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Fantastic stuff loweman2. As an ‘outsider’ my memory bank of The Rams began when Derby signed Franny. I’ve often mentioned (sorry to bore but it’s ‘my’ special story why I’m black and white and not blue mooning) Franny made this nine year old cry rivers leaving my beloved Man City for a new chapter under Dave Mackay. So from that day I became a proud Ram and despite my family doubting, I never returned (They are my number 2). Anyhows...... I may have missed it but did you ever get hold of Mr Lee for this series? Be fantastic if you did/could!!  
I met Tommy Booth at a party, someone I watched regularly from the terraces, he does corporate stuff at The Etihad, strange for me that the pre Lee era I’m all Maine Rd memories. Now I have many memories from BBG and PP when I had a season ticket. ?

She’s grotty Dotty.

From the same tome :
Why do elephants paint their testicles red ? So they can hide in the high, high cherry trees.
What's the loudest noise in the jungle ? Giraffes eating cherries.

Let's start with the winners of best joke at this year's Edinburgh Festival. There's some crackers on here. 
1. "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change" - Ken Cheng
2. "Trump's nothing like Hitler. There's no way he could write a book" - Frankie Boyle
3. "I've given up asking rhetorical questions. What's the point?" - Alexei Sayle
4. "I'm looking for the girl next door type. I'm just gonna keep moving house till I find her" - Lew Fitz
5. "I like to imagine the guy who invented the umbrella was going to call it the 'brella'. But he hesitated" - Andy Field
6. "Combine Harvesters. And you'll have a really big restaurant" - Mark Simmons
7. "I'm rubbish with names. It's not my fault, it's a condition. There's a name for it..." - Jimeoin
8. "I have two boys, 5 and 6. We're no good at naming things in our house" - Ed Byrne
9. "I wasn't particularly close to my dad before he died... which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine" - Olaf Falafel
10. "Whenever someone says, 'I don't believe in coincidences.' I say, 'Oh my God, me neither!"' - Alasdair Beckett-King
11. "A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event" - Angela Barnes
12. "As a vegan, I think people who sell meat are disgusting; but apparently people who sell fruit and veg are grocer" - Adele Cliff 
13. "For me dying is a lot like going camping. I don't want to do it" - Phil Wang
14. "I wonder how many chameleons snuck onto the Ark" - Adam Hess
15. "I went to a Pretenders gig. It was a tribute act" - Tim Vine

Well I’ve been running round the garden for 15 mins trying to catch my Dog .. she finds hedgehogs and stands over them and barks none stop. I am guarding the little spiky thing torch in hand and finally manage to grab her collar .. phew .. inside now hedgehog safe but has the dog had a wee ? .. arrrggghhh ?

I was born in Hull and lived in Cottingham for 13 years and was taken to Boothferry Park as a kid to cheer on Hull City in the lower leagues of football, also Craven Park to cheer on Hull Kingston Rovers. At about 7, I started to show an interest in Liverpool, but my older brother who is a Chelsea fan advised me that everyone at school supported either Liverpool, Man Utd or Leeds Utd and I should support someone else, and like a fool I listened to my elder brother!.
So I grabbed the newspaper with the league tables in it, closed my eyes, waved a pen over it, and landed on Derby County.
Funny thing was, when I eventually attended Cottingham High School as a teenager, one of the older lads rode to school on his Raleigh Chopper with a Derby County sports bag, I never plucked up the courage to speak to him, but I reckon we we were the coolest dudes about!
The family moved to Aberdeen in 83 and I've been here ever since. Oh and my younger brother is a Wolves fan, he liked the colour of the kit.

I think Fergie won a lot more than the title with Aberdeen. Especially when they beat Real Madrid to win the European Cup Winners Cup. And won the Super Cup also, and have two more stars on their shirt than the Rams have.
https://www.afc.co.uk/club/honours/?cn-reloaded=1

Maybe we'll see more young Rams players on loan at Aberdeen?
Frank Lampard has a good working relationship with the Aberdeen Manager.
Will Max Lowe play on Saturday for Aberdeen v Kilmarnock? I'm taking my eldest lad to cheer him on. 
https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2018/08/lampard-discusses-lowes-new-deal-and-loan-switch

I arrived at The Black Bull Inn, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire for the Derby County v Ipswich match at about 7:30pm.
Instantly asked the barman if he could put the Derby game on, his reply being, "I've only just started, I don't know how to work the telly"......my reply... "try finding the remote and press 403, then press the red button"... he found it, did it, and up popped the red screen stating the screen would come on at 7:40. So I buy the beer and text @Ramadonna9 that the game is on in the pub.
10 minutes feels like a lifetime as random pub punters stare quizically at the telly. 5 minutes later a bloke from the darts team wanders to the barman and asks "Can you put the Leeds game on?".....I'm sat on my bar stool, 70's retro Umbro Derby shirt on, and I instantly show the weed, and say "Hey, c'mon I've already asked for the Derby game"......where he replies....."they've got two boxes"......which initially goes straight over my head and the new barman, who'd done a great job already, before the weed pops behind the bar, helps himself to all the remotes and wanders off to the two telly' smear the dart boards as I stare at the two screens near the bar, where the Rams game has now come on, thinking the worst, but hey ho, he get's the Leeds game on, near him and the Rams game stays on, and I thank the Lord for the pub, having two boxes for future mid week games, when the local Leeds, Aston Villa & Hull City fans pop in to catch their teams, might just pop in nice and early or hide the remotes!
Up the Aberdeenshire Rams!.... @2tups

