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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

has anybody actually managed to read the complete works of shakespeare, dickens, d.h.lawrence or any other prolific author!

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

I haven't read all of theirs but I have completed all of one prolific author

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

which complete works have you read?

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I read shakespeare for English GCSE and marked a B

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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The complete works of Shakespeare is huge! I have better things to do with my time. But I have read many of his plays and a few sonnets. Read some Lawrence, quite a bit of Dickens, and I do try and read things like Dracula, Moby Dick etc. Thats been made easier lately as most 'classics' are free for Kindle now.

I won't ever read Jane Austen though. Just not my thing.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

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"The complete works of Shakespeare is huge! I have better things to do with my time. But I have read many of his plays and a few sonnets. Read some Lawrence, quite a bit of Dickens, and I do try and read things like Dracula, Moby Dick etc. Thats been made easier lately as most 'classics' are free for Kindle now.

I won't ever read Jane Austen though. Just not my thing."

I have read pretty much everything by Tolkien though.

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

iv read the complete works of

Lee Childs

Harlan Coben

Karin Slaughter

Dennis Le Hane

Patricia Cornwall

does that count

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

ive beeen reading dickens for the past couple of years, tho not the complete works! and i was in the tempest production at school!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"has anybody actually managed to read the complete works of shakespeare, dickens, d.h.lawrence or any other prolific author!"

Many authors including Dickens but only some of Shakespeare's works.

"What, have you not read it through?"

"No Sir. Do you read books through?"

Dr Johnson.

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By *abloBackMan
over a year ago

London

I have, lee child

I had intended to read the complete works of Tom Clancy but there were too many crap collaborations

Also read the complete works of Tom sharpe. I like writers called Tom

Read the complete works of stig larsson too

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"I read shakespeare for English GCSE and marked a B

dont tell me - Hamlet?

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Had to read Shakespeare at school and could not quite get my head round it back then but at 15 ... what does one know...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"ive beeen reading dickens for the past couple of years, tho not the complete works! and i was in the tempest production at school!"

One of the finest authors in the English speaking world in my view.

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"ive beeen reading dickens for the past couple of years, tho not the complete works! and i was in the tempest production at school!

One of the finest authors in the English speaking world in my view.

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ive got a beeautiful tiny leather bound copy of Tale of two cities!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be.

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

i havent read any Shakespeare,but i have read quite a lot of Dickens

oh and i can recite the "shall i compare thee to a summer rose" from Romeo and Juliette

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Ive got all of dickens downloaded on my kindle as i was embarressed to say i had never read oliver twist. Ive got David copperfield on the go but just leave it and go back to it.

I have A level english literature but managed to escape as much of shakespeare as i could, unfortunatly i have no interest in shakespeares writings i just cant get into it

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be. "

not a lover of Wilde to be honest x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be. "

"women represent the triumph of matter over mind just as men represent the triumph f mind over morals".

Only Oscar Wilde......

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"Ive got all of dickens downloaded on my kindle as i was embarressed to say i had never read oliver twist. Ive got David copperfield on the go but just leave it and go back to it.

I have A level english literature but managed to escape as much of shakespeare as i could, unfortunatly i have no interest in shakespeares writings i just cant get into it"

i bet you read the complete shades trilogy tho, didnt you!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Oh and its not that long since i re read sons and lovers, i do love that book

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"Oh and its not that long since i re read sons and lovers, i do love that book"
Im with you on that one but some of his lesser known books are better!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've read many of Shakespeare's poetry but on the odd occasion I've attempted to read his novels/plays I've been distracted by some rain running down the window or maybe by a streetlight turning on outside. He just doesn't grip me with his stories, but his poetry grabs me by the lapels and forces me to pay attention.

Having said that, the often quoted excerpts from some of his plays (Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou; or Cry Havoc! And let loose the dogs of war! (from Julius Caesar)) is pretty good stuff.

Kenneth Brannagh fucked Shakespeare up for me though as he takes it oh so seriously, darling. Can't stand the guy (met him and he's a pompous ass).

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

Shakespeare was a writer for the masses i think that is forgotten by the lovies of today!

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"I read shakespeare for English GCSE and marked a B

dont tell me - Hamlet?"

And romeo and Juilet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.

Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.

I love them all and usually read the complete works.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

My favourite poets are longfellow and edgar allen poe

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.

Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.

I love them all and usually read the complete works.

Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.

Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.

I love them all and usually read the complete works.

Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike!"

There is all sorts in there, like a 14th century soap opera.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"which complete works have you read?"

Enid Blyton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"which complete works have you read?"

Roald Dahl and A A Milne...

lol

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"iv read the complete works of

Lee Childs

Harlan Coben

Karin Slaughter

Dennis Le Hane

Patricia Cornwall

does that count

If you like Coben and Child I recommend you try Simon Kernick his are very good

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"I'm a closet 'classics' reader and take pleasure from reading them. But then I did study English literature at university because I love it so much.

Anything from The dream of the Rood, in original old English to Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, Chaucer's Canterbury tales, Troilus and Criseyde.

I love them all and usually read the complete works.

Canterbury Tales is a mucky book of the olden days isn't it? full of naughty saucy monks and the suchlike!

There is all sorts in there, like a 14th century soap opera.

people dont really change due they? books written all that time ago are still relevant to us today. Thats what surprised me about Dickens too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Eventually it all comes round again.

Bit like my kids thinking they invented sex.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"iv read the complete works of

Lee Childs

Harlan Coben

Karin Slaughter

Dennis Le Hane

Patricia Cornwall

does that count

If you like Coben and Child I recommend you try Simon Kernick his are very good"

I couldn't get away with Simon Kernick, only read a couple....

My list is

Terry Pratchett

Lee Child

Stephen King

Dean Koontz

Jonathan Kellerman

Faye Kellerman

A few others, maybe not so prolific, but read them all

Diana Gabaldon

Jean M Auel

Kelley Armstrong

Not really one for the classics, keep promising myself to read Dante's Inferno and got it on my Kindle, just haven't managed to get into it yet....have been reading Brief History of Time for about 20 years and still haven't got past about page 17

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dean Koontz is one of my favourite authors but there's a poem he wrote that features in The Book of Counted Sorrows but it also appears in Sole Survivor. It epitomises how I feel about religion/God:

The sky is deep, the sky is dark.

The light of the stars is so damn stark.

When I look up, I fill with fear,

if all we have is what lies here,

this lonely world, this troubled place,

then cold dead stars and empty space...

Well, I see no reason to persevere,

no reason to laugh or shed a tear,

no reason to sleep and none to wake,

no promises to keep and none to make.

And so at night I still raise my eyes

to study the clear but mysterious skies

that arch above us, as cold as stone.

Are you there God? Are we alone?

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

I have also done all of Terry Brooks and David Eddings although they are a bit of an acquired taste

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"Dean Koontz is one of my favourite authors but there's a poem he wrote that features in The Book of Counted Sorrows but it also appears in Sole Survivor. It epitomises how I feel about religion/God:

The sky is deep, the sky is dark.

The light of the stars is so damn stark.

When I look up, I fill with fear,

if all we have is what lies here,

this lonely world, this troubled place,

then cold dead stars and empty space...

Well, I see no reason to persevere,

no reason to laugh or shed a tear,

no reason to sleep and none to wake,

no promises to keep and none to make.

And so at night I still raise my eyes

to study the clear but mysterious skies

that arch above us, as cold as stone.

Are you there God? Are we alone?

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This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!"

Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one.

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!

Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one."

Or just sitting outside your tent, camping under a quiet star filled night sky and feeling the wonder!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maya Angelou and Pablo Neruda are two modern classic writers whose works I enjoy.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"This is quite a well quoted poem now isn't it but i didn't realize where it came from although i have heard it often. Its stunning!

Yes it is stunning. It always brings to my mind a picture of a sad parent/spouse speaking angrily to God at the funeral of their lost loved one."

I see it as still hopeful as the protagonist still keeps looking to the skies to see if God is there...

Believers might say eventually he'll get a reply, agnostics might see it as a triumph of hope and atheists may see it as a pointless exercise...it's a beautiful poem however you interpret it

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

"Maya Angelou and Pablo Neruda are two modern classic writers whose works I enjoy."
not heard of them but i'l have alook now thanks x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you like Dickens?"

"I don't know. I've never been to one."

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

""Do you like Dickens?"

"I don't know. I've never been to one.""

what the .....?

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

""Do you like Dickens?"

"I don't know. I've never been to one.""

what the .....?

