Like a Glove

Vickers galore

2012-02-11T14:42:00.001Z

The Revd Michael Vickers, who appeared on the Today Programme the other week, is vicar of two churches; that could well be why he has a plural surname. However it doesn't explain why he's not wearing a dog-collar; or two, even.

He's out-vicared by the Rt Rev Michael Edwin Vickers, who looked after many more than two congregations - he was Bishop of Colchester from 1988 to 1994.

And yet another Rev Michael Vickers is the Club Missionary for the Pot Bellied Pigs RFC, the club that puts the "Pink" back into Rugby.

As you can see, I googled for 'Rev Michael Vickers' - God knows what aptronymic glories await us under other first names.

When the name fits the job

2012-02-11T14:14:00.000Z

Gloves on the BBC! A Today Programme item from a few weeks back (scroll down the page for the audio clip), with John Hoyland, the New Scientist journalist and Nominative Determinism researcher (sorry, can't find a link to the web page he mentions), along with prime examples Frances Crook and Michael Vickers. And plenty more tasty aptronyms, some of which will doubtless find their way here.

Rayment's raiments

2012-02-11T13:27:00.002Z

Mother of the Bride and Groom, Occasion Wear, Millinery.

Nigel Rayment is in the rag trade. He's a raiment merchant - he sells raiments of all types and for all occasions. And for all shapes and sizes: Sizes 8-28 with a vast range of plus sizes.

Ye shall not round the corners of your heads

2012-01-12T10:44:00.001Z

"Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group have pleaded not guilty to charges of beard- and hair-cutting attacks within their community.

They are accused over five incidents in which the beards and hair of Amish men and women were cut, an act particularly offensive in Amish culture.

It is alleged that an internal religious dispute involving a group led by Samuel Mullet motivated the attacks."

For background on 'Bishop' Mullet, see Beard-Cutting Attacks Throw Spotlight On Amish Sect. See also Amish on Wikipedia, and The Amish (1938).

"Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." (Lev. xix, 27; xxi, 5).

And here's what a normal, non-sectarian, mullet is, and what it looks like.

It all Stacks up

2011-11-23T16:21:00.001Z

Bob Stack was Head of Human Resources at former UK chocolate company Cadbury. In 2008 he was paid a salary of £1.8m - that's one million eight hundred thousand pounds - for one year's work.

To this he added £2m from taking up share options when he retired at the end of the year.

Then you can factor in his pension pot of £8m, after 18 years in the company, which is bringing him in some £700,000 - yes, seven hundred thousand pounds - per year in pension payments. That's £13,461.54 per week.

It all Stacks up, doesn't it?

And what does a Head of Human Resources do, exactly, apart from sack people? Anyone sacked by Stack, and now qualifying for a State Pension, will be getting £5311.80. Per year.

Didn't Cadbury use to be a Quaker company? With principles??

And if you're wondering how he's getting on now he's retired, Bob Stack is now making good use of his expertise and experience in negotiating salary packages - he's Chairman of the Remuneration Committee at both Sainsbury's and IMI.

Salt of the Earth

2011-11-06T22:52:00.001Z

Gardener Bob Salt tends to the grounds of Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. Salt of the Earth, that man (Matthew 5:13). Or, in even older English, 'salt of the erthe' (Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, line 2196).

See the glorious original Eyewitness photo in the Guardian.

The Bishop that thinks he's a Cathedral

2011-10-28T19:16:00.000+01:00

Richard Chartres is the current Bishop of London. The current Bishop of Chartres is called Michel Pansard, which is a pity. We think it would be nice if his name was 'Michel London' - or at the very least 'Londres'.

Roger is all sopping

2011-10-28T18:40:00.000+01:00

Roger Allsop is the oldest person to swim across the English Channel. He's 70 - even older than me.

On 31 August he swam across in 17 hours 51 minutes. At its narrowest, between Dover and Cap Gris Nez near Calais, the Channel is 34km (21 miles) wide, but looking at the zigzag route he took he must have covered twice that distance. As you can see from the videoclip, when he came out he was all sopping.

