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## Table

This table, which appears in one of Puzzles pages, is actually a jpg screenshot taken from the original version of the puzzle, which is on a wiki I post in HTML. I didn't have the courage to format it again! Here is the code:

```
 <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>

 <table style="width: 50%;">

  <tbody>

   <tr>
     <td><b><u>Money in</u></b></td>
      <td><b><u>1st choice</u></b></td>
      <td><b><u>Stay put</u></b></td>
     <td><b><u>Change</u></b></td>

    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">*</font></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
     <td></td>
    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">*</font></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
     <td></td>
    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">*</font></td>
      <td></td>
      <td></td>
     <td></td>
    </tr>

   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box A</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box B</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
    </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font>Box C</td>
      <td><font color="white">**</font><b>Win</b></td>
     <td><font color="white">**</font>Lose</td>
    </tr>

  </tbody>

 </table>

 </dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl>

```

Actually, it wouldn't have been too bad. Here is my latest effort:

So I think I shall substitute this for the screenshot.

## Experiments with photos

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/H%C3%B4tel\_communal\_de\_Schaerbeek\_%282%29\_-\_2264-0007-0.jpg/512px-H%C3%B4tel\_communal\_de\_Schaerbeek\_%282%29\_-\_2264-0007-0.jpg

Hôtel communal de Schaerbeek by M0tty (Own work)
 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
 via Wikimedia Commons.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ely\_Cathedral\_Exterior%2C\_Cambridgeshire%2C\_UK\_-\_Diliff.jpg/512px-Ely\_Cathedral\_Exterior%2C\_Cambridgeshire%2C\_UK\_-\_Diliff.jpg

Ely Cathedral

By Diliff (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Space.

Lots of space.

And even more space.

Just a little bit more.

## More experiments

Quotation from Charles de Gaulle:

* How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
	+ *Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?*
	+ Les Mots du Général, Ernest Mignon, 1962

Quotation from Jean Sibelius:

* Never pay any attention to what critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!
	+ Bengt de Törne *Sibelius: A Close-Up* (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 27.

Quotation on Wikipedia:

* The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.
	+ Miikka Ryokas, computer science student quoted in The New York Times.

🍁

## The great wrestling match

For details see WP articles on:

Martin Klein
Alfred Asikainen
## Barbecues, etc.

The barbecue problem
Personality test
/Transfer: "Since"
Thoughts on Putin and Ukraine
## *Thomas and Friends* intruder

Bah Humbug; now that's too strong!

```
'Cause it is my favorite holiday.
But all this year's been a busy blur
Don't think I have the energy
To add to my already mad rush
Just 'cause it's 'tis the season.
The perfect gift for me would be
Completions and connections left from last year.
Ski shop encounter most interesting.
Had his number but never the time,
Most of '81 passed along those lines.
So deck those halls. Trim those trees.
Raise up cups of Christmas cheer.
I just need to catch my breath;
Christmas by myself this year

```

Calendar picture. Frozen landscape,

```
Chill this room for twenty-four days.
Evergreens. Sparkling snow.
Get this winter over with!
Flash back to spring time saw him again
Would have been good to go for lunch.
Couldn't agree when we were both free.
We tried, we said we'd keep in touch.
Didn't of course 'till summer time,
Out to the beach to his boat.
Could I join him?
No. This time it was me;
Sunburn in the third degree.
Now the calendar's just one page
Of course I am excited.
Tonight's the night I've set my mind
Not to do too much about it.

```

“

misheard

```
byprplmeanie

```

The lyrics in the last verse should be A&P has provided me with the world's smallest turkey. A&P was a grocery store back in the 80's.
See all ”
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas

```
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year.

```

Hardly dashing through the snow

```
'Cause I bundled up too tight.
Last minute have-to-dos:
A few cards, a few calls
Because it's RSVP.
No, thanks. No party lights.
It's Christmas Eve, gonna relax,
Turn down all of my invites.
Last fall I had a night to myself
Same guy called; Halloween party.
Waited all night for him to show.
This time his car wouldn't go.
Forget it, it's cold, it's getting late.
Trudge on home to celebrate.
In a quiet way unwind.
Doing Christmas right this time.

