The Magnificent Goldberg

I expect the money laundering regulations would get you quickly enough. We were thinking of this, back in 1963, just after the Great Train Robbery. Millions of dirty old notes, numbers not recorded, en route to the Bank of England for destruction, were lifted. They were all in sacks. And, a few days later, a few sacks were found in odd places. So there was naturally much idle chat about what you'd do if you found a sack. The idea advocated by an older (and wiser?) colleague, to avoid it's being traced, was to hide it, and take some, placing 100 quid on a horse - a favourite. Double up each time you lost. Eventually, you'd win. Take winnings as a cheque, place apparently honest cheque from bookie in bank account. Repeat until sack empty and bank account full. Then stop gambling, before your bank account empty and bookie's full MG

Just picked this up off the Yahoo news http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071020...-6323e80_1.html This is a nice change from footy! MG

Ernest Bloch Robert Bloch Blott on the landscape

Just to remind y'all of my forecast... MG

Much the Miller's Son Maid Marion Friar Tuck

Bobby Byrd Donald Byrd Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd USN

So are most places. MG

I guess what you mean by rustbelt is old industrial areas from which the industry is moving (or simply no longer required) - equates well to most of Wales' economy: about 30% below (enlarged) EU average per capita GDP, and has been in that state, probably since the Depression, certainly since the fifties. The stats show the gap, but there aren't enough different measures, and good enough quality samples, to show the drivers properly. So it's hard to decide on cause and effect. MG

Nat Adderley Sam Jones Louis Hayes

Can you have five hernias? MG

I've got a Tiger Woods song by Idris Muhammad MG

Missed that post earlier. Thanks Guy. We tend to think the same thing here. Lack of statistics helps to cover up regional prosperity gaps. MG

Give myself a hernia trying to lift it - it's ten thousand pieces of paper. MG

Indeed. My wife comes from a village called Firle, in Sussex. It used to be the way you imagine it. Lord of the Manor (my father-in-law was the painter & decorator on the estate) who told his workers who to vote for. Literati (Virginia Woolf lived there, and Maynard Keynes wrote "The economic consequences of the peace" there), painters etc etc. Country pub. No street lights. Beautiful scenery. Weirdos. One bus every two hours, even in the seventies. I lived there then, for a while, before we were married. The place is still there, but completely different now. MG

Otchiwarongo, Namibia. We're still thinking about it (but vaguely). MG

Damn! Lucky was GREAT! And almost the only musician expressing right wing sentiments in South Africa. Damn! Shit! I'm speechless! RIP. MG

Our wonderful not quite striking postal service disgorged these today Thanks Chuck! MG

No LPs today, but yesterday was fun Herbie Mann - Mississippi gambler - Atlantic orig Herbie Mann - First light - Atlantic orig (this disc has Side one, backed with Side A - is this the regular thing with this LP?) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Here it is - Prestige Musidisc Europe issue Johnny "Hammond" Smith - What's going on - Prestige Musidisc Europe issue MG

Elmer Fudd Elmer Bernstein Leonard Bernstein

Freddie King - A bonanza of instrumentals - Crosscut Germany) reissue James Brown - The popcorn - Polydor UK issue Big Jay McNeely - Deacon rides again - Imperial Pathe Marconi reissue MG

The Gospel Clefs with Leon Lumpkins (RIP) - My music - Pearl orig MG

And another Happy Birthday from me! MG

Red Foxx Samantha Fox Stone Fox

Just remembered "Dear sir, is this a record". A 7" 33 1/3 rpm disc on VERY floppy plastic that was given away in 1962 by Private Eye magazine. Features Peter Cook, William Rushton and several other British comedians of the time. I've also found "Calling Prez collect"/"Cigarettes" by a black comedian called Jimmy Pelham, issued on his own label, Pel-nor. The A side is a phone call to Kennedy to protest about the number of "us" in jail down in Alabama. Very funny and very pointed. MG

Missed it! But happy birthday for yesterday HG! MG