Brendan

I thought it was the Venetians who did the blinds.

Friday I think is the exception as it is named after the traditional practice of preparing fried fish and chips for your tea on this specific day.

I think the story goes something along the line of, Julius had a month named after him so then Caesar Augustus felt left out so he got August named after him. The days of the week we inherited from our pagan past rather than the Romans. The Romans referred to the specific day in relation to its position in the month. As in, ?Beware the Ides* of March...? *Spelling????

The term spiel comes from the Germanic word for game/play.

By rights couldn't Coke sue the White Stripes for copyright infringements? They did steal their colour scheme.

Brilliant band on the run cover:

An estate agent turns into a bar...

pum pum-pum. Pyyyieee-yah. pum pum-pum. Pyyyieee-yah.

Is it about a machine by any chance? Machine, geddit... I'll get me coat.

I think what Mr people skills is trying to say is, it is normally open just go down and push on the door and that the music is eclectic but tends towards the underground of various genres.

A surrealist walks into a subversive sense of perspective.

Well there is always a 76% chance that any person quoting statistics is speaking bollocks.

If an economy is 90% dependant on the statistical analysis of financial markets and 55% of the population cannot do maths, how long until everything is completely fucked?

While on the subject of punk. This took me back to my yoof. Some guy doing an impersonation of Ian McKaye. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/18/popandrock

Great isn?t it! I have a Ramones cd that has 30 songs on it with a playing time of about an hour. Which reminds me, a few years back Fat Wreck Chords released a compilation album called Short Music for Short People. It has 101 punk songs on it all averaging 30 seconds in length.

Sorry my last post was in reply to lozzyloz.

You see that?s been their excuse for years now and look where it has ended them. I reckon they will lose more due to this cockup than they would have if they had had a strongly regulated but stable system running consistently.

Your write. Its just a joke.

What I don't get is why the "regulators" don't seem to be able to regulate. They seem completely powerless or unwilling. Or is it upholding spirit of, "Let's pull the wool over their eyes and steel as much as we can while we can..." sorry the "Free market."

Not a song but look at the caption for the picture in this article. Bloody brilliant. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/18/no.more.long.gigs

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/grammar-pedants-fewer-interesting-200809031225/ ;-)

It is so comforting to know that after 15 000 years someone is here to waste our money explaining to us what the effects and uses of alcohol are. They could have just asked these guys. Whose greatest contribution must be this ? 'Everybody Else': Enjoys a drink and is fully aware of all the possible consequences. Reckons as long as the NHS is funded by their tax money, they'll do whatever they want and Dawn Primarolo can shut her fucking face.

I'll get back to you on that one as soon as I have looked parlous up in the dictionary.

Warms the cockles of me heart it does.

Sean, how can you ignore the unfathomable loss society and culture will suffer when people can no longer wank on about house prices? The whole dynamic of the suburban dinner party will never be the same again.