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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on July 20, 2007, 09:25:08 PM
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Today has been a crap day for various reasons. On top of all that, there have been bloody helicopters flying over my house all day, heading to The Open Golf at Carnoustie, a short distance from where I live. My home is empty because my wife and kids are otherwise occupied. I switched on the T.V. and The Exorcist has just started on T.C.M. This movie scares the s*** out of me but I've decided to watch it again. Oh,no. It's the bit where there's a noise in the attic....
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You're only jealous because you're not good enough to play in it! Take comfort in the thought that Tiger Woods probably can't draw cartoons.
Exercise videos never did anything for me. I think I was probably put off for all time by that terrible Green Godess.
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I thought only really old people watched TCM
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Col, have you watched The Exorcist? This is scary stuff!
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The Omen scared me. And Audrey Rose. And the third story from Trilogy of Terror. And one episode of Hammer House of Horror.
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Colin, you're thinking of TCP.
Tiger Woods was in The Exorcist? I had no idea.
He was in one of my cartoons once. Which must have been pretty scary for him.
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa202/sketch1959/TigerWoodssecurityclubcovers.jpg)
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Love it, Tarks! "Fluff" the caddy is brilliant.
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TT111
Now you show us your foretee
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I spent quite some time laughing at my dad's spelling mistake until I realised that it wasn't.
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An apologee
THATS a FIRST
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I loved the Green Goddess, Exceptionally attractive woman. Did you know she was already in her mid 40s when she first appeared doing that keep fit thing? She's heading for 70 now.
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I thought she was a fire truck? ???
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You may be right but both have been pensioned of for being to old.
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Apparently Fenella Fielding's in her mid-70's. Where's it all going to end? :-[
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You may be right but both have been pensioned of for being to old.
;D
Actually, she was rather stunning and elegant in that green lycra. Which is more than I can say for GMTV's rival version, Mad Lizzie. I'm still trying to figure out what that was all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaFAfe1ANM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaFAfe1ANM)
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Mad Lizzie was very attractive in a...er...mad way. GG was much more classically beautiful.
Fenella Fielding was rumoured to be Mart Feldman's sister, and I believed it to be true, but in actual fact she isn't.
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I just remember FF having an incredibly seductive voice. I was about 8 at the time.
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I'm off to watch Dundee United versus Barcelona. Sorry. Carry on.
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going to see terry honree
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I'm off to watch Dundee United versus Barcelona. Sorry. Carry on.
Barcelona! A hugely famous club whose renowned skill and tradition brings fear and respect from all in the sporting world of association football.
What was the other team again?
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I'm off to watch Dundee United versus Barcelona. Sorry. Carry on.
...A hugely famous club whose renowned skill and tradition brings fear and respect from all in the sporting world of association football.
What was the other team again?
Barcelona.
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Dodgy penalty.
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Dodgy penalty.
Last minute too wasn't it, Roger? Hope it was a good game. I'll have to come over and watch a match with you one day.
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I'm going to write something now, and then go to bed.
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The team I coach, the mighty under 12s (Redlands United) are bottom of the league with 4 points. We are playing the top of the table tonight. They are called Loganholme and we are playing away.
The broad consensus is that we will get skooshed 10-0
I'll keep you informed.
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The team I coach, the mighty under 12s (Redlands United) are bottom of the league with 4 points. We are playing the top of the table tonight. They are called Loganholme and we are playing away.
The broad consensus is that we will get skooshed 10-0
I'll keep you informed.
Go, David!
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The team I coach, the mighty under 12s (Redlands United) are bottom of the league with 4 points. We are playing the top of the table tonight. They are called Loganholme and we are playing away.
The broad consensus is that we will get skooshed 10-0
I'll keep you informed.
Whatever the score, at least you're not called Loganholme! That's a bit like "Arsenal Girls", "Darlington", or "St. Johnstone". Redlands sounds far more macho!
Good luck, anyway!
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We lost 1-0 to a goal scored with 2 seconds to go.
No kidding, that's official from the ref himself.
I shouted myself hoarse, and my kids made me so proud...*sob*...no, I'll be alright in a minute...
The story is a lot more interesting than it first appears. Stick with me on this.
This season I've been co-coaching the might U12s at Redlands with a guy called Mark Davis. Nice fella who has three sons, the youngest very small, the oldest who is in my team and the middle one a bit of a child prodigy. His name is Rhain Davis.
Mark is Rhain's coach, always has been, but we have had a long association over a number of years and our families are very close. I pride myself on having had some input into his development. Rhain plays for the Redlands U10 development team
About a month ago Rhain was asked to a trial at the Manchester United Youth Academy. A week later he was signed officially and he and his father are over there right now.
