The Pooka

Patience, Clarissa. Sometimes you can sit in a tree for weeks without getting a sighting of a loved one.

Ahh MPFC. I'm down here in deepest Dorset. I seem to recall a fellow called Jimmy Glass living locally. Indeed my friend was managing a football team with Jimmy in it. When I was at the Barbados test match of 2004 he ran up an £800 mobile bill ringing around sorting out the likes of Jimmy. Now what's the Cumbrian connection................ remind me??

Thank you AtJ - its enough to make me weep with nostalgia. Where the hell did my life go................

She's a fine young woman.

Cheers AtJ. PS. Would the great sage have taken 7 months to correct me?

The last few times I've seen her its been dark............ and she was screaming so i'm not really the best judge.

Join the DL Chat Lady CR and you will find out all about them, I think the masterclass on the 'Rampant Rabbit' was 3 weeks ago, the repeat can be seen this coming Sunday at 6.10p.m., coincides with 'Songs of Praise' . As you all must know by now The Pooka is a woman. I'll be there in the Chat Room to listen to your stories girls.

Now I know you're lying.

Crafty cow is already pushing the price up.

I thought that it was on tonight. Have I missed it? Careless Pooka!

In a previous post I said this - If such an attack as 9\11 happens again then it gets serious. The way everything stands right now I don't think there should be a war. The only concern should be preventing acts like this from ever happening again. And if one day another attack is attempted, not only will we be prepared, they will fail. I hope so.

Dammit, man. You and pulphack are living the dream. If you see Whisperin' again, tell him I want a CD of Appletree Theatre.

With the strongest military in the world? I don't think so. With an army that strong you'll soon suppress a fith division nation like Iraq then and you'll hardly lose a soldier. Oh and you'll flush out Osama in a jiffy, won't you. What the hell did you learn from Vietnam? And while your military is chasing mosquitos in the middle east are those neurotoxins I smell in the subway? I see what your trying to compare, but this isn't Vietnam. They showed up at are front door, and it was done in one of the most horrific ways possible. America walked into Vietnam, I guess at that time there was very little consideration of the consequences. You just might be right when you say, destruction can be done when you aren't keeping an eye, but unlike Vietnam we were attacked and for this I don't see much of a choice besides retaliating. Its frustrating BS but with terrorism you can be powerful but powerless. Retaliation feels right but who is the target and where are they? I sympathise but sooner or later your people will have to speak to theirs (or someone close to them). And I suspect that a few wounds are going to have to heal first.

With the strongest military in the world? I don't think so. With an army that strong you'll soon suppress a fith division nation like Iraq then and you'll hardly lose a soldier. Oh and you'll flush out Osama in a jiffy, won't you. What the hell did you learn from Vietnam? And while your military is chasing mosquitos in the middle east are those neurotoxins I smell in the subway?

I disagree. We aren't Japan, this is the United States. They step off our f****n porch once we bomb them, because in the end we are better. War is horrible, i'm against the draft, and those who are involved enlist. Sometimes it is the only conclution, to stop those who have no remorse in there bodies. We will have the last word. Or die trying?

Tony Blair doesn't f****n live in New York, who cares what he says. I hate to say it, but you can't let people from other countries hijack planes and crash them into buildings with thousands of people. This means war. The next time we are struck with terrorism this will mean nuclear war. Wipe those foreign mother f***kers off the face of the earth. And for those who don't like us, it will be an influence, it will set an example. Neither Blair, nor I nor most of us here live in New York. But we do recall that when the IRA were blowing up our cities their biggest source of income came from collections and parades in good old NYC. It took 9/11 to wake the USA up to what terrorism really means. I fully appreciate how angry acts such as the Twin Towers and Omagh (and Omaha) can make us. There are times I'd love to have seen Gerry Adams have his head chopped off but that's a visceral not a rational reaction. Ultimately terrorism works because not only is it not susceptible to conventional war, it actually thrives and grows because of it. And no I don't know the answer but I do know that nuking Iraq (or wherever else) will lead eventually to more atrocities on our doorsteps.

