Does anyone know where the 2008 calender is this year?

I'm starting work on it now MBJ, got off to a slow start on it this year. Not as slow as the first year I did it, New Years Eve.

Does anyone know where the 2008 calender is this year?

I'm starting work on it now MBJ, got off to a slow start on it this year. Not as slow as the first year I did it, New Years Eve.

Thanks for that Tywais and the hard work you put into producing them, look forward to downloading it when it's finished.

It's the mrs who's been nagging me, she uses it daily and it's stuck on the fridge

my circuits dead

...there's something wrong...

my circuits dead

...there's something wrong...

Can you hear me Major Tom

Sixty things about David Bowie

By Jody Thompson

Entertainment reporter, BBC News

To mark the 60th birthday of David Bowie, here are 60 facts about the iconic singer, actor and artist.

CHILDHOOD

1. David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 Jan 1947. He shares the same birthday as Elvis.

2. Bowie's family moved to Bromley when he was six years old.

3. He went to Bromley Technical High School, now called Ravenswood School.

4. Rock guitarist Peter Frampton was Bowie's friend at school - his dad was head of the art department. He's gone on to play guitar with Bowie many times during his career.

5. His right pupil is permanently dilated - due to his friend George Underwood punching him in the eye while the pair were still at school. The fight was over a girl.

6. Underwood and Bowie remained good friends with Underwood doing artwork for some of Bowie's earlier albums.

7. He started playing the saxophone when he was 12 years old.

PRE-FAME

8. His first ever release was Liza Jane / Louie Louie Go Home in June 1964, under the name of Davie Jones with The King-Bees.

9. He later changed his name to Bowie to avoid confusion with Monkee Davy Jones.

10. Bowie is pronounced to rhyme with Joey.

11. At the age of 17, he was interviewed on a BBC programme as the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men. He complained: "It's not nice when people call you darling and that".

12. Around 1967, he wrote songs for actor Paul Nicholas of Just Good Friends fame, who was then recording under the name Oscar.

13. He released his debut album, the self-titled David Bowie, in 1967 after playing in a host of pub and club bands.

14. 1967 also saw the release of a single, The Laughing Gnome, which many fans argue is the worst song he has ever recorded.

15. When Bowie suggested that his fans should vote via phone which tracks he should play for his 1990 world tour, The Laughing Gnome was the most requested. He didn't play it.

STARMAN

16. Bowie's first hit in the UK - 1969's Space Oddity - was used by the BBC in its coverage of the moon landing.

17. The fictional character of Major Tom has appeared in three Bowie hits - Space Oddity (1969), Ashes To Ashes (1980) and Hallo Spaceboy (1996).

18. Bowie's first US Number One was his single Fame in 1975. It was co-written by John Lennon and features the late former Beatle on backing vocals.

19. Model Twiggy features on the cover with him for his 1973 album Pin Ups.

20. Around the time of Bowie's 1975 Young Americans album, Chic founder Nile Rodgers auditioned to play guitar in Bowie's band. He didn't get the part.

21. But Rodgers later produced the biggest-selling album of Bowie's career, 1983's Let's Dance.

22. Bowie is believed to have sold in the region of 140 million albums over his career.

23. He was voted Number Four in the recent BBC Culture Show public vote to discover Britain's Greatest Living Icons. Above him were Sir David Attenborough at Number One, Morrissey (2) and Sir Paul McCartney (3).

THE PERFORMER

24. Bowie was hit in the eye by a lollipop while on stage in Oslo, Norway in 2004.

25. Toni Basil of Oh Mickey fame worked as Bowie's choreographer on his Diamond Dogs tour in 1974. She later worked on his Glass Spider tour of 1987.

26. In 1970, when Bowie briefly formed The Hype, everyone in the band dressed up as super heroes. They were booed off everywhere they played.

27. Director Nicolas Roeg cast Bowie in his first leading role, as a stranded alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, in 1976.

