Charles Bannerman

I prefer not to discuss issues on this board on which I am currently reporting but I do realise that this is a matter of concern to Caley Thistle fans. I have spoken to Graeme Bennett on this one so, if you are in the Highlands and Islands area, tune into BBC Scotland's Highland bulletins on 92-95FM at 0750 or if elsewhere, catch it on the internet afterwards. Tomorrow's BBC sport bulletin also includes a ray of hope for Clach and I've been running a mile at the Caledonian Stadium with Chappers and Dave, Dougie Imrie and Ian Black.

Not if you insist on attending functions like the Clach dinner last night! :003: (Just as well the Clach game was postponed today so you at least had to miss out on the Grant Street pre match lunch and legendary half time tea, eh?!) :015:

As a recipient and user of Ian's stats since 1994, I have to say that they are absolutely superb and he is excellent at keeping the media informed of landmarks etc. He even identified when the 2 millionth league spectator arrived. He is also doing a similarly sterling job with Clach now.

I hear that there have been discussions about a Lanarkshire merger. They're going to call the team Buckie Thistle. :015:

Can anyone remember how many of Jags' 3 goals without reply from Caley in the 1988 Qualifying Cup Final replay at Telford Street were scored into the Howden End? :015:

Was it not 20 years ago that, post Bradford, wooden stands of over 500 had to be looked at very critically indeed? I remember that about 1988, Jock McDonald had the ideal solution to that difficulty at Kingsmills... they had the back of the stand boarded up to reduce its capacity to below 500!

... that one's from the front page of the Star and is probably the pick of today's headlines. I just can't get over the fuss about the ginger Royal being away with the troops against the Taliban! Predictably there were NINE pages in the Sun today about him out with OUR BOYS but everyone else seems to be going crazy about it as well.... to the extent that he'as now coming home in case he gets shot. I think Customs had better fleece him at the airport... no, not for a pocketful of poppies but just in case he's tried to smuggle back that machine gun that he was blasting away at the Taliban with. I notice that he couldn't use it properly and had to get somebody to help him but he could still be a bit of a liability if he takes it along next time he goes on a bender. Ironic, though, isn't it. A bunch of Islaamic extremists head to head with Britain's most notorious p!sshead (a title he inherited on the demise of his Great Auntie Margaret).

Alex... you are far, far too late. I booked that seat months ago! :021:

Probably bwecause when Messrs Preece and Findlay were teaching at the IRA, the catastrophe had not yet happened. :015:

No replies then. So what's scaring them off? The ghosts... or spending the night with Feb 8th? :015:

I agree with Govan Jaggie. The weakness of the Borders case was cruelly exposed in 1993-94 and I don't think things have got any better. To what extent would the restoration of Clydebank be no more than a Weegiecentric romantic gesture? Have they not already used that one up with Airdrie Utd? Spartans seem to be a good going club. As far as the Highland League is concerned, there's a lot of money sloshing about at its eastern end (just take a look at the table these days). Inverurie came in to replace was it Peterhead or Elgin (?) and have done very well quite quickly. They're a well run and well resourced club - I remember when Wick got in in 1994, Inverurie put up a strong fight and were very disappointed not to make it at that point. However I have to take SMEE's point that the HL have done pretty well so far (and deservedly so.)

http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_pho...sp?item_id=5662 even made it into the New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/...amp;oref=slogin If you look closely at a blow up of the photo, you'll just spot Jock Watt, Scarlet Pimple, CMIB and Mantis. :015:

Probably well looked after by IHE then! :015:

I'm afraid it's not... quite. The cabinet meeting held in Inverness was in 1921 to discuss the Irish Question which was coming to a head at that time. The meeting was in September, during the Parliametary recess (these MPs get longer holidays than teachers :015:), which meant that a lot of the MPs were huntin' shootin' and fishin' in the Highlands. As a result the meeting was held in the Council Chamber within Inverness Town Hall.

The "split frequency" only applies to Saturday afternoons when football is Radio Scotland's only programming so in theory up to six games can be on air somewhere although it's unusual for that to be more than four. At other times, the single frequency available for football is 810MW (although this will be duplicated on 103.5-105FM when Radio nan Gaidheal is not on the air). Clearly Celtic v Barcelona is going to be the commentary game tonight although Motherwell v ICT is available online (but I'm not sure if its blocked to the diaspora).

Dreadful looking outfit! Looks like some escapee from The Mikado.

It has been claimed that the answer to that is "infinity", but that would also involve accepting that all numbers are equal. Let's say 1/0 = infinity. so 1/0 = infinity/1. Cross multiply. 1 x 1 = 0 x infinity. 0 x anything = 0. so 1 x 1 = 1 = 0. Add 1 to each side. 2=1. Add 1 to each side. 3=2 etc etc. So all numbers are equal.

Geezabreak!!!

Stop patronising IHE by damning him with faint praise!

Already!? Please! Not again!! :crazy07: :029: :019: :020:

The front stalls in the La Scala only cost 1 shilling on a Saturday afternoon when Caley were away. Kingsmills... do you mean "The Kilt is Our Delight"?... I believe it was even more cringeworthy than the Proclaimers! And the Tenerife Trio... Tom Anderson, Les Munro and the guy Walker on the drums. They sounded equally decent after a few Carlsberg Specials. Ice Skating in the Islands? Browsing round the public library when it was a portakabin on King St? MacLeay's model shop? MacKay's Library? We Dalneigh kids also made our own entertainment such a nicking the Minister's apples and then throwing the cores at front doors before running away. Then there was football at the back of St. Valery Avenue with 3 hour games at 20 a side with jackets for goals - can't see modern kids surviving that kind of thing. And as a diversion from the football we went into the garages to play "War" where it seems everybody was equipped with a machine gun (contemporary British army eat your heart out!) Ur, ur, ur, ur, ur, ur, ur...!!!!!!!!!!!! And when we got fed up of that we would trawl round the scrubland looking for discarded Parade magazines. That of course was before the days of Men Only so not all that daring really. Then there was the BBs (almost worth a thread of its own) which were huge in Inverness with 12 companies at their peak in the 60s and everybody was scared of the Ferry Boys from the 4th. Pillbox hats, white haversacks, leather belts... all to be scrubbed up for Inspection. Battalion parades starting at Washington Court, all organised by Scoobies. I think the BBs have shrunk these days and I don't know of they still do Drill competitions, PT competitions etc.

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There should be a Runner Tax too... look at all the CO2 they breathe out unecessarily! Also, if a car owner has two cars, he pays two sets of tax, so why not a car and a bike? And I think there should be an extra tax on cyclists who wear that hideous bondage gear a lot of them go in for. It's dreadful! Another environmental thought - what is the carbon footprint of a condom? I would suggest that it is very large and negative, given that condoms stop the creation of PEOPLE who are the ultimate producers of CO2. That's why I think that Al Gore, with four CO2 producing children (as opposed to the mandatory one for the poor Chinaman about whose burgeoning economy the Americans are bricking it and are looking for excuses to stunt), should concentrate on keeping his bits in his trousers rather than moralising to everybody about greenhouse gases.

It seems that the modern generation are not quite in tune with this, though. A pupil asked me for permission to go to a German speaking test to which I resplied "Ach, ve heff vays of making you tokk." The response - a total blank! I supposde wandering down Unter den Linden quoting from Commando comics is rather like a German on Princes Street uttering things like "Hoots mon, it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the noo, jings, crivvens, help ma boab.... we're aaa dooooomed!"

None in my experience. Inflammable is an older term and Flammable tends to be used more these days.