Posts by TheProf 1122 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2008
Going on what TV adverts are like, what are they going to show to that long queue of men? Alcohol? Nope. Cigarettes? Nope. Nuts magazine? No. Razor blades? Yes, Tesco can still sell them to motorists. Well until the 'Radical Mothers' get them banned because children can hurt themselves on the sharp edges.
Sir,
I admire your dedication to this rather silly television show. Not only watching TV at at 4AM but taking a day off work to boot.
I hope the 3D-Blu-ray is released promptly to fulfil your tri-dimensions desire.
I'm planning to disconnect the phone and have a cup of tea while I watch it.
ITV Granada? Good grief!
Bob Dormon, please keep the obsequiousness out of your future reviews. It's not your job to just blithely regurgitate the Sony press release. I, for one, would like to know what you really felt about this device. Is it a ground-breaking, metaphor-mixing leap forward or just another technological blind-alley?
Also, do you leave the light on when you sleep at night?
I sympathise. I can never find anything I like in the local stores but.....
After a quick web search I found 11 collar styles*. If a shop were to stock 1 of each in the most popular sizes (14.5" to 20", a dozen in all) they'd need to find room for 132 shirts. God help you if you don't want a white one. Or short sleeves.
Just what do you suggest the general department stores do? It's easy to say "come up with a new models, new services and new ideas" but apart from 'stock more grandad shirts' what?
* point, narrow, saint tropez, spread, button-down, round, pin, tab, wing-tip, mandarin, nehru. There may be more.
"His name was incorrectly linked to a child abuse case after a botched BBC2 Newsnight programme - which didn't name the peer - reported that a "senior Tory from the Thatcher years" had been accused of child abuse by north Wales care home victim Steve Messham."
So the BBC didn't name him and Mr. Messham was given the incorrect name by the POLICE. Are the police being investigated over this matter? Why have the BBC been pilloried for 'outing' this man. (No names, no prosecution. Oh wait...)
Media people, please, TRIFECTA does not mean 3.
From wikipedia:
In horse racing terminology, a trifecta is a parimutuel bet in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third in exact order.
If you want to sound clever What about:
a triplet of predictions?
a trinity of market forecasts?
a trilogy of analysts estimates?
a triptych of media speculations?
Hell, you could just write about 'three wild guesses'.
What was that about a new mobile telephone?
I've only ever had one cup of coffee from a franchise. Two in the morning at a motorway service station (which in my opinion is the best time to visit one.)
I spent a few moments looking at the confusing array of names but couldn't work out what the hell was what.
Me: Err, could you do me a large ordinary coffee?
Helpful lady behind counter: How about an Americano?
Me: What's that?
HLBC: Black coffee.
Me: Umm, I wanted a white coffee.
HLBC: Would you like me to put some milk in it for you?
Me: Oh ta! Thanks very much.
And she didn't charge me extra for the milk.
Phlegmatic British working woman 1, Media-type focus-group fancy naming scheme 0.
Can someone explain to me why Goldfinger is always rated so highly in these polls?
I've watched it several time and I can't see the attraction.
Bond is rubbish in it. He gets captured while doing some simple spying and spends the rest of the film impotent (well apart from the scene in the hay).
The day is saved by Pussy Galore and the US military. Even the atomic bomb is defused by someone else.
Please, why? It must be more than the DB5 and a woman painted gold.
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