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Aug-31-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: LOL!
I remember <kackhander> posting to me saying he "didn't have time for girls who type LOL. I'm a busy man." I don't actually type LOL, a point lost on the hapless pedant <kackhander>. I doubt he is "busy". "Busy" people don't watch live chess on the internet. UNLESS THEY'RE AT WORK!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
<Dom>
Are you and your Moms' digs OK?
They better not be throwing you guys out
Thanks for your kind words and your invitation.
I'm back at work right now.
Thanks to the largely "ceremonial" nature of the "job" of being a "native speaking English teacher in Korea," I have even less duties this term than last. Which means that 90 per cent of my time is attempting to "look busy." Well if <kackhander> can be a faux "busy man" I suppose I can be a faux "busy woman." BTW, I wonder if he's aware that "kack" is a slang word for excrement? Fitting, at any rate.
I will be back soon with some timely information on the end of the world. |
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Aug-31-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <THE END OF THE WORLD: INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO DO> (in the tradition of the British Historical-Agricultural Progressive rock school that <domdaniel> is so fond of) <"666 is no longer alone,
He's digging out the marrow
in your backbone
Seven trumpets blowing sweet Rock n' Roll
Gonna blow right down inside your soul
Pythagoras with a looking-glass
beneath the full moon,
He's writing a brand new tune...
"Today's the <<<day>>>, to celebrate-
The Fallen have met their fate.
The order, for rejoicing, and dancing,
Has come from our own Lord...
I've been so far from here, far from your loving arms Now I'm back again
I think it's gonna work out right,
Can't you feel our souls ignite?
Sending colors, changing colors,
In the darkness of the fading light,
Like a river joins the ocean,
As the germ in a seed grows
We're finally free, to get back home
There's an Angel standing in the sun
And he's crying with a loud, loud voice
'This is the Supper of the Mighty One'
Lord of lords, king of kings
Has returned to lead his children home
To take them to the
New Jerusalem...">
Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Mrs. Armageddon
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| Aug-31-08 | | Red October: the cool men say heh!
like James Brown....
HEH! |
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Aug-31-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hey!
He hadda lotta gat and could keep he hoes in line.
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Aug-31-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Banff Natonal Park |
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Sep-01-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> The Castle Dom reference was to imaginary 'castles in the air'. I visited a guy who lives in a real castle last week and was most impressed. Actual living space is just fine, thanks. And extremely permanent, until one day I decide to exchange it for half a million euros. Or half a thousand, maybe, depending on what I think is known as the 'property market'.... Market stallholder: just for you, sir, our special offer - a pound of castles and a free bag of cottages, only a fiver ... |
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| Sep-01-08 | | mack: This is apparently the standard of BBC News these days -- a complete non-story written in the most atrocious way. SUCCESSFUL ACTRESS IN OCCASIONAL RECREATIONAL DRUG USE A LONG TIME AGO SHOCKER: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai... Not how the author manages to get about four paragraphs out of the two tiny sentences, 'I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.' Less please, BBC! |
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| Sep-01-08 | | kellmano: Hmmm. The smuggest reason to give up cocaine i have ever heard. Totally agree that this goes down as a non-story though, so shouldn't really be commenting i suppose. |
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <kellmano> Comments always welcome. "I'm not doing this stuff anymore - it's turning me into an American..." That's my story and I'm sticking to it. |
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| Sep-01-08 | | mack: <Dom> You'll be pleased to know, I'm sure, that I've managed to squeeze Viv into this year's dissertation. Unlike last time, I don't think he'll have to be cut, despite the fact I'm still at least 2,000 words over the limit. It involves an incident with Stanshall, Father Christmas, a hamper, a pint of Bloody Mary and blood all over a nice white studio floor - know the one? |
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I'm not a busy man. I may not even be a man at all, depending on the current definition. I'm not a busybody neither. But I have a *lot* of time for girls who type. LOL he's into typists LOL.
Yep, and *computers* too.
Lollipops at dawn, chaps? |
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Sep-01-08
 | | Open Defence: ---
i tried to do it but ran out of $100 bills....
