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Kirsty MacColl sang on that one. I'm sure I've got a cassette somewhere with her singing "There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis". The cassette came courtesy of Weetabix cereal, if you ate enough and sent off the tokens. It had four songs, including "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. I forget the other two songs. That would have been the first music I owned. Which is a very different thing from being the first music I ever bought...
That's such a great cereal box gift. Best I ever got was a misshapen bouncy ball meant to bounce at unpredictable angles. Which was pretty great, itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QccPUSTMriM
Hah, that's got to be one of the most "80s" videos I've seen. Fantastic. Never heard of her before, and didn't know she was the singer from "Fairytale."
Wikipedia tells me a tragic but heroic story regarding her death -- she saved her young son from being struck by a watercraft, sadly being killed herself in the process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl#Death_and_aftermath
The original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQkf_sC0PI
Tracey Ullman did the cover
Hello everyone. With the days getting warmer we're once again preparing for the summer games. As always these games are open to all of you in our embassy regions, so we hope to see some of you there. Information about the games and signing up can be found here:
2019 Summer Games
The Oatland Regional Games is an international sporting event held in Oatland since 2016. Its purpose is to promote sporting excellence and international brotherhood. Citizens of all nations in Oatland and it's affiliated regions are welcome to compete in the games and each event is open to all athletes.
The Games
The Oatland regional games are biannual, with games held in both summer and winter. Each game consists of numerous events in which athletes compete for the gold, silver and bronze metal. This years summer game has nine events: Diving, Rifle Shooting, the Decathlon, Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Equestrian Sports, Swimming, Archery, and a new event; Fencing
Gymnastics - Angèle Dior, Lionel Genet
Swimming - Marc Gérald, Céline Berlioz
Weightlifting - Philippe Jauffret, Gérald Pretre
Rifle Shooting - Christine Girard, Olivia Gaudreau, Jean-Yves Bachelot
Decathlon - Olivier Ballouhey, René Pascal, Marinette Derocles, Nathan Carré
Equestrian Sports - Sara Lafaille
Archery - Charlaine Paquet, Raymond Denis
Fencing - Jacques Lefèvre, Françoise du Gast
How to participate
In order to compete nations should telegram a list of competing athletes to Aclion, the event organizer.
This roster should contain the full name of each competing athlete as well as the event they will competing in. Nations are currently limited to Eighteen athletes total and are allowed to allocate up to five to each event. If an athlete is competing in more then one event then each entry is counted separately towards the nations total athlete pool.
Scoring
The exact system used for scoring is secret. However there are a number of things nations can do to to gain advantage, including:
- Cultivating a high health stat in there nation to boost athlete performance,
Shrewdly allocating athletes among the events,
Publishing team logos, uniform designs and anthems to earn a teamwide bonus
Publishing short biographies of competitors to earn a bonus for that competitor,
Selecting a national specialty sport to gain advantage in that event,
Sending previous medal earners to the same event to receive a champion bonus,
Please be sure to submit all material for points by the sign-up deadline if you wish it to count towards your score.
Schedule of events
June 8th - Signup deadline
June 10th - Opening Ceremonies
June 12th - Diving
June 14th - Rifle Shooting
June 16th - Decathlon
June 18th - Gymnastics
June 20th - Weightlifting
June 22nd - Equestrian Sports
June 24th - Swimming
June 26th - Archery
June 28th - Fencing
June 30th - Closing Ceremonies
Participants:
Oatland
Aclion - Anthem, 
Uniform
Nokgar Uniform
Hippie wonderland
Tjorl - Anthem - Biographies
Yeet my dab
Yeunen - Uniform and Logo - Biographies
Xcephalopodonia
The ascended transhumanist sociocracy - Anthem - Uniform and logo
Keyyn
The Bar on the corner of every region
Anacin - Anthem - Biographies
Christmas
Finmany - Anthem - Uniform
Earthbound immortal squad
Realm of the Whispering Winds
Maria malvina - Anthem
Hillbillica
Halcyon nova - Big ol sexy rp dispatch
The Bunny Fire
Windiria
Fishy ApplesUniforms - Anthem
The Onigiri Enclave Anthem
Results:
Diving:
Rifle Shooting:
Decathlon:
Silver & Bronze: René Ballouhey of Finmany and Georgianna 'Grim Reaper' Seth of Halcyon nova
Gymnastics:
Silver: Xela Deacon of Finmany
Weightlifting:
Equestrian Sports:
Silver: Ping Kamena of The ascended transhumanist sociocracy
Bronze: Cheryl Religieuse of Fishy Apples
Swimming
Bronze: Ashton Dennis of Finmany
Archery
Fencing
Gold: Kenji Shiwatora of The Onigiri Enclave
Earthbound immortal squad and Little St Nick
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Greetings region! (first post from region)
Earthbound immortal squad and GoodKingWenceslas
Howdy! What is "FNAF," if you may forgive me for asking?
