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Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes Mel > > Who is hen and what is a "series off" as in... > > a series off three book debates? > > Other than that yuor book suonds graet. > > > ;-) Sounds? What's that...? *Hears mining activites of various 'writers' tunneling through the threads for funny/original/interesting material...* Needless to say all of Nette's post are copyrighted.

Curse my facial recognition software short term memory. Set off for The Gowlett all 'a-jaunt' looking forward to continuing acquaintances begun only a few weeks ago. Got into the bar at 8.30 and ordered one of the guest beers. Took a sip and looked confidently around the fairly busy pub. I saw a lot of people who looked like they could be some of those I met last time. In fact they ALL looked like that. Then I looked for a pregnant bump but realised I must have missed mein hostess. I couldn't hear LM so obviously too early and no one was sporting pegs so no clues there either. I peered into the corners hoping that when eye contact - however fleeting - occurred there would be some twinkle of recognition or a raised/questioning eyebrow. Nothing. Not a sausage. There was nothing for it. I could either slink off home with my tail between my legs and write out "I must try harder to remember people's faces" 100 times or I could work my way around the pub asking of each group "Er, are you on the forum?" I must try harder to remember people's faces I must try harder to remember people's faces I must try harder to remember people's faces I must try harder to remember people's faces .....

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maxxi Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > That's what happens when you get embroiled Doc - > a > > 73 goes sailing by under your nose... > > Oh no it didn't.....ahem. For SHAME!

katie1997 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PS mockney what have you done!! This thread will > only encourage those who think that reading the > 'New Scientist' makes them sound clever. You know > who you are. > At last! Been waiting for this kind ofhttp://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUFoGuJK__IC_DexXA8L1sp9DF63idHRiqJsSIHzxB16ne4ytJ thread... ...Hoyvin, glayvin...

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Absolutely no facts are being discussed here. No > one KNOWS anything. Utterly pointless. Brilliant DC - at last the tag lines we've been looking for... I think they should be promoted as banner headlines for the EDF. But maybe we could get some famous residents to endorse them - "Absolutely no facts are being discussed here." (That Bloke off Cold Feet) "No one KNOWS anything." (Jo Brand) "Utterly pointless." (Andy Coulson)

Would this really have looked better covered with ads?

I don't know about bare scaffolding being "ugly" or "grotty" - I rather liked this when it was up - like ED's very own Christo.

and as there are only 10 it shouldn't take too long

That's what happens when you get embroiled Doc - a 73 goes sailing by under your nose...

All disputatious parties should calm down and join us in (optional)naked fire-lit revelry and drunken carousing in February at ED's inaugural Imbolc festivities (Feb. *Sparklers will be allowed. New age dance/music/colour thievery will be allowed but is likely to be mocked. Mulled cider and flasks of Hine vsop are recommended.*

radnrach Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Apparently he's filming in Heygate Estate, which I > don't really class as Peckham. More like Walworth, > I would think (?) That makes sense - ever since they emptied it the Heygate has been swamped with film crews shooting this or that gritty urban drama or horror flick comedy, it's earning so much from that now they may never pull it down! (And it's definitely Walworth - or Newington borders)

I must confess to a preference for the old-style Xmas lights that glowed rather than sparkled, the kind that were opaque when not lit (looking like a bulb painted with nail varnish) and when lit they glowed like jewels and were of rich, deep colours - lights to look at rather than to be dazzled by.

okay - as populist as they come yet it was their 3rd album that was the first to really make it and their first to make the UK top 20.... ABBA - ABBA *only mention them because they were just swedeing their way through Dancing Queen on 'TOTP 1976' on BBC3 - honest!*

Thomas Micklewright Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Id love to meet you Hu, you should come to the > meeting to discuss? > Im sure you'd soon see the DVVS isnt trying to be > underhand or manipulative. We just want to talk to you... talk to you... talk to you... talk to you... talk to you... talk to you... http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHKI8jvJoxR8VQMkYR4h0QjTIE_IckqcvTqfFRxbI4l625o_on

What all some of the ladies 'seeking single men' on the EDF are looking for?... http://img.izismile.com/img/img2/20100108/weird_inventions_01.jpg

Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess ... (The album with 'I Love You' and though the 3rd album it's still way before everything they did was used by BBC sports broadcasters and/or US film soundtracks of the 80s) They Might Be Giants - Flood. And for bonus points what about- T.Rex - T. Rex ... Debut album of band's abbreviated name but fifth album overall.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Right, sort of taking jctg's lead here's a > challenge, how about best third albums where the > first two were rubbish and exist, unloved, only in > the collections of die-hards and completists' > collections. > > Anyone...anyone? Bound to be a matter of tate this one but I'd go for... The Manic's - 'Holy Bible', 3rd album and not as commercially successful as 'Everything Must Go' but I think they'd shot their bolt by then. A 3rd album for fans of radio smooth... Melody Gardot - 'My One And Only Thrill' (Live from SoHo being an EP)... Another one down to taste but... Talking Heads - 'Fear Of Music', the one that turned my head in their direction.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- How about an > end-of-winter pig roasting, ale swilling party to > cheer us all up in February? A quick search reveals on 1st or 2nd of February the festivals (by which I mean pagan and Christian) of Candlemass and Imbolc* - otherwise known as St. Brigid's day - meant to celebrate the arrival of spring. Just what we need after a miserable January and should satisfy the religious, the crystal-botherers and the 'what-about-a-party-then?' types (i.e. the rest of us). Like many Celtic festivals, the Imbolc celebrations centred around the lighting of fires. Fire was perhaps more important for this festival than others as it was also the holy day of Brigid (also known as Bride, Brigit, Brid), the Goddess of fire, healing and fertility. The lighting of fires celebrated the increasing power of the Sun over the coming months. For the Christian calendar, this holiday was reformed and renamed 'Candlemas' when candles are lit to remember the purification of the Virgin Mary. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Imbolc_Festival_February_3rd_2007.jpg/220px-Imbolc_Festival_February_3rd_2007.jpg Imbolc-fest, Marsden West Yorks. Feb 2007. So... fires, mulled things and wassail - and time for the council to spend what's left before the new financial year. *"(pronounced 'im'olk' also known as Oimelc) comes from an Irish word that was originally thought to mean 'in the belly' although many people translate it as 'ewe's milk' (oi-melc)."

First take-away pizza from The Actress tonight - uninspiring, undercooked, overpriced. Grated mozzarella!? Come on. So disappointing I couldn't even raise a 73. ETA: No, honest...

The B-52's - The B-52's (also ditto Stone Roses, Massive Attack, The Specials - would also add The Beat).

Rename it chavulgar square daahling, in honour of New Year festivities and let's start spelling the other one Lester godammit; no wonder our little ones are so confused.

My passing ref. to the GM was to illustrate that there may have been effigies and live sacrifices burned and bonfires lit that weren't related to Guido and when I talk of pagans I simply mean pre-Christian polytheistic religions rather than the Wicca tosh spouted by crystal-rubbing hairies and am certainly not one of the- "...modern pagans and such-like new-agers who think themselves privy to a deeper sacred knowledge, such as the increasingly queer notions one finds in most books on the Green Man which masquerades as ancient wisdom but is in actual fact wholesale, and unfounded, invention on the part of the writers." -as your folkie suggests.

All I dream about is toast... and the toaster is way out in the kitchen. I was in despair. Until... http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYmua_BwUvHgf1BpjvpfRpbZdcwaAb8n-ICoYP_ckxdC7OCxiA Ha haaa, keep your flash drives and your dongles. Farewell rocket shoes. This is the future.

Let's not forget that James I made 5th November a compulsory day of celebration in the climate of paranoia and fear that immediately followed the failed attempt on James' life - a time when people could be arrested/imprisoned/tortured without trial for just being 'suspected' of being against the crown. I think bonfire night survives because - like all the Christian religious festivals in our calendar - it has taken over from earlier pagan rites which involved fires, feasting and possibly human sacrifice (real or symbolic) like the Green Man etc. The way of looking at 'guys' has changed over the years and they can now take the shape of unpopular figures of the time. In Lewes (one of the most extravagant and vociferous bonfire nights) - along with the Pope and Guy Fawkes himself - effigies of Presidents Clinton and Bush, John Major and Gordon Brown (all in poses and dress designed to ridicule) have all been burned. If one delves deep enough into what passes for creativity at council level (or just makes it up) one might suspect that The Colour Thief was an attempted harkening back to pagan times when the colours of autumn were about to be replaced by the long grey months of winter and the bonfire celebrations would be to appease the gods and ensure the coming spring would be fertile etc. Sometimes I guess you can think these things through a little too much. *Dons suit of ivy and tries to set fire to effigy of Piers Morgan with damp matches*

TillieTrotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Parmigiano? Maybe they could be weaned on to that... http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRc-le2gQh9BVstdQ5FXCmPmoMcuhz7cPxB5M-dtJv6nNNWE1YZ