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| Martin | Now that the forum is ticking along nicely, I can turn my attention to other parts of the website. I decided when I first put the forum together, that this would be a non comercial community space for Leyland people to use, an online community centre. I am currently working on a Leyland Directory and am looking for organisations, groups, associations and other sections of the community who would like to have an online prescence that is easily accessible to local people.
One area that I am concentrating on is local leagues, I have contacted one person about this already and am looking for others who would like to have their results on the internet (I often wonder what I've let myself in for, after spending hours this weekend playing with databases trying make one that looks nice as a web page).
If anyone has any suggestions for new content to the web site, please let me know and I'll follow it up. This could be, anything from local festivals, night life or your local clubs weekly events.
Don't expect an all singing, all dancing web spectacular, I'll do the best I can with the resources I've got, but if anyone wants to produce a fancy piece of web authoring, I'll certainly be grateful of the help. phew! 
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| rocketmanjohn | Don't sell yourself short Martin, this web site is terrific. I have so much fun reading about other members lives and what they've done. I'm sure I speak for all the other members when I say "Thanks a lot".
That is except for the Latin page, is it in some sort of code? Just my little joke.
John
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| Martin | quote:
That is except for the Latin page, is it in some sort of code? Just my little joke.
John
I've been keeping quiet about the Latin topic, mainly because I don't understand a word of it.
But thanks anyway.
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| noel | quote:
I've been keeping quiet about the Latin topic, mainly because I don't understand a word of it.
But thanks anyway.
In The Pink
Yes it's a great site Martin you should be congratulated. Would be good if we could get some more of the members participating, there is a large number listed is it 85 or more? and maybe 10 currently active,
ah well you kmow what the say, Non Sibi Sed Aliis. 
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| LDunlop76 | Yes, well done, Martin - this is a marvellous forum! When you first started it, I thought, as a non-Leylander, that I would only pop by now and then to see how a mate's site was doing, but I soon found myself totally addicted! 
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| Martin | Thank you all for the comments. Hayley keeps telling me that I should get some early nights and I keep saying, yes, I will go to bed early tonight! It never happens though, I usually spot something that needs tweeking and I end up rearranging entire pages until late in the evening.
I've altered the welcome page slightly, now all need is to find some people who would like to submit content of thier own to the web site. Maybe I should do that letter to the newspapers after all. I could ask Ed if he'll knock up a few thousand words for me when he has a spare moment 
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| Caroline | Yes, well done Martin , and many thanks for hours of fun alone in a room overlooking a french street complete with church and 'pissoir'!
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| noel | quote:
Yes, well done Martin , and many thanks for hours of fun alone in a room overlooking a french street complete with church and 'pissoir'!
Caroline are you being censored again
Well when you click onto reply with original text what you actually wrote becomes visible to the respondant. What's wrong with pissoir Martin?
Oddly I am a member of Preston North End Forum and you know what some of these blokes are like for swearing well they get away with it by putting a space between letters, like p i s s o i r . Now nowt wrong with that is there. cough, Caroline , what's one of them there thingys? I remember doing it in french and having a laugh as we all did but me mind's blank with Balshaw's names. Oh back to the PNE forum and when I replied saying don't SLAG somebody off, it came back as don't **** . Most annoying.
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| JohnH | quote:
.. but if anyone wants to produce a fancy piece of web authoring, I'll certainly be grateful of the help. phew!
Hi Martin, thanks for the site. It's good to keep in touch with the old town and people.
I've done some web and intranet authoring (currently updating my work's site which is now a bit dated and slow (www.catermasters.co.uk) and originally done in Flash. I use Macromedia Dreamweaver Ultradev 4, Fireworks 4, Flash 4, MS Office Professional. Done some ASP using Access for a couple of intranets. Let me know if you need help with any projects.
Again, thanks
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| Martin | Thanks for the offer John, I might just take you up on that. Finding time to work on the site is my biggest problem right now, but it seems to be coming along nicely...
Hi Noel and Caroline, the bad word filter does throw up some oddities every now and then, this could be a problem if the forum was called "The Scunthorpe Pussy cat club" I'll play around with it and see if I can get it to be a bit more relaxed.
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| noel | quote:
Hi Noel and Caroline, the bad word filter does throw up some oddities every now and then, this could be a problem if the forum was called "The Scunthorpe Pussy cat club" I'll play around with it and see if I can get it to be a bit more relaxed.
In The Pink
Eh, well that gave me a laugh to start the day Martin..
At this stage I think we are all respectable enough not to need any filters. The only words that have been edited are those naughty French ones.
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| Martin | I've tweaked the French word filter, the words are still in there but it should now recognise when they are part of a larger word. clever eh?
