The Wolstanton Quarterly World Wide Website New Year 2007 Edition!!
"Haven't I seen that colour before???!" exclaimed a reader.
You might have. But this time it is with a different code! (Ed).
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Posted 01/01/2007.
www.youtube.com/ Get lost in the thousands of hours of footage of both famous and non-famous people. This site is so good Google have bought it! Click Here to see Yes playing Roundabout in 1972.
09/10/2006
Paul Hunter. Same name as my brother-in-law. Top snooker player, already with some world titles under his belt. Died of cancer aged only 27. RIP Paul.
13/11/2006
Desert Orchid
Veteran DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman dies
Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:27 AM GMT24
LONDON (Reuters) - One of the country's best known DJ's, Alan "Fluff" Freeman, who began working for the BBC in 1960, has died aged 79, the corporation said on Tuesday.
Freeman, whose catchphrases were "Alright pop pickers?" and "not 'arf" came to public prominence when he began presenting "Pick of the Pops" before moving to host shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. He subsequently moved to commercial radio before rejoining the BBC.
Freeman, who was born in Australia, had a distinctive presenting style that left him open to parody by various comics notably Harry Enfield's character "Dave Nice".
Freeman took the leg-pulling in good humour, even appearing in one sketch -- a move which boosted his popularity further.
The BBC quoted his personal manager Tim Blackmore who said Freeman had never fully understood his own popularity.
"Alan was a naturally warm man who never quite understood the nature of his appeal ... through all his professional success, he still retained a total bewilderment that so much success and affection should have come his way."
Freeman, who died in a retirement home in west London, continued broadcasting until a couple of years ago.
TCD for Christmas Day:
James Brown died on Christmas morning. Hopefully, relatives had kept the receipts for his presents.
Saddam
Executed for crimes against humanity. Shame it won't make a scrap of difference to the state of Iraq.
Got myself a new phone recently. It does everything! Radio, MP3 player, Gaming console, Camera (stills and video). I found a section called "Themes". One theme is titled "Deep Purple". Imagine my disappointment when I selected this only to find NO RINGTONES from the seventies rockers. I may complain!!!
For those of us (like me) who can't change e-mails addresses Spam is becoming an ever increasing problem. Every Forwarded e-mail containing 400 valid addresses must be a spammers delight. Imagine you pass on a humourous mail to 10 of you mates who pass it on to 10 of their mates who pass it on to 10 of their mates. If no-one peeled off the addresses your e-mail address could have landed in 1000 inboxes having been passed on only twice. Each of the e-mails gathers more addresses every time the forward button is clicked. If one of these e-mails gets into the spammers' hands they will use ALL the addresses they find and bombard you with adverts for "v.i@g r-a" etc.
HANDY HINTS FOR TIDY FORWARDING:
After clicking the Forward button:
1, Delete the long lists of addresses of folks who've already been sent the same mail.
2, Send the top quality joke mail to yourself and "blind copy" (BCC) all your best mates.
Every bit helps! Let's all do our bit against low life spammers!
Not so long ago the Kwik-Save in Wolstanton changed to Sommerfield. "Great!" we thought and started to use it. The quality of produce was far better than it had ever been. Now, however, the signs have been changed back to Kwik-Save and the goods for sale are sliding back to the old style stock. The people of Wolstanton have voted with their feet. We want crap food and we want it cheap!
The Parachute Regiment are no longer going to be trained in parachuting skills as a cost cutting measure. How stupid is that? More information is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Military-Madness sign the list if you want to protest. You should find my name already on the list.
(We should follow suit here!! - Ed.)
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE COUNTY SHERIFF (ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN
These are some of the reasons why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them
He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says: "they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed- wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane." Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."
Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces.
Best Christmas Cracker Joke of the Season
Q: Why did the tight-rope walker contact his bank manager before every performance
A: To check his balance.
Boom, Boom!!!!
Footy:
Halfway through the season, some teams are doing better then others.
Good news: Stoke are knocking on the door of the play-off positions
Bad news: Vale Goalie, Mark Goodlad, is out injured for the rest of the season.
2006 was the hottest year "since records began". We're gonna have to wake up to the global warming thingie soon!!
The Dee road may well be open but now we have the Wolstanton Link Road to talk about. Yipeeeee!
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Circulation 15
Some of Newcastle's outstanding landmarks in (out-of-date) pictures (erm... next time eh?).