Fowllyd

You have a rye sense of humour, I see.

I love eating oven-roasted new potatoes with rosemary. Unfortunately, she prefers pasta.

It would be far too dull to enquire as to who you used to post as, or who else you currently post as (or indeed both) so I shall not do so. But I have to say you've made an impressively prolific start - fourteen posts in 24 hours is getting on for Glasgow territory. Carry on this way, and pretty soon El Bletcherino will produce a word cloud from your posts, and all will be revealed. Or you might just give it away anyhow by posting in a style that you can't hide. Who knows...

Tom Waits, apparently. Who for? No man. Kim Il Sung to his children, but it didn't help them turn out nice. Another Kim Clijsters, but only when she's really annoyed. Jeremy Irons, but he leaves the washing-up to his wife.

Post 299 - Dell Days

Excellent choice of pub - I even recommended it to Super Mikey for his recent date (not that he went there, mind). Have a pint for me.

Fowllyd reckons that's a good shout (the CB Fry bit, that is).

Guided Missile?

Dalek

Unless you mention your own alias pretty often in your posts (which would make you the Bo Diddley of the forum), it was never going to be you.

I love it when you talk like that; a word slag I am indeed, and it's high time I got used to the fact. Hell, I'm proud to be a word slag. The word cloud in question suggests a lot of main board posts (lots of football team names), and I'd suspected that the Pompey Takeover Saga was a regular posting spot too, largely because of the presence of 'mcinnes' in there. However, it now occurs to me that as there's an emoticon called that (which gives you this ) the poster in question may simply use that emoticon a fair bit. Similarly, there may be little use of 'lol' in their posts, but plenty of these . I'm assuming here that your word cloud creating software will see the name of the emoticon as it's typed in the email here. I had thought of CB Fry as a possibility, but discounted him as he's not a regular PTS nutjob. Could be him then, or how about Dell Days/Batman? OK, I'm just guessing here - I'm not sure if either of them use the emoticon all that often.

I prefer 'Niconomination' where participants have to take a video of themselves warbling a tune originally sung by the late Teutonic chanteuse. It's never really caught on though.

Is that last word cloud (post 270) the Kraken by any chance? Stab in the dark and I'm probably miles out. A couple of questions on this whole work cloud thing if I might, your Bletchness. First, does it automatically filter out the most common words (articles, personal pronouns and the like)? Second, if it does, could it also be made to filter out a specific number of the most common words, or just specific words? I'm thinking here of all the hypothetical stuff such as 'would' - if you get rid of the most common stuff then the more distinctive bits will be easier to pick out. After all, who'd have thought 'mongboard' and 'pal' would have appeared in such small type on Turkish's word cloud? Then again, you might not want to make it easier for us

entropy

The sad decline of a once spectacular and virile man, the Ozymandias of TMS.

I'm sure I'm not making a new point here, but how many were actually there at Fratton Park for the Torquay match? Attendance figures give the number of tickets sold, so all the season tickets are included; given this, their League Two attendance will never fall below 12,000. But how many season ticket-holding unfortunates actually showed last Saturday? If any nutjob happened to be there last week, how full did the ground look? A couple of thousand short of capacity, given the current restrictions? Or some way short of that?

It can be brutal. My brother (the pedant's go-to pedant) once had a lengthy discussion with a friend of mine as to whether the phrase 'most favourite' (which my friend's girlfriend had just uttered) is a tautology or a pleonasm. My friend said tautology, my brother said pleonasm. In the end they called the whole thing off, of course, but my brother won on points. A bit more of this and Tokyo's derailing thread will be well and truly derailed. Nobody f*cks with a word whore and stays awake long enough to tell the tale. Metathesis.

Find somewhere to stay in Newcastle, then at least you can get out to some decent pubs on Friday night. The Metro will take you to the ground and back.

Yes, it is. But surely this makes your post an oxymoron.

I'm not at all surprised that it's happened; it's the manner of it which I find odd, all the more so as the ECB has yet to appoint a successor to Andy Flower.

Heard Michael Vaughan talking about Pietersen this morning; thought he talked a lot of sense, including this: "It's a very strange decision for England to make now. A new director of cricket will be appointed in April and won't have the opportunity to pick a star player. They should be making those decisions on their own". As much as anything else, it strikes me as odd to simply rule out a player for good; if he's out of form you may choose not to select him, as happened with Matt Prior and others in the Ashes series. For all I know Prior's England career may be over as well, in that he may not be selected again; but in Pietersen's case they've made an announcement specifically on the subject. There's long been a tendency in English team sports for those in charge to be mistrustful of massively talented but potentially difficult or wayward individuals (we've certainly seen plenty of it in football over the years), and this may be another example. On the other hand, I've read in more than one place that Alistair Cook is particularly hostile toward KP now, having championed his cause when he (Cook) became captain and now feeling let down.

A good word that; my father uses it often, what with being Welsh and all.

Gerund

In charge of player recruitment, yet not a single permanent signing was made during his eight months in post. And this in spite of his self-proclaimed ability to "open the door to any manager in the world", so impressive was his apparent list of contacts...

I think you'd be perfectly safe. Safe as milk, in fact.