mjmooney

Olympic medals were not awarded to anyone until 1904

Maybe it was the time difference from Beijing to here.

Biffa Bacon.

When it was being first broadcast I'd have said Cleese.

Nowadays, Palin.

Olympic

As anyone who knows of my attendance at last year's England bi-sexual XV vs the Navy rugby match will testify. The score? 0-0, but there were 5 tries and 2 conversions.

Modern pentathlon, who the **** came up with that rubbish???

I believe it's based upon the old skills that a soldier would need - running, swimming, horse riding, sword fighting and shooting.

All in one day. How Boy's Toys is that?

I'd like to see the Pissed Olympics. Same set of events, but all the competitors have to drink eight pints of beer and half a bottle of scotch before starting.

Tell me that woudn't be entertaining.

Only because they sent a third string side. If the US send their best team, they win.

I still feel basketball is in the games to serve the interests of one country more than any other sport in the games. 305 million viewers to the commercial TV that broadcasts the games has nothing to do with that, im sure.

Actually I'm just watching the ping-po^H^H^H "table tennis" and that seems pretty funny.

It's up there with darts and dominoes as "something you might enjoy playing but wouldn't want to WATCH" (actually I feel the same about snooker TBH).

Walking, deffo.

As a runner, it drives me mad - if you want to go fast on your feet, RUN ffs!

Carla Bruni - Ma jeunesse

My oldest son is doing IT, art and music and has to choose one more subject (this is for 6th form).

Psychology seems to be one of the choices, whats that all about?

She said that Psychology was really interesting, but bloody hard - easily the heaviest work load of the four subjects. She got the AS-Level (grade B I think) and then dropped it, to take the oher three at A2.

Which gives me another chance to say that she got 3 "A"s, which means she's going to Birmingham, which means me fitting in a few VP trips!

Also, as you get older attractive women will no longer have sex with you

I'm glad we only have sensible women reading this thread. Because it really feeds the stereotypes.

Boys, boys. As you get older you learn to appreciate real women.

Big women have more orgasms.

According to some research.

EDIT: :oops:

to be honest, i have never found a guy who actually likes bigger girls (except in the breast dept)

yeah, we pretend we don't mind a larger girl, and the media perpetuates the myth, but if you ask most guys do you want your girl to look like Vanessa Feltz before or after, 99% of people will prefer the thinner one.

of course, there is a point, where thin becomes too thin, but if you ingore 'skinny' as opposed to thin women, then surely everyone prefers thin to fat?

BUT, if I had to choose between two equally likeable women, one skinny or one - let's say "Rubensesque", I'd go for the curvy one every time.

Can't stand stick insects.

EDIT: I voted 12 - 16.

Well I'm strictly an 81/82 man when it comes to the Villa, but I guess it depends on which team members you have and whether they are any good at this sort of thing (I wouldn't know).

So I've voted for BFR on the grounds that he's pretty much GUARANTEED to be entertaining.

I'll be honest and say I've never done anything, not even smoked a cigarette. If I don't try it, I won't get hooked, and I won't go wasting mymoney on it, that's ho I've always seen it.

Jury's out. Ask me again at Christmas.

That Harry Gratian story:

Apparently HG and Archie McPherson were doing a World Cup radio commentary involving Bulgaria. HG had religiously learned all the players' names, but AM had decided he couldn't be arsed, and furthermore when he got to the commentary box he was pissed - and he was the main commentator. HG was not impressed and in a bit of a sulk.

So the commentary went something like:

AM: "And it's the Bulgarian number six, to.... er, number eight. Bulgaria's... number ten takes it up... he shoots... and scores!!!"

(covers mic up and hisses to HG: "Harry, quick, what's the name of the Bulgarian number ten?")

HG: "I don't bloody know. Sod off".

AM: "...AND SODOV SCORES FOR BULGARIA!!!"

Can anybody remember who the BBC radio commentator was at the 1970 World Cup when Geoff Astle missed that sitter?

He came out with something like: "...and Astle MUST score! (stunned pause) Awwww, he's only **** MISSED it..."

Wasn't there once one by Coleman at the Olympics one time when he said about some runner that he "opened his legs and showed his class"

“And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.”

I remember watching that live and pissing myself laughing.

I'm almost through John B. Lundstrom's The First Team and The Guadalcanal Campaign

EDIT: On a related subject, have you read E. B. Sledge's "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" ?

Not sure those quite rhyme paddy, the sound of the O in orange seems to change the sound of the word as a whole meaning none of those rhyme with their n sound.

Either that or I talk funny .

The nearest contenders are (as noted) "syringe" (first syllable doesn't rhyme) and "lozenge" (both syllables rhyme, but different consonant in the middle).

Funnily enough I was talking about this last week. Here at Bradford University the Chancellor is Imran Khan, and he was in town to present degrees at the graduation ceremony. One of the honorary graduands was "Look North" (and Yorkshire sports) presenter Harry Gration, and his acceptance speech was basically a series of jokes and sports anecdotes (including a rather good one about Archie McPherson that I'll save for another occasion).

Imran had to follow this, and he's clearly not the most witty speaker in the world - so he rather desperately rolled out the old "Holding/Willey" story - to be met by an embarrassed silence. The older members of the "audience" had heard the story SO many times it was no longer funny... and the younger ones clearly didn't understand it at all, and (I suspect) took it semi-literarally, with some shock!