Mustn't grumble

2011-10-27T10:30:00.000+01:00

Clare Bridge, Cambridge, was designed, and possibly built, by Thomas Grumbold around 1640. One of the stone balls on the bridge parapet has a segment missing. It is said Grumbold vowed he would never finish the bridge until he was paid. He never was. Though they did pay him three shillings for a drawing of it.

When asked "How's things?", he of course replied "Well, I got three bob for the drawing. Mustn't grumble".

Thomas Grumbold did not do this drawing, though.

Thanks for this one to friends in The Gavin Tempest Brigade on Facebook

Singer not a singer

2011-10-26T18:52:00.001+01:00

Sadly, Malcolm Singer MA (Cantab) is Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, and a Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The one thing he doesn't appear to be is a singer.

Cash on costs

2011-10-15T12:26:00.004+01:00

Brian Cash can put a figure to the cost of Alabama's new immigration law: at least $100,000.

And behind this frivolous post, the harsh social and economic facts: in Alabama, formerly the heartland of white supremacy, the administration is trying to get rid of thousands of Hispanic workers and their families. It seems old habits die hard, or not at all. However, as Brian Cash's disappearing workers and rotting tomatoes show, the local economy depends on the immigrants. The US government is challenging the law.

Price on Prices

2011-10-15T11:48:00.000+01:00

Bob Price, Chief Executive of the National Association of Cider Makers, argues that Higher prices won't deter heavy drinkers. And he should know - in the cider industry, there aren't many higher Prices than Bob.

Scholar and egg-head

2011-10-11T16:39:00.000+01:00

Richard Scholar is a man after my own heart - he's a language teacher, and also does good work for Amnesty International. As you can see, he's well on the way to becoming a fully fledged egg-head.

Thanks for this one to friends in The Gavin Tempest Brigade on Facebook

Kitchin's kitchen

2011-10-11T16:25:00.001+01:00

Tom Kitchin is, of course, a cook. So he spends his entire working life in his kitchen, which he even calls 'The Kitchin'.

The poor lad had no option really. I wonder what his dad did?

It's not a bad restaurant, apparently: "The Kitchin was recently awarded ’Best UK Restaurant 2011’ by Square Meal".

Thanks for this one to friends in The Gavin Tempest Brigade on Facebook

What do you call a really small comet?

2011-10-11T15:53:00.000+01:00

Une météorite tombe chez... Mme Comette !

"Son nom la prédestinait"

Une météorite chez Mme Comette !

"Un nom prédestiné"

- and in English:

Comette family home damaged by egg-sized meteorite

"When your name is Comette . . ."

Shulman indeed

2011-09-19T23:49:00.000+01:00

Synagogues in the East End and City of London
Compiled by David Shulman

*shul = synagogue in Yiddish

Couch on psychoanalysis

2011-09-18T22:46:00.000+01:00

Or should that be the other way round?
Therapeutic functions of the real relationship in psychoanalysis.
By Couch, Arthur S.
In The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol 54, 1999, 130-168.

Or you could try: Anna Freud's Adult Psychoanalytic Technique - but be careful, it's 20 pages.

I suppose Arthur Couch is better than none . . . (try saying it in Cockney).
Thanks for this one to friends in The Gavin Tempest Brigade on Facebook

Towers on blocks

2011-09-08T14:15:00.000+01:00

Transforming multi-storey housing

by Graham Towers

Graham is a Town Planner - no option, really.

Thanks for this one to friends in The Gavin Tempest Brigade on Facebook

Saladino on Food

2011-08-25T12:50:00.003+01:00

Dan Saladino is a producer on the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme. But it's not all salads for Dan. He is "vastly knowledgeable about the politics, psychology and philosophy of what and how people eat" (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown).

The Bean Counter

2011-08-25T12:34:00.000+01:00

Charlie Bean, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England.

A classic 'bean-counter' if ever there was one.

Coffin sponsors Death

2011-02-18T12:16:00.001Z

THE CARNIVAL OF DEATH

Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas
Conference and Exhibition dates: 24-26 Feb 2011
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Keynote speakers: Briony Campbell, Paul Preston, Laurie Lipton

Kindly sponsored by the John Coffin Trust Fund and the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain in London.

