An apology.
To the best of my knowledge, we haven't been ripping you off for years with rigged competitions. I'm sorry about this because clearly there's money to be made, and everyone who's anyone is doing it.
Obviously we are working hard to try to dream up a scam. Watch this space.
The cleaners did a "deep clean" at the weekend and everything is shiny and fresh.
And naturally, no-one can find anything, because it's all been 'tidied'.
You might find that the three ladies who have been the most recent occupants of your desk took objection to the mess and clutter, so they've cleaned it for you. It wasn't the cleaners at all.
Welcome back Eddie!
Si.
Deep clean - its been the weekend for it! Hows the caffeine intake Eddie?
Shiny & Fresh eh? There are a few people like that on the Beach!
I did sense a general "nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh" tone with the GMTV story. But as we always say: "ITV: It does what the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ does...but worse".
Hm. Better keep away from scams, Eddie, or we'll all be keeping away from you.
Did the deep clean get all the coffee stains out?
Nice to see you back!
Mmm not so sure about that Ed, you're very chummy with that O'Connell cove. I'll be watching Panorama for details of the Great Broadcasting House Jam Spoon conspiracy.
So there is *Still* raw sewage flowing in to what should be called the Filth of Forth.
According to David Henderson (spitting image of a young Eddie Mair) from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Scotland, speaking on News 24 , Scottish water has apologised.!!
How on earth can these things happen in 2007 - even the Romans were more advanced.
Jonnie,
Scottish Water may well have apologised, but have Thames Water, who run the facility? Ah, the glories of privatisation!
xx
ed
P.S. Love "Filth of Forth"!
Jonnie: David Henderson looks nothing like our Eddie!
Maybe other froggers would like to view the above and post their opinion?
Just as long as any profits go directly to the beach, where the hammocks need repairing and the naughty corner enlarging.
Glad to see you got back down from Leeds safely and looking forward to the new, shiny PM.
Jonnie;
But the Romans never made it North of Hadrians Wall, and didn't have to cope with the sewage of 450 000 heathen scotsmen.
Since e.coli 0157 always seems to break out in Scotland how will they be able to tell the difference between the usual levels of bacteriological pollution and the extra quota from this spill?
Did they have sewage treatment in Roman times then? I must have dozed during that bit of ancient history at school.
And what have the Romans ever done for us anyway....?
Si.
Deep clean so no empty lager cans under the chair.
Deep cleans are done when MRSA and colustrum Dificile are a problem...
Alcohol based cleaning fluid rubbed all over on entering and leaving the studio please.
Re BigSis - he resembled this 'younger' picture of Eddie - certainly the piece on News 24 and I'd say on your clip also
I guess all Scots look the same to non-Scots ;-)
xx
ed
Re: Simon who said :-
And what have the Romans ever done for us anyway....?
Central Heating
The Calendar
Sraight roads
Concrete
Aquaducts
Just a few to keep us ticking over
Thames Water - huh! They're not satisfied with mucking up London, they've started on Embra, now.
Is this a cunning publicity stunt by the SNP for the forth (haha) coming elections?
PFI, eh? Pretty Filthy Initiative
Jonnie:
David H is younger, possibly slimmer and has more hair (sorry, Eddie! Hope that didn't hurt!), although his hair is dark like Eddie's, I'll grant you. But he lacks that 'certaine je ne sais quoi' that is so endearing about our Eric.
No contest, I'm afraid!
jonnie (15). Putting my python hat on. Apart from
Central Heating
The Calendar
Sraight roads
Concrete
Aquaducts
What have they ever done for us.
Oh! always look on the bright side of life.
Well BigSister -- we'll settle on the fact there is a resemblence then.
I really think that 'Any questions' should come up with some new pics for Eddie when he stands in though
Jonnie;
"But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
'Reg' from the 'People's Front of Judea' in Life of Brian.
Si.
1) The romans made it further north than Hadrians Wall. In a quality "keeping up with the Joneses" moment the successor to Hadrian (Antoni) built a wall in the central belt of scotland to mark the end of the territory...
2) I contest this idea of EM and the PM team not being involved in a scam - what about the PM Newsletter? Every day is a lucky draw over wether it arrives (although it is much more consistent now thank goodness). So then? How long till JV goes and starts an episode of panorama from inside the PM office?
Regards
John
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Is that why the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ want this blog to be a success?
H.
I would also add to John's comment and question the amount of hours in 'man hours' that people have wated in submitting comments that never make it on the blog.
jonnie (23): I can just see the economists rubbing their hands in glee at that prospect.
And Eddie, I refuse to pay the £2.50. I know the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is hard-up, but that's ridiculous. Perhaps they should send you in second class the next time you present AQ. ;-)
Jonnie: We agree on the photos bit.
Some nice pix that capture that naughty glint, perhaps?
John Cooper - get back to that dissertation (not that I don't agree with what you're saying, I'm just in Mum mode as I've been reading Eldest Son's 4k word Proposal for his diss'n next year).
Jonnie, I see what you mean about David Henderson, but I do think you're being seduced a tad by the Scottish accent, nods to a variation on Ed I's theme at 14. Actually I was so busy concentrating on whether I could see a resemblance, that it took till halfway through the piece, when the words "Catholic Adoption Agency" drifted past, that I realised that his piece to camera wasn't anything to do with sewage. Mind you though, that issue was contentious enough. I've just posted re Edinburgh Sewage Shock Horror Pumping Failure, on the beach - it seemed the appropriate place to do it ;o)
Re Belinda (24)
You can't expect Eddie to cram the blog from a second-class seat.
I question, however, the need for Auntie to send people to Paris or Washington for elections when she already has perfectly competent staff there already. I mean, what can Ed Stourton do in Paris that the regular correspondent can't do?
Is there going to be an item about Putin dying?
Eddie, the reason you haven't been ripping us off for years is because I suspect most of your listeners have more than 2 brain cells operating at one time.
I would have thought this means they would be unlikely to call any premium rate line. Surely anyone who thinks that by paying £1 50 a minute (or whatever it is) to enter a "quiz", they have any chance of ending up richer than they started out, is not the smartest sandwich on the picnic. Sorry to be so brutal, but it's surely time they were told.
Now on the other hand, your scheme of getting us to pay you a £150 cheque for each strapline submitted to the blog was pure financial genius, & you must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Mind you, I'm a bit worried about Fifi. I don't know how many more straplines she can afford - she's already on a 3rd mortgage for the last lot you posted.
Sorry, am I to understand someone gave you a facial at the weekend? Shiny, fresh Eric, eh? Lovely!
Rather than go to all the effort of dreaming up a rigged competition, why not just apologize for having had such a thing and set up a premium rate 'help line' for listeners to ring and complain or to seek support for mantal trauma?
Sunclap (310: Better yet, why not set up a premium-rate compensation line so that people who have lost money on these shows can get their money back?