Posts by Paul Rowe
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Rob:
23 seconds of genius:
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Just as an aside Rob, your gravatar looks nothing like Will Smith.
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Thanks Kyle for doing all the work on that one.
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He said leaders like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Pompeii, and Adolf Hitler had also been brought down by the ordinary masses.
I was with him until he said this, which is mostly utter bollocks.
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Incidentally, if anyone's making loadsamoney out of the price of gas, it isn't BP shareholders. 5 year chart. The stock price has more or less underperformed the FTSE over five years.
Any idea of BP's total shareholder return (ie share price plus reinvested dividends) vs FTSE? I'll have a look on Bloomberg this faternoon if I get a chance otherwise.
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Samuel made me think of this:
And that always makes me think of the Mekons.
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By some distance their most infamous TV appearance. Unbeknown to anyone, Keith Moon had bribed a stage-hand with alcohol to pack his bass drum with a surfeit of explosives. As the band ended My Generation with their trademark stage-destruction, the cameras were momentarily blinded by the blast. As the smoke cleared, Moon lay on the floor, his arm sliced open by cymbal shrapnel, Townshend's hair was on fire and, it is said, his hearing damaged for ever. Waiting in the studio's wings, Bette Davis fainted in Mickey Rooney's arms. Naturally, the band was banned from further US shows.
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Hey Alan, speaking of The Who, have you seen this?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3722243.ece
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Cos there's no 70s era footage of Big Star:
The pointless interview after the song is entertaining in its own way too.
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It's always struck me as one of socialism's great problems is the association with Chardonnay. If Riesling had an ideology, that would be something to fight for.
i've always considered myself something of a Grappa Anarchist. Whenever I drink the stuff, anarchy ensues.