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

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty. You're listening to the boy from the big bad Salop

. This is Jim hot, this is Jim hot.

Hello! Cowabunga

tattva namaste. And of course, good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening. What's on your beautiful mind? What you up to? Working? Pervin'? Lurking?

Whatever you're doing, share it here. Chat with other pervy night owls

and pervy night flamingos

. Talk about absolutely anything you want.

Newbies, thread watchers, you're very welcome here. Very, very welcome.

Don't be shy, give us a try.

Let's nocturnal. Smileyface

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Hey!

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

Good evening Jim and all

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Yaaay. I've missed this small victory feeling.

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

"Hey! "

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening and hey, Meli. You, are tonight's ¹st poster. Well done. *Salutes*

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

"Yaaay. I've missed this small victory feeling."

What do you mean small?!

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

"Good evening Jim and all

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening to thee, GJB. The best things in life are free.

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

"Good evening Jim and all

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening to thee, GJB. The best things in life are free."

Second again. The story of my life

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

"Good evening Jim and all

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening to thee, GJB. The best things in life are free.

Second again. The story of my life

AKA... What a Life!

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By *liceinWonderland38Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

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

"Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Alice. Nice of you to pop. Do you know what day it is today?

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

"Yaaay. I've missed this small victory feeling.

What do you mean small?!"

Sorry, absolutely mahoosive victory. I'm very happy and buzzing around because of it.

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

Good evening Jim how the devil are you ?

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

[Removed by poster at 04/07/22 22:12:18]

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By *liceinWonderland38Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

"Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Alice. Nice of you to pop. Do you know what day it is today?"

Hmmm it’s American Independence Day, it’s 6 days until my birthday… other than that I’m not sure

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

North West

Hello and Goodnight.

Its been a long one.

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

"[Removed by poster at 04/07/22 22:12:18]"

Should have just quoted.

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

Twonk. ^

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

"Hello and Goodnight.

Its been a long one. "

Na night. x

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

"Yaaay. I've missed this small victory feeling.

What do you mean small?!

Sorry, absolutely mahoosive victory. I'm very happy and buzzing around because of it.

Is the correct answer.

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

A good evening to you Mr Jim. X

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

"Good evening Jim how the devil are you ?"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Naughty. I'm bobbing along. How are you?

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By *yourselfMan
over a year ago

Heworth

Good evening all, serious chilling going on here

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

"Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Alice. Nice of you to pop. Do you know what day it is today?

Hmmm it’s American Independence Day, it’s 6 days until my birthday… other than that I’m not sure

It's Alice in Wonderland Day.

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By *liceinWonderland38Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

"Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Alice. Nice of you to pop. Do you know what day it is today?

Hmmm it’s American Independence Day, it’s 6 days until my birthday… other than that I’m not sure

It's Alice in Wonderland Day."

I did not know that, and I definitely should’ve!!! Thank you for making an Alice very happy

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By *R2020999Man
over a year ago

Scotland

Good evening Jim, and everyone.

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

"A good evening to you Mr Jim. X"

A good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening to, Lorna. How are you? x

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

"Good evening all, serious chilling going on here

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, B and your bulge. Happy Monday.

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

"Good evening Jim, I have decided to pop in again this evening as I do now and then.

Hope you, and everyone else, is well

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Alice. Nice of you to pop. Do you know what day it is today?

Hmmm it’s American Independence Day, it’s 6 days until my birthday… other than that I’m not sure

It's Alice in Wonderland Day.

I did not know that, and I definitely should’ve!!! Thank you for making an Alice very happy

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

"Good evening Jim, and everyone."

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

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By *R2020999Man
over a year ago

Scotland

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?"

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?

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

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?"

Bit of a duvet day today. For some reason I've got into watching Press Gang. I'm on season 2.

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By *ot-AshMan
over a year ago

London

Good evening brother Jim and everyone.

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

"Good evening brother Jim and everyone."

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Ash. It's good to see you, man.

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

Ash is here!

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By *R2020999Man
over a year ago

Scotland

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?

Bit of a duvet day today. For some reason I've got into watching Press Gang. I'm on season 2."

A well deserved rest day and some good viewing

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

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?

Bit of a duvet day today. For some reason I've got into watching Press Gang. I'm on season 2.

A well deserved rest day and some good viewing"

I've been enjoying Press Gang. Why was your day pretty good?

