Scarlet Pimple

Nah IHE that is not my Vauxhall Viva. It's the older version I think. Mine was sleeker I was cleaning it outside my Edinbugh home one Saturday when out steps a Jehovah's Witness American lad form the house across the street. He smiles and says in a loud shout--"You just love that car don't you?". Now I understand what he was really saying was: "Ha! Ha! Ha! All our cars are twice that one's size but to you, who don't know any better, it's your pride and joy, eh?" Yep he was right. My first car in Canada was a very small one which is now the butt of jokes by T V Comedians but the second was a Plymouth boat. OOOH you felt so good driving it , So large, safe and so comfortable. Now I drive a 2002 Chrysler 4 Dr sedan with a 2.7 litre,DOHC V6 engine and it is a smooth ride and so easy to handle. Place it in 3rd gear and you just take off and go like stink. Discs on all 4 wheels. Have only done 134,000Kilometeres. the same as my wife's 1998, 1.6 EL engine, Acura Sport which is also a delight to drive. Excellent brakes and steering and reasonable gas consumption. A mechanic told me that he had heard of that engine doing over 400,000 Kilometres. In North America a man's car is his reason for being alive, literally. That and NFL football and/or Ice Hockey

I mean Christie has the makings of a highly much as the possibility of it flowing from an intent to hurt at all costs. What's the answer to this over-enthusiasm?

Loved the highlights...Mannie! S w e e t ! We seemed to be hanging on at the end with a bit of desperation showing. Ibra- from the highlights he does seem possibly to not yet be fit enough for Mr. J Hughes. Slowish like. Or maybe it's that he may not be frenetic enough? However, I did note that he has a rather deceiving loping style which probably allows him to cover a good dad of ground. Big guy, though. Do you think he will fit in ? Does Mr Collum not think that a wee talking to and a warning may be all that he needs to calm down some players as a FIRST STEP eh?

IBM--I had a Vauxhall Viva SL 90? Do you remember that one IBM? It did 100 MPH and it felt like 150. Scared the pants off me on that day when I travelled from Glasgow to Edinburgh with the foot glued to the floor. But I was young then---ah, such sweet memories. I remember that the overriding feeling I experienced was---if I die today then I don't care........ WOW! What? C'mon! I gave you a "like" for goodness sake!

A really thoughtful post by Caley D. Think he should send it on to what used to be the SFA. Smile. Set the cat amongst the slumbering pigeons, eh? Summer football is a must--at least for a try out. What with T V, and all, nowadays the average fan would probably love to stay at home to watch the matches rather than freezing at a match. Why allow obstacles that may be deleterious to the crowds showing up to still be 9in place. It's not working so----CHANGE IT. At least, I suggest we give it a try.

An online report I read this morning states that in Britain the increase in ticket prices for football has outstripped the accumulated inflation rates since 2011.

Have you noticed that the number of posters on here seems to have diminished considerably over the past few years as well?

In British Columbia the 70 KPH (kilometers) has recently been upgraded to 80 kph--long overdue since everybody who was willing to risk being stopped by the police drove at 80 KPH on the Freeway (the Motorway in the U K). That's really slow for a 3 lane highway--most of the time we tend to do 100Kph and often 120 KPH(75 Miles per hour)..

Chas--my last post was..well...tongue in cheek. The cobblestones no doubt hailed from an earlier and slower age. Charles Dickens-esq.. like. When I was a young 'un some bad men (or Superwoman) lifted up the cobbles in the front yard and buried under them to enter the stables with ill intent. However they could not get through the heavily barred entrance to the shop from the back, so nothing was stolen. Good job for them that they didn't have a swig of the rum stored in the large, wicker-covered glass jars in the stables, though, because they didn't contain rum, but sulphuric ACID! Talking about horses here's a wee story: My dad was a machine gun sergeant at the age of 19 (!) in the trenches of the first world war in France. Later, when I was a small boy, I saw that he could handle horses all right and wondered why. One rainy day, Dan, the man who had a cart and horse selling vegetables came trotting down Dunain Road. The horse slipped on the metal grating in the middle of the street outside our house and fell. He was bleeding from cuts on his front legs but Dan was unable to get him to rise; the horse was willing enough but just couldn't get his feet on the metal road because the cart was still harnessed to him. Poor Dan obviously was frustrated and in dire need of help. Dad saw what was going on and went out of the front door.Without hesitation he got a tarpaulin off the cart and both managed to get it under the horse whereupon he grabbed the horse's head and yanked him up. My eyes were wide open at this stage since Dad was small but had muscular shoulders and arms. All the wee horse needed was an experienced hand, I suppose. In his dugout in Flanders field during the 1st World War Dad's buddy right next to him got a bullet through his forehead. A few inches to the right and SP would not be here. So my being here is all the fault of the German High Command of the day where troops were not properly trained to shoot straight. Or it was cold, wet, misery, fear and a bloodbath all around the shooter that skewed his aim. Or someone in the spirit world wanted you lot to be tormented by S.P. so that you can learn to be nice to the disadvantaged. Shock and awe!

