Ollie on Onion's opener...

Oliver Brett reporting for BBC Sport at Lord's today tells of Graham Onion's dream debut. [Link]

"Five wickets fell in 14 balls after tea - four of them to Onions who took three in an over and wound up with a marvellous 5-38."

Now, I hate cricket but couldn't pass up such a gift of a title; the quote is just some fun to wind-up and/or confuse anyone who doesn't understand a thing it says (a large majority no doubt!)

Ollie on Onion's opener...

Oliver Brett reporting for BBC Sport at Lord's today tells of Graham Onion's dream debut. [Link]

"Five wickets fell in 14 balls after tea - four of them to Onions who took three in an over and wound up with a marvellous 5-38."

Now, I hate cricket but couldn't pass up such a gift of a title; the quote is just some fun to wind-up and/or confuse anyone who doesn't understand a thing it says (a large majority no doubt!)

Ouch!

For those that feel Gordon Brown and New Labour are a bit on the fascist side, a bit too keen on taking away personal liberties...and with moronic comments about the far right coming from certain Labour corners: "Labour MP Denis MacShane blames 'xenophobic' Tories for rise of far-right BNP" [DM] we are provided with an absolute classic faux pas from Brown: the BBC news website (story here) has a rather nice image! Just in case the Beeb have realised and changed the picture you can see a (rather poor quality) screenshot HERE. No, you're not seeing things, those are Nazi swastikas.

h/t Guido

More pictures, some quite sinister, HERE (if they remain!)

Update May 6th a.m. The BBC yesterday changed their news webpage but they have at least realised you can't buck the blogosphere: they have now 'allowed' the image.

Ouch!

For those that feel Gordon Brown and New Labour are a bit on the fascist side, a bit too keen on taking away personal liberties...and with moronic comments about the far right coming from certain Labour corners: "Labour MP Denis MacShane blames 'xenophobic' Tories for rise of far-right BNP" [DM] we are provided with an absolute classic faux pas from Brown: the BBC news website (story here) has a rather nice image! Just in case the Beeb have realised and changed the picture you can see a (rather poor quality) screenshot HERE. No, you're not seeing things, those are Nazi swastikas.

h/t Guido

More pictures, some quite sinister, HERE (if they remain!)

Update May 6th a.m. The BBC yesterday changed their news webpage but they have at least realised you can't buck the blogosphere: they have now 'allowed' the image.

original oneness...

Happy 60th birthday and happy Europe Day...the real one (I do NOT mean the day later this week associated with that EU thingy which grew from a coal and steel deal to become a seemingly corrupt veritable monolithic juggernaut and which, IMHO, should be scrapped).

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Council of Europe (later some bunch of headstrong egoists pinched the flag...and the anthem...and a whole lot more). The Council of Europe was founded on 5 May 1949 by the Treaty of London. Article 1(a) of the Statute states that "The aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress." [Wiki]There may have been some bad press re the ECHR etc but all in all a very good thing.Link through the image to find out other interesting things you may not know, including how it costs 200 million Euros a year to run as against 130+ billion that the EU costs.

"In the first sixty years of its existence, the Council of Europe has helped to reconcile a continent after decades of ideological divide..." Press release.

original oneness...

Happy 60th birthday and happy Europe Day...the real one (I do NOT mean the day later this week associated with that EU thingy which grew from a coal and steel deal to become a seemingly corrupt veritable monolithic juggernaut and which, IMHO, should be scrapped).

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Council of Europe (later some bunch of headstrong egoists pinched the flag...and the anthem...and a whole lot more). The Council of Europe was founded on 5 May 1949 by the Treaty of London. Article 1(a) of the Statute states that "The aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress." [Wiki]There may have been some bad press re the ECHR etc but all in all a very good thing.Link through the image to find out other interesting things you may not know, including how it costs 200 million Euros a year to run as against 130+ billion that the EU costs.

"In the first sixty years of its existence, the Council of Europe has helped to reconcile a continent after decades of ideological divide..." Press release.

Oblectation obvention...

Six of the best, sixes and sevens, six of one half a dozen of the other...etc but this weekend it was 6 and 2; not Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 but something far more explosive...sports: first Barcelona provided a lesson in rampant and enjoyable football: "It wasn't just the Barcelona press that saluted their team's performance against Madrid as one of the greatest ever" [Guardian Sport blog] Barcelona thrash Real Madrid in Madrid 2 - 6; secondly a record breaking penalty shoot-out...in rugby: "Leicester beat Cardiff in dramatic shoot-out to reach Heineken Cup final" which, after a wonderful Cardiff fightback, finished 26 - 26 after extra time and in the shoot-out when the score reached 6-6 Martyn Williams missed [Times] ; finally in boxing Filipino Manny Pacquiao won another world title reaching the top in a record-tying 6th weight by flooring Ricky Hatton - repeatedly - in the 6 minutes (end of 2nd round - that's how long the fight lasted!) Incredibly "The Filipino landed 73 blows to Hatton's 18" [BBC]. Anything else? I guess Rafa Nadal winning his second set 6 - 2 to regain the Rome Masters title could count...but that's hardly casual or occasional.

obvention n. - casual or occasional happening or gift.
oblectation n. - delight, pleasure
[Luciferous Logolepsy]

Oblectation obvention...

Six of the best, sixes and sevens, six of one half a dozen of the other...etc but this weekend it was 6 and 2; not Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 but something far more explosive...sports: first Barcelona provided a lesson in rampant and enjoyable football: "It wasn't just the Barcelona press that saluted their team's performance against Madrid as one of the greatest ever" [Guardian Sport blog] Barcelona thrash Real Madrid in Madrid 2 - 6; secondly a record breaking penalty shoot-out...in rugby: "Leicester beat Cardiff in dramatic shoot-out to reach Heineken Cup final" which, after a wonderful Cardiff fightback, finished 26 - 26 after extra time and in the shoot-out when the score reached 6-6 Martyn Williams missed [Times] ; finally in boxing Filipino Manny Pacquiao won another world title reaching the top in a record-tying 6th weight by flooring Ricky Hatton - repeatedly - in the 6 minutes (end of 2nd round - that's how long the fight lasted!) Incredibly "The Filipino landed 73 blows to Hatton's 18" [BBC]. Anything else? I guess Rafa Nadal winning his second set 6 - 2 to regain the Rome Masters title could count...but that's hardly casual or occasional.

obvention n. - casual or occasional happening or gift.
oblectation n. - delight, pleasure
[Luciferous Logolepsy]