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By *ot-AshMan
over a year ago

London

"Good evening brother Jim and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Ash. It's good to see you, man."

Thanks brother. Its good to be back.

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

"Good evening brother Jim and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Ash. It's good to see you, man.

Thanks brother. Its good to be back.

Boom shack-a-lak.

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

"A good evening to you Mr Jim. X

A good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening to, Lorna. How are you? x"

Not too bad. X

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

"Ash is here!"

No here is definitely here! I can see him.

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

"Ash is here!

No here is definitely here! I can see him.

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By *R2020999Man
over a year ago

Scotland

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?

Bit of a duvet day today. For some reason I've got into watching Press Gang. I'm on season 2.

A well deserved rest day and some good viewing

I've been enjoying Press Gang. Why was your day pretty good?"

An unusually good Monday at work..haha

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By *yourselfMan
over a year ago

Heworth

"Good evening all, serious chilling going on here

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, B and your bulge. Happy Monday. "

Why thank you. Same to you

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

Evening all,

Making up after three days of filtered Internet.

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

"Good evening Jim, and everyone.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mr2020999. How was the fourth of July for you?

Actually been pretty good thanks Jim, what about yourself?

Bit of a duvet day today. For some reason I've got into watching Press Gang. I'm on season 2.

A well deserved rest day and some good viewing

I've been enjoying Press Gang. Why was your day pretty good?

An unusually good Monday at work..haha"

Haha, that'll do.

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

"Good evening all, serious chilling going on here

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, B and your bulge. Happy Monday.

Why thank you. Same to you

Ta very much.

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

"Evening all,

Making up after three days of filtered Internet. "

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Quiet¹. Why has your world wide web access been filtered for goodness sakes?

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

"Evening all,

Making up after three days of filtered Internet.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Quiet¹. Why has your world wide web access been filtered for goodness sakes?"

At a company site

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

"Evening all,

Making up after three days of filtered Internet.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Quiet¹. Why has your world wide web access been filtered for goodness sakes?

At a company site "

Ah.

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By *yourselfMan
over a year ago

Heworth

"Evening all,

Making up after three days of filtered Internet.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Quiet¹. Why has your world wide web access been filtered for goodness sakes?

At a company site "

Try Windscribe vpn if you're Android (free) allegedly it bypasses most company filters, even strict offshore ones. Obviously I wouldn't be able to confirm that

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

Information Technology information. ^

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

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

Good evening everyone, I hope we all had a good weekend. Xx

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

"Good evening everyone, I hope we all had a good weekend. Xx"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening tonight, Delight. x

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/62041539

Transfer rumours. ^

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

https://youtu.be/qBOAHKaD1kM

Artistry. ^

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Good Eeeevening Jim.

How was last week for you and did you have a good weekend?

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

"Good Eeeevening Jim.

How was last week for you and did you have a good weekend?

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Iain.

It's been alright.

Have you been away on your holiday?

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

"Good Eeeevening Jim.

How was last week for you and did you have a good weekend?

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Iain.

It's been alright.

Have you been away on your holiday?"

I was away 3 weeks ago, just for 3 days, seeing friends whom I hadn't seen for almost 20 years (they'd been running a business in the USA).

Last week, I wasn't well so had a very quiet few days, resting. Back to my usual self by Sunday.

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

He's his usual self. ^

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

It's the midnight hour. Happy Tuesday.

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By *arcopolot1000Man
over a year ago

Dublin

Hello everyone!

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

"He's his usual self. ^"

Yeah, raving nuts and going to sort out the world!

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

"Hello everyone!"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Marc. Welcome to The late late nocturnal thread ©™ Sponsored by hopes and dreams. Smileyface

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

"He's his usual self. ^

Yeah, raving nuts and going to sort out the world!

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

On this day 1994 Amazon.com was founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

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

On this day 2017 followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara won a court case, three years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

g°°d Eeeeeevening jIm!

I'm sending Nocturnal felicitations from Windermere, the District of the Lake.

I took the M6 toll road, passing the signs for Shrëwsbüry.

One day I'll do a detour and visit.

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

"On this day 2017 followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara won a court case, three years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life.

But unless someone checks on him regularly he might die from hypothermia over and over again.

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

"g°°d Eeeeeevening jIm!

I'm sending Nocturnal felicitations from Windermere, the District of the Lake.

I took the M6 toll road, passing the signs for Shrëwsbüry.

