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  1. I'm Listening To....

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    Bob Dylan - Modern Times. I cannae stop playing the bloody thing since I got it and it's really got into my blood.

    The songs are great- but Auld Zinm's voice is away tae boogery- still a fine album though.

    Leonard Cohen time here- "First we take Manhattan"

  3. Poets

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    In no particular order

    1. Carol Ann Duffy

    2. W H Auden

    3. Wifred Owen

    4. Rudyard Kipling

    5. Philip Larkin

    Studied 2-5 many years ago in school doing English Language discovered Duffy about 6 years ago while I was working in a school.

    4 wonderful poets and Carol Ann Duffy.

    :ph34r:

  5. Poets

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    Now Leesey boy's started a thread........

    About odesters, who're bound to be dead...........

    It's just him and McB...........

    Spouting pish, you'll agree............

    Howard Hughes must be off to his bed...............

    Bravo :lol:

  7. Poets

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    Lorca- anyone who can write, in connection with shagging,

    Her thighs escaped me like surprised fish,

    Half filled with embers, half filled with ice.

    That night I ran—best runner of all the roads,

    Mounted on a pearly steed, neither saddle nor bridle.

    deserves to be here

    Betjeman- much better than most think- "The death of King George V" is a cracking poem

    Burns- of course A nice wee ditty on our royal family

    Wilf Owen

    and finally

    feckit there's too many cracking poets to confine it to 5 and I'd just change my mind in 5 minutes. :P

  9. Things They Should Release On Dvd

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    Leaving, i think by Danny Boyle. A play about 3 boys leaving school, set in Greenock in the 1950s no special affects were needed then. Paul Young starred as a bulling school teacher bit like McB. :P

    Leaving was indeed a cracking play.

    PS My lawyers, Messrs Sue, Grabiitt and Runne will be in contact with you over the Paul Young comparison. :wink:

  13. I'm Listening To....

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    I have little doubt that McB - Closet wannabe Buddy! - was trying to draw our attention to the guy who made the Yankee Audubon society possible - Alexander Wilson!

    Who left the bonnie toon as a venturous youth, and went oot abroad, and then 'ticked off' just about every N.A. bird possible... so that Audubon could swannie (wow- the puns!) in a wee bit later and found a 'Society'... :)

    Thanks, McB - statue at the corner of the street entering the toon hall Abbey road. Pay homage, buddies. A good guy! :)

    A wee bit aboot Alexander Wulsin...

    Shite no :o

    Must try and find the statue- wee homage needed B)

    May have passed it pished after a beer fest night.

    Most pleased that some chaps get the Audubon reference.

    Lehrer is indeed a feckin' genius.

    Currently it's Oedipus Rex

    From the Bible to the popular song,

    There's one theme that we find right along;

    Of all ideals they hail as good,

    The most sublime is motherhood.

    There was a man though, who it seems,

    Once carried this ideal to extremes.

    He loved his mother and she loved him,

    And yet his story is rather grim.

    There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex,

    You may have heard about his odd complex.

    His name appears in Freud's index

    'Cause he loved his mother.

    His rivals used to say quite a bit

    That as a monarch he was most unfit.

    But still in all they had to admit

    That he loved his mother.

    Yes, he loved his mother like no other,

    His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother.

    One thing on which you can depend is,

    He sure knew who a boy's best friend is.

    When he found what he had done,

    He tore his eyes out, one by one.

    A tragic end to a loyal son

    Who loved his mother.

    So be sweet and kind to mother,

    Now and then have a chat.

    Buy her candy or some flowers,

    Or a brand new hat.

    But maybe you had better let it go at that.

    Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex

    And you may end up like Oedipus.

    I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus

    Than end up like old Oedipus Rex.

  14. I'm Listening To....

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    Poisoning pigeons in the park- Tom Lehrer.

    We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment.

    Except for the few we take home to experiment.

    My pulse will be quickenin'

    With each drop of strychnine

    We feed to a pigeon.

    It just takes a smidgin!

    To poison a pigeon in the park.

  16. Things They Should Release On Dvd

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    Posted · Edited by Tom McB

    did it not go :

    "Haw McQuillan - your tea's oot !"

    " What dae you mean by that?"

    "Come and get it ya bastard !".

    Indeed

    All of McDougall's work bears re-release- Just another saturday, Elephant's graveyard, Down where the buffalo go.

    I was about to mention "Edge of Darkness"- checked amazon- it's available- now ordered. :)

    Edit to include- TL sir- I owe you one- checking amazon again and found that "Just another saturday" was released on DVD in June.

    Ya dancer :)

  19. Top 5 Rock Bands

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    Googling for any details on SAHB at the Howff I found out that Alex was the brother of Les Harvey :(

    Jaysus- two cracking Glasgow bands connected by brothers and tragic deaths- and I never made the link.

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