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The Olympic Flame was an invention of Nazi propoganda chief Goebals for the 1936 Munich Olympics.
[The guy who was responsible for Nazi Youth, The SS and Death Camps

I was chatting to a pretty wee WPC today as the flame passed.
I asked her if she knew the history of the flame and she said she did.
I then commented that if folk knew the truth they would be throwing stones at the runners instead of cheering.
She agreed with me!!
 

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The Olympic Flame was an invention of Nazi propoganda chief Goebals for the 1936 Munich Olympics.
[The guy who was responsible for Nazi Youth, The SS and Death Camps

I was chatting to a pretty wee WPC today as the flame passed.
I asked her if she knew the history of the flame and she said she did.
I then commented that if folk knew the truth they would be throwing stones at the runners instead of cheering.
She agreed with me!!

They were in Scotland though, so I would have been throwing stones anyway.
 

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Huge crowds came out though, Murph.
I think it quite surprised everyone, over 1000 at Stranrear at 6am.
Loads at the Burns Centre in Ayr and a big party in George Square Glasgow tonight.
Very smart operation, I went with a school party and the kids loved it.
 

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The Olympic Flame was an invention of Nazi propoganda chief Goebals for the 1936 Munich Olympics.
[The guy who was responsible for Nazi Youth, The SS and Death Camps

I was chatting to a pretty wee WPC today as the flame passed.
I asked her if she knew the history of the flame and she said she did.
I then commented that if folk knew the truth they would be throwing stones at the runners instead of cheering.
She agreed with me!!

It is the passing of the flame that was introduced in 1936. The flame itself was around in around in ancient Greek times, and was reintroduced in 1928.
 

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One of my first girlfriends lived in a house where a previous occupant was Kingsley Amis.

It's quite an incongruous site - a blue plaque on the front of a small terraced council house in Norbury, South London.
 

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My great, great Grandfather is James Scobie, one of Australia's most successful race horse trainers and one of only two (I think) of trainers to win the Melbourne Cup 4 times. He's basically royalty in Melbourne, apparently.
 

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I woke up this morning just before 5am because I had to pee...

I was in good company when I came on the forum though, both Smiffy and bobmac were on :)

I am only 27 but I feel this was one of the first signs of old age :'(
 

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14th of August 1984, I slipped when diving in at the local swimming pool and broke my neck.
(27 years later I met my consultant at Dalmahoy when we were paired together in a four ball and he remembered me as the lucky one)

14th of August 2001, chopped the top of my left index finger off when van door slammed shut due to a gust of wind.

14th of August there after ... stayed home.
 

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I fell in Harold Wilson's fish pond,

the girl three doors down went out with Mike Peters from The Alarm,

My town was on Its a Knockout, and we lost

I was in the GB Junior Judo Team in 1984

I have lived in Norfolk for 35 years, and hope to be accepted as a local soon
 
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