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October 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
[boring but true update]
It’s arrived! Hooray!
The shoe setting only washes trainers though. I hoped it would revitalise and shine my old brogues. Boo!
[also]
F*ck me, I went on some didn’t I?
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No wonder British journalism is in a state. Our only awards kicked off in the 70’s and look frankly sh*t anyway. Where’s our Pulitzer?
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I have to go and buy a new standpipe because I smashed the last one wrestling the washer out. Ah well..
[also]
Anorak’s Greatest Wednesday.
[My mood today: playful]
October 8th, 2008 at 12:20 am
This guns for hire- Springsteen
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg
Really to bed now…
October 8th, 2008 at 12:20 am
A Good Washer.(dryer that is)
October 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
A Good Washer.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:18 am
magnetite, a washing machine with a shoe washing programm, now that’s smart
sleep well, enjoyed reading your posts.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am
All Good Words!
October 8th, 2008 at 12:15 am
I leave you all to do what you do best…unravel the weasel words of the press and shine light in the dark corners where it’s needed. My mood wasn’t great tonight, but you allowed me my spouting with grace - all of you. I deal in the inconsequential for the most part, and envy your gravitas and vision sometimes. I’ve got a new washer/dryer coming tomorrow (whee! it has a shoe-washing programme, how about that?) so I’ve got to go and wrestle the old one out of its hole in preparation and put it out for the cleansing dept. to pick up. It’s about time I flexed muscles I can actually use effectively, the grey one in my noggin is atrophied somewhat.
Thanks for putting up with my sh*t - and thank you all for being you. I’ll try to be funny when I next come back, I promise. At the very least, I’ll try and keep my big trap shut.
[A man, a plan, a canal. Palinama! Nope, still doesn't work]
October 8th, 2008 at 12:14 am
spelled it wrong chenier, osyth. never heard of her myself either. good night
October 8th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Or William de Worde.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:11 am
St Oysnth?
I’m glad to hear it; clearly I should raise a glass in the direction of him/her as I say goodnight.
Take care, everyone…
October 8th, 2008 at 12:10 am
magnetite Says:
October 7th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
We may yet return to the one-man, one -printing press operations often seen in westerns being intimidated by the mustachioed cattle baron, chenier - if things go t*ts-up. Twasn’t feeble though. I’m slow on the uptake in general, and escpecially tonight.
Saul, I lament that too. Technology and its affect on the attention span of the masses has worn real journalism down to a nub. I hope there is still life in it. Perhaps we would find out if there is when we need the real reporters. Sadly it may be after the event, and we’ll need town criers again to tell their stories. I’m up for the post of ‘man with still in the woods’ come the fall of civvylisation. Probably village idiot too - 70% proof illegal hooch does that to a body.
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Jack Elam for Editor of the Dodge City Times.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:06 am
it isn’t, i just looked, it’s st oysnth.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:03 am
magnetite Says:
October 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice one Saul I’ve been trying to work Palin’s name into a palindrome for weeks now, but she’s no Panama canal.
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Lanac amanap?
You are right.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
B*gger!
I hadn’t realised it was St Crispin’s Day…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
sam, yes! Shame they need electricity, coimputers and phone lines though.
chenier, here’s hoping…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
To para phrase…….. we few,we happy few, we band of posters.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice one Saul
I’ve been trying to work Palin’s name into a palindrome for weeks now, but she’s no Panama canal.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I had assumed that the creeping tabloidisation of reporting that we saw par excellence in the McCann case, where the broadsheets showed little or no better standards than the gutter press, was irreversible.
I suppose it is possible that we will see some worthwhile journalism on the financial meltdown…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
oops, misunderstood you there, sam. Empowerment. I’m all for it, while we are still capable. The US constitution seems merely a piece of paper behind glass now. Our own politicos do their best to keep us hooded like a kestrel that they never wish to soar. We can do it, all of us, if we must. I just hope that we don’t have to. The world shouldn’t have had to come to such a pass that it requires the efforts of the populace to enlighten one another about troubles that race toward us. We’re a kick in the behind off a peasant’s revolt then - but just whom can we revolt against?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
perhaps so magetite. the one man one printing thing, that’s similar to blogs if not the same thing really.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era……….
Now there is a Palindrome for your front page.
M&A
Artemis
Cool.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
sam, I think the best shine in those situations. Our way of live is too coddled to need (or receive) real reporting half the time. It’s the white cider of the masses in general now.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
We may yet return to the one-man, one -printing press operations often seen in westerns being intimidated by the mustachioed cattle baron, chenier - if things go t*ts-up. Twasn’t feeble though. I’m slow on the uptake in general, and escpecially tonight.
Saul, I lament that too. Technology and its affect on the attention span of the masses has worn real journalism down to a nub. I hope there is still life in it. Perhaps we would find out if there is when we need the real reporters. Sadly it may be after the event, and we’ll need town criers again to tell their stories. I’m up for the post of ‘man with still in the woods’ come the fall of civvylisation. Probably village idiot too - 70% proof illegal hooch does that to a body.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
magnatite, don’t you think though that situations make such great reporters, that they exisit in areas of geat wrongs or opressions ?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Magnetite,
it was a rather feeble attempt at highlighting the incongruity of the US holding Chinese Muslims in Cuba- remember the war on terror?- at a time when we are looking at damage generated by the same hubris which took us into Iraq, which may have more lasting consequences than even that great debacle.
At times like these the prospects of Sarah standing a heartbeat from the Presidency does not inspire…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Ah, but unfortunately the hack living as homeless and the masqueraders of Doctors, or even the receivers of Lap Dancing, have either a film crew or hidden cameras behind them. That is why I question their motives. Is it for the public good? Tittilation? or just plain money making?
Where are the Thunderers of today?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I think I may have overclocked the computer above my own eyebrows tonight. There’s an odd smell of burning coming from nowhere in particular. I do hope I haven’t offended anyone. I didn’t wake from a nightmare to create another.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
to be honest i don’t understand the analogy magnatite, i know what overclocking is though.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I compare no-one to the spineless hacks operating intoday’s press, Saul - not even the gifted amateur. I speak of the people who would live as a homeless person for weeks, months; to get a story on their plight. Those who would masquerade as a doctor to reveal shoddy parctices or staff overworked to danger point. Those who would go into the heart of gangland with only a web of artifice, boldness and the need to get the story as their protection and encouragement.
Chenier, It’s all woodwork above my eyebrows. I’ll have to have a look at that and come back…and then still likely need it explaining to me.
To draw an analogy from my own life about citizen journalism.
I can fix, build and maintain computers and the software that runs them. I have some programming skill. My own machine operates at about 3 times the level of what the designers and manufacturers intended, thanks to my small skills. I couldn’t hope to set up, maintain and improve a huge server network though. That’s for professionals. Poor analogy?
October 7th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Have you seen the picture Rocket Scientist Pigeon put up in the forums?
I thought it summed the whole thing up…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
chenier, that would do nicely i’m sure.