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  4. Posted

    [quote user="djc"][quote user="Bore Bore Bor"]

    As my "name your favourite Norwich player whose name rhymned with an item of food or drink" thread was so successful, I thought that every Wednesday I could do a cryptic riddle about a Norwich player past or present and we could see which of you geniuses (geniii?) can solve it first to win some virtual fortune and glory.

     

    Here goes my first one.

     

    A male footballer - or was he?

     

    Good luck to all of you.

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    Hugh Gizzafook?

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    Wrong, wrong, wrong.

     

  5. Posted

    [quote user="PurpleCanary"][quote user="Bore Bore Bor"][quote user="PurpleCanary"][quote user="Bore Bore Bor"]

    As my "name your favourite Norwich player whose name rhymned with an item of food or drink" thread was so successful, I thought that every Wednesday I could do a cryptic riddle about a Norwich player past or present and we could see which of you geniuses (geniii?) can solve it first to win some virtual fortune and glory.

     

    Here goes my first one.

     

    A male footballer - or was he?

     

    Good luck to all of you.

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    Oh, I think I know this one. Is it Germaine Greer?

     

     

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    Dear oh dear.

    Germaine Greer was author of the female eunuch, but she never pulled on the yellow and green (unless in a David Mellor-style capacity which we could all do without.) 

     

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    Dear oh dear, what a chump I am! of course I meant that other Australian, Shirley Abicair, with her zither. Sure she was an unused sub in a Texaco Trophy game somewhere north of Hadrian''s Wall back in that decade after the sixties.

     

    PS. LOVE the double tautologies in this thread''s headline, BBB. One love but two tautologies!

     

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    Oh for goodness'' sakes and the love of Christ Almighty.

     

    Look.

     

    A male footballer - or was he?

     

    "He" clearly implies we are talking about someone male.

     

    What''s the use of being able to spot a tautology if you can''t tell the birds from the bees?

     

    Think cryptically and in terms of a riddle.  The world and his wifelets are watching.

  6. Posted

    [quote user="PurpleCanary"][quote user="Bore Bore Bor"]

    As my "name your favourite Norwich player whose name rhymned with an item of food or drink" thread was so successful, I thought that every Wednesday I could do a cryptic riddle about a Norwich player past or present and we could see which of you geniuses (geniii?) can solve it first to win some virtual fortune and glory.

     

    Here goes my first one.

     

    A male footballer - or was he?

     

    Good luck to all of you.

    [/quote]

     

    Oh, I think I know this one. Is it Germaine Greer?

     

     

    [/quote]

    Dear oh dear.

    Germaine Greer was author of the female eunuch, but she never pulled on the yellow and green (unless in a David Mellor-style capacity which we could all do without.) 

     

  8. Posted

    As my "name your favourite Norwich player whose name rhymned with an item of food or drink" thread was so successful, I thought that every Wednesday I could do a cryptic riddle about a Norwich player past or present and we could see which of you geniuses (geniii?) can solve it first to win some virtual fortune and glory.

     

    Here goes my first one.

     

    A male footballer - or was he?

     

    Good luck to all of you.

  10. Posted

    It is clear to me that Paul Lambert is aiming to emulate the achievements of the team in that wonderful film "Escape to Victory", by signing a few quality Premiership rejects to fit around a squad of untried untested and somewhat callow journeymen who could easily (sixty or so years ago) have found themselves in the hell of a Nazi prison camp with nothing but a pig''s bladder to kick around.  And we all know how "Escape to Victory" finished, even if that goalie really did take one for the team.  Perhaps Frasier Forster will be our Sylvester Stallone this season.

     

  14. Posted

    [quote user="First Wizard"][quote user="Bore Bore Bor"][quote user="First Wizard"]

    Its just some loser from the PU?.. pretending to be me okay?

     

    Just be advised...

     

    Ta.

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    That sounds rather harsh to me.  Everyone has a dream, and perhaps someone''s dream is to be you.  I don''t see it as any different to someone posting as Darren Huckerby, for example, or Jimmy Neigbour for us older bors.

     

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    If some tragic wanabe wants to be me fine, but he forgot that the people he slagged off using my name are mates and now are aware of his antics.

     

    Stupid boy.

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    I can sympathise as I''ve had the same thing done to me on occasion.  I often post on a classical music website where I have fairly strong views on the relative merits of Wagner, Mahler, Brahms etc.  Anyhow, a few months ago another user decided to pass themselves off as me and made some odd statements that involved my alleged interest in playing something called "the pink oboe".  Can''t say I understood it but I complained, they were banned and it all worked out well in the end etc etc.  I notice on the Y''Army forum that everybody is called Keith Briggs, or is it just one schizophrenic posting to himself?

  15. Posted

    [quote user="First Wizard"]

    Its just some loser from the PU?.. pretending to be me okay?

     

    Just be advised...

     

    Ta.

    [/quote]

    That sounds rather harsh to me.  Everyone has a dream, and perhaps someone''s dream is to be you.  I don''t see it as any different to someone posting as Darren Huckerby, for example, or Jimmy Neigbour for us older bors.

