Threadjacking!

[Frank]

The BBC made an unfortunate choice of image to illustrate Paolo Di Canio's protestations that he isn't a fascist:

[von Boom]

He's giving the thumb's up. That means Sunderland's defence gets to live.

This photo would have been worse.

[Frank]

This photo would have been worse.

It's not the most insulting hand gesture he's ever made:

[Goaty]

This photo would have been worse.

It's not the most insulting hand gesture he's ever made:

Having a weed?

[Frank]

Well he's not describing his own tackle:

[Hawkmumbler]

Pft, German sausage much?

[Spikes]

They was playing some Elvis on the radio today. Which reminded me; Was anyone else called Elvis before Elvis?

[darnmarr]

Apparantly, there's a Saint Elvis* of Munster and there is a 'Sir George Elvis' in an 18th century play and there was a U.S. administrator born in 1916 called Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr (junior so I presume his Papa might have been Elvis too).

*Although because it was 5th Century Ireland, there seems to be a lot of varied spellings of the name.
Th'interweb is great!

[Frank]

Arf, darnmarr. That has the impish charm and sense of fun which were missing from Headey's otherwise fine performance.

On a separate and unrelated note, are all the new folk who seem to have joined the forum over the weekend supposed to compensate for the (hopefully only temporary) loss of board Colossus TordelBack - sort of like replacing King Kong with a thousand rhesus monkeys?

[Hawkmumbler]

Where has Tordleback gone off to?

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

He's gone off to a nice big farm in the country. He's happy there. Lots of trolls for him to chase.

[Bubba Zebill]

Isn't it time we named the moon?

[Spikes]

Isn't it time we named the moon?

We also need to give our own rock a sexy new name, as well.

[Frank]

Isn't it time we named the moon?

My vote would go to Ban Ki- or The Reverend.

[Dandontdare]

Nah, Keith