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Saltcoats - Presents images of the town (old and new), plus a list of www links relevant to Saltcoats.
The Wino's Guide To Ardrossan - Humour based site reflecting on the social decay and deterioration of a small Clyde Coast Scottish Town. Lots of spoof ads, photographs and audio.
The Three Towns of Ayrshire - The three towns of Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Stevenston. Local history and views, old and new, of Ardrossan.
Ayrshire Roots - Genealogy site. Contains large reference section covering local history, registrar records, old maps, parish records, and a surnames database.
The Ayrshire Page - Genealogy and family history page. Includes many photographs of Ayrshire and links to genealogical databases.
The Ayrshire locality - Bits and pieces about the towns and villages of Ayrshire.
Ayrshire Scouting - These page contain details of Scouting in Ayrshire by District and Groups. It also contains information on the Ayrshire Area Scout Camp Site
Ayrshire's Domain - Includes a 'Rough Guide to the Ayrshire Dialect', a chat-room, shopping section, genealogy resources, historical information, and local links.
Kilbirnie Community - Provides links, news, and local information. Features contact email addresses for councillors, MSPs and others.
Laighdykes Juventus Y.F.C. - Local youth football club in Saltcoats. Includes team information, some photographs and a notice board.
Warrix Flying Group - Radio controlled flying club. Providing photographs, joining application form, contact details and associated links.
St Brigid's - Roman catholic church in Kilbirnie. Contains history, scripture and news.
Beith - All about life and shopping in the town with historical connections to American Independence.
Ardrossan Independent Community Group - Addressing local issues raised by the residents of this town. List key issues being addressed and progress reports.
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society and Culture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Society and Culture Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard 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 married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Society and Culture "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Society and Culture I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Society and Culture Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "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." Society and Culture "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Society and Culture Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Society and Culture
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