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28th July - Crikey! News has reached the ageing portion of TRF Towers'
staffers that the actor Gerald Campion has passed away. Campion played the part of greedy schoolboy Billy Bunter
(full name William George Bunter) The Fat Owl of the Remove, in the 1950's TV show. The character was a favourite
of children and adults alike and was surely an early role model for Evening Express roly-poly hack Charlie Allan.
Bunter was in the same Greyfriars' School class as Harry Wharton, Johnny Bull, Bob Cherry, Frank Nugent and Hurree
singh (a token black character who was subjected to racial abuse that would not be tolerated today). Bunter was
a constant thorn in the side of form master Mr. Quelch and was 'caned' on many occasions. The Billy Bunter show
was televised live at the time (sometimes twice in the same day) but would now be banned on the grounds of being
'fattist' or some other such politically incorrect theme. Rest in peace Gerald Campion. OUCH! BEASTS! YAROOH! |
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| 25th July - At last we are almost through the pre-season slog with only a home match against interesting
opposition left to go before the real kick-off. It'll be great to see the Dandies in serious action again and lets
hope they'll hit the ground running this season. And let's have a bit of realism fan-style, there is no reason
why any of us should fall for the usual mind games flung our way by the press on behalf of the old farm, there
is no reason why the Dandies shouldn't have a go at getting at least in between that loathsome pair and striving
for better. The way to do it is to pile up the results against everybody else and the matches against the Glasgow
behemoths can be looked on in a whole new light. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a go at them whenever
and wherever we play them, just that the outcome of those matches needn't be the deciding factor in our season.
Get stuck in Redz it's nearly your birthday - well, centenary. |
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19th July - As the offices of TRF slowly heave into life to prepare the first issue of the new season, there
has been a certain amount of shameful ribaldry in the air. Needless to say most of it is the kind of seedy smut
that our readers have come to expect, though surprisingly not of it has yet come from demon cartoonist Gordon Reid.
No doubt he'll make up for time a bit later with a few of his extra special, utterly unpublishable drawings depicting
the distended genitalia of opposing fans, awash with unspeakable oozing substances of lurid colour, sufficient
to make even L.S. Pringle resume his torrent of outraged complaint.
Editor Merkie (Pissed-Off) is sitting sulking in a corner of the basement trying to face up to the challenge of
writing a few short bits and pieces instead of his usual magnum opi but we all know that when the next issue appears
he'll still have managed to sneak in a five page article about the type printer's ink that he expects to be used
in the rag this season. OBE is staring blankly at the wall trying to get to a place where he can find an angle
on the Dandies or fitba that he hasn't already used and the rest of the crew are merrily singing a wee ditty to
the tune of Colonel Bogey that has emerged as a potential (if short) terracing favourite, too vile to reproduce
here though.
Don't ask where it came from as we wouldn't want any more like it to emerge from the fevered recesses of the cess
pools that pass for minds amongst TRF staffers, but on the other hand it keeps them safely indoors where they can't
do themselves too much harm. |
12th July - It's great to see the player signings get off the ground at last - even if Ebbe didn't quite
manage to fulfill his promise of guys being in place for the start of pre-season training. Deloumeaux, the man
who'll give the hard of spelling nightmares, looked a solid player last season and his versatility will bring strength
to the squad at a time when it is as thin on the ground for years (mind you it is also stronger than some of the
larger squads we've had in recent times). Let's hope Omer Riza plays a blinder tomorrow and gives us a fast answer
to the need for reinforcements in the the striking department - it would be a boon to get the new men settled in
well ahead of the UEFA cup matches against Nistru, we'll need all the cohesion and application we can muster -
just because we've never heard of them doesn't mean that they're no good. |
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| 6th July - Whatever happened to L. S. Pringle? If anybody has any inkling of
the whereabouts or fate of our fiercest critic and renowned citizen of Echt, please leave details in the forum.
let's face it we know very little about this person but L.S. Has been the source of some good crack over the years
and an inspiration to demented cartoonist Gordon Reid. Scour the nation folks, leave no stone unturned - L.S. Pringle
must be found! |
| 3rd July - Is TRF alone in registering the fact that the local papers have
utterly ignored the return to training of the Dons' players? Neither the Depressing Journal nor the Evening Depress
have printed a single picture of the squad getting on with their pre-season rituals, even though they have had
scant news on the Redz front over the closed season. It is nothing new for the Daily Depressers to show little
interest in the Dons, the P&J can go a whole week without giving them a mention which is staggering for what
purports to be a local paper. Anybody might think that there was a bit of a hidden agenda at Fortress Mastrick
that requires them to pass over anything AFC positive on the sports pages whilst at the same time casting up negative
vibes (e.g. the Darroch gibe about season ticket holders' expectations last Saturday). The negativity generally
continues in the news pages with their unbalanced reporting of the application to move the Club to Bellfield. The
EE will throw in the odd supportive comment, but if they can print something anti they don't hold back do they?
But the main thrust of this gripe is the current woeful state of their coverage of the football team, they surely
reckon that they can sell papers without giving the Dons coverage, but they might just find out the hard way that
fan power wouldn't be averse to changing to other publications in the quest to get information about the Dandies.
They don't have to be all gushing and sweet about the Redz, just give a decent amount of balanced coverage as is
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Obituary
It was with great sadness that TRF learned of the death of legendary Who bassist
John Entwistle. "The Ox" as he was affectionately known because of his size, passed away in his sleep
of a suspected heart attack. When once asked by a journalist why he was depicted a the quiet man of the Who, he
responded by saying "I ain't quiet, everybody else is loud." Thus inspiring TRF to assert that it ain't
loud, everybody else is quiet.
Now he joins his old mate Keith Moon in the best rhythm section anywhere. Rock on, Boris the Spider!
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