Slave to the Grave

'I Feel Good' by James Brown. Owwwww!!!!

Bon Anniversaire ie+. I'm thinking fireworks and having a nice drink in your honour ce soir.

I agree, stick 'em all in the same thread. Degrees of famousness are pretty subjective and are always going to cause arguements.

Q. How do you know when there's an elephant in bed with you? A. By the smell of peanuts and the E embroidered on his pyjamas.

Curtains....mmmm..... In MY world, curtains for children's rooms would be heavily lined and black. These little chappies may come in handy if you intend hanging those curtains up in a high-wear environment. Just to be on the safe side. Thank you Sir John. Management gurus aren't just useful in the boardroom then.

It's not like that. I presume (hope) you can still enjoy Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.

As an added bonus, you may actually take some of the mourners with you. I suppose you could warn the ones you like.

That would be the Steampacket I'm told. If you're heading that way perhaps you should check out this site, but hurry, or you'll miss the 40% discount on the Bruno Banani 'Don't play with me' thong.

I shall be doing the same, although I'm still finding the ones from last year that I hid just a little bit too high up for them to reach.

Curtains....mmmm.....

He'll be alright. Jim's obviously fixed it for him.

I can't help you with a list, and I am not sure that 'informer' appears on his C.V. but for another possibility from that part of the world how about former 'Bolton Wanderer', Johnny 'mad dog' Adair? Not known for his low profile lifestyle, and I am sure he has met a few people who disagree with his particular brand of 'politics'. (What a lot of '---' for one post, a record perhaps?)

Sean is feeling very well after his surgery. He's quoted as saying that people have been 'almost overly friendly' in asking about his health. Hmm, a bit of 'research' going on there possibly, anyone want to own up?

'The Baroness chuckled to herself as she floated another air biscuit.'

I don't know, go and make a cup of tea, get back and find that I've created a new thread.

I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago here in 'Ideas and Possibilities', but, given the recent spate of bellyaching about who should and who shouldn't have their own thread, I chickened out of starting one in his honour. I'm glad someone has though as I think he deserves one.

Curtains and sandals. I cannot resist buying curtains in the sale despite the fact that we already have curtains in all of our windows and most of the ones I buy wouldn't fit any of the windows we have anyway. I convince myself that paying 50 euros for a pair of curtains that should have been 120 euros is OK as one day we will move to a house where they will fit perfectly. This has never happened although I have cut some of the larger ones up to make curtains for smaller windows with limited success. I also own seven bricklaying trowels, and five stanley knives for some reason.

For my favourite pub 'pain game', all you need is a beer mat. Bring the ends of the thumb and index finger of your left hand together to form a circle, then balance the beer mat on this 'circle'. Now form a fist with the other hand, with the little finger extended. Next plunge the rigid little finger through the beer mat. Easy, if you don't think about it, (beer helps this process) and you know the technique.

My fridge is evidently the antithesis of Boudicca's, containing, at the present time: 3 fat duck breasts, 2 jars of duck fat (essential for S.W. French cuisine), 3 different varieties of camembert, one of which smelt so disgusting that it was temporarily relocated to the overspill fridge in the boiler room, goats cheese, ancient capers, anchovies, a wilted lettuce, half a green pepper and 2 red peppers (also wilted), spring onions, 30 out of date eggs, 3 litres milk (full fat), Dijon mustard, Creme Framboise (raspberry liqueur used for making Kir Royale), lardons, Strasbourg sausages (sort of hot dogs), ham, butter, creme fraiche and homemade jam. Just need lashings of red wine to counteract it all I suppose.

Better than a golf ball. regards, Hein Or a club foot.

Horses make bad backseat drivers.

Possibly, but then again Vinegar Tits might be a professional tennis player. Her Avatar certainly looks like one.

I think you'll find a Yam is a vegetable. So if it's green grocer films you're after... Attack of the killer potatoes The king Edward and I Citizen Kale Dr Who and the turnips Blade Runnerbean The Gourdfather The Germinator (?) Broken Marrow and books... War and Peas Tomato a mockingbird Damn, I thought I could slip that one in without anyone noticing . Should've know better. By the way I think you'll find that, botanically speaking, a tomato is a fruit.

OK six, I'll play. Howabout a fruit stall film club (does a fruit stall holder have a special name, like greengrocer - fruitier?). You could have: Star fruit wars - Revenge of the pith Captain Corelli's mandarin Planet of the grapes Lord of the pineapple rings Silence of the yams The grape escape I could go on, but perhaps I'd better not.