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You know who we are on the text as well. Lemme think about it.

Meanwhile...

jings ..... another night off ......

blogitis appears to be rife at the moment ...

nurse!?

not often dissenting, but jeezo ...

theme impetus required please ...

theme suggestions:

1. The books of Enid Blyton
2. Only the 50's (1950's that is)
3. Independents (labels) only
4. Pets
5. Trains, planes & automobiles
6. The Bible
7. Apologetic
8. I/He/She
9. Fears
10. Espionage
11. Mythology
12. Misanthropy
13. Nonsense words
14. Imaginary People
15. Egoism and Pretentiousness
16. Oxymorons, paradoxes and contradictory statements
17. Album lead-ins (no breaks in-between)
18. Songs that mention age
19. Insects
20. The Monopoly Board

ciao ...

one more ...

21. Songs never played on GIO

Man alive ... I'm not sure any of my secrets are fit for public consumption!!

Here's a stab at one of mine ~ I once kept pet rats, 2 mad wee lads they were, and I had a pair of love birds (yup, you're right, it doesnae end well!). I came home from work one day ... only 1 love bird left, assumption being the partner had escaped oot the window.

Fast forward to me packing up my flat to move home with my new hubby! Emptying my wardrobe in the bedroom, what do I discover? The headless body bird!! Still havenae found the head to this day 11 years on!

So, I guess I'd have to go for The Carpenters 'Guess I Just Lost My Head'!!

Oidhche mhath! And sweet dreams after that!!

Susan

PS Loving the theme suggestions Kene!!

#5

Highland Lass,

How nice to see you again! I'm not sure whether to make something up and pretend it's true. I suspect I stand a better chance of not being believed if I tell the truth. On the other hand...

Ok Tonto and Mal remeber your wee concrete garden frog that got broken the day we were playing football in the back garden. The same day I broke 3 toes in mysterious circumstances and went home greeting...it was me, I tried to kick it over the fence. I thought it was plastic. I didnt know it had a spike embedding it in the ground...

God Save The Girl - Funny Little Frog

Lou Reed/David Bowie - Hop Frog

obviously I'm being really dense here, but I don't understand the bit about already knowing who we are. Bryan's assuming he already knows everything about us? C'mon, Bryan, we don't even know who we are.

What a sorry come-down was last night, a playlist almost entirely derived from the 'best known songs associated with...'

I'm away to the pool to start thinking of the songs of Enid Blyton. Noddy Holder, Kiki Dee, The Five Find-Outers - the list goes on - or does it?

Kene, did you know that today's Monopoly Board uses credit cards and all the train stations are now airports? Bond Street replaced by Canary Wharf and so on?

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Go Home and wear an electronic tag.

Go Directly Home and wear an electronic tag.

Do Not Pass Go.

Do Not Collect £200

Do Not Break Curfew.

(Or you may be subject to a community service order).

Madmac, was that you on the radio this morning?

Careful folks, could be an elaborate 'sting' operation masterminded by the GIO Team and the polis to get you to admit to something from a dark past.

For example, you might come on here and tell of when you helped yirsel to some cheese'n'onion and three MB Bars oot the back o'the ice cream van when you were a wee boy, or a wee lassie if you were one.
You might explain how yir wee pal distracted the driver by takin back his empty ginger bottles and put them up on the counter at just the right time.

Next thing you know one of strathclydes finest is at your door askin you to accompany him 'doon the station' just to 'help wi enquiries' Aye,right!

Ah'm just sayin, watch whit you say, it could be a trap...........glad ah didny get up to any mischief when ah wis wee.

Ah was well behaved.

Al.



It's Probably Me - Sting and Eric Clapton

The Police vs Henry Mancini - Every Breath You Take / Peter Gunn
Don't usually like the mash-up thing but really like this.

Beautiful World / Colin Hay

I could fair go an MB Bar

Still got a bit of one left, bit mouldy though....

They were real sweeties!

I broke into the fairground and felt like I was Charlie Rogers and I stole the motorbike and went on the:

Wall Of Death - REM


It is true!!

14.At 11:26 18th Feb 2012,

MB stood for Monster Bar

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Loch Ness Monster Bar...

