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Only 17 countries voted with The FA yesterday to suspend the vote for president...(the only candidate being Blatter)..... and one of them, Vietnam, had pressed the 'wrong' button. Of the home nations only Scotland (with much to lose), stood by England's stand ..........Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic all supporting Blatter. While England's hands are not spotless in this.........they seemed content enough to turn a blind eye to the bidding corruption while the destiny of the 2018 WC was still on offer. They now, at least, seem in tune with most observers outside the FIFA 'fam

Barca were tremendous. Congrats to them. Pleased at least to see no complaints from Man U who never gave up.

Some years ago in a beer keller somewhere in Berlin. 'Hi Hitler.......You vont a beer?' 'Yaa'vol dumkof. Is vy I come here is to drink zer beer, slap zer ledehausen...and oggle Helda's enormous boobies.' 'Ja Ja... like zer udders of my cow ha ha ..........' ' Adolph, haft yo herd zer von about zer 2 Heredi Jooze?' 'Heredi' ...........zis is meaning 'fearful'.....trembling in zer face of Godt ya?' Ya ya, zat is correct.... Von says to zer ozer, 'Who vos zat lady I saw you viz last nicht?' Zer ozer von says ........vait for it......it's goot....... he says, 'Not my vife,

My mate was an extra in that film........I believe him.......but I've never spotted him. I was 'in' Hard Day's Night..........Lived near Marylebone Station they let a bunch of us chase blindly round after the Beatles........My first experience of 'herd behaviour'

Well I was going to the uk for 8 days............I've put it back to July. ........When I'll go back for 5 days.

Precisely..........It's jokes like this, that make people laugh, .........That breed the likes of Hitler, Caligua, Vladimere the Impailer and Gawd Elpus.

Offensive to mermaids.

Cebual.............Joe, on the evidence here is not a sociopath. His joke is 'funny'..... to some.....I'd heard it before but I confess I laughed first time. Some of his posts are, in a weird 'Joe-way' funny. The OP's joke has been around a long time............It's funny. We as humans make fun of everything. Going the rounds now are Fukushima jokes. We make a distinction between 'it's' not funny and 'that's a funny joke. We know that mass drowning is not funny. We know the holocaust was not funny. We know death,deformity,famine........are not funny but we laugh at a good joke about any of

I didn't ask you.

We can all take a view on that...............Mine edges towards.....'yes' if it's funny. Give us an example and I'll tell you. Or would you find providing an example discomforting?

Don't worry about the Russians.............. The Nigerians are filtering in from BKK. That would be a game changer.

Respect you're right to feel how you do. but......the best Jewish jokes are told by Jews. They have a wonderful sense of humour. In any case the Iceberg joke isn't at the expense of Jews. Joe's very much is...........but we can laugh at it and not become a Nazi..........'vell I can.'

Listen Mr Clever-Clogs...............I'll have you know, I did a speed reading course.... and managed to read 'War and Peace in a day!!................ ..............It's about Russia...

BA..............'Hotter' than Hades' ring-piece..........and marginally more attractive.

Great player and tremendous accomplishments. RIP.

Heard the Liverpool Taliban had mixed emotions about losing Ossi and being laid off.

My mate's wife had always 'got the painters in'.............I'll ask her.

Couldn't agree more. And you know................If you study that 'glass' really closely you'll see that it's 'always full' ...........of water.......and 'air.' In fact, to reprise an old story. A teacher stood in front of a group of students. He held up a glass jar and began to fill it with stones. When he couldn't get another stone in he asked...'Is the glass full?' The class agreed it was. Then he took some smaller stones and as the class grinned he poured them in filling the gaps between the larger stones.....' 'Is it full now?' he asked. The class agreed t

I was with a group. A guy with us, with a very good handicap and the bragging rights teed off first to lead the way. Somehow he found a door size gap in a hedge to his right.... the ball followed the trajectory of the path and straight into the pro-shop. He played 8 further shots off the tee. Not counting air-shots. I bet every golfer here has a similar melt-down story. It's a game, as they say, played on a 5 inch course...............the gap between our ears. Rory will recover. He's too good not to.

I 'think'...........Lad if you have a soft case they let you bring it on board with you. I had a hard case and it went in the hold. I felt like I had to watch over it, as it was just dumped by a door on a trolley in the departure lounge for about an hour..... In a Martin case screaming 'steal me' Got here ok though. I'm taking it to Aus in Dec' to give my son for his 13th.

Going through a disintegrating, road pick up a 'ton' of rattling stones. Bloody Thai roads A week later hear a rattle off-side wheel. Tink,tink tink....Stone in a wheel,can't get at it......bloody roads. And....... ..........It's Sunday............ But this is Thailand.........garages open,up on a lift,wheel removed and brake pads,drum. stone located wheel put back 150 baht..............One of Thailand's little compensations. Golf 'Masters' last round starts about 2 in the morning.........Bloody Thai time difference. Take a nap, wake up at midnite........What to do.... This is Thail

Good one.

Again Pirc was my defence..............Can't remember any of it now. There is a place where they play chess in Patts.........never been but will have a look and get back to you.

Thanks for the offer. I'm rubbish....not being modest here......been playing since I was 13 and still extremely limited. But enjoy it. Play a little bit of everything, share finger-picking-styles and birth date with Paul Simon..........He 'picked' his up and nicked some song arrangements at Cecil Sharp House in Camden where I had lessons in the 60s Play bottle neck in open E.....badly.....Bought, and still have the same bottle neck on the day the white Album came out. Dropped D for a few.........also badly. I do a pretty good 'Blackbird' though. Good as Paul's anyway. O

''.......I would invite you but the 'Queens' I use would not excite you...........I get my kicks above the waistline Sunshine'' ........'' not much between despair and ecstasy......'' Popped in again today and caught the game between Nigel Short and an Indian IM. Short was way ahead on time and held the initiative with that important 'move ahead' Without a commentary, and just my own limited interpretation of what was going on and the player's body language to inform me, I found my heart pounding between moves. Made me remember why I gave chess up at 29 and found more