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Mesmerist Productions - Music agency promoting traditional celtic, folk and world music. With artist pages and audio samples.
Aberdeen Camera Club - Contact details, programme, newsletter and pictures by members.
Bon Accord Camera Club - Gives programme of meetings, membership details and guide for competitors, and galleries of pictures.
Baztec Discos - Entertainment hire services. company information including DJ profiles and event photographs.
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums - Information on exhibitions, activities, facilities, services and collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Maritime Museum and Provost Skene's House.
Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen - Providing an encyclopedia of the North-East the Web pages cover a number of the museum exhibits, in particular illustrations from the Picts and Vikings.
Loirston Drama Group - Local theatrical group based in Cove Bay. Includes information, news and events.
aberdeen-music - Forum for discussion about the local music scene. Registration required except for frequently asked questions.
Bon Accord Silver Band - The north east of Scotland's premier brass band. Based in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen Pub Quiz Directory - Organises and promotes pub and club quizzes in and around Aberdeenshire. Includes questions, answers and quizmasters resources.
Bucksburn & District Pipe Band - Piping group offering to undertake galas, weddings, festivals and other events. Includes history, members, engagements and competition results.
Photography by Russell Lett - Shows landscapes, cityscapes, arts projects and infra-red images. Invites commissions and orders for prints via e-mail.
The Promise - Official site for the melodic rock band with photos, sound bytes, live reviews and guest book.
Merseybeat Aberdeen - Personal memories of music from the 60's.
Elite Promotions - Entertainment agents and consultants specialising in corporate hospitality, after dinner speakers. Lists offerings by category.
Concordia String Orchestra - Amateur string orchestra listing information about the group, concert, player and sponsorship details.
Danscentre - Offers dance tuition in ballet, modern, tap, Highland, contemporary and Pilates for all age groups.
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(Anonymous) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts and Entertainment Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Arts and Entertainment Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Arts and Entertainment Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) >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 Arts and Entertainment The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Arts and Entertainment Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Arts and Entertainment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Arts and Entertainment "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Arts and Entertainment University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) >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 Arts and Entertainment Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "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) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Arts and Entertainment "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) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Arts and Entertainment All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. 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