Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

The Heron, perhaps nature's most graceful bird. They land so soft, they sort of drop out of the sky. When they take off, they barely move their huge wings, & they are up & away. Fish don't like them much. The Heron stands in shallow water, back to the sun, casting a shadow where the fish is, & then the Heron moves it's leg a tad, which spooks the fish out of hiding, & POW, the Heron nabs it. Red tod me that, so it's probably all tosh.

[tikay]

A very big heron. If this shats on you, you know you've been shat on.

[tikay]

And last of all, a beautiful London Bus. This is a RT, or, possibly, an RTL. They were the poredecessors to the RM's.

So that's 'yer lot. Ducks, Birds, & Buses. That soon got rid of the tree pun merchants. Mess with this thread & you get the Giant Heron, right? Or the RT.

[tikay]

The Nation owes a debt of gratitude to "The Sun" newspaper. Today's shock-horror headline was....

"Amy Whitehouse takes crack".

Who'd have thought that?

Still, it makes a change from "Maddie  - witness comes forward to say she saw suspicious looking man near room" Which, we are led to believe, she's just remembered. 8 months after the event.

Do the papers just think we are stupid? Or are we stupid?

Or that nobody in the press seems to have commented on how ridiculous it is for the 2 main suspects to have released a photo fit of a man that they claim might be guilty and it be taken without question?

The whole McCann thing has become a media farce. The McCanns have PR spokesmen, & they have the Press in their pocket, & manipulate them as they wish, & I find the whole thing so distasteful. On top of which, the plausibility - or lack of - of the stories that emerge almost daily is just zero, assuming the reader has at least one brain cell. The Maddie McCann film is next by the way. I kid you not, it's in the papers, so it must be true. The loss of the little girl is a tragedy, but the way the parents & Media have handled this defies belief. The McCanns even paid their mortgage for 3 months out of the Maddie McCann fund.

I'd best say no more, before the lynch mob get on my case.

Tomorrow's Sun headline.

"Exclusive. Joey Barton is a thug".

Which is, like the Amy story, at least true. But hardly news.

[bobby1]

Andy Ward recommended a book on his blog called Blind Faith by Ben Elton which I read last week and it is cunningly clever and deals with 'media' and 'fame'along with other things in a kinda futuristic but happening now way. There is also a superb religious background that you either get or don't get too.

I recommend you read it Tony, I think you would like it.

[tikay]

Andy Ward recommended a book on his blog called Blind Faith by Ben Elton which I read last week and it is cunningly clever and deals with 'media' and 'fame'along with other things in a kinda futuristic but happening now way. There is also a superb religious background that you either get or don't get too.

I recommend you read it Tony, I think you would like it.

I'm not keen on fiction Phil, but I'll take a look next time I'm in a bookshop.

How's the Babby?

[bobby1]

Andy Ward recommended a book on his blog called Blind Faith by Ben Elton which I read last week and it is cunningly clever and deals with 'media' and 'fame'along with other things in a kinda futuristic but happening now way. There is also a superb religious background that you either get or don't get too.

I recommend you read it Tony, I think you would like it.

I'm not keen on fiction Phil, but I'll take a look next time I'm in a bookshop.

How's the Babby?

great thanks, we have just been to Gran Canaria for a week and he wasnt too bad on the plane and had his first swimming pool session which he absolutely loved.  He seems to get cheerier by the day too and has started to make different noises when he laughs as he gets used to making sounds. My wife is back at work in 3 weeks and he is going to spend three days at a creche were she works so he has the first of his induction days next week, I can't believe he is gonna be 6 months old and going to school!!

Then he is going to be with me 2 days a week so I will have to have a change of working week but I am sure it will all sort itself out.

You looked really well on some of the photo's from Brighton, either you are on top form or the £20 you managed to get from Flushy really cheered you up 

[Singheee]

Orite tikay. are you coming to this months £300 double chance at walsall so u can try to make it 2 in 2 final tables lol. And try to play AK better lol

[boldie]

Looks like a Wainwright's duck to me....

lmao..classic

[Karabiner]

This is a cormorant, or as Red thinks, a Heron. There are lots of them in the Serpentine, in London, where I first saw them on a Poker Week gig one Sunday. I don't know, but I think they are designed for diving, for fish.

