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Women Getting 'Toe Jobs' to Wear High Heels: Smart or Stupid?
2012/04/26 20:00:00
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What people do in the name of fashion. It seems like every celebrity in Hollywood sports a pair of sky-high stilettos, and they're usually some pricey Christian Louboutins. But teetering around on five-inch heels can be painful. Enter the "toe job."
The number of cosmetic procedures performed on the feet have doubled in the last year, according to new research, The Daily Mail reports. Plus, the number of women requesting dermal filler injections
into the toe pads, heels and balls of the feet has risen 21 percent,
double the same time last year, the paper says.
The "toe job," also dubbed the "Loub job" in honor of Christian Louboutin, is almost painless, and it starts at about $518 and only takes around 20 minutes. It also supposedly creates a "pillow effect," which gets rid of that burning sensation you experience when you've been wearing high heels too long.
However, let's come back to reality for a second: you're subjecting yourself to an expensive procedure in order to wear an overpriced pair of shoes. Seems pretty silly to us ... especially because the effects only last about six months. Do you think "toe jobs" are smart -- or stupid?
into the toe pads, heels and balls of the feet has risen 21 percent,
double the same time last year, the paper says.
The "toe job," also dubbed the "Loub job" in honor of Christian Louboutin, is almost painless, and it starts at about $518 and only takes around 20 minutes. It also supposedly creates a "pillow effect," which gets rid of that burning sensation you experience when you've been wearing high heels too long.
However, let's come back to reality for a second: you're subjecting yourself to an expensive procedure in order to wear an overpriced pair of shoes. Seems pretty silly to us ... especially because the effects only last about six months. Do you think "toe jobs" are smart -- or stupid?
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shiroidenkou1994 2012/04/26 21:03:11Stupid+19If you have to get your feet modified in order to wear your shoes, get different shoes.
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SmartIf it doesn't physically concern you and I, then we really have no say in what other people choose to do. Individuals have the right to take care of the matters they are responsible for, especially their own bodies. As a society, rules and standards have been created to give its members ideals to strive for. These ideals don't accurately reflect the reality of every individual. As an example of society failing individuals, the male and female stereotypes aren't suppose to have desires for the same things. Yet, there have been, and the numbers are increasing, men finding they prefer wearing the same styles of high heels women enjoy and women even have their own line of menswear. Is it people that are defective or is it the man-made stereotypes incorrectly reflecting the true nature of human behavior?
- hgababu 2012/06/30 04:42:27
- JoshuaGNorman 2012/06/01 02:00:08Stupid
- Scrappy Coco 2012/05/19 12:15:38StupidIf the heel fits right it wont hurt your feet, if they don't fit right then they will. This is from a man that wear's heels! I can wear of proper fitting heels all day and they don't bother my feet a bit. One's that don't fit right well they don't last long that's for sure, but doing something like this just to wear a pair of shoes is stupid!
- IvoryPauline 2012/05/17 02:49:28
- jerry johnson 2012/05/11 20:11:15StupidSome things are just not for you; there are people who are having surgery to lengthen their legs; to become taller...dang!
- shiva 2012/05/05 13:41:22StupidDumb. Insoles cost 5-20 bucks at a CVS. Besides, of your toes look like a bag of Cheetos you have no business wearing heels anyways.
- DavidJoleenJames 2012/05/03 16:19:33StupidAs a man I can appreciate a nice pair of heels on a woman,however this is going too damn far. A woman should also be comfortable. There are plenty of shoe options out there, nobody should surgically modify feet to wear shoes.
- roger 2012/05/01 21:54:18StupidHere we are already 12 yrs into the 21 century and women, continue letting themselves be lead by the nose, like cattle,common sense is no longer an atribute to them all since as females the largest % enjoy hurtting themselves, in order to please stupid men that hate them, since they are the ones that create those ugly shoes, that end up destroying ther toots. and then on top of it all they go to a butcher to fix something that to begin with should have never been deformed, to begin with. inteligent men don lie to their women in order to destroy them, but then again those are the men women won't like and much less love them for careing for them. a man would reather wear old shoes that are cumfy to him than to be up to date with fasion. except the girlish men that think that skin deep is love so they let themselves be manipulated by the same trend of fasion.
