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  • Russian Roulette Sunday: The 7 Reasons Leaks

    Russian Roulette Sunday: The 7 Reasons Leaks

    Russian Roulette Sunday: The 7 Reasons Leaks
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    It’s almost as if every other day of the week leads up to this. Sunday! But enough of that, let’s get to business, you have wrapping to do. The second most important thing this week concerns the ongoing Wikileaks shebang. Here at 7 Reasons we are nervous about it. Many emails are exchanged between us. Dozens a week. Some even make sense. They are our life-blood. Amongst our messages of affection and frustration lie bits of creative genius and ideas that spark beauty. Of these we are proud and smug. But there are also moments when one of us embarrasses ourselves. Or one of us says something that could come back to bite us in the undergarment area. These messages have been hidden deep in the 7 Reason vault. Never to be seen by anyone outside of our cult. But what happens if we’ve missed something? What happens if Marc has left the code showing on the padlock? What if Jon has put the wrong box in the vault? The unseen 7 Reasons files could be in the shed! What happens if Wikileaks has sent someone round to the shed? We are going to be exposed! And we don’t like being exposed. Especially the York based half of us. The only way we can counteract any embarrassment Wikileaks could cause ourselves, our family and our friends is a show of the utmost alpha-male. We are going to share the embarrassing bits of 7 Reasons with you ourselves. Now. Ha! Take that Wikileaks!

    This isn’t an actual conversation that took place of course. Just some of the things we said in a variety of messages. We don’t want you thinking we are wierd or anything. Because we’re not. Not one of us. Zilch.

    Jon: I’m a prick. Not a massive one, but enough of one. The good news is, I have remembered how to use it.

    Marc: Do you need a tissue?

    Jon: I am surpsied you have to ask.

    Marc: Hang on. I just sat on a lemon. I’ll be back in ten minutes.

    Jon: I just sat on a cat. I’ll be back when I’ve won my case.

    Marc: You can never win. I just gave my wife a Hitler salute. She headbutted me in pelvis. It’s unfair when she uses the ladder.

    Jon: I have always thought Steps were vastly underrated. Especially the short one.

    Marc: It would be silly to keep talking about it. We know he’s a cock.

    Jon: Fair enough, we shall wash our hands of it.

    Marc: Will do. I’m going for a bath.

    Jon: This is a potentially dangerous situation. I live near someone who uses Lidl.

    Marc: I’m not sure that’s the issue.

    Jon: We’ll blame the French.

    Marc: I’m glad we thought it was a good idea. Shame no one else did.

    Jon: We’ll probably reep the rewards in the months to come.

    Marc: That’s the SEO working. I have done lots of work on the back-end.

    Jon: Does your wife know?

    Marc: I woke her up celebrating. She looked angry.

    Jon: I think that’s more unlucky than anything. We know we what we are trying to do and, for the most part, we are doing it.

    Marc: I completely agree with everything you’ve said. Do we have any ideas for Sunday?

    Jon: I’m going for a run.

    Marc: I always meet a cow.

    Jon: That’s one more we can add to the 7 Reasons posse.

    Marc: It’s very annoying when you do that, especially given the countless hours of hard work I have put in. Stop it!

    Jon: I’ll do it this weekend then.

    Marc: I’ll be in a field drinking beer and shan’t have access to the internet.

    Jon: Well done.

    Marc: Thanks.

    So there you have it. Straight from us. Wikileaks can never make us look stupid and you undoubtedly have newfound respect for us. For this we thank you.

    *Marc: This isn’t a leak.**

    **Jon: What is it then?***

    ***Marc: It’s a leek.****

    ****Jon: You say potato, I say tomato. Same thing.*****

    *****Marc: No they’re not.******

    ******Jon: Not the same as a leak, no.*******

    *******Marc: It’s leek!********

    ********Jon: You say potato, I say…*********

    *********Marc: **** **** ******* ****!!!**********

    **********Jon: If you put a mirror on the left side of the asterisks, you get a Christmas tree.***********

    ***********Marc: Wow. That’s pretty.************

    ************Jon: I love you.*************

    *************Jon: Marc?

  • Guest(ish) Post: 7 Reasons We Should Be Kept Well Away From Photoshop

    Guest(ish) Post: 7 Reasons We Should Be Kept Well Away From Photoshop

    Today’s guest(ish) post comes to you courtesy of Marc Fearns, who can usually be found doing stuff here, and the amazing Ceci Masters of Swanning About fame; a blog so good that it’s in The Times’ list of the top 50 cricket blogs, along with the blog of another friend of 7 Reasons, Sarah Ansell, and forty-eight other blogs that we’re less interested in.

    This guest(ish) post is a little unusual.  It tells the tale of last Friday evening when, shamefully, Ceci and I were both at our homes, with our Photoshop software open.

    1.  Crouching Crouch Hidden Dragon. It started innocently enough.  Ceci – inspired by the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – produced this picture for the Facebook group, Hollywoodgate: Onde futebol e película cruzam.  She also put it on Twitter.

    Crouching Crouch Hidden Dragon, a picture of Peter Crouch playing golf with a dragon behind him, courtesy of Ceci Masters.

    2.  Hiding Crouch Tiger-Dragon. And Twitter is where I saw it, while I was in the middle of photoshopping something else  (a cat in a submarine, I think).  Anyway, I was struck by the wordplay potential so within five minutes, this was winging its way to Ceci.

    Hiding Crouch Tiger Dragon: A picture of Peter Crouch covering his eyes to hide from a tiger-dragon

    3.  Crouch’s Tiger Hiddink’s Dragon. Then, about five minutes after the previous picture, Ceci put this one up.  There was only one way that this was going to go.

    Crouch's Tiger Hiddink's Dragon: a picture of Peter Crouch's tiger and Gus Hiddink's dragon.  Obvious, really

    4.  Grouchy Tiger Smitten Crouch. We had become embroiled in a duel.  A frenzied maelstrom of a contest in which PCs were pistols and Crouch crouching crouchy tigery tiger tiger-dragons were our ammunition.  In short, we had lost the plot.  I made this one.  But girls are sensible, and you can always rely on them to stop the madness, can’t you?

    Grouchy Tiger Smitten Crouch: Peter Crouch looking fondly at a grumpy tiger.

    5.  Hiding Tiger Crouch With Drag On. No, it turns out that you can’t.  You can rely on them to take the madness and add big hair and sequins to it.

    Peter Crouch dressed as Lily Savage while Tiger Woods hides behind a wall

    6.  Crouch In Drag On Ridden Tiger. Now, Ceci’s previous picture was not only brilliant, it was also a bit frustrating, as I’d already got started on this one before I discovered that she’d used drag too.  But now that we’d started coming up with the same ideas we agreed that it was time to call a halt to things, and we established a truce.

    Peter Crouch dressed as a woman, riding a tiger

    7.  Crouch In Tiger With A Bag On. The truce lasted a full three minutes or so, until I thought of this.

    Peter Crouch inside a tiger with a Prada handbag on it

    That’s why Ceci and I should be kept well away from Photoshop but, like predatory beasts, we’ll be watching, waiting, ever-ready to pounce during the World Cup.  The moment that Crouch does anything that even remotely resembles the words tiger, dragon or hiding, one of us will strike.  Well, unless his solicitors get in touch which, on balance, seems entirely possible.