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just say know
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I *should*, I know. It's not my old favourite ("Is Mrs Penguin at home?") and it actually reminds me of an event I witnessed during my chessplaying teen years -- in a B&B in Cork, of all places. A city that was stranger to me then than it is now. Mulcahy tournament, then straddling the new year. Crowd down from Dublin. One of whom, BP, is both a good player and a psycho, given to carrying a knife and getting very pissed. Normal behaviour these days, but it stood out back then. At 3am in the guesthouse, BP staggered away from the company and decided to have a bath. Then he thought he'd like to cut his toenails, so he reached for his bowie knife. Sliced a chunk of toe open, panicked, thrashed about violently, screaming. Others broke in, wrapped him up, put him to bed. But they neglected to clean up the bathroom, which had been thoroughly splashed in bloody water. A grim-faced landlady appears at breakfast time [*adopt whiny sing-song accent here*]: "I didn't mind the screaming and the shouting, and the drinking, and the playing cards until all hours ... but the blood, Jesus, the blood ..." Very Hunter S, in a chessy sort of way. BP's subsequent career was interesting too. He once 'lost' a corpse while the deceased's family waited in a hospital morgue - he parked it in a broom cupboard and went to the pub. Despite all this, the @#&$£ has a plus score against me. Bloody Viv? Pass, Guv'nor. |
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| Sep-01-08 | | mack: A quick cut-and-paste job to mull over whilst I go to the offie. I'll fill you in with any alien points of reference when I get back... The month after Question of Ulster was broadcast (and just half a year on from Yesterday’s Men, too) there began, of all things, another weekly satirical venture on BBC2, Up Sunday. Its cast was a remarkable one: among others the show featured Kenny Everett, Vivian Stanshall, Peter Sellers, Eric Idle, John Wells, Willie Rushton and Clive James. Sadly Up Sunday is best remembered for its final, festive edition (‘Up Christmas’) on 23 December 1973, when a heavily inebriated Stanshall, dressed as Father Christmas and with a pint of Bloody Mary in hand, emerged from a giant picnic basket, fell over and cut his hand open, spraying blood all over the studio floor. And this is terribly frustrating, for not only did Up Sunday last some 55 episodes, the show was not in the slightest bit reigned in by BBC executives fearing further conflict with Westminster. ‘We had an extraordinary degree of freedom on it’ said John Wells. John Lindsey at Conservative Central Office certainly noticed this, and on 16 March he wrote to Chief Whip Francis Pym to outline his worries. He feared that Up Sunday ‘might herald the return of the satire programmes which, in the days of “That Was The Week That Was”, did so much harm.’ Lindsey arranged for the show’s first seven episodes to be monitored by a team in Central Office, and their feedback – which included such comments as ‘very nasty’, ‘snide’, ‘nonsense programme’ and ‘very left-wing as usual’ – was enough for him to consider Up Sunday ‘a mischievous and potentially harmful series’. Lindsey added: ‘I think a gentle word to Lord Hill, on the “hope-you-will-keep-a-watchful-eye-on-this-progra-
mme” lines would be a good idea’. |
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <m> Don't think I ever even *heard* of this <Up> venture, never mind its frustratingly finest hour. 1973 was around the time of Viv's solo album, Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead, wasn't it? I've got a warped vinyl copy somewhere. I don't have Sir Henry on disc, though: it's imprinted directly on my brain. A minuscule quibble. You may wish to change "reigned" ('We are not amused') to "reined" ('As long as it doesn't frighten the horses'). Up ...
Yours, etc. |
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| Sep-01-08 | | mack: Oopla!
I might just leave that in now, out of spite. |
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| Sep-01-08 | | mack: Men Opening Umbrellas was early 1974, so yes, a matter of months. I'm told that fourteen episodes of Up Sunday exist as rushes, plus a few clips here and there from the others. By all rights Father Vivmas ought to be remembered as one of those 'TV moments... from HELL!' but I'm not sure if it's even been re-shown since '73. A real crop of talent on that show though, eh. |
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: "I've done the back, dear, now I'll make a start on the front." Has anyone ever found a better way of ending one side of a vinyl record? Of course not. But on the other side of the equation we have Viv's 'reggae' song ... "He love to feel the free-ness
The let-it-be-ness
The fresh air swirling round he,
I talkin 'bout a certain penis,
Freehold property."
Ho hum. |
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <typo of the century?> "After washing about in the sea for years, a scared and discoloured lifebelt, marked SS Titanic, washed up on the shore of Gravesend Bay, New York today." I'd have been scared too. |
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Sep-01-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh-
Of course it should read "scared African-American lifebelt." It is no longer acceptable to refer to African-Americans as "discoloured." Nor, since the heroic exploits of the "all black" regiments (not to be confused with the New Zealand Rugby squad) in WWII the Big One, is it acceptable to portray African-Americans as cowardly. I'm surprised there wasn't more fallout from this egregious, racist typo. However, I submit that the "typo of the century" is surely Bill's: "McDonalds Drive-Thru hoes"
Heh.
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Sep-01-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> That would be the present century, yes. The Titanic typo actually dates from 1931, so it was some previous century - late dark ages, I believe. And they said much worse things than 'discoloured' back then. Egregious, moi? I've never even laid one. |
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| Sep-01-08 | | Insane Olde Batte: I would just like to protest the inappropriate content of this forum. |
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Sep-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <mck> I'm ridin' a novel. I'll put you in it, if you like. There are some minor parts (woman in feather moa, man under Clapham omnibus, Queen Victoria presenting the bible to cannibals, and so on) that haven't been filled yet. I can't speak for anyone else's ridings. Especially if it's used as a synonym for the antipodean verb 'rooting'. |
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Sep-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I just got the most amazing birthday present: seven Peter Greenaway DVDs ... some I've only seen once ever ... A Walk Through H + Dear Phone
The Falls + Vertical Features Remake
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Pillow Book
8 1/2 Women
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story
So I may act quite <formal> for the foreseeable future. Also, nudity may become compulsory in Frogspawn, for strictly aesthetic reasons, of course. Wheeee. |
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Sep-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Insane Old Batte>
There's culture for you. |
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