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Raith Rovers to win @ 1.5 please.

Ayr at 1.72 please

According to the commentry on Setanta, Rooney has a buy back clause in his contract. I cannot remember hearing this mentioned elsewhere, do you think it's true. Graham

Cowdenbeath win for me at 1.9. Ta, Graham

Cowdenbeath (win) for me at 1.57 please

Personally as a recovering alcoholic, I have to watch myself not just as far as alcohol is concerned but also my pre disposition to become addicted to things. I have seen and heard of many addicts who have beaten one addiction only for it to transfer to something else. I wish Pele all the best in beating his gambling addiction. Graham

"How does the motorpoint thing work then?" If you get say ?10 worth of clubcard vouchers sent to you a quarter then if you change them to deals vouchers you get 4x value thats ?40 in motorpoint vouchers (motorpoint is a national car supermarket). Now, it's possible to buy things that are on promo and get much more ? in car vouchers than you paid for items you bought. Rather than go into it in depth in here all I will say is over a year of collecting I spent about ?1500 on stuff in Tesco (mostly toiletrys ie shower gel, shampoo, deodrant, some baby products, confetti, garlic tablets) and got ?4000 towards my car. I got a ?5000 car. (So I paid ?1000 and used the ?4000 vouchers) so got car half price. But even better than that our family will not need to buy shampoo, deodrant, shower gel etc for the next couple of years, I have a mega stockpile, so I will be saving probably about a ?1000 in time... So car cost me ?1.5k in effect less than 33% of screen price.. If you want to know more google the phrase "paid to shop" and you will find a forum full of folk who are making the most of Tesco's vouchers. Car is a 55 plate mazda6 2L TS with 40k on. Macrae and Dick want ?6500 for same car.

Me I've gone back to a petrol taxi. I'm seeing too many expensive problems with modern common rail diesel technology.. Whilst my fuel costs will be up it's a hell of a lot easier to find another say ?7 a shift than have to find a grand everytime to replace a turbo, injectors, intercooler, lift pump etc. Also it's a running cost and tax deductable that cuts the difference even more. These new fangled diesel cars engines seem to need major work well before 100k. Bring back the old engines Primera R reg TD 210k head never off original everything, Passat tdi W reg 180k same.. Graham Besides I bought my new cab with a little cash and loads of nice tesco motorpoint clubcard vouchers. Thanks Mr Tesco!!

Stenhousemuir please.

Depends on car, some diesel engines are more tollerant to cooking oil than others. To do it properly with a modern diesel you need a conversion kit (try ebay) the cooking oil needs pre-heated so it's not too viscus. Some folk like have ran old diesel cars/vans on a mix of cooking oil and derv sucessfully. However I was always aware that it could cause problems. I only did it is summer in a old derv car that was only worth ?300 or so, I bought the oil new from Tesco (last summer it was half the price of derv a litre) however I didn't do it this summer cos it went up to the same price as derv. Locally. Inverness College Forestry Department, have recently invested in a machine that filters (cleans up) used oil and ads chemicals to turn it into bioderv, they have a plentiful supply of used oil from the college canteen. They have had their trucks/landys modified to run on it. Also I have heard that a female cabbie in Aberdeen has invested in the same technology. I think I heard she offering advertising on side of cab (free for a local chip shop) in return for their used chip shop oil. Graham

Remembered this week!! Peterhead please. Thanks, Graham

Ayr for me at 1.61 please.

I concur hope we have Barrowman and Rooney on bench? Graham

Chrissie Hynde

Raith @ 1.53 please.

Smee - I know Rainbow Rob's place very well...i have fond memories of when i was weekly paid, just out of school...and blowing my cash in Tors & Robs place...can rememer the name either. I still have all my old punk/new wave stuff i bought from their as well...happy days I wonder was it called. Undercover Records?? Graham

Rob Ellen (the Promotor) had a short lived record library in the wee lane that ran between John Menzies and the Job Centre. I was still in Millburn so that must be 20 or so years ago. Graham

Yes I remember it too, but cannot remember it's name where The Lemon Tree is. There was also another short lived one in the market behind the model shop in the left had corner. Graham

"I helped organise the IQ gig at Eden Court in 1984. It was a great gig but I lost a fair bit of money in the process. Did you hear their album: "Tales from the lush attic". I think I may have seen Pallas at the Ice rink but I ndidn't manage to see Marillion. Have you heard of Pendragon?" In the late 80's my mate Robert and I run the Uk's premier prog rock fanzine. Covering such acts as IQ, Jadis, Ark, Galahad and Pendragon. We used to go down to London pretty regularly using our student discount cards, blag a floor to sleep on, free food and drink and hang around the edge of the spotlight ark. Last time I saw Pendragon was headlining the Stoke Prog Festival in about 91 A throwback to these days is that my 7 year old daughter Eloise (yes after Dammed! song) has the middle name Jadis (after the IQ spin off band). Graham

This is a waste of court time!. Obviously the Bobbys were not ICT fans! I would have thought all that needed to be done was a soliciters letter to the PF pleading guilty (but pointing that Marius couldn't accept fixed penalty as he has a non uk licence) He would then just have got a token fine and case would not have gone to court. It's not like he can't afford it! Graham

Cannot believe Aberdeens finest prog act Pallas have not been mentioned, surely they played Inverness. IQ certainly did and so did Marillion in 82 and my old mates Comedy of Errors played the Hayloft. Graham Yes this sad old prog head was at the Fish gig last year and it was great to get the whole of Clutching at Straws. nostalga!

Ayr @ 1.66 please. Thanks.

Hope you didn't lose your shirt on this?? , glad I just dipped a toe on this one! Graham

Glad you had a good day at the bookies today clacher. I had a ok day, but would have done a lot better if I hadn't layed ICT !!

Ok so they messed up in the intertoto.. and had a rubbish pre season. But by all accounts they did play better today. Their problem is they have raked in the cash by selling their best young players but they have been reluctant to put money back in to strengthen the squad. Mixu is a ok manager, I'd far rather him than Brew. Graham