Newsletter 6 -
Good morrow my merry throng, I hope you are all in fine fettle (fettle is such a good word),
Before I forget......I'm going to start a campaign to get the word 'muttle' in the OED as a verb (after the legendary canine in 'Dastardly & Muttley') and it would have two meanings.....
To snigger, like a naughty school boy
To grumble under your breath saying 'shickin, rickin, ruckin.....'
It would be tops to get the gig from the spods at the 'City of Dreaming Spires' (a link on the site if you need it!) because the two meanings are poles apart and it would confuse the bejesus out of everyone. I would absolutely have loved to have met him for a couple of crafty pints but you would know exactly where you stood with the old fella as the above would be the only two replies he'd have in his repertoire.
One more ridiculously random thing before I go on......I, sadly, adore xfactor and all who sail in her and every year, with my even sadder friends, we
predict who is going to get 'binned & skinned' i.e who will be voted off and who will be in the bottom two but survive by the skin of their teeth. Points are awarded and there is a league table and I do a weekly report with my observations and nicknames and other sorts of silliness. I am a 43 year old married man with three children....I should be ashamed but I'm not and it's great!!!! If you would like the weekly report sent to you then let me know. I appreciate this has got absolutely nothing to do with linking & learning but who gives a monkeys.
Update
As hoped the site was 'Website of the Week' on Steve Wright's show a couple of weeks ago which is great news as it does the profile of the whole caboodle no harm at all. You can hear the recording on the Media section of Hype along with some other bits & bobs.
Soon, there will also be a button you can click on if you would like a link emailed to you first thing Monday morning, to start the week with a tickle, and another one on Friday afternoon to keep that Friday feeling going.
There is now a second blog up on the site which isn't really anything to do with linking, it's more a personal jobbie that I just have to share with the world at large. Here it is and please submit any goodies that niggle your goodself.....
Tautology is the use of words which merely repeat something already stated, i.e. reverse back
Here are some absolute beauts……..
Plan ahead. Augurs well for the future
Forewarn & Prewarn. Forward on
Very unique. When I first started
Myriad of. Pre-book & Book in advance
Have you got the right time? Divert away
It’s raining outside. Condense down
When I was first born. Revert back
Descend down. Extend out
Abseil down. Reiterate (as opposed to iterate)
A tight Scotsman (only kidding folks)
I’m sure there are plenty more pearlers out there………
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, then submit it and I’ll bung it up the flagpole and we'll see who salutes it or gives it the big fat raspberry. If it's a rip-snorter of a link then it will go in the book (as will your name) and if it's slap-my-thigh hello there, then it will aided by a colour ‘toon’ scribed by one of England's finest, Bill Stott, aka the Stottster.
Top Linkers
Congratulations to the following 10 linkers for having the highest average score, per link, as of the end of September.
The linker in the number 1 spot, come Dec 31st, will be crowned Champion Linker for 2008 and receive a trophy
We have a new leader, in the shape of Jan Fowler, a carrot-crunching tractor girl if ever I saw one. Go on that flatlander!!!
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! You can always be that shymonger (alanjb in 5th spot) and keep doing a moody swerve from the limelight.
1. Jan Fowler, Norwich, Norfolk, GB
2. Alan Newell, Bracknell, GB
3. Claire Adams, West Sussex, GB
4. Phil Isaac
5. alanjb
6. Shane Fernando, London, GB
7. Phil Stubbs, Derbyshire, GB
8. Dominic O'Brien, World Champion Memory Man
9. MARK KINGSTON
10.Charley Park
Competition
Congratulations to Zoe Waterson from Shrewsbury for winning the 100 nuggets for getting the four correct answers to the poser in the last newsletter which were:
Blackburn Rovers, Barrel, Goldfinger & Turin
The laydeez at the top of the tree and winning comps....come on gents, pull your digits out!!!
Here is the next competition
www.thinkalink.co.uk/content/competitions/competitions/competition-6-oct-08-open
Email me the answers (andy.salmon@thinkalink.couk ) and you will be entered into the draw for another 100 pyends.
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 . If you would like something linked then let me know and we’ll see what we can do!
Future Newsletter
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I’ll leave you with a couple of recent 'wey heys' (to quote Mr Morecambe). You may have to read the first one a couple of times but it will be worth the wait, trust me……
The Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815
Not tonight Josephine. Your beautiful body with dee sweet cans will have to wait as I've a war to lose.
(You may have to read this one a couple of times but it'll be worth the wait.....)
Badinage is playful banter
Falklands banter looks bad in argentinian restaurants.
Oh the joy.
Pippety pip.
Sir Linkalot
