Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.

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This is as good as deciding whether to ante into the poker pot after your hand is dealt.

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While the company has cranked out an Android handset or two over the past few years, it's now dipping a second hand into the Firefox OS pot.

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And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.

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Worse yet, they put meat on the grill that didn't belong there -- delicate organ meat on the one hand, then tough cuts I would only use for pot roast.

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Blair missed an early pot at goal, hitting the left-hand upright, but made amends soon after when Dragons prop Patrick Palmer - on loan from the Blues - was penalised for dropping a scrum.

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Spinning the pot forces the product to the sides and it freezes, The frozen parts are scraped off the walls of the French pot with a mechanical corkscrew blade and by hand, with a paddle until it all comes together into a frozen mass.

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On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.

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