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When was Nigeria's debt forgiven by the paris club?

― Kolbe Joe, Saturday, 27 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

http://allafrica.com/stories/200508190409.html

― HH, Saturday, 27 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but do not forget that in the same edict they specifically exempted all Nigerian jug bands and David Bowie imitators as "wholly unforgivable."

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

How dissapointing. I was hoping to be delighted with tales of sordid sexual goings-on, trysts, and other furtive gropes, the likes of which I only dream of.

― MSW (MSW), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was going to be able that too. I am equally disappointed (though in the case of the Zen Clown / Sue Denim affair, I am relieved that we have been kept in the dark regarding whatever exchanges of bodily fluids may or may not have occurred).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was going to be the Electrical Workers Union's journal of ongoing projects...

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Haven't you got an ohm to go to (etc etc)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Shocking, CJ. Just shocking.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Didn't you want a sultana, CJ?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Are you suggesting a Sultana is more desirable than a Currant? I beg to differ. Ever had a maid (of honour) with a sultana? A (butter) tart with a sultana? A fruit (cake) with no currants? Hmmpf!

― MSW (MSW), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

wife of a sultan?

― Heave Ho, Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Never had a wife of a Sultan, and have all my body parts intact to prove it.

― MSW (MSW), Thursday, 1 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

i will like u to brief me about nigeria corrent affairs

― abdullahi rabiu manga, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Careful, we're better known for 'de-briefing'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Nigeria is a wonderful country filled with wonderful people doing wonderful things and having a wonderful time, making it one of the foremost wonders of the earth. For example, Nigerians eat a wide variety of cooked dishes which they serve at various times of the day or evening, including some nighttime hours, but not often the wee hours of the morning, except under perculiar circumstances, when the normal way of doing things gives way to wonderful new and peculiar ways of doing things.

Nigeria has rivers and seacoasts, trees, birds and mammals. Nigerians keep pets. Currently! When Nigerians talk, they often talk in terms of millions and millions of dollars - which they are willing to share freely with selected ordinary people just like yourself. You should look into this.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Despite speaking of all that is current, I note that you are too decorous to go into any detail in the matter of affairs. Do you perhaps fear things going "a bit Ken Saro-Wiwa"?

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Nigeria's only problem appears to be the lack of aircraft maintenence which is causing more deaths than the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.

― Geoffrey Judge ( Ivor Feltersnatch), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Jay Jay's playing for the last time on Thursday. That's gotta be a problem.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

That's only because they've discovered polo, Mr Judge. A few too many beheadings, an accidental hitting of a stray head with a large mallet and before you know it ... games on.

― StrangeDays (StrangeDays), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

If I'm in the team can I borrow your stockwhip??
PS it's not for the horse!!

― Geoffrey Judge ( Ivor Feltersnatch), Thursday, 9 February 2006 13:04 (twenty years ago)

If your in the team, which horseman would you be?

― StrangeDays (StrangeDays), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Pestilence.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 9 February 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

That's funny, CJ, 'cause I was thinking that would be answer too. As in 'stinkin' droonk'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

~~What happened to~~ my my?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

The four horsemen have taken something of a back seat in recent year,s and are happy to give some of the lads in the reserves a game. I suspect therefore that I would be Stubbing One's Toe on a Cold Morning.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

That would make me Nicking Oneself While Shaving Hungover, wouldn't it? Oh, the humanity!

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I should be Hauling Oneself As Far As The Kitchen, Only To Discover There’s No Sodding Milk In The Fridge.

― Rex (Rex), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I would be Aging Disgracefully.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

It's a cruel, cruel world, ain't it?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 17 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

A question for our resident Britons. What exactly is sodding milk? Is it for soaking things in, as in 'sodden'? Is it a corruption of sudden? Is it only produced by cows on an all sod diet?

An inqusitive Yank.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and perhaps someone could explain why my British friends tend to say 'Sawed Off' to each other as a form of greeting.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Michael, as you are well aware, the vast majrity of milk drunk in the UK is bovine in origin. Wrung from cows grazing on the glorious green pastures of England, the sunlit uplands, the rolling swards of the downs. Turf, as you are further aware, when churned up by the hooves of our estimable herd can break into small clumps or "sods". Thus we see that "sodding" milk is that derived from a good English herd, as opposed to foreign cattle, forced as they are to graze on brick-dust or municipal playgrounds.

"Sawed off" derives from a time when practically every british male was a cheery carpenter, what with preparing our mighty oaken fleets for their voyages of discovery, trade and a little light pillaging. Upon finishing their work for the day (A practice known as "sawing off", simply finishing the last plank and leaving the edge of one's saw in it to remind one where to start again the next morning) they would greet each other in ye merrie taverne with gruff cries of "Sawed off?" "Aye lad, sawed off"

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 18 February 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Aye, it's just what I always thought it was.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 18 February 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

What are the current affairs with which I should be concerned, currently?

― C J (C J), Monday, 11 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Word has it that Aimless and Matt are getting on just swimmingly.

― Ðµdë §téè£ (Ðµdë §téè£), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Swimming against the current?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

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