One day I'll do a detour and visit."

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Nero in Windermere. You'd better take a detour one of these days.

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

"On this day 2017 followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara won a court case, three years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life.

But unless someone checks on him regularly he might die from hypothermia over and over again. "

Ash works in mysterious ways.

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

On this day 1946 the bikini was unveiled. Millions would come to be grateful that Frenchman Louis Réard, a car mechanic, had an unlikely sideline in the 1940s, he also looked after his mother’s lingerie boutique in Paris. And from there he created the bikini.

Up to that point, the most revealing bathing costume on the market displayed a mere sliver of flesh at the midriff. A scornful Réard thought women should be more daring, especially with a spirit of “doing your own thing” taking hold across Europe after the chains of war had finally been broken and people were beginning to enjoy a new taste of freedom.

Adding to the pressure for change was the drive by clothing manufacturers and designers to produce new ranges that would reflect the free-spirited mood of the times.

Rising to the challenge, Réard created a bathing costume using no more than 30 inches of fabric, the bottom half made basically from two triangles of cloth held together with string and the top half no more than a skimpy bra.

He thought the design would be “highly explosive” and, inspired by American atomic bomb

tests that had started to take place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, he cheekily called his swimwear “the bikini”.

Now he needed to market it. But finding a model prepared to appear in public wearing his scandalously skimpy creation proved to be quite a challenge. Finally, he recruited 19-year-old exotic dancer Micheline Bernardini who had no qualms at all about parading semi-naked for all to see.

Expecting big headlines after the launch at a Paris swimming pool, Réard designed a bikini for Micheline printed appropriately, as he thought, with newspaper type.

Another French designer, Jacques Heim, had produced a competing swimsuit which he called the “atom” and described it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.” But Réard’s creation was considerably smaller and he advertised it as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.”

Shockingly for many people, it was also the first time that the wearer’s navel had been exposed.

There was a lot of initial resistance to the bikini, indeed it was banned on beaches in Spain and Italy for a time and was considered unacceptable in the United States. But more and more women wanted one and they appeared in increasing numbers on Europe’s beaches as each summer passed.

A significant breakthrough come in 1958 when Brigitte Bardot, the “sex kitten” of the age, exploded onto cinema screens flaunting a bikini in her iconic film, And God Created Woman.

In the US, barriers were broken in 1960 when pop star Bryan Hyland scored a major worldwide hit with a novelty number which told of his girl dressed only in an “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini.”

Louis Réard, who insisted that a two-piece wasn’t a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring,” continued selling them from his shop in Paris until 1980. He died in 1984 at the age of 88.

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

On this day 1841 Thomas Cook opened their first travel agency.

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By *moking GunCouple
over a year ago

East Anglia

Evening Jim!

Chilling out after a steamy night on cams

Nice to see you and hope you and everyone else is well!

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

On this day 1880 George Bernard Shaw quit his job at the Edison Telephone Company in order to write.

Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, and left school at the age of 14 to work in a land agent’s office. In 1876, he quit and moved to London, where his mother, a music teacher, had settled. He worked various jobs while trying to write plays. He began publishing book reviews and art and music criticism in 1885. Meanwhile, he became a committed reformer and an active force in the newly established Fabian Society, a group of middle-class socialists.

His first play, Widowers’ House, was produced in 1892. His second play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, was banned in Britain because of its frank dealing with prostitution. In 1905, when the play was performed in the U.S., police shut it down after one performance and jailed the actors and producers. The courts soon ruled that the show could re-open. Although some private productions were held, the show wasn’t legally performed in Britain until 1926.

Shaw became the theatre critic for the Saturday Review in 1895, and his reviews during the next several years helped shape the development of drama. In 1898, he published Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, which contained Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny and other dramas. In 1904, Man and Superman was produced.

In his work, Shaw supported socialism and decried the abuses of capitalism, the degradation of women, and the evil effects of poverty, violence, and war. His writing was filled with humour, wit, and sparkle, as well as reformist messages, and his play Pygmalion, produced in 1912, later became the hit musical and movie My Fair Lady.

In 1925, Shaw won the Nobel Prize for literature and used the substantial prize money to start an Anglo-Swedish literary society. He lived simply, abstained from alcohol, caffeine and meat, declined most honours and awards, and continued writing into his 90s. He produced more than 40 plays before his death in 1950.

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

"Evening Jim!

