Thursday 3 April 2014

Check This Out from AFR

Very impressive.

33 comments:

  1. It is indeed, and I know it's about the Street Kids' football, (which is a great cause, agreed) but there's an interesting article here about the statue.

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    CAPTION: "Don't eat my Easter Egg. I'll be back in 3 days."

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  3. If it was here they'd blow it up to start the Commonwealth Games.

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    1. I'm very unsure that blowing up five blocks of local authority housing to celebrate the opening of the Commonwealth Games portrays the correct image of Glasgow.

      No wonder the baton runners are drawing lots to see who takes it through the east end.

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    2. That leg will be in a Humvee.

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    3. Someone's leg may be in a Humvee!

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    4. ..royston's no in the east end tho......

      cheers frae the dale

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    5. It will be after the explosives go off.

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  4. Tonight's prediction:

    Rock This Town - The Stray Cats
    Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
    Badge - Cream
    Landslide – Dixie Chicks
    Roxanne - The Police
    Spirit of Radio - Rush
    Sabotage - Beastie Boys
    American Idiot - Green Day
    Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
    Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
    Strange Town - The Jam
    Many of Horror – Biffy Clyro
    Ace of Spades - Motorhead
    All The Small Things - Blink 182
    Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Stoned Love - The Supremes
    The Mother We Share - Chvrches
    You Take Me Up - Thompson Twins
    Design for Life - Manic Street Preachers
    Temptation - Heaven 17

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    1. More predictions, if only they would come true!

      Soul Train - Swans Way
      Just Fascination - Cabaret Voltaire

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    2. Frankindenny has been touting swansway around facebook recently. Long forgotton classic. It's got no chance.

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    1. He used to stick his head under a tap and mess up his hair before he went on stage. Perhaps he pulled too hard.

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    2.  
      Thanks, Gaie! Brings back memories of the November, 2000 gig in Tel Aviv.

      ;o)

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    3. Oh you guys, you're so cosmopolitan - Tull in Tel Aviv, Springsteen in Sydney, King Creosote in Crail, Julie in John O'Groats....

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    4. I suppose that beats King Creole in creosote

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      Cosmopolitan? Moi?

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  6. How big was the fish you caught last year Adam?




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  7. Stop press: Michael Parkinson interviews Ellie Goulding on Sky Arts on Tuesday. Will she sign up to pay in more than she gets out. Will she get a free Parker pen?

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    1. Will she apologise to the music world?

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  8. Cosmopolitan Git6 April 2014 at 11:52

     
    I find myself on the horns of a dilemma.

    Nana Mouskouri is playing G.R.C.H. on the same evening James Taylor is doin' his thang at the Hydro.

    Bugger...

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    1. Mouskouri is Hank Marvin in drag.

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    2. she's nearly as old as John Mayall, but without the street-cred

      ;0)

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    3. James Taylor's OK, though.

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    4. ...though untroubled by comb salesmen.

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  9. ...the good news is though that christine mcvey has received a large electricity bill and is back on board with the mac...

    cheers frae the dale

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    1.  
      Everyone is receiving large electricity bills.

      And the authorities in Kiev have received an extremely large gas bill. I bet they're glad it's not winter...

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    2. They should Putin a new boiler.

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      Either that or prepare for a very Cold War.

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  10. I saw the Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood line-up in January 1971. Jeremy Spencer left on St. Valentine's Day. Perhaps he'll rejoin now.

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