#10. Gaie, it would have been. Missed it, "at the Electrical Wholesalers" but the guy's in the Mountaineering Club have sure let me know!
More to Outdoors Broadcasting than meets the eye.. thought the kids on Thursdays "Teenage Rampage" could have shown me how it's done better ;-(

Erect lovers...

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Steel cover

Re Creole vest

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Secret vole

#18 Na, you were fine, MM, there was just the bit where Euan wasn't sure which of your many names to call you

;0)


clover reset

#7 Have you tried anger management..........If not get a cat, it's softer

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(to appease Julie...)

When I was a wean in primary school me and my siblings were marched off to get our eyes tested. We all needed gregory's , myself especially, probably due to reading Enid Blyton books by torchlight under the covers after bedtime when the lights were out. I generously offered to let my siblings go first after I found out we could all sit in the same room and watch. So one by one we all got tested and we all got specs except me, who really didn't want them anyway. A year later and a year after that I got a clean bill of health even though I would sit in the house peering at the telly at night.

Year four and I got found out when we went to a different opticians and I had to go first. I've had specs ever since.

But I can still remember the first three lines of small letters at the wee opticians in airdrie.
N T O L A E
l n e t h o a
x r o h f a i g r

Still for three years I convincingly had

20/20 vision / George Benson

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Airdrie?!?




That explains a lot.......

#25 #26 cats are fab

I love Simon's cat!

Some years ago, when I worked in the lab, I borrowed one of the microscopes to take to the local primary school where I was giving a demo to P7. All went splendidly, the children each took a scraping from inside his/her mouth, spread it on a slide, stained it blue and looked in wonder at their own cells. What? yes of course each filled in the correct COSHH form, brought a signed slip from a parent, wore protective gloves and lab-coat and underwent training. What a silly question. Anyway, I took the microscope back to work next day, set off up the stairs, tripped and fell, dropping the microscope with an almighty clatter. Bits fell everywhere. It was early in the morning, no-one about. I collected up the bits, shot back to the car and took the ex-microscope home at the end of the day. Well, if you've never taken a microscope lens apart and then tried to put the leaves of the iris back together again, think Rubik's cube and then some. Every time I got it nearly there, one of the damned things popped out and I had to start again. But it's amazing how the thought of having to fork out £600- £700 for a replacement galvanizes you and I got it in the end. That only left the glueing back together of the stand with Araldite. This was done, the microscope looked exactly as before and I returned it next day without telling anyone what had happened. It was still in use when I left the lab years later and I don't care who knows now as I think it's stood the test of time!

Break It Up - We Are Scientists

re 8

Didn't appreciate that Gaie ... so many versions to keep track of. Have 6 sets meeself, most recent of which was a Tutankhamun theme. Still think there's mileage in it .... or perhaps Cluedo?

Yip ... how further misspent would our childhoods have been without Enid B? God bless the Secret Seven!

re 5

Shucks, thx Highland Lass ... hopefully others will feel equally stimulated. Any thoughts yourself?

The Dark End Of The Street - James Carr

I have been down to the dark end of the street, looking for something I'd lost. It was surprisingly busy down there.I had a great time, but I still didn't find what I was looking for.

regardez youse

henri

what about a week of games? Monopoly, Cluedo, chess, cards, um Scrabble?

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"We'll play at tiddlywinks and ludo and monopoly, and if ye show's yer bum Ah'll even let ye win!"

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# various @ ya gaie.
there's an island monoply that ahm gonnae buy,
but ma wee island disnae get a menshie.
chess.................ahve goat hunners o' stories........like the time i managed tae beat an 80 somethin' @ the largs congress after a bishop sacrifice...no he wisnae burnt @ the stake.....this was largs , no saltcoats!!

cheers frae the dale

#34

Great idea - Compendium of Games Week

Alfaeacoupleaweeksago

''Seeing we've got a night off I'm thinking themes, and like the last day before the end of school, has

'Places and things you might find on a Monopoly Board'

been done? ''

Al.

34 / 37

... don't forget Madmac's favourite: Subbuteo (Continental edition of course)

then there's always Colditz, Haunted House, Mousetrap, Ker Plunk, Buccaneer ...