- Kira 2012/05/01 21:33:44Stupidwell stupid for me but hey whatever floats your boat....just dont try putting that kind of idea in mine
what is up with everyone doing the all caps thing? and your reply really doesnt relate to my opinion. i said do what you want but dont suggest it to me, im fine
- Roxxi 2012/04/30 13:40:06
- mary 2012/04/30 11:44:56Stupid
- nadia bieber 2012/04/29 22:04:33
- Justine 2012/04/29 20:40:25
- Ameera 2012/04/29 09:27:50
- emoanimegirl1000 2012/04/29 06:39:15Stupid
- HipJipC 2012/04/29 06:27:00
- doctorwho_guru.†=♡ 2012/04/29 04:38:16
- Rubyking 2012/04/29 02:47:37Stupid
- RoseLyle 2012/04/29 02:23:39StupidCrazy if you ask me! I would rather my feet look beautiful barefoot, then stuff them into a stupid pair of high heel "hell" shoes which only in the long run will cause back, leg and foot pain later on down the line.
- Dickens 2012/04/29 01:48:25Stupid..well, let's see which makes more sense to ME; surgically modifying my feet to fit a certain type of shoe, or getting shoes to fit the feet I have....hmmm...
- Jayfeather 2012/04/29 01:39:45
- SOUL4REAL 2012/04/29 01:34:26Stupid+2Celebrities will do anything for the sake of "BEAUTY"!! I believe the shoe industry should be liable for women when they start having problem with their feet after wearing these ridiculious stilettos! These shoes should come with a warning tag,mess with at your own risk! Surgery for your feet,so you can wear "HERMAN MONSTER" shoes is "CRAZY"!! Give me "FLATS" any day,no "TOE JOB" for me!
- BReeZY!!!:D 2012/04/28 23:16:58Stupid
- MDC 2012/04/28 22:03:46Stupid
- Nisa PinkySwear(*~*) 2012/04/28 20:31:09
- Alvin 2012/04/28 19:25:02
- MaryBoBerry 2012/04/28 19:15:56
- jada 2012/04/28 18:16:15StupidWHAT THE...........OMG THATS LIKE RIDICULAS!!! WHO KNEW CELEBRITY LIFE IS SOO PAIN FUL.......wow wear shoes
- mikeyavelli 2012/04/28 17:47:55
- NatalieHolland 2012/04/28 17:45:50
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Item |
Issuer |
Amount of Outlay |
Term Auction Facility |
Federal Reserve |
$900 billion |
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 |
U.S. Treasury |
$700 billion |
Total USD international currency swaps |
Federal Reserve |
$620 billion |
Other loans: Primary Dealer Credit, etc. |
Federal Reserve |
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U.S. Treasury |
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Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM ) & Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE ) |
U.S. Treasury |
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Term Securities Lending Facility |
Federal Reserve |
$200 billion |
Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 |
U.S. Treasury |
$168 billion |
Paid to JPMorgan Chase to settle Lehman debt |
Federal Reserve |
$138 billion |
AIG (NYSE: AIG ) Bailout |
Federal Reserve |
$122.8 billion |
Commercial Paper Funding Facility |
Federal Reserve |
$100 billion* |
Bear Stearns Brokered Sale |
Federal Reserve |
$29 billion |
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$3,891,300,000,000 |
* Conservative estimate based upon the reported size of the daily commercial paper market. "Other loans" total from the Fed's statistical release as of October 1, 2008, and includes the money market funds backstop program of $152 billion.
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Collection: The Saga Collection
Number: SAGA 044
Source: Return Of The Jedi
Availability: September 2006
License: Hasbro
Luke Skywalker
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Determined: To save his father
Wanted: By the Emperor
Almost gives in to: His hate
Luke at first volunteers for the mission to Endor out of his native idealism, but when he senses the presence of Darth Vader aboard the Executor, he reaches a critical decision that nearly renders futile all of the work of the Rebel Alliance. Surrendering himself to the Imperials on Endor, he is taken by Vader to the Emperor, in whose presence he learns the final lesson that allows him to truly be called a Jedi Knight.
