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MM Links October 2010 Week 1
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What a hoot, I’m back again, and crofter has decreed that my new moniker is STRIX THE STARGAZER.
I was puzzled for a moment as to why. Then I remembered Oscar’s words “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”.
So maybe it is appropriate.
But being back and afflicting you all again was not something I had anticipated or hoped for! When crofter announced he would be away for the first two weeks of October and needed help, out of nowhere and like a rat up a drainpipe, came that Pauline volunteering my services as bean counter. Cheers, darling, I love you too! Then a couple of others agreed. But when (et tu Brutus) Aquagility put the boot it agreeing with them and additionally damning me with faint praise that was it! With friends like these…………..?
So on Saturday morning, after I had posted my MM link suggestions, I sent an email to crofter “offering” (did I have any option?) my services. When he didn’t accept straight away but replied writing “I SHALL RETURN” (sic) I should have smelt the vermin hanging in the air.
So tuning in on Sunday evening to see the scores I could see what crofter had already known – that I had two of the answers and was in the lead. My immediate reaction was “Holy cow, oh please no, NOT the double-whammy” Hoist on my own aroma. I could almost hear Pauline stirring the Stockpot whilst chortling with schadenfreude.
I was puzzled for a moment as to why. Then I remembered Oscar’s words “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”.
So maybe it is appropriate.
But being back and afflicting you all again was not something I had anticipated or hoped for! When crofter announced he would be away for the first two weeks of October and needed help, out of nowhere and like a rat up a drainpipe, came that Pauline volunteering my services as bean counter. Cheers, darling, I love you too! Then a couple of others agreed. But when (et tu Brutus) Aquagility put the boot it agreeing with them and additionally damning me with faint praise that was it! With friends like these…………..?
So on Saturday morning, after I had posted my MM link suggestions, I sent an email to crofter “offering” (did I have any option?) my services. When he didn’t accept straight away but replied writing “I SHALL RETURN” (sic) I should have smelt the vermin hanging in the air.
So tuning in on Sunday evening to see the scores I could see what crofter had already known – that I had two of the answers and was in the lead. My immediate reaction was “Holy cow, oh please no, NOT the double-whammy” Hoist on my own aroma. I could almost hear Pauline stirring the Stockpot whilst chortling with schadenfreude.
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Oh well, stop whingeing and let’s cut to the chase.
On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having spent some years, as you will discover, at University I knew better than to maintain that falsehood!).
I then thought back on my own departure for University but I don’t think that it had any impact at all on my parents as I had been at boarding school since the age of 7! Autres temps…….
On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having spent some years, as you will discover, at University I knew better than to maintain that falsehood!).
I then thought back on my own departure for University but I don’t think that it had any impact at all on my parents as I had been at boarding school since the age of 7! Autres temps…….
Oh well, stop whingeing and let’s cut to the chase.
On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having spent some years, as you will discover, at University I knew better than to maintain that falsehood!).
I then thought back on my own departure for University but I don’t think that it had any impact at all on my parents as I had been at boarding school since the age of 7! Autres temps…….
On another web forum there has been much talk in recent days about “empty nest syndrome” where mums are lamenting their little boys and girls departing for University. (I was going to write “departing for Higher Education” but having spent some years, as you will discover, at University I knew better than to maintain that falsehood!).
I then thought back on my own departure for University but I don’t think that it had any impact at all on my parents as I had been at boarding school since the age of 7! Autres temps…….
I was at Newcastle from 1964 until 1971. When I arrived there were very few public school students at Newcastle and even fewer of them were from the south of England. We were regarded as strange creatures and as I had Beatles length hair, did not wear a suit/blazer/jacket or a tie I was, in Geordieland, almost exotic.
On my first journey by bus from my digs in Whitley Bay when I received my ticket and said “Thank you” the bus conductress looked askance and trilled “Oh, la-di-da, aren’t we posh?” I soon learned to flatten my accent!
But 1964 to ‘71 was a time of extraordinary change. Music alone changed dramatically in those years. We’re all, as even the young are, still listening to that music 40+ years on. Indeed one of my student best friends and contemporaries went on to make his life, fame and fortune in pop music. Poor (!) old thing became an OAP this last weekend but has a new record out in a couple of weeks to maintain his lifestyle! I had one of the first stereo hi-fi systems and a fairly large selection of records and he and I would compete to get the first new releases. By this time I was in a hall of residence, in rooms immediately below the warden, a lecturer in French. He told me I could play any music I liked just so long as it was not Wagner. The Tannhauser Overture went straight onto the turntable and at full blast!
