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I already had. EDIT: Oops..! Didn't know hamster was one of the team. Should have known better. Good for him.

Hear hear. That makes at least 3, maybe 4, movers for a republic on here. Things are looking up.

Phew..! Normal service resumed..?

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=508817#post508817 Go here.

I suppose I should mention that Lidl still have stock of both their Acoustic and Electric guitar offers. They are pretty cheap, and won't be a sh!t as you think. I bought a guitar stand from them, for £6.99, for my Epiphone, and now it looks as good as it plays. That means good. The guitar is good; I'm sh!te.

It's all about playing it, racing with friends. Methinks we have a Billy-No-Mates here.

Go easy on him Tim, and give him my best regards also. He knows me as the quiet one of the three GITRs. He sent me a very nice thank you for all the letters and messages that were passed on during the primary GITR campaign. I thought he'd like to know it was very much appreciated.

Star Trek Ok, I succumbed. I dashed into Sainsbury's this evening to get a box of Hardy's Shiraz-Cabernet, and as I passed the DVDs, there it was staring out at me with an introductory price tag. I liked it. In fact I liked it a lot. It didn't draw the emotions in any way, but it was effective and had it's moments. I thought for a moment I was going to get loads of cliches from Shakespeare, as are flung about in the previous films. But young Spock did a little Sherlock Holmes quote and that was about it. All was rather original and quite well done, given the filmic history this one has weighing it down. Dare I say 7/10, or is that being too kind..?

You traitor..! BTW, did you know that Scalextric has lane changing overtaking nowadays..? Although it's not in the manner of TCR, as the slots are still in place to keep the cars on the road, and don't need fences to hold them on the track. It's called Scalextric Digital.

You still don't get it, do you. OK, I'll make it plain. In the days before it was possible to confirm a dodgy refereeing decision we had to go on what was best - the ref himself. But since video technology has been around for almost 20 years, I have been calling for its introduction. You may have not been listening or reading, but it is so. So it isn't just an isolated match that I'm taking issue with, it's all games where the wrong decision has been reached. I carry no favouritism at all, including anything involving Saints. The fact that Ireland got a bad penalty against Georgia means nothing in this context. One team got a bad penalty against another team, and it could so easily have been corrected. Take away the bullsh!t of who cares about this or that, or which team. It's about playing to the rules. Not about playing to the referee's faulty eyesight. Yes, one of the rules says that the referees decision is final. Rules that were written in the days when no quick and reliable verification was possible or affordable. And besides, people abided by the decisions back then. Now they don't, and it is because it means so much, in certain matches. For me, there has been a case for video technology in International matches, since the technology became available. If a league [the Premiership, for example] can afford it, then they should take it on too. So please don't insult me with your cries of berk, because you think I am having some massive knee jerk reaction over one game, and it has affected the Irish, because I have been raising this issue so many times I'm bored with it. I couldn't give a toss about which particular team this has affected [which you surely must have gathered from my previous post], only that football has let itself down again. Cricket and Rugby Union shows us the way. It's time football followed.

Disgusting decision. Video evidence showed it to be so. Any football governing body which doesn't see the need for video evidence either doesn't want fair play or doesn't care for it. In which case, I no longer care for football.

Sadly, a carnivorous species must eat smaller animals to survive. Even the Penguin eats fish. But that day he survived on his wits; and good to see it too. I like the way he eventually got closer to the woman in the dark tunic. He must have decided she qualified as a female penguin substitute.

Oops, I'll edit that..! You keep it for posterity.

He hasn't made a factual point. In fact, he's missed the entire point. It's not Ireland who has suffered the injustice, but football itself. It matters not one jot that it was Ireland who were on the sh!tty end of the stick. Football has gone wrong yet again in allowing that goal to stand. We have the technology to make sure 99.9% of decisions by the referee can be verified or turned around. We should use it. This call for a replay is rubbish. The teams should go back to the stadium and the clock should be set to the time remaining in the match. A free kick should be awarded to the Irish, and the game played out. Whichever team loses would then be fairly beaten. End of story.

