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When she walked into the office I could see she was a dame used to getting her own way. I didn't let the petite frame and big baby-blues fool me none; this babe had cold steel running through her veins.
"I need a little help, Mr Dirtybast," she whispered in the kind of little-dame-lost voice that could make a guy go daffy if his name...
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Been off work a couple of days with another virus....my house is the house of plagues...brought in by the Plague Monkeys. Furthermore, it's been a terrible week for the animals in the family; on Monday my dog in Ireland had to be put to sleep because an inoperable tumour had got to the point where he could no longer enjoy life and then on Tuesday...
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My weekend smelt of ass because I was at work but then something rather beautiful happened on Monday. I did a 20 accumulator bet and won 1,763. Don't know what that is in dollars but it's very nice in pound sterling.........

I pixellated I.

You dont know who it was that harped on about the dignity of physical labour but the chances are that they never raised a shovel in anger in the middle of Winter.
The winds coming down off the Pennines and cutting you in half. Still, youre in a decent mood. Just a day and a bit till you go to Glasgow. Something to look forward...
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You love going shopping with your Dad. The bus into town is a chance for him to show you buildings hes worked on or tell you stories about places you pass. Every pub has a story.
Thats where Ball oMucks wife came in and dragged him out in front of all the lads, and him begging like a kid. He laughs. Your mother would never...
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Johnny Carroll is a powerfully built man. Thirty years on the sites have seen to that. Theres no spare on him, no excess anything. He is functionally designed. His body is his story, one of toil and necessity. It is a tale of the jobs that people who work in offices think get done by machines these days. The call for strong men to strain...
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Rained Off: the two finest words in the English language. The pub's buzzing because everyones been rained off. And all the anxietys gone now, thinking that the rain might stop and then Old Man Nolan comes in like a weatherman and tells us its set for the day and that means an afternoon in the pub. Its Monday lunchtime and youd think it was Christmas...
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Terry looks up out of his bottle bottom glasses and tells you he's got sixty notes on Nounou at fives. It has to be worth a tenner. You bang it on with Haggis and get Pat and Big Bernard to join you, tenners each. Steve is trying to talk to you about someone who hit him with a hammer who might reappear on the scene...
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I got a demand from the Inland Revenue (British version of the IRS) for 12000 today (about $18000 I think). I am going to have to play the horses at the Cheltenham festival like they have never been played before. Naturally I have no intention of giving them ALL the 12000. But I'm going to have to give them something. I'm thinking of offering two...
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