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By *acandJulesCouple
over a year ago

Stockton on Tees

Read all of "Edgar Allen Poe" best book I read was "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

i quite like books written for teenagers like the duncton wood series, whitby witches and of course the hunger games

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"i quite like books written for teenagers like the duncton wood series, whitby witches and of course the hunger games"

Was Duncton Wood written for teenagers? I read that in my 30's lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had to read Midsummer night's dream and the scottish play for O'level. Unfortunately I had no interest at the time and ended up reading the Lambs Tales versions the night before the exam and hoped to remember some quotes.

Almost got away with it as I got a D !!

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

More importantly, does anybody know if that typing pool of Monkeys has written any of them yet?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

3 lines from the 47th sonnet which never fail to move me….

Thyself away art resent still with me;

For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,

And I am still with them and they with thee...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not quite the same but the only author I have read pretty much the full set of is Bill Bryson.

I also love Alan Bennett stuff.

The only Shakespeare I have read is 'Merchant of Venice' (twice)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"which complete works have you read?"

Jeremy Clarkson.

And also working my way through the complete works of several forumites!!!

Hard though - as the bloody system only shows their last 35 posts!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not quite the same but the only author I have read pretty much the full set of is Bill Bryson.

I also love Alan Bennett stuff.

The only Shakespeare I have read is 'Merchant of Venice' (twice)"

OMG yes Bussy,,,,,,

I love all Alan Bennett's work....the guy is a masterful writer,,,,,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have read the complete works of Douglas Adams, and a few bits of Shakespeare, Dickens etc... Personally I think Adams is better

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"I have read the complete works of Douglas Adams, and a few bits of Shakespeare, Dickens etc... Personally I think Adams is better

The whole family are good in my opinion

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

break a leg!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

macbeth

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

something bads gonna happen now!

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

"something bads gonna happen now!"
only if you say it out loud,and only if you use it in a theatre

but this is forumland so who knows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

this is forumland "

theatre at it's best

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

this is forumland

theatre at it's best

more like comedy fun house!!!!

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.

If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.

No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have.

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over a year ago

"Shakespeare is better seen or heard than read. Well paced it is thrilling. One of my English teachers, a wonderful flambouyant thespian, used to make us perform scenes rather than just read them silently to ourselves.

If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.

No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have."

Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus.

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.

No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have.

Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus.

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ooo going off thread but i love Gerard Butler

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.

No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have.

Ralph Feinnes and Gerard Butler did a sterling job in the movie version of Coriolanus.

i much prefer books to film as i am always disappointed, lord of the rings for example!

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By *picyspiregirlCouple
over a year ago

chesterfield

William mcgonagal takes some beating.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"William mcgonagal takes some beating."

My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.

Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.

Runs doon from Perth, twice a day.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"William mcgonagal takes some beating.

My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.

Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.

Runs doon from Perth, twice a day.

Did he write about the wee lassie who wore a kilt?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"William mcgonagal takes some beating.

My dad's version of McGonagall's Silvery Tay.

Ah the Tay the Tay, the silvery Tay.

Runs doon from Perth, twice a day.

Did he write about the wee lassie who wore a kilt?"

Not my dad, unless she was called Polly Styrene ..... he had a song about her.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Read the complete works of Oscar Wilde, loved his works since school days. Also read a lot of Shakespeare and dip into his 'complete works' when needs be.

"women represent the triumph of matter over mind just as men represent the triumph f mind over morals".

Only Oscar Wilde......"

Strange how if you put a name to a quote everyone pretends it's phenomenally witty. It's like the Emperor with no Clothes - no one dare speak out.

I like some of Wilde's quotes. I like many modern wits more.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

If you're parading around the Dickens festival in November say hello.

No one has mentioned reading all of JK Rowling but we all know many of us have."

Reading J.K. Rowling isn't something i'd admit to!

It's not quite as bad as saying you read all of the Fifty shades books.

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By *gentprovocateur OP Woman
over a year ago

leeds

i read the back of the cornflakes box if theres nothing else available

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"i read the back of the cornflakes box if theres nothing else available"

Would they be Kellogs?

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

"i read the back of the cornflakes box if theres nothing else available

Would they be Kellogs?"
Aldis own brand

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Now ..... We have to have a comparison.

Which makes the better reading?

Who uses the words Niacin and Riboflavin with greater sincerity ?

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