Paintin the Head of Art

2011-01-28T11:57:00.000Z

Elaine Paintin died a few days ago. Amongst her many contributions to British cultural life, she was the British Library's head of art (1987-97), and trustee and director of the Cartoon Art Museum (1998-2003). She commissioned the emblematic statue of Isaac Newton (by Eduardo Paolozzi), that is the focus of the courtyard to the Library - clearly a sculpture, but also without doubt a Paintin.

Weather by Storm

2011-01-27T15:09:00.001Z

Weather, by Storm Dunlop. Nothing more to be said.

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Snowman at the Pole

2010-10-12T01:09:00.000+01:00

Pole Positions: the Polar regions and the future of the planet, by Daniel Snowman. He must have been aware he was writing it . . .

Rich the Banker

2010-10-12T00:45:00.000+01:00

Doubly Rich

Rich Ricci is Co-Chief Executive of Barclays Capital and Co-Chief Executive of Corporate & Investment Banking.

Another lovable Banker, and doubly Rich indeed.

A Diamond in the money

2010-10-12T00:38:00.002+01:00

The unacceptable face of banking

Bob Diamond was recently appointed Chief Executive of Barclays Bank. Formerly head of the bank's Capital Investment division, he was reckoned to have paid himself over £60 million for his contribution to bringing the world's financial system to its knees. Even Peter Mandelson thought he had gone too far.

Bankers. Don't we love 'em.

Hatching: a how-to guide

2010-10-01T01:20:00.000+01:00

Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated World

A Survival Guide from a Family of Nine

Brent and Phelecia Hatch

Greentree Publishing

- from parents who learned firsthand while raising their seven children to have values, morals and the ability to make the right choices.

What do you do with water, Spillet?

2010-10-01T01:06:00.006+01:00

Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Shop Talk (9 December 2003) discussing climate change, Dr Peter Spillet, Water industry Climate Change Research, along with his buddy Dr Christopher Spray, at the time Environment director, Northumbrian Water.

AROUND 40% of Thames Water's water goes missing every year, making it the worst leaker in the industry. The man charged with doing something about the ensuing shortages? Dr Peter Spillet...

Quote from City Spy in The Free Library, Nov 2004.

Picture from CBC News.

Spray the water boffin

2010-10-01T00:40:00.002+01:00

Professor Chris J Spray MBE

Chair of Water Science and Policy, University of Dundee

Research interests in wetland ecosystem services.

One imagines that he gets people making jokes about his name all the time. "Not all the time," he says. "I tend to use it myself quite often, because it's a way of opening a talk and breaking the ice." Spray confirms that he appeared on Radio 4 last week with his Thames Water counterpart Peter Spillet.

Thanks again to The Guardian, 18 December 2003

General Panic in Yugoslavia

2010-10-01T00:21:00.000+01:00

General Panic

General Zivota Panic rose steadily through the Yugoslav Army ranks in 1970s and 1980s. He was appointed Army Chief of Staff in May 1992. During the war with Croatia in 1991, he had been responsible for the three-month seige of Vukovar, and was eventually charged with war crimes by the Croatian courts in 2003.

Another Panic

In 1992 Milan Panic was Yugoslavia's newly-appointed prime minister. During a power struggle with President Slobodan Milosevic, Prime Minister Panic (not related to his chief of staff) reportedly suggested to General Panic, his tennis partner, that the army should arrest Milosevic while he was having a late-night drink at the Prime Minister's home.

End of Panic

It didn't happen, Milosevic staved off the threat to his position, and moved against the plotters. In 1993 General Panic was implicated in charges of corruption - his son had been selling over-priced toilet paper to the Army - and was dismissed.

He did not stand trial on the war crimes charges, as he died at the end of 2003, a few months after they were laid.

Thanks to The Independent obituary, 6 December 2003.

Swindle the copper

2010-09-30T23:22:00.003+01:00

Detective Superintendent of Strathclyde Police David Swindle is seated far right. The photo is from the Scottish Prisons Commission's Public Debate in Glasgow, May 2009.

NB: thanks again to The Guardian, 18 December 2003

Severe on behaviour, Severe on the causes of behaviour

2010-09-30T23:07:00.006+01:00

How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too! - author, Dr Sal Severe.

