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Funny that - I was just going to post this as one of the best covers! Great song - 2 rock legends having a blast - all untrailed towards the end of a memorable, emotional day

Bannan came on with 10' to go at OT today. Palace fans aren't frustrated by him, as an earlier poster suggested: they haven't seen enough of him. (He may have frustrated Pulis and Warnock though). He's a confident guy, and as he showed us in Dortmund, he's got tons of natural ability. NB: he fits in perfectly to the Darren Steven Fletcher song if one of them is injured.......?

Going back a bit - must have been the '70's - I seem to remember rumours of a Yugoslav (Milos Milutinovic?) being approached for the job. Nothing came of it but that would have been a bold move in those days

West Linton - just googled it. Looks just the same but the buildings are freshly painted and the trees are a lot taller (normally it's the other way round!)

?. Hurrah - looks like we've got a thread. Let's have a party. What shall we eat? Jambalaya?

Oh dear, I fear that.....we've only just begun

Interesting but meaningless stat as WGS justifies not picking JR by saying we're not a team who put in 50 crosses a game. Don't score many headers if there's no service from wide areas

Thank you for your generous acknowledgement of my Euclidian grasp of numbers? I'm not contesting the points you raise - we're on the same side and we both want the numbers to show us the nature of the journey ahead. But here's where I struggle - maybe you can help: I stated earlier that the Ashcroft numbers don't add up. I've tried different ways but here is the simplest: it's a little naive maybe, but reasonably robust based on the size of the sample ie the whole Scottish pop'n - 2011 census - 5,295,000. Remove the 0-15 yo's; factor the result by 97% (registered to vote in indyref), then again by 84.6% for turnout. Apply (a bit vulnerable here) the Ashcroft Y/N %'s to each age group. The end result is the right number of voters (I had 21,000 too many, but took these off the 108,000 85+ band). Here's what I came up with: Age Y/N % Votes '000 +Y (N) 16-17 71/29 93.7 38.3 55.4 18-24 48/52 207.4 224.6 (17.2) 25-34 59/41 323.3 224.7 98.6 35-44 53/47 319.1 282.9 36.2 45-54 52/49 336.4 310.6 25.8 55-64 43/57 236.1 312.9 (76.8) 65+ 27/73 191.7 518.3 (326.6) TOTALS: 1707 1913 216.0 (420.6) NO winning margin 204.6 Interestingly: 55+ = 43.45% of entire NO vote ? BUT these figs are c 200k out and so the NO margin is nearly 200,000 light. Any thoughts on why they are so far out? Is there any breakdown of the demographic vote other than Ashcroft's? Maybe someone has an age breakdown and has applied Ashcroft's %'s so the totals differ from above, and add up to 1618: 2002: 3620?

The Ashcroft figures and %'s don't add up if applied to, and worked back from 1.6m/2m result. However they do give a reasonable guide but we need to be careful, as ever, in our use of stats. Your numbers are compelling enough without the need to over-egg the pudding eg you quote 28.43% of NO vote from just two demographics as being "whopping". In fact, 2 out of 7 demographics represents 28.57% so this is proportionate not disproportionate. Clearly the 16-17 was a tiny (meaningless?) sample, but it is wise nonetheless to ca' canny with stats analysis and to use the stats alone, without hyperbole. While 65+ made the biggest difference, today's 65+ are not the future target for YES. It is the SLAB voters/members and the under-65's, moving progressively backwards through the demographics that can be persuaded, as recent polls, post-refy, seem to indicate. The next polls, reflecting Murphy's move, will be interesting.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/28/icelands-minge-pies-are-a-perfect-example-of-why-typography-is-important-4925038/

www.metro.co.uk/2014/10/28/icelands-minge-pies-are-a-perfect-example-of-why-typography-is-important-4925038/

Start a steel band in the kitchen

13 posters, 20 posts - what are the odds on that?

An old pal of mine wondered what "no need to be corduroy" meant in Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave your Lover". And Mull of Kintyre - the worst song of all time - might have been improved if the lyric had been, as (a different) old pal thought: "oh minstrel of infamy"

At last.....but I always knew .....you'd come along

You'd only know RhodesHeScoresGoals was right footed from his unerring, emphatic penalties into either corner He scores with both feet - again, note how often he finds the corner He scores going near post and across the keeper He scores with his head - nod ins and improvised headers - see brilliant debut goal v Australia He scores through the centre as often from wide He doesn't rely (as WGS suggested over a year ago) on 50+ crosses a game His goalscoring record is far superior to Martin's (also a proven finisher) as shown with 8 in 8 for U-21's - our national record. He's younger too. He's earned the opportunity to be in the squad

Frazier?

£75 is a lot but you should still buy her a ticket esp now the tour dates have moved. As I'm sure you know the first Hydro date.... .........was in the spring then spring became the summer ?

I was on here a couple of years ago shouting about Rhodes (Jordan RhodesHeScoresGoals as I call him). He was 21/22 then. Blackburn was a car crash of club when he made, IMO, a disappointing move. It was still a step up after his spectacular Huddersfield exploits as a 19-21 yo, and here's how he resounded (any doubters, invest 4 minutes of your time in "A Season with Jordan RhodesHeScoresGoals").

wasn't so keen at first either....... ......but then I know it's growing strong ?

You sure? I can't begin to knowin'....

Every time you go away ? You take a piece of meat with you http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hUKBuAkr4Lg 1 minute 10 secs in - the short cut to avoid 1 minute of bad hair and pretentious video (great voice though)

if half the folk that attended this rally yesterday had attended the protest against TTIP on Saturday then we'd have a chance of making a difference. Having moved several miles off thread I thought I'd go back 6 or 7 pages to this neat (if not truly original) gag - too well crafted to pass without comment. So, in time-honoured fashion ????

Thanks HL - of course I stand corrected. You make my point nonetheless. People in Ayrshire have talked of there being oil in the Clyde basin since (at least) the late 70's