Argyll FM at Hogmanay

[general jack o'niell]

i think it was a shaffi alright, in fact it still buy one get one free in several shops in argyle st up towards the gallowgate clock.

that'll do with the ribbing about his attire, if we don't stop here we'll be onto his taste in jumpers next, and some of those cords he's worn over the years need reporting too, not that they were badly cut or anything but just he had a habit of wearing away the front of fthe thighs, sitting rubbing his hands down them, watching the young yins in the kintyre's back bar.

i do believe i might well have made that last bit up, but fiction and reality run side by side in my brain and it's hard to tell them apart sometimes. especially where R is concerned, i wouldn't worry tho, for the most part it's all positive, R is one of the few people i've always liked to take the P out of, but should any other? well lets just say the last time i lost my temper was in his defence, probably the next one too, knowing some snakes as i do!!!!

[The Elusive Mr D.]

Annie, you're getting cheekier in your old age
Frosty, it probably is the Meadowhall jacket but I keep that for special events now, I splashed out and got a new one a couple of years back. After 15 years I think the auld yin needs a rest, but STILL not on a shoogly peg

[The Elusive Mr D.]

I didn't rub my hands on my thighs except when I was thinking about money, so pretty much all of the time!!!
And I stopped wearing cords in the seventies, around about the same time I stopped wearing tanktops. Are they coming back into fashion then

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I think after a certain age they're called wife beaters

[general jack o'niell]

thousands will believe you

me? thats a horse of a different colour (wee wizard of oz reference for all you friends of dorothy)

watched a great film last night after the man utd game, the life and times of judge roy bean on sky movie classic, think that makes triple figures now and i only just realised that stacey keach played "bad bob", not the original bad bob, but bad bob the albino.

we all wept when the watch bear died, no we didn't, but i'm trying to appear sensitive

[Sweltered]

What kind of eyes have you got, of course it's Stacey Keach

[general jack o'niell]

too busy learning the scene of by heart that i never paid any attention to who played the part, then again the first 80 times i watched it there was usually an arguement about johhny and edger winters during that scene.

either that or your brother would be doing his "snake river rufus croll" act



my trigger finger is itchy, i'm set to go, red hot, yeehaaa


the end scene where a crowd member says "who are you?" is the classic, answer?


justice, you sons of bitches!!!!!!


i'm going to watch it again, right now, i recorded it, so thats recordings of it spanning 27yrs, from elusive keeping a straight face while selling me a blank video tape for £16 all the way to sky+, who says we don't live in the future, you can buy a dvd player for that!!!!!!

[The Elusive Mr D.]

If you had bought 10 they would only have cost you £9.99 each

[general jack o'niell]

aye right!!! there wiznae ten blank tapes in the whole of scotland, nevermind wallaces, they only had two and the other one sat on a shelf for six months till willie d bought it.

mind you, it still plays, blondie live at the glasgow apollo xmas 1978-79? i subsequently bought two agfa tapes in cuthbertsons in glasgow that cost me £10 each, one has a good cowboy film on it, with paul newman and victoria pricipal

[The Elusive Mr D.]

There was a stash of 20 in the cupboard under the stairs but someone was keeping them to record O.G.W.T. with
Unfortunately they've all joined that great crinkled tape club in the vast beyond

[general jack o'niell]

i have hundreds, ogwt by the score, every nfl game between 1985 and two yrs ago when i discovered recordable dvd players, marx bros, corries in concert, rock goes to college (police) (cars) (pattie smith) (television)(damned) the tube, even the letter from america episode, boxes of the buggers.

i was thinking of getting bill to sit and label them all, he just used to love that with his pen and bottle of tippex, he sounds as if he's mailing it in most days, tho thats a damn sight better than when he's not there, who is it stands in for him stephan hawking?

[general jack o'niell]

i was very annoyed last night, i'd made two banana loafs, used a pound of sugar, five bananas, vanilla, syrup and a good dollop of camp coffee for flavour, the result, beautifully risen, moist, but not wet and totally tasteless, i blame the light sugar i used.

turned on the radio just at midnight, argyll fm, yes i remember the freq. news, fancy pro jingle station ident, then "bang, bang, my baby shot me down" cher i think? followed by an everley bros. track, forget which one but i remember i liked it, then a nice soul ballad i'd never heard before, good song, but wait something was missing, no RD, it was a loop tape or whatever they call it now, argyll fm light.

all the right ingredients but no flavour, except for the bad taste it left in my mouth, much like the banana loaf.

i know what your thinking, this guys good!!!, maybe next month eh?

[the phone girl]

You should listen earlier - on Monday night there was an excellent wee programme - heard a bit before but I keep missing it or only hearing a wee bit - its the kids pipe band show. They are good. I wish it was repeated as I wouldnt mind hearing the whole programme. They seem to know their stuff. Sometime just music is just fine tho'. Im up before 6 some mornings and I like it sometimes when no one speaks. Dont suppose there are a lot of people listening through the night and maybe no one wants to be on all night. You are very negative about it - be positive - its good for the town to have.

[general jack o'niell]

sorry if i came across as negative phone girl, you must be about the only person using this site on a regular basis that doesn't know my sunday name, ok so it's 7.10am on a saturday morning but you get the point. if i sometimes make comments that sound negative its because i think i've earned the right, small matter of being involved since the old kcr days in 1995, through all the RSL, oh and writing the 64 page full time license application, plus five years as a director till i left in july 2003.

i'm more delighted than most that the station is still running, having lived thru the nay saying and doubters period in the late 90's. its just that i don't see any improvement in the last five years, the first couple of years fulltime were always going to be a settling in period, but it hasn't moved forward since, not really, in fact theres less live stuff now than there was then, and we got complaints about it, so why can't i complain? i switched on to hear richard and he wasn't on, that was my complaint, i see he has posted that he wouldn't be on, but i never saw that till afterwards. as for nobody wanting to do a late shift, i did the 10pm till midnight on a saturday for eight years, the least favourite spot after the breakfast show, but then i always thought the breakfast show was the best slot, having stood in for bill every holiday including xmas day and new years day, i loved doing it, even with the 7.30am start, in fact i often used to go on at 7am, just because i enjoyed it so much, i think i might be right in saying that i still hold the record for continuos live broadcasting from 7.30am till 2pm on a day i stood in for bill, then did my own tuesday 10am till noon show and kept going because the next presenter couldn't attend at the last minute, i could have gone on till jack arrived at 4pm as there was nobody scheduled to take over, but i thought the listeners had maybe had enough, this occurred to me about 8.45am but didn't shut me up.

so tho i have been critical in the past and probably will in the future, my post was merely about my disappointment that richard wasn't on as i'd missed his previous returns. i'm not putting argyll fm down, i'm proud to have been a part of it in the past and hope to do so again in the future, i still wear my KCR tshirt with pride, oh and the white argyll fm tshirts? best £7 you'll ever spend, excellent quality!!!! i just want more live shows, the pipeband show is great and i know a bunch of drummers who'd love a go at presenting it, tho being drummers they haven't a clue about names of tunes and their taste in music is poor at best

[bill]

Aye, Dave Lee Travis can't hold a candle to you