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Were they 50th Birthday presents to yourself? HB! Auld yin.

Carnival de Paris Courtesy of TL.

A pint of Carlsberg in the pub nextdoor tae mah running club (a Brewers Fayre hole but SO handy...) WENT UP TO £2.58 THIS WEEK. Which is not bad for down here - though I have just bought a couple of 18x440m cases of Carlsberg cans for £6.59 a case! Tesco's... with a World Cup offer... ...which reduces the price of indoors booze dramatically, as Tom sez.... That makes it that a can is about a pint - for a mere... er... ...just less than 40 pence.

Thank you, Gentlemen. If I get those tracks from you good Buddies for Ms Ching, I may once again be granted sex this decade! There may even be a god... ...until I listen to the noise... (an email address is on its way... ) "old Dario G song from the '98 World Cup?" I believe there are bagpipes included in it. She yelled when she heard it played in a pub on the Faroes... "Some 'classic' hands-in-the-air Euro-house-disco-pop." If that's the belgian burd in the Youtube thing then that is it. After the Kinks my musical tastes never really progressed...

Jessy is a belgian lassie and I don't recognise it as Eagles - She's on youtube with it.

As may have been observed, I'm an ancient git who disnae do music or noise and beyond the sound of my own voice, I like peace and quiet. So I have had little desire for downloading or sticking plastic hearing-aid wedges in my lugs in order to be deafened. I had no need of Napster or its ilk. But Ms Ching has been nagging me about a couple of tracks that she loves down the gym during Spinning Classes, and wanted to me to find them online for her: Jessy - How long and Carnival de Paris dunno if that's the name or artiste - think it's the artiste. All noise to me. Is there any way of me getting these tracks without having to download and sign up for Napster or Limewire or whatever is required? I had a look at Napster freebie for a week but it required a biggish download and install and then signing-up and giving other details I don't want to betray for so little bloody ongoing gain. I dunno if I could even find the stuff she wants... Anyway...? Please? Can anybuddie help an old soldier? (that's a tear-jerking lie, btw. I was only ever in the lifeboys) If WYD was around I'm sure he would have copies of those noises... er... tracks... tunes?

Ainsley Harriot Heaven Bars chocolate/toffee digestives blue riband mint kitkats Tunnocks caramel wafers

Meet in The Bull. It's the Hogsbollox...

Walk up the Palladium Pend and it's just on the right as you emerge back into daylight on the High Street. On the right, of course, you could find the umbrella shop. (about 50 years ago...) I hope this helps?

They were in a band (more successful at the time) called The Kleeverz. Drummer Stuart McKenzie, JNI Heidbanger, who went on tae The Sabres... there's a theme developing... Ian McMillan (who usetae live on the 3rd (top floor) of a tenement where the Stowe Lounge now sits made more than a few bob with a band called Blue. Eric got married and was settled somewhere like... Kilmacolm..? Like Bert and Coon - ex (original) Camphill pupils. I just wondered if you knew wot had happened to them. I should try Friends Disunited....

Awright, Spirit! And how about Eric McLean...? Or Ian McMillan? Are they still pluckers... or wot?

Thanks, guys. Progress being made. Found a lite version which will be employed and will let you know results.

Thanks, Stu - but, as they say on their daemon site, 'good software is worth buying!'

where to look for... trustworthy FREEware that I could download to burn .ISO files? Ta.

It's like the Sixties. If you can remember the Virtual Wee Barrell, you were never in it...

Bert Downie was in the original Camphill and played in a band along with Dave Colquhoun. I thought Coon was the bassist, then. When we were still all at school. Can't recall who else was in the band but it wisnae called Findo Gask. I do vaguely remember a band called Findo Gask. In the 70s...? Tolkien books were mostly shite long-winded descriptive padding with a good basic tale and some briliant characters, though I'm sure we'd all love to kick the Hobbits' do-goodie arses - which would have made the stories about 7 or 800 pages shorter. And better. I seldom read fantasy. I can offer little to this thread (as you can see) but I've been away and only just found out Tuesday's scores. I'm now too frail to venture into any other thread.

Almost A Dream of Football by Greta Green

You're too kind. Thank you.

Ethernet. And that would do it - perfectly!

I'm sure you'll find something on this thread helpfully offered by smfcok, which will help?

I fixed it for you, Old Grammarian...

OK... Late on Sat night. The point at issue for ME is that things that things that should 'only' be thought to happen in a totalitarian/1984 state - DO happen here. With appalling regularity. (What the f**k's the mega-bugging controvesry, if not THAT!?) I don't feel happy with the number of examples already on offer of such an appalling system being a reality. You think it's ok. This is not a furrin country. Your examples 'cited' are irrelevant to me. I hate the shite that's happening here. Now. In my examples. and the buggin thing.... which is still breaking news... However you've lost sight/cite of the real issue - which was/IS top 5 books. And I seldom pitch intae that.... Plus I don't actually give a f**k - being past it...

No. Not forgotten. Too many to list. We must disagree, then. Check this week's P.I. PAGE 26 - and how Azelle Rodney happened to be in the wrong car at the wrong time and happened to be shot SEVEN times in 'a pre-planned drugs surveillance operation'. Nowt to do with him and they'd been watching these people for a long time and yet... they couldn't tackle them safely in a safe place when this unrelated victim was not there? (The real baddies were unharmed btw...) Shot SEVEN f**kIN times and his family can't ask questions of why and who. Or they can... but be ignored... As I'm more concerned with the shite in this land than in the others you cite for irrelevant comparison, your "f**king sight better" is far more generous than mine. I widnae f**kin mind if it f**kin happened in f**kin Shetland, though... I hope this helps?

My still salient point is that to ignore that a significant number of such examples can be easily found and quoted HERE IN MODERN-DAY UK, does a gross disservice to those who have suffered at the hands of the State, and its functionaries: press, police, army... ...and to those who will be in future firing lines. No pun intended. It may not be Burma but it's not all tickety-boo.

I'm hoping you're being totally ironic, here, HHiBSS - I can't believe you'd back up CC... ...and you're not just waiting for someone to pop in and helpfully point out that a couple of lads living in Leytonstone, who their neighbours all confirmed had 'gone islamic' since their schooldays 'wif beards n stuff', were wakened in their bedrooms and shot by just such a force of polis? And have since been shown to be innocent of every charge that could have been concocted against them? ...or that a Jock left a pub in norf lahndahn carrying a chair leg in a plastic bag and someone told cops it was a gun so he got shot for that?(Edit: to STRESS he was shot - DEAD) ...or that scabloid newspapers set up phone lines for the GBP to call in and inform if their neighbours are suspicious and they print the addresses of 'paediatrics' who need burning out of their houses? It's far from sunshine and light in the UK. I voted for Ken Livingstone in London - till Thatcher undemocratically disbanded the GLC cos it went against her desires. Small wonder Ken's book was called 'if democracy worked they'd ban it', or something similar...