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JayJay
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« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2018, 10:07:42 PM »
Quote from: Manky Monkey on April 24, 2018, 02:08:08 PM
... it's on the tannoy at work so I don't get any choice about listening to him ...

Is that even legal, being forced to listen to music and inane jabbering while you're working? Worse than muzak in elevators. Not joking. That would drive me crackers.
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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2018, 10:17:46 PM »
Most scholars agree his nationality was Roman. born in Cappadocia an area now known as Turkey.
Samuel Johnson said " Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel". Thats according to Boswell. but he doesn't provide any context for how the remark arose. They think he was talking only about false patriotism.
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Carpe diem!
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2018, 10:24:13 PM »
Ahh, but was he?......we shall never know! and it was only an opinion of Boswell's, so...oh bugger it, I've lost interest now Grin Grin Grin
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« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2018, 10:58:44 PM »
 Ahh as Boswell knew him, and you and I didn't I'm apt to.....S*d it! I've really lost interest now.    Roll Eyes
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