28. He is to be the voice of a character in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants this year.

29. In the 1986 Jim Henson movie Labyrinth, Bowie plays Jareth The Goblin King.

30. He has most recently appeared in The Prestige, alongside Hugh Jackman and Scarlet Johansson.

31. In 1969, Bowie formed his own mime troupe, Feathers, as well as an experimental art ensemble.

32. Bowie appeared as Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.

33. Among his oddest film roles are: The Shark in Yellowbeard and a sinister FBI agent called Philip Jeffries in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

PERSONAL LIFE

34. David is 5 feet and 10 inches (178cm) tall, according to most sources.

35. Bowie declined the CBE in 2000 and a knighthood in 2003.

36. Bowie married Somalian supermodel Iman in 1992. They have a daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones, born in 2000.

37. Iman has a Bowie knife tattooed on her ankle in tribute to her husband.

38. Bowie's schizophrenic half-brother Terry killed himself in 1985.

39. Nine years older than David, Terry was the inspiration for songs including Aladdin Sane, All The Madmen, The Bewlay Brothers and Jump They Say.

40. In 2004, Bowie underwent emergency heart surgery in Germany to treat a blocked artery.

THE MUSICIAN

41. Bowie co-produced some of the best tracks on Lou Reed's legendary album Transformer.

42. His hit Ziggy Stardust is about Vince Taylor, who wrote Brand New Cadillac - later covered by The Clash.

43. David recorded a version of Space Oddity in Italian titled Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Solo - which literally means Lonely Boy, Lonely Girl.

44. The Lodger album's Move On track is a backwards rewrite of his All The Young Dudes.

45. He has been in 10 bands - The Konrads, The Hooker Brothers, The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third, The Buzz, The Riot Squad, The Hype, Tin Machine and Tao Jones Index. (Some of these have performed under other names).

46. Bowie's song The Man Who Sold The World has been covered by Lulu and Nirvana.

47. Bing Crosby recorded his last ever single with David Bowie. Their duet version of The Little Drummer Boy was recorded for Christmas 1977. It was a hit five years later.

48. Bowie wrote the soundtrack for the 1993 dramatisation of Hanish Kureishi's novel Buddha Of Suburbia.

49. Bowie plays sax on To Know Him Is To Love Him from Steeleye Span's Now We Are Six album.

50. He plays just about every instrument on Diamond Dogs - including the famous guitar riff on Rebel Rebel.

MISCELLANEOUS

51. He was the final guest on Marc Bolan's ITV music show, Marc, in 1977. Bolan was killed in a car crash in south west London shortly afterwards.

52. Steve Strange, recently of BBC's Celebrity Scissorhands, was in the video for Bowie's 1980 Number One hit Ashes To Ashes.

53. Bowie's favourite current bands include Arcade Fire and TV On The Radio.

54. Mary Hopkin of Those Were The Days fame sings the "doo doo doo" backing vocals on Sound And Vision.

55. Almost a decade before The Cocteau Twins popularised the approach, Bowie sang in a completely self-invented language on the 1976 Low album track, Subterraneans.

56. His image appears on every single one of his album covers - except the UK release of The Buddha Of Suburbia.

57. He is mentioned in Kraftwerk's song Trans Europe Express ("Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie - TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS!") and Backside by the Strawbs ("The boy stood on the burning deck, his back against the mast. He did not dare to turn around till David Bowie passed").

58. In 1997 David Bowie broke new ground, yet again, with the internet-only release of his single Telling Lies. A year later, he launched his own internet service provider, Bowienet.

59. Bowie draws, paints, sculpts and writes in his spare time. His favourite artists are Tintoretto, John Bellany, Erich Heckel, Picasso and Michael Ray Charles.

60. David got just one O Level, in art.

The above will help you get to 3 pages soon..........

Should this thread be re-named "The Post Counters' Thread"; for the express purpose of people multi-posting so that they can get their counts up?

Does the post count matter once one has got his/her mandatory five hundred Bedlam points?

Do the mandatory five hundred Bedlam points really mean anything, since one could multi-post to one of the pub forums and get their count to 500 in a week or two?

