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Love Minus Zero / No Limit - Bob Dylan.

Everybody's Talking - Fred Neil

Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers

See The Sky About To Rain - Neil Young.

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon

I Forgot To Remember To Forget - Elvis

Singer's Hampstead Home - Microdisney

Who Loves The Sun? - Velvet Underground

Doing The Do - Betty Boo

Daddy Needs A Drink - Drive-By Truckers

Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young

[upbeat poppy tune] "Kebab and Wine, Kebab and Wine, Four stitches and a Nurofen and you'll feel fine..."

SMBS - 'So Much Brilliant Stuff'

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I get lots of sparrows in my garden (North Cross > Road area). > > I'll happily swap them for your goldfinches :) You're on, Sue :) Goldfinches were popular cage birds back when it was legal, but I find their song a bit insipid and wheezy. Much prefer the happy chatter of sparrows - even at five in the morning.

Lots of goldfinches and great tits tweeting (rather than Tweeting...) this morning. They seem to have replaced sparrows in the 'small birds' department. Except for a small but noisy colony by the junction of Glengarry Road and Trossachs Road, there don't seem to be any sparrows left in the Dulwich Hospital area.

.. oh, and Monty Python was very funny...

Recently, "The Trip". Utterly wonderful from beginning to end. "She was only 16 years old..."

Anyone not entirely enamoured of the impending nuptials might want to get in a supply of these...

BBC News - Teenager charged over London bus murder

zeban Wrote: > In regards to Jewish Mouse Wee Quinie, there is a > history of Jews being portrayed in a derogatory > way, but I'm sure if it was a unequivocally > positive portrayal then there wouldn't be any > objections. Well, there was the Spielberg-produced cartoon movie An American Tail in which the immigrants to America (the "Mouskewitzes") were portrayed as mice. And more sombrely, Art Spiegelman's graphic work Maus about the Holocaust portrayed the Jews as mice.

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Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My point was simply that we made assumptions about > who were culprits, and their motivation and > background, regarding the Islamic terrorists, that > turned out to be wrong. We could well be doing the > same here. I am not suggesting that the two types > of crime were similar in nature or motivation, my > comment was about us, not about the criminals. And I was saying that not everyone made those wrong assumptions and that many 'experts' in terrorism would have expected the perpetrators to be 'educated'. We can sociologise about the perpetrators of various sorts of crime, and criminologists do it all the time. Statistics will tell you everything about a population but nothing about an individual member of that poulation - which is one reason why this thread has become, er, problematic.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Er, irony alert. And I stick by my assertion that > speculation in advance of knowledge in this area > is silly. Remember how surprised we all were when > the Islamic bombers in Glasgow airport turned out > to be doctors from stable middle class British > born backgrounds, as were the London bombers > (British born at least). But this is 'cause-related' terrorism/violence, rather than the violence of the streets, which is very different. In fact, research into the sociology of 'terrorism' has for a long while suggested a significant link between political violence and higher than average levels of education. In that respect, many 'Muslim terrorists' are little different from the Baader-Meinhof Gang, the Red Army Faction and a host of non-Muslim groups who've resorted to political violence to further their 'causes'.

There's a review in the Express of a book about Boris Karloff which namechecks East Dulwich. The book sounds pretty good...

Museum?! Good things don't end in '-eum' - they end in '-mania'... or '-teria' Homer Simpson