Also in those years attitudes to so many aspects of life were changing, not all it has to be said for the better. Newcastle was a little behind the action and it wasn’t until 1968 that drugs had any real impact on the student population there but by 1970 drugs were rife. I even heard tell of a lorry touring the universities with 3 ½ tons of cannabis resin on board for sale in not less than one hundredweight deals!
As the 60’s progressed my previously booted, suited and tied ‘64 contemporaries, both state as well as p
On my first journey by bus from my digs in Whitley Bay when I received my ticket and said “Thank you” the bus conductress looked askance and trilled “Oh, la-di-da, aren’t we posh?” I soon learned to flatten my accent!
But 1964 to ‘71 was a time of extraordinary change. Music alone changed dramatically in those years. We’re all, as even the young are, still listening to that music 40+ years on. Indeed one of my student best friends and contemporaries went on to make his life, fame and fortune in pop music. Poor (!) old thing became an OAP this last weekend but has a new record out in a couple of weeks to maintain his lifestyle! I had one of the first stereo hi-fi systems and a fairly large selection of records and he and I would compete to get the first new releases. By this time I was in a hall of residence, in rooms immediately below the warden, a lecturer in French. He told me I could play any music I liked just so long as it was not Wagner. The Tannhauser Overture went straight onto the turntable and at full blast!
Also in those years attitudes to so many aspects of life were changing, not all it has to be said for the better. Newcastle was a little behind the action and it wasn’t until 1968 that drugs had any real impact on the student population there but by 1970 drugs were rife. I even heard tell of a lorry touring the universities with 3 ½ tons of cannabis resin on board for sale in not less than one hundredweight deals!
As the 60’s progressed my previously booted, suited and tied ‘64 contemporaries, both state as well as p
As the 60’s progressed my previously booted, suited and tied ‘64 contemporaries, both state as well as public school, ended up in jeans etc and with long hair. Indeed it seemed that the most strait-laced of them went the furthest off the rails. I, who had started off as the wild one, ended up a lot staider than they. All sex, drugs and rock’n’roll they say. But it wasn’t all free love and sunshine and there were inevitably many casualties along the way. But all that nonsense about “if you can remember the 60’s you weren’t there”. Complete tosh.
But, hey, let’s preserve the myth!!
Not only did attitudes, fashions, tastes in music, prejudices, morals etc change but so also did language. Various urban working class accents became more acceptable, even fashionable (think Mockney), and new words came from them and into general use. Some of those words still survive, others when used now sound just ghastly. “Hey man, look at that groovy chick.” Yuk. “That’s not by bag, man” Yuk and double yuk. But some others have survived and are still in common use – think of “grotty” (supposedly short for grotesque) and there are still others so let’s, today, play with some of the words from those years.
However, a warning, I am not saying that my preferred link words come from those days!
But, hey man, the scene’s copasetic. So peace and love, man – let’s get down and boogie!
But, hey, let’s preserve the myth!!
Not only did attitudes, fashions, tastes in music, prejudices, morals etc change but so also did language. Various urban working class accents became more acceptable, even fashionable (think Mockney), and new words came from them and into general use. Some of those words still survive, others when used now sound just ghastly. “Hey man, look at that groovy chick.” Yuk. “That’s not by bag, man” Yuk and double yuk. But some others have survived and are still in common use – think of “grotty” (supposedly short for grotesque) and there are still others so let’s, today, play with some of the words from those years.
However, a warning, I am not saying that my preferred link words come from those days!
But, hey man, the scene’s copasetic. So peace and love, man – let’s get down and boogie!
As always, for the every day running of MM, I will follow the same rule as introduced by crofter on word length. Each of my chosen link words contains at least four letters and at most eight. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!
Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when my selected words will be declared and the same rules for awarding points will be applied as have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.
My final set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
Tune in, drop out and good luck.
Each of my selected words may go in front of or after my challenge word. The competition will officially close at 7.00pm on Sunday evening when my selected words will be declared and the same rules for awarding points will be applied as have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.
My final set of four words to have their links predicted will appear below at 9.00am.
Tune in, drop out and good luck.
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