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Good points papadopoulous.

Which thread was the beer festival incident in, dubai_philip?

Not suggesting that dubai_philip was stretching the truth, OldNkck. I well remember the story from the Munich beer festival where he was called out by someone (Turkish? CB Fry?) and then he produced photographic evidence. It was just the fact that he suggested someone else's golfing story wasn't true that made me smile. In fact thinking about it, the Munich incident should have been in the poll for event of the year.

Did dubai_philip just point out that someone else's golfing story was too fantastic to believe?

...and glad to see that it isn't a comb-over, Toke (Most Voting Poster, 2013).

You do realise that Bananarama is a gay sexual position, don't you JoeShmoe? I can see where you're coming from. Are they not men? They are Devo, Toke. Better now than then? I really wish I hadn't replaced my mental image of her with this one. I once saw Erasure at the Brighton Dome (not a euphemism). How gay is that? Siouxsie Sioux is ageing well. Tell me Mick Jones doesn't have a comb-over. Mmmm. What's Joe Brand doing in that list? Robert, Robert, Robert.

dubai_philip, can you get one for me in XL? Just change the names to: Turkish Alpine_Saint Barry Sanchez Tokyo-saint Ta.

Drunk and disorderly. Bill is a great entertainer on stage. He's a real racconteur, and I think even those that don't align with him politically would enjoy the performance. He was on stage for over 2 hours. I've met him many a time backstage and you're right he always makes time to chat. Except the one time when I p!ssed next to him at the toilets at Fleet services. I told him that I'd shake his hand if we both weren't otherwise occupied. He laughed nervously and left.

Saw Neko Case at the Forum in Kentish Town last week. She was excellent. I saw her a few years ago in Portsmouth and her voice mesmerised me, and this gig was even better. Great voice, deep lyrics, good music, good stage banter, but only performed for a little over an hour. Saw Billy Bragg at the Guildhall earlier in December. I've seen him many times and he was his usual entertaining self - although he is sounding more and more country these days, which I'm not completely happy about. Took my teenage daughter, which was a real rite of passage as she'd been brainwashed by me singing and playing The Bragg to her all her life. An excellent gig, slightly spoiled by a mate getting thrown out of the venue.

I once saw Del Amitri perform at a music "festival" in Gosport. The lead singer sang Ace of Spades whilst doing an impression of Lemmy from Motorhead by climbing a step ladder to stretch his throat to sing into a microphone that was 10 feet off the ground. That's Rock 'n Roll. Used to love Del Amitri...

Toke, I think you've shared an image from your \DeleteIfRaidedByOperationCeop folder.

Vote for you? No. I voted Bear. He's the funny one that you follow around eating his sh!t. I've always been more Morecambe than Wise, more Barker than Corbett, more winner than loser. And as for taunting me about orally pleasuring pap, I'd sooner felate a mate (again) than bite sh!te.

That might be the case Toke, but I will get in to Europe via the fair play league.

It's not often I completely agree with the Bear, in fact the very act of typing those words has given me a mini panic attack, but he has nailed it here. Let's imagine a wood known to be inhabited by bears was searched for evidence of bear excrement, but no sh!t was found. Would the conclusion be that bears do not sh!t in the woods? No, we would assume that a meglomaniacal, Japanophile had trawled the woods following a bear around eating his sh!t (art imitating life?) Just because we are presented with an apparent situation, it doesn't mean we know the facts.

I'd be happy to use the following honourific in all correspondence either with you or about you: "Tokyo-saint MVP - (most voting poster) (that means he cheated) (and even though he cheated, he only won because of Bear's stupidity) (Bletch lost, but lost clean)" Does that work for you?

As I've already TRIED to explain to you, MVP = most voting poster. The award was recognition for your ability to cheat. If that makes you proud, and you can still sleep at night, then more power to you.

I don't know if I'm impressed or disgusted that neither of you denies it. The World Anti Survey Monkey Doping Agency should get involved. BTW, did you know that the former President of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) is called D1ck Pound? Seriously. I imagine he must have some pretty straight-laced parents. Did you really cast a vote for Toke, Bear?

I just lost it, Toke. Awe-struck I guess you'd call it. I just felt that if I could touch that taut and bronzed belly, just the once, some of his talent might somehow transfer to me. I left the security guard's broken and bloodied body backstage, and waited for Bieber in his dressing room. I now know why his family saw fit to give him the name Justin. Glad dubai_philip kept filming though.

As I've said, Toke, I dismiss your victory as unclean. You are the Ben Johnson (note the aitch) of TMS. And Bear is the Lance Armstrong. So, because I did it clean, I am the Seb Coe (still pompous, just a little less Tory), to pap's Steve Ovett.

Thanks pap. I hope this doesn't come across as too arrogant, but I actually see myself as first of the 'normal' people. So that gives me the gold. If that is the case, then it also places a silver medal round your neck. You should be rightly proud - as long as you ARE 'normal' that is.

Toke, may I be the first to congratulate you on your victory in the MVP category? Whilst I didn't place my own 'X' next to your name, it was well deserved. Anyone who found that many ways to vote for themself from multiple devices deserves all the praise they get. Tokyo-saint - Most Voting Poster! Well done Toke.

I would just like to thank all my fans. Everything I do, I do it for you. Aside from the disturbing thought that Toke will get immense pleasure from having me come behind him, I think I can take some comfort that I am only a semi-pro muppet.

LVP? Loquaciously Verbose Poster? I'm good with that. Cheers Toke. Bear, I would imagine that Toke is deleting cookies, or spoofing IP addresses. Or his fellating FiL has written some cross-site Javascript to inject votes. Those Japaneses is smart. Either way it's easy to categorically prove. If Toke gets more than one vote in any category, then he has been proven to be cheating. There simply is no other viable explanation.