User talk:Gareth Owen
MtG: Did you do it to satisfy me or because it's better this way? --Yooden
Both, plus to satisfy me (I'm not American either). It seemed a silly squabble with a simple solution, so I did a small amount of research, and Robert is your father's brother -- GWO
Gareth, what really motivated you to write about Michael Foot - notoriety, or the football club directorship? --MichaelTinkler
Along with the declaration of martial law in Poland, the disaster that was the '83 election is one of my earliest political memories. I remember thinking how much unfair criticism he got because he was scruffy. Now when the media complain that politicians are too bland, too polished and too uniform, I can only think "You brought this on yourselves, and we're all the poorer for it." -- GWO
Gareth -- re Fulham FC -- Did Bobby Moore play for them before or after he played for the Hammers? also, shouldn't you mention that Kevin Keegan brought Fulham to the point where Tigana could finalize the promotion race? You could also mention that they're rebuilding Craven Cottage (the only Premiership ground still to have stands, I believe) and that al-Fayed sold season tickets for this year at last years' prices, which was totally cool (considering the large difference in ticket prices)...
Thanks for the fun stuff -- J Hofmann Kemp (Gooner by choice and Addick by marriage)
Crewe? You must be one of the truly faithful!! J Hofmann Kemp
Check the stats -- Beckham has really cleaned up his act since 88, I can't remember the last time he was carded -- plus, England usually win the fair play awards, and he's the skip...JHK
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. --Koyaanis Qatsi
Sorry, I didn't see your comment until just now. Sorry, I wasn't ignoring you. :-) I was partial to that "tale" many years ago & read it several times, but haven't had the time for it in the last decade or so. I did just dig out my Norton Critical Edition though & look forward to getting back to it. --KQ
We are in agreement re: NY Yankees. (Don't know about you, but it's hard for me to keep NPOV in mind sometimes.) d:^) --RjLesch. Usually I only slightly hate them, but I'm a Mariners fan, so I really detest them right now.
- Go ahead and laugh...
- Oh, OK ... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Man, is it easy to stay awake till 5am when watching the Yankees lose....
So what is a "shondell", anyway? --RjLesch
Um, where did I claim to be an anarchist? Oh, right. I claimed to be "a non-member of the Anarchists for a Better Past, Present, and Future." I can see where, if you were irony-impaired, you'd fail to see the joke, so I've expanded on it.
I hope you weren't oblivious to the irony in The Cunctator/How to destroy Wikipedia (note the "Be Overly Combative" section). --TheCunctator
FYI Gareth, today English Heritage announced that they had decided to abandon signing Cornish heritage sites with the English Heritage logo. This is probably due to the fact that as soon as they were put in a representative of the Stannary Parliament promptly went round and confiscated them (rather than a constitutional recognition)... The tide, however, turns, perhaps? sjc
"Confiscated"? Surely the word you are looking for is "stole".
No, there was no intention to permanently deprive. In fact they wrote and let EH know where to retrieve them from... sjc
Gareth, I suggest Popular music rather than Popular Music in keeping with WP custom. I'd do it myself but you seem to be working in there now. --Dmerrill
Well, I'm just working with what was there. The redirects make it a moot point, IMHO
"Fun with Dick and Jane"? Talk about a punch line that writes itself....--Paul Drye
- Accidental, but I had exactly the same thought when I saw it in bold on the RecentChanges page...
Enjoyed "factoid". I never knew how that term originated. -- RjLesch
I think all the key players in the global warming debate deserve their own entries. It does not mean that they have earned their place in history, just that some reader somewhere might want to know who they are. It also provides a handy place to collect links to things they've said or written, or things others have said or written about them. Ed Poor
- I disagree. The Skeptical Enviro, Misleading Math, and Lomborg articles would be more informative grouped together in one long article, where the impartial observer can get the full story -- GWO
- I like your idea of one long article about SE, MM, and Lomborg. Would you please write it? -- Ed Poor
- I'd like too, but at the moment I'm flitting like a gadfly between long articles on Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and some others. They're more up my street, I'm afraid. Gotta fly now, got a "gig" to play
Gareth, thanks for "completing" my work on the article on Lance Armstrong. I couldn't find the right wordings about his illness, and it looks pretty good right now. Within a few hours it has grown from a one sentence stub to a fine article. Wikipedia still amazes me :-) Jeronimo 08:00 Jul 30, 2002 (PDT)
Gareth, I think the German athlete you're talking about at Jesse Owens was not a sprinter, perhaps a high jumper or decathlete. Will look it up for this evening (European evening, that is). Jeronimo
- It's Lutz Long, who also won a medal in the long jump competition. Jeronimof
Hi Gareth, maybe you could take a look at Talk:Super Bowl I; I have some proposals for making the Super Bowl pages more like real articles. Jeronimo