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Recently found a flute with valves... looks like a piccolo. Am looking up things about it.
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Okay, DED didn't answer my question so I did a bit of research. Xynthia was a monster storm from 2010. The recent one in Europe is Joachim.
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Oh thank you!
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Missed the question and used a wrong source sorry. Bad start in 2012.
The first storm is over, second storm comin up now is named Bonny, whens she blows with the finger below the mouth saying pfoe.
Seems to be for playing a few sounds from her new flute. pfoe pfoe pfoeeee
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C'mon, it's hilarious. Watch it for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEr0kAyCk2g
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Hey DED, there's no need to poo poo her poo. 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7ci6UDBeQ
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That's a lot of poo's 
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Happy black cat day today!
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You'll need to explain what that is, at least to me anyway. Are you referring to Friday the 13th?
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Yup. Was it that obscure?
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No, not obscure, I was allowing for our Aussie/Dutch cultural differences. I've never heard it referred to as black cat day. So, yes, it was kind of
obvious which day you were referring to, but I wanted you to explain the black cat part. Yes, we do have in UK/Aussie culture the superstition of bad
luck from a black cat crossing your path, but many of us are not superstitious. Anyway, we don't have an association between black cats and friday the
13th so I'm curious about what yours might be.
I live at number 13 by the way, which is how much we care about superstition. And, in France, the number 13 is good luck. My guess is that at some
stage of history there was a battle between the French and the English that the French won when the date happened to be the 13th. I'm half French and
half English. Saying "merde" to someone in France to wish them good luck is based on a historical battle won by a famous French general who stepped in
shit as the battle commenced.
When we migrated from England to Australia in 1961, we left on Wednesday the 13th of Sep and arrived on Friday the 13th of October. Basically, I'm
cursed.
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Interesting! I was aware that in some countries 17 is unlucky.
(checks up Wiki)
Aha! Apparently there is no source data for Friday 13 being unlucky until the 19th century. It also says in Spanish-speaking countries Tuesday 13 is
unlucky. Friday has been considered an unlucky day since [strikethrough]Rebecca Blacks's song[/strikethrough] The Canterbury Tales (14th century).
There's at most 14 months between two Friday 13ths.
Checked out the French page, and it is decidedly different. In a complete Gregorian cycle, which lasts 4800 months, Friday 13 occurs more than any
other 13 (Saturday 13, Sunday 13 etc).
Boy this is fun. Decided to look up "break a leg". Us Dutchies say toi toi toi.
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And, black cat friday?
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Well it's a bit of a Donald Duck thing with me; almost every time there's a Friday 13th there is a bad luck issue of our Donald Duck magazine, usually
with lots of black cats and ladders and stuff.
(checks Wiki)
Black cats are considered to bring good luck in UK and Ireland. And Japan.
In Celtic mythology a fairy known as Cat Sith takes the form of a black cat.
Where the European black cat fear comes from is not known but it seems much older than Friday 13; in the Middle Ages black cats were wiped out and
burnt at the stake, causing rat plagues and pestilence.
Black Cat Awareness Day is August 17th. Black cats and brown cats have a very low adoption rate.
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So, you're saying it's not a Dutch thing, it's just a Bonny thing?
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It is. 
Dad's come down with gastric distress. Poor guy. Get well soon dad!
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Gastric problems, no fun, hope you get well soon DED.
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Looking like there's more and more voices against SOPA. Methinks strike works.
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Goddamn Americans. Notice I'm talking about capital A Americans. There are many americans I don't have an issue with. Same thing applies to capital A
Australians, although as a percentage of the total population I think think the capital A phenomenon is higher per capita in the US than it is in OZ.
Which is a much bigger worry in terms of sheer numbers. In America (referring to the country, the capital A is just correct English, I can't help it)
that's more than 200 million people I would have difficulty trusting with anything whereas in Australia its about 10 million people.
Capital A Americans, keep your goddamn hands off the internet!! It's a modern Global phenomenon and it doesn't belong to you.
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