Ted Max

his vision was to paint computers pink, charge twice as much for them and get very rich out of the deal. Think we can add this to the "Mockney talking b**********s" file.

Mockney and *Bob* set to work on the Amanda Knox thread. http://kingsheepblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/lego-holmes.jpg

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When the LibDems were running Southwark, there were no successful appeals against high profile murder convictions in Perugia. Now look what's happening. LibDems in the south of the borough argued long and hard for a devolved approach to monitoring foreign jurisdictional proceedings, but Labour has spent that money on blue bins for the privileged and refused to answer any questions in Council as to why they failed to monitor correct procedures relating to DNA evidence on the knife in the kitchen. We have tried to explain this to the Labour team in Council but I'm afraid they are just too f*cking thick to understand, let alone react to, our concerns.

Thought I'd resurrect this as was passing through at the weekend - looks like a decent result to me. Additions amount to two new bits of play apparatus (tucked in near the railings) and a board explaining what all the new trees are (from memory: cherry, mulberry, plum, apple, pear, quince, gage). And there still looked to be plenty of room for ball players, kids and kid haters of all classes and skin colours.

It's looking quite good, isn't it? Wide open concourse, masses of ticket gates, nae shops, light coming in through the feet of the Shard, newly-minted commuters striding with brisk gaits and upturned faces towards their houses of trade... that sort of thing.

Before it got messier. Yeah, imagine if it had somehow found its way to the national press and the council erroneously but effectively branded PCGM. Then it could have really gone off. She should def be sending you a note for saving her from that embarrassment.

Shorty's deffo to blame. He hasn't posted on the thread, but I suspect he's behind it somehow.

The Colour Thief idea was clearly intended as an allegorical attack on the policies of the Coalition government. For 55k, I only see it ending one way - an outsize model of Cllr James Barber being exploded in a Catherine Wheel of flaming, socialist ecstasy from the top of one of ComputedShorty's moody wind turbines. (BYO sparklers and matches, always wear gloves, please use the exits provided)

http://i.imgur.com/Y0pTu.png

Her earlier work in that classic double act with Duncan is right up there.

I think it's more: bottle of Bell's in one hand, Crabbie's in the other and alternate slugs until the bastards are empty.

Over-reaching teenage melancholia REDUX (2011 vintage - early sun promised much, although cruel June, July and August took on April for TS Eliot's prize and stamped out all hope of a decent harvest. T.LS and BBW are long since dead in the bottle. ???? is laid down in the cellar, the label dusting over with neglect). So: Fruit hangs useless on blackening vines. Wasted, pillaged earth mocks the doomed seed. The high green tideline clings to a spent foreshore, not receding but evaporating. Not summer still, nor autumn yet. Not, in fact, paralysis but dessication, respiration, retreat. Until all that's left to reveal is the dust of your carelessly-formed memories, and the brittle snap, snap, snap of your heart.

Right now there's someone out there, covered in mucus and the remains of a New World shiraz, listening to Mumford & Sons on loop through two year old speakers - speakers bought with so much pride and installed with such care. The poor, shivering, idiot.

Seems a bit of an odd one.

Like this

There's a website which mangles your spelling, someone posted it the other day. Yeah, some loser or other. I forget who. http://www.online-utility.org/text/misspellizer.jsp

Oh Jeremy. Cerys, with her dirty great big square jaw and her filthy sounding "frrront page". Yes indeed. Your other half was slightly bemused by your enthusiasm for her band, but you insisted it was the music. You hear her now on BBC6 of a weekend morning and there's not a flicker. Tomorrow we may move on to Trance - a compilation CD played at home with a lack of MDMA as a excuse. Your little brother is in Ibiza with his girlfriend of the day, the one who looks right through you. You are at home, trying to set a single quail's egg in aspic. Brendan, I feel perhaps the group has failed you. We need to consider if the group is for you.

So given the world has just exploded in a wet slither, what should we call it?

I'm very pleased at the outcomes we have reached for the group today, especially Help-Ma-Boab, who I feel has made a real breakthrough. I think we can all now move on. (except Karter, obviously, who is doomed) Fleet Foxes and a chorizo scotch egg, anyone?

http://www.online-utility.org/text/misspellizer.jsp

STARKEY!

Very good article, SJ. Thanks for linking. Some amazing quotes in there in the Pearson source material the writer uses.

Excellent contributions, everyone. Jacob's Creek, coke-at-home, David Grey, all spot on. Brendan, see me after.