Jeez, Preston have been there or thereabouts for promotion for as long as Saints have been relegated from the Premiership and before. 9 million looks like a total they can't overlook. So close, and yet so far.

Can I just say, on the initial read of your post .comsaint... WOW..! I'd have paid a tenner too. And for the Napier engine service manual too. For me, it's not for the value, as I'm sure it wasn't for you, but for the history and the, no doubt, excellent technical drawings of the engine and parts. Something you don't see in any manual today.

Oh dear, I've dipped into my collection of BBC Goon Show LPs. This one is The Missing No.10 Downing Street. Here's an example of the script: Major Bloodnok: 5.30[am] and Private Bog hasn't returned yet. Still too dark to see. Mystery voice: [singing] I travel the road... who cares... Major Bloodnok: Fan me blintz, who is it..? Hands up..! Mystery voice: I can't put my hands up, I'm... Major Bloddnok: HANDS UP OR I FIRE..! Mystery Voice: OK..! ARRGH..! [Crash] Major Bloodnok: Now what's happened..? Mystery Voice: I was riding a bike..! [audience laughter] Major Bloodnok: Come here. Ooooh..! Flourish me fabula..! Mystery Voice: [high pitched] OLOLOLOLOLOLO..! Major Bloodnok: Thank you..! Who are you, you ragged looking goon..? Mystery Voice: Oh, are um, I'm a barrrrgh, I'm a policeman..! Major Bloodnok: If you're a policeman, I'm Marilyn Monroe..! Policeman [Eccles]: Oh WOOOOOWWWWWW..! Major Bloodnok: Put me down at once..! [Audience laughter] Policemen [Eccles]: Wait a minute, turn round.. [looks]... You're not Marilyn Monroe..! Major Bloodnok: I told you I wasn't..! What a bitter disappointment to us both..! and so on. Be gentle with this comedy. It actually directly inspired Monty Python, and then almost every modern british comedy thereafter. It also looks iffy on paper but is much more comical with 3 geniuses playing with it.

For shame, .comsaint. Surely the other has to be the Lightning. The English Electric one, of course. Certain aircraft have distinctive sounds, and back in 1992, when I was living in NZ, my wife and me were on a trip around Fjordland, like you do, and we found ourselves in a bric o' brac shop. I assure you, antiques in NZ aren't that old..! Anyway, at a certain point I was talking to the shop owner, when there was this distinctive sound. I broke off in mid sentence and ran through the shop into the open road. NZ roads are always empty, especially in the very south, and I looked up to find a beautiful Merlin engined Spitfire, in full invasion stripe dress, zooming overhead. My wife asked how I'd managed to pick that engine note out. But there's no mistaking it. Be it in a Mosquito, Lancaster, Hurricane, Spitfire, or others, a Merlin engine sound is a Merlin engine sound. But most vividly in a Spitfire.

Do you know, I'm thinking of deleting this post, it has so little merit.

Oh sorry mate. About the Moby **** thing, I mean.

I'm on a roll here. I've dug out an old classic: Booker T and The MG's - Universal Language. Of course, totally instrumental, but great sounds. This is after all that Green Onions and Test Match Special [soul Limbo] stuff, but of a similar vein. Actually, it's a lot better than those tracks, and the Hammond organ sound rings out beautifully.

And now it's Soft Cell's - The Singles. I just find Marc Almond's english rendition of vocals, rather than mid-atlantic, so brilliant and refreshing. It's a factor of his singing that has never diminished. The music on this album is pure and heartfelt. I bought it sometime in 1987, I think, and I haven't played it for perhaps 10 or more years, yet it still moves my emotions, like it did when I first heard it. Crikey, it's a greatest hits album, and it has real depth to the songs. Now that's probably a first.

Sums up my opinion perfectly. Well said Minty. And no, I'm NOT rejoining the debate.

Draino76, your point has not gone unnoticed.

I 100% agree with you TDD. Looks like we're actually of the same opinion, even though I thought we may be polls apart.