sandywinder
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Post by sandywinder on Nov 9, 2006 9:54:35 GMT
Just wait til I see the clone arranger.
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Post by Nathan deGargoyle on Nov 9, 2006 13:06:16 GMT
Quintuplets? They'd obviously left one out of this baby picture.  |
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Post by Morning Glory on Nov 9, 2006 15:26:06 GMT
Can anyone spot what's wrong here? The Dionne quintuplets: A Depression-era freak show
The five sisters, Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie, were born from a single egg in 1934. The public seemed to adore them. But,...as babies, the quints were taken from their parents by the Ontario government and made wards of the state. Although their health was fine, they lived at a hospital that became a tourist mecca called "Quintland."
Between 1934 and 1943, about 3 million people visited Quintland, a low, modern building with a garden and a high fence near the village of Corbeil, in Northern Ontario.
The government and nearby businesses made an estimated half-billion dollars off the tourists. The sisters were the nation's biggest tourist attraction -- bigger than Niagara Falls....
Film footage of the young quintuplets shows five pretty girls with dark hair and dark eyes -- and a crush of tourists waiting in line to see them.
"It wasn't human," Cecile Dionne told The (London) Independent in a 1995 interview. "It was a circus."
In the early days, nurses would take the quints to a nursery balcony and show them, one at a time, to the crowds below. Later, they were viewed three times a day from a gauze-covered corridor. "We saw moving. We heard sounds," said Cecile.
Queues to see the Babies
The quints were studied by scientists, who X-rayed them, catalogued episodes of "anger and fear," and recorded things such as food intake and incidents of dissent.
Cecile said she learned the word "doctor" before she learned "mother."
After nine years and a bitter custody fight, the girls moved back with their parents and their other siblings... That's right. It is not correct to say " off the tourists". Shocking. |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 9, 2006 17:45:20 GMT
 Gus's hard disk is confiscated after a large number of bizarre water torture sites are found. Disgusting!..why would anyone pay good money to download that rubbish? |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 9, 2006 17:48:02 GMT
I was going to say..is there anything RIGHT here? |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 9, 2006 17:52:22 GMT
Quintuplets? They'd obviously left one out of this baby picture. Must have jumped ship again..old habits die hard. |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 10, 2006 17:02:58 GMT
 Sweet memories of the early days of QQR as FN and CG swap ideas together |
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sandywinder
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Post by sandywinder on Nov 11, 2006 9:49:08 GMT
Sixty years ago that pic would have had men rushing to the toilet.
I'm going to take my time.
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 12, 2006 10:20:33 GMT
 Jilona snaps at CG! |
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sandywinder
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Post by sandywinder on Nov 13, 2006 9:20:06 GMT
Hurry up down there, Gus. I'm going shopping in half an hour.
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 13, 2006 10:51:00 GMT
;D
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 13, 2006 18:51:41 GMT
 This is just a reminder to listen to 'Private Passions' on Sunday morning on R3 - it works wonders! ..it can't possibly be worse than listening to DID  |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 13, 2006 18:54:17 GMT
Watching a Panto of Peter Pan whist stood in the rain at Hyde Park is my idea of a nightmare ..mind you its better than Babyshambles concert! |
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Post by E.D. Wivens on Nov 14, 2006 8:30:48 GMT
This is just a reminder to listen to 'Private Passions' on Sunday morning on R3 - it works wonders! ..it can't possibly be worse than listening to DID Oh, I thought it was the new poster campaign for “The Archers”. |
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