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Soundwave 2000 - Listing of local musicians, entertainers and venues .

St.John Singers - The Choir exists to sing services in cathedrals and churches and to support different national and local charities through its concerts. Includes history and programme of events.

Salisbury Festival - A multi disciplinary arts festival located throughout the city. Provides information on events and locations .

City Hall - Entertainment venue, providing events for all ages and interests. Includes a listing of events, booking form, seating plan and location details .

The Wardrobe - Regimental museum for the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment. Offers information on the regiments, history, collections, and visitor guides.

Salisbury Playhouse - Information on programmes and productions, facilities and seating plans, playhouse history, restaurant, and directions .

Studio Theatre - Amateur drama group provides information on the theatre, history, news and reviews, past and future productions, and membership.

Spire FM 102 - Programme, presenters and tourism information, plus competition information and links to local weather and companies.

The Sarum Consort - Vocal ensemble. Includes concert programme, recordings, reviews, related links, and contacts.

Salisbury Camera Club - History, programme, officers and membership details, with information on competitions and a set of members' pictures.

Music in Salisbury - An annual celebration of classical music with events throughout the year. Offers information on programme, performers, composers, and local community links.

The Chapel - Local nightclub. Includes description of the facilities, photo gallery, what's on, nights for young people, and e-mail notification.

Salisbury Musical Society - Provides information on performances, history, the conductor, membership and officers. Perform three concerts a year in the Cathedral.

Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society - Details of the society, its history, past productions and future plans, news, production details and contacts.

History at Large - Historical theatre company. Offers information on future and past productions, a photograph gallery, and contacts .

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum - Home of the Stonehenge gallery . Includes photographs of the gallery and offers information on current events, facilities, location and membership .

Salisbury Guildhall - Entertainment, conference and wedding venue. Contains information on rooms, facilties and charges.

Salisbury Sinfonia - Chamber Orchestra. Has an overview of orchestra and upcoming events.

Salisbury Scottish Country Dance Club - Information on joining, location, a tutorial and links to other organisations .

The Medieval Hall, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, England - 13th century hall, offers a presentation on the town to visitors and can be booked for functions. Site includes information on the presentation and holding functions.

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(Wilson Mizner) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Arts and Entertainment The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Arts and Entertainment The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. - unknown The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Arts and Entertainment The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Arts and Entertainment The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Arts and Entertainment That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Arts and Entertainment "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Arts and Entertainment There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment
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