Secret:

I did a Cellardyke Monopoly board, inlaid in teak and with local streets and citing local scandal for the "Chancers" & "Community Councils" in the late 1970s, long before Waddingtons sanctioned different versions of the game. I now realise that this was in breach of copyright.

Unfortunately all trace of my game has long gone.......







That is apart from the Brigadoon like annual New Year game which mysteriously appears before slipping away, never to be seen....



I can assure Waddingtons that their copyayeright is secure





Norrie

Oooops! Forgot to ask for:

Take a Chancer on me-Abba

... Ghost Train, Bermuda Triangle, The Fastest Gun, Totopoly, Treasure of the Pharaohs, Spyring, Roulette, Up Periscope ...

... no wonder the loft's full ...

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Kene Gelly,

You must be very young. The only game I recognise from that list is Roulette.

Are you sure that Up Periscope is a children's game?



DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!



>8-D

Superb KG

Forgot about Totopoly, brilliant!

Railroader - you had to be first to build a railway in the Wild West.......don't mean Central or Queen St.

Al.

Escalado anyone? - Paolo?

Bah, after all, why keep it secret? why not let it out, let everybody have a good laugh?
I am sexually frustrated. There! Ha ha ha ha!
suggestion: 'Last night I dreamt' by SMITHS.

MONDAY


This is obviously one of those themes where the story is more important than the song.

I'm certainly not gonna tell the truth, (in order to protect the guilty), and I can't be bothered making something up.




















reticent git

#44 Escawho?

Shove ha'penny, postman's knock, kiss cuddle or torture



or are we just stickin to board games?

48.At 15:20 19th Feb 2012, ,c whyte wrote:

I ahem misplaced a whole lot of money. I do not think any one will notice though so ssshhhh..

Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief

Craig, Monaco

Operation. Twister.
British Bulldogs. Heads Down, Thumbs Up. Hide and Seek.

Secrets? Why, if we told you, they wouldn't be secrets anymore.......................... ;o)

Dear Miss Struthers,
I hardly ever did my own knitting homework. My Granny would do it for me when she came to visit on a Tuesday lunchtime. And...contrary to what I told you, we did have a bodkin in the house...we had umpteen. My Granny, when one ball of wool was finished, just used to tie the ends of the old and new wool together instead of doing that fancy thing of threading the wool together with a bodkin that you would insist upon. "Margaret Struthers" she would say..."what does she know" (she lived in the next village to you and you went to school with my Uncle...is that why you never slapped me on the backside with a ruler when I made a mistake like you would to the other girls?). But of course you knew fine well I hadn't knitted it all myself...considering 10 rows would be all different sized stitches with gaping holes and the next 10 rows would look as if they'd been knitted by someone who'd been knitting extremely well for 70 years and didn't even have to look at the needles while she did so...could knit half a jumper while watching Songs Of Praise! I never did finish that pot holder...what's more I don't really care!

Sophie Madeleine - 'The Sweater Song'

#51. Sigh...'The Knitting Song'...blame my error on my being distracted by the Hibs score...sob!

I kept thinking there must be more to tell from a misspent childhood. Then I remembered, I lived on an island - nothing's a secret and the story's a damned sight more interesting by the time it's got back to you. Parents with psychic powers of knowing what we were up to didn't help.

Paolo, Escalado was a horse-racing game where wee model horses were pulled along on a wire thing and - actually can't remember - maybe a winder for each horse? The friends who had this also had - so sophisticated - Mah Jong. How we loved those beautiful tiles and how we laughed at the pings and pongs that were part of the terminology. I haven't a scooby how it was played, but must have been simple enough for we played it loads and we were little enough at the time.

Bryan, you may know who I am but you don"t know where I live.






















Damn!!!!!!!!!

I don"t know why but I have 2 Kylie Minogue CDs. I admire her for her innate musical nothing to do with hot pants honest....

Kylie - Spinning Around

Innate musical ability, sorry got distracted ;-)

For Gaie + Paulo

'Escalado' ... don't remember it being this exciting, however it has been decades!

pssst...Barbara...I dont like The Waterboys either...please never play them again.

