This is Julia.

This lady is Julia Boseman who is the Congresswoman from North Carolina (Scargosun, maybe you know her from the farm shop in those parts?)

My brother and I just had a very convoluted conversation to establish when she got stuck in a gaseous anomaly for 17 days, which in fact repeated itself for 83 years. Then we got to remembering that this actually happened to the USS Boseman on Star Trek, which was captained by Kelsey Grammar at the time. Jean Luc' and the gang saved the day.

We hadn't even been drinking beer.

Strange.

FDR

The man on the usually sound BBC news has just said that Gordon Brown suggested his task was like that of Churchill and Roosevelt in reconstructing the economy after the Second World War. Wasn't Roosevelt actually dead by that point, because as I recall it was Harry S Truman in the chair when the war actually ended as FDR checked out in April '45?

This is a pedantic post.

In researching this post, I have found that FDR had a secret train! Can a train be that secret? Was it a 1940s stealth train, maybe? Cool!

Canadian Bus.

My good pal Radders has recently come back from Canada where he spent two weeks on holiday. I have known Radders since we were ten and he was my first pal at a new school I attended from 1983.

He was kind enough to take a top bus picture for me, knowing I would love it. Top smart! I am sure there is other stuff in Canada too.

Controversy Hand Grenade

A great friend of mine who is also a Blogger posted this on his site tonight so I am having a go! It's a bit controversial and not like a regular Blog meme!

Here's what he said, and posed!


I've filled out a few questionnaires in my time a few of which are posted on this site, but I thought I might author one and find out about interesting things.

I ask you:

If you could kill someone and get away with it, would you?
Nope!

Have you ever felt you may go mad?
Yes

If you were the opposite sex, would you have sex with yourself?
Yes, I have a pretty taut, flat stomach and I'm a nice guy with a shiny clean Mercedes (for now)

Have you ever pretended to like something to make yourself feel cool?
Yes, whisky but only once. I learned.

How long would you last under interrogation?
Feckin Ages! Well, until they sent in Erin O'Connor and said 'Tell us the launch codes and she'll be in the buff in 5', then I'd fold.

Have you ever knowingly forwarded a spam email?
Six times, maybe?


How often do you use the word Cunt?
Not nearly enough! Sorry women of the world, it's a GREAT word, especially with your mates. I call pals of mine a C in blokes only company all the time..


Have you been head over heels in love yet?
Yes


If it was your choice, would you unfreeze Walt Disney?
Yes I think I would.


Do you believe in fashion?
I believe that simple clothes that are well chosen will always be classy?

If the world was to end and you had the power to save only one friend, who would it be.
Feck! I don't know...the guy who wrote this would be in the running though.


Did you have to think about the last question?
Loads


Is Chi real?
Does not compute...

Do you actually hate anyone?
No. This will sound religious and cheesey but that would be a failure in me and the faith I have.



If Frogs did turn into people when you kiss them, would you go looking for one?
Hey, even a pretty frog probably has a bit of style.


Do you have an alternative explanation for death?
No, we just kinda wear out, really.


Did you like 'Sunscreen' by Baz Lurman?
Yes, quite a lot.


If you could be a Transformer, who would it be?
Optimus Prime, he's a massive lorry and a cool leader to boot.


Imagine you lived in the Star Wars universe in your underground house on a small desert planet looking after your nephew, but you had all the knowledge of all the Star Wars movies. A Stormtrooper comes knocking on your dome and asks you if you've seen 2 droids and an irritating young boy.....what would you do?
Send 'em straight to Mos Icely (I think) and not get toasted.


Multiple Choice. You get to punch someone, it has to be one of them..1. George Bush, 2. Lenny Henry, 3. Jesus, 4. Stephen Hawking, 5. Gary Coleman......who would it be?
George!


Answers on your blog or as a comment please...

Jesus and Mo

This is a top cartoon site my brother sent my way when we were chatting last week. Given the hoo-haa about cartoons a year or so back in Denmark, this is pretty volatile stuff if you just 'react' rather than read it. Here's a random cartoon from the site.

