Today would have been my Grandpa’s birthday. He was the one who made me want to be an engineer.
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Author: scruss
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Happy Birthday
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is this thing on, eh?
Since this is my first entry in my first blog, I think I’m supposed to quote something clever:
For imperial Britain, rapid expansion overseas was a sign not of economic strength but of underlying weaknesses at home. An empire that looked impressive and invincible on the map later proved to be remarkably fragile, shrinking much faster than it had grown.
— Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Afterword.I’ve just re-read FFN, this time in the extended edition. It’s better the second time around. And he’s right about Conway’s burgers in Colorado Springs — they’re that good.
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in which I invent disemvowelling
I have made a new code where I miss out all the vowel's places like: Hll my nm s Stwrt Rssll -
the vertical hold was off, I remember
On Monday our family got a colour television. It is a Murphy television and it is white and it has ITA1 and ITA2 and B.B.C.2. And it keeps on going funny. And it is very big. -
the mail to cro(y)don
When I sent my first letter to Brooke Bond I sent it to: Brooke Bond Oxo L.t.d. Leon House high Street Crodon Surrey -
unfortunate frog pyre
Once we got tadpoles and they grew until they were little frogs. And there was lots of little frogs about the house and they all got killed so we made a little crematorium of matches then we lit it and then pooh what a pong! if any frogs get killed please burn them. (Please feed them live plankton.) -
quite an extensive record collection
I will show you list of our LP's I think the ‘P&L’ refers to Peters & Lee.
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I want to be an e(n)gineer!
I am six-and-a-half (nerly 7.). When I am growen up I want to be an egineer.
