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Plimpsolls! Excellent memory jog! Did you have to wear those ridiculous shorts, too? If we forgot our kit, we'd have to do it in our Knick-knocks and vest, the dirty ******s!
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I think they wear specialised footwear as opposed to Wellington boots, but I could be wrong. I'm terribly ill informed about these things...
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I'm afraid this isn't really a thread I'll be visiting much - I don't get the football thing. Sorry.
I was appalling at the sport (read: all sport) at school. I haven't got a very competitive nature so, when in possession of a ball and someone comes to try to take it off me I was all "Hi. Do you want this? Here you go. Happy days! Enjoy yourself..." much to the dismay of my fellow team mates.
And, probably because of the non-competitiveness thing, I don't understand the pub/water-cooler thing of "We played really well last night. Especially when we stuck those two thingies past the do-dah into the whatsit." I get it if it's my friend Lauren talking about how well she and her team have played in a hockey match, but not when it's someone who's seen it on a television.
I'm a dunce. A dunce, I tell you! I wish I could join in with it, sometimes...
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Now, you see, I've read them both for many years and have really enjoyed watching Koontz' style develop and become more poetic.
Saying that, I love a lot of King's books as well. So I'll just sit right here, comfortable on my little fence.
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1: My sofa regularly takes itself into town and picks drunk people up after a night out and takes them safely to their door, as it has a strong social conscience.
2: Every now and then, I find a small collection of dust bunnies constructed in such a way that it creates a form similar to that of Sting's favourite Bass "Poke".
3: Ever since the solar eclipse of 1999, I've been able to read peoples faces, detecting things such as noses, eyes and, on occasion, facial hair.
4: Having won several beauty pageants since the age of four, my attempts to foster world peace and work with children has only half worked.
5: Labour came back into power in 1997. I know this, because I borrowed my mate Steve's time machine and ended up in Diss, Norfolk where a big party happened to be occurring and Lisa Rowley went skinny dipping (more like Chunky Dunking) in the mere.
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I enjoy them both, but wouldn't put Koontz in the same field as King. I'd stick the likes of Herbert and...erm...some others in with Stephen King. I find old Dean to be less macabre, maybe more optimistic about humanity than Stevie. To be sure, some of his books honk like a good'un, but then, so do some of Kingy Baby's.
It is funny, though. I really don't shelve Koontz in the horror genre and actually do read them as thrillers - paranormal or no.
Anyway. Happy days, eh?
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One of my managers when I was a professional musician was a chap called Alistair Taylor. He was Brian Epstein's right-hand man and consequently knew many people who gave us a little help. Through Alistair, I met Cynthia Lennon, Cilla Black and John's Uncle Charlie (on my 21st birthday - we were headlining at The Cavern on the 33rd anniversary of Epstein seeing them there for the first time).
Through this we got to play at a fair few Beatles Conventions - they wanted us to play our own material too, all we had to do was throw in two Beatles covers! This was how we first started playing in the USA. Crazy days.
My favourtie Beatles songs are For No One and Here, There and Everywhere. Brilliantly crafted songs.
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1. We need to stop using inexperienced nobodies and get in someone with some serious experience behind then and who knows what they're doing.
2. We need to stop writing a song for Eurovision and just start writing a song instead. There are hundreds of brilliant songwriters out there (many of them singer songwriters) who could come up with something WAY better than the pap we enter year after year.
Like me! I could write a tune! I could dress up in some garish clothes, pearl-ise my teeth, slick back my hai...oh, can't do that one...and show these Europeans just why Great Britain is called Great Britain.
Or maybe I could just hide in my living room with a blanket over my head?
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All of my favourite books enjoy the non-stop world of fashionistas, of down-trodden twenty-something girls who are *plucky/kooky/scatty and looking for Mr. Wright (if only they'd give me a call, I'd send them to my best friend Tom Wright's house - he's always looking for the 'Right-One'), of twenty-something girls who are bullied by their insensitive bosses but manage to rise above it and become their misunderstood bosses best and indispensable friend. You should see my bookshelves. It's a sea of pinks, creams, lime greens and saccharine coated vomit.
