Thane of Cawdor

Jarrow trying to recover some of its radical past by inviting Corbyn to a commemorative event. Maybe Sir Keir was washing his hair on that day. https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/people/former-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-among-speakers-as-jarrows-rebel-town-festival-returns-for-2022-3686914

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I'm not convinced that Campbell has sufficient integrity in the bank to be judging anyone. He and his former boss at Number 10 are not paragons of virtue. He's absolutely correct in his assessment of Johnson, but is in no position to throw the first stone. Glad Burnley were relegated,

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Just read this on a different, but weirdly similar, site. How did I not know that goalkeeping was initially a hybrid of basketball and Mixed Martial Arts? Roose developed a unique style of goalkeeping. At this time goalkeepers could handle the ball anywhere inside their own half. Law 8 stated: "The goalkeeper may, within his own half of the field of play, use his hands, but shall not carry the ball." Roose developed the habit of bouncing the ball up to the half-way line before launching an attack with a long kick or a good throw. As Spencer Vignes points out in his book on Leigh Roose: "This was perfectly within the letter of the law, though few goalkeepers risked doing it for fear of either leaving their goal unattended or being streamrollered by a centre-forward. It became a highly effective, direct way of launching attacks and Leigh used it to his side's advantage whenever possible."

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Maybe give these puns a rest faraday or two!

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A very long time since my Steinbeck phase but I think I recall one comic moment. Young brother Joad takes the family cow to be serviced by a neighbour's bull. Watching the action with the neighbour's daughter, the young lad says wistfully, "I wish I was doing that" to which the smartarse girl replies, "Why not? It's your cow." Also ends on a bizarre, but upbeat, note when the previously self-obsessed daughter breast-feeds a starving man.

Has the bottom fallen out of your world? Drink Newcastle Brown Ale and the world will fall out of your... Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing.

Wordle 334 6/6 Wasn't a 'Phew' at all. It was carefully crafted, incremental gains.

That's why the boy didn't take the shot on with his left foot.

He'll need to clarify it's the Ivory Coast or his windows will suffer.

Had a look at his Wikipedia entry. Now looking for bleach for brain and eyes. Who knew that such creatures roamed the Earth?

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Was it this c**t?

Well...one out of twenty-odd, maybe.

The (innocent until proven) guilty party took part in the debate on the Queen's Speech earlier today. Tory Whips and Met not doing it right.

First time I've seen this version of the story. Good-natured Rangers fans (oxymoron) in joyful mood brutalised by Franco's panic-stricken stormtroopers. Rangers were given a two-year European ban – later reduced to one year – because of their fans’ behaviour. Was it deserved? Well, there was certainly some drunkenness but when we arrived the atmosphere in the city had been a happy carnival one. And there were no pitched battles with rival fans because there were none there to fight with. It was the sudden, panic-stricken actions of the police that was the main cause of the battle and that certainly did not justify a ban that meant Rangers could not defend the trophy they had played their hearts out to win. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/may/15/camp-nou-glory-remembering-rangers-1972-european-triumph

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Multi-national law firm founder, B.S. Womble. If you're looking for a man of integrity and gravitas to manage your complex legal issues, look no further. Womble Carlyle's history dates back to 1876 and was named after its early partners including B.S. Womble and Irving E. Carlyle

Celebrity endorsement. He wanders over to look out of the window at his massive garden. My chance to lob another grenade. “Look at this place. You’re a champagne socialist!” He shifts uncomfortably, hopping from one foot to the other – although he might just need the toilet. “I prefer to think of myself as a Tennent’s Trotsky,” he grins, batting away my metaphorical grenade with a metaphorical badminton racket. It is a lame joke, unfunny and weak, and clearly designed to deflect. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/14/alan-partridge-interviews-steve-coogan