```

A&P has pride in me

```
With the world's smallest turkey.
Already in the oven, nice and hot.
Oh damn! Guess what I forgot.
So on with the boots
Back out in the snow
To the only all night grocery.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
In the line is that guy I've been chasing all year.
'Spending this one alone,' he said.
'Give me a break, this year's been crazy.'
I said 'Me too, but why are you..
You mean you forgot cranberries too?'
Then suddenly we laughed and laughed.
Caught on to what was happening.
That Christmas magic's brought this tale
To a very happy ending.

```

Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas

```
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.
Merry Christmas; Merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year.

```

Read more: The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping Lyrics | MetroLyrics

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## Lisa Batiashvili

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Lisa\_Batiashvili00.jpg/512px-Lisa\_Batiashvili00.jpg

Lisa Batiashvili by Mat Hennek, who must be attributed in all use of the image

(via Wikimedia Commons - Creative Commons licence 3.0)

# La Chanson de Prévert

## Introduction

One of my favourite songs is actually a tribute to another song and begins
 with the same line. It was composed by the renowned French singer-songwriter
 Serge Gainsbourg, I guess in the wake of the failure of his first marriage,
 so in the late 50s or early 60s - its publication date is 1961.
 The words are wistful and it is sung to a sad little tune, but Gainsbourg
 performs it with a lightness of touch which prevents its being maudlin.

 It celebrates the famous 1940s song  *Les Feuilles Mortes*, which
 was written by the poet Jacques Prévert, with music by the composer of
 Hungarian origin, Joseph Kosma.
 The English language version by Johnny Mercer is *Autumn Leaves*,
 perhaps best known in the recording by Nat King Cole.

 These are the words of Gainsbourg's song as I remember them.

## La Chanson de Prévert

 «Oh, je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes.»

 Cette chanson était la tienne.

 C'était ta préférée. Je crois

 Qu'elle est de Prévert et Kosma.

 Et chaque fois *Les Feuilles Mortes*

 Te rappelle à mon souvenir.

 Jour après jour les amours mortes

 N'en finissent pas de mourir.

 Avec d'autres bien sûr je m'abandonne,

 Mais leur chanson est monotone,

 Et peu à peu je m'indiffère.

 À celà il n'est rien à faire.

 Car chaque fois *Les Feuilles Mortes*

 Te rappelle à mon souvenir.

 Jour après jour les amours mortes

 N'en finissent pas de mourir.

 Peut-on jamais savoir par où commence

 Et quand finit l'indifférence,

 Passe l'automne, vienne l'hiver,

 Et que la chanson de Prévert,

 Cette chanson, *Les Feuilles Mortes*,

 S'efface de mon souvenir,

 Et ce jour-là mes amours mortes

 En auront fini de mourir?

 Et ce jour-là, etc.

Using <poem>

    «Oh, je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes.»

    Cette chanson était la tienne.

    C'était ta préférée. Je crois

    Qu'elle est de Prévert et Kosma.

    Et chaque fois *Les Feuilles Mortes*

    Te rappelle à mon souvenir.

    Jour après jour les amours mortes

    N'en finissent pas de mourir.

    Avec d'autres bien sûr je m'abandonne,

    Mais leur chanson est monotone,

    Et peu à peu je m'indiffère.

    À celà il n'est rien à faire.

    Car chaque fois *Les Feuilles Mortes*

    Te rappelle à mon souvenir.

    Jour après jour les amours mortes

    N'en finissent pas de mourir.

    Peut-on jamais savoir par où commence

    Et quand finit l'indifférence,

    Passe l'automne, vienne l'hiver,

    Et que la chanson de Prévert,

    Cette chanson, *Les Feuilles Mortes*,

    S'efface de mon souvenir,

    Et ce jour-là mes amours mortes

    En auront fini de mourir?

    Et ce jour-là, etc.

## Trying something out

<a href="http://www.orkugifs.com/en/"><img alt="Hugs and Kisses" src="http://www.orkugifs.com/en/images/hugs-and-kisses\_225.gif" border="0"></a>

## Rescued source

Daisy Bates (actress)

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**Daisy Bates** (born 5 January 1974)Template:Vn is a British actress.

She was born in London, the daughter of actor Ralph Bates and actress Virginia Wetherell. Her brother is William "Will" Bates, a film composer. She made her television debut as a child, taking a leading role as Pauline Collins and John Alderton's daughter Freddy in the ITV drama *Forever Green* and later played the lead character's daughter in *Kavanagh QC*. She has appeared in several films including *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*.

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## Messages

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1. ↑ Will Bates at IMDB
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