Earthbound immortal squad and FNAFia
You should give it a go I got to night 5 once.
That's a game? It sounds more like a job I once had...
Earthbound immortal squad and FNAFia
That was done well it has a sense of humour from multiple perspectives.
Interesting. Never heard of it. Sounds cool though
You back from your sabbatical? Also, I just realized I forgot to check out your latest issue submission...
Never heard of FNAF, that's the sadest thing i ever heard....(xd)
Earthbound immortal squad and Yuletide Yggdrasil
Santa is purple guy confirmed
New Newspaper!(Sadly no section for you because lack of info, next time you will) = page=dispatch/id=1213389
Check out our New Officers Election.
Lack of candidates, huh? ;)
*Looks at latest poll instead: region=the_okchi_union#poll *
I've heard about that one.
It's years ago that I read the book. I remember loving it. I hope the TV does it justice. I'm thinking that the angel and the demon should be okay, although they're not as I picture them. I think my problem will be with the boy, Adam. He always came across as being a rewrite of Richmal Crompton's Just William. I'll struggle if the character doesn't live up (or maybe that should read 'live down') to my expectations.
I grew up reading Just William (I had a gazillion of the books in varying stages of second-hand decay). My dad read them as a kid too, as did his dad before him. And reading Good Omens, you knew that at least one of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman had that same deep relationship with William as we did. Even though Adam is meant to be an independent character, I've a horrible feeling that he'll be the sticking point for me.
I've been meaning to read more literature, I used to read quite a bit when I was younger but in later years I had to do English essays to any book I read so I lost interest, it just ruins the story when you pick apart every use of a language technique.
Yeah, there's nothing like an English essay to kill your enjoyment of a book! I must admit, I was very lucky in that I managed to pass my high school exam without having to read the book.
The book was dull as ditchwater anyhow. The teacher was focused on getting us to pass the exam. It was pretty clear that if you parroted back what the teacher taught us, we'd pass the exam. So I learned the synopsis, and the key learning points. Damned if I was going to read the book. I learned my "personal response" by rote.
The 450-ish page novel (which I hadn't read) was the story of a girl whose mother dies, whose father then beats up her beloved brother, until the brother leaves home, never to be seen again. She is treated like a slave by her dad until she is married off to a wife beater. She gets a guilt complex when her dad dies.
The husband then goes off to war to be killed.
The exam question, when it came, was a gift.
"English literature is depressing. Using a novel you have read recently, agree or disagree with the statement."
I just had to write out the plot, and add a comment that "if you haven't slashed your wrists by the end of this book, you're a hard hearted b*stard".
I got an A.
Earthbound immortal squad and Finmany
That sounds like it was the easiest question ever. God help the y11’s going they GCSE’s this year with AQA screwing up again with biology, that prophetically stupid 1-9 grading system as a 4 is a pass and 5 is a very good pass however rumours are that a 5 will be becoming the standard pass rate. I know a couple of y11’s one Earthbound immortal squad will know and the others I know from my riding yard and before you all ask yes I’m a horse rider.
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