I have a Runrig LP but I dont like it (dont tell Gaie).

#57 that was exciting!

Have you got a link for Naked Twister?

#57 don't remember the track being that small!

too late, Julie, now you have to ask for a track off it.

Gaie I cant even remember what one it is lol

#41 What no Mastermind, Risk or Striker?

Guess the "Club Edition" is safe. BTW I've still got my Spyring ;-)

There was once a Waddington's board game similar to Monopoly about world travel called "Go".

It was incredibly complicated but had a beautiful board. I really loved it but never managed to finish a game or ever managed to get anyone much interested in playing it.

Still, it was a nice thing to own. Wish i had it now - probably worth a fortune, filled with fake notes from now lapsed currencies.... but for how long?

regardez youse

henri

#49 yep Norrie, 50,250 fans gathered at Ibrox,all shell shocked (some shell suited) at the sudden demise of their club and the dawning realisation that there was something terribly wrong.

As one of them said to me " You know, on reflection,I wasn't entirely surprised when Megrahi outlived Whitney, but I never thought he'd outlive the Rangers. It's absolutely shocking ......mind you, if what the adminstrators are hinting at is true, he might well outlive Craig White."

#64 was it not 50249 ?

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50,268

HMRC demand accurate figures.

I once met a really nice scotch guy whilst I was staying in Russia and decided to come to Scotland with him. The only problem was I was living with a nice russian boy. So I started making him a nice stroganoff and said I had to go to the shops for some nice sour cream. That was two years ago.

Instead I went to the airport and came to scotland with my scotch guy. I often wondered if my nice russian guy ever ate his stroganoff without sour cream.

Torn between two lovers by mary Mcgregor is my secret song.

Secrets and Lies:

Don't Let It Show - Alan Parsons Project

This is going to read like Ian McEwan's "Atonement".

When I was a small boy, one of my sisters told me a big secret and asked me to keep it that way. I did.

The big secret was that she had lifted my Mum's prize possession, a gold locket with a photo of my Mum and Dad in it, taken it to school - and lost it.

The old lady (latterly known as 'The Ayatollah') was pretty fearsome back then and when she noticed it was missing, everyone denied all knowledge of what had happened to the locket.

Consequently, the old lady concluded that my eldest sister's husband had nicked it, pawned it and trousered the money.To say that my folks didn't have a high opinion of him is an understatement, of course, but I never once corrected the story even after my sister emigrated to Canada and my eldest sister had divorced her 'charlatan' husband.

And so the myth of the locket was accepted as reality in family history until my sister returned from Canada, decades later, filled with the kind of evengelism for putting the past to rights that could outdo 'My Name Is Earl' - and spilled the beans.

Far from being met by much hoped for understanding forgiveness on her journey to redemption for having carried this dark guilt for many years, she was instead met by absolute outrage.

This is a sort of moderated approximation of what followed:

" What the **** !...You stole the ** locket! the thing that finally led me to ** divorce him was that everyone in the family was convinced he had stolen my mother's locket! - and you ** stood by and let that happen knowing full well, you stole the **locket!"

Even the old lady was struck dumb. Eventually, I spoke.

"Well", I said, with some hesitation and reluctance,piling outrage upon outrage, " I knew he didn't steal the locket"

"What! **! I can't ** believe this!"

"Well, I was six years old and instructed to say nothing - so I didn't"

"I don't remember telling you that?" said my sister,amazed.

"Well, you did - and I've never opened my mouth about it ever since..not even to you.. until today"

To be fair, I've since been unconvinced that the locket was pivotal in ending the marriage in isolation, but nevertheless, this fashion for digging up the past and confronting it doesn't always do.Guilt has it's own reason to exist, sometimes it's selfish to drag up the past to make you feel better if someone else is going to feel worse.

