Bear Tales...
Good to be back at work after a very relaxing but active holiday. After spending ten days running in the mountains of Colorado it's appropriate that someone asked for Running Bear tonight. It's quite alarming to be out for your morning jog and then come across a sign like the one above.
Nancy e-mailed to say that on their first day in Boulder, her godson and his 3 year old child saw a Bear sitting on the picnic table in the garden. No matter how many Paddington stories you read him nothing can prepare a kid for seeing that!
Rather than bring back the expected sweeties or chocolates (and let's face it is there nay body who enjoys American chocolate. That H*ershey's stuff is like the cake covering pretend chocolate you used to get) I brought back some election badges.
"Save the drama for Obama" went down particularly well but not many takers for the " I heart McCain" badge which will probably not surprise those critics who claim there is a liberal bias at the BBC! It eventually went to a colleague who claimed he would wear the McCain badge as he does do good chips...
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At 12:39 2nd Oct 2008, ConsettKebab wrote:American chocolate really is the pits. It has to be said.
Can't beat a Double Decker.
Anyone tried Hostess Twinkies? They're meant to be good.
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Comment number 2.
At 12:42 2nd Oct 2008, frodo feet vegas wrote:Rotten. Just a sponge bar with fake cream.
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Comment number 3.
At 14:32 2nd Oct 2008, Adam_from_Rio wrote:Frodo and Kebab, check out this site (if you haven't already).
https://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
We should have confectionary and biscuits as a theme one night. Chance to get a bit of Lionel Richtea on.
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At 14:36 2nd Oct 2008, GardenPartyPaul wrote:Hm tasy. would like a wee taste of (Kit) Cat Power or Robert Plants Big (Caramel) Log!
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At 15:54 2nd Oct 2008, Scottish Lass wrote:Just back from holiday in the Canadian Rockies and we were lucky enough to see a bear from the safety of our train.
Our tour guide helpfully said the way to distinguish a black bear from a brown bear is to climb a tree.
If it climbs up after you it's a black bear and if it shakes you out the tree then it's a brown bear.
On the chocolate front, Canadian chocolate isn't much better and don't be fooled by the KitKats and Rolos - it's still rubbish chocolate.
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Comment number 6.
At 16:25 2nd Oct 2008, frodo feet vegas wrote:GardenPartyPaul - you would like a tatse of Robert Plants big log? You sure?
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Comment number 7.
At 16:55 2nd Oct 2008, frodo feet vegas wrote:Re bears: Is one not brown and the other black?
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Comment number 8.
At 17:51 2nd Oct 2008, Scottish Lass wrote:Hi Frodo, I'm told that black bears can range from a light tan colour to jet black. They apparently have a longer snout and different shaped claws and teeth. But then who'd want to be close enough to check!
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Comment number 9.
At 18:50 2nd Oct 2008, JuliefromEdinburgh wrote:I hear that you don't have to run that fast to escape from a bear - just faster than the person behind you! Would "Stir it Up" do for the Tea and Biscuits theme...surely Adam's and EC's theme choon :-).
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Comment number 10.
At 21:57 2nd Oct 2008, DebsfromGiffnock wrote:Themes for next week sound good. Already thinking up some suggestions but has “Life and Death” been done as a theme?
Life of Agony “Let’s Pretend”
Queen “Who Wants to Live Forever”
Beastie Boys “Time for Livin”
Loretta Lynn “Story of My Life”
Money Mark “Harmonics of Life”
Pearl Jam “Alive”
Death in Vegas “Aisha”
Audioslave “Drown Me Slowly”
Rage Against the Machine “Killing in the Name of”
Rage Against the Machine “Bullet in the Head”
David Gray “Dead in the Water”
DJ Shadow “Meets his Maker”
The Doors “The End”
Gorillaz “Every Planet We Reach is Dead”
Guns n’ Roses “Dead Horse”
Johnny Cash “The Man Comes Around”
The Killers “Somebody Told Me”
Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky”
Dead Kennedys “Vive Las Vegas”
Snow Patrol “How to be Dead”
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Comment number 11.
At 21:59 2nd Oct 2008, DebsfromGiffnock wrote:Cut and pasted last message from word and for some reason all the inverted commas have become question marks.
Suggestions for Wednesday Night “Emotions”
Steve Earle “Even When I’m Blue”
Big Country “King of Emotion”
Metallica “My Friend of Misery”
PJ Harvey “This is Love”
Debs from Giffnock
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Comment number 12.
At 02:52 3rd Oct 2008, Jim Frae Erskine wrote:Debs - don't cut and paste from Word as that introduces all sorts of nasty binary stuf into the text stream. By all means type in Word, but copy into Notepad and then FROM THERE cut and paste into the blog, and it will all be fine!
Better still, either type up in Notepad (I am assuming you are not a Mac user!) and then copy from there into the blog.
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Comment number 13.
At 21:15 4th Oct 2008, KirstyFromStoney wrote:This is my First Blog,
Been listening to the show for some time thought it was time I joined in the fun. So here are my suggestions for next week.
Monday Food
Don MacLean American Pie
Kate Nash Pumpkin Soup
Deep Blue Something Breakfast At Tiffany's
Mika Lollipop
Tuesday No intros
Cher Shoop Shoop Song
Elvis You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Nickleback Rockstar
Panic at the Disco Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Wednesday Emotions
Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger
REM Shiney Happy People
Love in an Aerosmith
Counting Crows Accidentally in Love
Bleeding Love Leona Lewis
The Power of Love Huey Lewis and The News
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At 22:02 4th Oct 2008, Scotch Get wrote:KirstyFromStoney,
Don't be shy, join the rest of us at 'Next Week's Themes'
Wipe your feet and leave the place the way you found it.
You'll have had your tea?
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