What on earth is happening to our country? Haven't the police got better things to do than this?
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The dangers of dominoes!
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I assumed I would be learning something about pizza restaurants : sadly disappointed.MJMcCready wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:07 pmWhat on earth is happening to our country? Haven't the police got better things to do than this?
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Moved to the pedants' thread?John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:11 pmI assumed I would be learning something about pizza restaurants : sadly disappointed.MJMcCready wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:07 pmWhat on earth is happening to our country? Haven't the police got better things to do than this?
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There ARE dangers attendant!
Some thirty years ago I read a piece in The Spectator about the World Dominoes Championships in Jamaica. One aficianado was quoted: "Me born to play domino".
Top prize was about thirty thousand pounds - serious money in Jamaica in those days - so invigilators, armed with pens and papers, diligently scrutinised any and all mannerisms and noises to inspect how those correlated with the dominoes subsequently revealed to be in that player´s possession.
Yours from a man who has written more than most about sly coughs to help a player out and the pickle such suspicions could land three people in...
Some thirty years ago I read a piece in The Spectator about the World Dominoes Championships in Jamaica. One aficianado was quoted: "Me born to play domino".
Top prize was about thirty thousand pounds - serious money in Jamaica in those days - so invigilators, armed with pens and papers, diligently scrutinised any and all mannerisms and noises to inspect how those correlated with the dominoes subsequently revealed to be in that player´s possession.
Yours from a man who has written more than most about sly coughs to help a player out and the pickle such suspicions could land three people in...
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Re: The dangers of dominoes!
I have an anthology CD set by the wonderful Lee "Scratch" Perry. He writes in the notes "I wasn't one of the working type. I loved to play domino".
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