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The base figure is a retool of 2004's SW Luke Skywalker (Jabba's Palace) ('04 #04) figure. It's not a bad version of Luke Skywalker to use. Loaded with many points of articulation, this will be an ideal Luke for easy positioning on a speeder bike or just the forest terrain of your Endor dioramas. Just like the vintage figure, Luke Skywalker comes with a nice helping of accessories. Included are a beautifully colored soft-goods combat poncho, removable helmet, brown utility belt, blaster and lightsaber. This is a healthy dose of accessories and although Luke is still wearing his vest from Jabba's palace unfortunately, you can't deny just how awesome this figure looks once he's all geared up for action on Endor. This is absolutely one of our most favorite action figures in The Saga Collection. Luke Skywalker is a simple and long overdue update to the classic action figure, but time has ensured that all the fine points are in tune and the resulting product is something that will likely age well throughout our collecting years. (Editor's Note: Hasbro has made this version of Luke Skywalker obsolete now. The Luke Skywalker figure in 2009's LC Battle For Endor Battle Packs set is now the definitive version of this character.)
As we have mentioned, Luke Skywalker looks fantastic once fully assembled. His poncho isn't bulky in the least and it properly gathers where the utility belt cinches it at the waist. It also hangs at the perfect length right at the wrists and due to the natural nature of the fabric used, the drape couldn't be more realistic. Although Luke Skywalker comes with 14 points of articulation, it's hard to categorize him as super-articulated. No premium ball-joints have been used and instead Hasbro makes good use of swivel-joints and hinge-joints. Admittedly, the combination of hinge-jointed knees and swivel calves allows for a great deal of usable movement for this action figure. It definitely isn't ideal, but much worse could have been applied here instead. The functioning holster is a nice touch, although, we prefer to have Luke with the pistol in his hand. And the fitted and removable helmet is nicely painted albeit a little too shiny. This Battle Of Endor interpretation of Luke Skywalker is a most welcomed addition to The Saga Collection. It checks off another on the list of the vintage figure we'd like to see updated in the modern line and it rounds out the Battle Of Endor group of figure perfectly.
Status: Luke Skywalker is a retool of 2004's SW Luke Skywalker (Jabba's Palace) ('04 #04) figure and this time comes with extra accessories.
Articulation Count: 14 points
Articulation Details: swivel neck, 2 swivel shoulders, 2 swivel elbows, 2 swivel wrists, swivel waist, 2 swivel hips, 2 hinge-jointed knees, 2 swivel calves
Accessory Count: 5
Accessory Details: soft-goods combat poncho, utility belt, helmet, blaster pistol, lightsaber
Date Stamp: 2006
Assortment Number: 86950/85770
Retail: $6.99 USD
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These were the coins before 1961 (in my childhood). There were notes for ten shillings, a pound, five pounds and ten pounds. The farthing was abolished in January 1961, and the rest of the coins were phased out before, during or after D-Day (decimal day - 15 February 1971). Some of the silver continued after D-Day as they had values in the new currency. A shilling became 5p and a florin became 10p. The new coins were 1/2p, 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 50p (where the 50p replaced the ten shilling note). The other coins (20p, Ł1, Ł2) have been introduced since, and the 1/2p abolished. There are now 8 different values of coin in regular use (as of 2003). If you want to know more about decimalisation, see Tony Clayton's webpage.
I have given the name of the coins as they were pronounced. The correct way of writing them was half penny, three pence and six pence (as you can see on the coins), but no-one said it that way. 3d was often called a thruppenny bit. There was no coin for 2d, but you would say that something cost tuppence (as in Mary Poppins, both for seed to "feed the birds", and for "paper and string" for kites). You would pay for it with two pennies (rather than pence). Something might cost half a crown, but you paid for it with a half crown. A five pound note and a ten pound note were called a fiver and a tenner, as they are today. It is interesting that the ten shilling and pound notes didn't have names (although 'quid' was and is a slang term for pound). This may be because there used to be gold coins for these amounts, called half sovereigns, and sovereigns.
