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Mistaken identity
Posted May 16, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4774429.stm
There must surely be a guide entry dealing with this situation somewhere - 'What to do if you find yourself being unexpectedly interviewed as an expert of an unfamiliar field on live TV with no hope of rescue'. I'm not sure that 'approach situation with good humour and pretend to be the expert' would feature in a list of recommendations, though it makes this rather implausible story all the more heartwarming. I feel sorry for the poor bloke involved and the production staff having to try to explain the cock-up to their superiors. It seems to me that no-one is to blame, though, and I hope the BBC come to the same conclusion. After all, it's not impossible to mix up two people with the same name, and you wouldn't want to appear fazed by a task put in front of you as part of a job interview. Put that way, the whole scenario sounds perfectly reasonable 
One wonders if the other candidates have a legal right to request a comparable job interview...
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Dick Dale
Posted Oct 26, 2004
Saddened today to hear of the news of John Peel's death. Like Alastair Cook a few months ago, I sat listening to the radio cursing myself for not paying more attention to his shows. I appreciated what I did hear, though, especially Home Truths, and while it was on my mind went off to look for the name of the theme tune. I don't think I was the only one to ask (it's posted on the HT web page under 'For all of you who've been contacting the programme about the Home Truths Signature Tune...'). Importantly, while listening to it* I discovered I could get my faulty headphones working by sucking on them. Tripped my way through a Real Playered Peel show high on the taste of earwax 
* I will buy the rest of a Dick Dale CD, really
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Latest reply: Oct 26, 2004
Corners
Posted Aug 10, 2003
Have had a few burning desires recently. Four have revolved round my non-existant spare time:
having the time to show Alison the nicer bits of the UK she's not seen yet
having the time (and equipment) to play the piano again
having the time (and patience) to get into juggling and jive again
having the time to write this journal more often than once a decade. This one shouldn't be too tricky as my new job's throwing up plenty of things to write about, particularly if my readership finds similar humour in amusing building materials as me and my colleagues. OK, unlikely perhaps Nevertheless, that's supposed to be my raison d-etre these days, so I'll write about it anyway. It did strike me the other day that we'd make buildings a lot more interesting if someone patented corners and charged building teams lots of money to use them 
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Trouser dilemma
Posted Jan 27, 2003
Oh the moral anguish caused by having long legs. I pretty much bankrupted myself in the January sales as I found a seam (as in coal seam) of Long Trousers in a local shop. Fantastic! Unfortunately I couldn't try them on in the shop, so bought as many as I could carry and tried them on at home with the intention of taking any back that didn't fit. They included a pair that had a 38" inside leg (I usually buy 34-36"), which I bought while daydreaming of having turn-ups for the first time in well over a decade. The were only £7 and only a bit too wide. The dream lasted until I was struck down with the moral dilemma that somewhere out there there was probably someone with 38" legs desparately trying to find trousers and I'd bought the only pair I'd ever come across despite the fact that they didn't exactly fit me. I had denied this poor being potential trousers. Eventually, after much soul-searching, I added the trousers to the 'take back to the shop' pile. I took them back on the grounds that I was doing good for the country's vertically enhanced populous.
That and the fact that I looked like an Oompah Lumpah when wearing them
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ARRRRGHHHHH!!!
Posted Jan 17, 2002
Russel Watson sucks. And so does Charlotte Church. What a waste when there's so many fantastic concerts that people pay £20+ to see these ear-torturers.
*sighs* feels good to get that out of my system *turns off radio and turns on CD*
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Latest reply: Jan 17, 2002
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