Ted Max

I was just going to say Bill N. So instead I'll add Brian Clough. Pissed, corrupt, a bit touched. But some manager.

Gastro Pubs in ED? Let's count 'em. Palmerston. Franklins (at a push, though really a restaurant). Er... that's it.

Bit more respect for the rural lassies, if you please.

Away Moos. The smile of a young Princess Anne and the frown of Dame Judi Dench, then. Is that better?

Moos smiles like a young Judi Dench, but frowns like Princess Anne. PeckhamGateCrasher looks like Siobhan Redmond. SeanMacG looks like my mate Dave. BigBadWolf ties his school tie with a really fat knot, and tucks the thin end into his shirt. HonaB has the rightful swagger and fragility of Alex Higgins in his prime. *Bob* worries that he wears too much Boxfresh and Diesel, and longs for a tweed jacket and his Church's brogues. JahL has a 27" waist, wears shirts with no collars and suit trousers that long ago lost their matching jackets. Louisa always has fabulous shoes.

However you cant polish a turd...... Goodness me. Perhaps you'd like to pop into the local schools and give the pupils the harsh truth, Mikecg.

out...OUT... and home to purge this public excrescence... this overt exposure to infant intestinal waste. So long since the fingers typed in the familiar password, Winston45, so long since this thrill overcame me. Just once, though, surely Dr Dhewar wouldn't mind just the once. I can control this, nine months of "treatment" must count for something. And..."Post message". The hit is strong... but I must have more. And soon.

This is shocking. Eatery? What kind of a word is that? I'm thinking a self-service works canteen with lift-up perspex panels harbouring sweaty iced buns and solidifying bowls of milk pudding. Above the door a neon sign, the result of a facelift carried out in 1983 prior to a visit from the Duke of Kent to celebrate the company's accreditation to the "Apprentices for Life" scheme, tells the shuffling workers they have arrived at "The Eatery". In the corner George, the retired and widowed post-room manager, is in for his daily warm-up. Mavis sneaks him a sausage roll and cup of tea when Mr Graves, the floor production manager, is not looking. The bell rings the end of the second shift.

Use the cash to put some CC TV up in ED!!! - help catch the ... peckham yoots who come roaming into our parts...! I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here, because of all the exclamation marks. But just in case you meant a word of that, I'd like to suggest you pop over to Gerrard's Cross or Chalfont St Giles. Have a quick shufti around. Don't come back.

Finally I know one, or at least am pretty sure I do. Jumbo Osaki.

Just because he topped up the pension plan for a couple of years at Castle Greyskull doesn't mean you have to defend him, PGC.

End of thread.

OK, own up. Who did this one? http://s5.tinypic.com/2s9zzet.jpg

Tsk, Honk's only saying that you need anti-crime money in black areas, cos that's where all the criminals are. At least, I think that's what he's saying.

Paul Scholes. Not a bad midfielder. Terrible tackler, but.

Ach, this whole debate makes we want to stick a pineapple top on my head and call myself a Fimble.

Matthew you stretch a point on the general quality of England at that era, which includes the Euro '96 side. You could have picked Lineker, Gascoigne, Beardsley, Shearer, Seaman, Dixon, Adams to reverse the picture. I would tentatively suggest that Gerrard has too many poor games to be considered automatic best ever. He's certainly a dominant personality and fantastic player. I think his need to be dominant, though, and the need of the Liverpool team for him to lead, contributes to these poor games, as he over-stretches and starts to lose his passing and positional play.

This shop is so odd I thought it was some sort of situationist joke when it opened - maybe the people in IdeaSpace 157 making an obscure point about the modern art world. But I think it is actually just a bloke who thought, "What SE15 needs now is a place where you can have your favourite photo reproduced in bas relief on a massive mahogany plaque." And, you know, fair play. I'd offer him ?20,000 for a 10% share just to see the look on Deborah Meaden's face.

http://s5.tinypic.com/11imr6b.jpg

Indeed ????, one might even say there's a view that fasting at this time of year was a necessity because the supplies from the previous year's harvest had run out and it was an edgy wait till you could get your hands on some spring lamb from Wm Rose.

Perhaps, just maybe, with Godman that year older, and a pack now regarded as pretty decent (although Murray getting crocked is a blow, and White is stepping up to lock), Scotland finally, eventually, might, who knows turn some of that promise into a decent campaign. Or perhaps not.

Just for Sean, this one, because he loves the cricket. We've 30 odd minutes to the start at Sabina Park*. A crucial 5th versus 7th battle this one. * Scene of one of the great Irish sporting triumphs.

Keef - go to your HR director's computer. Log on to EDF. See if you find the following. username: Louisa.

I think there's a view that fasting at this time of year was a necessity because the supplies from the previous year's harvest had run out and it was an edgy wait till you could get your hands on some spring lamb from Wm Rose. How that gets codified into religious observance/ significance isn't that much of a leap.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48