mockney piers

He's probably still got a few quid tucked away from his early eighties success, but I bet he'll knock you out a song for the price of a warm meal.

Flippin' eck. just got back from helsinki(5 moths ago ignore me). cool place.

*wakes with a start* [hmmmrph - time for lunch] *swaps slippers for sturdy shoes, heads off to Franklins*

talked to the barmaids, and the late opener was the red cube apparently

Still have The Groundwater Diaries avaliable for borrowage if anyone wants it. And just got London a Life In Maps on the back of the exhibition just finishing at the British Library, but as that's coffee table fare you'll have to invite yourself over for a mug of the stuff.

John FISHES down by the canal (in Camden, probably for cadavers). Keef FISHES for grammatical corrections.

@ben >> "espers II - espers" class! Will you going to the Green Man Festival. Local Lad among the organisers as it goes. Rachel Unthank and pals is well worth a listen. Tunng too!

Describe, in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about... your forum.

Having just come back from there, their prayer's a bit too hard, it's put my back out. I can go with the whole kangaroo/pangea/floating mat thing, but come on, they reckon all english are spaniards, THAT i'm happy with (as long as we're descended from monkeys)

*rustles newspaper, fills in 9 down*

Would Africa by Toto make it on perchance? How about Hall and Oates And I'm getting a feeling that Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush's Red Rain might be there too.

Hello FISH, love the irony ;) Welcome to the fold. For my part I do understand your concerns, but* I still think you're far far better off living here than towns like Reading and Stevenage. The residents of my estate campaigned for a greater police presence, and the police pointed out that they had 20 estates in Southwark that are marked as high knife and or gun problem areas. Our nice suburban one was nowhere near the list. In fact I don't think any part of East Dulwich (though the estate is juuust over the border in SE5) featured on the list. *someone once said that everything before the 'but' is, essentially bull***t. Wise words

I don't think we're allowed any appley stuff on our work PCs so I just use audiograbber and a LAME encoder, at home I use Sony's *ahem* eccentric Connect software and rip to ATRAC3. The results are pretty good as it goes, but it still sounds a little dead. As it goes I'm thinking of getting back into vinyl after popping round a neighbour's house (the chap is one half of Spooky, if you remember them) and he played A Kind of Blue on his turn-table. Reminded me what a quality format vinyl is! You won't hear aound like that on t'internet radio that's for certain.

I've about 30 GB (4,500 songs, I rip big to squeeze every drop of quality out of the travesty that is MP3) of ripped music (all from my own CDs) on my work PC, so I rarely need to venture out on t'internet. Plus the bandwidth hogging doesn't go down too well with the support team. But there are good sites like shoutcast, the BBC, yahoo et al.

Mr Administrator, I enclose wise words from wikipedia on forum netiquette "Forum etiquette Certain rules of unspoken etiquette are recommended to be followed when using Internet forums. They include: * One should read all the rules and guidelines established by the community; some communities may have different regulations on a particular subject. * One should always be courteous. * Before creating a new topic thread, one is advised to search to see if a similar topic already exists. * Contributors should follow standard grammar and spelling rules and avoid slang. * If the forum is categorized, one should strive to post in the correct section. * When making a technical inquiry, one should include as much technical information as possible, especially in the subject line. * Contributors are asked to stay on-topic. * Contributors should avoid double posting and Crossposting. * To avoid appearing self-absorbed, one should respond to topics started by others more often than starting topics of their own. * Contributors should avoid the use of all CAPITAL LETTERS in posts. All CAPS is considered "shouting" and causes readability issues. * One is advised not to resurrect a very old topic if nothing significant will be added. This practice is known as revival or Necroing. * One should try to refrain from lashing back at a poorly behaving member or participating in a flame war; instead, notify the messageboard's staff of the event. * When quoting a previous post, one should only include the relevant portion of that post. Contributors are requested to keep in mind that their audience can likely still see the message they are quoting on the same screen and can read it again if need be. " and "[All Caps] form of typography also appears in on-line forums. It was once an inevitable byproduct of using machines with limited support for lowercase text (such as certain dumb terminals, early Apple II models), but as full support of ASCII became standard, it became solely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour. As a result, Netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps. Because the use of all capital letters is considered shouting, posting a forum message entirely in all caps is often taken as a sign that the poster is a newbie or a troll. Usage of all caps is also often associated with members of the America Online service. More experienced users will sometimes jocularly use all caps in parody of such users."

Forgive me as I flirt with being serious for two shakes of a gnats bits. But there's an interesting article in the washington post which has a certain relevancy in the light of recent events and SHOUTYNURSE's chagrin.

You mean you're not a viking?

Here you go Keef. Is that Kathryn helping herself to a pi?acolada there? I think time for a dash of club tropicana on the stereo as I ease into my tennis skirt :-S

Very good Ant! This forum is rapidly becoming a neologistic wellspring. The milk round thread? Yeah, too much offtopication going on, it got lounged.

Nice touch Mike, I had a huge one of those at uni. DM, perhaps you can mock one up in ermine and mink? just going to pop Blinder's copy of neutral Milk Hotel on the turntable if that's ok with everyone, I'll be careful. Anyone good with egg whites, quite fancy a pisco sour?

It shuts?

Beginning to sound like the best bar on virtual Lordship Lane already. Quirky Scandianvian Pop please, and a dartboard.

Mine's a zoider. Hmm, nice retro furniture, looks like a sixth form common room in here, how unusual.

I've seen attack ships burning on the shores of Toto's Africa.....

what was thank you very much again? I love languages. M'encanta de conecer te, o algo asi? Ich nichte lichte, trente percente