SimonM

>>I honesty thought it was called 'Ghandhi' - reason enough to stay away<< You're afraid you might be shot??

>>I do find that when you ask to be told how much something weigh in kilo they give you a look that could kill.<< I have some symptahy for them...they're butchers not mathematicians...and you should really be able to do the conversions in your head anwway :))

Arsenal 2 Man Utd 1 Aston Villa 4 Derby 0 Blackburn 1 Liverpool 2 Everton 2 Birmingham 0 Fulham 1 Reading 1 Boro 2 Spurs 1 Newcastle 3 Portsmouth 1 Wigan 0 Chelsea 2

>>I reckon there's a pretty watertight case for it being of national interest<< Quite so. What government would dare spend umpteen billion pounds of tax-payers' money on the Olympics and then not have them made available to the widest audience possible?

Why should there be adverts if the Beeb show them?

>>Simon, are you being just a bit prejudice?<< Not at all - I was quoting (hence the inverted commas) Ambrose Bierce, himself an american of course..

>>a millwall fan rang in and said that all the coaches carrying millwall fans had the windows put through by brick throwing morons.<< The statement may well be absolutely true, but it'd not surprise me in the slightest if all the windows had been brokwn from the inside...:))

"War is Nature's way of teaching Americans geography"

Yoo don't get a commentary when you go to the Emirates or Anfield or Bramall Lane...and yet strangely the games are still enjoyable (well okay not so much Bramall lane just now...(6)). If you must have your banality-fix why not get the best of both worlds and ask the Landlord to turn on the commentary subtitles? (This already happens in many big-screen places with the news channels.) It really brings home to you how superfluous the commentaries are and how terrified some commentators are of letting the game speak for itself (i.e., and thereby underline the whole point of their absurd existence..)

>>Tanna Chemist 46 Lordship Lane SE22 8HJ<< ..has also been a Day Lewis for some years. You'd think though that a small chain like this would be better equipped to have some form of late-opening rota..

I suspect the so-called "pumpkin rule" was invented by greengrocers desperate not to be lumbered yet again with huge unsold stocks of what is a pretty unlovely vegetable. Never "trick or treared" when I were a lad (but had "Mischief Night" on 4th November". I blame that Jamie Lee Curtis myself.. SimonM (in bah humbug! mode)

>>I would like a road-block at the Lordship Lane end of Melford Road.<< That would get my vote as long as the much-missed and stupidly-banned right turns into and out of Underhill Road from/on to the South Circular were restored...

Oh joy!...my final three forecasts absolutely spot on (plus 2 other results right). So now Arsenal's winning run bubble has burst they are clearly set for a humiliating defeat on Wednesday.... :))

>>Someone recommended Tony to someone asking for a reliable window cleaner on the "wanted/recommended" board of this forum. Would it have been Tony himself<< No. Tony Dowsett is neither a scam merchant nor unreliable - certainly not the local villain conning the vulnerbale...

This may be genuine....our window cleaner of longstanding is Tony Dowsett (Underhill Road). And he does not ask for money up front.

>>I've not read Bleak House but attempted my first Dickens recently (Great Expectations) and enjoyed it enormously!!:D

well it seems you're getting Ramos from Seville...only not until the end of the season. Shame Warnock is off the market eh? >:D

>>It has to be about last lines doesn't it; << If we're going to talk last lines then nothing beats Joe E Brown's "Nobody's perfect!" at the end of "Some Like It Hot"....:))

The trouble with blokes in suits on LL is that, these days, they are almost always estate agents having a quick smoke....Who'd want to be mistaken for an estate agent?

The Dam Busters The very last scene with the butterfly in "Elvira Madigan"...

The tunnel was between Dulwich & St Francis hospitals , and ran under the railway line. The staff magazine was called "The Tunnel"

Percolators are the inventions of Satan as they boil the coffee....

Your second team eh? 0-3 then you think? :( We usually play our reserves too in this competition... And I see I just overtook you in the Fantasy League...perhaps this is an omen? B)

Out of interest how many double espressos could you buy at the EDT for the cost of this admittedly marvellous-looking machine? :)) And yes, Illy beans are the best, and should be at the price: from time to time though Sainsbury's knock ?1 off a tin and then I bulk-buy!

>>There was a Vent dept where the used to take patients after surgery<< Oh my goodness yes the Vent Unit! where I spent more than one mostly, and thankfully, brief stays. It wasn't just for post-surfery patients though, it was to all intents and purposes an intensive care unit, and essential given all the rena; transplants they did there until that department moved to St George's. "Why not call it that then?" I recall asking one young doctor. "Dulwich is not allowed to have an intensive care unit for political reasons", she smoothly replied "so we have a Vent Unit..."