SimonM

>>I have to deliver a child there this evening<< As the postal strike is now over, can't you just cram it through the nearest pillar box? SimonM (in facetious, unhelpful mode)

There's no longer the same fun to be hadin throwing lighted fireworks into groups of people since the Nanny State banned "jumping jacks" and "aeroplanes" Bagh Humbug. :(

>>Build on recent good work and signs of promise or choke like a kiwi?<< I think the former but, this being England, am preparing myself for the latter. Seems Owen will play, but I hope there's not going to be a terrible reckoning with MacLaren's brave support for Robinson! Oh and "choke like a kiwi" is new to me...did you coin it yourself? :))

Oh dear......and there was I hoping that just for once there could be an online football forum where people could both retain passion for their own clubs whilst employing a certain teasing good humour when having a go at rivals: always more fun to slip a stiletto through the shoulder blades (sic) of, say, Leeds supporters - to take an example at random - rather than bludgeoning them with barely-articulate insults. I suppose on reflection we did well to last 19 pages before this happened eh? :))

There's usually a display at the Horniman too.

>>Well done!!! And like any service you can choose to use it if you wish...<< Having given this careful thought, I have decided to pass on this bargain offer, principally because currently we pay only ?7.50 an hour for the same service. :))

I was of course making mischief and playing Devil's Advocate with my Liverpool comment, but I always find it a bit depressing the way "fans" everywhere want to sack a manager after a few bad results. Needless to say this is happening at a certain South Yorkshire club too which has not made the happiest of starts to the season with its new manager...:(

>>Funny way of spelling Simon<< Pot, kettle Brenda :)-D

>>Where abouts is Honor Oak Mansions << Next to the cemetery

It's a bit of a leap, isn't it, to assume anyone who elects not to go for the anonymity option and/or published a blog has to be a "celebrity" seeker? SimonM (real name, as far as it goes :))

>>What does everyone else think?<< I think you possibly have too much time on your hands.....:))

That's ?40 an hour!!!

>>Plus it keeps a little umbrella << So useful when you have an overwhelming desire for a cocktail....

Yes, all very droll, but noone seems to have asked the other question this result possibly throws up, namely "Has the Liverpool bubble burst already?" :))

>>I thought that pairing was a bit cringe-making myself.<< Yeah all that spit too...ewwwwww

I agree with Nero...recognised it instantly

>>I'm slowly watching on DVD the original series of Heimat<< I am a big fan of "Heimat", and have all three series on DVD. But the first series was truly magical and stands many repeated viewings... Last night watched "The Sopranos" on TV - an amazing episode...

>>7 correct results inc 2 exact scores. Anyone done any better?<< 9 correct, 3 perfect scores. Liverpool let me down of course....:))

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See http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2182042,00.html

I don't think Somerfield (or Sainsbury's for that matter) put any local burchers out of business. The really excellent Miles & Son of Sydenham also closed around then - and cited as the prime cause the new government rules, following a salmonella outbreak at a butchers in Scotland, requiring strict separation of cooked/cold meats from fresh. And as for the 9 sets of twins assertion...well really, how can this journalist possibly *know*?! SimonM

Villa 3 - 1 West Ham Man U 3 - 0 Wigan Arse 4 - 0 Sunderland Blackburn 2 - 1 Birmingham Bolton 0 - 1 Chelsea Fulham 0 - 2 Portsmouth Liverpool 2 - 1 Spurs Man City 2 - 0 Boro Newcastle 3 - 1 Everton Reading 2 - 0 Derby

>>Hope she hasn't got knocked up<< Oh depend upon it she will have been! :))

>> and we forget that guy opposite us on the train in Dulwich wearing a Man Utd shirt is also a human being. << And you were doing so well, arguing so cogently, until you went and blew it totally...B)

>>The result should be a forgone conclusion << Ummm yeah up to a point :))