Actually, despite her name, she's all for positive strategies: the book "does not focus on what children do wrong. It teaches parents what they can do differently."

NB: thanks again to The Guardian, 18 December 2003

Shovelin the fireplace

2010-09-30T22:30:00.003+01:00

"I wouldn't believe my name is linked to my job, that I was destined to be a fireplace fitter from the day I was born," says Hugh Shovelin. So you haven't always been a fireplace fitter? "I have, actually," he says. "Twenty years in the business, straight from school." And you still don't believe there's anything to it? "There might be a theory in it somewhere. I don't know. It was only meant to be a temporary job."

NB: Thanks to The Guardian, 18 December 2003

Corn Maze in California

2010-09-30T22:17:00.001+01:00

corn maze in Petaluma, California (Google Lat Long Blog)

So I suppose a tired old joke about maize would be Maize Corn?

NB: I know, I know, some of you may protest that this isn't an aptronym. You're entitled to your opinion. I think it's on the borderline . . .

Page has books

2010-06-11T17:30:00.001+01:00

It's only fair, since books usually have pages.

Townsenders

2009-03-08T00:13:00.010Z

- chief executive - Mike Townsend

Mr K Townsend - Head of Parks and Countryside Service, Ealing Council

Mark Townsend - Contact: Contours walking holidays - guided and self-led hiking tours

Peter Townsend - former Director of Peak National Park Centre

Mrs Townsend - ... took up the tenancy of their house in Kirklees just last week. "My daughter and I think it is amazing here, I always wanted to live in the country" (link?)

Chris Townsend - author: Classic Hill Walks (Cassell and Co 0 706375351 £14.99);

"I'm a writer and photographer with a passion for wilderness and mountains." (website)

Lady Juliet Townsend - former (?) President, rural charity Northamptonshire ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England)

Jerry Townsend - Four years ago, Jerry Townsend and his family drove from their ranch in the shadow of the Highwood Mountains in the middle of Montana. The drive was lovely, but it was the race to put up new houses that got their attention. The next year he put a conservation easement on almost all of his 2,500-acre Montana ranch. "(Development) is not the legacy we want to leave."
High Country News, Sep 1998

Lady Charlotte Townsend - owner of 5000 acre Melbury Estate (Dorset), dominated by a lofty hexagonal tower built during Tudor times for viewing the park and the deer.

Lord Justice Laws

2009-03-07T23:47:00.003Z

Lawbroker Laws

"Although it was wrong in principle for British courts to consider evidence obtained by torture in Britain", he was "quite unable to see that any such principle prohibits the [Home Secretary] from relying . . . on evidence coming into his hands which has been obtained through torture by agencies of other states . . . " (New Statesman, 2004)

He also sat in the Metric Martyrs case in 2002.

Lord Justice Igor Judge

2009-03-07T23:12:00.005Z

Judge Judge himself - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.

Heroes and villains - speech to the Society of Editors' Annual Conference London, 13 October 2003

Judge Judge, along with Lord Justice Laws*, is a member of The Court of Appeal; both are amongst the 75% of appeal judges who hold the “Full House” of qualifications for the post: men, public school and Oxbridge (survey by SJ Berwin).
* Sir John, not to be confused with David Laws, MP

If you fancy being a High Court Judge (£150,878 pa), apply here.
Or you could just Find a solicitor.

Larry Speakes

2009-03-07T23:04:00.003Z

White House press spokesman for Ronald Reagan.

"Those who talk don’t know what is going on and those who know what is going on won’t talk."

"You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it."
Larry Speakes Quotes (BrainyQuote)

29 June - President Reagan announces that the SALT II treaty is "dead" and that he will continue to abide by it. White House press spokesman Larry Speakes clarifies this by explaining that the president "has no idea what he is saying."
Dave Barry's Concise History Of 1986

Cartoon from the David Levine Gallery in The New York Review of Books.

Sasha Waltz

2009-03-07T22:46:00.004Z

Dancer and choreographer. Born in 1963 in Karlsruhe. Trained at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in 1986. She then founded her own international dance company and has received several awards, among them the Adolf Grimme Award and a critic's award by German film critics. She has taken part in the artistic direction of the Berliner Schaubühne since 1999.

