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29th November 2014, 10:31 PM
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Christmas Dinner
Yesterday our local MN Assc held our Christmas dinner at the Southern Tavern with a about 40 bods not all MN people but with connections with the MN
It was a very good day out with a few pints and a very nice dinner and it was good to know that we are back on deck after a few problems and now with a very dedicated people to run the show its full ahead
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29th November 2014, 10:55 PM
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Hi Lou, what was on the menu? hope you went easy on the Sprouts, just think of the Ozone layer!!!!!!! F.
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29th November 2014, 11:05 PM
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Frederick Lacey
Hi Lou, what was on the menu? hope you went easy on the Sprouts, just think of the Ozone layer!!!!!!! F.
A Thanksgiving Poem
Warning: this one sounds really dirty, but it isn't (unless you have a dirty mind!)
So that said, read at your own risk.
A Christmas Poem
He laid her on the table,
So white and clean and bare.
His forehead wet with beads of sweat,
He rubbed her here and there.
He touched her neck and then her breast,
And then he felt her thigh.
The slit was wet and all was set,
He gave a joyous cry.
The hole was wide -- he looked inside,
All was dark and murky.
He rubbed his hands and stretched out his arms,
...And then he stuffed the turkey.
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30th November 2014, 05:21 AM
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Well Keith
At last we get a Clean one with a twist somewhat different!! LOL!
Cheers
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1st December 2014, 05:54 AM
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If the news we saw here on TV last week is true then Chickens In UK are deadly to eat, so full of bugs it makes you wonder how they can sell them. Any truth in the story??


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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1st December 2014, 07:41 AM
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happy daze john in oz
If the news we saw here on TV last week is true then Chickens In UK are deadly to eat, so full of bugs it makes you wonder how they can sell them. Any truth in the story??
It has been reported as a foul, fowl rumour!
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1st December 2014, 08:59 AM
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Never let the truth fowl a good story
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1st December 2014, 10:02 AM
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Lou there has and is at present a tv show on the telly in WA about NZ, this week was doing the South Island and showed Bluff, didn't get there this time, but the film bore no resemblance to how I remembered it in the 50"s. Used to be one street that I remember running parallel to the dock with 1 pub and a few houses, now is all built up. Hope they haven't done away with the pub, like many in Auckland, takes away the character of the place. You will by living where you do probably not notice it, but you live in an extremely beautiful part of the world, enjoy it, along with all the better things in life. Have a good Christmas and if liable to fall over after too many make sure you have soft landings. All the best John S
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1st December 2014, 10:29 AM
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That's how I remember Bluff in the 50's, a one horse town and some bugger had even stolen the bluddy horse!
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1st December 2014, 10:43 AM
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Ivan was in NZ a few times on various ships. Bluff will always remember as the first time there was about 17 and got involved with this girl, only puppy love. She used to come down to the ship and shout up is John there, and down the gangway I would trot. Then found out she was only 13, nearly had a heart attack. Even thought she was older than me at one time. Used to hide on board at finish of work and tell someone to tell her I had the flu or something. If that happened nowadays would be considered a right mongrel and finish up in police cell. Probably a few years later she would of finished up with the other girls partying, NZ apart from other great things had great women. Still plenty of sheep for those others inclined. Cheers John S
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