Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

BTW. This is the same Jimmy's that has supported creating buildings where one can safely go and inject the gross national product of Columbia into your arm, without risk of the local police getting you or catching an infection.
Alice in Wonderland policies.

Look forward to other ideas, when I get back. Got a meeting to attend now, and the first person to ask me not to smoke in it, gets fired.
I'm CEO and I'll do whatever I want, so bo11ox to all of them.
Alan

Bloody CEO's most of need a good chinning to bring down a peg or 10

A few years ago I was working on a consultancy project that required a meeting with AMEX. The CEO of the company went to NY via Concord and met with senior AMEX people in NY at their skycraper building. He was in the boardroom and started to moke. The AMEX people protested loudly that smoking was not allowed and that there were no ashtrays. He replied that they had better find one as he was going to stub his cig out on the boardroom table when he had finished. An ashtray appeared in a very short time.

Sound like one of those CEO's I mentioned above.

Here is a nice item from May 1998

A chef deep-fried a customer's mobile phone after another diner complained about its ringing. Lawrence Clifford, 28, battered the 250 phone when the businessman when to the loo at The Galley in Ipswich, Suffolk.

The only CEO's who should be given a good chinning are the ones who say things like; "My doors always open" or "We are all a team, here".
Particularly if the have a book in the office entitled "The art of empowerment" or "Managing in a caring or responsible way".
You would be better off beating yourself to death with your own CV, rather than work for one of those.
BTW.
Very interesting meeting, not for what we did, but for a chat with an RBS intermediary mortgages exec. They told me that they have a servicing problem at the moment because applications have risen since the business was re-jigged from 150 a day to 500 a day!!!
Nice problem. I'm having a look at their stock.
Alan

Bosley Cloud 4.1%

Brewed at the Storm Brewing Company in Macclesfield. Ingredients: wheat, lager and pale malts combined with American Cluster and Fuggles hops. Bosley Cloud is a superb golden coloured ale with an aromatic explosion of fruity flavours.
Bosley was notable as having the distinction of being our one hundredth different real ale!

Got that right "one hundredth different"

driver, :))

there certainly was "an aromatic explosion of fruity flavours" this morning. ;)

bos on his holls

Talking of beer.

http://www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/morethandork/post4/castrobeer.mpeg

Bos' pants:

lads, i wasn't talking about farting. i was thinking more about the big shit i had this morning. 'kin stank it did !!! :))

Zinedine Zidane has been banned for three games and fined 3,260 for head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final.
Following an investigation by world governing body Fifa, Materazzi was suspended for two games and fined 2,170 for provoking Zidane.

A Fifa statement said: "Both players stressed Materazzi's comments had been defamatory but not of a racist nature."

Zidane's ban is academic as he retired from football after the finals.

However the 34-year-old will instead work with football's world governing body Fifa for three days.

Fifa added: "Zinedine Zidane has agreed to do community service work with children and youngsters.

"During the course of their hearings both players also apologised to Fifa for their inappropriate behaviour and expressed their regret at the incident."

Zidane spent 90 minutes at a private hearing on Thursday, while Materazzi appeared before the Fifa panel on 14 July.

Playing in the last game of his career, Zidane snapped during extra time of the World Cup final.

The Frenchman later claimed Materazzi had insulted his mother and his sister.

However, Materazzi maintained his comments were not "racist, religious, or political" and he added: "I also said nothing about his mother."

Despite the incident, Zidane went on to win the Golden Ball for the tournament's best player and despite suggestions to the contrary, Fifa has confirmed the Frenchman will be allowed to keep the award.

"It wasn't even discussed at the meeting," said Fifa spokesman Andreas Herren.

Materazzi's suspension will keep him out of Italy's opening two Euro 2008 qualifiers against Lithuania on 2 September and France on 6 September.

Paolo Maldini, captain of AC Milan and former captain of Italy's national team criticised Fifa's suspension of Materazzi.

"It's scandalous to suspend a player for having said something.

"It's the first time it's been done and it's only because Materazzi is Italian and because they wanted to justify the action of Zidane who was in the wrong."

But French Football Federation president Jean-Pierre Escalettes, supported Fifa's verdict.

"It is intelligent, measured and reasonable," said Escalettes.

"It shows knowledge of the world of football.The provoker of the incident has been punished."

i find this absolutely incredible!!!! what a joke!!!

Wonder wot happened to me pic, it was there before!!

Materazzi should be relegated to Serie C ;-)

Perhaps he already has :-) ??

bos

http://ihimlen.dk/flash/prutjulesang.htm

driver, lol.

interesting question.