Hmmm. Family perchance, Mr P? The style certainly seems familiar AtJ but the nom de plume lacks subtlety.

I love a woman with spunk. ...prefer 'em with gravy.

You know, I've also often wondered if he would martyr himself, therefore ensuring enduring almost-deification. Then I follow that wonder with the thought that he's too egomaniacal to kill himself. I don't know that he's dead, though. I would like to think it, but I just don't know. Boy, I'm of two minds about this whole Bin Laden thing. I'm afraid that were he to die as prescribed by Banshee's Scream it would only help his cause. better that he linger on as a physical wreck before fading out in some superheated Afghan old folk's cave.

I believe, by his own admission, he was a smoker who drank ........... or drinker that smoked. Membership of the James Gang was, in itself, a risk though it was Jesse what took the bullets.

Attaboy, Clarissa. I have two daughters ......... both called Tessa. My son, Wyatt, would prefer them to have more distinctive names. Thank you for adopting paragraphs - I like to have a gless of wine (Australian, of course) between paras and I was going into DTs waiting for you to take a breather. Keep posting. It can get dull waiting to see who will get triumphal over whichever centenarian coelecanth is next to pop his clogs.

I wouldn't kill him, I'd dress him in a fluffy yellow chick costume and make him perform to the Birdie Song on prime time TV. Possibly followed by Agadoo with all the correct actions, that should nicely destroy his credibility. TF- You obviously haven't checked all the rules for how we can treat terrorists. We musn't do anything to embarrass him. All of this points to the big problem of picking someone like Osama. He could very well die without a verifiable corpse. Somehow I have trouble following what you are saying, since Osama would be very easy to identify, since he is known to be at a very large height, and the beard probably relates to his religion. Like a true hipi, the basterd wouldn't cut it if you paid him, and since most of his eleven or however number of wives he has, are about nine years old, he would stand out better then a man dressed as a woman. Your wrong Deadsox, I would certainly want to embarrass the sh*t out of him, just as I would want to embarrass all the towel heads who think he is a hero, hell I would air his death on pay per view. I don't know if you're right about him being easy to identify, BS. I think that I was standing near to him at Highbury last week watching Arsenal play soccer. A few of us suspected that it was him but we were reluctant to challenge him - he looked just like any other lanky middle Eastern gent. If only there had been a reward I guess one of of us would have turned him in. We turned to cheer a goal and when we settled down........... he had gone. I suppose we'll never know now - but one thing I'm sure of is that he ain't in Pakistan and he didn't die in July.

Thank you for the vote of confidence, Madame. Who is LCD? Anyway I hope that my avowed interest is seen as little more than a whimsical fancy taken to its extreme for amusement - mainly my own. Clarissa and Am I dead Yet seem to be altogether more serious in their R O'S obsession. But, as MPFC says, Lady C embodies the unpredictability that makes this site and this thread attractive. This is a site dedicated to death and its prediction. It will inevitably attract the esoteric, the strange and the unconventional and it should welcome them - even if they don't seem able to use paragraphs. To be honest the only thing that chills me to the marrow on this site is the thought that one of its moderators has a senior position in the Boys' Brigade.

Ya think?? I didn't think anyone would notice....can you please explain "Real Madrid" and "Hartlepool United"? Not being English, I don't actually know what they mean...I bet if you were to tell us all your deep-seated feelings for La Wyatt, someone would think you were certifiable too..ha ha!! BTW, anyone who read my last post - Re "Au Pair Girls"- sorry, I meant "Gabrielle", not "Danielle" - both French names and I got them mixed up! These days he'd have more chance of appearing with Charlie Drake than Gabrielle Drake. Though I believe from the Brinsworth House thread that our Charlie sees himself as more of a Pirandello man these days.

As for "Mine is the best room in the house" - ha! It was a shoebox! Class. I suspect that after 50 years of rooming in budget B&B, Brinsworth seems like Claridges. The cameraman must have filmed through the window.