Mmm hmm? What's that? Time for my medicine? Yes, nurse.
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Oh I've never heard of The Hobbit or LOTR Mac, you must give us a synopsis!
They're both about a single twenty-something woman who has recently moved to the city after a nasty break-up with her High School sweetheart, a Jock called Chet. Devastated, yet resolute to succeed in the high-flying world of Fashion magazine 'Flaps', Joely encounters more than her fair share of mishaps, missed opportunities and mis-loves! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll stab yourself in the eyes just in case you read any of this rubbish by accident in the future.
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I couldn't choose a favourite author in this genre, let alone a favourite book.
Actually, me neither. It's a toughie!
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Funny how the same one's keep cropping up. Some truly great authors here. My favourites are definitely His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman and The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. Ooh, and the Earthsea novels by Ursula le Guin.
And, of course The Hobbit and LOTR by some chap whose name I can't remember.
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Crikey, this one's a difficult thread to answer. I guess the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson is up there, but I love Harlan Coben's crime thrillers and...
...'ecky thump! There's absolutely loads I could put down...
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Update!
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i think i might have an obession with it. ive seen every episode probably 3 or 4 times over, the first film lots and lots and i cant wait to see this one
In the words of Arthur Miller:
"Each to their own. Everybody's made different."
A View From The Bridge
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She'd appeal to me, too, if she didn't bloody sing. Still, millions of album sales suggest the British Public really like her, and they vote with their sterling, so...
...but saying that, didn't millions of people vote for the Eurovision entry? And look at how well that utterly soulless bilge faired! So, maybe millions of people really can be wrong.
My, I'm coming out with some strong views today. I must be feeling saucy...
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No! No!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
:D:(Hope that response didn't sound too over-the-top.
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Fiction has made me who I am, by teaching me about loyalty, love, Ideas; through books about things that have mostly never happened I have learnt the way humans think, feel, interact; within the pages of novels I have discovered just how beautiful and base, how amazing and how abject, how divine and despicable people can be. I have learnt to judge less and listen more, to give value to experiences different than my own and always question my preconceptions. I have inferred values, nurtured passions, developed my understanding of the workings of the world.
I could never consider that a waste of time
.As usual, Giulia writes how I think, but with such articulation and eloquence that I feel a little intimidated!
Suffice to say, I feel exactly the same way.I appreciate that I may well be vilified for saying this (it may have cropped up in this thread already, but life is short and I want to mow my lawns) but I simply will not be reading anything Twighlight (is that how one spells it?) related. I can't do it. My mouth goes dry at the very thought of it. I tremble at it's very mention. And what's all the hoo-hah about he whom they named R-Patz? Now, I can see that there's something about the sulky-yet-vacuous looking lass on the posters, but, well...honestly...
And with that controversial post, Mac scoots off gibbering wildly in search of emancipation and beer. Perhaps he will find one within the other...
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Good evening.
I'm listening to Peter Gabriel covering Elbow's Mirrorball and Elbow covering Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street. Great stuff.
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Thanks, guys. I'll stick these into my star-shaped thing at the top there...if I can just...reach it...from here under...the wardrobe...
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I've been wondering if there's a website or some such thing where one can be alerted to each weeks book releases. I'm terribly worried about missing out on new books through no fault of my own - say I'm ill, or away, or trapped beneath something heavy, like a futon or something.
Any ideas, folks?
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
I awaited this novel with something akin to trepidation, largely due to the fact that I had waited for Donna Tartt
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I haven't seen the TV series, but I love the books. I've reviewed a couple on my Mac Reads thread. I think Wallander's brill.
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I have just purchased The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova.
World Cup 2010
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She must have made mine, too. I think those curtains are coming back into fashion...