Her website
Sasha Waltz bleibt mit eigener Compagnie an der Schaubühne

Loads of videos on YouTube

Professor Frank Go

2009-03-07T22:08:00.005Z

. . . of the Erasmus University, Netherlands, spoke on Electronic Gaming: Fostering Cultural Identity Formation And Feeding Businesses at the 2nd International Symposium on Tourism at the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies, University of Brighton (2003).

Go, an addictive game

Go proverbs
Don't try to enclose an open skirt
The simplest move is the best move
Strange things happen at the one-two points

The University of Myong-ji (Yong-In, Korea) has a Department of Baduk (Go) Studies: Established in 1997, the Department is the first of its kind in the world. Students in the Department are exposed to a wide range of in-depth courses on Baduk, with particular emphasis on practical training.

Rev David Keen

2008-12-13T19:12:00.017Z

I'm pleased to announce the formation of InPeace!, a group of evangelicals who will gatecrash OutRage! meetings and talk about Jesus for 20 minutes (Gay row, July 14). Rev David Keen, Darlington.
Letters, The Guardian, Wednesday July 16, 2003

It'll be a blessed relief if David Keen's - or any other - group of evangelicals can limit themselves to talking about Jesus for only 20 minutes (Letters, July 16). Fr Alec Mitchell
Letters, The Guardian, Thursday July 17, 2003

David is now vicaring in Yeovil. His blog St. Aidan to Abbey Manor is apparently the 104th most influential in the UK blogosphere. He blogs, a lot, every day - how keen is that?

evangelical: characterized by ardent or crusading enthusiasm; zealous
Dictionary.com

David Laws MP

2008-12-13T18:59:00.003Z

David wows them in the Commons.

MP for Yeovil, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.

Gregory Barker

2008-12-13T18:47:00.006Z

The Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle speaks on dogs, and barks at the government:

"The kennel men and other hunt servants who know all the hounds by name and have nurtured them and brought them up since they were puppies will have to stand by and watch them be slaughtered en masse. The blood of those hounds will be on the hands of this government, who are dog haters."

Ferreted out by Smallweed (The Guardian) Saturday July 12, 2003

Simon Hart

2008-12-13T18:41:00.005Z

Formerly Director of the Campaign for Hunting, currently Chief Executive, The Countryside Alliance. Or maybe they're one and the same thing?

hart: the male of the red deer especially when over five years old
Date: before 12th century
chiefly British
Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Steven Cooke

2008-12-13T17:39:00.010Z

Steven is a freelance chef, and as you can read on his website, he wears many hats . . .

Executive freelance Chef Steven Cooke has years of experience in the catering industry. Steven’s career to date has taken him around the world from personal chef to executive chef in five star hotels and successful restaurants.

The Culinary Arts Studio at the University of Brighton presents:

25th November - Canapes with CHEF STEVE COOKE

Colin Capon

2008-12-13T17:23:00.003Z

International culinary celebrity Colin Capon has cooked his way around the world serving up his specialities to Royalty, Prime Ministers, Sultans and Presidents.

The Culinary Arts Studio at the University of Brighton presents:
17th December: Chocolate Workshop with CHEF COLIN CAPON

Life gives art a thrashing

2008-12-12T19:12:00.007Z

In his Guardian column Ava Gonow and co (Mon 25 Sep 1972), Barry Norman described the Phil D Basket game he used to play with fellow journalists Bernard Levin and Julian Holland. However, after regaling us with a stream of fictitious personages such as Warren Peace, the biographer of Tolstoy, and Bertha D Blews, jazz singer, he had to admit that real life was perfectly capable of trumping all their inventions.

Stand up, Bernt Persson! Although, on second thoughts, perhaps it'd be safer if you stayed in your seat . . .

We hereby introduce the title of Member of the Order of the Glove (Mog, or as it is known affectionately, Moggie), awarded for services to Glovology, and announce that the first Honorary Memberships are awarded to Bernt Persson, for being Bernt Persson, and to Barry Norman, for bringing his existence to the attention of Glovologists everywhere.

Lars Torders, anyone?

