{"id":170,"date":"2005-06-30T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=170"},"modified":"2010-01-03T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T17:27:26","slug":"i-never-made-the-first-team-i-just-made-the-first-team-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/i-never-made-the-first-team-i-just-made-the-first-team-laugh.html","title":{"rendered":"“I never made the first team, I just made the first team laugh”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve been enjoying an extended bank holiday this week – one of the advantages of starting up your own bank – but I have to break my silence to cover two important events:<\/div>\n
I’m getting enough (think “more than one”) comments to start losing track of which item they were posted in response to. So I now have a standing invitation to bite someone, but I can’t for the life of me remember why.<\/div>\n
The Spin Starts Here<\/em><\/a> is taken over by guest writers while the Queen of Everything Snarky drops a sprog. Delta Goodrem<\/a> takes advantage of the disruption by blaming the poor ticket sales for her concert tour on her having had cancer<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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“I haven’t got to connect with everyone because I was behind four walls in a hospital for a while,” Goodrem said of her successful treatment for lymphatic cancer…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

… and expediently disregarding that her career was at its most successful precisely at the time she was undergoing treatment, while simultaneously appearing in every sad supermarket mag demanding that people “respect her privacy” during this difficult time blah blah blah<\/a>. I don’t know why I’m going to the trouble of spelling it out for you; you’ve already connected the dots on this one. Expect me back in a few days with my holiday snaps, once I’ve figured out Flickr.<\/div>\n
If you’re thinking of banking with me, I’m following the British method<\/a> and will need all your other bank account details. <\/div>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong> The Spin comes through! <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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