Really glad Max has gone to Aberdeen. I have a good friend locally who ironically comes from Inverurie. Aberdeen are my Scottish team by default in brotherly support so to speak ( also consider that they did a full Leicester when Fergie took them to the title. Which was pretty flipping amazing and for ranks second only to the treble with Man U ) 
Only writing this cos I’m cooking tea, bored, Mrs Jono is watching suits and it’s another hour before we know who we’ve got in the Milk Cup, Carling cup league cup or whatever ??
anyway ... up the Aberdeenshire Rams ?????

Brilliant!  You can be our Lowe correspondent until Christmas. 
I like to visit our young Rams on loan but I don't think that I'll make it to Aberdeen. 

Met Roy Mac a couple of times. Amiable easy going, throroughly nice guy. Mrs Jono was bantering with a stall holder in the market hall a few years back and said that when she was a gal she snogged Roy Mac .. the stall holders wife said .. so did everyone else ???

Met Roy Mac a couple of times. Amiable easy going, throroughly nice guy. Mrs Jono was bantering with a stall holder in the market hall a few years back and said that when she was a gal she snogged Roy Mac .. the stall holders wife said .. so did everyone else ???

When Steve was 16, there was a bit of a tussle between school (Bemrose) and DCFC (ie Sir Brian).
Bemrose headmaster -  Dr WRC Chapman, one of the wartime code breakers at Bletchley Park, although we didn't know it the time - was keen for Steve to stay on into the Sixth form, as he had a bright future, but BC wanted him to play football.
After some dialogue in which the Doc obviously sensed that he was losing the battle, he ventured that if Steve stayed on he was good enough to go to Oxford (University), to which BC retorted " if Steve signs for me he will be able to BUY Oxford"! 
One of BC's lesser known quotes, and as they say, the rest is history.

Met Roy Mac a couple of times. Amiable easy going, throroughly nice guy. Mrs Jono was bantering with a stall holder in the market hall a few years back and said that when she was a gal she snogged Roy Mac .. the stall holders wife said .. so did everyone else ???

Met Roy Mac a couple of times. Amiable easy going, throroughly nice guy. Mrs Jono was bantering with a stall holder in the market hall a few years back and said that when she was a gal she snogged Roy Mac .. the stall holders wife said .. so did everyone else ???

I had a salesman from Safestyle come round once.
My wife and I made it quite clear, both before the appointment and at the start we'd never sign up there and then, but would take the quote and think about it.
The salesman almost burst into tears when we'd explained our stance to him, telling us how he'd come all the way from Coventry to see us, and even showing us pictures of his kids to seal the deal!
Eventually he produced a quote half his original one, which I took to my next door neighbour, who is also a window fitter during a break in the salesmans crying, and he beat it in half again!
 

Window companies that you agree to see and then they say they want your wife present before they'll come (after they've nagged you on the phone.
Why ? .. my wife trusts my aesthetic sensibilities, she is bored to tears by technicalities but they'd rather lose the appointment than "breach" their policy. Are they saying a) My wife doesn't trust me or b) I cant make a decision or c) it has something to do with weird sales techniques.
Either way .. you ain't seeing me or flogging me anything 
 

Sully - found it to be quite a safe film, not too much real tension. Kept it close to real story, although a few bits of built up drama. Hanks is likeable, as always, and was a good watch as I could watch it with my wife and both enjoy it (not always the case). 8/10 old money, John Eustace new

Me ! .normally peaceful and easy going but .. I really am horrible when I have IT issues ...I shout swear curse and  I randomly threaten to crush, throw, obliterate my iPad or  even the company one. None of this is wise, logical sensible or likeable ... I can swear that Google is the antichrist. Apple log ins are the work of a satanic demon. Alexa is a forest supporter and thick as mr Gump. If I had eyes that could spew white hot beams of death rays, it is entirely possible that I would have fried literally hundreds of pieces of blameless technlogy when for the most part I simply need to be patient ! 
 

Sainsburys printing me a double sided receipt to save paper, and adding on 3 seperate nectar card printed vouchers I'll never use to accompany it.

Mother in law. Let's call her Doris.
Frantic call on Sat afternoon...
Doris: "I'm at the auctions and there's a job lot of those baby wipes you use for £100 - I've looked on Amazon and that's  £35 cheaper than retail!"
Me: No thanks Doris, i don't really want to spend £100 on baby wipes or store a cubic tonne of them in my attic.
Doris (offended): "Well that's silly, you'll buy them anyway"
Me: "Yeah but over a period of 2 years!"
Doris: "Fine."
Later that day, Doris arrives, with a boot load of baby wipes, smug as ****.
Me: "WTF Doris I said No!"
Doris: "Well you were being silly and don't worry - you can pay me back over a period of 2 years if you must."
I now have a cubic tonne of baby wipes and £100 less money.
******* Doris.

The new VW T Roc advert with the Ram ... Priceless 

The new VW T Roc advert with the Ram ... Priceless 

That’s like expecting brake pads and tyres to be included in a cars warranty.