There were slang names for some of the coins. A shilling was a bob. Boy scouts would collect money by doing bob-a-job, meaning simple chores such as washing the car or cleaning shoes for a shilling. (If this seems a very small sum of money, remember that there has been inflation since then. I got 1d for each year of my age for pocket money each week, so when I was 9 I got 9d a week.) People would sometimes say, ironically, "That must be worth a few bob!" meaning, that must be worth a lot of money. (Now we would say "That must be worth a few quid!") Sixpence was a tanner. An old-fashioned expression for a thrupeeny bit was a joey, but I didn't use it as a child. Half a crown (two shillings and sixpence) was sometimes called half a dollar; perhaps this was a memory from when there were four dollars to the pound (in 1945, the exchange rate was $1=$4.03). A pound was a quid, which was always singular, so Ł5 was five quid. We still use 'quid' for pound, but apart from that, modern coins don't have names, either officially or as slang. Whether this is because they haven't been around long enough, or because we are no longer as interested in the coins of our change, I don't know. However, I have heard from Frederick Cooper, "In my hometown, Liverpool, the 50p piece was called a 'Harold', (Wilson), brought
out during his term of office, because it had seven sides and two faces. The later pound coin
was called a 'Maggie' (Thatcher), again during the term of office, that she was just common, but attempting to be a sovereign." I'm afraid that you need to be British, and over a certain age, to appreciate these jokes!
I have heard the dart score of 26 (using 3 darts) called "Bed & Breakfast". This is quite a common score among bad darts players, since you're aiming for 20, which has 5 and 1 on either side. Its name was because it was two and six, which was alleged to be the cost of staying in a B&B for a night. That must have been long, long ago!
The penny was 1.25 inches (3 cm) across and the sixpence 0.75 inches (2 cm).
This picture on the left gives some idea of size. The column on the right is half a crown down to sixpence. The middle column is thruppence down to a farthing. The left hand column is current money, to give some idea of scale, 10p and 1p.
It also shows some of the problems with the old currency. There were two many silver coins, and they looked too similar, and were too close in size. Also some of the coins were large and heavy, particularly the penny and half crown. Here is a shilling's worth of old pennies, with a 5p coin, worth the same. Of course, this comparison of coins is not quite fair, since the value of money are changed because of inflation. In the 1960's, a Mars bar cost 6d, and a pink shrimp sweet, blackjack chew or fruit salad chew were all a farthing each.
Here is a table from an old reference book showing how you could measure using coins. These all refer to 'old' money!
So a shilling's worth of pennies weighed 4 ounces or quarter of a pound, over 100 grams!
Pre-decimal Sterling
Coins, values, names and slang
Size of coins
Names and Abbreviations
Money tables
Other coins
Even older coins
Old Scottish currency
Sayings and songs
Value of Coins
4 farthings = 1 penny (1d) 2 ha'pence = 1 penny (1d) 3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d) 6 pence = 1 sixpence (6d) 12 pence = 1 shilling (1s) 2 shillings = 1 florin (2s) 2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d)
1 inch - Halfpenny 1 1/4 inches - Penny 3/4 inch - Sixpence 7/8 inch - Shilling 1 1/8 inch - Florin 1 1/4 inches - Half a crown
3 pennies
5 halfpennies
10 farthings
5 shillings
10 sixpenny pieces
After 1066, the Norman used their own French coins in Britain, each impressed with a small star. Norman French for little star was esterlin. The pound sterling was a pound weight of esterlin, roughly 240 coins. So esterlin became Anglicised to 'sterling' - the name for the whole currency, and the coin itself was called the penny, its pre-Conquest name. Pennies are believed to be named after King Penda of Mercia. Shilling comes from the Old English 'to divide' when coins were often cut to make smaller denominations.
