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1. Lover:: comfort
   
2. Ridiculous:: silly
   
3. Oscar:: winner
   
4. Tennis:: court
   
5. Account Balance:: zero
   
6. Hickey:: love bite
   
7. License:: to kill
   
8. Breathmints:: rolos ? (they're chocoloates)
   
9. TexMex:: chiquito
   
10. Stepmother:: mother-out-law
    

Playdough with Maisy.
As we used the pig stamp I said "We'll go to a farm soon with Grandma Elizabeth and Godpa Richard and see some pigs and have a nice time."
Maisy - "Time".
Me - "Do you know what time is?"
Maisy - "Money!"

LunaNi?a.com | Unconscious Mutterings

1. Finale:: Ending
   
2. Martial arts:: Judo
   
3. Flirt:: kiss
   
4. Energy:: boost
   
5. Flavor:: chocolate
   
6. Guess?:: attempt
   
7. Accomplishment:: feat
   
8. Prom:: queen
   
9. Diploma:: cert
   
10. Bloody:: war
    

Eriksson names England squad for Portugal 2004

I'm so disappointed in this squad.

Goalkeepers: David James (Man City), Paul Robinson (Tottenham), Ian Walker (Leicester)
Calamity James and two keepers from teams that got relegated (Robinson played for Leeds till a week ago), and Man City were mighty close to going down too. Have to admit not much better out there...

Defenders: Gary Neville (Man Utd), Phil Neville (Man Utd), Ashley Cole (Arsenal), Wayne Bridge (Chelsea), Sol Campbell (Arsenal), John Terry (Chelsea), Ledley King (Tottenham), Jamie Carragher (Liverpool).

King in defense! He plays for Spurs, they let in 57 goals! Should have gone for Fulham's Zat Knight. Phil Neville only played for Man Utd this season 'cos of Forgetful Ferdinand and all the injuries.

Midfielders: David Beckham (Real Madrid), Paul Scholes (Man Utd), Nicky Butt (Man Utd), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), Joe Cole (Chelsea)

Nicky Butt in the squad when he hardly plays for United anymore - he had just 12 starts - and he looks likely to start for England according to various media bods! I'd have Sean Davis in the squad, and use Dyer or Hargreaves as first choice. Also Sean knows the diamond that Sven is apparently looking at and Sean Davis has scored 5 from midfield even though he missed a chunk of the season, Butt has scored just the once. Forgetting my Fulham bias for just one minute, then pick Parker Chelsea or Kevin Nolan from Bolton, he's scored a bunch of goals this season, why isn't he listed?

Strikers: Michael Owen (Liverpool), Emile Heskey (Liverpool), Darius Vassell (Aston Villa), Wayne Rooney (Everton).

I think Rooney is over rated, and Heskey is only useful as a battering ram. He only has 7 goals for Liverpool. Why not Beattie? Everton scored 45 goals this season, of which Rooney scored 9 (and none in any other competitions.) For Southampton Beattie has scored 14 and Kevin Philips 13. Plus they won't have the attitude problem Rooney has (11 yellow cards). Even Andy Cole has 11 goals.

Standby: Jermain Defoe (Tottenham), Richard Wright (Everton), Matthew Upson (Birmingham), Gareth Southgate (Middlesbrough), Scott Parker (Chelsea), Alan Smith (Leeds).

Alan Smith, 9 goals, side relegated, he's got 9 yellow cards too! Gareth Southgate is injured, not match fit. Jason Euell from Charlton has 10 goals.

My god, it could have been so good, but Svens gone for the same old faces or from the same old teams, and if you're not the medias latest pet wonderboy or play for one of the big sides (historically - most of them had terrible seasons), then like a bad nightclub doorman "your names not on the list and you ain't getting in."

LunaNi?a.com | Unconscious Mutterings

LunaNi?a.com | Unconscious Mutterings

1. Playoffs:: Promotion
   
2. Morris:: Dancing
   
3. Break up:: marriage
   
4. Eggs:: bunny
   
5. Parker:: pen
   
6. Hardy Boys:: ???
   
7. Deluxe:: Pepe
   
8. Protection:: condom
   
9. Girl Scout:: boy-scout
   
10. Salsa:: cuba
    

Angel by Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921)

Angel by Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921)
Just found this artist when looking something up, found something else about camoflage, and ended up at Thayer.

I can't believe how modern his women/angels look though they were painted in 1889. Stunning.

