Being much more refined than you, there is much Americano food which we wouldn't touch with a bargepole . . .;-) & mdash; ( talk ) 07 : 37, 22 March 2006 ( UTC)
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By then, the boatman had been killed by arrows, so Xu Chu, still holding up the saddle with his left hand, used his other hand to grab a bargepole and push the ferry away from the ford to safety.
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The disfunctional dynamic of / C, combined with the pure POV that flies about for every popular nomination, and the silence for everything else, means ITN is 95 % crud, 5 % good items, when stretched over a year, but nobody wants to touch the whole'should ITN even exist'issue with a bargepole around here.
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Excel is a fairly significant virus vector, and in any case, lots of people don't have it . ( I certainly don't-I use spreadsheets all the time but I wouldn't touch Excel with a bargepole : I am no security fanatic but there " are'limits to the risks I'll take.
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In particular, one potentially hot area that I have found myself engaged in recently is closing AFD discussions that nobody else will bring the proverbial bargepole near; I won t say my calls haven t been challenged from time to time, but I think I ve been able to act in an even handed and understanding manner that has kept any disagreements from getting personal.
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Frank McNally, writing in honor of the author's 100th birthday, reflects on the breadth of the appeal of the series of novels, for the quality of the writing and the relationships between the characters, which put them beyond the typical naval adventure, and gain interest from readers who " wouldn t touch Horatio Hornblower with a bargepole . " Lucy Eyre wrote to point out the appeal of the series to women readers, mentioning the nautical detail, and how it might be viewed the same as precise medical language on the television program ER . She notes that " O Brian is never heavy-handed with his research : it s simply that the books are set in a perfectly realised world, which happens to be a ship at war ."
