The Neighbours Generation
Our parents had The Beatles, our grandparents had WWII. We have Neighbours!
The summer holidays have not stemmed the create juices down Australia way! How classic was it when Izzy was all set to flee Erinsborough until Karl told her Darcy had amnesia. But, then just her luck he recovers! What does she do? She asks Paul Robinson if he knows any good hitman.
Paul, still on good form despite having been tricked into having his leg amputated, sets her up with a napkin sales man!
But, one should not talk Neighbours all day long, especially to you new freshers who might start thinking I'm some sort of freak. The summer saw the tragic death of Richard Whiteley aged 61. Loveable Whiteley was the host of another student TV staple, Countdown. I've personally spent countless hours failing to solve the count down conundrum, while I should have been revising for exams.
Whiteley will forever have a place in my heart with his fantastic collection of truly hideous ties. Normally such pathetic gags would get on my tits, but Whiteley's demeanour made him virtually impossible not like. I challenge you to find me someone who really didn't like Whiteley.
When Whiteley died I imagined that it would be the end of Countdown, this surely was a case of the star being bigger than the show. This Morning struggled on with out Richard & Judy, I doubt Countdown can do the same.
Deadlines
Its currently 4.50am the deadline for submitting the completed Felix to the printers is less than 7 hours away and there's a lot left to do. Why is it that I'm always up all night the day before a deadline. This reminds me of the my nightmare BSc research project. I stayed up for 51 hours straight and then went straight out to buy a £300 suit for halls going down dinner, got hideously drunk, threw up on it and allowed compromising photos to be taken. The one to the left is the only one fit to print.
Thank You
I would never have got Felix to this state with out all the help I've had, please give yourselves a pat on the back. Special thanks to Felix's new Deputy Editor, Alexander Antonov who is also staying up all night. But, he has gone one further he's staying up all night in Paris! Thanks also to Dave Edwards, last year's editor. Dave really brought Felix around last year by changing to this format. I'm only just starting to realise quite how much effort Dave put into Fe- lix and I hope I will be able to match his sterling performance.
Hopefully next week's Felix won't make me quite as physically ill as this one. You can help, please contribute to your paper, Felix will better represent Imperial of more of us create it.
