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You are welcome to come and brighten my office at any time; you will find MLT's autograph proudly displayed, along with my garden gnome painted in the Sanderson kit, and a little figurine of MLT stood on my PC.

Bridge, have you come across Terry Pratchett's method for confusing auditors ? Show them a piece of paper with "Please ignore this notice" written on it

I said 'public sector', nothing more......

But the Palestinians are descendants of the indigenous peoples that lived there 2000 years ago, they merely converted from one religious tradition to another, they did not displace anybody, and have been in continuous occupation of the region throughout - and, coincidentally, they are also "semitic", which is a description of a variation of the human race, rather than a specific adjective applicable to jews. And funily enough, the basis of their religion is exactly the same as the jewish one; Abraham, Moses, even Jesus, are revered in the islamic faith. The majority of the Israelis are no more than second or third generation incomers, who have displaced those peoples living there before 1947.

But I do work in the public sector, though nobody has yet offered me a bribe. And without getting into a 'mine is bigger than yours' type of discussion, my network is 3500+ PCs, 230+ servers, and over 100 different sites.

But I find the paper trail just gets in the way of doing the work

I am a full PRINCE2 'practitioner' and in the 'real world' I find it doesn't really help at all. Common sense, and understanding what you are doing, and why, is far more important, ( IMHO ).

Yeh, that's OK, it's just a few ragheads after all. What complete and utter boll0x.

Israel will never eradicate the Palestinians for one simple reason; if they get rid of the bogeyman they will revert to the internecine infighting their fractured and divisive political system would inevitably fall into. The only way they can create a stable government is to have an occasional war to distract public opinion.

Seems to be something along the lines of for the rest of the season, and option for longer if we stay up.

That's about the same level as JP then !

But that is surely where the quality of the coach comes into play ?

Arizona, that is the funniest thing I've read for a while; the idea of Ollie muscling anybody off the ball...lol !

At 17:00 on Jan 1st 2008 we were 15th with 33 points from 26 games, 5 home wins and 3 home draws; on 12th Jan 2008 we were 13th with 36 points from 27 games with 6 home wins, and a total of 36 goals scored and 44 conceded. Burley out !!! To put this in some context, this was the middle of a run of form from 15 December to 19 Feb ( when NP was appointed ) that saw us play 12 matches and take 8 points, winning only once ( S****horpe @ SMS ), scoring 11 and conceding 19. After NP took charge, we drew the next 4 games then beat Leicester @ SMS, ( discounting the Plymouth match on 19th Feb ).

The point about 'stealing' land is two-fold; firstly the 'state' of Israel is an artificial creation, imposed upon the region in 1947. In creating it, hundreds & hundreds of thousands of jewish immigrants displaced many of the indigenous people, hence the 'palestinians' who are not actually living in Palestine, but in the south of Lebanon, the west bank ( formerly part of Jordan ), or the Gaza strip. Second, the building of the 'security wall' has taken place on the Palestinian side of the border, rather than on the border. This has resulted in farmers being separated from their fields, families split, etc. There is propaganda on both sides, and the Israeli message is enhanced by US bias. The truth lies somewhere in between.

Are you taking the p1ss, or just plain stoopid ?

It hit the back of his head - he was stupid to have his arm raised but the ball missed it by at least six inches, which all the replays have shown quite clearly.

Well that puts you into a very small minority.

Dubya started the war because according to him Iraq had direct links to the 9/11 plotters - a complete fabrication. The Blair dossier was used primarily to dupe the British Parliament into supporting the yanks, and to show Dubya how far up his @rsa Bliar ( not a typo ! ) was prepared to crawl,when the rest of the UN, almost unanimously, were opposed to military action. Dubya was just plain happy to have his poodle trotting along with him, because it gave his illegal war some credibility.

Because most of the play is in his 18 yard box ? Also, whilst acknowledging it was not a penalty, look at it from the ref's position, and that of the lino; it looked like the ball hits DMcG's elbow, as indicated by Mike Riley, ( mind you he's still a biased **** ).

By not playing him and Euell, they are not cup-tied.

The fact that it was only 3-0, and therefore can be spun as 'acceptable' means that nothing will happen.

I seem to recall an earlier FA Cup match between ManUre and Saints, with MU in the top flight and SFC in the second tier - can anybody remind me if we actually managed a shot on goal on that occasion ?

If your neighbours kid throws a stone through your window, you don't drive a bulldozer through his house in retaliation. The 'rockets' that the Palestinians are using are merely giant home-made fireworks, the ones the Israelis use cost tens of thousands of dollars and include some of the most leading edge technology the USA can develop, yet they still blow up kids and old women.

Lancashire is a wonderful place, Yorkshire on the other hand.....