My vote is for Avant
No Dosh, been at the apple juice again?
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Alyn Beattie
I\'m sane, it\'s the rest of the world that\'s mad.
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Avant - outstanding.
I'll see if I can't persuade Dodgy Dave to establish a poll on Monday. In the meantime keep coming up with the ideas...
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My vote is for Avant No Dosh, been at the apple juice again?
At 8:30 in the morning? Sir, you cut me to the quick!
Actually I vote for Avant. Outstanding effort.
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Any chance of a backroom poll to see who is group favourite? :-)
You do realise that I can fiddle the poll results, if I so wish ;o)
Bearing this in mind, I might as well announce the results now.
Me first,
Avant second,
No Do$h Last.
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Signor Dynamic, I suggest that your modus operandi is just so last week, that it's almost 1983. Current thinking is that there are better methods of achieving the "correct" result in a vote.
The Ohio solution is to use an easily-fiddled electronic vote system. You were nearly there, but you lost out by making the mistake of admitting that it can be fiddled.
So you could retreat back four years to the Florida solution, and just not count all the votes (for an extra fee, Florida-vote-plus comes with an extra facility to stop people voting in the first place).
The alternative is the Ukraine voting method, previously tested in Serbia and in Georgia, but pioneed in Fiji: just tell the voters to keep on voting until they give the "correct" answer.
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the Ukraine voting method, previously tested in Serbia and in Georgia
You forgot Ireland, NW.
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You forgot Ireland, NW.
as in "vote early and often"?
Old tactic, but nowhere near as potent as the ignore-the-result method.
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Old tactic, but nowhere near as potent as the ignore-the-result method.
But seems to work better in areas where the populace think they are in a democracy.
(Give me a few hours - I'll think of a motoring link...)
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(Give me a few hours - I'll think of a motoring link...)
Better be quicker than that. C'mon, get back on topic and start knocking out those backroom carols please.
Ho ho humbug....
No Do$h - Alfa-driving Backroom Moderator
mailto:moderators@honestjohn.co.uk
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I'll give you a motoring link, though abt canvassing rather than abt polling.
Early 80s, by-election in a rural constituency. Beat-up old car goes through town in middle of night, with loud speaker system shouting "vote for X".
Not a brilliant tactic, you might think (hundreds of voters with their night's sleep wrecked by your candidate) ... until it was rumbled as a dirty trick by supporters of candidate Y.
This got lots of publicity, which then sparked a brief wave of similar stunts in subsequent elections. Some of them were unmasked as double-bluffs: candidate A's people send out a middle-of-night speaker car saying "vote for A", cos folks would assume it was a dirty trick by candidate B.
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Read my furry lips.....
Back to motoring carols, not motoring stories.
We thank you for your cooperation.
No Do$h - Alfa-driving Backroom Moderator
mailto:moderators@honestjohn.co.uk
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Hey Alan, saw you on Top Gear last night. You weren't singing tho'
Much as it grieves me to insist, Motoring oriented Carol Destruction only, in this thread please.
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I'll give you a motoring link,
Gosh thanks!
Sounds like the Judge who decided he could still try the case* without fear of bias, despite receiving two cases of champagne the night before the trial. One claimed to be from Chambers X but was evidently from Chambers Y. The other claimed to be from Chambers Y but was evidently from Chambers X.....
(*it was a motoring offence, IIRC...)
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Disclaimer: Recovering from flu, brain still a bit pickled. I'm working on a better one! ;)
Once in Royal HJ's Backroom
Stood a lowly mot'ring Fred
"Speed cameras, police and politics.
"I long for different things." He said.
Don't delete the fun and games!
Leave them there to entertain.
"No more car mats or Sierras"
Poor Fred shook his weary head.
"As for Patently and NoWheels
See they've crashed another thread."
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Not bad, better than Dodgy Dave's anyway.
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Not bad, better than Dodgy Dave's anyway.
At least I've made an attempt. Unlike yourself who has yet to rise to the challenge.
While Mark washed his socks by night,
His burberry baseball cap upon the ground,
The Hells Angels of the motoring world came down,
Because his blue lights shone around,
Because his blue lights shone around.
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Once in Dodgy David's carport
Croaked a clunky repmobile
And that driver loved his Vectra
Dreamed of bringing it to bed:
Dodgy was that driver wild,
Luton's cart his little child.
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"As for Patently and NoWheels See they've crashed another thread."
Yes, but Patently was driving :)
Thanks, PG, for a lovely carol. As NoDosh says, it's better than Dave's ... and I won't spoil the compliment by saying that it ought to be ;-)
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As NoDosh says,
And there was me thinking Mark (Really Likes Bacon Sarnies) said that.
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And there was me thinking Mark (Really Likes Bacon Sarnies) said that.
I suppose I could try to claim that I thought that ND is really only Mark's evil twin ... but I really just wasn't watching properly.
Sorry, Still dazed after the crash ;-)
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I suppose I could try to claim that I thought that ND is really only Mark's evil twin ...
Only in a Danny DeVito/Arnold Schwarzenegger sort of way. And yes, I'm the one that gets the panto offers flooding in whenever Snow White gets mentioned.
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"And yes, I'm the one that gets the panto offers flooding in whenever Snow White gets mentioned."
Surely, a supporting role in Cinderella?
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"And yes, I'm the one that gets the panto offers flooding in whenever Snow White gets mentioned." Surely, a supporting role in Cinderella?
Roflmao!
:oD
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Yes, but Patently was driving :)
Yes, and let that be a warning to the BR of the dangers of carrying distracting passengers.
Thank you, PG!
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Yes, and let that be a warning to the BR of the dangers of carrying distracting passengers.
drat, I wish I could think of a witty reply to that!
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Reminds me of the instruction in Austrian buses, many years ago, which had a notice in German which was helpfully translated into English as:
'Do Not Interfere with the Driver while he is Driving'
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