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#21 User is offline   fromageGB 

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Posted 2016-August-28, 12:25

View PostVampyr, on 2016-August-26, 19:06, said:

Gotta start it with a D nowadays. Druid kings...

? So what's the D?
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Posted 2016-August-28, 16:30

View PostfromageGB, on 2016-August-28, 12:25, said:

? So what's the D?


Domain.

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine .... Errr...
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Posted 2016-August-29, 09:06

View PostVampyr, on 2016-August-28, 16:30, said:

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine .... Errr...

My very educated mother doesn't give a s-t what Neil deGrasse Tyson says. :)

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Posted 2016-August-29, 09:46

View Postbarmar, on 2016-August-29, 09:06, said:

My very educated mother doesn't give a s-t what Neil deGrasse Tyson says. :)


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Posted 2016-August-30, 17:16

Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always. (using the line appropriate for 40-mumble-old "boys").
When I go to sea, don't fear for me, Fear For The Storm -- Birdie and the Swansong (tSCoSI)
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Posted 2016-August-30, 19:51

View Postmycroft, on 2016-August-30, 17:16, said:

Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always. (using the line appropriate for 40-mumble-old "boys").
making one up --All Cats Eat Grass
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Posted 2016-August-31, 02:25

I learnt this as every good boy deserves football together with faces-spaces. Maybe the switch to fudge reflects a change in society between then and now.
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Posted 2016-August-31, 02:58

Following on, apparently the "good boy" constructs are seen in some quarters as sexist and the new way of doing this is gender-neutral, such as elephants get big dirty feet. That certainly does reflect a change in society.
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Posted 2016-August-31, 05:26

View PostZelandakh, on 2016-August-31, 02:25, said:

I learnt this as every good boy deserves football together with faces-spaces. Maybe the switch to fudge reflects a change in society between then and now.

I learned it (from my mom, who was a professional musician) as "every good boy does fine," but she did not like football. B-)
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Posted 2016-August-31, 08:36

View PostPassedOut, on 2016-August-31, 05:26, said:

I learned it (from my mom, who was a professional musician) as "every good boy does fine," but she did not like football. B-)


Was EGB deserves favour in the version I learned.
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Posted 2016-August-31, 08:45

View PostCyberyeti, on 2016-August-31, 08:36, said:

Was EGB deserves favour in the version I learned.


For me it was fun.
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Posted 2016-August-31, 09:28

Every gorgeous boy/babe deserves fücking? :P
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Posted 2016-August-31, 09:43

View PostZelandakh, on 2016-August-31, 09:28, said:

Every gorgeous boy/babe deserves fücking? :P

You had a more liberal music teacher than the rest of us.

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Posted 2016-August-31, 10:36

View PostAl_U_Card, on 2016-August-26, 04:13, said:

bbroygbvgw

learned in 1971 at the age of 15


Resistor colour codes.

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