"Don't Let It Show" is a wonderful song, set as church hymn but ironically, instead of imploring you to surrender and reveal all, prey or confess to a higher power as a church hymn would do, it exhorts you to do exactly the opposite. "Even if it's taking the easy way out, keep it inside of you.." It's a kind of hymn to stoicism and loyalty over truth, I suppose, or of being quietly true to yourself, rejecting your inner Judas - and highlights the dilemma at the core of much of human experience: what is true and what are we prepared to be loyal to? The message and the musical arrangement is such a juxtaposition and so striking that it is one of only a handfull of tracks that I find moves my spirit.Depending on what kind of day its been - it can inspire or crush me in equal measure. A song celebrating what it takes to 'keep it together' in the chaos that is every day life. It will strike of chord with many of us torn in different directions on a daily basis - especially in this economy.

Much requested by Julie and myself. No need to drag all this up on air unless it's thought amusing enough, but it would be great to hear the track - it's about secrets.

When I think about the locket, this song comes to mind but it kinda sums me up in a way - discretion has always been the better part of valour, I think. I'll have it played at my funeral. And although none of us can feel certain about these things I will hopefully outlive..... (thud)...

Start the show with Secrets -Sutherland Brothers & Quiver

I dinna understand the theme... am I gettin' auld?

WHAT'S ON YOUR DESK?... Its a theme suggestion... I understand that one!

#68 poor Henri, bludgeoned without even a 'Regardez youse'.....





I accuse....

Scotch, in the conservatory, with the baseball bat

#68 It is a wonderful song.

as a keen observer of the human condition and behaviours , what interests me are the 'hidden secrets'.
those which are too deeply buried to be shared.
yet these 'hidden secrets' all too often become apparent through language and unintentional behaviour patterns.
these 'secrets' can trigger flashbacks, anxieties and add to the emotional mix that makes up our flawed personna.
we all suffer from it.and learn to live with it.or not.
but they are still there, lurking in the darker shaddowy corners........
and my rates are very reasonable!!

yes there is a song doing the rounds this very day touching on loss, regret and the what could have beens and what should have beens.....but remaining still the 'hidden secrets'.........

'the one that got away'........................katy perry

cheers frae the dale

In 1968 I went on the road with a band and met one of the nicest guys in the world ( the guitarist). Band broke up, I returned to day job and lost touch. I bacame a classical & jazz snob. Found out 2 weeks ago that this guitarist went on to a brilliant career as lead singer with the Jeff Beck Group, Brian Auger's Trinity, Santana and last year released a brilliant album called Troc 2011. The band was the Senate, The guy was Alex Ligertwood. Please play Searching by Santana and give a shout to all of Alex's friends. Anyone got a glass of water to help me swallow this humble pie?

Hello Bryan & Programme Producer ( PP )

A secret,,,mmmm,,,,well at 50...this one is 33 years old....and my parents at 70 & 71..probably wont be listening to the show....
at the time we lived at the end of a cul de sac / lane...and you had to park the car at the bottom of the lane.....and so you could hear anyone approaching....lucky that you could as i had a NOONIE with the girlfriend...TUT TUT.....and we barely had time to get decent before they put the key in the door.....

The album at the time was Rumours by Fleetwood Mac......and THE song was either DREAMS or YOU MAKE LOVING FUN........

Shame.........i am blushing even after all these years......

DRT

Bryan and team - if you do choose to do Don't Let It Show - Alan Parsons Project the version on 'The Best Of' has a great vocal by Christopher Rainbow and is 3:31, a bit shorter than the 4:00 + on the I Robot album.

#76 a what?




My son said I should have exaggerated the cost of a replacement microscope, to make the story sound better. (ie, he thought it pretty lame - does he really think I'm going to publish the others and be damned?) So I looked up the actual cost of one - anywhere between £2000 and £5000. Phew. Let's Stick Together -Bryan Ferry - would do, if the Scientists one 'can't be found'.

Either there's going to be a flood of texts and e-mails or it's not going to be such a 'busy night' - f***bookers gone bashful, only 13 at the last count.

#72 was it not the chairman in the boardroom with the chequebook?



Or was that a different killing?

I always said that f***book thing wis just a flash in the pan. Bryan kains tae stick with his loyal bloggers







Doesn't he?

#80 could have been the Director-General

#81, #80 should be #79

what on earth was the point of reading out half of a post (#78) that refers to a previous post and makes no sense whatever on its own.