Does anyone really care? Gawd, I'm feeling like that robot in Hitchhiker's Guide...

Until you have had the buzz of posting over 100 posts in a space of time no larger than 10 hours, and of course the feelings of tremendous come down and dissatisfaction as you gradually realise what you've done, I must ask you to refrain from making pert and innappropriate comments, ping.

Marvin: [depressed] I'd make a suggestion, but you wouldn't listen.

[even more depressed]

Marvin: No one ever does.

Sixty things about David Bowie

34. David is 5 feet and 10 inches (178cm) tall, according to most sources.

Stood next to him once, I'd swear he is a lot shorter than that. He was tiny.

Haven't posted a hundred in a day - but have gone over 400 in a week.

Haven't posted a hundred in a day - but have gone over 400 in a week.

Do your kids say, 'Who's the strange man, mum?'

Until you have had the buzz of posting over 100 posts in a space of time no larger than 10 hours, and of course the feelings of tremendous come down and dissatisfaction as you gradually realise what you've done, I must ask you to refrain from making pert and innappropriate comments, ping.

Marvin: [depressed] I'd make a suggestion, but you wouldn't listen.

[even more depressed]

Marvin: No one ever does.

My sincere apologies Hefferlump! Now I really empathise with Marvin.

I really enjoyed the 60 facts about Bowie as I am a Bowie fan.

If you really wanted to get your post count up you could post all 60 individually!

I really enjoyed the 60 facts about Bowie as I am a Bowie fan.

If you really wanted to get your post count up you could post all 60 individually!

Okey dokey then.

60 million fact about the people living in the UK.

1) Mr Aaron lives in Milnrow, near Rochdale Greater Manchester

Can any of you lot identify what this is. My mate was in a loft space checking insulation and he saw this. He doesn't know what it is, i think i have an idea but not sure. So would like your opinions, please.

I think i can get a bigger size piccie if anyone needs it. And i think i know who will be one of the people to get it

Ohhhh so you are a post 100+ guy. I see. Gezz how you do that? Must have loads to say. Wonder what could keep your fingers stiffed! Hmm and you know what I mean by that

Have no idea what that thing is.

Until you have had the buzz of posting over 100 posts in a space of time no larger than 10 hours, and of course the feelings of tremendous come down and dissatisfaction as you gradually realise what you've done, I must ask you to refrain from making pert and innappropriate comments, ping.

I have put in a request with Admin to add this as a stat page to the current top posters of the day and top posters of all time. Not sure yet what the response will be but will advise when I get a reply. My request was for a daily updated list of everyone who has posted more than 100 posts in a single 24 hour period from midnight to midnight. We will need to use the Server's clock time for Date and Time, could make an interesting read as some of the past brigade suddenly appear on the list - I know I will be on it 'cos I did 139 (from memory) in one day.

CB

This could be the start of something big................

Perhaps a " Fanzine " or a PO Box where overwhelmed female fans could post their underwear in appreciation.

There is no limit to where this could all end

There is no limit to where this could all end

A mate of mine lives in his own world, of no limits. Unfortunately for him, the Police don't see it that way and he has been fined for breaking the speed limit 3 times, in the last 2 months

One more time and he's literally on his bike

Can any of you lot identify what this is. My mate was in a loft space checking insulation and he saw this. He doesn't know what it is, i think i have an idea but not sure. So would like your opinions, please.

I think i can get a bigger size piccie if anyone needs it. And i think i know who will be one of the people to get it

It's a Volume/Tone Machine..... and a cooked one by the look of it.

Give us another clue, has it got any other writing on it, input or output sockets,

Serial No. Made in ?

They're the only piccies i've got ken.

A mate of mine reckons it's a very early and probably one of the first, film projector's with sound.

Does anyone know where the 2008 calender is this year?

I'm starting work on it now MBJ, got off to a slow start on it this year. Not as slow as the first year I did it, New Years Eve.

Just to let you all know, if you didn't already.

