tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5570243561292689872024-03-13T06:38:22.314+00:00PseudepigraphaI first started commenting on the Scotsman website, due to disgust at the blatant anti-SNP bias on offer as balanced news stories.
Then I got hooked.
I interacted with all sorts of people, from posters like myself who were frustrated with the media coverage of the SNP, to unionists who really do think we are mad...
And others...Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.comBlogger360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-1972724080417816092017-06-21T01:17:00.002+01:002017-06-21T01:17:47.369+01:00Not the Hootsmon Headlines, the Herald ones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just how many headbangers and nutters were hurt though?</div>
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Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-14578430941391139222017-03-30T14:31:00.000+01:002017-03-30T14:31:54.506+01:00Vote Britain.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought this needed another airing, thanks to the events of yesterday. Alan Bisset compresses the next two years of British media headlines into five minutes and twenty-six seconds.<br />
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Remind you of anyone?</div>
Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-20872649910748329502016-12-25T20:59:00.000+00:002016-12-25T21:03:41.740+00:00A nice traditional Christmas<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">"The Duke of Cambridge broke with tradition by spending Christmas at his wife’s family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a service in nearby Englefield church with their children George and Charlotte."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">Did he? Good for him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Breaking with tradition that is. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Perhaps he will stop taking his traditional money from the taxes raised from millions of people who can't afford it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Nah.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">Merry Christmas parasite. Think about wee George. Think about bairns his age who are cold, wet and hungry.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">Right now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">I know your father has a flunky to put toothpaste on his brush. Do you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span>Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-52589998360578497332016-11-11T08:01:00.000+00:002016-11-11T08:01:29.927+00:00So long Canadian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Sue, wherever you are now. It was PG Tips and Jaffa Cakes, but that was close enough.<br />
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2016 really will go down as an <i>annus horribilis </i>won't it?Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-85360228621221346192016-11-05T06:19:00.000+00:002016-11-05T06:19:10.534+00:00Fallon fails<br />
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Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-66360421839543627162016-10-06T11:33:00.000+01:002016-10-06T11:44:38.440+01:00October 2016National Poetry Day is on us, as is the end of the Tory conference. I'm reminded how British arrogance and intransigence worked out last time, one hundred years ago.<br />
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I have met them at close of day</div>
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Coming with vivid faces</div>
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From counter or desk among grey</div>
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Eighteenth-century houses.</div>
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I have passed with a nod of the head</div>
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Or polite meaningless words,</div>
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Or have lingered awhile and said</div>
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Polite meaningless words,</div>
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And thought before I had done</div>
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Of a mocking tale or a gibe</div>
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To please a companion</div>
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Around the fire at the club,</div>
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Being certain that they and I</div>
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But lived where motley is worn:</div>
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All changed, changed utterly:</div>
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A terrible beauty is born.</div>
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II</div>
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That woman's days were spent</div>
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In ignorant good-will,</div>
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Her nights in argument</div>
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Until her voice grew shrill.</div>
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What voice more sweet than hers</div>
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When, young and beautiful,</div>
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She rode to harriers?</div>
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This man had kept a school</div>
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And rode our winged horse;</div>
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This other his helper and friend</div>
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Was coming into his force;</div>
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He might have won fame in the end,</div>
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So sensitive his nature seemed,</div>
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So daring and sweet his thought.</div>
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This other man I had dreamed</div>
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A drunken, vainglorious lout.</div>
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He had done most bitter wrong</div>
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To some who are near to my heart,</div>
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Yet I number him in the song;</div>
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He, too, has resigned his part</div>
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In the casual comedy;</div>
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He, too, has been changed in his turn,</div>
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Transformed utterly:</div>
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A terrible beauty is born.</div>
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III</div>
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Hearts with one purpose alone</div>
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Through summer and winter seem</div>
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Enchanted to a stone</div>
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To trouble the living stream.</div>
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The horse that comes from the road,</div>
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The rider, the birds that range</div>
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From cloud to tumbling cloud,</div>
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Minute by minute they change;</div>
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A shadow of cloud on the stream</div>
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Changes minute by minute;</div>
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A horse-hoof slides on the brim,</div>
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And a horse plashes within it;</div>
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The long-legged moor-hens dive,</div>
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And hens to moor-cocks call;</div>
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Minute by minute they live:</div>
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The stone's in the midst of it all.</div>
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All changed, changed utterly:</div>
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A terrible beauty is born.<br />
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IV</div>
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Too long a sacrifice</div>
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Can make a stone of the heart.</div>
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O when may it suffice?</div>
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That is Heaven's part, our part</div>
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To murmer name upon name,</div>
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As a mother names her child</div>
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When sleep at last has come</div>
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On limbs that had run wild.</div>
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What is it but nightfall?</div>
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No, no, not night but death;</div>
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Was it needless death after all?</div>
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For England may keep faith</div>
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For all that is done and said.</div>
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We know their dream; enough</div>
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To know they dreamed and are dead;</div>
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And what if excess of love</div>
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Bewildered them till they died?</div>
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I write it out in a verse--</div>
