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Enter your date of birth and find out what your prospects for the day are . . .
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..."
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Today's New Word
(from the Oxtail English Dictionary) Ludlow - (noun) A wad of newspaper, folded table-napkin or lump of cardboard put under a wobbly table or chair to make it stand up straight. It is not, perhaps, widely known that air-ace Sir Douglas Bader used to to get about on an enormous pair of ludlows before he had his artificial legs fitted.
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The old people were noisy and excited, like schoolchildren, and
pushed in front of me at the ticket booth, little realising that I
wouldn't hesitate to give an old person a shove. But I just smiled
benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would
be dead.
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Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent
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