Chilling out after a steamy night on cams

Nice to see you and hope you and everyone else is well!

SG"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Smoking Gun. Sounds like you had fun. Smileyface

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over a year ago

On this day 1996 Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.

Originally code-named “6LL3,” the cloned lamb was named after singer and actress Dolly Parton. The name was reportedly suggested by one of the stockmen who assisted with her birth, after he learned that the animal was cloned from a mammary cell. The cells had been taken from the udder of a six-year-old ewe and cultured in a lab using microscopic needles, in a method first used in human fertility treatments in the 1970s. After producing a number of normal eggs, scientists implanted them into surrogate ewes, 148 days later one of them gave birth to Dolly.

Dolly’s birth was announced publicly in February 1997 to a storm of controversy. On one hand, supporters argued that cloning technology can lead to crucial advances in medicine, citing the production of genetically modified animals to be organ donors for humans as well as “therapeutic” cloning, or the process of cloning embryos in order to collect stem cells for use in the development of treatments for degenerative nerve diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Some scientists also looked at animal cloning as a possible way to preserve endangered species. On the other hand, detractors saw the new cloning technology as potentially unsafe and unethical, especially when it was applied to what many saw as the logical next step, human cloning.

Over the course of her short life, Dolly was mated to a male sheep named David and eventually gave birth to four lambs. In January 2002 she was found to have arthritis in her hind legs, a diagnosis that raised questions about genetic abnormalities that may have been caused in the cloning process. After suffering from a progressive lung disease, Dolly was put down on February 14, 2003, at the age of six. Her early death raised more questions about the safety of cloning, both animal and human. As for Dolly, the historic sheep was stuffed and is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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

On this day 1969 the Rolling Stones played a free concert in London's Hyde Park.

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over a year ago

On this day 1865 the Salvation Army was founded.

In the East End of London, revivalist preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine established the Christian Mission, later known as the Salvation Army. Determined to wage war against the evils of poverty and religious indifference with military efficiency. Booth modelled his Methodist sect after the British army, labeling uniformed ministers as “officers” and new members as “recruits.”

The Christian Mission, in which women were given ranks equal with men, launched “campaigns” into London’s most forsaken neighbourhoods. Soup kitchens were the first in a long line of various projects designed to provide physical and spiritual assistance to the destitute. In the early years, many in Britain were critical of the Christian Mission and its tactics, and the members were often subjected to fines and imprisonment as breakers of the peace.

In 1878, the organisation was renamed the Salvation Army, and two years later the first U.S. branch opened in Pennsylvania. During the Great Depression, the Salvation Army provided food and lodging for those in need, and during both world wars it distinguished itself through its work with the armed forces. By then, it had come to be appreciated as an important international charity organisation.

Today, the Salvation Army, still based in London, has branches in more than 75 countries. The Army operates evangelical centres, hospitals, emergency and disaster services, alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs, community centres, social work centres, secondhand shops, and recreation facilities. Voluntary contributions and profits from the sale of its publications fund the organisation.

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

On this day 1973 the Isle of Man began issuing their own postage stamps.

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By *bostCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Morning… late night insomnia fest here

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over a year ago

On this day 1975 Arthur Ashe defeated the heavily favoured Jimmy Connors to become the first Black man ever to win Wimbledon, the most coveted championship in tennis.

Arthur Ashe began playing tennis as a boy in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. After winning a tennis scholarship to UCLA, Ashe was taken under the wing of tennis star Pancho Gonzales, who recognised the young player’s potential. In 1968, Ashe became the first Black man to win the U.S. Open. Two years later, he captured the Australian Open for his second Grand Slam title. Over the next seven years, Ashe won his share of tournaments, but no more majors, and, frustrated, he set his sights on victory at Wimbledon, one of the most celebrated championships in tennis.

Arthur Ashe was 31 years old in 1975, and seemingly well past his prime, so his advancement to the 1975 Wimbledon finals came as somewhat of a surprise to the tennis establishment. While Ashe’s best finishes at Wimbledon had been losses in the semi-finals in 1968 and 1969, his opponent, the brash 22-year-old Jimmy Connors, was the defending Wimbledon champion. In their three previous meetings, Connors had handled Ashe easily. Furthermore, Connors was coming off an impressive semi-final win against Roscoe Tanner, whose intimidating serve observers called the hardest hitting ever at Wimbledon.

