audere - just curious - have you ever been to the States? where?

Never. And it's staying that way until you come to your collective senses.

I think the guns and the doughnuts is the yankee version of clay pigeon shooting. The jam is like fake blood.

What if the Spurs decide to play American teams like some clubs did last June i believe?

And the pound really goes a long long way here now.

I've seen us play DC United (when Klinsmann was manager).

I might deign to enter American territory to watch the front wheels if that ever happened (but we normally go to SE Asia - where the money is)

Ok, PalenQ has got me a bit scared now! Can he see into the future?? From MSN today:

LONDON -- Led Zeppelin fans awaiting the rockers' reunion will have to wait a little longer.

The band's first concert in two decades, scheduled for Nov. 26, has been postponed until Dec. 10 after guitarist Jimmy Page fractured a finger, organizers said Friday.

http://music.msn.com/music/article.a...7&GT1=7702

even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while

and bring on the rodeo!

As it's just a bus-ride home for me I'm not bothered about the delay.

The big attraction coming soon is Tutenkamen. Probably the only bloke older than Zep to play there this year.

None of this is my kind of music (big up the Wigmore Hall Massive!), so I don't know if it's entirely relevant, but I note that a man in Sweden has been given disability benefits because he's obsessed with heavy metal:

http://www.thelocal.se/7650/

I wonder if it could apply to obsessive Spurs fans?

No doubt it should but i fear there are none left, everyone jumping off the bandwagon

including audere est farce who disassociated himself recently from the Spurs taint in his Fodorhandle.

I think he must have been the last to fall off the bus.

Beeter to fall off the bus than be dropped on one's head.

and to fall off the bus on one's head

Any Londoner of a certain age knows how to get off a moving bus without falling.

Well it seems that Led Zeppelin's Jimmi Page has a history of faking, allegedly, injuries to cancel concerts before - more when i get back from McDonalds for beans on toast. Sans beano.

He does indeed. Which is why i wouldn't be amazed if this thread comes true.

Ah yes the fickle finger of Jimi Page's fate.

and as yet (NYT 3-11-07) "the announcement did not say which finger, on which hand, was affected. Nor did it explain the circumstances of the injury."

blogs say:

"was the injury faked? Was it a sign that rehearsals were not going well/"

"was Plant stpending too much time promoting his new album with Alison Krauss?"

Presumable which fickle finger of fate would be discovered yesterday (mondday) when page was scheduled to appear at the Classic Rock Roll of Honor in London to receive a Living Legend award and telephoto lenses were expected to capture all fingers close up.

(any word on this?)

Fans are complaining, especially those who are coming or were coming from abroad with non-refundable air tickets

"Page's recent habit of cancelling concerts because of sometimes vague medical conditions"

-2000 tour with Black Crowes scrapped because of back problems

-no show last year at two prominen festivals blaming the first on a 'serious operation' for missing Montreux tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Zepp's label, Atlantic (O2 thing was a reunion concert but was a benefit tribute ot Ertegun

-cited knee surgery for missing the Rhythm Festival in Clapham, England

Things have changed apparently since 1975 when during the band's glory days Page broke the ring finger on his left hand - the most important finger for a guitarist but deemed then that the tour was too important to postpone

PalenDomus predicts a cancellation and replacement with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Incroyable - BBC just said the cancel is indeed scrubbed!

Guess i'm telepathetic