The Chinese train cormorants to fish for them. They take the cormorant out in a fishing boat to which it is attached by a thin rope and then they dive in and return to the boat and spit the fish out time and time again. I believe a well trained one would be worth a fortune to local fishermen.

[TightEnd]

The Nation owes a debt of gratitude to "The Sun" newspaper. Today's shock-horror headline was....

"Amy Whitehouse takes crack".

Who'd have thought that?

Still, it makes a change from "Maddie  - witness comes forward to say she saw suspicious looking man near room" Which, we are led to believe, she's just remembered. 8 months after the event.

Do the papers just think we are stupid? Or are we stupid?

Or that nobody in the press seems to have commented on how ridiculous it is for the 2 main suspects to have released a photo fit of a man that they claim might be guilty and it be taken without question?

The whole McCann thing has become a media farce. The McCanns have PR spokesmen, & they have the Press in their pocket, & manipulate them as they wish, & I find the whole thing so distasteful. On top of which, the plausibility - or lack of - of the stories that emerge almost daily is just zero, assuming the reader has at least one brain cell. The Maddie McCann film is next by the way. I kid you not, it's in the papers, so it must be true. The loss of the little girl is a tragedy, but the way the parents & Media have handled this defies belief. The McCanns even paid their mortgage for 3 months out of the Maddie McCann fund.

I'd best say no more, before the lynch mob get on my case.

Tomorrow's Sun headline.

"Exclusive. Joey Barton is a thug".

Which is, like the Amy story, at least true. But hardly news.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30338.0

[tikay]

This is a cormorant, or as Red thinks, a Heron. There are lots of them in the Serpentine, in London, where I first saw them on a Poker Week gig one Sunday. I don't know, but I think they are designed for diving, for fish.

The Chinese train cormorants to fish for them. They take the cormorant out in a fishing boat to which it is attached by a thin rope and then they dive in and return to the boat and spit the fish out time and time again. I believe a well trained one would be worth a fortune to local fishermen.

Tell me that's your version of Wainwright's Duck, Ralph, please......

What an extraordinary thing!

[RED-DOG]

This is a cormorant, or as Red thinks, a Heron. There are lots of them in the Serpentine, in London, where I first saw them on a Poker Week gig one Sunday. I don't know, but I think they are designed for diving, for fish.

The Chinese train cormorants to fish for them. They take the cormorant out in a fishing boat to which it is attached by a thin rope and then they dive in and return to the boat and spit the fish out time and time again. I believe a well trained one would be worth a fortune to local fishermen.

Tell me that's your version of Wainwright's Duck, Ralph, please......

What an extraordinary thing!

The bird is actually fitted with a collar that is too tight to allow the fish to pass through. The cormorant has no choice but to let its owner take the fish and accept the entrails as payment.

[Rod Paradise]

With above average chips when you fold, and your ability relative to the average satellite field there (many of whom will spew chips rather than lock up to a seat) its a pass. I don't even think its close.

Sadly, I think you are right. Tom, of course, is wrong.

The other factor I failed to take into account, was that Mr Stranger was the ONLY player on the table with more than Average, i.e., enough to damage me mortally.

Outcome. Busted.

Cause. Loss of concentration.

Next case.

Only reason for you to pas KK at this stage of the comp is on read.  You had a read so then its fine to pass.

You shouldnt however pass cos you have 25k in a sat. You dont have enough chips at this stage to do so. You only have 1/8 of the chips in play with 6 seats plus £100 being paid out. So for me you need to have 50k + to be passing this hand at this stage.

Ahh, the voice of Luton speaks!

Thanks Jim.  I'm betwixt & between, I think it's marginal in truth, but it goes down as unforced error. I mean, he may have had jack-shit. But I did suspect Aces. But then, I always do. But I'm usually wrong.

But I'm dithering. Still, it stopped those bloody tree puns.

So you didn't think he'd go all-in willow pair?

[TightEnd]

Post-oak bluffs. A thing of the past?