joel wrote:

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This ****



who is a philosophy lecturer at Essex university

And a promising Aussie rules "footballer".

Love this though, from Wikipedia:

This article is about the Australian rules footballer. For the drug dealer and murderer see Joel Smith (murderer) ...

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I can confirm that Joel Smith was indeed a bloody useful small-man for St Kilda, in the famous centre line consisting of Smith, Jones and Brown in the mid to late 90s.

I swear, I'd never thought of googling my self until now...

There seems to be a Tesco supermarket manager, a New Zealand marathon runner, a parasitologist, a priest who believes he's some kind of authority on homosexuality, a co-author of a rock and pop book, the non-executive director of Fulcrum pharma, and someone who played cricket around eastern Europe on a psychic's advice...

Most recently, I received a strongly worded letter from a Canadian redneck. 'Did you write this crap?' he asked, and pasted below an article from a Vancouver newspaper. The article criticised a school trustee who suggested all pupils ought to carry conceiled guns on them for safety.

I replied to the redneck, explaining the existence of the Kiwi marathon runner, the parasitologist, etc, and he wrote back, saying, 'Okay. It's just we're fighting some freedom of speech issues here at the moment.' Yes, they must clamp down on anyone who's against guns in school.   

well he's from Yorkshire, has recently travelled through the US, has a PhD so he's also fairly intelligent, but he goes on to describe an affinity for Terry Pratchett....

at which point we diverge....

brazo de natillas wrote:

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Now, if someone came up and crapped in your nice warm oatmeal, what would you say? Would you say, 'Wow, super, thanks, please continue crapping in my oatmeal'?

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Golcar CC wrote:

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The link states ImagesLive Camera Dan Ryan Images




-- Edited by Golcar CC at 10:32, 2007-01-09

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If you look closely, you can see a tall curlyhaired chap holing out to second slip for 1.

El Treasurorio wrote:

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joel wrote:

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If you look closely, you can see a tall curlyhaired chap holing out to second slip for 1.

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I thought it was usually a thick leading edge to extra cover after an almighty heave-ho to midwicket. Mind you, this year's more common dismissal of our Billy Bragg look-a-like was to leave a viciously undeviating and terrifyingly slow delivery on the stumps...  

-- Edited by El Treasurorio at 15:34, 2007-01-09

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Many words have been written and many more will be on the phenomenon known as the bizarre Dan Ryan dismissal. However, I would just like to say that El Tresurorio has inspired me with his glorious liberal usage of colourful adjectives in the above prose.

It is certainly prettier than the usual **** that comes out of his mouth in the post-match bar analysis.

Not too interesting for me, I'm afraid.  I'm either the assistant director at Microsoft, and hence a rich sod, or a ghost, as I was born in 1975, but apparently was wiped off the face of this planet in 2005!!  maybe this website was a eulogy from the LJCC dedicated to the glorious stroke player which so sadly left their midst in this year?  Ah, yes!! Also appear the be the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth.  Plenty of young alter boys coming my way....

 

 

 

Found this on a wrestling forum site. Uncanny really, as it almost perfectly reflects my LjCC career!

Background (Gimmick): Matthew Ainsworth is an original EAWer, he used to be a huge face with the fans until he turned on his brother Oliver. Matthew Ainsworth nows sees himself as a huge superstar and thinks that everyones knows who he is, and whoever else doesn't know him, Matthew will make sure you get to. Matthew always gets what he wants and doesn't care what he has to do to get it. The fans hate Matthew, but he doesn't care, Matthew cares about one thing, and that's himself. Ainsworth has held a tag-team title, a X-Fly title and an european title in his short stay in EAW.

matainsworth wrote:

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Found this on a wrestling forum site. Uncanny really, as it almost perfectly reflects my LjCC career!

Background (Gimmick): Matthew Ainsworth is an original EAWer....

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Excellent stuff. paichukka and I did some research into wrestlers' "gimmicks"

In professional wrestling, a gimmick is a wrestler's personality, behavior, attire and/or other distinguishing traits while performing.

You're right - the similarities are uncanny.

 

Meanwhile I think your Jethro-Tull double would probably get on well with my Terry-Pratchett-fan double. Perhaps they should go out for a night in Manchester.

 

 

Gimmicks can be described as heel or face. A face gimmick is one that is designed to be popular with crowds, often through adopting endearing mannerisms. A heel gimmick is one that is designed to be hated by crowds, usually to make the face more popular in any storyline in which they may both be involved (for example, pretending to betray a trusting face). A tweener gimmick falls between the two extremes.

 

-- Edited by Golcar CC at 10:33, 2007-01-27

I was, until 2002, the keyboard player and co-songwriter in Jamiroquai. Never seemed to receive any of those royalty cheques though.

My name is actually pretty common, so I can almost choose what occupation I want to have on any given day.
This week, I am the Mayor of Tenterfield Shire, New South Wales.
Next week, I will be a lecturer in the Astronomy Department of the University of Washington.
Etc, etc.

And how's this for serendipity, googling my name showed my that The Independent did publish my letter after all! And I thought they'd ignored it. They waited a long time to do so, though...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2083871.ece