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Flagrant misuse of the apostrophe
« Reply #30 on: August 31, 2006, 06:09:51 pm »

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Nobody needs a camera phone.


Absolutely!


What next?


Phones with MP3 players? Teasmaids? Toasters?


A phone and just that. It is getting harder to find one that is just that.


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« Reply #31 on: August 31, 2006, 07:38:08 pm »
That wasn't quite what I said but I see your point.
Who needs karma when you know you're great already?

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« Reply #32 on: August 31, 2006, 09:52:41 pm »

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Next you will say I don't 'need' new shoes.


To quote Alice from the Vicar of Dibley, "You don't need them, you want them and that's a very different thing young lady!" 

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« Reply #33 on: August 31, 2006, 09:54:27 pm »

 She's wonderful that Alice.


Do you remember when she announced: "Oh No, I can't be pregnant because the hampster didn't turn blue!"

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« Reply #34 on: September 01, 2006, 09:36:55 am »
I work with a woman who sounds just like Alice. She has a PhD and is a well respected linguistics teacher!