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Wow - that's some talent... Now the million dollar question is: is it the talent of Paris Hilton, or the engineers at TC-Helicon?
Boy this thread may be about nothing, but the sad truth is that it says something when someone puts up a thread titled "nothing" and contains no initial comment, and it winds up dragging out 21 pages long so far.
Boy this thread may be about nothing, but the sad truth is that it says something when someone puts up a thread titled "nothing" and contains no initial comment, and it winds up dragging out 21 pages long so far.
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Nothing to it. Mention Robert Randolph or the Dixie Chicks. Or start a discussion about even temper vs just intonationAlan F. Brookes wrote:By the time I've struggled with the traffic on the Bay Bridge in the evening, and breathed in all that pollution, I just like to sit down and see who I can upset on the Forum...
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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This is me in 1947, merrily strolling back to the kitchen after feeding the chickens in the henhouse (behind me to the right).Archie Nicol wrote:Alan; `neighborhood`? You've been gone too long.
This is me in the same place 2005. Yes, they're the same three trees. Everything else is gone.
This is my old Jag, parked outside my house in 1970
This how the street looks now...
No, you can't go back. There's nothing to go back to.
...as a final note. I went back to the same spot last February and they'd even pulled down the three trees.
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Executive decisions made by
those with no connection to a place,
often amount to nothing,
replacing something useful to someone,
with what now amounts to nothing for everyone.
Your Local Council
moving you forward into tomorrow,
Kicking and screaming, like it or not.
Nothing Welcomes You Into The Future
those with no connection to a place,
often amount to nothing,
replacing something useful to someone,
with what now amounts to nothing for everyone.
Your Local Council
moving you forward into tomorrow,
Kicking and screaming, like it or not.
Nothing Welcomes You Into The Future
DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
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The Birmingham City Council has caused more damage to Birmingham than the blitz ever did.David L. Donald wrote:...Your Local Council moving you forward into tomorrow, kicking and screaming, like it or not.
Having built all those houses in 1919, they found out that there was a design flaw 70 years later. So they bought up all the houses by eminent domain, evicted the occupiers, and demolished the entire estate. Then they sold the land to a developer who plans to build much smaller houses on the site, which are priced so high that the original owners can't afford to live in the neighbourhood they were brought up in, given the miniscule compensation the council paid them for their properties. Someone must be getting very rich on this project.
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Yes and there are at least 2-3 council members on that short list...Alan F. Brookes wrote: ....they found out that there was a design flaw 70 years later.
...Someone must be getting very rich on this project.
Only 70 years of people living there for the 'flaw' to surface HAH.
Only when SOMEBODY could make money 'correcting' it.
Out with The Council
a new Brummy sweeps clean...
Nothing continues by leaps and bounds.
Seems for these creeps...
People are Nothing...
DLD, Chili farmer. Plus bananas and papaya too.
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But pedal steels have many!
Real happiness has no strings attached.
But pedal steels have many!
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The "design flaw" was that they built the houses in sections offsite out of reinforced concrete, then they bolted them together onsite and poured concrete into the seams. In time the metal bars rusted and the houses started coming apart at the seams. Ironically, there were several cures proposed by engineers. They didn't have to pull down the entire estate; they just chose to do so. None of the houses ever collapsed or was ever in any danger of doing so. I had to fly over to help my mother move out of the house she had been living in since a child, into an apartment building, where she knew none of the neighbours.