Can't help but agree with you, Robert! Pehaps Nadia can explain....?Robert Houghton wrote:I might be daft, but I just don't understand these needless one digit or one word answers.Nadia wrote:=3
Enid's 'cinema screen' technique
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Re: Enid's 'cinema screen' technique
I can only think of it as a person with a moustache or a rather worried face - something like ":S" (MSN smilie code for ).
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Re: Enid's 'cinema screen' technique
I took it to mean "That makes three of us" (i.e. Nadia agrees with Robert and Nigel.) Took me a while to come to that conclusion though!
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Re: Enid's 'cinema screen' technique
that's just my point - I took it to mean the opposite!!Anita Bensoussane wrote:I took it to mean "That makes three of us" (i.e. Nadia agrees with Robert and Nigel.) Took me a while to come to that conclusion though!
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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