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Great result indeed. Majo muy feliz aqu?. ?Y lo que dijo *Bob*!

Interestingly just seen the gazza story, so we might have to add comedy to his more usual sporting genius accolades.

Word cousin.

Agree with MM though that IQ seems a very narrow definition of intelligence with all those damn silly shapes. 50 is a good score though isn't it? Like a Wimbledon seed yep?

That was meant to be a compliment, clearly i have some work to do on those verbal skills too. :-/

If you were, eg, a rocket scientist and had to work out the best trajectory to the moon, you'd probably want more than Ted max or honaloochie like verbal skills to poetically and memorably say, 'right, i'd like this big pointy thing to go to the big round light in the sky'. The worlds big, there's room for all sorts of intelligence, and if you believe the press then it would seem even Rooney Gazza was a genius apparently!!

Predictably I will side with the late great John Peel who said he wanted to be buried with them as the greatest lyricist this country ever produced, and offer up Nigel Blackwell of Half Man Half Biscuit. Consistently brilliant for over 25 years.

I'd love to blame the conficts in the former Yugoslavia on him, but even my loathing of Blair can't stretch that far. It was actually all Malcolm Rifkind's fault.

Err no. He turned a nasty little low level insurgency into a refugee exodus of a million people and a desperate escalation of brutal tactics by Serb security forces, meanwhile devastating the infrastructure of Serbia to little end, except to suck up to the States in their bid to give NATO a raison d'?tre in a post cold war world in the face of the threats of European alternatives (a pattern he'd repeat). He lucked out when milosevic saw the writing was finally on the wall for him, but also gave rise to preemptive preventative war which gave us, err, Iraq. Anyway, let us never speak of him again, it's what he thrives on. I think the world should just ignore him and he will be in a living hell that we can all appreciate.

Oh ok then, Elisabeth Fraser always blew me away. Y Dean Martin, Frankie et al knew how to sing a song. For me though i don't think watching a bunch of monks sing vespers in a tiny monastery in the middle of the desert near Zaragoza will ever be topped as a vocal musical experience. Extraordinarily beautiful!!

No mention of Keith Harris? Shame on you!

Cool. Best of luck. My step brother is a young scriptwriter so i know al about hard how it is to break the industry and making a low budget film that gets noticed seems to be the way forward fro what he tells me. Best of british luck with it all, sounds fab, and as a bit of a horror buff I await the results with some excitement!! I could probably do thinly moustachioed swarthy villain, but not sure how many railroads need ruthlessly building in the Forest Hill area.

I didn't. It just runs like an absolute dog sadly :(

Just whatever you do, do not upgrade the operating system to 4.0. My 3G has been render almost completely unusable. Luckily due for upgrade, i can't help but sniff conspiracy to sell new phones somewhere in this upgrade.

he he. I have to say gutted for Torres. He's not back to his usual sharpness and that would have helped his confidence. I'm sure the words were choice indeed. Something to do with leche I guess.

I do. Why?

And the stranglehold of the usual suspects has been nicely broken. And the best team won tonight. Mind you, what was Pedro thinking?! I almost broke the telly i was so annoyed!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!

looking at t'interweb it's like a brush fire of unsubstantiated rumour, cross pollenation and chinese whispers to mix loads of metaphors. Surely rather than repeating this crap we should agree on an even sillier one and start putting it 'out there' and see how far it goes. Like a lazy computer virus, or more like one of those emails that says email me to your ten nest friends or your head will disappear up your own arsehole or something. Any thoughts? Ashley Cole ate a hamster from out of Richard Gere's bottom perhaps whilst proclaiming he hates people, especially poor people?

Don't go poopooing our fun with facts and sense there Ted!

interesting interactive graphic, showing what countries squads' players actually play in over the last world cup and how pretty much everything changed after the talent market that was the 94 world cup. And look how dominant the premiership is today. It's in Portuguese but its easy enough to follow http://www.estadao.com.br/especiais/2010/06/copa_jogadores.shtm

We can all learn a thing or two from this man, if we'd listened to him we'd have been saved all the pain. "don't watch soccer period, or you're goin' to hell" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBkbj_S3etY&feature=player_embedded

An easy one for starters

Micah P Hinson's new one. A change of direction, much richer arrangements and a bit cheerier if I'm not mistaken. Very good. Also got She & Him - Volume 2, Zooey Deschanel's musical project, this time with M Ward. Sort of Gainsbourg & Birkin after hanging around with Johnny Cash for too long. Have read a couple of good reviews of the Tracy Thorn album, might give it a quick spotify and see if I like it.

It's all part of the 'fun' citizen. Of course we have to go through, and if they turn all England 5 - 1 germany all of a sudden then those boos and rubbish football will all be forgotten. Of course Spain will win the world cup (or concede a last minute equalizer to chile goddammit)