Pre-decimal currency was sometimes called LSD, which was written Ł-s-d. The pound symbol is an ornate L, from the Latin 'libra' - a pound. The penny symbol was 'd' for denarius, a Roman coin. On decimalisation, the new pennies, which were worth 2.4 times the old ones, had the symbol 'p' to destinguish them. At this time, people would firmly say 'new pee' to show they meant the new currency rather than the old (usually prompting the plaintive comment "What's that in old money?" or even "What's that in real money?") After a bit, we dropped the 'new', but people still use the term 'pee' as well as pence. I have been writting the money using 's' and 'd', as it makes it clearer if you're not used to it, but it didn't used to be written this way. Two shillings and sixpence (a half crown) would be 2/6, and could be said as "two and six". It was perfectly clear what was meant. Any sum involving pounds would say so. One pound seven shillings and sixpence would be Ł1/7/6, and would be called 'One pound, seven and six'. If there were no pennies, then you wrote a dash. Five shillings was 5/-, but here you did say 'Five shillings'. The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland has a price tag on his hat saying "In This Style 10/6". So this hat would cost ten shillings and sixpence, just over half a pound. It might be paid for with four half crowns and a sixpence! |
Enter number and select unit.
The coins above all show their 'tails'. The pre-decimal coins had several different monarchs' heads.
| We would spend HOURS at school learning these and doing money sums. "If an egg cost thruppence ha'penny, then what does a dozen eggs cost?" Since a dozen pennies was a shilling, then a dozen times three and a half was three and a half shillings, or 3/6. The only thing sold in dozens were eggs, so the sum had to be about eggs. In fact, eggs were always sold in boxes, and priced accordingly. Whoever says that schooling used to be better must have forgotten all this wasted effort. (And no, it didn't help your mental arithmetic. I was good at money sums, but still can't do mental arithmetic very well!) |
The crown was issued for special occasions, and had a different design each time. It was worth 5s. These are Elizabeth II on the left, and Victoria on the the right. Crowns were legal currency, but were heavy, and were given as presents, or collected, rather than used to buy things. Half crowns were common. Crown coins are still issued for special occasions, but now they are worth Ł5.
You would find other versions of coins in your change as well. An older thruppenny bit had a picture of a thrift on it. This is a wild flower, but its name suggests that you should spend your 3d wisely, or even save it! The Scots had their own version of the shilling, which was valid currency in England as well. While the anti-Euro brigade wish to defend our 'traditional' currency at all costs, in fact, the currency has been constantly changing. From 1717 to 1817, there was a coin called a guinea, which was worth 21s (or Ł1/1/-). While there was no guinea coin afterwards, I rememberfrom my childhood that prices were sometimes quoted in guineas. This meant they were more expensive than if they were quoted in the same number of pounds! It's still used as the name of some horse races, and is worth Ł1.05.
This coin on the left is a silver penny, produced during the reign of King Canute. It was struck by Ornst of Grantabridge (Cambridge). Two hundred and forty of these coins would weigh a pound of silver.
We now have a pound coin. There used to be a pound note, and before that, from 1817 to 1917, there was a gold pound coin called a sovereign. In fact, the original sovereign dated from Tudor times (and wasn't necessarily worth a pound), but it was replaced by the guinea, see above. In Victorian times there was also a half sovereign, also gold, which was replaced by a ten shilling (or ten bob) note early twentieth century. However, this was replaced yet again by a "silver" (not real of course) coin in 1971, which was now 50 (new) pence.
There were slang terms for specific amounts of pounds. A pony was Ł25 and a monkey was Ł500. This website (which has many other slang terms for money) suggests that this came from the British Raj, since a 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it, and a 25 repee note had a picture of a pony.
A more common slang term for an amount of money is a grand, which is a thousand pounds. This is still in use.
A groat was worth 4 pennies or a third of a shilling. It was last used in 1855.
The biggest change of all was decimalisation (in 1971), where the coins all changed, the shilling abolished, and we had a hundred pennies to a pound instead of two hundred and forty pennies to the pound!