American painter, b. Boston, studied in Paris with Gérôme and at the École des Beaux-Arts. Known as a painter of animals and of landscapes, he was also noted for his idealized figures of women, among these The Virgin (Freer Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.), Caritas (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston), and Young Woman (Metropolitan Mus.). He also worked in portraiture. With his son Gerald Thayer, he wrote Protective Coloration of the Animal Kingdom (1909), which was used in camouflaging in World War I.

Fulham 0 - Arsenal 1

Damn! We (EVDS) made a silly mistake in the ninth minute under a little bit of pressure from the gunners. Next thing 1 - 0 to the Arsenal. A ball was passed back from Martin Djetou to Edwin Van der Sar, he tried to control it, was robbed by Reyes. Empty net. Goal.

Rest of the game we were the stronger team. We certainly deserved a point, and I will go so far as to say we deserved all bloody three. Damn!

Now Arsenal look like going a whole season unbeaten, they've only got one game left against already relegated Leicester City.

Now we need to win at Bolton, and hope the other results go for us just to stay top ten. Not so long back we looked like getting an European place.

We wore the new (Man City) blue away kit, I didn't really like it before, and I certaintly don't now! It's NOT like watching Fulham. (Pun based on a terrace song for those of you who don't know.)

Stats show we had 12 shots to their 7. There's a case for Vierra going off, and possibly a penalty but the 30 seconds the game got on Monday nights Premiership recap didn't show either incident.

Gutted!

LunaNi?a.com | Unconscious Mutterings

1. Vagina:: womb
   
2. Racism:: The N word
   
3. Mother's Day:: March 15th
   
4. Fire alarm:: Nee Nah!
   
5. Elvis:: Presley
   
6. Pregnant:: Pause
   
7. Vacation:: holiday
   
8. Waffles:: eggs
   
9. Perpendicular:: curve
   
10. Hospital:: bed
    

Newcastle went out of the UEFA cup last night, losing to Marseille. 2 - 0 away. Newcastle only needed an away goal to go through, so ascore draw would have been enough. But they slipped up after a free kick was defended and Marseille raced down the other end and scored. Laurent Robert took the kick and for once instead of shooting laid the ball wide to the left back Olivier Bernard. He got a good cross in, but Marseille broke and the rest is history.

Later Marseille got another goal from a dodgy free kick and the it was really game over. Before the kick came in and Didier Drogba (who scored the first) could be seen talking to two team mates, presumably on his instructions they both broke forward, sucked in the defense and Drogba was left unmarked to slot in his second. Givens nearly stopped it.

Didier Drogba was excellent, ran well had good physicality and Marseille didn't cheat much for a European side. (Sorry if that sounds racist but most European players will writhe around with suspected broken legs after the meekest of challenges).

Steve Marlet, who is still technically a Fulham player on loan, seems to work so much harder there than he did for Fulham. There he looks like he's worth a good few million, still way short of the 12.5 Fulham apparently paid at the hight of the transfer boom.

Newcastle should have had a penalty after a handball, but it was a fair result really and yo could see how much they really missed their injured players - Bellamy, Dyer, Woodgate, Jenas...

BBC SPORT | Football | Other European | Newcastle's Euro dream over

the friday five
"This is the end of the Friday Five." That's a shame, but at least I enjoyed it while it lasted. Good luck in your future endeavors Heather.
Love
Liam
x

LunaNi?a.com | Unconscious Mutterings

1. Sexy:: Lady
   
2. Clique:: group
   
3. Pledge:: promise
   
4. Carbs:: food
   
5. Dream Job:: money
   
6. Sweeps:: lotto
   
7. Soundtrack:: to my life
   
8. Hero:: toto
   
9. Shave:: razor
   
10. Christina:: Name
    

This was fairly interesting: ic Liverpool - Is football's spiritual home moving south?. However, it's flawed, whilst the championship may have been won by North West clubs 19 of the last 25 times, southern clubs have been the main challengers.

Furthermore, it seems just to be a vehicle to get what I suspect is the authors hobbyhorse, Everton & Liverpool groundsharing.

Also, I've felt that London teams in the past have had problems because there are so many derby games, which generally don't confirm to the form book. Just take the 2004 championship decider, Arsenal at Spurs, in the end it was 2-2. But on paper Arsenal should have won comfortably. Whilst in the North there are in city derbies, such as Manchesters' City V United, and some inter city rivalry, Leeds V Man United, it generally isn't as fearce. Blackburn v Everton? Bolton V Man City, doesn't stir the blood does it?

Some time ago I wrote a little application to analyse results for differnt league scoring ideas, Alternate Leagues. I may try something to map a team over the years, and now after reading that article, I want to try analysing the teams region too.