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Quasimodem
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Did the Lord High Mayor of London announce that the Blackout originated in Canada, yet? 
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Mayors and Lord Mayors
London has a Mayor - Ken Livingstone who was a Labour politician but they didn't want him to run for the office. They wanted a suit they had selected to be the puppet for the Prime Minister. Ken Livingstone ran, was ejected from the Labour Party but still won.
The City of London has a Lord Mayor. Whoever stands for election has to pay about a million pounds of their own money for entertainment during the year. It may be more than that now. The Queen and the Prime Minister have to ask the Lord Mayor for permission to enter the City.
Guess which mayor has more power. The City builds its own bridges across the Thames without costing the taxpayer anything. Neat trick. They also sell old bridges to Lake Havasu City. Anyone else you have heard of sell an old bridge? Tower Bridge and London Bridge were built by the City of London.
The City also has its own army and the Freemen of the City of London are required to turn out with their pike and/or musket whenever the City liberties are threatened. The last person to threaten the City liberties was Margaret Thatcher. She backed down when she found the majority of her cabinet were Freemen of the City of London.
The City has a reputation for being non-sexist and non-racist. Women have been "Freemen" since the Middle Ages. When Parliament would not let Jews or Catholics stand for public office the City kept electing Jews and Catholics until Parliament gave way. It helped that the Jews and Catholics had to pay a fine for not accepting office. One has to raise money somehow, doesn't one?
The only right a Freeman now has is the right to drive a flock of sheep over London Bridge. It was done last year even though the Freeman had to borrow the sheep from a rural friend. Made a mess of the rush hour.
Don't mess with the City of London. A pike up the backside is painful.
Og (descendent of Freemen male and female since 1326)
London has a Mayor - Ken Livingstone who was a Labour politician but they didn't want him to run for the office. They wanted a suit they had selected to be the puppet for the Prime Minister. Ken Livingstone ran, was ejected from the Labour Party but still won.
The City of London has a Lord Mayor. Whoever stands for election has to pay about a million pounds of their own money for entertainment during the year. It may be more than that now. The Queen and the Prime Minister have to ask the Lord Mayor for permission to enter the City.
Guess which mayor has more power. The City builds its own bridges across the Thames without costing the taxpayer anything. Neat trick. They also sell old bridges to Lake Havasu City. Anyone else you have heard of sell an old bridge? Tower Bridge and London Bridge were built by the City of London.
The City also has its own army and the Freemen of the City of London are required to turn out with their pike and/or musket whenever the City liberties are threatened. The last person to threaten the City liberties was Margaret Thatcher. She backed down when she found the majority of her cabinet were Freemen of the City of London.
The City has a reputation for being non-sexist and non-racist. Women have been "Freemen" since the Middle Ages. When Parliament would not let Jews or Catholics stand for public office the City kept electing Jews and Catholics until Parliament gave way. It helped that the Jews and Catholics had to pay a fine for not accepting office. One has to raise money somehow, doesn't one?
The only right a Freeman now has is the right to drive a flock of sheep over London Bridge. It was done last year even though the Freeman had to borrow the sheep from a rural friend. Made a mess of the rush hour.
Don't mess with the City of London. A pike up the backside is painful.
Og (descendent of Freemen male and female since 1326)
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Since London isn't in Black,
what colour is CNN's face
what colour is CNN's face
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A camel farting in Saudi Arabia is enough reason to inflate, at pump, gas prices, even before the smell blows off.
Somehow, curing the camel's flatulence never manages to bring the price back down again.
I wonder how that works
Somehow, curing the camel's flatulence never manages to bring the price back down again.
I wonder how that works
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Yeppers
There was a bit of a power cut in parts of London today, a few tube trains couldn't run and some businesses were blacked out, nothing too serious though I don't think.
Some paddy workman put a digger shovel through a power line probably, that's the usual prob with large area power cuts over here.
We are lucky in UK that there is a national grid system covering virtually the whole country and power can be diverted around the place a bit if need be, also most power lines here are underground out of reach of falling trees and the like.
pops...........
There was a bit of a power cut in parts of London today, a few tube trains couldn't run and some businesses were blacked out, nothing too serious though I don't think.
Some paddy workman put a digger shovel through a power line probably, that's the usual prob with large area power cuts over here.
We are lucky in UK that there is a national grid system covering virtually the whole country and power can be diverted around the place a bit if need be, also most power lines here are underground out of reach of falling trees and the like.
pops...........
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Re: Yeppers
What do you call your (off color) parrot, anyway pop?
pop_54 said:There was a bit of a power cut in parts of London today, a few tube trains couldn't run and some businesses were blacked out, nothing too serious though I don't think.
Some paddy workman put a digger shovel through a power line probably, that's the usual prob with large area power cuts over here.
We are lucky in UK that there is a national grid system covering virtually the whole country and power can be diverted around the place a bit if need be, also most power lines here are underground out of reach of falling trees and the like.
pops...........
What do you call your (off color) parrot, anyway pop?
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The UK also has a link to France. We can take power from them; they can take power from us. Not too much as yet but we plan to increase the capacity soon.
We may not like French politicians; they may not like ours but if we can both make money - Hey! Lets cooperate.
Og
We may not like French politicians; they may not like ours but if we can both make money - Hey! Lets cooperate.
Og
pop_54
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Re: Re: Yeppers
Anything you like Jenny love, he can't hear you, he's been stuffed
(This parrot is dead, it's deceased, it's defunct, it is an ex-parrot, if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up daiseys. As per Monty Python)
pops........... 
Jenny _S said:
Anything you like Jenny love, he can't hear you, he's been stuffed
(This parrot is dead, it's deceased, it's defunct, it is an ex-parrot, if you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up daiseys. As per Monty Python)
pops...........
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