Modern valid change
This realtes to modern valid change, which doesn't really belong on this page but I don't where else to put it! In Britain, you can only pay for something using a certain type of coin up to a certain amount. A shop-keeper or similar person can refuse to accept more than that (although they can accept it if they wish).
Coins | Maximum acceptable |
Ł1 or Ł2 | any amount |
20p and 50p | up to Ł10 |
5p and 10p | up to Ł5 |
1p and 2p | up to 20p |
The Scots shilling (English penny) is still with us as the Gaelic for penny is
'sgillinn'. An English shilling is sgillinn-shasunnach. But 'pound' is just 'nňt' (pl.
There are songs for different times of year mentioning money.
In the songs and rhymes, there seems to have been a particular affection for the sixpence.
Tuppence was popular as well, although it wasn't a coin.
Rhymes with other amounts of money show how much you used to be able to buy with these coins. (A pie for a penny!)
A good website on Coins of England and Great Britain.
If you would like to see some more rhymes, Mike's Collection of Nursery Rhymes is good.
Scottish currency abolished at the Act Of Union 1707
Scots Sterling 1 penny (Scots) = 1/12 penny (Sterling) 2 pennies = 1 bodle 2 bodles = 1 plack 3 bodles = 1 bawbee = 1 halfpenny 2 bawbees = 1 shilling = 1 penny 13 shillings 4 pence = 1 merk 20 shillings = 1 pound = 1s 8d Different sayings and songs based round money
A penny farthing was an ancient bicycle, where the front wheel could be 5 feet across, while the back wheel was only a foot. These wheels looked like the difference in size between a farthing and penny.
'Spend a penny' meant going to the toilet. Public toilets had locks that could only be opened by inserting an old penny.
'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'. Be careful about small sums of money.
But on the other hand 'Penny wise, pound foolish'. You can get so involved in small amounts of money, you don't realise that you are wasting large amounts of money.
'Not worth a brass farthing' - well, a farthing was never worth much, and a brass one even less!
'I haven't got two farthings to rub together' (because I am so poor). When the farthing got abolished, then the saying got changed to 'two ha'pennies' instead.
'A penny for your thoughts' is said to someone deep in thought (I don't remember anyone claiming the penny!)
'Someone turns up like a bad penny' means that they keep visiting you although they're not welcome. (The person who gave me this saying used it of herself, which was not true!). I presume that a bad penny is a forged one. Another correspondent mentions a war grave that simply said "He was a good penny" (i.e. he didn't come back). Heart-breaking!
'In for a penny, in for a pound' means if you're going to get involved, then go all the way. These penny/pound sayings could still be used, of course.
If you are 'quids in' then you are happy with the situation. A 'quid' is a pound.
'You look as if you'd lost a shilling and found sixpence.' Sixpence was worth less than a shilling, so you look unhappy!
A 'fourpenny one' means a blow or a punch, possibly a black eye. It was not a coin pre-decimalisation, but long ago, it was a groat.
You can look 'as fine as fivepence (or ninepence)'. Neither five pence or nine pence were coins! Five pence is a coin nowadays.
A correspondent tells me about 'Sitting here like tripe at nine pence'! I'm not sure what this means - possibly nine pence used to be expensive for tripe (it wouldn't be now!), so tripe priced that high wouldn't get sold - it would hang around.
'Ten pence to the shilling' is the same as 'one brick short of a load' or all the other variants!
'Half a sixpence' doesn't mean three pence. Couples would make love tokens by breaking a sixpence in half. Sometimes in folk songs, this was used to recognise your lover after many years at sea, since the two halves of the sixpence matched.
There's an interesting saying which has cropped up since decimalisation. When the money changed, people often weren't sure what the price of something meant, since they weren't thinking in the new money yet, so they would ask "What's that in old money?" However, I've noticed people using the same expression when talking about metric units. So "That's 2 kilos." - "What's that in old money?" Presumably this expression will vanish when all of us who remember the confusion in the early 1970's are no more. Unless we go over to the Euro!
