Jaggernaut

Well done to him. I'd certainly have gone to that, but I'll be far, far away.

This could be a long, long, long thread.

I'd just like second Vladimir Puntin's post.

I will.

Yeah, but isn't it a pity that we always seem vulnerable to losing our best players to other middle-range clubs. I for one will be on cloud nine if he stays and does the biz next season.

Nice one. Wonder if others of my generation will like it.

I think it's pretty obvious that we suffered a lot from the departure of Harkins. I think it would be the similar with Erskine.

Something in the way he moves.....

Some would say that's a puny attempt at humour.

I don't like the sound of this. If it's true, does it mean that Erskine won't be training with our squad?

I also thought it was surreal that there was actually a poll on this. But you've articulated my views much better than I would have done if I'd brought it up.

You didn't fix it; you emasculated it. I suppose everybody's entitled to their own opunion.

So, now the top headline on the BBC is that the second "wave" of tickets to see the London Olympics is available. Is it only me who is totally disinterested in this whole thing?

...And the NHS leads to Fear.

She's already that. And she's under pressure to do something about it.

I remember that event. And all the playground jokes that followed, e.g. the commemorative plaques at the lake: "Donald Campbell lies here...... and here........and here......." etc.

Sanitized version?: Hello Hello (or Goodbye Goodbye) How do you do (or Farewell to you) We hate the boys in royal blue We hate the bhoys in emerald green So get tae f***, you're both obscene.

The door should always be left open for a bit of lightening up of threads that otherwise take themselves too seriously.

Brilliant. Would love to see them all. I've also got a fair number of newspaper pages, but they're now worse for wear.

A 60-year-old woman is desperate to revive her husband's diminished appetite for sex. So for the first time ever she resorts to going to bed stark naked. The husband notices this and says "Hey, what's this?" "It's my new, special night dress," she replies. "It's called the Aphrodites dress." "Aye, well you might have ironed it."

Some excellent points there. The highlighted part reminds me of a behavioural intervention scheme that got used to treat people who were compulsive liars. They kept a note of every time they lied, and turned up at the clinic every week to see the therapist and present the week's results. If there was a reduction in the number of lies they'd told since last week they got a monetary reward. Apparently it was an amazingly effective treatment.

The only reason I have one is that it keeps the other half quiet. It's a kind of magic, actually.

Can't say I've noticed any puns.

For me, an unmitigated disaster. Had all the Freeview channels until a couple of nights ago, and had re-tuned a few times in recent weeks. Now, zilch. Zero. Not even a radio programme on the box. Why not? The "2K list". What's that? A list of integrated digital tv models (mine's a Sony) that were sold up until recently and which were supposed to be entirely compatible with the switchover. But apparently the government decided on a new system, which means that these models are obsolete, or at least they need a Freeview box. That's no big deal, of course, except that Sony (in good faith) sold us an apparatus which now doesn't do what they said it would. But I have previous in this kind of thing, having invested in a V-2000 (or Betamax) video recorder back in the old days. How is it that I consistently tend to support the loser?

Or a GTF* flag? *Glasgow Theatre of Film