Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Claw75]

new-monics

[TheChipPrince]

Have you ever listened to this Tikay?  Excruciatingly uncomfortable for the journo.  Derby had been struggling back in Jan and he made the mistake of questioning Sav and his team!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/8453055.stm

[Bongo]

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[tikay]

Look away, MereNovice, king of Grammatical Pedantry, has arrived,

And if he sees the "mnenomic" debate on Tighty's Diary, we are all dead.

[TightEnd]

Look away, MereNovice, king of Grammatical Pedantry, has arrived,

And if he sees the "mnenomic" debate on Tighty's Diary, we are all dead.

He never looks there. I am safe.

[tikay]

Look away, MereNovice, king of Grammatical Pedantry, has arrived,

And if he sees the "mnenomic" debate on Tighty's Diary, we are all dead.

He never looks there. I am safe.

I'll send him a spite-link.

[MereNovice]

Look away, MereNovice, king of Grammatical Pedantry, has arrived,

And if he sees the "mnenomic" debate on Tighty's Diary, we are all dead.

He never looks there. I am safe.

I'll send him a spite-link.

I feel that Mr. Kendall is taking a rather blinkered approach to "mnemonics".
A mnemonic is an "aid to memory", i.e. an "aide-memoire".
It does not merely reflect catchy phrases that we learnt in our youth although I will admit that is its most common usage.


I may have posted this on the wrong thread but I didn't want to clutter Tighty's excellent diary.

[Claw75]

I may have posted this on the wrong thread but I didn't want to clutter Tighty's excellent diary.

lol - A+

[tikay]

Look away, MereNovice, king of Grammatical Pedantry, has arrived,

And if he sees the "mnenomic" debate on Tighty's Diary, we are all dead.

He never looks there. I am safe.

I'll send him a spite-link.

I feel that Mr. Kendall is taking a rather blinkered approach to "mnemonics".
A mnemonic is an "aid to memory", i.e. an "aide-memoire".
It does not merely reflect catchy phrases that we learnt in our youth although I will admit that is its most common usage.


I may have posted this on the wrong thread but I didn't want to clutter Tighty's excellent diary.

Now THAT is a quality rub!

Take note, fans of  "joke", "dousche" & "lol".

Cheered me up no end that, you so totally owned me there.

[tikay]

Well done to Kev O'Leary on getting a deal with "Three Kings Poker".

I confess, I'd never heard of them, so he's in positive territory already, in raising awareness.

I asked around in Luton last night, & in Southend on Saturday, as to what Network they were on, but nobody seemed to know.

Anyone know, please?

One player said they had played a Freeroll there, but it was sparsely attended.

I wish Kev the very best with it, really, but any new Online Poker Room starting up these days needs to be pretty special even to get off the ground. The market is really tightening up, hard, & the Networks are hurting far & away the most. But if they have a niche angle - the smaller buy-in players, for example - they might succeed.

Good luck Kev & them, anyway.

[rex008]

tikay, as a fan of obscure information, have you ever caught Only Connect on BBC4? If not, you'd like it, I think. On this week's quiz, a team actually got a connection from 1 clue (out of 4), which is unheard of on that programme. The one clue was "Pugachev's Cobra". No googling/wiki-ing, anyone know it?

[MereNovice]

tikay, as a fan of obscure information, have you ever caught Only Connect on BBC4? If not, you'd like it, I think. On this week's quiz, a team actually got a connection from 1 clue (out of 4), which is unheard of on that programme. The one clue was "Pugachev's Cobra". No googling/wiki-ing, anyone know it?

Excellent presenter, too.

[tikay]

I can no longer access Mick McCool's Blog, it's now "invite only", which may be because he has a sports betting jobbie on the go, & understandably wants Members Only access, or maybe other reasons.

I quite looked forward to his new updates, sort of half interest, half trepidation.

I regularly got mullered on there, but just as regularly, he said kind things about me, too. His last comment - or the last comment I saw, as to me - was very positive.

Now, I shall never know.

Anyway, I hope Wallace remains in good heart, as ever. His affection for Wallace was quite touching.

 

[tikay]

tikay, as a fan of obscure information, have you ever caught Only Connect on BBC4? If not, you'd like it, I think. On this week's quiz, a team actually got a connection from 1 clue (out of 4), which is unheard of on that programme. The one clue was "Pugachev's Cobra". No googling/wiki-ing, anyone know it?

Never heard of it, I'm afraid.

The answer would likely be above me, but as I don't know what "Connect" is, I'd struggle even more. Is "BBC 4" Radio, or TV?

I'm afraid I can't watch any quiz show which has those childish electronic bings, buzzes, bells or bongs to indicate when someone wants to answer a question. Once it gets beyond a University Challenge stylee simple "buzz", it tilts me to death. Dumbing down ftw.

I try very hard to make sense of Radio 4's "Round Britain Quiz", but blimey, thats WAY over my head, too. There are some seriously clever folks about.

[Claw75]

tikay, as a fan of obscure information, have you ever caught Only Connect on BBC4? If not, you'd like it, I think. On this week's quiz, a team actually got a connection from 1 clue (out of 4), which is unheard of on that programme. The one clue was "Pugachev's Cobra". No googling/wiki-ing, anyone know it?

is it Pugachev's pets?