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Quote: Andrew A, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:00Quote: notleyab, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:28Quote: Andrew A, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:22Quote: Panurge3000, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:51Behind the puppets, more puppets. Behind them, yet more. So is it puppets all the way up? Of course not. But who's pulling the strings? This from Wikipedia: The Grand Masters of the Knights Templar during the later 12th and the 13th century used a double-sided great seal which showed a representation of The Dome of the Rock (or a circular dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) on one side, and the Order's symbol of two knights on one horse on the other side. If you don't want to be completely freaked out, DO NOT watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0mu2Qhr6S0 The Templers called themselves The Poor Knights of Christ—a reference to their vows of abstinence—and two knights sharing one horse was a symbol of their poverty. When they joined the order, they passed all their worldly possessions to The Knights Templar. They were mostly ‘second sons’ who would never inherit and who found power and influence from within the order. I once met Rolf Harris – nice man.  Did you get him round to do some painting for you. I remember as a kid I got captivated by his Tie Me Kangaroo Down and his dijiree-doo. Didn't quiite catch on tho, did it? Thankfully, he wasn’t playing with his dijiree-doo and it was before he became a ‘national treasure’. Way back when, I met a lot of minor celebrities – can I name drop? Oh...well I’m going to anyway, I never normally get the chance. Henry Cooper, Willy Carson, Dave Allen, Princess Margaret, Geoffrey Smith, Sir James and Lady Graham, Sir Ken Morrison, Lord Levy, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Ken Livingston, The Duchess of Kent, Frankie Dettori, Cozy Powel, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Fred Truman, Ringo Starr, Andrew Lloyd Webber...blah, blah, blah. At the time, it never occurred to me to collect autographs. D’oh! I think the only autograph I ever asked of someone I met was Cassius Clay aka M. Ali. I wonder if I hv still got it. Hv to look in my 'treasure' case.
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Quote: notleyab, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:10Quote: Andrew A, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:00Quote: notleyab, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:28Quote: Andrew A, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 22:22Quote: Panurge3000, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:51Behind the puppets, more puppets. Behind them, yet more. So is it puppets all the way up? Of course not. But who's pulling the strings? This from Wikipedia: The Grand Masters of the Knights Templar during the later 12th and the 13th century used a double-sided great seal which showed a representation of The Dome of the Rock (or a circular dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) on one side, and the Order's symbol of two knights on one horse on the other side. If you don't want to be completely freaked out, DO NOT watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0mu2Qhr6S0 The Templers called themselves The Poor Knights of Christ—a reference to their vows of abstinence—and two knights sharing one horse was a symbol of their poverty. When they joined the order, they passed all their worldly possessions to The Knights Templar. They were mostly ‘second sons’ who would never inherit and who found power and influence from within the order. I once met Rolf Harris – nice man.  Did you get him round to do some painting for you. I remember as a kid I got captivated by his Tie Me Kangaroo Down and his dijiree-doo. Didn't quiite catch on tho, did it? Thankfully, he wasn’t playing with his dijiree-doo and it was before he became a ‘national treasure’. Way back when, I met a lot of minor celebrities – can I name drop? Oh...well I’m going to anyway, I never normally get the chance. Henry Cooper, Willy Carson, Dave Allen, Princess Margaret, Geoffrey Smith, Sir James and Lady Graham, Sir Ken Morrison, Lord Levy, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Ken Livingston, The Duchess of Kent, Frankie Dettori, Cozy Powel, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Fred Truman, Ringo Starr, Andrew Lloyd Webber...blah, blah, blah. At the time, it never occurred to me to collect autographs. D’oh! I think the only autograph I ever asked of someone I met was Cassius Clay aka M. Ali. I wonder if I hv still got it. Hv to look in my 'treasure' case. Wow, I'd have loved to have met Ali, still at least our Henry put him on the seat of his pants.
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