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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 11:14
Now the announcement of his replacement is the lead news story on the BBc website!

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Points: 20047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 04:41
"You may have heard during Wednesday's Today programme, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson was slightly distracted in his analysis of the Queen's Speech by speculation around Sir Alex's retirement.

Nick abandoned his usual measured reporting to declare him the "greatest living Briton".

ffs.
Can we get some perspective here.
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Points: 20047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 04:02
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Open letter to all UK based news & media organisations:

Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't give a ing cross-eyed flying !

It's not a ing main news headline!

Shut the up about Sir ing Alex ing Ferguson!

Yours sincerely,

Jim Garten.



Anyone would think he'd died.

He'll probably be given a state funeral and be cannonised when he does go. The BBC will be belching up misty eyed tributes for the next 20 years.
Football manager in leaving club shock. Ok, so he's retiring, there's no need to go on about it so much.
Does anyone really think he won't have any say in the future of MUFC? I pity Moyes, assuming it is he who gets the poisoned chalice, everything he does people will be saying "ooh, Sir Alex wouldn't have done it like that".
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 03:59
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oh dear...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 03:48
'Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.' (David Beckham)
'If it wasn't tragic, it would be comic' (Shaw Taylor)
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2013 at 03:43
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Open letter to all UK based news & media organisations:

Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't give a ing cross-eyed flying !

It's not a ing main news headline!

Shut the up about Sir ing Alex ing Ferguson!

Yours sincerely,

Jim Garten.



Anyone would think he'd died.

He'll probably be given a state funeral and be cannonised when he does go. The BBC will be belching up misty eyed tributes for the next 20 years.
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Open letter to all UK based news & media organisations:

Sir Alex Ferguson.

I don't give a ing cross-eyed flying !

It's not a ing main news headline!

Shut the up about Sir ing Alex ing Ferguson!

Yours sincerely,

Jim Garten.


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Points: 9869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 10:44
Seems somebody noticed that he now looks like the lion from the Wizard of Oz movie. 

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/WizardLionClose.jpg


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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 10:40
I could have sworn that was Chris Farley.
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 10:30
^WHOA! Shocked  Looks like Axl ate the jungle. 
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 09:45
a lucky escape perhaps
 
 
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 09:15
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

In an alternative world, the band follows through with the gig, it turns out that the director of new talent for Atlantic Records just happens to be in attendance, he signs the band on the spot to a multimillion dollar multirecord deal and the band goes on to become the biggest thing since Guns N Roses. 
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Points: 23108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 07:15
^Sounds like a really nice chapLOL
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Points: 20047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 07:13
And that was almost as bad as the guitarist in a band we supported years ago. He had about 25 effects pedals spread over 2 boards and God knows how many adapters. When I plugged my one amp in, it blew the fuse in the hall and he blamed it on me!
 
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Points: 20047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2013 at 07:09
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Not a bad idea.  I'll run it by the boys today.  The main problem with that is, it's an all-night event (6 pm to 6 am), and I don't have any desire to stick around the entire time waiting to get our gear back.
I almost fell foul of that once. We were the support band and the main band wanted to borrow my bass amp. I said no and they got all stroppy and wanted to know why.
 
"Because we finish playing at 9 and you finish playing at 11, that's why. I don't want to hang around for 2 hours. Why haven't you got your own Censored bass amp?"
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Points: 66728 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2013 at 15:41
In an alternative world, the band follows through with the gig, it turns out that the director of new talent for Atlantic Records just happens to be in attendance, he signs the band on the spot to a multimillion dollar multirecord deal and the band goes on to become the biggest thing since Guns N Roses. 
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2013 at 15:29
Problem solved.  I cancelled the gig. Evil Smile
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2013 at 11:13
Thanks, Dean.  The infuriating thing is that I have been asking questions about the equipment for weeks, with very little response from them at all, not even a "let me check on that for you".  I gather they're understaffed and in over their heads.

With the responsiveness the way it's been so far, I have little faith that I could pull together multiple bands to collaborate on a common PA system and/or drum set, with only 3 days til the gig, and honestly, I don't want the gig that badly.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2013 at 10:45
From (bitter) experience:
You need to ask how big the gig is - how big the venue is and how many people will be there.
The DJ rig will be inadequate for a band. If you provide the PA for one or two bands then they'll all want to use it so it would be better to find some music technology student / budding sound engineer with his own gear and see if he'll do it for the experience than do it yourself.
 
I'd also get together with the other bands and discuss sharing backline gear and perhaps even drums (everything except snare and overheads usually), in my experience having lots of amatuer (no offense) bands bumping into each other and getting tempremental during change-over is an effin' nightmare (no offense) - one thing it never is is 'slick'.
 
I'd also get a written agreement that any breakages will be covered by all participants, not just the clumsy clown that put his foot through the floor tom skin in the change-over, or the budding Roger Daltry who smacked the mic stand into the overhead flourescent lignts during his more energetic stage performance (both of whom will be long-gone by the time it comes to pay up).
 
 
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2013 at 10:27
Not a bad idea.  I'll run it by the boys today.  The main problem with that is, it's an all-night event (6 pm to 6 am), and I don't have any desire to stick around the entire time waiting to get our gear back.
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