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ddvmor


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I've had a growing pile of small denomination coins on my desk for quite some time now. There's about a pound in coppers and a bunch of 5p's. Not quite enough to retire on, but enough to buy a cup of tea from the canteen in an emergency!

This pile has taken many forms. At one point is was a pound-high tower of coppery glory. This proved unstable, however and kept falling down every time I opened or closed my drawers or if someone walked past, or beathed a bit heavily.

So the pile underwent a transformation and became two perfect squares of coppers - one of pennies and the other of 2p's. The 5p's stayed where they were. Then they were merged into a pretty hexagonal(ish) pattern. It was all lovely and very artistic.

This morning, Susan wandered over to my desk. It was very early, so there weren't many people around. As we discussed important stuff (and things), she started to rearrange the coins on my desk. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but a very interesting pattern began to take shape, and it suddenly became very, very important that we complete it. We had to scavenge a few more coins from colleagues, but eventually we managed it. And it's truly glorious!

Take a look here! thumbsup.gifbiggrin.gif

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JonnyStead


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I'm stunned -

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So you should be stunned.  It took hours, nay, seconds to knock it into shape. nod.gif

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Heck yes you need more coins - where is Northern Ireland??? Be sure to make it out of pound coins to make up for the indiscretion.

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bonniepirateanne wrote:

Heck yes you need more coins - where is Northern Ireland??? Be sure to make it out of pound coins to make up for the indiscretion.



To be fair KT England is already represented... to make a big thing out of NI would be like making a big thing out of say... Swindon?



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you're right, Swindon is a province of the United Kingdom with its own government..

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Oh my..

Impressive. Most Impressive.

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bonniepirateanne wrote:

you're right, Swindon is a province of the United Kingdom with its own government..


You know I'm only having a bit of fun with you on this right?

OK cool - onwards - Swindon does have its own government yes - they can decide spending, taxation, education funding, NHS Execs report into it and they control their local environment - its called Swindon County Council.  biggrin





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Swindon even has it's own space agency, you know.
Eddie Izzard wrote
He also made a speech about space. President Kennedy said, "By the end of this decade, I have decided to put a man on the surface of the Moon." At the same time, our Prime Minister in Britain, Sir Dingly Dang... You don't know anyway, do you? You have no idea! It was Sir Fritz Bunwalla. Engelbert Slaptyback, who was Prime Minister at the time, and he stood up and he said, "By the end of this decade, I have decided to put a man on the surface of the Earth!" And so he did. But it was kinda weird, cause we couldn't do the space race. We had no money, you know, rationing didn't stop 'til the year 2001! I still haven't even lived that long. But anyway, we just didn't have any money. So you were getting space rockets, testing them, sending a cat, dog, a fish, a monkey up into space. The fish was interesting! We didn't have enough money to put a man in a track suit up a ladder! I mean, I would've been there,

"Go man, go!" "

I'm going, I'm going! 'Ang on!"

"Just hang on to the ladder!"

"Hello, Swindon, I am here. Swindon, can you hear me?"

"Swindon here, we are monitoring you on our instruments at the moment, we've got you on a tuba. There should be a bigger laugh for that joke, I think."

"Yeah, I can't quite understand it; I thought it was really funny. Swindon, a knackered, kind of Fresno town."

"They don't seem to be going for it.

They're obviously bastards."

"Anyway, Swindon, I'm nearly at the Moon actually, that's a bit of an understatement, that one.

Have you got another big ladder, another bit of ladder? I don't think we're quite at the Moon yet, but I can see right over the top of the houses! Fantastic!"


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JonnyStead wrote:

 

You know I'm only having a bit of fun with you on this right?

 



yes yes, I know


JonnyStead wrote:

Swindon does have its own government yes  {snip} its called Swindon County Counci



err.. would a County Council not be 'part' of your Government - isn't this like saying pepperoni is the pizza? or or the steering wheel is the car ooooorrrrr ok I'll stop

 



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Nope - councils are devolved local authority and can be run by the official opposition parties if the locals want it that way. The Lib Dems control a fair few councils in the West of England for example.

Sure they cant change the law or alter income tax etc but then neither can any of the devolved governments in Wales, Scotland or NI (except Scotland which I think can tweak it by like 1%).

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