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Ted Max

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  1. Ted Max

    Snow go

    Hang in there buddy, thoughts are with you. Throw an extra cat on the fire if need be. The main thing is to survive and then do a situation assessment in the morning. Mrs Rot is probably Hovis already, though.
  2. Sherry gone. Cheap brandy bought for setting fire to, gone. Marsala bought for sauces and gravy, gone. Wine, beer, gin, all gone - obviously. Port, tragically, always the first casualty. Survivors: Whisky, quite a lot left to hold our hands through the nights ahead. //Creepy Nigel Slater// The emergency, shop-bought Christmas pudding is still in its dischordant red crinkly wrapping, with a best-before date of about 2028 protecting its modesty. And animal fats, poured off various roasts, sit solidly in little pots at the back of the fridge - globular relics of the slaughtered beasts we feasted on, pulled crackers over, picked apart late at night with a guilty sideways glance. (PS Have never managed to sustain a "drinks cabinet" like proper grown up people. It's a bottle to bottle existence in the Max household. If there's booze in, it gets drunk and then we get some more when required.)
  3. Ted Max

    My Lidl Pony

    That's only a fish, a black pudding and an extra chips off the full "Robbie Coltrane" at L'Alba D'Oro.
  4. There's no way I'm pinning anything to my waistcoat. It would ruin the leather fringing.
  5. Ted Max

    David Bowie...

    Do you like the song, *Bob*?
  6. Ted Max

    David Bowie...

    This is right up my stra?e. Ooh yes. Might need to turn the UV light up, though, after a couple of listens.
  7. I've printed out Woodrot's warnings from this thread, reformatted in BOLD ALL CAPS NO PARS and pasted it to the COBRA door - as well as several bus shelters between ED and Honor Oak Park. I am now going home to keep an eye on Eggheads Celebrities, as I believe the recent disappearance of C J De Mooi from this programme to be significant.
  8. Aw look AlexC, Macroban only came back to the EDF to administer the last rites, having got the incense and shroud out a bit prematurely four years ago. Don't spoil her fun.
  9. Can zombies swim?
  10. What's the big deal about going up the Shard anyway - are you all roof fetishists, or something?
  11. A shame about G&B. Just to add, completely redundantly but because I am a few units to the weekend already, I will not join in any nascent "oh great a non-austerity over-priced business selling over-priced luxury goods is going under" shite. I didn't love everything about G&B but would I rather it existed than did not? The former. Did it "add value" to my life? Yes, because there was a local place I knew I could buy some different, but generally always good, bottles of wine - when I could afford it. That is all.
  12. *Bob* and I should be employed as High Street degeneration consultants. That we haven't been so far is little short of a scandal.
  13. I'm thinking perhaps one unit could be reserved for a collective that pays an unspecified amount a month for rent/ membership and swaps records, other gear, and has all gigs and that.
  14. I've seen a unicyclist too, SteveO, cycling down Bellenden Road on occasion. I fear him.
  15. Aah yes, who can forget the happy independent stationer's atmosphere, the delightful carping at fellow staff/family and the ld-fashioned customer-friendly catchphrases such as: "What do you want that one for?" "You've touched it, you'll have to buy it" "Women like you shouldn't be working, you should be at home with your kids"
  16. I like that Mick Mac has resisted Simon's lazy contraction in the first line. Other first lines to benefit: I cannot get no satisfaction We will meet again One, two, three of the clock, four of the clock rock
  17. BBC4 Saturday Night, about 11:20pm. Man In Chair, with several guitars behind him (or his own modern art, or a mixing desk) ponders modestly on his lost genius. It could be Brian, or Paul, or the one off of Fleetwood, or perhaps the Genesis* guy on his houseboat. "And then we really needed another verse because it was too short and we didn't have another verse and we only had another 15 minutes of studio time because of the unions in those days so I just wrote one out there and then in my head as I walked from the little boy's room to the mixing desk and even though it didn't fit the rest of the lyric it just sounded so right and Art/Mick/John/Stevie really got it first time for once and now of course that's the verse that everyone remembers but it wasn't even in the song when I wrote it." I do like those programmes, though. * Actually not Genesis, I'm thinking of David Gilmour, aren't I?
  18. How many Poles were living here in c11?
  19. Yeah, but Otta must accept that his inner life has been of his own making, and he deserves its sweetness and bitterness.
  20. I remember reading that the average age at which a man or a woman in the UK will have maximum disposable income across their lifetime (ie. the age when you are at your "richest") is 34. I was 34 at the time, and broke to buggery. Cheered me right up, that did.
  21. Good lad. He got noticed. First rung of the lobbyist/think tank/spad ladder.
  22. This is great. Like being harangued by a menacing drunk who you know has a knife hidden up his sleeve. http://www.rusemb.org.uk/press/941 "We did have those problems with the British mainstream press in the past. For example, it played a critical part in engineering the unnecessary Crimean War, which broke the European order and created an opening for the militaristic Prussia, which lacked political culture of moderation (read Henry Kissinger for that), to grab the whole of Germany. That war started the countdown to WWI and all the tragedies that followed. In fact, it is only now that we are getting out of this historical cycle." So is this: http://www.rusemb.org.uk/foreignpolicy/507 "The problem is that promotion of democracy by blood and iron simply doesn?t work"
  23. "I wonder how many people have been present the same time as Prince William at any venue." He drinks in the Prince Arthur, Shorty. Just his little joke, obvs. That's why they had to put up the anti-drugs leaflets in the windows recently, in case Guy Pelly's crowd turned up and started in on the nose powder in the VIP area (pool table).
  24. Double-joined.
  25. So does anyone want to ban anything, or not?
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