Louis Potts

2008-12-11T00:37:00.005Z

Louis Potts and Company, China Traders. Of Lewes. A family company since 1969.

Too good to be true? I'm afraid it looks like it - the company was set up by Mr and Mrs Clarke.

Check their website - lots of pots but no sign of a Potts - apart from the sign above the door, of course.

Wake & Paine

2008-12-10T11:04:00.003Z

Funeral Directors in Middlesex.

Pic from analogueali on Flickr.

Thrush Eggshells Get Thinner

2008-12-10T00:26:00.004Z

New Threat To UK'S Favourite Birds?
Dr. Mark Avery, head of conservation science for Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: "This thinning is a cause for concern. It appears that eggshells have been thinning ever since the industrial revolution. We seem to have discovered a new ecological footprint".

RSPB press release 21 April 1998

Welcome to DeWind!

2008-12-10T00:20:00.004Z

DeWind is a mechanical engineering company producing wind energy converters. This is the first DeWind-WEC build at DeWind assembling in Loughborough. The plant will be installed in windfarm at Großhänchen, Saxony.

Testa the Tester

2008-12-10T00:18:00.003Z

Dr Alec Testa
Director of Assessment
Western Governors University

See his World Wide Web Resources for Assessment

Canadian Medical Association Journal

2008-12-05T00:36:00.006Z

Onomastic gems from the Canadian Medical Association Journal:

from Erica Weir (Associate editor):

Take, for example, Julia Twigg's landmark 1983 paper, "Vegetarianism and the meaning of meat," or Dale Speedy's recent contributions to articles on marathon running. There's also D.P. Speach's work on stroke rehabilitation. The epithet "weir" means a dam across a stream to back it up. When we run a MEDLINE search on the author name "Weir" and the keyword "urology," it's not mere coincidence that we discover Julie Weir has authored in this field.

Frank M, Sturm M, Arnau H, Achenbach U. Quality of life and patient compliance during pain therapy. Multicenter study using Tramundin retard. Fortschr Med 1999;117(10):38-9.

from Susan Boron (Family physician):
· Dr. Ades: scientist studying HIV infection rates in babies
· Dr. Aikinhead: allergist
· Dr. Babey: family physician
· Dr. Colon: a psychiatrist, but he shoulda been a ...
· Dr. Deadman: coroner
· Dr. Healy: surgeon
· Dr. Foley: urologist
· Dr. Foote: podiatrist
· Dr. Iball: eye surgeon
· Dr. Morales: sex counsellor
· Dr. Nurse: obstetrician
· Dr. Pain: obstetrician
· Dr. Pipe: founding chair of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada
· Dr. Quirk: psychiatrist
· Dr. Shin: orthopedic surgeon
· Drs. Splatt and Weedon: researchers studying the urethral syndrome
· Dr. Studd: runs an infertility clinic

Frances Crook

2008-12-05T00:33:00.003Z

With the prison population about to top 70,000 today for the first time ever, the Howard League for Penal Reform is publishing a '5 Point Action Plan' to stave off the crisis. Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League called on the Home Secretary to take action ...

Press release, 1 March 2002

Hear Frances speak on her name on the Today Programme, 23 Dec 2012.

Crook and Blight

2008-12-05T00:30:00.003Z

Estate agents, Newport.

"The 'House Sold' Name"

Doolittle & Dalley

2008-12-05T00:27:00.002Z

Estate agents, Bridgnorth.

Wright Hassall & Co

2008-12-05T00:22:00.002Z

Of Leamington Spa.

"Not all lawyers are the same"

Günter Wand

2008-12-05T00:10:00.006Z

Volatile conductor who specialised in Bruckner

His rehearsals were meticulous and much appreciated by the orchestra, who respected him as part of a vanishing tradition.

John Drummond
Saturday February 16, 2002 The Guardian

Schiesser-Shop

2008-12-04T23:49:00.005Z

Herren Underwear
1003 Jazz-Pants
Aus der Serie 'Schiesser Bluebird' - Jazz-Pants aus 95% supergekämmter Baumwolle und 5% Elastan mit Nadelbund in weiss, admiral und schwarz.
Euro 13.50 DM 26.40

Underwear von Schiesser

Buy online ... but be careful how you pronounce it!