Though many thought he didn’t have a chance, Ashe formulated a game plan for the match, hit nothing hard. He planned to serve strongly and then give Connors nothing but “junk” as Ashe himself described it. Connors won the first game of the first set, but then dropped the rest of the set in just 20 minutes, 6-1. Although Connors won just one game off Ashe in the second set, he took the third set 7-5. His confidence restored, Connors strutted around the court, while Ashe closed his eyes between sets, concentrating on the moment at hand. Finally, with the shocked crowd cheering him on, Ashe finished Connors off in the fourth set, 6-4.

Ashe retired from competitive tennis in 1980 after suffering a heart attack. For his career, he won 51 tournaments. In retirement, Ashe wrote the three-volume book A Hard Road to Glory, first published in 1988, which detailed the struggle of Black athletes in America. In 1983, after double-bypass surgery, Ashe was infected with HIV during a blood transfusion. After revealing his disease to the world in 1992, he set about educating the public about HIV and AIDS. He died of AIDS-related complications on February the 6th, 1993. In 1997, the U.S. Open’s new home court was named Arthur Ashe Stadium.

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over a year ago

"Morning… late night insomnia fest here "

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Sbost. I hope you get off.

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By *bostCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

We’ll try x

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By *ittlemiss1985Woman
over a year ago

Lansing

Went on my first protest today, ended up taking over the city's 4th of July parade.

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over a year ago

Late in...catching up on the f1

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On this day 1954 Elvis Presley recorded That’s All Right (Mama).

History credits Sam Phillips, the owner and operator of Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, with the discovery of Elvis Presley, which is perfectly fair, though it fails to account for the roles of four others in making that discovery possible, The business partner who first spotted something special in Elvis, the two session men who vouched for his musical talent and the blues figure who wrote the song he was playing when Sam Phillips realised what he had on his hands. The song in question was That’s All Right by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Elvis’ unrehearsed performance of it recorded by Sam Phillips on July the 5th, 1954 is a moment some regard as the true beginning of the rock-and-roll revolution.

The sequence of events that led to this moment began when a young truck driver walked into the offices of Sun Records and the Memphis Recording Service on a Saturday night in the summer of 1953 and paid $3.98 plus tax to make an acetate record as a birthday present to his mother. Sam Phillips recorded Elvis singing My Happiness and That’s When Your Heartaches Begin, and he told his business partner Marion Kreisler something that made her write down “Good ballad singer. Hold” in her notes. It was Kreisler who was impressed enough by the incredibly shy young singer that she repeatedly brought his name up to Phillips over the next year and mentioned that he seemed worth following up with. In early July 1954, Phillips finally sent two of his favourite session musicians, guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, to go meet with Elvis and report back to him with their assessment. After talking and jamming a bit with Presley, Moore and Black gave Phillips a report that was hardly enthusiastic. “He didn’t knock me out,” Moore told Phillips, “[but] the boy’s got a good voice.” Phillips decided to take a flyer and schedule a recording session with Presley for July the 5th.

Phillips knew that something was brewing in the music world of 1954, and he had a pretty good idea what it would take to make the pot boil, A white singer who could sing “black” rhythm and blues. However, the first several hours of the July 5th session did nothing to convince Sam Phillips that Elvis was the one he’d been looking for. Elvis’s renditions of Harbor Lights and I Love You Because were stiff and uninspired, and after numerous takes and re-takes, Phillips called for a break. Rather than shoot the breeze with his fellow musicians or step outside for a breath of fresh air, Elvis began to mess around on the guitar, playing and singing That’s All Right, but at least twice as fast as the original.

Through an open door in the control room, Sam Phillips heard this unfamiliar rendition of a familiar blues number and knew he’d found the sound he’d been looking for. Phillips stuck his head out and said "What are you doing?" Scotty Moore later recalled. “And we said, ‘We don’t know.’ ‘Well, back up,’ Sam said, ‘try to find a place to start, and do it again.'”

Phillips continued recording with Elvis over the next two evenings, but he never captured anything as thrilling as he did that first night. Released to Memphis radio station WHBQ just two days after it was recorded, and then as a single two weeks later, Elvis Presley’s That’s All Right (Mama) became an instant regional hit and set him on his path toward stardom.

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over a year ago

"Went on my first protest today, ended up taking over the city's 4th of July parade."

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, LittleMiss. What were you protesting against?

