http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 08:01:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50293 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:02:35 +0000 Doylem 50293@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Here in rural Cumbria, the <em>Westmorland Gazette</em> runs a 'Spot the Dog' competition, using photos from local sheepdog trials. You have to put an X where the sheepdog's nose would have been... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50290 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:54:03 +0000 IABP 50290@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Instruction to pools panel - don't give anyone a score draw.</p> <p>The best is spot the ball. People used to try and work out where it would be as if it had been rubbed out but you have to guess where the panel think it would be and not where it was in reality. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50288 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:41:02 +0000 Ostsee 50288@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'...and Jimmy Hill' Five stars for this alone. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50263 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:35:32 +0000 De-scribe 50263@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You are taking the piss and I claim my five pounds ;-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50248 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:53:45 +0000 dogwheels 50248@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You know, I always wondered how they decided the score of games that were called off. Educational and funny. Oh fella, you're the full package! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18621#post-50223 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:18:22 +0000 De-scribe 50223@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The long-forgotten Football Pools Panel have been discovered alive and well in a Wolverhampton hotel. </p> <p>Made up of respected former footballers, experienced officials and Jimmy Hill, the Panel were first employed to predict the outcome of postponed games during the bad spells of weather in the 1960s. The body had become moribund since the demise in popularity of Football Pools in the 1980s. </p> <p>But neither the FA nor the Pools Companies had ever disbanded the panel. The discovery was made after snow caused the postponement of many of this weekend’s fixtures, causing nostalgia buffs to ask what had happened to the body.</p> <p>First to emerge was former Everton goalkeeper Gordon West. “Yes we’ve been meeting every weekend. You get a great dinner here - prawn cocktail, well-done steak and black forest gateau, washed down with liberal quantities of Liebfraumilch, then we decide on the outcomes of the weekend’s fixtures. We thought it was a bit odd that no-one from the FA came to talk to us, but assumed it was all part of the secrecy like, so nobody got nobbled.”</p> <p>Red-faced FA Official Frank Simpson said “It’s a bit embarrassing, I admit. But we’ve explained to them that Leeds are shit these days, and they seem to be coping well with the news.” </p>