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2008 - Autumn
31-10-2008, 01:15 PM,
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2008 - Autumn
El Gordo Wrote:I'll be staying up to watch it unfold again, just like I did last time around.
Anyone joining me?
I'll be there. It's all strangely compelling stuff and I'm a self-confessed media junkie.

The Beeb do a reasonable job on these things as do Channel 4; I'll probably ride the remote all night. It is of course a fairly explosive night in my home town. The preceeding 24 hours see late-night carousing with SP and Capn Tom on Badge Night, followed by a hung-over round of golf on the notoriously windy hilltops of Lewes Golf Club. It promises to be a testing time for all manner of constitutions.

One of my favorite quotes - from any walk of life - is Yogi Berra's It ain't over 'till it's over. He was speaking about baseball which appropriately enough is another wholly American institution that I struggle to understand. None-the-less, like it or loathe it, the outcome of the US elections will affect us all. If Obama slides home, be it comfortably or with the catcher (the bloke in the fencing/ cricket hybrid outfit) racing in to tag him in a dramatic plume of red dust, I'll be celebrating at least the prospect of a better world. Just as I punched ther air in the Richmond Arms, Houston, on the night they voted Tony in. History will judge Tony Blair. He may be forever tainted by (the decision to invade) Iraq, but if hindsight is anything to go by (and in the face of the current nightmare) he wasn't half bad.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph

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2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 05-10-2008, 12:17 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Antonio247 - 05-10-2008, 07:15 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 05-10-2008, 07:32 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Bierzo Baggie - 05-10-2008, 09:33 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 05-10-2008, 06:56 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 05-10-2008, 07:25 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 06-10-2008, 09:51 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 06-10-2008, 11:21 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 06-10-2008, 08:01 PM
2008 - Autumn - by suzieq - 06-10-2008, 08:12 PM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 07-10-2008, 05:50 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 14-10-2008, 02:04 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 14-10-2008, 09:28 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 14-10-2008, 09:47 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 14-10-2008, 10:52 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 14-10-2008, 11:44 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 14-10-2008, 09:06 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 14-10-2008, 09:13 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 14-10-2008, 10:56 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 15-10-2008, 10:45 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 16-10-2008, 07:28 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 16-10-2008, 07:31 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 16-10-2008, 09:36 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 16-10-2008, 10:22 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 18-10-2008, 07:02 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 18-10-2008, 08:56 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 24-10-2008, 07:59 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 24-10-2008, 08:22 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 24-10-2008, 10:20 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Antonio247 - 24-10-2008, 07:09 PM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 28-10-2008, 10:10 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 31-10-2008, 10:34 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 31-10-2008, 12:50 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 31-10-2008, 01:15 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 31-10-2008, 01:36 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 31-10-2008, 01:47 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 01-11-2008, 07:34 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 02-11-2008, 07:39 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 06-11-2008, 10:10 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 06-11-2008, 02:49 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 13-11-2008, 12:39 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 01:12 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 13-11-2008, 01:33 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 08:39 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Seafront Plodder - 13-11-2008, 09:37 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 13-11-2008, 10:14 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 13-11-2008, 11:15 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 11:18 AM
2008 - Autumn - by stillwaddler - 13-11-2008, 04:19 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Antonio247 - 13-11-2008, 05:06 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 13-11-2008, 05:15 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 13-11-2008, 05:16 PM
2008 - Autumn - by William_Shakespeare - 14-11-2008, 09:14 AM
2008 - Autumn - by glaconman - 14-11-2008, 12:57 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 14-11-2008, 09:47 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 15-11-2008, 12:10 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 15-11-2008, 10:44 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 15-11-2008, 11:47 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 17-11-2008, 09:50 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 17-11-2008, 10:47 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Antonio247 - 17-11-2008, 02:45 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 18-11-2008, 09:47 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 23-11-2008, 11:13 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 24-11-2008, 12:15 AM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 24-11-2008, 09:15 AM
2008 - Autumn - by stillwaddler - 24-11-2008, 01:14 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 24-11-2008, 01:27 PM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 24-11-2008, 06:26 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 24-11-2008, 07:50 PM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 27-11-2008, 11:31 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 27-11-2008, 12:24 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Antonio247 - 01-12-2008, 08:20 PM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 02-12-2008, 07:56 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 02-12-2008, 09:56 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 02-12-2008, 11:10 AM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 04-12-2008, 01:13 PM
2008 - Autumn - by marathondan - 04-12-2008, 01:58 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 07-12-2008, 11:49 AM
2008 - Autumn - by El Gordo - 08-12-2008, 10:27 PM
2008 - Autumn - by Sweder - 08-12-2008, 11:06 PM

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