Charles Bannerman

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.

You'd have to cycle bloody fast down the runway..... By the way, has no one thought of imposing a Bike Tax to pay for all these cycle paths that none of them uses and all the inconvenience they cause over taxed car drivers by getting in the way and slowing the traffic down? Oh yes, and annoying the **** out of you with these flashing front and rear lights!

I'd thought about going along to support it until I realised that they were including a whole lot of Irish things in it like Guinness (which I don't like) and Irish Jigs (and presumably yon funny dancing where you flap your feet about and keep your arms straight down by your sides - I Flatley refuse to do it :015:). So I deicded instead to help a couple of very worthy individuals to celebrate their birthdays!

Yes, I actually saw Golabek's goal (wonderfully worked it was from the left too) but nobody realised it was County's 900th. It was only when I was looking in the Jailender site that I saw a reference to it.... along with a personal plea for me to give it a mention, which I was delighted to do in this morning's Cup preview. PS - it actually came 5 minutes BEFORE Grant Munro's! :003:

Ooooh... duckie.... could you get me signed up for one as well!!!??? :015: Must head for Borders to get these books of Commando mags!

I wonder if that might have been a consequence of the hiccup which took the gmae off air for the first 10 minutes? Or was it just labelled wrongly?

I can guarantee (probably with support from Caley D) that Hilton is now wonderful, with their ?2.99 chicken supper a top of the list delicacy. Ronnie's in Eastgate was where IRA kids used to go for their "dinnur" - he must have made a fortune out of that. I was outraged to see that the West End (Serafini's) has now become a Chinese! :33: :018: :020: There used to be an excellent one almost opposite the Phoenix on Academy St, but I think that went Oriental as well many years ago. What about the one on Wells St? Long gone, I fear, and I presume Jojo moved from the Bught up to Hilton before his son Mike took it over. Remember also that van that used to go around town? I recollect it used to spend long periods of time parked on the roundabout down the Ferry (South Drive or West Drive I think.) Did the Rendezvous not used to do chips as well?

How could I have forgotten that one?!... and missed out on DUMKOPF as well! Think I'd be struggling to get much better than a Grade 6 in Foundation German with blanks in my vocabulary like that.

That's funny... neither did I! Was it because battles against the Germans were in a more familiar European context or was it that victory (since "we" - give or take the odd evacuation of Norway - never seemed to lose in these comics!) over the Third Reich was always sweeter? :003: I'm actually quite surprised they're still on sale! I thought PC would certainly have put paid to them by now, but it still seems you can say "achtung Englischer schweinhund" and get away with it!

Paul actually gave her a Christmas present. It was a spare leg, but it was only a stocking filler! :015: And judging by SMEE's reaction there, The Sun seems to have done a pretty good job on "Mucca".

Remember those graphic pieces of fiction recounting deeds of derring-do in the Second World War? Full of clean shaven, square jawed, heroic Brits, larger than life Yanks, sinister, cheating, Geneva Convention-breaking Nazis and buck toothed, cowardly, POW-abusing Japs. Some wonderful war yarns, though. These mags also seem to have provided the vocabulary for Foundation Level German when that came along in the 80s. Germans, it seems, manage to express themselves entirely through the medium of phrases like "Gott in Himmel", "schweinhund", "kamerad", "jawohl mein oberst", "aaargh" (when shot), "schnell" and "sieg heil". Japs, in contrast seemed to say "aiiieee" when shot and little else other than "banzai". And the Brits, of course, didn't actually get shot very often in Commando comics. 64 smallish pages for as little as 6d in the early 60s, but what were the other series of similar small paged publications? Was "Warlord" one of them or was that a separate comic? Talking of comics, are there any former Valiant readers out there? Remember Captain Hercules Hurricane and his Pint Sized batman Maggot Malone? The Captain was rather prone to getting into a "ragin' fury" if he was crossed by any "squareheads". Wonderful days!

You lot are as bad as Tommy who has been known to hold me personally responsible for any minor error in the BBC weather forecast! I really don't know why it's not possible to get many SPL games on the BBC overseas, nor can I claim in any way to speak for the BBC to whom I am a mere humble freelance contributor. However it very much looks to me as if the problem lies with the clubs and not with the BBC inasmuch as it appears that a number of clubs are not prepared to have commentary of their games broadcast free to air worldwide. I believe that ICT is not one of the clubs concerned. By the way there would seem to have been a technical problem until about 3:10 on Saturday. This certainly affected the coverage on 92-95FM in the Highland area. I'm not sure if it also affected internet coverage, ie whether the problem was between Love St and the studio or between the studio and the transmitter.

Yes James, but a whippersnapper like yourself wouldn't remember the days of record players without a single electrical part which relied on big "HMV" horns to amplify the sound created by the interaction between a huge thick needle and the surface of a bit of solid bakelite which went whizzing round 78 times a minute on a turntable cranked by hand. (Neither do I [HONEST] but I do remember seeing them on Dr. Finlay's Casebook! :015:) I wonder how "Iron Maiden" and "Metallica" would have sounded on one of these gizmos!? :003:

We have an expression in Inverness in response to statements like that.... "yerjokeenmun!!!" However, at your age, I do envy you your full head of hair. Perhaps we can discuss the secret behind your hirsute condition over the table at tonight's "freebie"! Oh, and by the way, I was 44 when I had to submit to the use of glasses.

Oooooh... you are awful...... but I LIKE you!