always been told - bubbles in the synovial fluid... but given the amount of clicking various bits of my body do (no jokes please) - I'd have to have a lot of bubbles...

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When you have a head cold, you can expel nearly your own body weight through your nose.

Well it feels like that anyway :D

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Surely that depends on how hard it's thrown in the first place?

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The queen has an Ipod.....:)

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http://www.allergycapital.com.au/Pages/Sneeze.html

Fascinating stuff :)

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I thought the majority of old people were Saxo drivers:scratch:

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Well, the majority of Saxo drivers are definitely blind :D

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I actually saw the Tardis on Saturday.
It is in Earls Court. When you come out of Earls court station you will see there is one on that main road.

Another random fact......

"Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'."

More random facts HERE

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BMW's have indicators?

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Weird fact: The manhole cover in my garage has a patent number.

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The polar bear is the only living animal that can not be picked up with heat sensors, its coat is too thick

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Not sure if this is fact or rumour, but apparently Nicola Bryant (Peri from Dr Who) tried out for Captain Janeway in ST:Voyager. Could have been interesting.

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the hairs are hollow & their skin is black, as well :)

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It is said, (don't ask me by whom), that you're never more than 100 yard's from a rat. :disturbd:

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Probably said by the Team on this forum :)
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Another star trek one (next generation) on the deck plan of the enterprise (in the background) there is only one toilet!!!

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Yet another Star Trek TNG one:

The medical displays in sick bay have a patient status indicator that measures "Medical Insurance Remaining".
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You going for the geek awarf there m8 ;):D

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:D Maybe.....

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Yep but BMW have been saving thousands for years by not putting bulbs in them, No BMW driver has complained yet... :D

and some facts...

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

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Purple = Turtle
Silver = Pilfer

maybe?

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If you have seen in an episode of "Mythbusters" they tried this and it does, but it very close to the original sound and sound like the original.

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.........and due to the high iron content of there liver it is toxic if eaten.

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Unfortunately, AFAIK, they are only half-rhymes.

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A large percentage of U.S. paper currency is contaminated with traces of cocaine

The correct answer is true. You thought this was just an urban legend, didn't you? In fact, a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health found that 79 percent of the currency tested bore minute traces of cocaine.
This does not imply that the majority of our currency has been directly handled by drug dealers or users, however. Cocaine is a very fine powder that is easily transferred from one bill to another, and can spread through ATMs and money-counting machines
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Chocolate is poisoniuos to dogs
Chocolate contains a substance called theobromine (a compound related to caffeine), which can sicken and kill family pets. Three factors determine how toxic the sweet stuff will be to a particular animal: the type of chocolate, the size of the animal and the amount of chocolate ingested. The most dangerous confections are unsweetened baker's chocolate and powdered cocoa, the least, white chocolate.
Symptoms of theobromine poisoning include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle tremors, restlessness and increased urination. In severe cases, cardiac arrhythmia and seizures can result. The possibility that an animal will kill itself with chocolate is very low. More likely it will get a nasty tummy ache. In any case, it is still prudent to keep all chocolate far away from pets.
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A farmer thought he was just putting dinner on the table when he picked up an axe and beheaded one of his chickens. Turned out he had a legend on his hands after the now headless rooster bobbed and weaved back to the henhouse and lived for 18 more months †� without a head
Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colo., did indeed own the world's only surviving headless chicken, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. He wielded the infamous axe in September 1945, unaware that he and his rooster would go down in history.
The animal, now dubbed Mike and celebrated with a festival, Web sites and various magazine articles, apparently survived because the blade missed his jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. The axe blow landed high enough that most of the chicken's brain stem and one ear remained intact. Olsen kept the animal fed and watered by inserting an eyedropper directly into his gullet. Eighteen months after the chicken lost his head he choked to death in a motel room. Residents of Fruita remember Mike as "a big fat chicken who didn't know he didn't have a head."
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False: http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm

The last one is false:

As revealed on QI: http://www.qi.com/

Purple, contrary to assertions on innumerable websites, has two English words that rhyme with it. These are 'hirple' and 'curple'. Hirple means to hobble along with one leg dragging behind the other, half way between a walk and a crawl. Curples are the leather straps passed under the tails of horses.

http://b3ta.com/questions/uselessinformation/page9/

That's one *possible* explanation see:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/nineyards.htm

The word originates in the 18th century, it was subsequently applied to one "tick" of the system timer interrupt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy

False, there was never any such law.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rul1.htm

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Spike Milligan has engraved on his tombstone "I told you I was ill"

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Tea Bags were invented by an American named Thomas Sullivan in 1908

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Lada's are able to do 100mph.

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We had that before in the "Did you know" thread Graham, and I think the thought was it applied in the UK, but not over the pond in the USA, it would be interesting to know the actual facts about this, but maybe you are correct.

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4x4's driven by mothers are seen off road.








All be it in town on the pavement.

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But not in English! The Gaelic translation is in my sig ;) .

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Benny Hill once defined a Hebrew as a male teabag.

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Ant have five noses.

An octopus has three hearts.

The skin of a soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the breadth of a human hair.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees (as in all legs bending like our knees.)

I find that my mind soaks up all sorts of trivia.....

I'd post more but it's boiling hot and my brain isn't coping well with the heat.

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The weekend of 18th - 19th June 2005 was one of the hottest of the year.

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it is sunny in the UK. :eek:

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It is physically impossible
for pigs to look up into the sky.


(Though I guess if you took it and sat it upright then it could).