Whilst Rhain and his dad have been over in Manchester, our team's fortunes have taken a jump. When Mark and I were both in charge, we were the league easybeats. Under my sole command we beat our nearest rivals last week and almost beat the top of the table tonight.
Just thought I'd mention that. I'm great, me.
Whilst I and Rhain's mum were walking back from the pitch, she got a phone call from the Sun newspaper, who wanted to talk to her about the latest soccer wunderkind. "He's only f**kin' nine years old, he loves playing football, and I don't want to talk about it!!!!" she yelled.
Check out Rhain Davis on YouTube. I'm on the video very briefly as the camera pans across (back to the camera, baseball cap). In all the years I've known him, I knew he was a talented lad, but never thought more of it than that. The video does flatter him a little.
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I am always bemused by these "seconds to go" goals. Now, statistically, goals can be scored in the last seconds as much as in any other period of the game, but if on average a side scores two goals a game, then the number of goals scored in the last, say, thirty seconds, should be 0.5/90*2 which is 0.01 goals per game. This would suggest that if the team is scoring much more than one of these goals every 100 games, then clearly they must be playing better in that last thirty seconds, which should make the coach wonder why they are not playing to this standard throughout the game.
But congratulations anyway on the lose, Malc.
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The team I coach, the mighty under 12s (Redlands United) are bottom of the league with 4 points. We are playing the top of the table tonight. They are called Loganholme and we are playing away.
The broad consensus is that we will get skooshed 10-0
I'll keep you informed.
I was a football manager for five years and found myself trying to kick footballs and playing well in to my fifty's the lads were sixteen.
I found that with my health complaints I could not hack it so I became secretary.
You will find it is one of the most enjoyable times of your life
Enjoy it while you can
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Mince, Match Of The Day is crying out for you.
Malc, Rhain looks a bit special, as they say in football, but he was playing against kids. He'll get found out for the twelve-trick pony he really is (I counted them) when he comes up against John Terry, I can tell you. Mind you, the fact he's named after a posh Giggsy won't hurt him.
I like the sound of his mum.
Sorry I missed you on the video, but I was a little mesmerised by the silky, prodigious skills. I'm sure you were indeed great.
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I'll take full credit for the team's magnificent performance, but also for the coach's myopia and cock-ups.
I played my own son Aidan in midfield instead of as a forward, especially on the right wing , which he loves. I eventually gave him his head with only ten minutes to go, and he tore the opposition to shreds. If I'd given him more of a chance he might have grabbed a valuable goal.
Ah well, if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.
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If Wishes were Fishes....
The great Australian? songwriter, Eric Bogle. (He also wrote The Green Fields of France).
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I'll take full credit for the team's magnificent performance, but also for the coach's myopia and cock-ups.
I played my own son Aidan in midfield instead of as a forward, especially on the right wing , which he loves. I eventually gave him his head with only ten minutes to go, and he tore the opposition to shreds. If I'd given him more of a chance he might have grabbed a valuable goal.
Ah well, if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.
As a manger you should be blaming the ref,the linesmen, the pitch, the opposition, the other manager and the crowd and you were robbed. also the extra time that was added.
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Unlucky, Malc. The concept of last minute defeats obviously goes way over Mince's head. Oh, to be spared such pain.
Off to watch the wunderkind video now.
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Roger, I don't know if you hob-nob with the directors at Dundee United when you go, but I wouldn't mind an invite to your executive box one day.
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Oh, puh-leeeeeze! ::)
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I'd bring the peanuts.
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Actually, Nige, I DO know one of the directors and I can get some sort of hospitality do when I want. They've used The Nomad for one or two things (Dundee United are known as "The Arabs"). I also used to draw (badly) a regular strip for the fanzine and, unbelievably, the club also want to use some of this stuff as prints in the hospitality suites! I think you can still see these strips if you trawl through the Dundee United sites. My pen name was Mixu McMio (long story). I've never taken up the offer of this freebie before but I could if you fancy it.
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If I fancy it? Too right! I once went to a friendly at the .. ahem.. club next door, when they played Wolves. A few years ago now as it was at the start of Graham Tailor's tenure. I'd love to come to the football match to see your team and your cartoons. I'm sure I'll have a great laugh.
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Clever line!
I tried to find the Mixu McMio stuff online but without success---I know it was around a few years back. I DID find a semi-animated Nomad at www.arabtrust.co.uk. Anyway, I'll be in touch about a match to take in.
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For some strange reason, "Love Is In The Air" is sung by United fans. I have no idea why but I mention this in case anyone is wondering what the tune being whistled is in the link I gave.
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I found this link Roger. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3504/dufc.html
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Oh, God. It's even worse than I remembered.
