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  1. johnnyquest on

    Jimbo67,I too am a St Matthews pupil,lived in auchinairn but moved to California about 21 years ago,ever drink in qiuns?.

  2. jimbo67 on

    Johnnyquest

     

     

    Left the Briggs in the early 80s but used to drink in Quins before I left. Great pub- used to meet dad off the train in there after we’d finished work. They always remembered what we drank. Pint of Guiness for me, hauf and a malt for my dad. Last time I was in Big Goo was on the door! Too long

     

     

    Jimbo

  5. Hrvatski Jim on

    Jimbo 67

     

     

     

    Will do.

     

     

    I also share your taste in tennis players – when the women’s game is played by people like Evonne Goolagong, Gabriela Sabatini, Maureen Connolly (before my time but love the videos of her) it can be great to watch.

     

     

    Love the men’s game also. The current crop (Fereder, Nadal, Djokavic and Murray) is the best since Borg, McEnroe, Connors. I remember the Borg/McEnroe 1980 final going on for hours. I had a table booked for a celebratory meal with my parents, girlfriend (now wife) and her parents and had to keep calling the restaurant to hold the table.

     

     

    The style of play has changed so much from serve/volley to baseline now. I always liked the down the line passing shot which Borg was so great at. No-one was better than he at that art.

     

     

    I was always a Borg fan. I have this picture in my mind of me with ABBA, Borg and Henrik who were all favourites. All Swedes.

  7. jinkyredstar cuts it back for Neil Lennon on

    Doubting Thomas

     

     

    Thoughts with you and all from Piper Alpha – wee Sammy Gallagher and Dougie McWilliams were in my class at school.

     

    Corporate murders continues as our pals the Condems turn the other cheek

     

     

    RIP all the workers who died fir shirt cuts and profit

  8. The Boy Jinky on

    Sipsini

     

     

    I went to 10am mass and said a prayer for the zombies twisted souls.. one of the clear differences between us and them… father forgive them for they know not what they do.

  10. FAVOURITE UNCLE on

    JOHNNYQUEST.WHERE DID YOU lIVE IN AUCHINAIRN.I TRAVELlED ON THE BUS WITH shaw mcnair dodds.ie MOONEY MCCLURE MCGRAW FOR YEARS.ps only when i read your pst months ago did i realise robert mcclures da was on the bus.

  12. jimbo67 on

    Hrvatski Jim

     

     

    Was a huge fan of Nastase who was the bridge between the great Aussie players and the (mostly) Holy Trinity you refer to – a dozen years ago a friend and I e-mailed our favourite (non-Celtic) sports moments and that Borg/McEnroe match was in both of our top 5s. Great Swedes? Both Bergmans from the movies and Stenmark the skier to add to the list. Women’s tennis – Martina was fabulous to watch and she’s a great pundit as well

     

     

    Jimbo

  13. ernie lynch on

    Raymac

     

     

    19:23 on 6 July, 2013

     

     

    I think the problem is more the feminisation of the education system than the gender imbalance of the staff, though there may of course be a causal connection between the two.

  14. ernie lynch on

    Raymac

     

     

    19:23 on 6 July, 2013

     

     

     

    And incidentally Richmal Crompton should be compulsory reading for aspiring primary school teachers.

  15. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    When is the Vatican ever going to speak out and condemn the wholesale slaughter of innocent Christians in the Middle East and North Africa?

  16. Celtic Mac on

    Paul67 et al

     

     

    With the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, thought I would give a mention to one of the 167, known to some on here, Jim Niven, Celtic Bhoy through and through. I was in Boston when it happened and when word came through that Jimmy had been lost I simply could not believe it, because, to the best of my knowledge he never even worked in the oil industry never mind offshore, he was a railway man. Turns out though that with a wedding approaching in September he was offered the opportunity to work offshore, and ended up on Piper Alpha. Nothing can compensate for that kind of loss, the loss to the present and to the future. God bless Jim Niven!

     

     

    RIP the 167

  18. Hrvatski Jim on

    Jimbo67

     

     

    Nastase, Guillermo Villas, Vitas Gerulitas ( not an inflammatory disease) and guys like that were so good to watch, even if they did not always win the big tournaments.

     

     

    My other favourite was Henry Leconte – always 100% action when he was about.

     

     

    I lost interest when it was Sampras – maybe not his fault that there was not much competition but I just could not take to him I am afraid that I felt the same about Navratilova – great winner which I admired but bid not have that artistry that I loom for.

