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Oh indeed Simon. I recall the last time we were (and I hate this phrase, it's so oxymoronic) 'too good to go down' we went down with 42 points! But the rump end of the premiership is truly awful this season and I count us among that number. It's weird, we're the best side in the bottom half I reckon, the odd performance against bigger teams has shown we have the potential to do better, so to agree with quids, the responsibilty has to lie with the manager. I don't actually think hammers fans are fickle at all, but we do need the right man vetting the team playing the right way, and as top bloke as he is, Zola ain't him.

Isn't "we are 100% behind him" usually followed by him stating "I will spend more tmie with my family" It's one of those universal unwritten rules. Does that mean I've broken a universal law? damn. and for gods sake (half of) sheffield. Get that damn greasy chip butty off your shoulder!! You were shit and you went down. A bit like us.

Alison Goldfrapp = (tu) I believe the colloquial term is cripes.

You do make me laugh Moos. Next you'll be saying that the moon is a button and that he took one giant leap for spoonkind!!

I have geuinely been asked where Albert Square is on many an occasion! People seem happy enough when I tell them it's in Stockwell, though I could say it's in Wabsnaston and they'd equally the wiser.

Two new ones Goldfrapp's Head First. The first thing you notice is opener Rocket is Van Halen's Jump. Then the rest bubbles nicely along in a highly polished and slick fashion. It's actually easy listening in the guise of electronica. I can't get rid of a sneaking suspicion that if in this day and age there is a flat full of neurotic, self/sex-obsessed lawyers in north london somewhere, that this would be the only CD they owned! Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can. Very, well....nice. She's casting her net wider and absorbing folk and americana influences, but then who isn't these days. It's a pleasant listen, but ultimately comes across as The Sundays with banjos and I was hoping for something with a little more bite; maybe a bit more Scout Niblett and a little less girl guide (baddam tish .. *gets coat*) :-$

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Or you can just get PR companies to exploit the lack of resources and scrutability in the media and do the hard work for you.

Or about 3 of that bane of all beer drinking men, the large glass of wine. Campaign to ban ladies from being in beer rounds anyone? But I see where you're coming from. As i say, probably just best to reserve a couple of large tables, pay for some finger food and take over a large chunk of the EDT without the whole hiring malarkey. Back of the Black Cherry have been good to the EDF drinks on a couple of occasions, perhaps talk to them too?

Or go for something more memorable like this for instance. 3k doesn't seem alot if you're talking about hiring the whole place and if you're talking enough to make the place feel full, say 120+ish, then 25 odd quid each doesn't seem a difficult prospect as 20 quid seems to be the price of a round these days. (downstairs is that or the upstairs thingy?), if there are alot of you, why not just take the place over and sod the hiring bit. The missus had a great 30th at the George Canning, we had a band and Steve put on a nice spread of food It is under new management now, but they seem a nice bunch so may be worth talking to.

As you say, private eye has been reporting on the bending of the voluntary code of conduct and the grey areas around the register of interests, fortnightly for as long as I've been reading the damn thing. It always helps to get good pictures of an MP making a twonk of themseves though. Next dispatches will be dressing up that reseracher in a rubbish fake beard and dark glasses. Essentially a non-story. Again, either make rules enforceable and preferably in law (god knows nu-labour have thrown legislation in a heavy-handed manner at every other issue they've dealt with) or just accept that people are a bit corrupt and driven by self interest and move on. Or even, as D_C has often suggested, attract capable people and pay them a decent wage, hopefully negating most of this grubbing around for cash we keep seeing. In other news the sindy reported that TB has made an estimated ?20 million since leaving office, mostly for sitting on part-time directorships of oil, construction and defence companies, advising how best to exploit all the crap he helped cause. Byers is a pathetic amateur in comparison.

Aaah, Duckworth Lewis Method, a fine album indeed. The sun is out and the gentleman's game will commence anon. I'll be taking the little fella down to the oval (not a euphemism!!) very soon, huzzah!! My uncle is an MCC member, but have yet to persuade him to invite me into the hallowed pavillion :( Could you lobby him on my behalf D_C, would a couple of fine whiskies or a trip to Bar Pepito for some fine (fino?) sherry be temptation enough?

No, but the fans have been a bit mute this season. And the home atmosphere has been a shadow of its former self for years, and gets worse with each new stand sadly.

Ouch. The people who run the club have a terrible habit of getting everything a bit wrong. for starters those awful plastic towers. Then the Hammerettes, then getting rid of the Hammerettes, that terrible cartoon sponge when there's an injury....oh I could go on...

A couple of choice examples from b3ta Girl with a hoop earing, just lovely The modern Thinker Saturn Devouring his Bucket

I did wonder if anyone would have the faintes idea what I was blithering on about (I do blither alot apparently). It would seem not. Yep. It's good and growing with each listen as the songs actually take form in my head. On the first few listens it's a bit like being stoned, sometimes your retinas pulse whilst your wabsnasm grasps at something, an ethereal sensation, a concrete idea; at other times a melody a riff wanders by, giving you somethig to hold on to albeit briefly. Then the whole slowly but surely comes into focus but again it's an hour later and you realise it finished without you quite paying attention. I'm playin it alot, but usually need some broken social scene or flowered up as the musical equivalent of an iron lung as I go through newsom decompression. Or something

10 points to the man with the horns!

Aaah, the ever wistful Mr Carnell, I picture him thinking about them in his best stove pipe hat! spot on Brendan. OK, an easy one: Harry quiet in QI broadcast; this didn't seem to bother Tony much (3,4,7)

another word for bristol (think laterally). Then if someone maufactured them, like, say ... a hatter or a cobbler, would they also snicker (oooh verb, not chocloate bar)......

I love you ladygooner. Even when you're prediciting west ham a decent beating you're nice enough to say we'll score twice. You MUST have a west ham soft spot in there somewhere :)

It's a slightly elaborate double literal

Assuming I have the right answer, this might be one of the best clues I've done in ages!! Snicker supplier of Bristol? ( 6 ) ...from private eye obviously.

So clearly some Newsom fans akimbo on this here forum. I know there are quite a few smog/callahan fans on here too. In fact i reckon if were to venn it up there would be an awful lot of crosshatch going on. So, for me it's bizarre that reviewers of the former's new release don't talk about the obvious, that it's primarily (though not remotely exclusively (frightened rabbit's penultimate it ain't)) a break-up album, and from what I can work out she just loved him and he buggered off "On a good day you can feel my love for you/ will you leave me be so that we can stay true/ to the path that you have chosen". But listening to his last, there's huge regret, though we never get anything like her catharsis. But much regret and loss "last night i swear I felt your touch, gentle and warm, the hair stood on my arm, power, power, show me the way x3 to shake off memory...all these fine memories are fucking me down...love is the king of the beast/ a lion walking down city streets" Is it just another example of the blame game? If so, it's kind of beautifully dignified and poetic from both.

Here's the plugin for lordmuck to use, and to answer your question PGC it would appear not. It would also appear according to that fount of ALL knowledge that the hyphen is reserved solely for Hiberno-English. Assuming that was what you were referring to? Maybe I should have stuck with BrE, as seen on this blog I've been following and enjoying for a while. I reckon it's right up your street too PGC.

What with the spate of RIP threads I assumed Phil Jupitus was dead. Ho hum.