Hamilton Saint

"Deliberately throw away".

Good summary.

I heard an interesting interview (via a BBC Radio 4 podcast) with Andy Serkis about the work he did playing Ian Dury in a new film biography called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Is it out yet over in the UK? Here's a trailer for the film. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8456000/8456814.stm

We had already made our three substitutions.

Let's go, Saints!

By the way, as Peter Guralnik points out in his New York Times article (cited in my previous post), "Chuck D has long since repudiated that view for a more nuanced one of cultural history".

That quote was "attributed" to Elvis but there is no good evidence that he ever said it. When Elvis was confronted with questions about it, he denied he ever said it, or even anything like it. In a previous post in this thread I mentioned Peter Guralnik, who wrote a comprehensive, two-volume biography of Elvis: Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. These are not hagiographies; they are even-handed portraits - warts and all - about his "rise and fall". He probably spent 10-15 years working on these books. There is nothing in Elvis's history that even suggests that he was a racist. Here's an article that Guralnik wrote about this issue for the New York Times back in 2007, when it was in the news. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/peter_guralnick_elvis_racist.shtml Here's another article about that infamous quote; it provides evidence to show why he could not have uttered it. It's by Rob Rabiee: http://www.elvisinfonet.com/spotlight_racist.html Speaking of quotes, here's what James Brown said about Elvis: "I wasn’t just a fan, I was his brother. Last time I saw Elvis alive was at Graceland. We sang ‘Old Blind Barnabus’ together, a gospel song. I love him and hope to see him in heaven. There’ll never be another like that soul brother." And Little Richard: "Elvis was an integrator. Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn’t let Black music through. He opened the door for Black music." And Sammy Davis Jr.: "On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven." And Jackie Wilson: “A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man’s music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis.” I want to make it clear that I'm not a big Elvis fan. I like a lot of his earlier stuff (1954-56), as I wrote previously, but I think the comments about him being racist are unfair, unhistorical and pernicious

This is a lie. Elvis was not a racist. Do some homework and you'll see why.

Not the early stuff. The recordings he did with Sam Phillips at Sun Records in 1954 and 1955 were important fusions of country and R & B. Elvis had significant creative input into those recordings. His first year at RCA (1956) was also marked by a lot of good material. But the significance of Elvis as a musical figure was pretty much over once Elvis did his two-year stint in the army and then gave up complete control of his career to the odious Tom Parker. Like many great figures in music history, Elvis was a synthesizer rather than an innovator. A great book about Elvis' early career is Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnik.

Sounds rather presumptuous - surely it's SFC who are ruling out the move, not someone at Newcastle!

Will probably be best remembered for his work with Al Green, eh?

Amazing coincidence, my kitchen is being renovated too - although I have a builder doing it for me! A couple more weeks before everything is complete.

Enjoy the snow while you can!

Everyone's been to school - and, therefore, (apparently) everyone's an expert on schools, teachers, teaching, education and the administration of education. Criticism of public servants and public institutions is de rigueur. And everything annoying, or just slightly irritating (or, heaven forbid, misinterpreted), is "PC gone mad". Go ahead, reach out and blame someone.

Good grief! Ball-breaking? There's generalisation, and then there's hyperbole ...

That's what I was thinking, too! Some journalists are condescending in their attitude - but it's an easy thing for them to do when comparing teams in different divisions. [Go and check some of the comments about Luton Town made on here, for example.] It doesn't indicate, though, that those lazy journalists "have always had it in for us". That was my point.

I wasn't being facetious - I was responding to the gross generalisation in the thread title claiming that "the press have always had it in for us".

The link doesn't work now! Curiouser and curiouser ...

The article linked to is about the semi-final match between Man U and Derby. :confused:

On skis?

Yes, I did. I looked at both of them. What did I miss?

But Wikipedia isn't!

My friend in Wimbledon says that one newscaster referred to the picture as showing The Isle of Wight! Journalists - they're always looking for a good pun. Sometimes they find one! (Get it?! The Isle of White)

Wikipedia is NOT "the press".

Wonderful satellite image from last Thursday showing UK blanketed in snow. http://twitpic.com/x65jg/full