     

     

    I used to play a lot – Springburn park and later at Westerlands the Glasgow Uni sports ground. Used to play with Tony Higgins – I have the distinction of having lobbed him a few times.

     

     

    One Sunday evening he knocked my door and asked if I fancied a game so we went down to Westerlands only to find that the changing rooms were closed as it was a Sunday night. So we had to change in the doorway which we in view of the train line a Anniesland.

     

     

    As I was the host, being the ember of the Uni, I was apologising for the changing conditions when he said – “aye, it’s no the San Siro” where he had played with Hibs a few months before. Not a lot I could say to that.

  20. jimmibhoy on

    Need help guys,

     

     

    Did Mouyokolo play tonight?

     

    If so, when and who did he replace?

     

     

    Some reports have him as an unused sub, some say he came on allowing Virgil into midfield but not WHEN and not who he replaced,

  21. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    I watched the gruesome and disturbing video that showed the beheading of three Coptic Christians,by Islamic jihadists in Syria.

     

     

    Some have descibed those sub-human Sunni fanatics as barbarians,savages,animals etc.What i would call them is Satanists,this hedious crime was the personification of evil.

     

     

    Chechen fundamental Wahhabists were clearly seen to be leading the ritual.Backed to the hilt by Quatar and Saudi oil money,supported and armed by Israel,England & the United States.

     

     

    FTBBC.

  22. Eurochamps67 on

    FFS Saturday night CQN is well political.

     

    Just checked in to see how we got on against Cluj.

     

    Just got folk going off on wan.

     

    Nae jokes, nothing.

     

    11pm here, Mrs EC 67 now tucked up, what is happening?

     

     

    What is a collective of Bazouki players?

     

     

    EC67

  23. jimbo67 on

    Hrvatski Jim

     

     

    Used to play up at Springburn Park – summers 72-5. Only courts in the Briggs were a private club. ( I think). Gave the game up 20 years ago when I thought I was going to have a coronary playing the damn thing. I frequently get the train to work at that station- plaque to be erected in memory of your matches with Tony H?

     

     

    Jimbo

  24. Celtic_First on

    16 Roads

     

    20.56.

     

     

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    2013-05-28 Vatican Radio

     

     

    (Vatican Radio) The Holy See has expressed “deep concern” for violations of religious freedom and systematic attacks on Christian communities in regions of the world such as Africa, Asia and the Middle East. This was pointed out by Msgr. Silvano Maria Tomasi, who spoke Monday at the United Nations in Geneva.

     

     

    “More than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year. Other Christians and other believers are subjected to forced displacement, to the destruction of their places of worship, to rape and to the abduction of their leaders -as it recently happened in the case of Bishops Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji, in Aleppo (Syria).

     

     

    Several of these acts have been perpetrated in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia, the fruit of bigotry, intolerance, terrorism and some exclusionary laws. In addition, in some Western countries where historically the Christian presence has been an integral part of society, a trend emerges that tends to marginalize Christianity in public life, ignore historic and social contributions and even restrict the ability of faith communities to carry out social charitable services.

     

     

    “It may be useful that the Delegation of the Holy See should recall some pertinent data on the current services to the human family carried out in the world by the Catholic Church without any distinction of religion or race. In the field of education, it runs 70,544 kindergartens with 6,478,627 pupils; 92,847 primary schools with 31,151,170 pupils; 43,591 secondary schools with 17,793,559 pupils. The Church also educates 2,304,171 high school pupils, and 3,338,455 university students. The Church’s worldwide charity and healthcare centres include: 5,305 hospitals; 18,179 dispensaries; 547 Care Homes for people with Leprosy; 17,223 Homes for the elderly, or the chronically ill or people with a disability; 9,882 orphanages; 11,379 creches; 15,327 marriage counseling; 34,331 social rehabilitation centres and 9,391 other kinds of charitable institutions. To such data about social action activity, there should be added the assistance services carried out in refugee camps and to internally displaced people and the accompaniment of these uprooted persons. This service certainly doesn’t call for discrimination against Christians.

  25. Marrakesh Express on

    Plane crash in San Francisco.

     

    It seems brilliant landing saved all lives..

  26. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    One last point – The thing that gets me most about those Islamic Jihadists – They only ever seem to massacre Christians and their fellow Muslims.I once believed their sworn enemies to be Jewish people,it doesn’t look that way to me now.

     

     

    The religion of peace.

     

     

    Indeed.

  27. 16 roads - Neil Lennon walks on water. on

    Celtic_first – Deep concern? That’s very good of them.