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Roger, who's that guy with the beard in your avatar? Is it Civil War general Theophilus Kettle, or a computer generated pic of Custer as he would have looked if he'd lived to a ripe old age?
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Malc, the guy in my avatar is Charles de Rudio---an astonishing man. He was a drummer boy with Garibaldi, was caught trying to assassinate a Napoleon and sentenced to the guillotine. He was pardoned at the last minute and sent to Devil's Island from where he escaped in a dugout canoe. Then on to America via London and, after fighting in the Civil War, he ended up in the Seventh Cavalry. He survived the Little Bighorn by hiding on a tree-covered island in the river. A quiet life.
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Malc, the guy in my avatar is Charles de Rudio---an astonishing man. He was a drummer boy with Garibaldi
Absolutely amazing. I've never tried drumming with biscuits, but I can't imagine it's easy.
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Malc, the guy in my avatar is Charles de Rudio---an astonishing man. He was a drummer boy with Garibaldi
Absolutely amazing. I've never tried drumming with biscuits, but I can't imagine it's easy.
Bet they broke when he tried to assasisiate Napoleon
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Bet they broke when he tried to assasisiate Napoleon
"Assasisiate", Peter? Marvellous word - sounds like he tried to beat him to death with a lisp.
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Or assassinate by asphyxiation.
Watch out! He's got a pillow!!
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Bet they broke when he tried to assasisiate Napoleon
"Assasisiate", Peter? Marvellous word - sounds like he tried to beat him to death with a lisp.
bloody spell checker have to get it fixed
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That's no way to describe Mince.
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That's no way to describe Mince.
Definatly not Mince he has just cut the lawn and he is now laying down to rest.
Work does not become him.
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I'm off to watch Dundee United versus Barcelona. Sorry. Carry on.
Roger, I watched that game while on holiday at the Coastal Retreat of Berwick Holiday Centre last week.
That was after the Newcastle and Celtic game. Your team were dashed unlucky whereas my team were utter cr@p.
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The story of our life, Col. Never mind, at least you lot will win the league.
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I also used to draw (badly) a regular strip for the fanzine and, unbelievably, the club also want to use some of this stuff as prints in the hospitality suites! I think you can still see these strips if you trawl through the Dundee United sites. My pen name was Mixu McMio (long story).
Hi! That name rings a bell with me (surely a combo of Mixu and Miodrag). Never knew you were Mixu McMio, though I guess it now makes sense. Those strips were pretty good for what they were, when compared to any other football fanzine.
I always assumed Mixu McMio was this guy with swept back hair, stubble and glasses who sometimes crops up in crowd scenes of the shed in these drawings (you can also see him in "Pup Quiz 2023AD" strip). I say that as there was a guy identical to that where we used to stand.
I used to draw some of the other stuff. Usually a single strip and some player caricatures for the end-of-season awards. Never met them. Was all done through stamp. They always wanted me to attend these pre-season drinking sessions at some pub but I don't think they knew I was only 14-ish.
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Those strips were pretty good for what they were, when compared to any other football fanzine.
You obviously didn't get along to McDiarmid Park much. Welcome, sabata303 - catchy nickname (apologies, if by some freak accident it's your real name). Not as good as Mixu McMio of course......
[Roger, I once heard Derek Johnstone describe the flying Finn as "the bookie's favourite, Mixu Pittalineon"...I still think that's funny. He also played for Saints and Wolves, so he's obviously a big favourite in here]
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Mixu Paatelainen! That takes me back... Isn't he managing Cowdenbeath, or something like that. (The Blue Brazil!)
Dundee United would be the Orangey Faroe Islands
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Welcome, Sabata! The fanzine seems a long time ago now but it was fun. The guy I drew in various scenes was a friend and editor of "The Final Hurdle" who can still be found in Frew's pub after every game. Tch!
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Thanks for the welcome folks.
No, Sabata is not my real name or the one used in the fanzines either (it was "Smiley Arab" Cobra Bora in TFH and WTHC). Sabata (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064916/) is a Van Cleef spaghetti western - I use a random new name everywhere I go online.
Funnily enough, we used to call this aforementioned tall guy with the stubble "Clint" (after Eastwood). I think he was wearing a poncho looking thing too one time in the Shed. Say "hello" to Clint for me! ;)
Anyway, for some reason a few days ago, I was thinking of "Mixu McMio" and put it into Google and this very page came up. I still have all the letters from them, and the drawings and fanzines here somewhere. Haven't looked at them in many years, and unfortunately never been near a football ground either for various reasons. Still check out the results though...
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I knew I knew the name from somewhere.
(http://www.westernposterpage.com/sabata3.jpg)