Another Happy Evening of Multiplaying part IV

... between three 'powerful' civs actually

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*deity of THE DEITIANS*
aka: half-assed dieticians
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[finbar]

To be totally accurate ... three and a half.

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[Hydey]

I'm back in town guys , so lets play some civ

[finbar]

I wish I could've tonight (Monday), but the cable connection was stuffed from early this afternoon until just now (midnight). Must have been the 6" of rain in the last two days.

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[Hydey]

Perhaps you need to move to a better climate finbar, Melbourne is fine and sunny as usual

[finbar]

Hydey, I've always said I prefer Melbourne's climate to Sydney's. Sydney is turning into the tropics. About the only benefit Sydney's climate provides is the capacity to grow tomatoes into May.

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Why do modem players get a kind of vicarious thrill when cable players have trouble with their connection?


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[finbar]

The word jealousy swims into focus.

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[Rasputin]

I wish telstra would lay more cable !!!!

[Hydey]

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About the only benefit Sydney's climate provides is the capacity to grow tomatoes into May.


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Its May now and tomatoes are growing fine in my garden



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Time share holidays are cool

Hydey will be away again soon

Won't be around this evening chaps - its 8.30pm and I'm still at work. I suspect its going to be like this all week.


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[Hydey]

I should have stayed in Mansfield

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Time share holidays are cool

Hydey will be away again soon

Mansfield? Isn't that where that family went for holidays on The Castle?


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[Hydey]

No , you are confused again horsey, They went to Bonnie Doon in the Castle

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Time share holidays are cool

Hydey will be away again soon

[finbar]

Wrong film, Horse. Mansfield was very close to where they shot the fishing sequence in "On The Beach" with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner. It would've been a nice quote by Ava Gardner - Melbourne being an appropriate place to make a film about the end of the world - only she didn't ever say it. Melbourne journo Neil Jillet made it up.

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Won't be around tonight either chaps

Working.


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Founder, Dear Leader and Great Helmsman of PROT -the People's Republic Off Topic www.delphi.com/prot1/

If you're happy and you know it, spam a thread.

[finbar]

Get on with your work and stop lurking here!

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Boo Hoo! 10.30pm and I'm still at work

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Founder, Dear Leader and Great Helmsman of PROT -the People's Republic Off Topic www.delphi.com/prot1/

If you're happy and you know it, spam a thread.

I just take it for granted that you guys will be online when I need you!

Now you've all been absent for weeks!



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[finbar]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Alexander's Horse on 05-09-2001 08:33 AM</font>
Boo Hoo! 10.30pm and I'm still at work

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Here's a novel thought. Why not do some work during the day instead of spending every other second haunting these forums?

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[finbar]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by deity on 05-09-2001 06:00 PM</font>
I just take it for granted that you guys will be online when I need you!

Now you've all been absent for weeks!



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I've checked in at the usual time just about every night this week. No one's been around.

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[Rasputin]

yopu guys need to paly games at more reasonabl times ...

[finbar]

Hey Hydey. Heineken is going to take over Foster's. You will singlehandedly turn the Dutch budget deficit into a surplus, my son.

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[Rasputin]

I hear its not the Aussie beers they are actually after but the Wine Companies they now own... So looks like Finnie will be supporting the dutch too !!!

Well I'm over the hump work wise but I'll only be able to play tonight if Mrs Horse goes to bed early. This will be an appease Mrs Horse evening.


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If you're happy and you know it, spam a thread.

[Rasputin]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Alexander's Horse on 05-10-2001 03:58 AM</font>
. This will be an appease Mrs Horse evening.

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What, you staying out and letting the boyfriend over again !!!!

[Hydey]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by deity on 05-09-2001 06:00 PM</font>
I just take it for granted that you guys will be online when I need you!

Now you've all been absent for weeks!




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Yes you have been absent Deity but we understand , I have been online since 8:30 tonight as I was on Monday and Tuesday nights.



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Time share holidays are cool

Hydey will be away again soon

[finbar]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font>&lt;font size=1&gt;Originally posted by Rasputin on 05-10-2001 02:59 AM&lt;/font&gt;
I hear its not the Aussie beers they are actually after but the Wine Companies they now own... So looks like Finnie will be supporting the dutch too !!!
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I wouldn't touch the wines they own. Here's why:

Sparkling & Table Wines

Andrew Garrett
Annie’s Lane
Bailey’s of Glenrowan
Balgownie
Bilyara
Blass
Church Hill
Eaglehawk
The Essentials
Flanagan’s Ridge
Garrett
Half Mile Creek
Ingoldby
Jamiesons Run
Jimmy Watson’s
Krondorf Family Reserve
Maglieri of McLaren Vale
Mamre Brook
Metala
Mildara Wines
Mount Helen
Mount Ida
Mt Tanglefoot
Orchard Lane
Pepperjack
Pioneer’s Rest
Robertson’s Well
The Rothbury Estate
Rowan
Saltram
St Hubert’s
Wolf Blass
Yarra Ridge
Yellowglen


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[SuperSneak]

I think I've found my calling! Wine titler!
Who the hell would even pick half of those unappetizing sounding labels up? Especially that last one..."Yellowglen"...yeah, right.

Ooooh! Eaglehawk! That's creative! Psssh...
"Pour me a glass of the Caninedog, dear. It's only a week old, but it sure has a kick to it!"
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Bring it!

"In the strong autumnal winds he rushed along ignoring the new dark knowledge he now half-understood--that to triumph was also to wreak havoc."
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[finbar]

There's a couple of reasonable wines in the list but most of it's budget-priced stuff. Balgownie used to be a great wine when Stewart Anderson owned it and made the wine. He sold out and it became just another wine. Andrew Garrett's stuff is good drinking but overpriced for what it is.

Baileys was a fine old traditional company. Big, muscular reds and some world-class tokays and muscats. Their reds are now made more to drink young, unfortunately. Marketing, y'see.

Mount Helen was very good about 15 years ago when John Ellis was the winemaker. Its vineyards were (and probably still are) in very high country, giving some interesting results. It's now just yet another mid-range wine producer.

Yellowglen is actually a champagne-method label. At one time it was said to be the best Australian champagne-method drop. Personally, anything other than good French gives me indigestion.

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