Good Friday
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns
One a penny, two a penny
Hot Cross BunsGuy Fawkes Day
Remember, remember the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Penny for the Guy!Christmas
Christmas is coming,
The goose is getting fat.
Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do.
If you haven't got a ha'penny, a farthing will do.
If you haven't got a farthing, then God bless you.
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing.
Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king?There was a crooked man,
Who walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence
Beside a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat,
Who caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together
In a little crooked house. I've got sixpence,
A jolly jolly sixpence,
I've got sixpence to last me all my life.
I've got tu'pence to lend
And tu'pence to spend
And tu'pence to send home to my wife.
Half a pound of tuppenny rice
Half a pound of treacle.
That's the way the money goes,
Pop goes the weasel.
Simple Simon met a pieman
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Let me taste your ware."
Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
"Show me first your penny."
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
"Indeed, I have not any."
Buttons, a farthing a pair!
Come, who will buy them of me?
They're round and sound and pretty,
And fit for girls of the city.
Come, who will buy them of me?
Buttons, a farthing a pair!
"Oranges and lemons" say the bells of St Clements
"You owe me five farthings" say the bells of St Martins
"When will you pay me?" say the bells of Old Bailey.
"When I grow rich," say the bells of Shoreditch.
"When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney.
"I do not know," says the great Bell of Bow.
See Saw, Marjorie Daw,
Jenny shall have a new master,
She shall have but a penny a day,
Because she can't work any faster.


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When you have people trying to kill you every day it is kind of hard to just let them run around loose.
Don't forget the Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese-Syrian prison guards.
When you think all these people are trying to kill you YOU are the problem. Hug you gun?
Mike Luckovich, save a little money and when things settle down travel to the Gaza Strip, but don't go as a delegation of press people, go indepedently and find the truth for yourself. What you are showing now is what NBC and bias media is showing.
Read what Fred has to say about it.
Hamas attacks Israel. Not surprising.
Mike Luckovich attacks Israel. Also not surprising.
You know there aren't 4 sides to that wall.
It's not a cage.
They have the ability to look in other directions than Israel for making a better life for themselves (.e.g., look inward at themselves.). Israel pretty much looked like Gaza before the Israelis arrived. -
I saw a facebook post on a children's program shown in Gaza called "Tomorrow's Pioneers" where children are taught early on to hate Jews, something Mr. Luckovich supports apparently.
All the Likud supporters around here seem to have a totally unreasoning hatred for all Muslims of any sort."
No, I have one question, Does Israel have the right to not only be there but to thrive and grow. If Yes, I do not care what Religion you are, we the USA can work with you. If a but but but come alone or Mocking "Pin point" blah blah "I served" Like Kerry, Then we have a problem. I would support any Religion or Country that accepts all Religions, Like Israel. Israel does not have a Religious test for a person to be apart of the government. The Rest of the Middle East does and that Religion just so happens to be Muslim, Islam. -
I beg to disagree. Religion IS the problem. In fact.,religion is a great problem in a great many areas. How much better we would all be if we could shed all the religious mumbo-jumbo of ALL religions and simply be nice to each other.
(I know — what a pipe dream!) -
It's never the normal people. Regular Muslims who want what we all want. It's always the extremist nut jobs who want to watch the world burn.
Think how good the world would be if the collective middle could stuff the extremists into the background where they belong. Ladies and Gentlemen, police your own. -
yes goweeder do away with religion have nice place like stalin ussr or mao china // dear mikey those that stayed kept their property ,those that joined forces to kill all jews and take their property lost out [ what did they who joined with Jordan , Egypt , Syria , ect get from their allies] // note to agentsmith101 in Egypt the "nut jobs" got 65%+ of first vote
@AgentSmith101 It's always the extremist nut jobs who want to watch the world burn. "
No it is the so called "moderate" who sit back and watch the "radicals" burn the world in the name of what they believe.
