Think-a-link! Is it in?

Newsletter 16 -

B G sus!

Oh August is such a top month, it really is. The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray. The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out today. Don't you just love it when you know all the words to a chorus but not one in any of the verses! Check this one out from the same song.......He's been roasting peanuts out in Timbuktu. Now he's coming back to do the same for you !!....You just can't argue with that. I'm seriously toying with doing a category for the subsequent line to a famous line of a song we all sing out loud, when we're discoing our squiddlies off, but don't have the foggiest what we're singing. One, two, three, four.....She's a killer queen, got by a jellybean....Go Greased Lightning, your bird aint up the corner aisle.....marv.

I was talking to this guy who is muckers with the Bee Gees manager who recounted a superb story. The manager was with Barry Gibb and they walked into a fast-food jobbie in the 'land of the oversized calf' which was hosting a Barry Gibb look-a-like contest!!!! So our falsettoed manxman thought he had to give it a go and ended up coming 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy days. Talking of happy......wouldn't you just love to meet Larry Reilly, the Sand Boy? He must be the happiest camper going!! What do you reckon......a portly, bespectacled, Billy Bunter type with freckles all over the place saying absolutely zip, with a ridiculously huge smile that would put any cheshire cat to shame......a silk-tongued, smooth-as-you-like, Peter Perfect ......or a skinny, carrot-topped, Emerald Isle resident cracking one-liners like it's going out of fashion? Either way, I'd love to have a night on the tiles with him.

Twitter Ye Not

This Twitter dooberry is a funny old animal, it has to be said. Some people are clearly bonkers and are light years away from the plot. Saying that, I aint the full ticket so who am I to have a pop!! If you fancy a daily dose of Linky's nonsense in the shape of 140 characters then best you start following. You will get a link chucked your way with an extra line or two of waffle as a Brucie Bonus. My local MP, Norman Baker, has been very helpful, recently. A quick aside....on email, I have called him 'Stormin' four times, 'Bakes' twice and 'Normy Warmy' once and he hasn't once commented on any of the names. He just carries on in his polite, correct, formal manner, it's hilarious. He must think I'm completely nuts. Anyway, he has nagged the East Sussex County Council to give me an audience which they have foolishly said 'Yes' to. Poor things, they haven't got a cat's. Apologies if I have come out with this puppy before (cats? puppies?.....what next?) but linking will put a serious global dent in people's spelling problems, as absolutely any word can be linked - 'eczema' and 'haemorrhage' are your resident nasties.

Having just returned from France, I have linked about another 50 French words - once a linker... you have to feel sorry for my wife.....on so many levels. Here are a couple of goodies...Sortie is an exit or way-out - Sort tea out, pet!...Interdit is forbidden - It's forbidden to be inter DJ Spoony....Poussez (on a door) is push - To poo say 'Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush'.

For the autumn term, I have about a dozen, fat hoity-toity schools who have requested my services which is spiffing......I obviously caught the decision-makers at a weak moment, just before 'skool's out for summer'. (yes, I do know the second line). It's all going horribly swimmingly and I just can't wait to say.....Hey, kiddies! 'Capability' Brown's first name is Lancelot cos he plants a lot!....is it in? Oh, don't you even dare start to think about the possibility of considering entertaining the idea that it's not.

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 wild and whacky the fact is, then submit it and let's see what the punters think. If it's an 'Oi oi!' link then it will go in the book (as will your name). I'm drafting the book now so the sooner the better.

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

Competition

Congratulations to Simon Eamonson who wins 100 smackers for getting the 4 answers correct which were...

1. Hungary 2. Quiver 3. Arkansas 4. 1993

Here is the next competition.........

http://www.thinkalink.co.uk/content/competitions/competitions/competition-16-august-09-open

Email the answers to andy.salmon@thinkalink.co.uk and you will be entered into the draw for 100 bits of gold, me Russell Hartys.

Future Newsletters

Please let me know if you would prefer me not to contact you in this way and I will take you off my newsletter circulation list. If that is the case, please accept my apologies.

I insist on signing off with a couple of recent belters......

A Martini cocktail is made with Vermouth and Gin.....is Martini Navratilova a 'ver'gin?

A reverie is a daydream.....Are you in a daydream, reverie? That was clearly handball!!!

Have a splendiferous month, you bundles of joy.

I link therefore I am.

Come on Flintoff, give it some welly!!!!!!!!!!

The Linker

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