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seven sausage facts ..

(1) the word sausage is derived from the latin word salus, which means something salted .

(2) dick turpin worked as a butcher.

(3) sausages are eaten at 71% of all uk BBQs .

(4) Queen victoria liked sausages but insisted that the meat in them had to be hand chopped rather then minced .

(5) sausages were called bangers during the world war 2 because they exploded when fried, due to the water content.

(6) 90% of british households buy sauasges and 50% buy them once a month .

(7) sausages are mentioned in the homer's odyssey : "these goat sausages sizzing here in the fire"

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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

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Not a fact, but a question.............

Does anyone know why Wales is not represented on the Union Jack ?

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Because it is a Principality, not a Kingdom.

PS It is actually correctly called the "Union Flag", the "Union Jack" is only flown from the Jack Staff on a ship.

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The correct spelling of wierd is actually weird.

:D

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Plus Wales was administratively incorporated into England by Henry VIII in 1535 (or possibly 1536, I forget), so it was officially part of England during the period that the Union flag was being designed and modified.

EDIT I suppose that there's now no reason why the Welsh should not start a campaign to change the flag. Or is such a campaign already in existence? Or do they feel that it wouldn't fit in with independence? Or does anyone really care?
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Stanley Kubrick worked on James Bond!

Seriously. He did not direct, but he did design the lighting for the scenes in the hangar deck of the Stromberg ship in "The Spy Who Loved Me". This was apparently a massive problem as, due to the reflective nature of most of the set, they could not use conventional studio lighting (it would have shown up), yet they needed bright lighting..

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where did you find these, and can you prove the star wars ones?

ik

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In The Empire Strikes Back there is a potato hidden in the asteroid field
In Return of the Jedi there is a tennis shoe hidden among the rebel fleet




Why? lol

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In 2001 A Space Odyssey there was a small picture of a surfer on the main Antenna of the Discovery space craft!

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I don't know, but in the Lucasfilm game, Rebel Assault 2, you could enter a cheat code and the whole game would suddenly be about where to buy the best shoes in the Universe... It was a good laugh, in a bizarre sort of way..

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Never mind why. Where? :)

Presumably there is a source for these claims.

PS This potato. Was it a plug for Spuds 'R' Us? And the tennis shoe, not Nike, I hope.

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With regards to the potato thing.... This was mentioned by the special effects people on the extras DVD with the original trilogy DVD set.

As for the shoe one - I've heard about this too. But I'm not sure where.

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It is possible to travel faster than the speed of light - but only if you are dealing with quantum entanglement.

High brow or WHAT! :D

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Winnie The Pooh's middle name is "the"

Ok it may be obvious but try asking someone what Winnie the Pooh's middle name is.....tee hee everyone says "don't know"

Look!! that's all I've got everything else seems to be covered :(

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Is it true that saxo drivers have braille keyboards!:D

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1) The Latin translation is entitled Winnie ille Pooh. As Latin doesn't have a definite article, they were forced to use ille.

2) What does the J stand for in Homer J Simpson?

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In Revenge of the Sith there is apparently a Kitchen sink in one of the space scenes and in Attack of the Clones one of those space cows on Naboo is in the Asteroid field when Jango is chasing Obi Wan:)

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[Zippy]Everybody knows that....[/Zippy]

Jay!

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A new planet has been discovered with the most identicle conditions to earth. The only slight problem differing from earths conditions...... its 200 degrees C on the surface.

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So it's a future Earth? Where we will be in 100 years perhaps.. :D

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Many think the Bee Gees were born in Australia. In fact they originate from 51 Keppel Road, Chorlton-***-Hardy, Manchester, M21 0BP.

Edit
:D at profanity filter.

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Not quite. It's about 5 times the mass of the earth, it has a "year" of a few days and it orbits a dwarf star.
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When an anti-homosexuality bill was brought before her to sign, Queen Victoria refused to believe in the existence of such a thing as lesbianism. She struck out all references to sex between women in the bill, and to this day female homosexuality cannot be prosecuted

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I am sure I saw/heard this on the TV/radio in the last few days.

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Yo did, as so did I, but Icannot rember on what...

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If you have one of those bottled water dispensers (like you get in offices) and you are finding that it's growing algae in the water bottle then simply cover the (next) bottle so that it's not exposed to light......end of algae problem.

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No idea got it out of a book on royal trivia

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Uh oh...:(

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It's not the chewing gum but the table that's stuck to it that's the problem.

:D

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An asteroid is going to pass so close to Earth in 2029 that it will be closer to us than many communication satellites are. Depending on how our own Gravity affects it will depend on whether it hits us on its next pass. Possible strike dates are 2034-37 (a stirke is possible in any of those years depending on gravity), 2046, 2048, 2054 and 2055.

The asteroid is estimated to be 300m in diameter and capable of wiping out a large city or worse, causing a large tsunami.

Dont belive it - look up 2004 MN4 Wiki on it, pay attention to the bit which mentions what happens AFTER it passes us the first time.

Annnd just in case you think this is some sort of internet wind up - next time you pass the news shelves in the next week - have a look for New Scientist - its the cover story.

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Tell me more I want to know how much of my pension I will collect before some thing happens to me :)

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Also, we need to fix our wedding before that - you promised me, remember! :)

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Yes dear :erm:

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I'll be able to wed a year before I colect me retirement pension then! :) Yippee!

Oh, hang on... the government keeps talking about us having to work longer in future before getting the pension...

Bugger.
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