The Calander is ready for download with some lovely piccies from Tywais, Yorky and Kan Win

Until you have had the buzz of posting over 100 posts in a space of time no larger than 10 hours, and of course the feelings of tremendous come down and dissatisfaction as you gradually realise what you've done, I must ask you to refrain from making pert and innappropriate comments, ping.

I have put in a request with Admin to add this as a stat page to the current top posters of the day and top posters of all time. Not sure yet what the response will be but will advise when I get a reply. My request was for a daily updated list of everyone who has posted more than 100 posts in a single 24 hour period from midnight to midnight. We will need to use the Server's clock time for Date and Time, could make an interesting read as some of the past brigade suddenly appear on the list - I know I will be on it 'cos I did 139 (from memory) in one day.

I have an answer from Admin and they will not do a 100 post list - simple reason being that they don't want people logging up a 100 plus "inane posts just to get on the list"

I think the only way to preserve your five minutes of fame in this regard is to do the posts and then take a screen print as a lasting memory of times well wasted.

CB

Until you have had the buzz of posting over 100 posts in a space of time no larger than 10 hours, and of course the feelings of tremendous come down and dissatisfaction as you gradually realise what you've done, I must ask you to refrain from making pert and innappropriate comments, ping.

I have put in a request with Admin to add this as a stat page to the current top posters of the day and top posters of all time. Not sure yet what the response will be but will advise when I get a reply. My request was for a daily updated list of everyone who has posted more than 100 posts in a single 24 hour period from midnight to midnight. We will need to use the Server's clock time for Date and Time, could make an interesting read as some of the past brigade suddenly appear on the list - I know I will be on it 'cos I did 139 (from memory) in one day.

I have an answer from Admin and they will not do a 100 post list - simple reason being that they don't want people logging up a 100 plus "inane posts just to get on the list"

I think the only way to preserve your five minutes of fame in this regard is to do the posts and then take a screen print as a lasting memory of times well wasted.

CB

Actually the real reason, is because this forum comes out of an office in Thailand, every posting has to be photo-copied and thus George is kept very busy filing lots of pieces paper away into filing cabinets....

P.S. Hi George, here's another one.

Actually the real reason, is because this forum comes out of an office in Thailand, every posting has to be photo-copied and thus George is kept very busy filing lots of pieces paper away into filing cabinets....

P.S. Hi George, here's another one.

:D

Is it just one copy or in triplicate

I heard that the woman who owns the photo copy shop next to Immigration in Jomtien, is related to an Immigration officer. For some strange reason you have never taken enough photo copies with you and are advised to get some extra copies done next door

Actually the real reason, is because this forum comes out of an office in Thailand, every posting has to be photo-copied and thus George is kept very busy filing lots of pieces paper away into filing cabinets....

And of course, not forgetting to put his signature on every single page.

I heard that the woman who owns the photo copy shop next to Immigration in Jomtien, is related to an Immigration officer. For some strange reason you have never taken enough photo copies with you and are advised to get some extra copies done next door

Continuing this off topic theme One time when I was doing my visa renewal I got the bounce around from Immigration in Bangkok - "go get a different version of the financial statement" etc after putting up with this with a smile and keeping my cool the Imm officer told me my photograph wasn't correct. Ehh? Ok what is wrong with it and what one do you want? Told to just go and get another one. I took a cab back to my hotel room - took two collared shirts, one white and the other coloured, plus a tie and went to the photoshop just around the corner. Walked in and got a set of photographs of me in each of the coloured shirts with and without tie, plus one with me in what I was wearing. Asked for three different backgrounds and four different sizes each one about 3mm different from the next size. Got 10 prints of each and put into separate bags. Went back to Immigration and the officer asked me for my photograph. I laid out each bag of photos in front of him, smiled and said "pick one" He looked down and laughed. Called over another officer and then took the SAME photograph I had originally provided. Told me to hand over my fee and come back that afternoon at 2pm to pick it up. I did and got the visa. I still have some of those photos left and have the digital images on my thumb drive to do the next set. One of the best investments I ever made.

CB