>>>For some reason I'm thinking about this place this morning. I went there years ago and its the weirdest sensation to sit in the bar having a pint and then stand up and its a steep hill up to the bar to be served.
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>>For some reason I can hear my grandmother reciting something about
>>"There was a crooked man
>>who walked a crooked mile
>>and found a crooked sixpence
>>upon a crooked style"
>>something something
>>"and they all lived together in a little crooked house"
>
>Gee thanks... Now that will be running through my mind all day... :o) I haven't thought of that since I was a child!
I think something something = "he had a crooked cat, that chased a crooked mouse"
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
