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Just beeen reading the thread on p+b, Tom... ...and it occurred to me that MANY of the closed pubs on the list you published DIDN'T even exist before I left Paisley in 1970. The only ones I had knowledge of (and I purposely drank in EVERY pub in Paisley at least once before I left) are the following: Which means that either the below 10 had existed under another name (cos I don't recognise them) or these were simply new start-ups/business ventures that failed. And even in those I'd been in, some of those were never what you might call 'established drinking dens...' more like new ventures, in themselves - developed to exploit a market... eg Silver Thread, Friarshall Centurion Arkleston, Brabloch and Rockford. Certainly we'd never have dreamt of going anywhere near Friarshall, Brabloch, thread or Rockford if there hadn't been Sunday drinking laws - that meant those places were able to exploit a trapped market and charge accordingly. Such places shouldnae be mourned after the laws changed.

Have you actually disconnected all the connections, dusted 'em off and firmly reinserted (?) Since starting this reply - I've been off on a trawl... and the following is the best set of help I can find on the www. Not my brains and experience someone sensible. But as above - the emBOLDened bits often DO make the difference... I hope this helps?

"Suddenly, Dunfermline's Premier dream - became a nightmare!"

Lying 2nd to.... Stenhousemuir...

Al should start learning Handel's Dead March in Saul cos Shull's obviously trying to arrange his funeral for f**k-aw... Carr's pies, one assumes, for the wake munchies?

Two emotionally sparking wee pictures there, FS! It's started out a bright black and white day!

The Ting-Tings (from pressing a red button to see them via BEEB) doing their Glasto gig. Brilliant dance music. (and for the gym, mah wummin sez...) But I began to pine for a wee ballad from them... Have they EVER tried a slow number - has anyone heard that from them?

A quiz show about Scottish Islands? That would be Handa if it wisnae such a Rum idea. Is it on Skye? Or did it Uist to be on the Beeb? If the series is over - please Yell if it comes back on again. Don't Uig-nore me. All the above silly puns is the kinda Humour you get on Larsen's DaVaar Side....

In life there are no surprises, but... Never figured you as a fan of these dudes, HSS...

Easy. 1958. 1. Bertie joined brother Gibby Ormond at Airdrie in the front line it says on the programme. 2. Bertie was with Airdrie 1958-60, PLayed 10 scored 4 ORMOND Bert IF 58-60 Falkirk Dumbarton 10 4 3. I can't recall Priestley in goals or Ralston at Centre forward for the Buddies but I do remember Tony(?) Gregal and McTurk - a hammer man! And that was afore we won the cup! Thus NOT 1959 so it has to be 1958. I hope this helps? For free.

Actually - there's only two. You lost the plot (as usual) when you extended beyond that....

And also good! Don't suppose you went to Finland...?

Don't apologise - they're excellent images!

In fact, he's a kinda central heating engineer - but if you watch how he plays with his tools and how skilfully he applies all the mechanical paraphernalia, then you can see his performance is based around past 'acting in the role of safecracker'... ...if ye want to be pedantic. And if ye really want to split infinitives er... and job descriptions, he's described as "Tuttle, guerrilla mechanic".

Brazil was an amazing picture - scary as hell story and brilliant images - and DeNiro was a super safecracker - a good guy. Loved it! Raging Bull also scary and brilliant also wonderful.. King of Comedy, Taxi Driver and Deerhunter. I've avoided most of the others. Never seen Godfather movies.

They're normally right BESIDE Platform 1!

Congratulations, Buddies!!! Have a great day!!!

beautiful voice...

With Lights out Red Light Company Brilliant! Never heard of them, nor know a thing about them....

Stu's right - we're all using it tho we don't need to know about it. Most websites use Java in the source code. Like when you move your cursor over a picture and it changes? Or you go to click a link and the colour of the link changes...? Or where there's a ticking clock with moving hands...? Or a moving avatar... sometimes...? You DO need (like Flash or Shockwave or Adobe) to have some of it installed on your pc to let you view sites at their 'best' and to get most out of them. If you want it. eta: Move your cursor over the Fast Reply button and look at the bottom left of your screen, where it normally tells you what page your linking to or that a page is fully loaded or... in that instance, you'll see a wee bit of Div's Java coding leaking through...

Not particularly. It's just the liberal use of cooking oil that's turned YOU on.

Aye. Took me a wee while, too. A coupla minutes of life never to be seen again. And for that?

I used to chose my pubs cos of how 'healthy' the air in them was. Hated smoky ones - and how your clothes always stank afterwards. So I'm VERY happy indoors is a no smoking environemnt in general. I could NEVER understand why girlies go to all the trouble of washing and preening long lovely hair, putting on nice smelly stuff, then smoking.... weird. As for Tom's list of pubs - on the positive side - it's not that so many are closing - quite a lot of them on the list were NEVER pubs before I left Paisley, in the first place. Business opportunities that ultimately failed to cut the mustard. EG In New Street, in 1970, there used to be The Imperial Bar at the foot and The Bull up top. NO other bar was in New Street. So, it's not that there's a crisis - just that many drinking venues have shifted location.

This month's (ok March's) Computing Which Mag had a review of all broadband providers. Cannae mind which was their best buy (and unknow cmpany to me...) - will dig it oot and give resume ramorra. Check it out in the Library? They'll surely have copies...