Ted Max

Can't say I do, as it goes. Super Ally's going to be right on it tonight. Party in Coisty's room! Or, "Rangers are Coming" as the commentator somewhat strangely said. Amazing season for Rangers. Began in Europe back in July. Knock out stage alone they've done Olympiakos, Werder Bremen, Sporting Lisbon and Fiorentina to get to this final. Nice to see a couple of ex-Hibees out on the park as well.

Absolute, outright larceny from the 'Gers. But somehow fitting as well.

Ant, I will admit to a certain gruff admiration for the sight of a flock of swallows gathering over a dusky East Sussex valley, flitting anxiously in the last of the year's sunshine, uncertain of their future, unlikely, many of them, ever to return from their forced flights into the hostile south. It's at times like that you really think .... "sic transit gloria mundi", and all that stuff. (Also, "it's getting cold out here, can we go to the pub now?")

Something really soulful that shows the inherent generosity of my spirit, my potential qualities as a lover, as well as how well-travelled I am. You can stick that on the poetry thread as well, by the way.

Disposable Income The temporary front door one installs following last night's burglary.

This isn't actually a very rich area, despite the continual mood music to the contrary on this forum. Of the newer, supposedly more wealthy, demographic you've got families with big mortgages and relatively new-to-the-city "professionals" - most of them at the lower end of the passport signature acceptibility chart, and most of them stretching it either in rent or mortgage to afford to live here. Many of those Bugaboos out there have been bought by the grandparents as presents for the little 'un, let me tell you. Or borrowed for the duration. I think a few business plans too many contained guessswork factoring in the amount of distressed denim and vintage clobber walking the streets, rather than the amount of folding stuff inside the jeans pockets. A few quid extra for a nice bottle of wine from GnB on the way home is a whole different thing from having a few hundred spare for a piece of commercial art, or a couple of hundred for a nice, but unexceptional, dress, or 40 quid for a kids' "wear twice" cardigan. Is it possible that one or two of these businesses (Raisin, the art shop, gallery on Upland Road) have been too far ahead of the curve?

Once upon a time, fish farms that used pesticides and medicines produced a bright orange fish, dyed with carotene pigment, to imitate the flesh of your wild salmon, whose natural diet is rich in this pigment. "Organic" fish farms, seeking a way of marking their product out on the shelves, produced a paler beast - bravely unafraid to show us the natural woolly pallor of a caged creature deprived of its natural diet. Although the dye (naturally occurring, organic even) was in fact the least bad thing about fish farming, its absence was a useful shorthand for the "Organic" crew. As the UK consumer became secure in the knowledge that pale, woolly Salmon = organic = good, the "non-organic" farmers also began to let their fish onto the market bearing the distinctive hue of a Vitamin-D deprived Scotsman. So now the "organic" fisheries are dyeing their salmon to once more differentiate from the "non organic" fish. Next year Organic salmon will be blue, non-organic salmon will be Orange again. Moxons will be charging ?12.50 per 100g wherever it comes from.

a very downmarket fish and chip shop If this is a reference to The Codfather, I have to say - Mrs Ted and I tried it recently and the food was good. Apart from that - The Bellend will be what it will be. If an area needs 15 printing shops and a coffee and sandwich shop that doesn't actually sell coffee or sandwiches, then that's what it will get. If it doesn't need these businesses, then we can always prop them up with Bob's Tax Poonds.

Sounds like it could be the landlord getting the backhanders, not the police. Move out, and then shop the dealer.

I know a question setter on WWTBAM. Even he doesn't think the "computer take away two random wrong answers" is random.

I have heard this before, I'm afraid. Will keep schtum for now.

Four (Peckham Rye-related) questions here. I'm going No, No, Maybe, Unlikely. And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England?s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God on England?s pleasant pastures seen? And did the countenance divine shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here among these dark Satanic Mills?

Was that posted from your De Lorean, SteveT? Watch out for the Libyans!

Some South Africans I know pronounce it: "thatfukehnturncoatPieterson". Bindra needs to be seen as the good guy, given he has the ICC-sanctioned competition and has manoevred the ICL into the rebel corner. He also is shoulders with the ECB and Clarke at the moment because he wants something back. What does he want back? The ECB not getting too cosy with Sandford, and to start cross-promoting its own version of the league in a competitive way. Look at his buzzword - "global" - what he's after is the expansion of his league to become a world event. He needs the ICC on side for that, and for that he needs the buy-in of the members - even fusty old reactionary, neo-colonial, useless ECB (which invented 20/20).

Don't say I'm not good to you. Dr Anu Bhatia - sixth video down (at the time of posting). Feels a change of GP coming on.

I stand with KK on this one +K

Specialist in multiple births?

Owned by Telefonica-O2. Your service will depend on which package you buy, as I remember. Not had any personal experience but they have a decent rep for customer service in the industry. They are unbundled which means they are not merely reselling a BT Wholesale product - they use only BT's "last mile" connection from the exchange to your house. If you really rely on phat speeds for work then ask them what their contention rate is. (ie - what is the maximum number of users likely to be sitting off Be's DSLAM in your exchange).

Just as I read that post the room darkened and there was a clap of thunder overhead. (true story) >

If ever a post could make the sound of net curtains twitching as you read it, that last one would be it, Tommy!

Plz to be talking about the shop. Wot is it? I mus kno!!!! etc

Nitch is horrible, but interestingly could come in your category of "I don't care how the foreigners pronounce it I'm going to say it my way". I'd go for HiPERbolay and HomODGenous. REE-search is almost ubiquitous now, but not in Ted Max towers. Oh no.

It's the Stone of Skoon, Simon. And a scone is always, always, skon.

Not sure the Mash has the right angle there, Brendan - amusing as it is. ECB knows exactly, and has done for ages, that all the power and money lies with the BCCI - and that's why they don't know how to play this. It's not a question of surprise and resentment at the uppity colonials - the ECB is alone in this in that the IPL is taking place during its own domestic season - giving it a headache other Boards don't have. Sure, other countries have had tours planned that clashed (Oz to Pakistan - India to Zim) but they have conveniently found reasons to cancel them. If I were the ECB cricket board I would be working with the players likely to get contracts to sort out a plan that would allow them to play some cricket in the IPL as long as it doesn't detract from their international commitments or preparation. The contracted players play precious little county cricket as it is so that's less of an issue. Clarke made a decent point - how would cricket public and media react if next year most of the Test squad came back ill-prepared for the Ashes after 6 weeks hit and giggle in India? But given the idiot Gatting is head of cricket partnerships, it seems unlikely there'll be any sensible solution and we're heading for an unnecessary rift - and resentment between players and ECB. And PGC, the first to do a Greig has already done it - Dimitri Mascarenhas - but as a ODI player only, and not on a central contract, he has less to lose and has probably made the right gamble that it won't unduly affect his career anyway. The sparks will fly when the Pieterson/ Flintoff offers are made next season.

Property123 - I think you're not leveraging your main asset here. Should you not be asking if people fancy having this chap in their "area most desireable" for a day? http://www.comeintomyworld.eu/blog/axm_KristianDigby.jpg