SCHIESSER AG
Die 1875 als Firma Jacques Schiesser in Radolfzell gegründete SCHIESSER AG, ist heute Marktführer unter den deutschen Wäschespezialisten und auf dem Weg vom deutschen Produktions- zum internationalen Markenunternehmen im textilen "close to skin" Produkt-Bereich.

Damen Slipidu
2001 String
String aus 95% supergekämmter Mako-Baumwolle und 5% Elastan in weiss und schwarz
Euro 7.95 DM 15.55

Mr Jimmy Choo

2008-12-04T23:32:00.010Z

The Cobbler of Connaught Street

Mr Jimmy Choo is probably London's most famous shoe designer.

Born in Malaysia Mr Choo came to London to study footwear. He was awarded the 'Accessory Designer of the Year for 1999' at the most important fashion spectacle in the UK - the British Fashion Awards. Put your feet into the experienced hands of Mr Choo ...

See Jeffrey Black?

2008-12-04T23:22:00.005Z

251 results on Google, but you can no longer see him in Paisley, apparently.

Black & Lizars sold to London consortium

Payne the dentist

2008-12-04T23:17:00.002Z

Ian D Payne, Birmingham
Dr Julia Payne, Manchester
Kenton Clifford Payne, Lymington
Robert Mitchell Payne, Stourbridge
Trevor Malcolm Payne, London

Search the find-a-dentist database

Swindells Gentry

2008-12-04T23:10:00.005Z

"To us you are more than numbers"

G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

2008-12-04T22:54:00.005Z

I’m Rick Wagoner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors.

GM submitted a plan to Congress on Tuesday that called for $18 billion in loans and warned that the 100-year old iconic American company won't have enough money to run its business without an immediate cash infusion of $4 billion.

Not just another car ride for GM CEO Wagoner

David Walker

2008-12-04T00:25:00.001Z

The middle classes go by train, while poor wait for the bus

Travel by rail tends to be middle-class, male and middle-aged. Poorer people and the young predominantly use buses and bikes, or walk. Older people travel less and when they do, they walk, take the bus or drive ...

David Walker
Guardian Monday January 14, 2002

Domaine Herbouze

2008-12-04T00:19:00.004Z

This is already ready to gulp and is exclusive to Tesco who are buying the domaine's entire 2000 and 2001 crop. Useful, easy wine for those who want to drink organic. And the name could hardly be better, could it? ...

Jancis Robinson, Master of Wine - Wine news, 21 Sep 2001

And while we're on the subject:

Joly, the green giant
Harnessing the planets to make wine may sound like mumbo jumbo. But it works for Nicolas Joly, France's most passionate exponent of biodynamism ...
Tim Atkin

November 25, 2001, The Observer

Graham Heale

2008-12-04T00:16:00.001Z

Chiropractic - what it is and is not

Chiropractic began in 1895 when one Daniel David Palmer, a 'healer', of Ohio decided that a supposed spinal misalignment could be rectified by a direct forceful movement. After doing this, he reported, there were considerable changes to his patients' symptoms ...

Graham Heale
Secretary, British Chiropractic Association

HealthWatch, The Campaign Against Health Fraud
Newsletter 5

White and Black

2008-12-04T00:11:00.004Z

Straw changes tack on single currency
Foreign secretary now backs early referendum
by Michael White and Ian Black in Brussels

The Guardian - Saturday December 15 2001

Oh we know it's right
It's in Black and White
And it's all written down in his diary!
Pepys's Diary, Benny Hill

Andrew Goodsell

2008-12-04T00:08:00.001Z

Consumer Finance Awards
Dedication to over-50s pays off

Best insurance provider:
Saga Services
... is now the leading provider of insurance in the over-50s market with around a million motor and household policyholders. It is recognised for being particularly good value in the motor insurance market where its prices are 30% below the market average.

Managing director: Andrew Goodsell

Saturday June 30, 2001 The Guardian

Sue Head

2008-12-04T00:06:00.000Z

Earlsmead Primary School
... housed in Victorian buildings dating from 1897, Earlsmead is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual inner city primary school in South Tottenham.'The leadership of the headteacher and governing body is very good; they manage the school efficiently.'

