Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[The_duke]

Yes it's from IF by Rudyard Kipling

[Colchester Kev]

Nice one Coxy ... Now just win the bloody thing

[Colchester Kev]

Nice one Coxy ... Now just win the bloody thing

On second thoughts ... just blind away and get as much TV time as you can LOL

[Ironside]

nice one ian


tiaky

burns is the assistant manager at celtic

and how on earth did you get that presenters role when everyone knows i would know more about the guests that you would

ok i  might not know anything about poker but its only the open not as if its a serious show or anything


i am off to sulk into my beer

[boldie]

And I bet I can get it through. I'll start with this gem, one of my favourite Burns odes.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

At the risk of being laughed at and this was a spoof -- isn't this from a certain Mr Kipling

Oh no - are you sure about that?

DAMMIT DUKE!..should have kept that quiet..I was looking nforward to TK quoting this as Burns on telly tonight

[77dave]

Maybe we need some pics of tonights studio guests

[tikay]

Yes it's from IF by Rudyard Kipling

You 100% sure?

[The_duke]

last verse
http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html

[tikay]

last verse
http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html

Wow. That Burns can write, eh?

[Ironside]

easy way to tell the difference between burns a kipling

if your english and can understand it then its kipling

if your scots and can understand it then its burns

[RED-DOG]

easy way to tell the difference between burns a kipling

if your english and can understand it then its kipling

if your scots and can understand it then its burns

If you can't understand it at all then It's Ironside.

[taximan007]

I also have been lucky enough to meet Ian a couple of times, and he really is a nice guy.

Good luck Ian.

[tikay]

The Times, Saturday January 26th, 2008.

"A hoard of more than a hundred false legs found in the cellar of a retired taxi driver in Dorset last August has been donated to victims of the earthquake that hit Pakistan in 2005......"

[RED-DOG]

The Times, Saturday January 26th, 2008.

"A hoard of more than a hundred false legs found in the cellar of a retired taxi driver in Dorset last August has been donated to victims of the earthquake that hit Pakistan in 2005......"

Donated to the Kneedy.

[tikay]

In TV-Land, everyone is divided into two generic camps - "Talent" & "Techies", either side of the camera, as it were.

And every Techie start life as a "Runner". Runners are sort of odd-job people, & have to wait hand finger & foot on the Talent, fetch them cups of tea, snacks, clear up after them, escort them to the toilets in breaks in the Show, keep the Green Room tidy, la de da de da.

The Runners, are by definition, just starting out in their working life, & are usually about 18 or 19. And the female runners are all blindingly pretty, but that's another story.

At Sky in Feltham, the Runners are huge fun, & I adore them all.

I shared a meal in the Staff Canteen with one of them yesterday. Beautifully spoken, perfectly mannered, lovely demeanour, & above all that, has an IQ of about 300. I think she Boarded at a Convent School. Her Mum works here too, & in front of Mum, she's Goody-Two-Shoes, but when Mum's not here, she's perfect St Trinians material, full of mischief, with a twinkle in her eye. It was rather like chatting to Jen Mason, it's such a challenge to avoid being completely outwitted & out-thunk by someone (less than?) half my age.

And suddenly, I realised what I'd missed out on by never having been a Parent. To share a Child's hopes & dreams & aspirations, as they start out on life's journey, must be awesome.

Somehow - no idea how - we got round to what she wants to do with her life.

"Ooh, be a Mother".

"How many?"

"Four"

"Make?"

"Boy, girl, boy, girl"

"Why not girl, boy, girl, boy?"

"Ooh, eveyone has to have an eldest Brother. And he has to be called Edward".

"What if you only have three?"

"Oh no, one can't have three, because it means there's a middle one. It must be horrible to be a middle child".

"What if you have five?"

"That's not too bad I suppose"

"Ahh, I've got you there. There'd be a middle one"

"No, there'd be three middle ones".......