     

  16. Posted

    [quote user="BlyBlyBabes"]This would appear to be Lambert''s squad building strategy. Interesting approach if so - building the team around the striker options available rather than midfield/defence. A German inspired approach? Of course, it could all just be coincidence. What do you reckon? OTBC[/quote]

    Never mind that.  It seems that while it''s all quiet on the western front we should be looking over our shoulders at the opportunities in the east.  India, Pakistan, China - billions of people with untapped potential - and think of the shirt sales if it worked out.  Chong, Chang, Chung, Singh... ker-ching!

     

  17. Posted

    Well, I typed in "St. Kitts" and got the following so something clearly isn''t working correctly or perhaps there''s a Bermuda near Coventry, either way this is not correct as I''m clearly City till I die, and City when I''m high. 

    I do sometimes go to watch St. Kitts play football but the standard''s very poor.  Too much grass on the pitch for one thing.

     

    1. Coventry City (4.2 m)
    Ricoh Arena

    2. Leicester City (16.0 m)
    Walkers Stadium

    3. Birmingham City (16.8 m)
    St Andrews

    4. Aston Villa (17.3 m)
    Villa Park

    5. West Bromwich Albion (20.7 m)
    The Hawthorns

    6. Walsall (22.1 m)
    Banks''s

    7. Burton Albion (22.7 m)
    Pirelli Stadium

    8. Derby County (28.2 m)
    Pride Park Stadium

    9. Wolverhampton Wanderers (28.2 m)
    Molineux

    10. Northampton Town (29.5 m)
    Sixfields Stadium

  18. Posted

    No, not literally the stars although on a clear night like last night here on the cusp of the equator I could sit back in my hammock with my Sailor''s Rum in hand and gaze up at Orion and the Plough.  I''m talking specifically about astrology.  I have analyzed the Norwich City squad and note that of the first team regulars we have four Leos, three Arians (or Arieses if you are unintelligent) and six Saggitariai (Saggitariusses, if you will).

     

    And our inspirational leader - a Leo too.  Whereas we only have two Water signs (Pisceans) and a few Air and Earth signs, the overwhelming characteristic of the squad is FIRE.  To a water sign like myself (Moon in Pisces, Sun in Cancer, rings around Uranus) it''s baffling but delightful.

     

    Is it the Fire signs, with aggression and leadership, the fire in their bellies and hearts, who are instrumental in leading us to the promised land?  Will this last when the pressure grows, as surely it will when the world and his wife are watching their every step?  Is our success perhaps written in the stars after all?

     

    What do you think?  Do you even believe in Astrology?  Is Russell Grant still on television over there in the UK?  Would he have done a better job than Peter Grant?  Share your thoughts here.

     

    Be good to one another.

     

    ♥

  19. Posted

    I have mixed feelings about Benni McCarthy.  Yes he was a little cheeky scamp with those boyish good looks, but Neil Lennon wrote the better songs and Gerry Harrison was arguably more interesting.  If they''d kept Leon Best on drums, who knows?

     

    Still, let''s hope our yellow submarine doesn''t sink out of the Premiership this season as we don''t want to go back to playing the Blue Meanies.

     

    All you need is love, and a few million quid.

  21. Posted

    [quote user="Thecanaryfan"]Am hoping to get a night at the Holiday Inn when Im back in England in Aug, and I plan to do my two favourite things simutaniously during that match. So no perving you lot![/quote]

    Ah, splendid.  I know just what you mean....


    (1) Using the trouser press while

    (2) making a cup of coffee with long life milk

     

    There are few greater thrills to man than that couplet in tandem.  But still, be good to each other.


     

  22. Posted

    [quote user="Thecanaryfan"]Am hoping to get a night at the Holiday Inn when Im back in England in Aug, and I plan to do my two favourite things simutaniously during that match. So no perving you lot![/quote]

    Ah, splendid.  I know just what you mean....


    (1) Using the trouser press while

    (2) making a cup of coffee with long life milk

     

    There are few greater thrills to man than that couplet in tandem.  But still, be good to each other.


     

  23. Posted

    [quote user="alysha"][quote user="TIL 1010"][quote user="alysha"][quote user="TIL 1010"]

    You have heard of Bob Marley i trust Alysha?

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    Of course! Love his music, legend

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    Just checking as you described it as a message as opposed to lyrics.[H]

     

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    very true, wrong choice of word - referred to it as a message in reply to the OP''s thread title, but I should have gave the credit to great man himself [:)]

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    Thank you, you are very kind.  Greatness is as greatness does, as my uncle used to say. 

     

    Still, give thanks and praise to the board and I will feel alright.

     

  24. Posted

    Splendid, splendid.  And all the better because the inner quadrant haven''t arrived to poop on our collective parade. Honourable mentions to Mark "T" Bowen, and the Ian Culver"House special of the day".  What''s a pound of butterworth in the UK these days?  Over here it''s around $4.98 a kilo but that might be the locals having a joke at my expense.

     

    Ah, here comes my home help.  I''ll speak to you all later.

     

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