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 Posted: 26-01-2002 20:35 Post subject: miles verses kilometers |
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| We had the same problem when Australia converted to the metric system.We solved it by substituting stubbies of beer for miles,so a journey is not 450 miles long but a 24 stubbie trip.Unfortunately society is slowly accepting kilometres and this archaic ritualistic measuring device is slipping to the realms where the mile now resides. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 05-02-2002 21:23 Post subject: |
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| carole wrote: |
And there was, of course, Miss Havisham, who didn't die, but was as good as dead, shutting herself away with the remains of her wedding celebration.
Does anyone know if this characer had any foundation in fact?
Carole |
There is a Haversham Court in Newport, Shropshire, and I have been told by numerous residents of this town that she really lived there and was the inspiration for the Dickens character. Doesn't mean its true though, but it is widely believed. |
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JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-06-2006 22:41 Post subject: |
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Some years since this thread had an airing. I stumbled upon this tonight - an article which rather debunks the claims of Eliza Donnithorne to be the original of Miss Havisham:
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 18-08-2013 02:02 Post subject: |
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Sadly this seems to be for real rather than a legend but we'll see.
| Quote: | Yemen wedding party swept away in floods
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23743618
Map of Yemen showing Sanaa and Taiz
At least 27 members of a Yemeni wedding party have died after the vehicles they were travelling in were swept away by heavy floods, local officials say.
The victims, including women and children, were travelling through Wadi Nakhla in Taiz province, in the south of the Arab country.
The bride survived the incident, Reuters reports.
Several other people have been killed by flash floods in Yemen over the past two days.
Yemen, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is prone to flooding during the Monsoon season. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 12:20 Post subject: |
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I'd have to confess to never having heard of The Mistetoe Bough before... there's several interpretations of it on youtube that are quite splendidly jolly!  |
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| McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2678 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-08-2013 13:35 Post subject: |
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Back home in High Wycombe we had the story of the wedding dress wearing ghost that haunted the Hellfire Caves.
| Quote: | | Another well-attested local legend is the tale of Sukie, the White Lady: Sukie (short for Susan) was a 16 year old maid at the local George and Dragon Inn in the late 18th or early 19th century. She was apparently by far the most appealing of the serving staff, and many local men vied for the girl's affections. But Sukie had ambitions to marry into society, and rejected the advances of all her local admirers. She began dating a local aristocrat, and one day she got a message, apparently from her lover, asking her to meet him in the caves one night wearing her best white dress as a wedding gown. She arrived in candlelight and in her white dress, but it was a hoax by three village boys. She threw stones in fury at her laughing tormentors, but when one of the boys threw one back, she was knocked unconscious. Shocked at what they had done, the boys carried her back to her bed in the inn, but she died during the night. The caves and inn are reputed to be haunted by her ghost, and many staff and visitors have reported sighting a girl in a wedding dress wandering the passageways. |
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I must admit I had never heard this story, despite visiting the Caves several times, before I saw it on Most Haunted.
However, with 19 days until my own wedding I'm gonna back slowly out of this thread for now...  |
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| GingerTabby Grey Joined: 20 Nov 2012 Total posts: 12 Location: all lost in the supermarket Gender: Unknown |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
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| Posted: 19-08-2013 15:22 Post subject: |
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| As someone who is planning their wedding for next summer I must say i hope nothing too dramatic goes on, altho a cheeky ghost/slenderman/dog headed man sighting would be rather lovely |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 19-08-2013 15:27 Post subject: |
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| cherrybomb wrote: | | As someone who is planning their wedding for next summer I must say i hope nothing too dramatic goes on, altho a cheeky ghost/slenderman/dog headed man sighting would be rather lovely |
More conventional to hope for a chimney sweep, or kids with boxes of confetti. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 19-08-2013 17:13 Post subject: |
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| XBergMann Grey Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Total posts: 15 Location: Kiev, Ukraine Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-09-2013 10:08 Post subject: |
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Back in 2002 Annonymous posted on this thread that 3 miles was 1.8 Kms.
Over the past 11 years it would appear that distance inflation has taken hold.
3 miles is now around 4.8 Kms .... no wonder my journey home takes longer today that it did in 2002. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 09-09-2013 11:15 Post subject: |
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| 1 mile is 1.62 kilometres. Has been for about 200 years, or so. |
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