SimonM

You get rid of North London just by draining the river: simples And of course elves are real. I got mine from the National Elf Service....(sorry!)

Denis Compton...???!!! All the Brylcreem? And didn't he also play football for a certain North London side? :))

May I remind you all of the wise words of Voltaire? "If Camberwell did not exist, we should have to invent it". It does, after all, serve as a buffer between ED & Walworth. Imagine Walworth on our very borders; or The Oval.... Not sure about losing KCH Hospital though...

On the subject of sensitive, articulate managers with a caring and thoughtful side, I see Colin made the move to QPR after all. I think the money must be great!

I think perhaps there was a missed opportunity here. I mean, if you already have a pub called "The Bishop" then its companion establishment might reasonably be called "The Actress" no? especially in a place as popular with great thesps of our time as ED.... I used to live near the Forester's, as it was then called, and liked to persuade myself it was named after the local writer who gave us Hornblower and the African Queen....I longed for a pub whose sign depicted a leech-covered Bogart towing that boat, assisted by Kate Hepburn.... Now I want a companion to the "Florence" called the "Ermintrude" or the "Dougal".... All this is probably why I am an armchair pundit of mediocre wit rather than a pub magnate.....:)

And some Blades supporters won't eat anything from pigs :)) But a bacon sandwich is a bacon sandwich dammit!!

I've seen this madness many times on Ebay, people paying more for 2nd hsnd books or DVDs that are available cheaper and brand new on Amazon or Playcom. I'd just shrug your shoulders and bank the tenner!

Jagielka played centre half. right-back and midfielder for Sheffield United - but never left back IIRC Oh and he played in goal a few times too when Colin played no goalie on the bench and Kenny got injured! Jaggers was really good!

A crusty white loaf from Kindred bakery in Herne Hill, cut ito doorstep slices Unsmoked, dry cure streaky bacon from a reliable source. Cut off the excess fat and fry this first, then fry the bacon til crisp (add lard to pan if necessary) dip one surface of each slice of bread in the hot fat layer bacon generoualy on one slice pour HP Sauce lavishly over bacon and top with second slice Serve with builder's tea in a chipped mug Repeat to taste

, Or, moore probably, Canada would belong to the USA:only neither country has expressed any claims or desires along these lines which, in many ways it de facto is etc etc. Yes indeed - and your point?? It is at least as morally defensible and logical a way as the "might is right" method..

Yes quite. The ones who died for the sake of oil were those who rescued Kuwait from Saddam. The Falklands Conflict (never officially a "war") was about wiping the egg off the Foreign Office's face, reviving Thatcher's rock-bottom unpopularity and allowing her to wrap herself in the flag at the subsequent General Election. The islands were not worth the death or serious injury of a single soldier then. You only have to look at a map of the world to see which country has the sounder claim to the Falklands. If the Falklanders (or the "Bennies" as the UK troops termed them) want to be British then pay them to resettle in the UK: it'd work out far less cheaper now there's no longer the Hong Kong precedent to worry about.

If you mean the ones at the junction of Underhill & Overhill then they've been empty a *lot* longer than a year and are pretty horrible...

What is the French for "Akela we Do Our Best!"???

What is it about poultry? "Hen" in Scotland..."Chicken" or just "Chick" in Northern England..."Cock" in the North too...then there's "Duck" and "Ducky" (ahem) and Jack Duckworth's immortal "my little swamp duck"... It's never the actual words is it? It's the accompanying tone or curl of the lip....or, in a forum like this, the context...

"little pot of yoghurt" + a live one :))

I expect Arsene will say he didn't see it....

Not managed to catch it yet - have I missed the downhill mooning??

Ah Crepes Suzette! You don't often see them on a restaurant menu these days - they are so 60's/70's bistro fare! And you would order them - or hope a nearby table would order them - just to enjoy the show of them being made and set alight with a terrifying WHOOSSHHH by the flamboyant waiter working hard for a bigger tip. It doesn't seem the same making them at home, easy as it is, although you can glug the Grand Marnier/Curacao and brandy with a somewhat more generous hand. Just take the battery out of the smoke alarm first...

Yeah true, but as far as the pancakes are concerned stick to turning them with a spatula...B)

Yeah, what BN5 said!

And make them thin not like them 'orrid thick things in those photos. Tossing is not obligatory!

SMBS was here in 1975 when I moved to ED - or at least a predecessor on the same premises with as near as dammit the same stock...Pretty's, Farmer's & The Curry Cabin were too! :)

Scholes to get booked/sent off....:)

Free advertising on a community discussion site is indeed repugnant to all right-thinking people. Can blatant product placement be far behind? I said as much to my wife as she passed me a mug of coffee and a slice of delicious chocolate cake from Cafe 2050.

Roly's ghost.