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Listed below are comments made by nichman between Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 and Saturday, 7th February 2009.

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A game of two cliches 8:03pm on 07 Feb 2009 Brass monkeys - as stated no-one is quite sure where it comes from but the cannonballs has been ruled out. Basically there is and never was a brass item called a monkey for storing cannonballs. However ships for a while did have a small gun used for signalling, made of different metals in extreme cold it may contract at different rates and fall apart. Cold enough indeed to freeze the two mounting points off, indeed cold enough to freeze the ears off a brass monkey. Seems to have changed to balls in the 19th century because A) people are crude and B) even then no-one knew where it came from so felt free to change it.

Feel free to correct me.

I had assumed a yard of pace refered to the distanced travelled by two people over a set point of time. The quicker would have travelled a yard more, and so have a yard more pace?

The "six-pointer" is a good one though, when it was points for a win did anyone say "four pointer"?
Caption Competition 4:42pm on 10 Jul 2008 There was a young lady from stevenage
Who though everyday life was a cage
but she looked a fool
cycling in a pool
and the men just looked down her cleavage
To tie or knot..? 4:56pm on 22 Apr 2008 Ian Wright is a very outspoken man, but he never says anything less than what he sees and I do feel he has a point. The Match of the day format has been unchanged for years, with the same three presenters saying the same things. While I accept the format does have some purpose, football is split between skills and tactics on the pitch and so having programs solely concentrating on the tactics show only half the story. There is little "in the action" type of coverage.
Suit or tracksuit choice is not just the studio though, its the same on the touchline!

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