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Monk still posts occasionally, I believe.

A young lad asks his chemist for a few packs of the strongest viagra he has, explaining that he has three Swedish girls visiting over the weekend. Chemist grins and fixes him up. On Monday, the lad staggers back to the shop and unzips his fly to reveal a battered, bruised and bleeding member. "Give me a tube of Deep Heat", he groans. "You can't put Deep Heat on that!!" says the chemist. "It's for my wrist," the lad replies. "The girls didn't show up."

Could I enter this for the "Most Tenuous Link in History" contest? https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/premier-league/southampton-premiership/replacing-shane-long-with-maximiliano-gomez-would-be-southamptons-ideal-upgrade/

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My mother in law's funeral insurance is much the same as her hospital gown. She thinks that she's covered.

I've only just noticed a link to Filip Kostic, but seems he's more likely to go to Wolfsburg. I hadn't seen us linked with him before, but somebody's probably already mentioned it.

Quite. Sims has looked quality whenever he's been played, I'd hope this loan rumour was inaccurate.

The problem is that with something as bizarre as a nerve agent attack on a Russian spy in Salisbury is so open to speculation that inevitably, people are going to speculate, and not just conspiracy theorists. I wouldn't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, and I've wondered about different scenarios; for example, is it particularly unlikely that the Porton Down lot had something they'd quite like to test on a live target, at the same time the security agencies had a double agent who'd outlived his usefulness? Novichok sounds a bit Russian and Putin's a ruthless megalomaniac, shouldn't be too hard to sell that to the great unwashed.... You can almost hear the Eton vowels mulling it over in the club in Mayfair. Add into the equation the Bush/Blair WMD dossier and it's no wonder people are sceptical about a government line trotted out as hard fact. I suspect that the next generation will find out what happened in due course under the thirty year rule, by which time nobody will much care anyway and it'll make a terrific thriller (probably starring Bruce F*cking Willis )

I keep saying that. There was general approval of the policy at the time.

Very true. No point blaming him for the signing, tbh I'd feel a bit sorry for him if it wasn't for the wages he's trousered.

Major's only notable achievement in office was to secure the euro opt-out. His record number of votes at the election has to be seen in the context of overwhelming tabloid bias at a time when what the Sun printed really did make a difference at the polling booths, and the abysmal showing Kinnock produced. When the "dream ticket" published their economic plans it could only ever go one way, people weren't just voting against them on principle, it was as much fear as self interest which imho was why the libs didn't benefit as much as might have been expected.

He meant ideas, not players.

Major was a comical figure in government and is a laughing stock now. He's the master of stating the bleeding obvious as if dispensing pearls of hitherto undreamed of political insight. I have no idea why programmers still wheel him out, he adds nothing to any debate.

Interesting piece from John Gray. A Point of View - Brexit and Illiberal Europe - @bbcradio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9zvtf

Has anyone mentioned yet that we are sleepwalking towards relegation?

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Can't make money on every player we buy. A few punts are sure to backfire, I'd have thought the vvd profit would cover most of those losses.

Gabbi is pretty sharp when it comes to goalmouth scrambles. Always seems the first to react to a stray ball, for example the Swansea escape.

Freudian slip?

Yep. Also, when a side are creating so few chances there is far more pressure on the strikers to convert them, knowing that the next chance will be a long time coming if it comes at all.

Weren't those contract extensions and wage increases supposed to be the antidote to our annual transfer market raping by all and sundry? To limit the hordes of outgoing players or at least to maximise their value to the club, and to signal at the same time that we aren't a "selling club" any longer? That was my reading of the stance at the time, and I seem to recall many on here applauding it.

Obviously not. The candlelit vigil would still be going strong.