*Bob*

As Keith Richards said "If The Verve can write a better song, they can keep the money". They never did. See also that RunDMC smash remix that Nevins only got a taste of cash on and as one of the DMC crew said (something like) "if what you do is that good, play it again, Sam". He never did either.

'Speaker'. There's only one of them. Let's not go there...

Most briefs start with a request for a specific track to be royally pillaged anyway .. deadlines don't come into it.

Pull Up To The Bumper .. another ill-thought out soundtrack choice for many a commercial.. ho ho! Great track.

My feeling right from the off was that - regardless of the notes, chords etc; the core of it - the spirit or whatever you want to call it - just feels like too much of a lift. With that sort of cash floating around, it was kind of inevitable. It's the sort of thing you'd usually expect to see settled out of court, had Team Thicke not to chance their arm.

I think Pharrell probably regrets putting that cowbell in now.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Still lost his share of the dosh, though. Ultimately whilst the elements of a song are split 50/50 between lyrical and musical content - you can't separate one from the other when it comes to copyright. Its Pharrell's fault. He produced it - and it's the production elements (and the song's slightly unexpected massive success) that did for them. Everyone still ends-up with a stack of cash though (Universal incurred nearly 6m in what they describe as 'overhead' - genuis), so not too many tears to be shed.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- In court, Thicke testified that Pharrell > pretty much wrote the whole thing by himself lol! well he would, wouldn't he

Umm... Thicke wrote the lyrics.

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I believe Thick, never has a man been more > appropriately named, brought the law suit against > the Gaye estate for having the bare faced cheek to > accuse him of plagiarism. Ah yeah - you're probably right. I never did know grasp how the weird US litigative process works. I expect not doing so would have been seen as an admission of guilt of something. Anyway, the antidote to 'Blurred Lines' is 'Sexual Healing'. It should be played repeatedly on every radio station until the horror of Thicke and 'Hatstand' Pharrell's effort fades into nothing.

If I might offer up some seminal cuts by 'Cemetery Rapist' Many of the song titles cannot alas be reproduced on these pages (google if you must) but 'Violate the Decomposing', 'Non-Consensual Psychotropic Ovary Pounding' and 'Slant-Eyed Sex Slave' are sure to become the classics they deserve to be.

Unfortunately - I don't think it is designed to shock. I doubt if the dubious nature of the lyric ever factored in Robin's mind. That's the worst bit.

Most other songs don't make $15m though. Were it not for this, no-one would give a tinker's cuss, not even the Gaye estate.

What is does go to show - again - is how most listeners don't listen to lyrics.. or even if they do, they don't really care about them much.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think you'll find that the bitches know they > want it. 'them' bitches, please, Jeremy, not 'the' bitches.

Just a bit of fun, innit, don't know what all the fuss is about. They love it, them biatches. Or do they? Yes? No? Who cares.. press on, Robin, press on regardless.

Definitely worth popping in again tonight, Tetris. Maybe go in next week too - on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Or once a week for the next six months. Just don't WHATEVER YOU DO - leave with anything to eat.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or if were being a ponce about things, any of the > harbour side fish places in Essouira, Morocco that > cook fish to order on a charcoal grill served with > chips and salad and bread and a side of shrimp! > For about ?5. Whilst being offered hashish. Win > win. Ponce!

So what have we learned? If you eat fish and chips maybe once a month then by being canny and driving the 20 miles to Bluewater, within three or four months you'd have saved enough cash for a drink in a pub. On your own.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As previously stated, I'm not a F&C lover, but to > me a fiver for the cod plus ?150 for chips is what > I'd be expecting to pay in any decent chippy. lol!

Rolo Tomasi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Arnside Chippy is amazing. Try that one. And you get the bore. You don't get that at Bluewater.

I hope it's as good as the Harry Ramsden Euston Experience - which I believe is also under ?6. You get a tiny piece of fish and about 8 chips, which you get to eat while sitting on a sticky vinyl-backed chair with the stuffing falling out of it. Well greasy. Tastes ok though. You can't go *that* far wrong with fish and chips, really. (That said, the old Dolphin fish bar on FHR managed)

Can I come with and watch you? I can only imagine your reaction as you're seated on rustic 'contemporary' benching, huffing and puffing as little Max / Oliver / India (insert cliche child name of choice) buzz about whilst their parents look stare at their iphones.

I think you have to ask yourself how long you're prepared to spend with your nose pressed up against the glass looking in; going inside, not buying anything and coming out again; speculating, deliberating and endlessly wondering what that sub-?10 meal is actually going to be like. Go in. Buy. Eat. Decide. Move on.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I once had a square sausage battered and served > with battered chips at chippy in Telford. > Apparently that's a local tradition too. Those > midlanders and their peculiar ways. > > Louisa. I think you got the 'joke sausage' they give to visitors from down south.