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MacDonagh and MacBride</div>
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And Connolly and Pearse</div>
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Now and in time to be,</div>
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Wherever green is worn,</div>
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Are changed, changed utterly:</div>
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A terrible beauty is born.</div>
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Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-28586722504894811862016-10-01T20:58:00.000+01:002016-10-01T20:58:01.627+01:00Comment is free.The Guardian.<br />
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The last bastion of free speech in what passes for journalism in oor United Kingdom.<br />
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Aye. Right.<br />
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I have no idea how the Guardian hires its wee moderators; I do know any comments that disparage feminism gets short shrift.<br />
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Fair enough.<br />
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So; responding to a comment on Edinburgh dialect, a London dialect person called me a 'dinlo*', calling them a 'rajcunt' gets me barred from the Guardian.<br />
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Fuck you,**<br />
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*No idea either.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**I was going to add such stuff as ' goat-fucker of Alexandria', but I'm sure Boris will get around to it eventually.</span>Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-65504912597351864602016-08-29T20:09:00.000+01:002016-08-29T20:09:08.093+01:00Fuck's sake. I'm watching a piece of British propaganda on TV.<br />
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An empty carriage is meant to show how much our monarch loves us.<br />
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In one of the biggest festivals in the country.<br />
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They are<i> so</i> stupid.<br />
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-55636599324362494192016-07-14T17:45:00.000+01:002016-07-14T17:45:21.385+01:00"Our" new Foreign Minister<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>He's the one on the right</i></div>
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The Scotch - what a verminous race!</div>
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Canny, pushy, chippy, they're all over the place.</div>
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Battening off us with false bonhomie;</div>
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Polluting our stock, undermining our economy.</div>
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Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!</div>
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Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!</div>
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Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporran</div>
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As provocatively, offensively foreign!</div>
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It's time Hadrian's Wall was refortified</div>
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To pen them in a ghetto on the other side.</div>
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I would go further. The nation</div>
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Deserves not merely isolation</div>
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But comprehensive extermination.</div>
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We must not flinch from a solution.</div>
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(I await legal prosecution.)</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: left;">The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: left;">Spectator</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: left;"> in 2004</span></b></div>
Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-54672968635883818502016-07-09T19:53:00.000+01:002016-07-09T19:53:05.616+01:00For Jeremy.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-65609077170609507322016-06-24T13:43:00.000+01:002016-06-24T13:43:33.361+01:00And so it begins again.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hands up who prefers this to "God save the Queen"?</div>
Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-88947662304098667492016-02-02T20:00:00.000+00:002016-02-02T20:00:43.126+00:00God, I don't want to be sued, but....<br />
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I once worked for the City of Edinburgh Libraries; about twenty years ago small branch libraries were asked to manually delete individual accounts, long overdues, huge fines, etc. to help larger branches, like Morningside.<br />
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I got a sheaf of them, as we all did.<br />
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One of them stuck out, mainly because of the unusual surname, and the title of the first book on the list.<br />
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...Of the six long overdue books,,,<br />
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"How to write children's books".<br />
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I wonder if ECL has a case to sue this particular author?<br />
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-92232821415042673662016-01-11T08:03:00.000+00:002016-01-11T08:03:03.280+00:00Changes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bye Ziggy.Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-59124297620350904892015-12-29T07:20:00.001+00:002015-12-29T07:20:55.142+00:00And don't forget the joker!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-77900599282344790462015-12-03T07:25:00.001+00:002015-12-03T07:25:58.562+00:00Cameron's War Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This song was written to gain support for the Turks against Russia, and coined the term jingoism...Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-89769577374770133412015-11-19T22:38:00.000+00:002015-11-19T22:38:49.505+00:00What is it good for.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We all want to hit back at the cowardly murderers of Paris. To repulse the barbarians who behead innocent civilians and burn to death fellow Muslims.<br />
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I'm sure our precision bombing skills have improved. We have drones controlled by highly trained individuals hundred of miles away from the actual combat, so they are safe. I'm sure Windows Eleven will make it even safer.<br />
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But then I'm probably talking shite.<br />
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-79061488832607236662015-01-13T11:24:00.001+00:002015-01-13T11:24:55.465+00:00Subsequently...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks for the laugh MurdoConan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-34627508434072052772015-01-07T18:16:00.000+00:002015-01-07T18:16:00.711+00:00Je Suis Charlie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-41805996925560891162014-10-01T16:06:00.000+01:002014-10-01T16:06:09.062+01:00Wings over Hootsmon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-41822923115572780612014-09-17T23:04:00.001+01:002014-09-17T23:08:26.564+01:00The Last Hootsmon Headline<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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See you in an independent Scotland.</div>
Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-14088575067004740252014-05-27T07:08:00.001+01:002014-05-27T07:08:25.327+01:00Hell or Yes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unashamedly nicked from http://logicsrock.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/euro-elections-2014-for-hard-of-thinking.html<br />
<br />Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-62500631129669359312014-03-05T02:58:00.000+00:002014-03-05T02:58:39.591+00:00The Sunday Past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Yours Wullie? Who's Wullie? It's a body's Wullie! </b></div>
Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-27898741294237458722014-01-15T09:56:00.001+00:002014-01-15T09:56:54.776+00:00Telegraph's slip showing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Telegraph 15 Jan 2014<br />
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Look carefully.<br />
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Thanks to Jock Russell.Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557024356129268987.post-12381460143214049832013-12-21T11:52:00.000+00:002013-12-21T11:52:45.341+00:00NATivity scene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been some year.<br />
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The highlight for me was the march for Independence in September. Meeting like minded folk outside the Albanach was braw fun, putting faces to monikers, the spectacular save of a pint as someone (They ken who they are) clipped their heels coming out the door... The march itself (has anyone got a photo of me wielding the club attached to the WoS flag?) and the craic in the Waterloo Buffet afterwards.<br />
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The nadir was the ambulance trip to St John's A&E on the early morning of Friday the thirteenth of December. I thought it was my heart, the wise NHS staff new better. I'd suffered a bleeding ulcer for nearly two weeks and had lost a lot of blood. They gave me five units before being happy with my blood count.<br />
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So, I've been out since Wednesday, getting my blood pressure up again by reading the Telegraph, being pampered by sisters, my daughter and my returned wife.<br />
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Merry Christmas.Conan the Librarian™http://www.blogger.com/profile/01904339261121451779noreply@blogger.com30