This weekend sees the start of the new Pro-14 season, and the finish of the English Premiership. The only guarantee is that Saracens will be dead last, which will have rugby fans all over Europe crying disconsolately into their beer.
On the telly
Friday 2nd October
| Zebre v Cardiff | 18:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster v Treviso | 20:15 | Premier Sports1 |
| Leinster v Dragons | 20:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
Saturday 3rd October
| Scarlets v Munster | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Green v Gold | 16:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Connacht v Glasgow | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Edinburgh v Ospreys | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 4th October
| Gloucester v Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Leicester v Harlequins | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| London Irish v Bristol | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Sale v Worcester | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Saracens v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| Wasps v Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
Ovally Balls 
Very Rees-Moggian of you, CMW.
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I’d be very surprised if Rees-Mogg was watching Catchword when I was, but I suppose you never know.
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Trisk’ll be along in a minute to tell tales of the briefings he had to give Coia about the long words that might come up.
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“He exploded, shooting lumps of love lava from his …”
Thauma! Rescue us please!
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@Deebee – I’ve already poured cold floccinaucinihilipilification on it, do we need the sand as well?
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The silico to TomP’s volcanoco as it were.
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Can you pump magma? Been thinking about using more metaphor.
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There’s a school of thought that less is more.
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Oh yeah, baby:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504019/internet-enabled-male-chastity-cage-cellmate-qiui-security-flaw-remotely-locked
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I’ve gone off Paul Coia since he was rude to Ted Chippington on Pebble Mill at One. I’ve posted that video before so here’s Ted Bovis singing the Righteous Brothers
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… tiny stump where his throbbing member used to reside.
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Oh dog! Bring back proper rucking, punching in scrum and coal miners strikes! Surely a more sophisticated era
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sag hated Stewart Lee. Stewart Lee is a great supporter of Ted Chippington. Paul Coia was rude to Ted Chippington.
The picture’s becoming clearer.
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Sag is a man of taste.
Well, I can’t say I hate Stewart Lee, but he ain’t funny.
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Eddie Van Halen deid! Only 65 too.
This was a helluva start to a dayboo album
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Oh, that makes me feel old.
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I like Stewart Lee.
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Redemption by the way of Jackie Leven & Pere Ubu’s David Thomas…
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I was shocked when I discovered that the Righteous Bros were white.
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Too young, BB. Worth another one.
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That’s good Iks, but his version of I Say A Little Prayer is better…
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Rip Eddie.
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Stuart Lee just isn’t as clever as his fans think he is.
No offence Iks.
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@Iks – On a scale that includes Craigs how clever do you think Stewart Lee is?
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CMW – probably a ‘CMW’ which is towards the bottom.
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I hope Sag is alright and is glaring at playing kids through his drugs smoke whilst angrily sipping his cappuccino.
You know, living his best life.
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@Craigs – Judging by the book my brother bought me for Christmas that I can’t really get along with, a whole lot more thought has gone into Stewart Lee’s musings on Brexit than has gone into mine. Mine are more succinct though.
He’s also made a lot more money out of it. So far.
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And Iks will do right by me when it comes to the ratings. He’ll still be basking in the glory of me likening him to renowned writer of silly horror books with dodgy sex-scenes Guy N Smith. Plus there’s the beaverage, you haven’t got a chance.
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Pretty confident we all wish Sag all the best. From what I can recall he’s significantly (at least in his mind) younger than Paul Coia, seem to remember he made that point quite forcefully.
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I do wonder though if the way to get to Sag’s heart might be to mercilessly deride him rather than pay tribute to the efforts he made to bring or keep us all together. Different people have peculiar tastes etc.
Not that I think he’d be reading even assuming he’s alive and well and all that.
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Craigs, you’re right. He’s no Titania McGrath.
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Have made a tweak to the main love interest. I think the world’s ready for a mergnome.
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If anyone would like to watch unfunny “comedy” that definitely isn’t as anything as it thinks it is, then the new Spitting Image is for you. Truly dire.
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Sag’s a couple of months older than me. So, very young rather than very very young.
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Vicuña
The vicuña is one of four South American camelids, along with its cousins, the llama, alpaca and guanaco. (They’re also related to camels.) Vicuña wool is one of the most expensive fabrics in the world, far exceeding the cost of cashmere. The value of its wool has led to conservation efforts to bolster the vicuña’s numbers – and thus the amount of wool that can be shorn – but it’s also resulted in vicuña poaching and illegal smuggling of the prized wool.
From MSN this morning. Way cooler than a common or garden llama. But then MSN also had a link to an article claiming that salt, pepper and lemon was a miracle cure when we all know that it’s tequila, not pepper in that combo that is a miracle cure for other people’s boring personalities.
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Tomp – correct. One is a parody twitter account, the other peaked when he criticised Richard Hammond.
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Piers Francis has caught the rona. Out of the England squad.
Worcester-Sale is a soap opera.
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Exactly, craigsy. Stewart Lee shamelessly brags about not doing jokes. TM at least has one joke and the knickers will say it was an unfunny joke the first time let alone the millionth time but it’s a joke. Stewart Lee’s got fiddly squat. Can’t even be bothered to turn a mundane observation into an overlong routine. Loser.
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Tomp – I’m enjoying you turning my passing observation into an overlong routine.
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@tomp
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@tomp
(not sure what happened there)
It’s an interesting nickname for FD, I’ll give you that.
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Never Paul Coia (can’t recall coming across him at all) – frequently Henry Kelly – not that he listened to me at all…. I can still recall his mangling of Kropotkin (the anarchist etc etc etc ) – I think it came out as Kroto-poto-kin.
Luckily the question was “what nationality…?” or “what century…?” So, how he pronounced it wasn’t critical…..
Bill Stewart (W G Stewart as posted) wouldn’t have questions about “Nazis” and no questions with the word “organism”…. “You know what I’ll say… ” He was ‘old school’ tv (been around since the 50s/60s) and knew the tape editors would collate the bloopers/out-takes into a “Christmas special” – Denis Norden’s “It’ll be alright on the night” was tame enough compared to a couple of internal compilations I saw
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Bon apres-midi
I don’t understand what Sale must have been up to:………….loads more cases today.
They seem to be in greater denial than Trump…….
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Relegate Sale instead of Saracens. All is forgiven.
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I thought my series of Deeply Hert Southern Belle vignettes would be a winner. Not even a ripple.
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‘Matron, the angle grinder!’
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IIRC – 2 species (?) are domesticated (llama and alpaca) and 2 not
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Why all the south american camelid interest?
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Poor chimpie. What hope does he have of buying beer now?
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