Newsletter 11 -
Don't forget your mums!
Good morrow one and all, I hope all's well with your goodselves and respective loved ones this fine day. Before I go any further, Mothering Sunday is on March 22nd i.e 22/3 or should I say BBC (letters 2, 2, & 3 of the alphabet)...don't fight it, you know it's a goodie. Moon Pig for the card, extortionate Interflora for the flowers....all we need is www.sendchoccies.com and we can all do the admin online. It's the thought that counts. Apropos of absolutely zip, my good lady and I saw 'Slum Dog' last week. As that plank Jonathan Woss would say.....'Wow, what a movie!'. It is the mutt's nuts and has to be seen. Isn't the format for 'Millionaire' just the best quiz show format in Christendom? The film also triggered a splendid link for India being the World's 7th biggest country (a classic category if ever there was one)....there are 7 letters in 'Slum Dog'. Is it in? Oh, I do think so.
Update
The Linkinator is busy linking the bejesus out of our little ones by going to various schools which is proving to be great fun. It's amazing what imaginations children have. One corker recently was a link a 9 year girl came out with for Neon's atomic number being 10......10 Neon bottles sitting on the wall....marvy, parvy! ( 'Marvy parvy' isn't part of the link by the way). In fact, I've just found out that I'm going into Eton next month to perform in front of the 500 sixth formers. These boys are going to be linked like they've never been linked before........Oi, future Prime Minister, what's the capital of Moldova?.....That's right Ian Fleming the 3rd, Hinckley John did shoot wrinkly Ron.
I am very excited about a couple of new categories which will prove to be very useful for schoolchildren.....and me, come to think of it! 'French Words' and 'German Words'. There are three things you need to know about a foreign word, its meaning, its pronunciation and its spelling. This category ticks the first two boxes but not the final one but two out of three aint the shabbiest. Here are three little French beauties and a German one......Billet/Ticket - BA Ticket. Poubelle/Bin - A term for a girl you want to bin. Cheval/Horse - To scoop up a horse's no 2s you need to use a cheval. Klein/Small - Do you like my Calvin Klein 'smalls'? Such fun. French and German is just the start with other languages in their wake. Any links for any French or German word will be warmly received.....either improvements on my links or new words altogether, 'the more the merrier' is the expression which is most appropriate at this juncture.
Your chance to get involved
The site is a meeting-place for linkers & learners alike. So if you have a link for anything, absolutely anything, regardless of how random the fact is, then submit it and let's see what your fellow campers think. If it's a slam-dunk then it will go in the book (as will your name
Feedback
I would love to get your thoughts and observations on the site, good or bad. This has been a passion of mine since 1995 and it's finally come to fruition which is hugely exciting. It's new territory for me so any guidance or tips on what does and doesn't work will be warmly received - please let me know at andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk
Top Linkers
Top Linkers
Congratulations to the following 10 linkers for having the highest average score, per link, for February. That girl Adams is going to take some shitfing, I can tell you! I've just noticed that Claire is the only babe amongst the 10 of yers.....unless the Yankydoodledandy 'Kaufmatic' is of the fairer sex but I very much doubt it. Come on boys pull your respective fingers out!!!!
The linker in the number 1 spot, come Dec 31st, will be crowned Champion Linker for 2009 and receive a trophy. Bear in mind that this is how you will be known in the book. So it maybe worth changing your user name to your real name & city to prove to your friends that it is actually you!
1. Claire Adams, West Sussex, GB
2. Lester Fernando
3. Alan Newell, Bracknell, GB
4. Charley Park
5. Phil Stubbs, Derbyshire, GB
6. Phil Isaac
7. Kaufmatic (our American cousin)
8. alanjb
9. Russ Winter
10. Dominic O'Brien, World Champion Memory Man
Competition
Congratulations to Flatter46 (let's not even think about the possibility of entertaining the idea of going there) for coming up with the goods and lining his (or her?) pockets with 100 nicker.
The answers were 9, Puck, Zoroaster & Formosa. Here is the next competition.........
http://www.thinkalink.co.uk/content/competitions/competitions/competition-11-mar-09-open
Email the answers to andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk and you will be entered into the draw for another 100 squiddly diddlies.
Future Newsletters
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Let's sign off with a couple of wey-heys.......
Ubiquity means 'Seeming to be everywhere at once'.......Stephen Fry, you big, witty, walking encyclopaedia, you seem to be everywhere at once, these days!!!
Belmopan is the capital of Belize.....I've got my bell, map, pen and compass. Right, let's go 5 Bellies....
Have a splendid month and don't forget to tune in to Sir Alan on the 25th
Oi, posh bloke.............you're fired!!!
Toodle pip!
Sir Linkalot
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