Billy Simpson
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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.U2 Album Poll
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
U2's best album - here's your chance to vote
| No Line On The Horizon |
 2% |
| How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb |
 3% |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind |
5% |
| Pop |
1% |
| Zooropa |
2% |
| Achtung Baby |
19% |
| Rattle and Hum |
8% |
| The Joshua Tree |
49% |
| The Unforgettable Fire |
5% |
| Under a Blood Red Sky |
6% |
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Do you agree with the one-year jail term and fine given to Pirate Bay founders?
Do you agree with the one-year jail term and fine given to Pirate Bay founders?
| Yes. The court's decision was the right one. |
10% |
| I think illegal file-sharing is wrong but the punishment was too harsh. |
16% |
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