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By *rincessPuddleDuck22Woman
over a year ago

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over a year ago

"Late in...catching up on the f1"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Muchas. Whatever gets you through the night is groovy with me.

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Good morning peeps. No sleep crew

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over a year ago

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Princess. Where have you been?!

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over a year ago

"Good morning peeps. No sleep crew "

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, S. Do you have any other secrets?

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

Don't forget folks that today is the last day of the Shropshire Art Society Summer Exhibition.

Make your way down St Marys Church, Dogpole, Shrewsbury, DY18 1DX.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

I have a secret crush on Le Princess Pudding

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over a year ago

On this day 1975 At Knebworth, Pink Floyd debuted their album, Wish You Were Here, with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flew into the stage.

https://youtu.be/hjpF8ukSrvk

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"Good morning peeps. No sleep crew

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, S. Do you have any other secrets?"
not really I'm an open book

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"Don't forget folks that today is the last day of the Shropshire Art Society Summer Exhibition.

Make your way down St Marys Church, Dogpole, Shrewsbury, DY18 1DX.

Thank you. But that postcode isn't right.

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over a year ago

"I have a secret crush on Le Princess Pudding

...."

Blimey, there's a nocturnal revelation.

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"Good morning peeps. No sleep crew

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, S. Do you have any other secrets? not really I'm an open book "

Fair do's.

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over a year ago

Night shifter here hope all is well

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over a year ago

On this day 1989 Seinfield (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles) screened its pilot episode starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC.

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"Night shifter here hope all is well"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, SurreyGuy. Thank you for your work.

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By *rincessPuddleDuck22Woman
over a year ago

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Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Princess. Where have you been?!

I've been having a moment... or three but I'm 99% sure I'm over it.•°°

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Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Princess. Where have you been?!

I've been having a moment... or three but I'm 99% sure I'm over it.•°°

Nocturnal love to you, Princess.

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over a year ago

On this day 2012 The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, was opened in London.

Oooh, you're Shard.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening Jim. I've just rolled back to my hotel room. I might be a bit sloshed. Tonight I flirted with some American Dads and witnessed a man pretty much destroy an art installation (by accident). It's been a funny old trip so far

KC², sponsored by white wine and dirty beats

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On this day 2018 Stormzy announced a partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books.

I bet Nero's got some merky books.

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"Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening Jim. I've just rolled back to my hotel room. I might be a bit sloshed. Tonight I flirted with some American Dads and witnessed a man pretty much destroy an art installation (by accident). It's been a funny old trip so far

KC², sponsored by white wine and dirty beats

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mrs KC and the Sloshed Moonlight Band. You're really getting into the late night Spanish lifestyle. Shame about the art.

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over a year ago

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KC², sponsored by white wine and dirty beats

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mrs KC and the Sloshed Moonlight Band. You're really getting into the late night Spanish lifestyle. Shame about the art."

Jim, I had a jolly nice time this eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening. I'm going to sleep now because otherwise I will be a zombie tomorrow

Buenas noches!

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KC², sponsored by white wine and dirty beats

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Mrs KC and the Sloshed Moonlight Band. You're really getting into the late night Spanish lifestyle. Shame about the art.

Jim, I had a jolly nice time this eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening. I'm going to sleep now because otherwise I will be a zombie tomorrow

Buenas noches!"

Na night. x

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By *ittlemiss1985Woman
over a year ago

Lansing

"Went on my first protest today, ended up taking over the city's 4th of July parade.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, LittleMiss. What were you protesting against?"

The overturning of Roe v. Wade, which prevented abortion from being banned.

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"Went on my first protest today, ended up taking over the city's 4th of July parade.

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, LittleMiss. What were you protesting against?

The overturning of Roe v. Wade, which prevented abortion from being banned."

You waded in.

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By *rincessPuddleDuck22Woman
over a year ago

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"I have a secret crush on Le Princess Pudding

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Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Princess. Where have you been?!

I've been having a moment... or three but I'm 99% sure I'm over it.•°°

Nocturnal love to you, Princess."

Thankyou Jim.

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Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Princess. Where have you been?!

I've been having a moment... or three but I'm 99% sure I'm over it.•°°

Nocturnal love to you, Princess.

Thankyou Jim.

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

Made you look.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

Oops! Apologies - I forgot to do the Nocturnal Epilogue.

(KC² got laid last night, apparently)

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over a year ago

You should see him on the dancefloor, he epic-vogues. ^

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