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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 10:06 pm

If I'm not mistaken, me ol' mate was born on this date in 1830.

All the Best Anthony !

Coll

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:06 pm

Which means he's a Gemini, as I am, and probably explains a lot! Laughing

Dawn

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:53 pm

A double shot of Irish to his memory and another to persevering in his defence!

MAB

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:22 am

He's in good company. It's Peter's birthday as well.

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:54 am

All these birthday's in May! What do they put in the drinking water in England in September?? I happen to know that its another contributors birthday in May as well, but I'm not saying who. Actually, it's two and that's excluding me. Whew! There's a conspiracy going on.

Don't anyone drink the water in September. Drink whiskey instead. Wink

Dawn

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:36 pm

Dawn wrote:

All these birthday's in May! What do they put in the drinking water in England in September??

If memory serves me, it was whiskey.

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:48 pm

Good one Alan! So here's a double shot to Peter as well and Dawn, please do keep the others from us or I'll end up on a binge!

MAB

Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:25 pm

Reminds me of a 'Goon Show' sketch:

'This skeleton is two million years old!

"Haaaappppy Birthday to yoooouuuuu!'

KIS

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:39 am

Well, that explains it,

Not only 'Air'heads, but twin airheads !

You share your sign with some famous Queens, too.

Queen Victoria,
Queen Mary,
and Vincent Price.

Oh and Stevie Nicks is a Gemini,
but her good half can sing.

Happy Birthday to you both,
Sean

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:10 am

And because of the late Great White Queen's birthday it was, of course, Empire Day from 1904.

P.E.

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:32 pm

Coll

Getting back to the original topic of "your ol' mate", I was thinking - in an idle moment earlier today - how gallantly you had, over the last year or so, indefatigably endeavoured to raise the profile of your favourite soldier. As this idle moment coincided with the flashing across the world of the latest bulletin on the condition of a rather famous fractured bone, on which (we're told in daily headlines!) the world was awaiting with baited breath, I found myself comparing the public profile of each.

To gauge the relative comparisons fairly, I considered that one must compare your chap's physical disability equally with the more modern injury, so I googled on both surnames alongside that part of their anatomy with which they had experienced so much misfortune. The results were fascinating; so much so that I then tested my theory on one or two other characters of the AZW.

Here are the results, purely from linking the surname with the bodypart. You have done very well, Coll. No doubt almost entirely through your efforts, you have ensured that a wordsearch on Durnford and arm throws up over 10,000 entries! Well done.

It compares very favourably with, for example, the admittedly much more celebrated pair of Coghill and knee , which pops up around 12,500 times. And it positively trumps Bromhead and ear, which could muster only a paltry 532. On the other hand, I'm afraid the Engineer could not nearly match the performance of his bete noir - Chelmsford and nose - a pair which totalled more than 100,000!!!

Nor could your hero manage to approach the 61,000 figure attributed to Beckam and metatarsal - a record which has no doubt languished on the internet undisturbed for four years - until recently.

However, the original aim of the comparison, a head-to-head between the Colonel with his 1879 (or 1873?) condition and the deformity which has filled the media for the last month, turned out to be rather less than a photo-finish. I'm afraid you will have to flag up his birthday on this forum every 24th May for many years to come if you are to close the gap, as the news which will no doubt depress you (and probably many others!) is:

Rooney & metatarsal - 189,000

Oh well, you can console yourself that he eclipses even the nasty General commanding!

Peter Laughing

P.S. Have no illusions, Coll - this is a very scientific way of deciding things. (Oh, and by the way, the gap is growing by the minute).

Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 11:41 am

For the benefit of the foreigners out there, Wayne Rooney and his injury is the excuse that we're going to have for not winning the football world cup.

Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:44 pm

And a poor excuse it is too.

(I'd better prepare for incoming!) Wink

Dawn

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:40 pm

Another case of a poor Irish boy forced taking the Kings Shilling by the English, to fight their battles for them.

He even looks Irish,

and with his Irish temper...........

If it looks like a dog,
and it barks like a dog !!!...........

I rest my case,
Sean
p.s. whats the Gaelic for metatarsal ?

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 11:57 am

Sean

That's even more "scientifically sound" than my theory! The fly in the ointment is that the Republic's team is full of Englishmen whereas the reverse isn't true ... Wink

Peter