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Bristol Amateur Radio Club - Facilitates the exchange of information and cooperation to promote amateur radio. Club programs and activities; meetings on the first Thursday of each month at the Bristol Memorial Medical Centre.
Bristol Astronomical Society - A non-profit-making registered charity of amateur astronomers, which organises a programme of talks and meetings. Origins, membership, events, convention, observations.
Bristol University Debating Society - Debates are held most Thursdays at 8:00 in the Student's Union building, and anyone is welcome to come along.
Save Clifton Pool - Local residents' campaign to save community swimming pool, built in the heart of Clifton in 1849, from demolition.
Bristol Film and Video Society - Exists to help all those who use film or video as a means of personal expression. Constructive criticism is encouraged.
Sports West - Guide to local sports in locality and the West Country. Includes the latest results, fixtures and forthcoming events.
Hollywood Bowl - A 26 lane bowling alley located at Avonmeads Retail Park, near Temple Meads railway station.
South Bristol Amateur Radio Club - Offers help, advice and weekly classes to radio amateurs in the locality.
Bristol University Games Society - For role-playing games. Events and archive of reviews and information on games.
Brambles to Brassicas - Regenerating a neglected allotment site by Sturminster Road Allotments Association. Focus on issues of funding and community organisation.
Horfield and District Allotments - With six allotment fields, one of the largest allotment associations in Bristol. Newsletter, pictures, history of the site, information on asbestos.
Evening Post Sports - News roundup from local paper, part of the thisisbristol site.
Bristol Community Sport - Independent provident society running five sports centres and eight swimming pools on behalf of the City Council: opening hours, charges, location and contact details.
Bristol University Athletic Union - Covering all aspects of student sport from athletics to windsurfing: contact details, news, photos, fixtures.
Bristol Basketball Club - English Division 3 basketball team. Includes training schedules, contacts, fixtures, squads, reports, aims, and sponsors.
Bristol 70cms Repeater Group - Newsletter, membership information, technical details from amateur radio club maintaining facility on the eastern edge of the city.
Bristol Aquarists' Society - Events, news, links, contact details and a guide to fancy goldfish varieties from local coldwater club.
Bristol University Hot Air Ballooning Society - Open to all students: news, events, contact details, photo gallery.
Bristol and District Camping Club - Sites lists, bulletin board, small ads, membership information, events diary from local caravan and tent organisation.
The British Cactus and Succulent Society - Local branck sharing expertise in the propagation of cacti: news, events, information, links, contact details.
Hades Caving Club - Local group of cavers: contacts, membership information, directory of caves, links and feedback form.
Bristol Origami Group - Local branch of national organisation for paper-folding enthusiasts: photos, links and contact details.
Welsh Back Squash and Health Club - Centrally located gymnasium and courts: services, prices, opening hours, fitness classes and contact details.
Slots and Models of Bristol - Specialists in current and obsolete slot cars and accessories: newsletter, contact details, special offers.
Triumph Owners Motor Cycle Club - Bristol Branch - Details of meetings, events, membership, regalia, items for sale, and contact information.
Bristol Softball Association - Local club for mixed gender sport with teams consisting of at least five girls and boys: calendar, rules, results, fixtures, and contact details.
Bristol Fencing Club - Largest fencing club in the city. Location, practice times, news and events.
BBC Radio Bristol Sport - Full coverage of Bristol City and Bristol Rovers, as well as local rugby and other sports, from the BBC.
Bristol Beekeepers - News of their activities supporting local apiarists, and information on the Avon Beekeepers' Association: FAQ, details of training, events, and shows.
Airways Kite Boarding School - Local company teaching power kite, buggy and kitesurf from a variety of West Country locations: services, gallery, links, locations, contact details.
Bristol Aztecs - Local American Football club formed in 1991: team news, sponsorship, contact details, photo gallery, message board and links.
Bristol North Swimming Club - History, programme, training schedules, officers, notice board and results.
Coombe Dingle Sports Complex - Managed by the University of Bristol, Avon Lawn Tennis Association, Clifton High School and Bristol City Council: facilities, booking arrangements, contact details.
Hash House Harriers - Social jogging for the unfit, slightly fit and nearly fit, starting and finishing at a pub: events, news, noticeboard and contact details.
West of England Geologists Association - Aims to promote interest in geology through lectures, excursions and social activities. Provides a link between the amateur, the student, the teacher and the professional geologist.
North Bristol Hockey Club - News, photos, results, history, contact details for local club.
Avon Riding Centre for the Disabled - Purpose-built RDA centres providing the opportunity for over 200 disabled children and adults to ride each week. Includes details of horses and ponies, fundraising, sponsorship and diary dates.
Avon Kite Flyers (AKF) - One of the largest kite clubs in the UK. Includes membership information, details of club projects, a gallery and plans of kites.
Bristol Mod Scooter Club - Galleries, news, message board, news and contact details.
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk. -- Fran Lebowitz Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Recreation and Sports Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Recreation and Sports "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Recreation and Sports Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Recreation and Sports A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Recreation and Sports "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports My other wife is beautiful. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Recreation and Sports "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life Recreation and Sports "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Recreation and Sports "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Recreation and Sports Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
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