Soul To Soul
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peterbirksRumour has it that that only reason Mr Pickle is heading a consortium that wants to buy Northern Rock is that he thought it would be a good name for a record chain. Some of the branches will deal in niche stuff and will rebranded 'Northern Soul'.
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It was only after I started playing in the Stars blogger tournament last night that I remembered that I played in it last year, 'cashed', and never received my goodie bag. I didn't really want it anyway, so I didn't bother to chase it up.
Standard state of affairs. Couldn't get anywhere in the first hour. Went all-in first-in with TT three off the button. Got called by KQ off on the button (nearly all-in for him as well -- gamblers are attracted to my all-ins, with good reason).
King comes on river as usual; I go home now. Slightly relieved, to be frank. Another two hours of that to qualify for a prize that I only had a 50% chance or so of receiving would not have been my idea of fun.
Elsewhere, I managed to get stacked-off pre-flop with KK vs AA. I don't mind getting KK vs AA, but why does it always have to be against the one player whose stats are something like (in this case) 75%/35%? This means that, when his AA is flipped up at the end, it's actually something of a disappointment. So, despite the nice $240 pot that I won earlier in the day, I finished the day a grand total of a dollar up. I'm still trying to decide how to spend it.
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Another 3.2km today, with only a couple of pauses for breath. Less tired this time as well, so progress is clearly being made, at least in the stamina department.
And I've got to take one of the bathroom items back to John Lewis, it being distinctly broken when I took it out of the box. If they ask for the receipt, I have four of them in the bag. I'll let them figure out which is the right one.
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It was only after I started playing in the Stars blogger tournament last night that I remembered that I played in it last year, 'cashed', and never received my goodie bag. I didn't really want it anyway, so I didn't bother to chase it up.
Standard state of affairs. Couldn't get anywhere in the first hour. Went all-in first-in with TT three off the button. Got called by KQ off on the button (nearly all-in for him as well -- gamblers are attracted to my all-ins, with good reason).
King comes on river as usual; I go home now. Slightly relieved, to be frank. Another two hours of that to qualify for a prize that I only had a 50% chance or so of receiving would not have been my idea of fun.
Elsewhere, I managed to get stacked-off pre-flop with KK vs AA. I don't mind getting KK vs AA, but why does it always have to be against the one player whose stats are something like (in this case) 75%/35%? This means that, when his AA is flipped up at the end, it's actually something of a disappointment. So, despite the nice $240 pot that I won earlier in the day, I finished the day a grand total of a dollar up. I'm still trying to decide how to spend it.
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Another 3.2km today, with only a couple of pauses for breath. Less tired this time as well, so progress is clearly being made, at least in the stamina department.
And I've got to take one of the bathroom items back to John Lewis, it being distinctly broken when I took it out of the box. If they ask for the receipt, I have four of them in the bag. I'll let them figure out which is the right one.
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The other joke
Date: 2007-10-15 12:23 pm (UTC)Northern Rock: God-send for stock market writers
Date: 2007-10-22 02:44 pm (UTC)Market crushed by Northern Rock
Caught between Northern Rock and a hard place
Northern Rock crumbles
Rock on rack
Rock enrols bid advisers
Rock crushes Footsie
Rock slide continues
and so on.
The only time I have been discouraged from using a pun in an item was one about a company which has developed a condom which enables a man (obviously) to sustain a longer, harder erection for a greater duration.
Anyway Pete, enough of this nonsense. Are you coming to MidCon this year?
http://midcon.org.uk
Or does the prospect of seeing all those Johnny come lately poker players fill you with dread?
John H.
Re: Northern Rock: God-send for stock market writers
Date: 2007-10-22 10:53 pm (UTC)Oh, and I've bought my train tickets too, which are residing on my mantelpiece, or would be, if I could spell the word (it's one of my bete noires). I reckon that puts me ahead of you in terms of organization, and you are one of the organizers.
PS. I never use puns at work. I leave that to my compadres at Insurance Day. I suspect that I am the only financial journalist never to have used a pun when writing about the company Egg.
However, I did once write the headline (referring to CS Rao, head of India's Insurance Regulatory Authority and a troublesome month he had suffered) "Long March For Chairman Rao", and when Essex-born Stephen Way left his job as CEO of HCC (Houston Casualty Corp), I constructed a headline which pleased me greatly - "Way Out".
If you read this John, could you give me a telephone call tomorrow at home (I'm working from home, awaiting the delivery of the new computer and the painters for the new bathroom). Got some news for you.
PJ
Re: Use the telephone? Good grief
Date: 2007-10-23 01:48 pm (UTC)If I have your home number - which I should have - I will give you a call when I get home.
I liked your headlines. My favourite at this place was one from my colleague and related to directors at Barratt Devlopments buying up the company's shares:
Barratt boys dive in
Unbelievably it was changed to "Barratt bosses dive in".
John