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Benjamin Franklin was a very smart man. He knew how to see through contradicting arguments and see the essential truths of life; such as................................

God bless you, Dave King, for sticking an oar in just when it can do the most damage It looks like the next few days could prove very entertaining.

Hi, Craig-FFC! I'm a bit like you: I can't be bothered telling you.

Excellent! But should Neil Lennon really be at the Hampden meeting?

He may be a cat but he's quick on the paw.

High Noon today. Rangers v SFA with everybody looking on; peeking out from their twitching curtains or watching from behind the safety of the saloon doors. Who will draw first?

Unlike a lot of people who have joined this thread today, I can't foresee the future. No psychic powers, I'm afraid. But this afternoon's ruling has made one thing one blindingly obvious. After weeks/months of procrastination and passing the buck all the doubts and posturing have been cast away and we are left with the simple, bare facts; plain for all to see. Forget administrations, CVAs, Big and wee tax cases - these are now side issues. As from this afternoon this has become a simple power struggle between Rangers and the SFA. It's a bare-knuckle fight and, from this afternoon, only one of them can survive in its present form. There is even a possibility that both Rangers AND the SFA will disintegrate in the coming months as they battle each other. It is now public knowledge that both organisations are at best incompetent if not corrupt. Will the timeservers at the SFA lose their priviliged positions or will Rangers have to come clean over the way business was done during the Murray years? Only one can live: both may die as they fight bitterly to the end. Neither of them has the wit to realise that they have already lost whatever little credibility they once held. (edited for typos)

After wading through page upon page of banalities from Old Firm toadies my aching eyes came upon this shining nugget of information from 'thelegendthatis'. I'm reprinting it here for anyone who may, in error, have skipped by it....

There you have it in a nutshell ; the power of pink. "Lionel, dear! What do you have, idea-wise for coiffures?"

It's past 6:00pm on 28th May and there's no CVA. In fact our favourite administrators have not announced anything at all positive regarding Rangers' case. Ergo; the P&B bid must have been the only one on the table. And.....yes! We own Rangers FC, (sorry - "Young Boys of Govan FC") My next demand is that we hire Paul & Barry Chuckle, (the talented thespians - not the gormless administrators) as joint coaches. Now, as to the strip...I'm open to suggestions but I'm thinking pink, yes pink! Not just candy pink but bold, assertive, Barbie pink. Do you see where I'm going with this? Help me here, people: Ibrox will be the place where Scottish football undergoes a sea-change and gets in touch with its feminine side. Now, what's Lionel Blair doing these days?

Wonderful clip! It truly deserves a BAFTA. Why, the subtitling alone is a masterpiece of finely nuanced timing. And who would have thought that Souness would make such a good Hitler? (edited for typos)

No, no, no. You must be thinking about that nice, Cardinal Brady's, altar boys' Reserve Team.

Anyway, what has happened to the P&B takeover bid? I want our newco to be called "Young Boys of Govan". It has a certain ring to it, don't you think?

They are popular vaudevillian artistes, sir! Well they are TO ME. Perhaps not TO YOU. Oh ! It's also the nickname given to P&B's favourite firm of Administrators.

TODAY'S COMPETITION Okay - news about Rangers has gone on a go-slow; so it's competition time. P&B Agents, your mission - should you choose to accept it, is to find out all you can about a meeting last night, (Monday, 21st May) in Chinaski's bar in Glasgow. Those present were, Graeme Souness, Andy Goram and a bunch of business-type suits. Were they forming a new bid for Rangers FC, was it a cell meeting for a right-wing, military coup on Glasgow City Chambers or was it merely a "who's got the biggest ego/willy competion"? We need transparency here, people; we need names to be named and rumours to be rumoured. There will be a top prize, (a virgin packet of 20 Capstan Full Strength, to be prised, at your own risk, from my cat's, extremely vicious, chain-smoking claws) for the best, or most original, ridiculous or, heaven help us, truthful answer. We need to be told! Take a step back now, please.... Because.... this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds!

I totally agree with you - and I'm so impressed by the Jonathan Swift reference. This thread must make P&B the most intellectual football forum ever. Why, only a few posts ago someone was waxing lyrical about symbiotic relationships and such like. It fair brings a tear to my eye to think of how smart you lot are. In the past 1000+ pages we've had arguments about almost everything; like whether having syphilis makes you a bad German philosopher! We've even had stuff written in French! My God, you really are clever-dicks (an altogether different beast from a cockwomble, I should add). I tip my hat to you all.

Going off thread for a moment; but isn't it odd that Robin Gibb and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's deaths are announced on the very same day. Know what I mean? You never ever saw them in the same room together. The truth is out there.

Can I have the film rights? Then we could continue the series with; Volume IV: The Revenge of Sir David Volume V: Duff & Phelps Ride Again Volume VI: Abott & Costello Meet the Liquidator

Well, it's slow on here this morning. It's Airdrie v Dumbarton this afternoon, (with a Gaelic commentary) and then football cold-turkey until the Euro finals in a couple of weeks time. Let's hope that, starting from Monday, the legal people inject a bit of speed on the saga/fiasco that is Rangers, otherwise life will become very dull. Oh, and if any cigarette company should care to sponsor my avatar; we would be very grateful of the money in these times of austerity.

Special Operations Executive agents during the last war had a trick that would show if their radio messages were genuine. They would deliberately put a pre-agreed spelling mistake into every broadcast. If, however they were rounded up by the nazis and forced to broadcast fake info, they would use the correct spelling, thus alerting London that they had been captured. So, the P&B spies in RM could simply put spelling mistakes into their RM posts and......................................................................oh, I see there's a fatal flaw in this plan, sorry.

For god's sake, the least you could have done was to break it to me gently. You're telling me that my whole life up until now has been lived under a delusion... a lie! I feel so hollow; an empty shell with no substance. I realise now how deluded I've been - I've been making judgements on others while not realising my own imperfections.. my own biased stupidity..niaively based on a simple ignorance of the truth......sob!.... Sob1 ..a bit like Rangers fans really.

Call me a traditionalist but I'm going for: A whole cooked lobster, a bottle of champagne and a packet of Tena-ladies.

You bet your bottom quantum it must stay open!

I beg to differ but my informant has the investors as: Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble Grub apparantly they are all yes-men - putty plasticene in Green's hands.