My telly seems to be on its last metaphorical legs. It sits on the floor, so it hasn't even got legs on some kind of fancy table underneath it, but you know what I mean. Point is, the picture keeps receding into a dot every now and then, and it occasionally turns itself off altogether, then comes back to life in a second or two. This isn't good behaviour for a television set.
It's sad, because I bought this telly second-hand for £50 back when I lived in Boston, probably in the late nineties, so I'm quite attached to it. It's a really huge screen by the standards of second-hand TVs available in those days, and it'd probably cost a fair amount of money to get a replacement one that size. And since I've got no money at all, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. Someone needs to sponsor me. By which I mean just give me money.
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As you were keen to point out the grammatical inaccuracy of the non verb "to medal" ( see a previous blog "you can t medal..." I hope you don't see it as too pedantic for me to point out the syntax suicide of your "records tumble like nine pins" reference. Only one record was broken therefore to even be approaching accuracy you should say "a record tumbled like a memorable nine pin." However it is surely better to avoid such a dramatic phrase for what, at least in terms of records broken, is rather undramatic.
I sense you were keen to capture the undoubted strong performances overall therefore may I venture to suggest "a record tumbled like a memorable nine pin and all other attempts at bowling were of a jolly high standard". Or perhaps better still, and keeping the bowling analogies while encapsulating the drama "one strike but plenty of spares in memorable German Championship."
An unrelated question: Will there be any Cambridge Championship this year? And if so, which date does one have to register to be allowed to compete? :)
Anonymouse - you are entirely right, of course. I wrote the title under the impression that several world records must have been broken at the German championship, because they usually are, then went and checked how many actually had been. And when I found that it was only one, I just didn't change the title because I thought nobody would read it anyway.
Jonas - there will indeed! It won't be in Cambridge, and in fact since everyone's told me the joke has worn a bit thin by now, it will be henceforth known as The Friendly Memory Championship. Full details are here: http://zoomy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/cambridge-memory-championship-2012.html
Well, full-ish. Register (by emailing me) whenever you want, but the sooner the better, please. You can just turn up on the day if you want, but if we've run out of chairs I will turn you away...
Not much chance of that. I always read it and so do others. :-)
I thought you may change you mind about that Ben and go for a Prince style name. The competition that was formerly known as... Then make up your own symbol in mental imagery symbol that nobody can really understand or pronounce. ;-)
I just walked into a grammar correction as well. :-/
Sorry Mrs. Ann Mouse.
Great! :)
Can I have your e-mail address?
zoom_zoom_ben curly-a-thing yahoo.co.uk!
Hi again Ben! I wrote an e-mail to the address above some time ago but haven't got any answer yet. Did you get it?
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