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Postbag: swearing so you don't have to
2 September 2005
Good day to you, fine readers of letters. It's Friday, it's 9:38am, it's time for a letters page. And so here
it is. We're still getting letters from corporate shit-bags, but hey ho, if they will be so stupid - they'll learn
the hard way.
You know the routine: just email postbag@codalmighty.com and we'll print your letter here. If
you're some kind of corporate money making machine then we reserve the right to swear excessively at
you. Thank you.
Rush
Tony Butcher suggests that I missed Paul Groves' connection with the Roger Waters rock opera Ca
Ira. This is not entirely true - Grovesie contacted me and asked me to leave this out, as he is
embarrassed to be so closely associated with Pink Floyd. As I say - this is not entirly true.
PS Despite being a big fan of Rush, I am under no illusions that if it had been written by Neil Peart, the
drumming would have been great and the lyrics toe-curling.
Miles
Via
email
Gush
Tony
Butcher wrote: "Now, if it had been written by Neil Peart, he'd have probably noticed." So, was
the original article a little "Rush-ed" then? Geddit? Yeah? Yeah? Oh. Time for me to "Geddy" a
"Life(son)" then…
Anyway, sorry about that. Was the letter about copyright and fixtures for real? I'm amazed and
saddened. How can they copyright something like that? Maybe they'll protect match content so we
don't have to go and watch it any more.
Rich Mills
Via email
I'm afraid it was all too real Rich. Very sad isn't it? [Letters Ed]
Hush
That letter from a company protecting the rights to the Football League's online licences (fixtures inc.)
was interesting. I went to their website to see what they get up to, and it looks like 'money for manky
old rope'. I bet it is run by a schoolboy entrepreneur who discovered he could get people to pay him to
write e-mails to third parties, to squeeze money from them for what is effectively public domain
information. Staff of one?
I have some questions that you might like to ask them. What constitutes the 'licenced list'? Do they
class that as the date and the opponent, in the correct order? A useful alternative list would be the
matchday dates along with H or A, and then an added 'nickname'. Using this method, you would have
used a licenced list from elsewhere (provided the BBC are compliant) to extract 'some information' but
then used your own initiative to provide your own readers with an indiction of who the opponents
might be? The Pirates, The Rams etc. What about plugging the date and opponent of the next three
fixtures ahead, not necessarily in a list? Are you infringing rights by using small percentage of the list?
Have they actually thought out what they are protecting? Probably not, because the lad running the
company has A* GCSE's but they are not as good as 'O' Levels…
PS. I protect my right to have come up with the above ideas. Please send me my cheque!
Ian Jackson
Via email
I'm sure the money grubbing buggers have got all of the above already covered. [Letters
Ed]
Lush
Just a quick note to say that somebody stuck a link to your report on our (Barnet) message board. Great
report, bit harsh on the cricket though. I have to question the sanity of Tony Butcher. Love it!
Tim Telcs
Via email
Mush
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Wagerweb Affiliates
Via email
Do we look like the kind of website that has this type of fucking shit plastered all over it? Just
fucking think for a second, won't you? We're an independent fanzine. We don't want all this fucking
bollocks and shite cluttering up decent fucking writing. We're not one of these identikit, shit-eating,
fuckjobs of websites that claim to offer information for football fans, but only serve to profiteer for the
boring, business-retarded, fist-fuck cuntoids who run them. I tell you what, why don't we just stop
writing articles and let your company of boneheads just provide all our content - then all of our fans
can get the latest news on which premiership star is shagging which C-list celebrity this week. Hey,
we could even include the share prices of ICI and GlaxoSmithKlineBeecham while we're at it. Dick
heads. [Letters Ed]
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Bush
One the 15th March the Diary wrote that "the
foremost requirement of a fashionable club that's going places these days is a player called
Jermaine". Do you think Spurs are a bigger enough and trendy enough club to
handle two since they signed Jenas to go with their Defoe? And, more to the point, do you think
Cleethorpes is cutting edge enough to cope with
three on the pitch at one time should Palmer, having returned from his loan at Scarborough, line up
opposite his Tottenham namesakes?
Kick Lactovic
Via email
I think BP may suffer a Jermaine overload which could possibly damage the fabric of the space-
time continuum. [Letters Ed]
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