Whitey Grandad

There is a maxim in business that if someone is irreplaceable the first thing you should do is to get rid of them.

I presume you mean the MALI group if companies that her dad created. As I understand it this has now been dissolved. Although she did not out the money in herself it is now her money that is invested. In this situation any sponsorship would be viewed and evaluated in its own right as to its cost-effectiveness.

In America. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50114

If a player wants to leave there's not much that can be done about it.

BBC innit. Everything they do is a conspiracy.

Idem. Best comedy film ever made. It's one that once you start watching you can't stop.

Nor since

... the next one leaves in the morning. © Rameses II, 1298 BC

If you squint it certainly looks like 'who'. How long before they get the old heave-ho?

Thanks, I needed a good laugh. You do realise that the two grounds are just across the river from each other and that one of his crosses is bound to end up in the other ground at least once a season?

Good luck Danny, I think it's for the best for both parties.

We could lose a player to injury at any moment, as we have seen, so manager, I suppose.

You've obviously never tried it. Anyone under 12 will be running around screaming with their arms in the air, it's what children do in a big open space. Others will be calmly enjoying the situation and quietly taking in how the stadium looks from a totally different viewpoint. And of course it's something that's illegal for the rest of the year.

It wouldn't embarrass me, but I'm not a precious over-sensitive wilting wallflower with an inferiority complex. It's the end of a reasonably good season and an opportunity to close it off with a show of enthusiasm for the players and our wonderful owner.

Oh God hep us

I shall be voting of course, but it's not the same since they stopped you voting for a particular person.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-uniteds-surreal-season-lands-3512457 But still showing as 'Mysterious Island' on my Virgin Media schedule.

Does it? What do you suggest should be done about the Nigerians?

Superb Holidays At Public Expense?

To be honest mine didn't hurt at all, the only problem I had was a small infection where the surgeon had left an offcut of tube inside. If anything the whole area was a lot less sensitive afterwards and getting kicked in the naughties has never been a problem since. It's your choice of course, both of you. My son had three kids and was managing ok until she fell for a fourth. She's a lovely little girl but four is a big handful and I think it stressed his wife so much that they ended up getting divorced. My daughter had two kids, one of each, and then got pregnant with another who's a lovely lad but it has completely upended her life. I know someone who had three kids and when his mrs got pregnant again they took the difficult decision to abort. The modern world doesn't seem to be designed for large families.

I remember the first time I came across a CD. It was 1982 and I had designed the satellite encoder for an uplink in Atlanta and we needed some audio for the demos. The only album we had was an ELO one which must have been 'Discovery' because I just left the one track 'Confusion' on continuous repeat, which I felt was appropriate for the situation. My business partner was on the EBU committee for setting audio standards in the late 1970s and CDs were included in his brief. I remember him saying that they had to get the discs small enough to fit into the DIN standard aperture for car radios before they could be commercially viable. He saw Sony demonstrate a CD with a 1/4 inch hole drilled in it that played flawlessly because the error correction was so good. In the event the production companies just used the resilience of the system to enable them to make poor quality products knowing that the error correction would compensate.

I've still got my Pioneer PL112D with an Ortofon FF15E but I'm not allowed to play it very often unless She's out. We still have all our vinyls that we bought in the 1960s and it's a totally different experience from modern MP3s. I have a few classical LPs including the complete DGG Ring cycle but it really ****es you off having to get up every 20 minutes to change the disc so I treated myself to a CD set a couple of years ago.

You'll grow to like it

That reminds me of the football chairman who had built his business from scratch after several spells in prison. The prison chaplain had suggested that he should run his own company and when he had answered that he wouldn't be any good at it was told 'Well, you're no good at robbery are you?'

Does that prove that prison doesn't work?