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Ocelot Spleens Dec 2022 5:07pm, 22 Dec 2022 35,890 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Silly Walks coming to a Parkrun near you soon... telegraph.co.uk
ChrisHB Dec 2022 6:02pm, 22 Dec 2022 22,149 posts	0 ChrisHB [ Re: stamps above. Well, I got my stamps, and even at the same post office that earlier said it couldn't give them to me. The counter clerk who dealt with the matter said she'd never seen such a thing before but she believed me, or possibly hoped her employer was being defrauded.]
JHollyBerry Dec 2022 6:13pm, 22 Dec 2022 1,265 posts	0 JHollyBerry I suspect I already knew this but... make sure you have fully flicked the upstairs light switch to off otherwise the one at the bottom won't turn the light back on.
GregP Dec 2022 10:21am, 23 Dec 2022 141,806 posts	0 GregP Kansas State University is in Manhattan.
57.5 Days of Xmas Dec 2022 10:52am, 23 Dec 2022 10,653 posts	0 57.5 Days of Xmas Kansas State University is in Manhattan. While that is a bit of a standing joke in US sports, there must be an interesting reason why the same native word is used as a place name half a continent apart.
NDWDave Dec 2022 10:57am, 23 Dec 2022 17,785 posts	0 NDWDave [ And Miami university is in Oxford, Ohio ]
GregP Dec 2022 11:04am, 23 Dec 2022 141,810 posts	0 GregP [and Harvard is in Cambridge, MA]
57.5 Days of Xmas Dec 2022 8:52pm, 23 Dec 2022 10,658 posts	0 57.5 Days of Xmas [and Harvard is in Cambridge, MA] [To be fair, someone may have been using the name 'Cambridge University' for a few years beforehand...]
GregP Dec 2022 7:30am, 24 Dec 2022 141,823 posts	0 GregP [used to run over to Cambridge and back before work back in the day. Very pleasant, at least compared to downtown Boston]
Raptors Claws are coming to town Dec 2022 9:43pm, 24 Dec 2022 61,834 posts	0 Raptors Claws are coming to town How much G&S is in Chariots of Fire. I must have been aware of this at some time in the past, but I haven't watched it for 40 years.