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Billy Simpson: Every swan has to sing sometime

A recent trip to the breathtaking North Antrim coast reminded our writer of growing up in the ‘best location in the world’
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Billy Simpson: Why husbands and wives must never compete with each other

Monday, 25 August 2008

A lady golf champion, Annika Sorenstam, once confided: "I used to play chess with my husband but he beat me, so we don't play any more because we can't find all the pieces."
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Billy Simpson: There’s a fine line between being hardy and foolhardy

Monday, 18 August 2008

Anyone who has ever taken a holiday by the beautiful North Atlantic will recognise this scenario. A bunch of people are splashing about in the sea giving the appearance of having a wonderful time. They shout to someone on the shore, “Come in. it's lovely.” And the someone jumps in. Surfaces. Screams “It's ******* fffffrrreeezzzing.”
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Billy Simpson: When train of thought doesn’t get to all stops

Monday, 11 August 2008

The 18th century poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, had a reputation of being a bit of a sniffer of, what today would be called, the ‘wacky baccy' and to have written much of his poetry under the influence of opium. I've read some of it and I believe it.
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Billy Simpson: The X-Files? It’s really just some harmless fantasy

Monday, 4 August 2008

The title of the new X-Files film, I Want To Believe, is something of a hymn to human gullibility. ‘
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How era of pop gave us plenty to smile about

Monday, 28 July 2008

There was a twilight zone in popular music between the demise of the big dance bands in the late 1940s and the arrival of rock and roll in the second half of the 1950s
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Billy Simpson: Binmen’s strike digs up howlers of the past

Monday, 21 July 2008

Funny how the association of ideas can throw up a memory that, on a conscious level, would appear to have very little to do with the thought that ignited it.
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Billy Simpson: The voice of a group is often the mouthy one

Monday, 7 July 2008

Every time you solve a problem you create a new one. Sometimes more than one. Last year nobody could buy a house because prices were through the roof. This year they are 20% down and nobody can buy because they can't get a mortgage.
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