[lit-ideas] Re: Fyog in the Channels
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:04:27 -0700
Those who enjoy such tales might look at an article headlined, "Never
Mind the Lesbians, Scottish Soccer is on TV."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060516.wxdoyle16/
BNStory/Entertainment/home
For a completely different take on the game, including quotes from
Valdas Ivanauskas, Hearts fourth manager of the season, try,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=4&ObjectID=10381795
British channel surfers will already know that a fire alarm caused the
morning news show in Scotland to go off the air for twenty minutes,
that someone who revealed what the BBC pays its top stars--dubbed "the
salary mole"--has been "outed," and that the Director General of the
BBC, in a speech to the Royal Television Society, was unapologetic
about paying Bruce Forsyth four hundred and fifteen thousand pounds for
a ten week run of "Strictly Come Dancing."
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=732392006
So far there has been no comment from the Royal Webcasting Society.
Representatives of the mostly low-pressure group FYOG (Find Your Own
Groove) were described as "incensed."
In the shopping--not the shipping-- news...an analyst predicts that
Edinburgh will drop out of the top twenty five British shopping
destinations within two years. Glasgow, however, is still up there,
competing for Shopping Destination of the Year.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=732702006
Meanwhile, two footnotes from elections in Oregon: Judge Fun will be
taking up Circuit Court Position 13, but Happy Valley's attempt to join
the North Clackamas Parks District was rejected by voters.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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