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He came all a cropper

There once was a she-devil called Snorky Who when told she was getting too porky Reached in her pocket And pulled out a rocket To fire off at those who were dorky enough to comment about her weight, or about the fact that her last line didn't scan

Actually I'm one of the least ordered people I've ever met. It's just my brain started to bend a bit following the overlapping threads!!

As it got a bit confused back there, i'll pop this lot down: There once was a man from East Dulwich Who had a terrible skull itch So he took some pills Which cured all his ills And remembers again why he left Harwich There was a young man from Goose Green Who felt an urgent need to vent his spleen So he went on the forum And proceeded to bore 'em With rants about Bush and the Queen Whilst strolling along Lordship Lane I looked up to see an aeroplane and within a flash I broke into a dash As its loos had let loose 'yellow rain' A mother with child, overheard The warbling of a very strange bird it seemed to be singing and turds it was flinging That were left by an elephant herd As I looked out from Dawson's Heights Through the haze from my Marlborough Lights I said 'this is a farce' and pulled from my arse The coke that I'd hidden on the flight There was a young lady called Nancy Who like to wear shoes that were fancy she went down to Peckham To see David Beckham Who was shopping with Abbey Clancy A lady called Dulwich Mum had a classic 'east dulwich bum' 'twas clad in white denim And she'd pulled the hem in and poured herself coke and rum A lady called Dulwich Mum had a classic 'east dulwich bum' Which was trim but yet bouncy The best in the county and admired as she lay in the sun

As we walked to the Dark Horse from Hooper's on monday you're immediately struck by how drastically better the paving is in Camberwell as compared to East Dulwich.

* edited post Huguenot's post - gosh, not far off as it goes * I've not thought about that. Presumably as practised (practized Ant?) by Onan the Barbarian? I'll get my coat. Sooo East Dulwich needs a wif-fi network...are we any closer on those hot spots? :-$

Funnily enough the Edinburgh Castle been done up, the Edinboro Castle is now somewhere between gastro and hoxtontw*t territory. The Hawley Arms is all done up and, annoyingly for me as it's one of the few pubs i genuinely like in the area, a bl00dy celebs hang out. The Worlds End was always a horrific replacement for the Red Cap and even the Half Way house is now a desperately poncified 'Camden Eye' so it's not just an East Dulwich disease believe me. Oh and of course the addition of Gilgamesh above the horse stables market is deemed by many to be the nail in the coffin to old camden. I remember when it was all fields of course

and turds it was flinging

Yeah, think how many old wives tales have yet to actually be scientifically disproven. Can you _prove_ that an itchy ear doesn't mean someone's talking about you? Can you _prove_ that onanism doesn't cause blindness? Can you _prove_ that friday 13th isn't unlucky?

ive-met-jimmy has some sort of connection with the Belair cricket team, based in the village, who seem to take their cricket reasonably seriously. As it goes we're trying to put a team together for the CPT/EDF for a one off game against an SLP affiliated team (cor can i get any more TLAs in there?). We've not got any dates down yet but if you'd be interested in joining us for that I'm sure we'll need all the help we can get. *Crystal Palace Tavern, East Dulwich Forum, South London Press, Three Letter Acronym

Who had a terrible skull itch

Ooh, Mark, Batdog, Sean or Me?

Quite mark, I'm sure there's more to fear from mobile phone masts that deal in microwave radiation than wifi hubs. There have been studies on this, but none conclusive by any stretch.

Like I say, peer reviewed proof. Proof is not provided by asking someone to prove that something doesn't exist. Your electrosensitivity dot org doesn't offer anything in the way of hard evidence or empirical study, it's the internet equivalent of the man down the pub with the wooden leg told me. In fact it has something of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists feel about it, and conspiracy theorists are exactly the sort of people who post things like: "do you have evidence that wifi does not damage health?" http://www.xkcd.com/c258.html And as for the daily mail... " A teaching union fears...that it may cause a risk..." oh yeah, definitive there!!! Classic Daily Mail scaremongering. As I said, I've read scientific articles that have found some correlation between living in proximity to overhead electricity cables and a possible causal link to some cancers, but there is absolutely zip out there about wi-fi. It's radio for goodness sake batdog, you might as well say The Archers is scrambling your brain (actually there might be something in that).

