Hamilton Saint

Regardless of that, a call was made for a moment of silence. Not to honour that is a crass lack of respect. Extremely rude. A lack of human solidarity.

Sorry about the duplicate post! Could a mod delete the other one, please?!

Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs, has died of cancer at his Andover home. He was 71 yrs.

Reg Presley, lead singer of The Troggs, has died of cancer at his Andover home. He was 71 yrs. "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You", Love Is All Around", "I Can't Control Myself".

Richard 111? There have been that many? Anyway, that would be Richard CXI.

Just to clarify: atheism is something specific. It is not a vague rejection of religion or spirituality, per se. It is a rejection of "theism" - which is a belief in the existence of a God (or gods) who has been "revealed" to human beings, and who is supposed to have a personal relation with his creatures. Atheists, therefore, are not necessarily synonymous with people who have no religious or spiritual beliefs or tendencies. There are many kinds of religion and spiritual practice that are atheistic (a-theistic). They tend to lead to a rejection of the notion that people should accept a "revealed" set of principles that must be accepted with little room for doubt or variation. Theism is nearly always characterised by a demand for orthodoxy. Those who reject authoritarian and autocratic systems of belief will often tend towards an a-theistic position. And true "Christianity" - if we mean by that the ideas that Jesus Christ promulgated - tends towards an a-theistic position. Jesus rejected the orthodoxy of the revealed Mosaic Law. He talked about the spirit of the law, instead of the letter of the Law. And his social philosophy is a very radical view of how we should live our life. There are only a tiny portion of so-called Christians who are true followers of the man.

I got 10, but I had to think long and hard about the jury question.

It means you have to get at least 8 correct!

Simple subtraction: 2012 - 1952 = 60

You've been taking lessons in sarcasm from Glasgow Saint.

No, definitely not. If we win, and Villa or Reading lose, we will be SIX points clear of the relegation zone. Need all three points!

I have been on this board since about 1997/1998 - when Dave Jones was manager. It's been through several incarnations since then. For the first little while (a year, maybe - it seems so long ago now!) I was "ex-Hythe Saint", but then changed to "Hamilton Saint".

I've just received the new CD by Brian Eno. It's called Lux. It's an album of "ambient music" created to accompany an exhibition of his art at the Palace of Venaria in Turin, Italy. It's the usual hypnotic stuff - if you're at all familiar with his ambient recordings (Discreet Music, Music For Films, Music For Airports, etc.), this is more of the same. Added to Eno's keyboard work is some Moog guitar by Leo Abrahams and some violin and viola parts by Neil Catchpole. Included with the "first edition" run of the CD are four 5"x 5" colour prints.

Thanks, Nigel. You have done an excellent job turning this team around. You have instilled a positive, winning mentality at the club. More importantly, you have shown yourself to be an unfailingly positive, honest and decent man. I'm sorry to see you go. I wish you all the best.

Adkins ... not Atkins. Adkins.

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When I was 11 yrs. old (in mid-60s) I used to travel to and from St. Mary's College every day. About half-a-mile walk to Hythe Ferry, ferry ride across the Water, half-a-mile walk to the bus stop at Holyrood, and a 15-minute bus ride through city and Portswood to Bitterne Park. Then back again in the afternoon. No problem. An adventure every day!

One of my favourite musicians in the early '70s was Van Morrison. I went to see him at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in 1975. Never got over that huge disappointment. What a huge difference between his status as a creator of brilliant LPs (he had five great albums in a row in the late '60s/early '70s) and his presence as a live performer. No stage charisma at all - absolutely none. One element that fed into that huge disappointment was the fact that he had recently released a superb live double-album called "It's Too Late to Stop Now". I was expecting something of that calibre - but he didn't seem to give a sh*t.

No. Cheating is not OK. Diving is despicable.

Look at our fixture-list for the rest of the month. We MUST win this one!

Creepy!

I don't get out to the movies much these days. I went to Life of Pi in Toronto a couple a few weeks ago. The film was billed to begin at 7.05 The advertising began at 6.45 and ran until 7.12 With an average of 30 seconds per ad, that was about 50 ads. Then about 8 minutes of trailers. The film finally started at 7.20 That's how some of these mainstream "cineplexes" work these days. You pay an exorbitant amount to get in and then they bludgeon you with advertising for 25 minutes. That's f*ckin' appalling!

I blame Merrington: "What we don't want to do, now, is to concede just before half time." "What we mustn't do now, is to give up a goal in the first five or ten minutes of the second half." "We need to hold our shape and stay firm for the final few minutes. To concede now would be a disaster."

He's saying that this is what Adkins had to say during his post-game interview.