What brand of Jam did they use?
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mumbojumbo
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Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
i expect they used Asda jam as All Surfaces Deemed Acceptable or Art Students Display Anus(es).
Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
Well it wasn't our home-made sloe-and-apple jelly, at any rate. Leastways, I don't think we're missing any jars.... 
[It's been a marvellous year for wild sloes this year, down our way. Best crop ever.]
[It's been a marvellous year for wild sloes this year, down our way. Best crop ever.]
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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fausto copy
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Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
I'm surprised they used strawberry, as I find the pips get everywhere. 
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Bonefishblues
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Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
Policeman with sense of humour shocker:
Insp Jon Middleton tweeted he hopes it "isn't the start of a new craze that starts to spread"
Insp Jon Middleton tweeted he hopes it "isn't the start of a new craze that starts to spread"
Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
Will they be there tomorrow?
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
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Bonefishblues
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Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
I see what you did there...
Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
Well, I suppose there's money for it...
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
661-Pete wrote:Well, I suppose there's money for it...
Jam today but what's for tomorrow.
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Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
Apparently (not a lotta people know this) Lewis Carroll's coining of the phrase Jam tomorrow has nothing to do with the sweet sticky stuff. Instead it's a pun on the Latin word iam or jam meaning "now". According to the rules of Latin grammar (which I only dimly recall 
) the word iam can only be used in sentences in the past or future tenses: in the present tense you have to use the word nunc.
So, all there's left to say is,
) the word iam can only be used in sentences in the past or future tenses: in the present tense you have to use the word nunc.So, all there's left to say is,
Caesar adsum jam forte,
Brutus aderat,
Caesar sic in omnibus,
Brutus sic in at.
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Re: What brand of Jam did they use?
I suspect he ended up with blue berries and she with raw pips.
Pete's recollection of Latin is better than mine, after two years of it all I can remember was that first line
Al
Pete's recollection of Latin is better than mine, after two years of it all I can remember was that first line
Al
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