Pauline Update

ChrisP

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Pauline feeling alot better. (Mr B suffering).

The medical team are expected to make a full recovery given time and the correct care.

So far Mr Blair has declined to visit on the grounds of personal safety issues and the queen has applied for a visitors pass.

Dispite massive capital damage to the A&E department, the hospital is expected to re-open to lesser mortals in the near future.

Mr Brown has had to re-think his forth coming budget taking into accout the loss of booze revenue but share prices are expected to recover this afternoon

This is your on the spot reporter handing you back to the studio.

ChrisP
 

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I find it strange

That she went missing at around the same time as the 500 million punts.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by claymore on Thu Feb 7 13:31:23 2002 (server time).</FONT></P>
 

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Re: Pauline Update - I double dare you

Funny you should use that phrase, not heard it in years except earlier today when I got one of those "jokey e-mails with a little twist". So thought I'd do a cut and paste and put it here for you to pass to Pauline along with my bestest regards and hope she has a speedy recovery. Oh and can they cure the dribbling while they're at it?


Remember...do you?

Close your eyes.....And go back in time.... Before the Internet, before DVD. Before semi-automatics machine guns, joyriders and crack ....Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... Way back....

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop, Hopscotch, butterscotch, skipping, handstands, football with an old can, Bulldog, Beano, Twinkle, Bunty and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, jumping in enormous puddles, Building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.

Wait......Watching Saturday Morning cartoons...short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Captain Caveman, Swapshop, and Why Don't You.

Staying up late for Starskey and Hutch or Minder. When "around the corner" seemed far away, and going into town seemed like going somewhere. A million mosquito bites, wasp and bee stings. Sticky fingers. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians. Zorro. Climbing trees, building igloos out of tiny amounts of snow. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for the giggles.

Being tired from playing... Remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

I'm not finished just yet...

Eating raw jelly, orange squash, ice pops. Remember when.. There were two types of trainers - girls and boys. Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym."

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents! It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog. When half a crown was decent pocket money. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a tanner. When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there from School. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or ask him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid,thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings or drugs,and some of us are still afraid of them!!!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly". The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one. It was unbelievable that dodge ball wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than your Mum.

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare". Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!

Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that!"

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...

I DOUBLE-DARE YA!!!
 

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I double dare you-triple stampies no erasies!

Got, Got Got Got Got, Notgot, Got Got ... I remember all that BUT it's different now. I get picked quite early on.

AND ... remember when queueing for something with Mum in the Post Office queue and somebody behind tripped over you, but Mum said "Get out of the way of that man" ? Well, now I walk into small children and their mums say the same - I'm "That Man".

Anyway. Very nice that Pauline isn't getting stabbed in the back while she's away. Just in the front. ho ho.
 
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