Terminator

Entering " London + "jack the ripper tours" " in Google etc yields many links to tours. I hope this helps.

I could never believe seeing the original yescarcredit ads, where people asking will they be able to buy a car - despite a dodgy credit history - were told yes you WILL. A few years later, the upbeat message is yes you CAN. I reckon the litigious backlash from their inability to understand auxiliary verbs was behind it. Why didn't they employ an advertising geek with a semplance of basic grammar.

I used to work in this (Goldfinger's) God-forsaken ruin in the early 80s. It was crumbling then. Surprise, surprise this monstrosity has been Grade Listed.

I met up with the infamous "One Man Jury" tonight (For those that don't know, he was VERY active in 2005.) He's now threatening to purchase a computer and hitting the interweb thingamy again.... During our drinking session, the conversation turned to the South African gold medallist. One Man Jury said "the IAAF should take back the gold medal and, if (s)he don't like it, (s)he can go f'uck herself....which she is actually physically equipped to do". 2010 could be the return of One Man Jury.....

I believe he never agreed to be measured by the Guinness Book of Records and has never been recorded as the tallest man (even though he's taller than all the current crop of candidates). I'm surprised, however, that he never took the opportunity to cash in on his obvious selling point....

Has Ronnie Biggs pulled another fast one?

It depends how far you go back...Mathew is alive (so far), but his dad Harry originated "Sooty" on TV in the early 1950s. Harry died towards the end of the '80s and his son took over. As for..... I hope you still are a boy and, if not, you are happy in your new "gear".

I always thought that was Brian "Hanra-hanrahan"

Punk poet Jim Carroll dies at 60

I'm borderline dyslexic, hence my intense distaste of the "sorry im dislexic" argument used by various posters as an excuse for a low IQ, minimal attention span and mental retardation. That makes us soulmates honez. I'm about the same, always found writing and spelling tough so have little time for lazy bastards who won't make the effort to get things right. I'm in the same boat, reading, writing, spelling, differentiating between left and right all stuffed up, but I have never used it as an excuse. I'm also in the same boat. I was diagnosed as dyslexic by an independent assessor when I was 17 but the school decided that because I could spell "catastrophe" and because I was studying langauges then I couldn't possibly be dyslexic so I'm not sure if I am or not. My spelling is fair, it's certainly better than most of my colleagues' spelling but I do have issues with punctuation and left/right differentiation, I also struggle to tell the time. I could have milked the system and got all sorts of extra help but I didn't so I have little time for the "sorry i' dislexic innit" crew. This isn't much of a secret though, so I'm going to finally admit something I haven't ever told anyone before - I'm scared of eyes. How the f'uck am I the quoted source for this self-absorbed string of nothingness???? Nice one, Honez..... There are degrees of difference.....what's classed as dyslexic in the UK is "sharply-crafted writing" in the USA.

I'd go further and say that she's been put up to it... I'd go EVEN FURTHER and say the sooner any mention of GOODY and TWEED is lost from this site.....the better.... Why discuss vermin (let alone maggot-ridden ones)....

Thanks for the info. My secret is that I'm an incurable gossip.

Why not leave it to the Scottish Assembly....

Gospel singer Marie Knight dies

Is Jacko alive?????

Cancer has not spread Thank God it never spread to her Willie....

You said that back in 2007, which is why we put her in our 2008 team *twiddles thumbs* I think you must be mistaking me for someone else and may therefore be twiddling in my direction unnecessarily. Apart from the post above, I'm not sure I've ever mentioned Eunice Kennedy. VT's thumbs should be put away before they damage anyone else falsely. It was actually young Canadian Paul who suggested that Kennedy Shriver was quite ill & often hospitalised & therefore (rightly) would be a good pick. This was discovered after a detailed DL search which, despite protests by many, works just fine if you use it properly. Dead

It's still there NAP, it became Bar Oz in the '90s and now it's Coopers, named after the grocery store it used to be when I was a kid. I think the Coopers name is still embedded into the pavement outside on a brass plaque. As far as I know the original deco is still in place. Wasn't it across the road from Clatty Pat's? I used to eat at Chimmy's too and I recall the opening night of Bar Oz, which was opened by a former neighbours actress, not Kylie Minogue, not Natalie Imbruglia, not Holly Valance, the one with the blonde bob, pert bosom and pouty lips; I forget her name, who made a brief appearance to much wolf-whistling from the assembled Glasgow Uni freshers and west-end hipperati. (Emma Harrison Had to google it, it was bugging me.) Cleopatra's (clatty pats) is the only bar I've ever been thrown out of. It was a regular haunt of the One Devonshire Gardens staff when we couldn't be bothered to go to The Tunnel or The Arches (or, in my case, the Sub Club cos I was a trance music junkie back in the day). I got thrown out of there for sparking up a reefer. If I'd bottled someone or break-danced in a pool of my own vomit (about the only feasible lubricant on a dancefloor that sticky), they probably would have given me a free pint but no... When my gf of the time moved to london, I used to send her flowers every week from the grocers/flowers shop on the same side as Chimmy's, down towards the bridge. I forget the name of the place, but I imagine they're still doing a good trade. I loved the smell of that place. Until the bitch dumped me. Arum lillies don't come cheap when you're a student, but thankfully relationships do. Well, sort of. Sometimes. Occasionally. What's that in my hand? Two Aces? You get my drift. I have happy memories of Chimmy Chungas from my time in Glasgow. I wonder if I was ever in there at the same time as Star Crossed? Did you ever go for a quiet evening out at the Art School, SC? I think I went to Chimmy's on one of my very first nights out in Scotland and can still remember by glee turning to disappointment when I thought I had been massively overchanged at the bar, only to return to my seat and find out that £1 notes still existed north of the border... Well, I for one would never be caught dead at Chimmy's. I used to drink at the Nag's Head in Wrexham. A much classier joint, all around, apparently. Probably because there were no Glaswegians there. There are now Well.....thank God for progress....

Following your scatter-brained logic, there are NO communist (or truly democratic) countries in the world.....they ALL have a leader. Castro is the worst sort of puppet-dictator...he's a nepotist. Who else would pre-install their brother as "supreme leader". Yes, the Cubans may feel empowered (for a couple of hours a day, at least until the power gets cut off yet again). If Cuba hates the USA, why not simply ban baseball from Cuba? Also, the persistent waves of Cubans attempting to flee their beloved country should get you thinking..... The one good thing I can think of about Cuba is that, no matter what sh*thole a person comes from, visiting Cuba will give them a glowing feeling of self-worth and pride; given the poverty Cubans have to tolerate. Life's always better when you see someone even worse off than you.

A tribute to the "almost-late" Ronnie Corbett. He told the joke on the Two Ronnies (during his slot on the armchair). That must be at least 25 years old..

Richard Ferguson QC

Bob Loblah the poet. Sorry Bob, but that's dreadful. It is sh*te. Reminds me of Art Garfunkel or Leonard Nimoy. Or what was that Australian guy's name? Ron something. Dickheads always refer to themselves in the third person......just check Boblah (is the name onomatapoeic for a slow fart in a bath?)

I'm surprised Jamie Oliver hasn't travelled "oop North" to develop a Cumbrian Mud Pie; given it appears to be your most abundent natural crop....