Newsletter 39 (open) -
Some random calls I need to get off my chest:
1. When holding a door open for someone, how far away should they be for you to think 'aaa, forget it.'.......fifteen yards, twenty, thirty? I'm a 'twenty five' man, myself.
2. I hate British people saying 'movie' as opposed to 'film'.
3. Where does the word 'understand' come from? It really is a ridiculous word.
4. Why don't pencil sharpeners work anymore?
5. I am gutted Sweden didn't beat England 2 nil at Wembley last month, as the headline could have read 'Swedish Au Pair'.
My mother's 1999 pearler is up there with the best. However, I have to give the most humorous shout of the year to my good chum Ross for dubbing me 'Sir Clinkalot' when I told him that I am now going in to prisons to help those who struggle with their literacy. It won't surprise you to read that he used to work for The Sun.
Congratulations to the reigning champion linker, Phil Isaac for 'threepeating' (to use an Americanism) by winning the 'Thinkalink Champion Linker' trophy three times on the spin. The great news for me is that, seeing as you have the silverware Phil, you can take it down to your local engraver's and ask him to do the honours, once more. Hopefully he can now spell your surname. ('Fill. I suck' was a shoddy effort last year)
I have now infected over 30,000 kiddywinks (age 5 to 18) and 2000 teachers with the incurable linking lurgy with many more appointments in my surgery booked up for next year. There aint nuffin that's going to stop Linky getting this bad boy out there on a big, fat old global scale.
Oh, one more thing......Will Ivy kiss (x) Elsie on the mouth?...........or should that be.......Will I V X L C on D Mouth? (order of the Roman Numerals)
Your chance to get involved
The site is a meeting-place for linkers & learners alike. So if you have a link that slam dunks the bejesus out of all before it then submit it to the site and let's see if the world kneels down at its feet. As it's an evolving site, you can request anything to be linked, absolutely anything. Linking knows no bounds.
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. However, it's all new territory for me. I would also appreciate your thoughts on the two books if you have recently parted with some lolly and bought one/both of them. Any feedback is good feedback. So any guidance or tips on what does and doesn't work will be warmly received - please let me know by sending an email to Feedback
Top 10 Linkers
Congratulations to the following 10 linkers for having the highest average score, per link, for the year. But a huge congrats to Phil Isaac for nicking it from under Chris's feet at the last minute becoming 'Thinkalink Champion Linker 2011'.
1. Phil Isaac
2. Chris - GB
3. Claire Adams, West Sussex
4. Aljay
5. Lester Fernando, London
6. Linda Chrich
7. lofidelityseans
8. Garry Coverdale
9. Robert Cox
10. Steve Mallett
Competition
Congratulations to Millie Malone (so close) for getting the 4 answers correct thereby becoming the proud owner of a signed copy of the book Thinkalink and a Thinkalink t-shirt.
The answers were
1. John 2. Argentina 3. Atlee 4. Nepal & Tensing
Here is the next one Competition
Email the answers to Answers and you will be entered into the draw for a signed copy of the book Thinkalink along with a Thinkalink t-shirt.
......and finally.
Let's finish off the year with some topical howdy doodies that my true love sent to me:
12 Drummers drumming.....march to the drum beat, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2
11 Piper's piping.....11 looks like a pair of pipes.
10 Lords a-leaping......Lords Cricket Ground? 10 out of 10.
9 Ladies dancing....Is 'Nine dancing' line dancing for 9 people?
8 Maids a-milking....The milk made cheese and we 8 it.
7 Swans a-swimming....up the River Severn
6 Geese a-laying.....6 eggs to go into a box
5 Gold rings....5 fingers for 5 gold rings
4 Birds a-calling....I'm all 4 calling birds 'Our feathered friends'.
3 French hens.....named Hoh, Hee and Hoh
2 Turtle doves.....two purple gloves.
....and a peartreedge in a pear tree.
Burns' Night (in Scotland) is on January 25th.........a month after Christmas (Jan 25th) and Santa's still feeling those chimney burns.
Have a wey-hey of a Christmas and a linking good New Year.
All the best.
Sir Linkalot
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