mockney piers

You certainly did. Not long now either and looking forward to it a great deal (not least to get away from this interminable rain)

yeah yeah, you with your fancy remixes louisiana ;)

We need to start a dictionary of EDF neologisms. shhhh I don't want to get this lounged

Or more to the point would poor Persephone spend years absolutely mortified at being called so by mum when she's persuaded her school mates she's called Claire.

It's called 'lounging' badger. If an east dulwich thread goes too off topic, gets too chatty or just wasn't specific to ED in the first place it usually ends up here. Some consider lounging a badge of honour.

I think they're usually called boquerones fritos. Traditionally made from anchovies. In fact are whitebait and anchovy the same thing? Either way I think they tend to be made from whitebait here.

That's called sod's law. Apparently an academic study worked out that you really do wait for half an hour then three come along all at once.

Do you have the link to this too? love to see it in greater resolution if it can be. I love old maps too.

* cracks open champers, though never needs an excuse to do so * * will remain MP in a mockney piers only fashion methinks as I don't own high heels and bin bags, have a mistress or a desire to line pockets with misappropriated funds (allegedly)*

I was going to post a balancing point about Scientologies tactics being bullying, but unlike a certain organisation whose name rhymes with Bowman Patholic, they haven't actually been responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of people who disagreed with their orthodoxy, but thought it might be too inflammatory. Doh!!....

**** gathers missing asterisks, makes party decorations out of them, strings them across the quiet room and starts mixing bloody marys * * muses as to whether should add some dragons breath blood * * offers BB a non-pokey bloody mary as a welcome gift, waves bottle of chilli around, go onnnn *

That is indeed on the saturday night Keef, so you'll be ok for this one. Thirded for Hoopers in July.

*weeps* two in a row I can't make. But you can all wish me a happy birthday and raise a glass to my health on the night if you like ;)

Well, which brewery owns the Dog. Cains of Liverpool by all accounts

Actually I do lean towards pastafarianism too Mark - as I strongly suspect you know ;), and as far as I can see it's the only religion which has managed to find the link between global warming and the dangerous drop in pirate numbers in this world. Important conclusions

ANy idea who does? I believe the refurb was when it was under the guise of being a young's pub, but it doesn't seem to have any connection with them now; maybe something to do with them getting their hands on the clockhouse and the grove

I was pondering that myself last night bob. I figured a cult gets people to believe in total nonsense through indoctrination and sleight of hand, and a religion err...err... Yep, numbers about covers it.

Was that Panorama I watched last night? Sorry, I thought it was a mockumentary on the lines of This is Spinal Tap. The 'representative' chap was such a paragorn of arrogant slimeball that he couldn't possibly be real. He did a pretty poor job of being intimidating too, though I'd have ended up punching him a loooong time before BBC man cracked. Actually I thought the beeb reporter was a little bit rubbish and *had* obviously set out to do a hatchet piece, so Mr Slimeball did have a genuine point, but he made it so impossible to have any sympathy for them with his high handed behaviour. A bit of moral high ground and dignified behaviour and the bbc would have got their fingers burned, as it was it was great publicity for them and a huge own goal for scientology. Should I lounge this myself or are we already there? I hope this doesn't get the forum into trouble as they probably spend hours searching on google for "scientology cult" finding people to harass.

Shaky is of course a god, though, like Mick Hucknall, didn't he retire from music and join Fulchester Utd?

Give me Sufjan Stevens or Andrew Bird any day of the week. Anybody heard the new Tom Mcrae album yet. I loved the first one but they've gone increasingly wishy-washy after that. A return to form would be nice. Rufus' new album got absolutely panned in the metro yesterday.

Strangely enough Mike's namesake was responsible for the brief renaissance of Byzantine culture. Can we expect to see a good Ottoman name next Melik?

Oh well next time Tillie, we did have a frantic scan for yourself and steph when I got back from the high st but noone could spot you through the solid sheet of rain that was tipping down at the time. I can bring some more of the Dragon's Blood if you like. I had the merest tip of a spoon of it last night just to see if it's as hot as I remember. Funnily enough it was hotter!!

ha ha muttley. You've perfectly described almost every walk back from LL I've ever done!!

Karter, not sure if you mean the postcards or http://www.chillipepperpete.com/3b_pickleresults.php

Sorry, I think you may have misread me there Michael. I said "footfall", ie more customers. I did discuss that with Jamie though and he agreed that it would send the wrong signal, and it costs a fortune too. There is screen in there, but mostly with news on, I believe he'll be showing the rugger though.