Ted Max

ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME is a useful, if somewhat outdated, vocal warm up exercise.

Just to expand, as that looks unnecessarily blunt. There is no way, just because it can take half a year to get something into studio from start to finish, with a few re-writes along the way, that an episode of Doctors represents, or even "can represent" six months' work for any writer. 200 episodes a year, each taking six month's of somebody's time? Are there 100 writers producing Doctors' scripts? That kind of bluster is just self-defeating. Of course, pay the writers a decent fee. Of course, don't waste your license fee money on wasteful stuff. But come on.

For an episode of ?Doctors? (who make over 200 episodes a year and is one of the BBC?s largest commissioners) a writer can earn ?3,142.01. That might be enviable to some, but not when you consider it can represent six months or more work for the writer. What a load of old cock.

I reckon Broad and Monty will make way for Harmison and Onions - giving 4 seemly seamers and one spanner. Broad picked up a niggle at Cardiff which partly explains why he was -5mph off his usual pace - time for him to drop out. Two spinners was a horses for courses approach and it didn't really pay off. Swann will clearly play ahead of Monty because with no Broad they need someone to bat 8 - and there's not much between them in any case.

He would have hated the EDF.

More Carlyle: "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." "I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."

It's Carlyle, Tony. He also said: "A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things."

"Your manhood is important to her" Do you think they have a team of people sitting round thinking these up? I like to think so.

"Repair your passion motor"

A thread to record the best spam email subject lines. The above is one I got through this morning. And just now I had, "Your banana will raise!" Any others?

He sold you on nearly four years ago, since when you have been 94% owned by FSF, which has "nothing" to do with Bates, of course. Why, he doesn't even know who is behind the fund. Bates made his move a week later, on 16 September 2005. Bates and Taylor had considered raising new money for Leeds by holding a rights issue ? issuing new shares to existing shareholders ? in the Bates company which owned 50% of Leeds and owed Levi and Weston the ?1.4m. However, they decided to abandon it ? for which Bates blamed Levi's refusal to transfer the shares. Instead, they decided to issue 2.5m new shares in Leeds United, the club itself, directly to FSF. FSF would also convert ?2m of their loans into shares in the club. That was agreed in a telephone call on one day, 22 September 2005. The effect of it was to make FSF 94% owners of Leeds United. Bates' other company, which owed Levi and Weston the ?1.4m, now had just 4.5% of the club. The Yorkshire Consortium's 50% share was reduced to 1.5%. By doing this, Bates' company skipped free of having to repay Levi and Weston their loans, because it no longer owned the club and had no other assets.

Ken Bates. Colossally nasty piece of work. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2009/jul/10/ken-bates-libel-trial-defeat-leeds-united-full-story

It's not a north/south thing. Lots of northerners think the dimpled glass + handle is a southern thing in any case. It is a "not giving a toss what someone should think of you because the bar you are in has a type of glass that offends your own self-image" type of thing. The guy that runs the Bishop posts on here on occasion. At least he'll be getting a giggle.

Why does it look silly?

Like this? http://www.freshpromotions.com.au/thumbs/beer-pint-mug1.jpg

Just to be clear - you ask them to pour half pints of beer into a wine glass? Because the beer glasses provided are too 1970s?

I have met him once. He was fine. But I know lots of people who know him quite well through posh cricket circles, and they don't like him at all. And these are all Telegraph reading posh types.

He's not a very nice man, David. Insecure and self-promoting. Lacks warmth. Oh heow splendid, a big red bus going down the Harleyford Road, absoleutley marvellous.

This Petunia character is not me. I have no need of a nom-de-keyboard. But I have noticed that Brendan has had a bit of a thing for petunias in his time. Just saying, like.

Blowers is a fraudulent, thin-skinned, thick-headed, money-grabbing fuckstick. In my opinion.

Snog, marry, avoid.

At least these guys didn't need to ask permission to take their tops off, davy. http://republiquecricket.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/nakedcricket.jpg

They sound great, RosieH. But listen folks, I'm not here to diss Tony, his posting style, views, or whatever. He's as entitled to post as anyone else, for as long as he likes, as often as he likes. Indeed, I suspect I am not alone in having a sneaking regard for his sheer doggedness. This thread was intended merely to remind the Forum to buy more plates.

It's quite simple, Kel and North. My original post suggested that Tony has been handed his arse on a plate so often that we have simply run out of plates. There then followed various suggestions as to how to deal with this - involving buying more plates (arse-shaped or otherwise), or using paper plates, skewers or napkins. These were all excellent suggestions, but Tony has in fact supplied a more elegant answer by handing himself his own arse on a plate on this very thread.

Take care out there, Mo. Horseless carriages move at an infernal speed these days.