It is not "radical" to defend yourself, get P O when when other sit by and watch or worse mock you "pin point" While you defend your self by going on the offencive! -
mocked sarcastically,"it's going to be a lonnnnng wait. Maybe the Israelis should let the west bank open casinos. It seems to keep our natives less restless."
Sounds laik my ou Suid Afrika, laik Sun City in Bophuthatswana, hey? :-) Wait, wat, whaddaumean, he wesn't joking, man? Thet looks jest laik our old townships…beck in die goie ou dae. - Load the rest of the comments (9).
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In the Railway Series, many characters from the Other Railway made minor appearances.
[show]Percy's Friends
- "Silly things."
- — Henry, The Eight Famous Engines
These four are tank engines from the Other Railway. Percy once met them at Vicarstown and told them of the time he braved a flood to help Thomas, when Henry came along and told them to go away.
These engines are based on 1377 Class 1F 0-6-0 tank engines, NER Class E1's, and LSWR G6 Class tank engines.
The tank engines are painted in the unlined BR black livery.
Railway Series
They were replaced with Bill and Ben in the television series.
Jinty and Pug's Companions
- "Those others did their best, but they don't know our ways."
- — The crowds, The Eight Famous Engines
These engines came to Sodor with Jinty and Pug to run the line while the engines were on display in England.
Each of these engines were painted in BR Passenger Brunswick Green with black and orange lining and BR Mixed-Traffic Black with red and white lining.
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All-Purpose Gumbo
1½ tsp. The Spice Hunter Fresh at Hand Garlic or 3 large cloves of garlic
2 large onions
3 medium carrots
3 quarts water or stock
1 lb. cleaned shrimp or chopped chicken
1½ cups shelled oysters or cleaned crabmeat
1½ tsp. The Spice Hunter Gumbo Filé
The Spice Hunter Red Pepper (Cayenne) to taste
4 Tbsp. oil or other fat
4 Tbsp. flour
Simmer vegetables in liquid until tender. Purée. Heat oil in a large heavy pot. Add flour, stirring constantly until light brown. Lower heat, stir until mixture becomes a rich dark-brown color (20-25 minutes), watch carefully so as not to burn. Add purée and season with cayenne to taste. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add shrimp or chicken and cook for 10 minutes. Add oysters or crabmeat, simmer 5 minutes longer. Taste for seasoning. Remove from heat & add Gumbo Filè. Let sit for 10 minutes to smooth flavor. Stir & serve in warmed bowls with steamed rice.


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AYERS, ODOM, ROBERTS 12-12-05 I am seeking information on Sarah A. Ayers. She was born 14 April 1837 in GA and died 18 Nov 1927 in Henry County. She had a brother named Orrin J Ayers, born 1833 and died in the WBTS in 1864, He was married to Rhode Elizabeth Odom. Sarah married George M. T. Roberts 2 Dec 1856 in the home of Aaron Odom. I want to assume that her parents were William Ayers and Sara McKissack but no proof. Any information as to her parents and/or other siblings would be so greatly appreciated. Would make this old and fading heart of mine so very happy. Pat in FL
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Zucchini is also known as courgette. The flower is often used, stuffed with ricotta and fried in olive oil. The original and the best Parmesan, Parmigiano Reggiano is usually aged 2 years. It is a hard, dry cheese made from skimmed or partially skimmed cows milk. It has a hard, pale golden rind and a straw coloured interior with rich, sharp flavour. The commercial pre-grated cheese does not rate in comparison. Together, these 2 ingredients compliment each other wonderfully, along with the freshness of the Italian basil.
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Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan.
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Cook the garlic, basil, salt and zucchini slowly for approximately 10 minutes, until the zucchinis are lightly browned and very soft.
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Add some pepper and stock and simmer for 8 minutes, uncovered.
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Remove from the heat.
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Put ¾ of the soup into a food processor and process until smooth.
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Return to the pan and stir in the cream, parsley and Parmesan.
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Place in a bowl and sprinkle with cheese and some pepper.
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Serve with crusty bread and a green salad.
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