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London Bi-Women Group - A social and discussion group for bisexual women in London. Discriminates against pre-op transsexuals.

Sister Act - A group for women in East Anglia. Information on past and coming events, photographs, and newsletter archive.

Vegetarian and Vegan Gay Group - Information on a social and support group for vegetarians and vegans. Includes events, advice, and recipes.

Celebrate! - Group of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals who want to spend time together away from the scene. Information on events, past and to come, and contact details.

The South Staffs Gay Social Group Virtual Community - Virtual community aimed at Gay Men based in South Staffordshire. Includes message board, chat room, and links.

Out and Out - Dining and social club for gay men in London and Brighton. Details of service, message board, and chat room.

Tennis London International - Tennis club and tournament sessions, photographs, and reviews.

Huddersfield Gay Group (HuGG) - Men's weekly social group that meets for games, quizzes, guest speakers, theatre trips, bowling, weekends away and other activities. Diary, meeting times and contact details.

South London Gay Bridge Group - Roving rubber bridge games in members houses. Presentation of the group, directions and photos.

West London Gay Bridge Club - Weekly duplicate games in a West London pub. Practical information and photographs.

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Recreation and Sports If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Recreation and Sports "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Recreation and Sports If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Recreation and Sports The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Recreation and Sports We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Recreation and Sports Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Recreation and Sports Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Recreation and Sports "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Recreation and Sports When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Recreation and Sports When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Recreation and Sports Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Recreation and Sports I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Recreation and Sports
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