     

     

    The Orothodox and Coptic Christians are telling it like it is.

     

     

    It’s this deep rooted fear of the political correct,multi cultural tripe that we have been subjected to over the years by the looney left.

  29. The Boy Jinky on

    Just had a weird moment

     

     

    Saw a you tube clip of Horse singing Breathe Me .. posted on a friends FB.

     

     

    Clicked on it as I love her voice…. the clip was originally posted on YT by oor bhoy Pablo

     

     

    The person who put it on FB doesnt know stevie .

     

     

    Felt as if pabbers was sending me a message as Iistened to it… tears flowing :(

  30. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    Spent today in Paisley. March, band and drums. Only difference from the rest of the country was that everyone was welcome, irrespective of religion or colour.

     

    Great day celebrating trade unionism.

     

    Came home to East End, held up by a parade of bile against people of other faiths, colour or even just people who didn’t accept what they believe.

     

    The day in Paisley was paid by the organisations who took part. The other celebrations were funded by the public purse-except the ‘uniforms’, which are bought and paid for by the fungalists.

  31. Raymac on

    I have the complete set of Just William books.Great for study of 20s/30s attitudes-cook,maid etc.No wonder Attlee swept the country after the 2nd WW.Most of my favourite writers/poets are Victorian/Edwardian and right up to the 70s.Hillaire Belloc and pals would be drinking and decide to hop across to France.(Belloc did his French military service).In a French inn they would eat and drink and then want to pay with a drawing or such.Read RL Stevenson’s “Travels in the Cevennes with a Donkey” and marvel at the prose.BTRH is a fan of Damon Runyon,as I am.Runyon’s father was a reporter and was with General Crook when that gentleman nearly lost his command inn the Dakotas.

     

    As regards teaching I very nearly didn’t make the graduation.A Derry man called Sean Breslin and a drama lecturer named Larry Ryan fought tooth and nail for me.My crime was to attaempt to set up a Sinn Fein Cumman in the college.Myself and a guy called Dermot Twomey were blacklisted for our pains.

  32. Hrvatski Jim on

    Jimbo67

     

     

    When we moved to Bishopbriggs, my son saw Wimbledon on tele and decided to take an interest so we joined the Bishopbriggs club which is just behind the War Memorial Hall. Dad proudly went into the cupboard and puled out the Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg wooden rackets and presented them to junior who looked at them as if – what is this?

     

     

    So we went down the club and hot a few shots.

     

     

    Next night, dad came home form work and junior was waiting with a new tennis racket he had pestered mum into buying for him. Dad had a quick dinner and off we went to the club.

     

     

    After a while, I asked him to let me try his racket. After 15 years of not playing, I hit the best serve of my life. The change in equipment is just amazing.

     

     

    Frozen shoulder has now finished my Wimbledon aspirations.

     

     

    No plaque to commemorate games with Tony Higgins as I never won once. Professional athletes don’t like losing and anytime I got close, he upped the game.

     

     

    He is a really good guy – very much into non-racialism / sectarianism many years before it became a popular cause.

  34. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    raymac

     

     

    21:24 on 6 July, 2013

     

    ******

     

    They just didn’t get your persistantacy!

  36. The Boy Jinky on

    Jimmibhoy

     

     

    According to the fishul cfc sites match report…. big steven was an unused sub

  38. jimbo67 on

    Hrvatski Jim

     

     

    Never progressed beyond wood myself! Heard Linsey Davenport saying John Mac thought modern racquets added 10mph to serve speed. So what spied would Tanner have served at with modern racquets?

     

     

    Met Higgins a couple of times when i lived in Edinburgh – liked him a lot- a man of real basic decency ( and diplomacy). Except on the pitch . Trust me Auld Reekie in the early eighties was no place for the enlightened.

     

     

    Jimbo

  40. johnnyquest on

    Favourite uncle,my father was Eddie McGraw,god rest him,after he left the bus,he travelled to every game in Davie Mc Clures car with Johhny Mooney from wallacewell road

  41. sipsini on

    jimbo67.

     

     

    I had a similar discussion last night

     

     

    Rosco tanner’s average serve was 70mph plus.

     

     

    Mc enroe commented yesterday… the fasted serve against him was 105mph.

     

     

    What will be the limit before speed kills the entertainment?

  42. johnnyquest on

    Jimbo,my teacher was mrs brownlee,she used to bring her deaf son cjarles to school with her,met him years later when I moved to kirkie,great guy

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