Scarlet Pimple

Handsome? HANDSOME? Maybe it's the ransom or maybe it's the fee? Whatever it is, it's far too much for me. But, in reality, handsome is as handsome does and that's good enough for me. And that's duff gen 'cos I got it in my ear from a very handsome flea.

Maple Ridge British Columbia in name and spirit only I am afraid. Unless some generous soul tells me where I can find a video streamer online.......???????? I am a stay at home Grandpa while the wife is gallivanting in London, Englandshire. Her first holiday in donkey's years, so I gracefully submitted. I know one thing, she is deffo going to come back completely broke and maybe even overspent as well., bejabbers. Still I understand the museums are free. My granddaughter went with a pal for three weeks to London and Europe and had to terminate the holiday because she ran out of cash. The airline charged her extra for the cafuffle and she is only a young woman with hardly a dime to her name. She reported that any meal costs on average 15 pounds, or about $26 Canadian currency, in London?

After a few drinks IHE would only think it was the STARRY ISLE.Hoch. Hoch. But that's the place where my Dad traded his Austin 8 all right. And, Chas, you are right -- the Dyeworks was very close to the traffic lights at the end of Kenneth Street. So that street was called Young Street, eh? My,My! The memory is fading. Have to go back to my Senna Pods, my Aspirin,. then my Arthrotec pills, then my Celebrex which I don't suggest you touch with a bargepole, my DecloFenac, my Steroids, my Omega 3's and finish up with my DuoTrav and my Azoft , the latter to keep the eye pressures from being twice as high as they should be so I can see the labels on the aforesaid bottles. And, depending on the results of the upcoming annual examination from Doctor Doolittle, if he encounters internal polyps with his examination progressing up the passageways of the Nile then it's back to Statins I am afraid.

Brewster probably quite an honest guy who probably just lacked management flair. Not an ebullient, very self-confident, inspirational manager I would suggest and limited ability to react to pending disaster with speed, intense insights and perhaps not so good man management capabilities. More dour-ish than the opposite. Butcher -- Thinks he had it all when all he had was exotic flair, a bad temper set alight by behaviour by others that he felt reduced his chances of being the King of Soccer on Earth , Mars and Saturn. Liked the limelight until the lime burnt out of the flame -- and then apparently set himself loyalty and morality and the interest of anything and anybody else to secure his own salvation.. Ended by betraying the best thing since sliced bread that had happened to him since his early playing days when he got his first start in footie.---ICT. Proved to be a &#$#$****%&ing dingbat, nest-feathering SOB-(Singularly Offal Bloke) who even yet makes me shudder in horror at how easily we were taken in by the pseudo success of a person who was as true a con-man if we ever saw one. Apart from that, Scarlet disliked him. When asked pointedly by Daddy Pimpernell why, he replied ..."Daddy, let's just leave sleeping dogs lie. Just look up "offal" in the Oxford English Dictionary."

And thank you for that IBM--you are an ossifer and a gentleman egad.

I remember my Father remarking after he traded the Austin 8 that the sales person mumbled-- something to the effect of "You are a hard man to do business with Mr SP, you strike a hard bargoon." ' And here I thought it was only Scotsmen that proverbially were "cheap" 'cos faither was an Englishman.

Wasn't Rossleigh's near the Fairfied Dyeworks? If so that was where Daddy bought his Ford Perfect....YES!!!!

Has anyone got a picture of "George" --the owner of the wee general store very close to the bottom of Lochalsh Road on the other side of Telford Street. It was called "Georgies".?

On the way to Thurso?

Jim Furd - can I please continue to josh C.B? He sets himself up so beautifully that for me it's like doing the doing the Highland Fling.

P>S> You could be right about Harper--after the next election in October you probably won't hear much about him anyway.

TUT.Tut, Charlie. Re post # 243. Behave yourself. As I said before, which apparently you have missed, you should take anything old Scarlet says with a pinch of salt. By the by, eh em not a colonial. I was born before long before you were in Inverness and only left when HMG forced me to spend two long years in National Service uniform at the colossal wage of 7 guineas a fortnight. And what do you know about Canadian politics? As a "stay-at-home -pontificator" you doubtless think Stephen Harper is a harbor seal (Harper variety) from Nova Scotia.

Not to add fuel to the fire but this page of the newspaper has some very interesting ,apparently neutral, comments on the affair. Unless the SFA officials /management have skins as thick as large Valencia oranges this should shake them to their foundations. Take your pick of these articles. especially the main one on the left side. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/sports-hotline-meekingsgate--fans-left-5576069

So he can carry the triumphal ICT banner into the stadium like a gladiator of old in Ancient Rome. Now that WOULD cause a stir.

Got it wrong this time you old fort. That comment should read Fudd PERFECT. But when I was a boy that first word was naughty, so.....

Maybe he has had enough of the limelight at this point anyway and a change is as good as a rest. Need him to be both physically and mentally fit for the Final.

IBM Can you get a photo of a Ford Prefect. After my Dad traded the Austin 8 for a Ford Prefect I was impressed because it seemed to signal we were moving up a notch in society. Ours was light green. All I can remember was that it was cute little car and probably a bit more modern than the Austin 8 which had a gear shlft. Maybe the Prefect has synchromesh by then.????

Mr Camero n and Mr Millisecond I take it?

Sounds awfully good to me Why not phone Step'n Fetch-it from American T V 'cos it's likely his service will be unequalled.

Egalitarian to a fault IHE . I commendeth thee on thy noble outlook.

But Laurence had a life then.....

Yes! Yes! but Ronny Deila showed his class afterwards and swallowed his gall with aplomb.

Roll on Hampden on the 30 May. ..AND the huge cheer as Josh Meekings runs out onto the park...............

Have to commend you, Charles, on the extent of your English vocabulary but remember, dear lad, brevity is the soul of wit. And that is why I am on here--like IHE- - to relax, to get Information and to josh and jostle -- to match the three R's" of the Academy. So remember the poor old owl who could not get a girlfriend and his friends called him a twit. But it wasn't him, it was just the fact that he didn't have twit to woo.

It's just another reason why goal line cameras are a much needed adjunct to the way in which questionable incidents are handled to allow football to measure up to the excellent, stringent standards applicable in the very fast National Hockey League in North America. They use a camera above and to the sides of the goal line so dubiety is rarely if ever an issue. The refs are also in direct contact with the NHL supervisors in Toronto by direct telephone line for a decision on what the outcome is on any contested goal. That takes the onus off the refs on the ice, everybody is satisfied and, once the decision is rendered, the matter is done and dusted within a minute or so. No further appeals are needed or made and that's the end of it. On with the game. Fantastic system and everybody in the kingdom can see the camera angles and so forth immediately. That's the electronic age for you and isn't it time that Scottish football introduced cameras?