SimonM

I can confirm this is just a myth. I once rented a Lamborghini for the day and it made not a scrap of difference.

Spot the tautology!:)

Well as I have Bent in my FF team, I was mightily miffed he passed that penalty on to Jones...

>>Sonny Liston for throwing the fight to Cassius Clay alias Mohammed Ali. << Which one? :)) Fair dos though - he'd probably have been shot had he not thrown them. Harriet Harman

Looks like Neil Warnock's job will now be safe for a while anyway! Ipswich are at Bramall Lane on Tuesday - I do hope they play as badly as that again...

>>Tonight on MOTD I saw a Fernando Torres masterclass. << Agree totally. Torres has always been pretty awesome - when fully fit - but his goals today were reminiscent of George Best in his prime.

>>>Can anyone make this be something like subsidiary though? Major wouldn't describe this, his old Eye feature, after deputy is nobbled (10)<< "major wouldn't descrive this" = definition of subsidiary "deputy" = sub "is nobbled = si "old Eye Feature" = diary *struts*

amnesiac acts up?

Well 3 months ago you could have had Linda Barker's place for ?1 million (less the cost of a pizza).....

...and Sky are showing Sheffield Utd v Newcastle in November too! It seems Newcastle are never off our screens...B)

Well...delirous by half-time, but a bag of nerves by the finish. But what a rubbish referee Alan Wiley is! yellow-card mad! But at least I now feel charitable... Arsenal 3 Wigan 0 Aston Villa 2 Portsmouth 0 Bolton 2 Stoke 1 Burnley 0 Sunderland 2 Hull 2 Birmingham 1 West Ham 2 Liverpool 1 Chelsea 2 Tottenham 0 Everton 2 Blackburn 0 Man Utd 1 Man City 0 Wolverhampton 0 Fulham 2

>>And thanks for defending me honour but I didn't take it very seriously. :D

>>Black Bag the Faithful Border Bin Liner - for anybody old enough to remember the likes of The Beezer, it is a superb pastiche of the artwork and the plot lines.<< I was going to write much the same but you beat me to it! Wonderful stuff

I think before "gate" we just had "affairs" - "The Profumo Affair" for example sounds far more louche and entertaining than "Profumogate" would have been...

Contrary to vile rumour I was not the spectator that called Mr Wadsworth a "thieving conchie who never settles his tailor's bills". I am not that old - quite. Bramall Lane tonight, live on Sky, United v Wednesday. Last season we lost both Derby games and, you could argue, lost automatic promotion as a consequence. If we fail to stuff them this time it will quite ruin my weekend.....to put it mildly.

The On Dit is that Dulwichmum is a "technical adviser"...B)

Hmmm....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502420/

>>Eh? They don't seem to have twigged that with Nectar cards, Tesco Club cards, Boots cards etc etc etc .... !!<< Well no.....different generation innit? But stamps were so popular at the time and yet their fall from grace was quite sudden and spectacular as I recall...:))

Ah the Co-op "divi"! I recall my mother saving it up and cashing it with some glee when my father was at work... I think the Co-op replaced it with stamps, although on further reflection I think pink stamps may have been "Fine Fare" or some such long-forgotten grocery chain. Green Shield eventually dominated: petrol stations would advertise quadruple or even quintuple stamps. Eventually people twigged that lower prices were better value than licking stamps and collecting books and swapping them for a coffee grinder....:))

A boring old pedant looks back nostalgically Green Shield stamps were Tesco Co-op's were Pink Stamps

There's already quite a few non-chain, long-established, food shops around there so I'd be amazed if any of these would welcome a Sainsbury's local. I suspect the Forest Hill "big" Sainsbury's might lose a bit of trade too... Oh and I believe Enid Blyton was very young indeed when she moved out from across the road! :))

Interestingly, we had one through our letter box today for the first time in months. Someone at "Living South" following this forum perhaps??:)

Little lambs eat ivy...:)-D

I remember listening to that Benefica game live on the radio - no TV coverage - and scarcely believing what I was hearing. Benfica were giants in those days and Man Utd were not expected to win, never mind tearing their opponents to shreds. I'd personally put Best first of all the players I've seen, and Cruyff second - if only for the amazing penaly he won just after the kick-off of the 1974 World Cup final against West Germany.

As a crusty and sexist old dinosaur let me say straightaway that, in line with the OP's cri de coeur for a return to traditional values, I would most certainly base my marking in such a competition on markedly crude and lecherous assessments of the gels' looks. As for getting them to change a tyre, I believe the tried and trusted method is to stand by the roadside, looking helpless and forlorn, and flashing a shapey leg at likely looking chaps in motor cars as they pootle by. I have to admit though that this has never worked for me....