You must excuse this B-52 geekness, but they really do have wowage.

Doing a bit of research on them, I came across this photograph.

These are B-52's in "storage" at "Boneyard", a desert facility  where the USAF stores aircraft, in case, I guess, they ever need them.

I'd like to take the one in the middle out for a test drive please Mr Salesman.

The 90s. Is that where all this "dude" nonsense came from?

So I guess somebody created this "tune" in their bedroom on their computer?

I understand how this works in a club, have even been known to enjoy an annual dance myself on our end-of-footie-season trip to Easyjet destination with cheap, chemical-free beer. But I don't get why anyone would buy this sort of stuff to listen to in the home or car.

Watched Neil Young making his guitar sing on Sky Arts last night. Always a joy to see master musicians at work   

I seem to remember that after the storming of the Iranian Embassy siege an ex-SAS top brass complained bitterly to the Beeb about the interruption to the coverage of his beloved snooker.

At the time I would have agreed with him. We only had Pot Black, the UK from Preston, World from Sheffield and the team thingy from the Hexagon, and it was fantastic. All on the Beeb in the days when the Beeb was the proper channel for sport.

Then ITV decided they needed to get in on snooker so we had minor tournaments from other places on and it all got too saturated so became boring. I really can't watch it these days.

Sunday Times still rolls out "Insight" as and when warrented, although it appears within one of the sections rather than being stand-alone.

Wonder if Compo is going to be in attendance that weekend with his "call, call, call, bluff against reluctant caller with not enough money left to get it through" move?

Getting knocked out of the APAT might be positive EV if so :-)

Good luck to Jon Spinks.

"prick" and "power crazy" are not exactly phrases that spring to mind when thinking about DtD staff.

I had to travel through Penn Station in New York and it was a complete eye sore, like a lot of things in the US they knocked the original structure down and replaced it with something more "functional".

Isn't Penn Station effectively underground? I went to the Breeders Cup a month after 9/11 and I seem to recall the train out to Belmont went from Penn Station and it was underneath Madison Square Gardens.

Me, I spent much of the weekend stood on Platforms at Newcastle Station, & got some great Loco & Train 'photos. (I'll put them up later, don't fret).

No accounting for taste, each to their own, da de da.

But be honest - would you rather get bladdered & ride a pretend rodeo bull, or take train pics on Newcastle Station?

I rest my case.

Check the BBC Website, they have a load of old steam train programmes playing on there at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/

The Newcy side has a marvellous boardwalk which runs for miles, & this morning they had a street market there, the sun was shining brightly, & litererally thousands of folks were just strolling along by the river in the most peaceful of atmos. Such a contrast to the scenes & atmo a few hundred yards away in the City Centre last night.

At last years Virgin Festival the street ousyide The Gate resembled a war zone in the early hours as I recall. Bodies flaked out on the ground, and blood-stained shirts everywhere. It's a truly horrible place at night IMO. No doubt the teens love it.

Judging by the din at 3am on the Monday morning nobody in Newcastle goes to work or school on a Monday.

No arguments there, it's so 1990's or even 1980's now, it's not evolved at all, & has gone very "stale".

Definitely 80s - we used to listen to his Radio 1 show in the portacabin that served as the 6th Form common room/bolt hole during free periods and that was 80-82. Essentially his show now is little different to then.

It worked on Radio 1 - the zoo format worked when listened to in a zoo-listening environment - factory floors, offices, 6th form common rooms etc. Bite sized chunks for groups of people with bite sized attention spans in between whatever else they were doing.

But I just don't perceive daytime Radio 2 as a station that's likely to be listened to in the same sort of environment. I suspect it's far more likely to be heard in cars, in homes when people are on their own etc. I hear his "copyright" notice at the end (Does he still do it?) and wonder why anyone would want to steal such a tired show.

Best bet of his show is when Evans takes the mickey out of him afterwards. 

Evans' GLR show on Saturdays, "Round at Chris's and hs misses", was very funny before he became a national name. The Rumpy Pumpies, GLR Girls on Top and other features always accompanied me on the way to Sandown, Kempton or Ascot. He was on the edge then, but most DJs mellow eventually and I guess he was always likely to end up a safe pair of hands. I like him on Drive, but I was dreading the end of Johnnie Walker's stint on there.

Though it did not tilt me - yes, tilt me, & I don't do tilt - as much as the "players will have the opportunity to donate 1% of their winnings to charity" line did, which angsted me on an epic scale. "How thoughtful of them" was my initial thought.

But really, both reactions are unfair, & wrong. Americans just speak, & write, differently, & we know from blonde that the written word can & does come across so wrong sometimes.

This is the organisation that sells TV rights and exclusive media reporting rights to an event that wouldn't exist but for players' money isn't it?

I think the original reaction is very fair. They're taking the piss - if they'd made it simple to donate to ANY charity of a player's choice I might be more inclined to think them worthy.

I'll have a word with Steve Wright.

Can you make it 7 words please.

"Isn't it time to retire that show?" should just about cover it.

*Evilpie wonders why people don't just type their name?

1) Efficiency. Preserves the world's stock of keystrokes as most names are more than three keystrokes

2) It wouldn't be in BLUE.