The strip is called Jesus and Mo, and the two of them live together and share a bed, but only like Ernie and Bert or Morecambe and Wise. Anyhow, they are always discussing the theology of their religion and quite often they go to the pub where the Barmaid (always unseen) always out argues them about theology. It's quite smart stuff and there's always funny stuff going on, like Mo on the Playstation or Jesus reading 'Carpentry Now' magazine.

Check it out, you might like it, you might not.

Need to get out more!

I love the internet; it's just a whole free shop with things to look up, download, watch and investigate. I'd sooner have my broadband than my TV. I am a Spod! The two older chaps in our gang say they don't get it and wonder what it's all about.

Today I have been looking up:

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
The Obituaries from last week's Telegraph
Where Pearl Harbor actually is (this remains to be pinned down)
Jesus and Mo, a smart cartoon strip
Who else was born the same day as me (Florence Nightingale)
Recipes for curry goat
What day of the week it was when I was born (Friday, right in time for the w.e)
Retail 'situations vacant'...
The words to my nearly fave bit of singing in church

Top smart!

Japan in the morning

Weyhey, it's a quarter to five in the morning and I have bounced out of bed, ready to watch Lewis in the Japanese Grand Prix. Come on! I think my pal Trevor is coming over too, so that will be cool and I will make bacon sarnies and coffee. It is nice and foggy outside with an autumnal smell in the air.

I am chilled again after my small Royal rant against the lefties in the BBC.

Update: That was not worth getting out of bed for!

ER

Tonight I am listening to a programme on Radio 4 about the Royal Family (hurrah!) It is now looking at Diana, Princess of Wales. She was 36 when she checked out (same as me now!), the poor mare; I stood amongst many on The Mall for her funeral a few days later and it was a fine event. Inevitably, Radio 4 in its slightly cheap, new labour way is loving up on Earl Spencer's speech at the time that was taken as a real rocket against The Firm. Many stood and cheered it that day, but I absolutely did not because that felt cheap! Fucking lefties in the BBC...all so right on and that 'smash the state bollocks'. Wankers!

Here endeth the rant!

Afterburner kicks in!

I have flattened my PC and reinstalled XP so previous virus issues are now sorted! This is cool and my machine is lean and fast once again, and I am using Google Chrome again as my search engine.

I'd like to say I did this all by myself in a top hacker stylee but in all honesty I need stabilisers and arm bands when it comes to my computer. Luckily my pal Walshy sorted me out and gave me some direction!

It's a thought provoking exercise when you have to take off all the files you want to save before wiping it all out; I saved very few, namely my CV, a couple of articles I wrote over the last three or four years (about friends), a picture of a Galway girl and a couple of snaps from my diggie camera.

Propose...

Now , I thought this was kinda sweet, endearing and delightful, especially in a week where news has been 24/7 gloom! The BBC (where I live in jolly old England) became all stiff-arsed Edwardian dismissive about it, but hey, I say this is cool. Good for both of them and the people watching. Delightful and bright.

8 million pounds in the Ice.

Bristol is one of those local councils that has a few quid tied up in Iceland's recently failed banks.

Personally I think old Gordon has been credit-crunch deft so far this week but to freeze Iceland's assets in the UK was a bit strong and bellicose, I thought. The Icelandic PM who is a reader of this Blog (maybe) seems to me to be a reasonable, quietly spoken man with whom one could negotiate but Gordon has probably riled him now by sticking all his dosh behind the sofa at no 10, and invoking anti terrorist laws to do it! Hardly conducive to useful relations to freeze ALL of Iceland's investments over here as a first step now, is it?

Anyhow, Bristol is in for 8 million pounds which is at the low end of it, I understand. If Bristol had 8 million quid it could stick in the bank to lose in the first place, how come it wasn't just spent on more help for the city's vulnerable folk?

Shopping....

Whilst VX52 was having his MOT, I took a stroll into the city's new shopping centre that opened a fortnight ago (and has already seem 1m people pass through!) It's quite smart and has all these stores, so it's fine if you like clothes shopping and coffee, both of which I can exist without. I do like the apple store though, and the Sony Centre. Harvey Nicks is not my thing at all.

Anyhow, here's what some of it looks like from the very top.

It was pretty busy today and the tragic thing is I was quite excited about an escalator that looked as though it was going very slowly indeed but then when I stepped on it (the only person at the time) it immediately started to go faster - cool!