David Guy

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@rorysutherland A man owning a large electrical wholesaler had no fans in a surprise heatwave.
Afterwards he bought containers full in winter and one or two years in every four made huge profits.
A UK manufacturer - 3 weeks closer than China - dismissed the opportunity as toasters sell all year.

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@Timoldland A friend pranked his in-house accountant by prising the keys off his office phone and replacing them in the order on his calculator.
I don’t think he ever forgave him.

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@bobchad1896 @BygoneBritain Blue Peter - anthracite power would have been beneath Spitfire-pilot Raymond Baxter.

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@afneil In the UK, one job in every thirty is related to net zero?
Seems a stretch.

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@ghr50super @jm130tt If only us mere mortals had realised it was that straightforward.

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@biker_Ian @classicrider A cubist Picasso returning to an earlier period. I’ve run out of places to hide bodies otherwise I’d be keen.

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@andrewjmckillop @GrailArchive Good luck wedging him in.
Do you know if anyone made Tipo 33 kits?
I saw one somewhere I wouldn’t dream of parking, so I was suspicious as to whether it was a ‘real’ one.
Looked absolutely breathtaking.

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@stuey_beef Once a government takes more than 50p out each extra £1 earned it disincentivises the effort.
Most people pay the most tax at the end of their career. If you have to finance two years of retirement without state pension, why not five or seven?
These policies reduce tax take.

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@cheltcanary Easier to get a vintage Roller onto the drive than off it sometimes.

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@Rainmaker1973 https://t.co/rRgmaEsfai

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@Rainmaker1973 “my thesis was virtually complete in 1974, but the submission was deferred due to various pressures.”

Sir Brian May, Queen guitarist and astronomer. University dropout successfully submitting his thesis 33 years late.

https://t.co/NeHbIDCum6…

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@TeresaLeake4 @AnnieBishop123 Ouch

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@MadOldMoai Rising late, Sister Angelica hurried down the corridor. Several nuns observed that she’d got out of the wrong side of the bed. Finally she snapped at Sister Gertrude, ‘what made you say that?’ she demanded.
‘You’re wearing the Bishop’s slippers’ came the curt reply.

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@JeanWilkinsonSL @AnnieBishop123 Men were generally terrified of asking such questions by then, but I’ve known women managers who fished.

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@Roxby08010965 @AnnieBishop123 If you watch Brief Encounter, Celia Johnson was on her way to return a book to Boots who operated libraries in their shops for their high-minded customers.
Apparently condom sales stopped at Boots in the 1920s, restarting in 1961 coincidentally - for those with a prescription.

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@katephillips29 William ‘Smasher’ Dowsing was busy demolishing anything idolatrous locally on behalf of the 2nd Earl of Manchester.
Apparently, lots of non-religious decorative stained glass was also destroyed.
Could Lucretia have been chosen as a non-religious heroine to avoid censure?

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@jbcourt @elonmusk He has committed to giving away 99% of his $140 billion fortune rather than leaving it to his kids.

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@jbcourt @elonmusk Buffett says ‘enough to do anything, not enough to do nothing’.

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@johnarnold The Waltons, Mars, Ford, Kennedy, Pritzker, Rockefeller, Getty families and many others are the US aristocracy … often only one or two generations self-made.