I can imagine negative uses and many positive uses; catharsis, a little bit of self appreciation stopping short of narcissm, but mainly I find it a fantastic medium to find out what my kids are doing and to find girlfriends of my 18 yr old son adding comments to a photo of me:

"your dad is well good looking, I would ;-)"

Made an old man feel good

The island it is silent now
But the ghosts still haunt the waves
And the torch lights up a famished man
Who fortune could not save

Did you work upon the railroad
Did you rid the streets of crime
Were your dollars from the white house
Were they from the five and dime

Did the old songs taunt or cheer you
And did they still make you cry
Did you count the months and years
Or did your teardrops quickly dry

Ah, no, says he, twas not to be
On a coffin ship I came here
And I never even got so far
That they could change my name

Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
To a land of opportunity
That some of them will never see
Fortune prevailing
Across the western ocean
Their bellies full
Their spirits free
Theyll break the chains of poverty
And theyll dance

In manhattans desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on broadway
Like the first man on the moon

And the blackbird broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in brendan behans footsteps
I danced up and down the street

Then we said goodnight to broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to mister cohen
Dear old times squares favorite bard

Then we raised a glass to jfk
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried

Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards were mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights dont glow on christmas trees
But we dance to the music
And we dance

Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where eer we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
And we dance

Good songs Bood

Spanish songs in Andalucia
The shooting sites in the days of '39
Oh, please, leave the vendanna open
Fredrico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica
I'm flying in a DC 10 tonight

CHORUS
Spanish bombs, yo tequierro y finito
Yote querda, oh mi corazon
Spanish bombs, yo te quierro y finito
Yo te querda, oh mi corazon

Spanish weeks in my disco casino
The freedom fighters died upon the hill
They sang the red flag
They wore the black one

But after they died it was Mockingbird Hill
Back home the buses went up in flashes
The Irish tomb was drenched in blood
Spanish bombs shatter the hotels
My senorita's rose was nipped in the bud

CHORUS

The hillsides ring with "Free the people"
Or can I hear the echo from the days of '39?
With trenches full of poets
The ragged army, fixin' bayonets to fight the other line
Spanish bombs rock the province
I'm hearing music from another time
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava
I'm flying in on a DC 10 tonight
Spanish songs in Andalucia, Mandolina, oh mi corazon
Spanish songs in Granada, oh mi corazon

Glad you liked the choice of music, they were great, saw 'em a few times too back then and still love that song so it sprang to mind easily when the question was about running bad. Well done last night too 

I don't play much live (handful of times a year) but played the £75 at Luton the night before BB4, chopped it with Norman Pace and a couple of other chaps. Still looking for results from 27th April to be found somewhere on the net so I can idly chirp my day away sending weblinks to people to show off my prowess 

Still can't find results from that day so back to searching old music footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIzhiQf490

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOad0FU9zF8

Read somewhere recently that now aged around 60 he still wears this get-up every day - I like that in someone.

I quite like Antonius "full house ?.... I can't beat that" laughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN6wAHTWeEA&mode=related&search=

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http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=4333.0

Interesting for me to cast my mind back and read a welcome thread after I just signed up - it was the day after I had just shared a final table with a few of my earliest poker buddies - Fish Royale, Satty, Jo, Ginger and a day or two with the likes of Alfa, Jaggers & Trace. Also met Robert HM and Suzanne that weekend. Think the cat was there too, nottingham ? Got a welcome from a chap even older than me !

Nice memories of those times.

Hadn't realised it was 2 + years ago and still remember thinking what a friendly place it was. How things change :-)

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=4333.0

Dirk wears white socks

Very well done to Mrs Pace. She was on the first table I played at in the £75 F/o the night before BB4, and Mr Pace was at the final table.

Insofar as you can judge anybody's character by an hour or so around a poker table I was struck by what unaffected, genuinely nice people you both were.

Hope you do well in the final.

Very well put Mr Tight

Tantrum arrived at the bar with Mr Noflops - gotta say, despite the builders hands she fair took by breath away. It's the glasses ! 'andsome !

She may well get flushy to bat for our side again

xx

As a 'son of hender' I'm impressed that one of my ancestors crossed the Atlantic and started a new town. Pretty place too.