Getting back on topic 
does anyone know of any associations or groups who would like to use some space on this site? I can set up seperate web pages or lists of events, group notices etc. They could even have their own private forum...
I've got an Evening Post and Gaurdian around here somewhere, I might go through the notices and contact a few people.
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| Caroline | The French word- no longer censored, I see, is a urinal, mainly ignored by the natives who prefer to use the corner by the post box, two yards away. The word we all had a giggle at in French was pissenlit, meaning dandelion, and referring to its diuretic properties.And now we'll see if Martin's tweaking worked on that one!
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| noel | Piscinerie I always thought was aptly named.
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| LDunlop76 | We used to have a giggle in French supermarkets at the lemonade called "Pschitt!". Haven't seen it around the last couple of years. Have the manufacturers cottoned on to what the name sounds like to English ears? 
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| Caroline | A 'piscine' isn't actually meant for that, Noel! Did you know that chlorine alone doesn't actually sting the eyes, 'spect you do, as you're a scientist. You can still get Pschitt round here. Another unfortunate brand name is Cacolac, some sort of chocolate drink, but we found the best one yet when we had to buy the cheapest cheapo cat food at Cora supermarket- namely 'Defi-cat'!!!
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| noel | quote:
A 'piscine' isn't actually meant for that, Noel! Did you know that chlorine alone doesn't actually sting the eyes, 'spect you do, as you're a scientist. You can still get Pschitt round here. Another unfortunate brand name is Cacolac, some sort of chocolate drink, but we found the best one yet when we had to buy the cheapest cheapo cat food at Cora supermarket- namely 'Defi-cat'!!!
I've had my share of Pschitt in France. Took me ages to realise that you could buy it ice cold from a Cave for next to nothing.
France holds not very good memories for. My first view of a topless wind-surfer.
I vowed I would never go back.
( very big cough)
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| LDunlop76 | Defi-cat? Hmmm.... well, that *is* what cheap cat food looks like!
I'm glad to hear Pschitt is still available - it's nice to derive some mild amusement from shopping!
I haven't seen any topless windsurfers in France, but was mentally scarred by the sight of a middle-aged man on the beach in a thong! The worst part of it was that he'd obviously only dared to put it on for the last day of his hols - given away by his self-conscious walk down to the water's edge ...... and the white backside and tan line where his more conventional (larger!!) swimwear had been! LOL!!
My! How we stray off topic on this forum!
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| Caroline | Easy-to-spot are the very pale English, and agricultural families who are burnt black on arms, head and neck, retaining however a delicate white-marble pallor worthy of any Victorian heroine on the rest of the body..
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| LDunlop76 | quote:
Easy-to-spot are the very pale English,
I have fake tan at the ready!
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| rocketmanjohn | The deep south here has many French connections. The 'Cajuns' are French Acadians banished by the English. Old Cajuns still speak French, but not the modern variety. Consequently, they can only just be undertood by modern day French people. It's sad that this language was attempted to be literally beaten out of the kids earlier in the 20th century. Fortunately, it's now the in thing, and enough has been remembered to teach the latest generation. I always find it amusing to be spoken to in English with a strong French accent, I reply in French only to be told 'Sorry, non ami, don't speak no French'.
Incidentally, my youngest son's wife's maiden name is Touche, yes, she's a Cajun.
Another source of strangeness [ is that a word?] is a town south of New Orleans is called Des Allemands, The Germans. A bit odd I think.
The movie 'Southern Comfort' shows a lot of Cajun country, it's rather violent, but a good movie and well worth watching. 'Quiet people' is another.
John
John
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| noel | quote:
The movie 'Southern Comfort' shows a lot of Cajun country, it's rather violent, but a good movie and well worth watching. John
John
Is that the one with the albino playing a banjo in a guitar/banjo duet? If it is , I always wondered what race those people were. They sang an odd song sort of a mix between french and english .
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| rocketmanjohn | Noel,
I don't remember that bit, are you thinking of 'Deliverance' with Burt Reynolds ? Thats the one with the inbred kid playing 'Duelling Banjos' and the 'Squeal like a pig' scene.
John
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| noel | quote:
Noel,
I don't remember that bit, are you thinking of 'Deliverance' with Burt Reynolds ? Thats the one with the inbred kid playing 'Duelling Banjos' and the 'Squeal like a pig' scene.
John
I think I must be, it was with Burt Reynolds and a weekend fishing trip that went horrendously wrong, now I'm wondering what nationality the indians in that film were.HELP.
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| Caroline | I'm a fan of cajun music, have one of Eddie Lejeune's records; We played it to some French friends and they found it really difficult to understand- many weren't aware of the music at all, or the french connection in The States, and these are musicians! I already mentioned this somewhere, but what about Elvis in King Creole?
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