Headteacher: Sue Head

Simon Wild

2008-12-04T00:04:00.000Z

... and Sussex Wildlife Protection Group - saved Copper the fox from certain death by the local hunt. After retrieving Copper from the hounds, they plugged the rabbit hole he'd bolted down with a helmet loaned by a compassionate police officer (who is sadly unable to accept his Animal Pride award). When the coast was clear, Copper was rushed to a vet and treated for shock and internal bleeding. He is now fully recovered and has been released into an area where hunting is banned ...

See Simon's photos in the gallery devoted to Henry S Salt, humanitarian reformer and author of A Plea for Vegetarianism.

****** Fidler

2008-12-04T00:03:00.001Z

... admitted a charge of theft, bailed on condition he reports 3 times a week to police ...

The ***** (local newspaper), Fri 16 Nov 2001

Michael Leader

2008-12-03T23:59:00.004Z

... a supporting actor on EastEnders who has played the Albert Square milkman since the first episode in 1985. On Tuesday, his first ever spoken line was broadcast: "Is this yours, squire?".

"I'm a great aficionado of the old music hall as my father Harry was a big band leader in the 1950s ... "

Amy Fleming The Guardian Friday November 16, 2001

Tony Dedman

2008-12-03T23:55:00.001Z

... a former bomb disposal expert with the army and Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad ...

The Guardian, 5 Nov 2001

The BBC's Nicola Carslaw

2008-12-03T23:45:00.003Z

"A tough new line on the problem of abandoned cars has been unveiled by the government."

Watch Nicola tell it like it is.

31 October 2001

Hartwell and Nurse

2008-12-03T23:42:00.004Z

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award The Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2001 jointly to Leland H. Hartwell, Timothy Hunt and Paul Nurse (director general, Imperial Cancer Research Fund) for their discoveries of "key regulators of the cell cycle".

8 October 2001

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
The Nobel Foundation
The Ig Nobel Home Page

Simon Drew

2008-12-03T23:31:00.009Z

... works in pen and ink with an emphasis on wildlife and everyday subjects.

"Trust me, I'm a ducktor"

Gallery and Designs

Cardinal Sin admits feeling 'hopeless' over crises

2008-10-04T18:44:00.004+01:00

"ARCHBISHOP of Manila Jaime Cardinal Sin yesterday confessed to feelings of hopelessness over the national situation ... "

By Norman Bordadora
Inquirer News Service
January 6, 2001

Bernt Persson

2008-10-04T18:38:00.005+01:00

"Unlike the great Heathens idols that followed him in the late seventies and early eighties, Bernie had the unenviable job of leading Cradley through some of the tougher times. However, his superb statistical record and accomplished riding style has made sure that this 'Black Country Swede' will always remain in the hearts of the old Dudley Wood faithful ..."
Cradley Heath Speedway Club

Bernie seems to have raced in Britain for some 10 years without a single serious accident, despite his name.

His finest hour
1972 World Final (Wembley): Ivan Mauger 13, Bernt Persson 13, Ole Olsen 12, Christer Lofqvist 11, John Louis 11, . . .

* Another Scandinavian 70s speedway star was Norwegian Reidar Eide.

Mayor's bedtimes put youth to sleep

2008-10-04T18:27:00.005+01:00

"The party is over for Spanish children in the Canary Island town of Aguimes: the mayor has announced a curfew that will send them to bed well before midnight on schooldays. Antonio Morales said the town's 7,000 under-16s were staying up so late that it was affecting their schoolwork, making them apathetic and turning them into drug-taking troublemakers ..."

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Guardian Wednesday October 3, 2001

Watch on the world

2008-10-04T17:45:00.002+01:00

"When the global media talk, BBC Caversham listens. Then its experts transcribe and translate broadcasts from front line countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan.

... On an adjacent desk, Steve Watcham was copy tasting for the daily news file ..."

Maggie Brown
Guardian Monday October 1, 2001

At the sign of the limp hand

2008-10-04T17:34:00.003+01:00

Our logo.
Sign outside glove shop, Plaza de la Reina, Valencia, Spain.

[Sign sadly no longer there when last visited in 2005]