It's been suspected, but not confirmed. Thanks Mr Jaded. And in answer tou your query, no, I don't think we do. Be more useful to have an upper east side version of what's been done to Hoopers/Ivanhoe imo.

I love the discounting structure on bulk purchases there. I may be tempted by the 50 for a tenner on those savings ;)

Muttley, you shouldn't pick on Snorky's inability to spell!! You only need to read older stuff from pepys through swift to Dickens to realise that there's no such thing as truly standardised English, but we've more or less settled on some accepted norms today, as have they. But txt/email english could yet be the death of that. I know the evolving language argument, but like third nipples under your armpit, maybe somethings just shouldn't evolve in some ways. Where we? Oh yes Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo dOO doo doo, de doop de dopp de dooooo

I thought one of their number deliberately changed American spelling to differentiate and distance themselves from their old masters

To address Nero's point rather than wander off as I did, I think Sean's pretty close to the mark. People tend to hang around with their own, however that may be defined, and it'll have as much to do with circles of friends, country of origin, religion, original London settling area and perceived class (for want of a better word of which there must be one). So not many yummy mummies hanging around the mosque on Northcross road, just as not many Muslims in the EDT (actually not many yummy mummies there). East Dulwich is one of the 'whitest' areas in London full stop which may explain something. I don't think there's any sinister reason why LL is predominantly white, it just historically is. A first generation of immigration will tend to hang around together because people like to be among their own. Witness the Essexisation of vast tracts of southern Spain. ED never featured as one of these (actually it was pretty Irish for a long time, but they've mostly gone home to enjoy the fruits of the Celtic Tiger (ewww, I hope not plums) I see blacks in the EDT pretty often, but this isn't Brixton. Which is not far away and the clubs there must be tempting if that scene is more your thing. In fact if clubbing is your scene at all then short of the Vale (ho ho ho) ED is going to attract is it.

Anyone with any common sense will understand that the these islands are populated by an enourmous ethnic mix full stop. There has been wave after wave of immigration, well, since before there was anyone here. And I'm not just talking about the big ones, the celts, the romans, the angles, saxons, jutes and normans. This has been a refuge for every persecuted minority for hundreds of years, French huguenots, Dutch anabaptists, Swiss zwinglists, German calvinists etc. As well as political/economic refugees or just plain business opportunists. All of whom have settled in varying degrees, Irish, Poles, Jews, Italians, Russians for hundreds of years, and helped build our fair city and many other parts of the country. Most of these have intermarried and anglicized their names such that most of 'us' Brits are totally unaware of being complete genetic hybrids. I thoroughly enjoyed the 100% English program where loads of jumped up little englanders discovered they were part Russian, Gypsy, Chinese, Indian etc. Gary Bushell rather wonderfully found out he had a fair chunk of sub-saharan African in him. All a long long way of saying that I think ethnicity is a pretty meaningless concept full stop, and don't go thinking any other country is that different, even if less blatantly than the UK. The fact that I'm a Spano-Germano-Welsh-Anglo-Scot via the west indies with probably more than a dash of Jewish, Moorish and Arab and who knows what else thrown in the mix is neither here nor there in this I assure you ;-)

Indeed Louisiana, good choice. While not wasting time at all, i stumbled upon this earlier The second graph will feature top 100s in other countries including UK. Lexus unsurprisingly not featured highly. Archie was surprisingly popular in the states once and you can see the resurgence in the UK. Kylie obviously has passed its peak.

I'm sure you do Tillie, I just felt I had nothing to contribute to the thread really, but had just read that article over lunch and thought it may be of interest.

I've not commented on this as frankly it's none of my business. 1 point regarding the Portugese police, it's actually against the law there for them to comment on any investigation at all, which would account for the paucity of information and the antagonism of the British press. Deborah Orr (not normally a favourite of mine) seems on pretty reasonable ground here though if anyone's interested. http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_m_z/deborah_orr/article2524418.ece

I've genuinely met a Michael Hunt, and of course Christopher Peacock is a journo on London Tonight. Some parents are plain cruel!!

No way, james bond's daughter?