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  1. I am clearly rubbish at this, well done Alejam. Last one for now: He stayed in Deal occasionally and we have all enjoyed the thing that this man is famous for (VERY famous for).
  2. Daren, are you planning to raise the money under the MacMillan or CancerResearchUK banner or have you set up something more specific? Pro's of the former are that your cause already has the public eye and promotional materials would be freely available. Setting up your own local, Saints linked one would perhaps give you the opportunity to divert the funds to a local hospice or cancer related organisation. Great idea and good luck. May I offer a little advice Daren? Get a well-known local patron, this will almost guarantee media coverage, if you get the right one. Sad though it may be, we have to accept in the current climate that many charitable causes are having a tough time right now. I have a little experience of working with charitable groups and my personal advice is to go local and get some set-up grant funding, you just need to know where to look and get advice on the wording of your application, this is very important. You could use the funds from the parachute jump to open a bank account, LloydsTSB are very good in my experience. You will need a 'committee' made up of a Chair, Treasurer and Secretary minimum and from the inaugural meeting you need to form and agree your 'constitution', this need only outline the 'aims' of the group, who will benefit from your work and some basic 'rules of membership' which can be copied and adjusted to your group's own particular needs. Go for it Daren. NB Whether you link to a national charity is a very important decision as if you do you will find that funders will turn down your application based on the fact that the big charities have plenty resources at their disposal already. Linking your group to a company (ie Saints) could also lessen your chances of outside funding for those same reasons. Not a personal comment by me on the rights and wrongs of your previous dealing with the club, but they may have inadvertently done you a favour in that YOU can now call the tune and YOU can now make the rules, and maybe a year down the line you may well be in a better position as a group to approach them, whatever our own personal views on the club's decision to ignore and/or dismiss your previous approaches, they do have to keep to their own guidelines and procedures, let them do their thing their way and get back to enjoying (lol) the football for what it is (just football) again.
  3. regardless of who were behind it I simply cannot believe that the US could not have done more to halt the attacks. This is why the conspiracy theorists feel that they have some credence, not that i agree with them, but as the old saying goes 'give a dog a bone...'
  4. I hope it's not Diane Abbott as I enjoy her Thursday evening chats with Portillo. She does perhaps fire from the hip too freely for the rank and file labourites. As long as it does not interfere with my TV viewing enjoyment I really could not give a fiddler's fart who gets the gig.
  5. Nope, good answer though as PG is up there as one of the least funny people ever. more clues: other jobs he did were; cabinboy , a coal-miner, waiter, and pageboy, a drummer boy in the Army where he was the flyweight boxing champion. He is a cult hero in Albania. NB It was not woolies that he worked for, just a local greengrocer, and he was just 13 yo at the time!
  6. are they that easy? Right; this person used to be an errand boy for woolworth's in Deal. Apparently he is/was very funny, but i never quite got the joke.
  7. War
  8. Stroll along the pier, grab a knickerbockerglory in the beach parlour and perhaps take a walk along the beach to see the remains of Sandown Castle. Tonight, pub meal and hopefully some live music.
  9. Correct. His old house is on the seafront here. Next: She used to live here with her partner. Famous for her role in a soap in which she had an affair with a chap who could be described as an 'ugly duckling'.
  10. Simeon Jackson has gone quiet. Could work well for all concerned imho.
  11. i heard that it was not just the watch that markus gave to nicola. ??
  12. counter sue them for treading on your azaleas.
  13. well done. anther famous person from around here had his own column in a daily newspaper and many older ones on here would have taken one of his books with them on a long car journey. ....to keep them occupied. Who is he?
  14. (wheel) rim
  15. No wonder this country is in such a state when officers of the law (paid by ME, not only condone but take part in such despicable behaviour and lack of respec for others. ;-) btw, my longest relationship started in a similar manner; i was trying to buy some cannabis in a bar in town and this non-smoking chap's partner overheard me trying to score, suggested we share a split and after a quick blow-job behind the bins outside we snuck off into the night grabbing a kebab, jumped in a cab which we got to stop at a petrol station for condoms before a night of nonstop buggery/thuggery.
  16. /\ me too, sort of. Anyway, I walked past the house where someone very famous used to live today. They are dead, had he been alive and drinking in one of the many pubs around here from which he had been barred repeatedly for outrageously gayish behaviour, most people over 30 would recognise him, not just his appearance but his unique voice and and manner. Clue 1 - he was male Clue 2 - he was gay Clue 3 - he had a drink problem
  17. dump
  18. woodwind
  19. That must just happen to you as when I've walked across it most people walking toward me walk on the left!
  20. John McCrirrick?
  21. "Bill Posters will be prosecuted" "Bill Posters is innocent"
  22. un_
  23. Brush
  24. That he did not learn from is major faux-pas pre JPT final. And many fans missed out. I am confident that we would have been able to obtain thousands more tickets had he not sounded off publicly about their supposed dogged resistance. Negotiations were still at an early stage when he decided to launch his attack in the media.
  25. So, someone has been so bold as to look up from the floor when addressed by the emperor thus creating this vacancy.
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