My Dad had his business on Shore Street, Chas. maybe he bought the little cottage beside the shop from your folks. Did it have a cobblestoned entrance through the front large gate and a stables behind? You have missed out Hurdy as well .

Gentlemen ==you should try the inverness Museum. 6 years ago I entered and had: 1. A plate of soup 2. A cup-of tea and a bun 3. and my companion had a cup of tea and a croissant or something similar. Total 6 pounds. This is an eye opener I=CT offers best value for money on and off the field.

Right AJS. Doesn't that apply to all of us? In a sense it's like judging a book by it's cover..

Well, mind you, Mantis does look young for his age, eh Charlie? It must be all that preying that does it? That and genuflecting.

I think Charles is in fact a very clever Westminster spy that has been to Cambridge and Harvard to gain the breadth of thought that will bamboozle us puir wee Heelanders .. Why even the bright and breezy IHE has fallen silent in the face of such a silver tongue.

Tried getting in the door of Scotty's VPN service a while ago but it was fully booked up at that time. I have no doubt that Scotty's VPN comes with a fairly detailed step-by-step process e.g. where the download goes to, do you install it like an other APP?, how you access it and how you link it to, or not to, the standard browsing data as entered in the browser etc.? does the browser thereafter always send out a Proxfree-controlled browsing stream to websites not blocked,etc. VPN's available here are priced too high for a pensioner's income, what with living in an ex-Commonwealth country and all where Expat pensions are never uprated .. If I can get help from Rig then I will do a jig-- to a tune by Runrig. And I am sure we can jury-rig something......... I looked at the Proxfree site Mannie. Interesting but I quickly became aware that it's written on the assumption that everybody who reads it already knows what all the details and references they are talking about (which have not been pre-explained) mean and not for newbies or dummies which is the category I fall into. I do appreciate your input though and will reflect on it. Merci Beaucoup, Monsieur. Mon intention est to allez a Quebec a comprendre le langue Francais meilleur. Corrections invited.

Thank you Charles. So why does the Oxford English Dictionary not feature the word "paralyptic" within it's comprehensive pages I wonder ? However, I am still working on your last explanation. Permit me to tell you that you are a very clever man, with an awesome plethora of platitudes, paraphrases and peccadillos. But most are often rather convoluted and above my station and need re-reading several times for the message to percolate into mah heid. So I regret to advise....."I am still working on it"

That's what his masters are hoping too, I would guess.

So long as it's NOT "Sig Heil"--If I got it right. Shades of WW2.

Jim Hurd--so called because he is the THURD oldest guy on here I think. Jock then SP then Hurdy then Bughtmaster Correct me if I'm wrong? Maybe Mantis is in the mix somewhere but not quite so auld as these lads I don't think. And where IHE fits in , that I don't know. He seems to be ageless?

Always!

So, Eagle for Caley, what is your actual opinion of him then. A top prospect, or just another good and hard working player?

I am still working on Charles's "paralyptic". Is it something to do with paratroopers landing at the Olympics? Or paragliders doing elipses? The Oxford English Dictionary is not helpful on this one which can lead one into a state of paralysis. And that's what you get for the partaking of his comments which are frequently partially this and particularly that but always with pathos. Not being too parsimonious, like, to paraphrase a coin. But I am pleased at the road repairs explanations, all of which makes sense. It looks like it will be a drawn-out affair though? Just a wee aside...I was going up 224 Street in Maple Ridge recently and spotted a gang of workmen crowded round a hole in the sidewalk(pavement). Six of them were looking down and there must have been at least one guy of interest working in the hole. And I realized that Municipal workers/contractors are indeed the same the world over........ no wonder my Property taxes are the second highest in the Province of B.C. and the joke about this has a basis in truth. Same old, same old.

IHE-You mean at halftime ......?