Smooth talking Hepworth pushed all the right buttons...
Posted by Nicodemus on 11 June 2008 - 12:24am.
... and got me to take out a 12 issue subscription.
Basically, it was a two pronged approach:
First with this bit of shameless salesmanship (which included encouraging me to emigrate to the U.K.!!!)
Then he quoted me on the blurb for track12 of the new WORD cd here
I was helpless, as I reached for the MasterCard.
But as I said to Mrs. Nicodemus, while she went to bed shaking her head, "Credit crunch! What credit crunch"?
Surely this guy deserves a sales bonus this month?
P.S. Here's the final irony... I already own the Isobel Campbell cd that I get with the subscription.
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Thanks Nicodemus
It's truly appreciated.
Right. Who's next?
I subscribed earlier this week. . .
on the basis that any mag that puts a big close-up of Orson Welles on its cover definitely deserves our support.
(No three for a fiver offers for Johnny Foreigners like me, though. It's costing me more per issue than a night out at the flicks with all the trimmings.)
yeah - i hear ya
i subscribed as well and being 'out foreign' it's the same ruddy thing.
Fraser/David the cost to out-of-UK readers is staggering compared to those on the, um, mainland
It's the postage
Yes, it is expensive - and it's caused by the one thing we can't discount: the postage. Magazines are heavy.
Slightly off-topic: I grew up in New Zealand and subscribed to Shoot magazine, which arrived via surface mail from the UK - it was the only way I could afford it.
This meant that I was always reading previews of football games two months after the matches had taken place. Once, though, returning from a rare trip back home, my dad bought with him a current copy of the magazine, which had a cover date from the future. This seemed like an absolute miracle to me at the time.
But surely it was worth it
to know that Mike Pejic’s “Favourite Food” was “steak”; and that the person Russell Osman “Most Wanted To Meet” was “the Queen at Wembley”.
All players eat steak.
The steak comment is very true, all players seemed to choose steak as their favourite food. Music? Either The Doobie Brothers or George Benson seemed to be chosen every week.
From an earlier era
The favourite female singer always used to be Barbra Streisand. I'm trying to remember who the favourite male was.
Favourite film star was either Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen.
But they all liked steak.
And the 2 things every player hated was...
Somking and Hooligans....or maybe smoking hooligans
You’re forgetting
“ignorant people”. A bit rich coming from footballers.
I reckon a compilation of Shoot player profiles from the ’70s and ’80s would make a pretty successful crap-toilet-book-that-people-get-for-Christmas.
In contradiction of this
I now know lots of players smoked. I was shocked to find out in a documentary a couple of years ago Bobby Moore smoked. Yet I can still remember those anti-smoking adverts that appeared in Hornet, Victor and other comics which featured an anti-smoking message from the England Captain.
Assuming David Peace did his research, almost every player and Brain Clough smokes in The Damned Utd.
Johann Cruyff
used to chain-smoke two at half time.
Smoking Footballers
Socrates (Brazil), David Ginola and Fabian Barthez (France), Ricky Villa (Argentina) and Johann Cryff (Holland).
In the infamous "dentist chair" incident wheren't Teddy Sheringham and Gazza seen with cigarettes in their hands/mouths?
Duncan McKenzie
was probably the most famous smoking footballer of the 70's. He could throw a cricket ball the length of a football pitch, jump over a mini and smoked 40 gaspers a day.
I am unimpressed.
Alf Tupper, the tough of the track, could rescue small children from storm force waves, pull an injured pit-pony out from 3 miles underground, fight off a whole gang of posh bully-boys from the local public shcool and STILL run a record-breaking 5 mile cross country race and the 200 yard hurdles in time for tea. Then he'd go back down the pit for a 16 hour shift at the face. Before he had his supper.
LUXURY...
We 'ad to....
Early 70's footballers
It came to me in a flash. For reasons unknown, and certainly not associated with chart action, the favourite male singer was Johnny Mathis.
Why did they never cite the Beatles or the Stones?
No bother, Fraser...
... looking forward to the first delivery already :-)
Had my first subscription mag this week
and apart from the shock of the beardy visage on the cover, have to say coming home from work to find it on the kitchen table was a nice surprise. Much better than going into supermarkets on the way home only to find they haven't put the new edition out yet. Also, the covers look much better without all the writing on.
Just waiting on my Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan CD to ice my metaphorical cake.
Having also received
my first subscription mag this week, I'm more impressed about the lack of monkey spunk gluing CD to mag.
As careful as I am, I invariably rip one or t'other and it's a right bloody pain.
ahh thats what it is
made from. Despicable stuff.
I have always been led to believe
that it's elephant snot.
The CD
is quite adventurous, what with that Congregation track.
I thought they'd retired years ago. Is Mike Curb still with them?
Here's what they used to sound like.
By the way Nicodemus, don't try selling that Isobel Cambell CD. You know what'll happen.
Nicodemus Felice
Well done for spreading the word. However, it'll mean the next time we see them live we won't be able to see the whites of their eyes.
I've just caught up with this
I shall transfer a pound out of my left hand into my right.
Ok, but...
...don't spend it all at once