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This is endlessly fascinating to me.
While the chaps are away ruining the dignity and decorum of the serious board, I fear Parker has been running Karioke nights in the snug.
With a six-month winter last year (snow came down at Late October and melted at the end of April), I was rather happy to see that there is yet none here even in mid-December. They predict a snowstorm for this evening though, so it might be that, concerning snow, my luck is running out.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
Your bluster made the news here, hi-liting the number of uplifted kilts in Scotland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
btw - where's Jocky? we have a Christmas play to wrap up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmeUStFvz8
Taliesin,
This past summer was brutal for us; 41 consecutive days of 100 + deg F and 70 some odd total days of 100+ F. We'll take the snow please.
Thank God for google - I'm forever looking up your terms and phrases.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
"In the snug" = Pub, Public House , or here!. This equates to "watering hole" for me.
from the serious board - "Piles" = "Grapes" to me
and Mark's "sit in" I equate to a "doughnut" (takes the pressure off the grapes)
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So, this is what you guys are up too, talking about your hemorrhoids?
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What!?, why, that's disgusting.
No, I'm referring to Sangiovese and the proper means for transporting them down the treacherous hills of Tuscany.
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
I would certainly like some snow. The last summer wasn't too bad for where I live, but the ones before that were absolutely horrible! Most days were over 35 or 40 degrees C (not sure in farenheit). I think the highest was about 46C. I hope this one coming up isn't that bad.
Suddenly picking grapes in the hills of Tuscany seems a little less romantic.
Snow is great as a concept, or upon Christmas cards, or for skiing holidays or for looking at through a triple glazed picture window. But not when its blowing down your neck as you,re going about your daily graft. My purple old lady coat cannot repel it.
Does the purple old lady coat have a fur collar?
Men's health is a hot topic on here. If Quimi's on to us, we'll have to use cyphers. Gapes is now out.
Should we refer to them as coals upon the ring of fire? Or Higgs Bosuns? ( fundament-al particles.)
"Gapes" is definately a contender. I like the subtle drop of the "r".Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Suddenly, listening to Johnny Cash in the hills of Tuscany seems a little less romantic.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
What about a cypher for ulcers?....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYEzW8jEAjU
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I like that subtle touch too. I wonder how I thought of it.
Fellas, the script is looking pretty thin for this year's play.
You got anymore rhymes left in you?
Otherwise, we'll have to rely on Captain Beefheart's narration to fill in the gaps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU ....Jocky where are you?
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So, I've been off trying to become rich and famous; but I had to come back to see what Parker has on the Christmas menu and how the Christmas Play is coming.
Watch out for the Hugs Basins, which may spontaneously happen after too much Christmas cheer (doesn't hold anythng together though). The Hogs Bisons are another matter. I'm not sure what the Hags Besons are, but The Hergs B side song is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVcJ6FKzYZ0
Hi Sounds. I was wondering the other day how you were getting on. How's the rich and famous project progressing?Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
We are thin on the ground for material Gilliatt. We'll have to plunder the other threads for stuff, or write about absent friends. Or perhaps we could do a year long roundup.
Sounds! so you're not dead. :party: Have you been brushing with fame?
:santasmil I've hugged many a bason in my Christmas' past.
GG. As its tea break..
A hunting we will go
A hunting we will go
Quark and Nutrin-ee-o
A hunting we will go
we stalk the wounded Lepton
and trap the cunning Muon
up spin or down spin its all the same to us
So weave your webs like spiders
aim your Hadron colliders,
Fermions or Tau its all the same to us .
But one thing you must know son.
Don't mess with a Higgs- Boson.
If you're going to con Cern its all the same to us.
Bob Calvert, the man whom I shall always hold in high esteem for writing the lyrics to I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, has already written the song with which we close the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPLg...eature=related
Gawd! I went to see them in 1978.
Hawkwind are great.
I've been listening to them over the past 2 years, and I've just bought the lad their Eclipse album for xmas. He'll like them too. (He's into prog rock at the moment).
I remember a friend telling me that he - big disco buffoon that he was - once queued up to buy I Fell In Love With A Starship Trooper and had to ask for it after the chap in front had asked for Slaughterhouse Death Ray by The Manglers (or some such punky thing).
The most significant thing I remember about "I lost my heart to a star ship trooper" was that it was sung by women in their underwear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwilCs4Jqg
I was going to quote a lyric or two, but every line is a work of cheesy genius.
Sarah Brightman's punishment for doing this was later to be married to Andrew Lloyd Webber, which really is out of all proportion to the offence.
I remember them wielding some fibre optic batons in the video.
Looks like we'll have to heavily reference the Christmas Play with this classic.
Just to get back to Hawkwind for a moment, and in order to immediately focus the nostalgic attention of men of a certain age, I will say one word: Stacia.
There was a documentary on TV about Hawkwind last year or so. I had no idea. The only gigs I ever went to were to see my mates play in a pub.
I saw them in Bridlington. I think they had just broken up and reformed (no Lemmy, no stacia). It was not a classy venue, there were about 300 fairly greasy unwashed fans all waiting for Silver Machine. I rememer the smell of burning sweaty socks from all the dope being smoked. After about an hour the lead singer (Dave Brock?) informed us the Drug Squad was backstage, and half the audience bolted for the doors. The concert ended there.
Parker says he would love to give you a private screening.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
We're set on characters. The stage sets are nearly complete, we're only lacking those two sheds of yours. I'll go back a few pages and see if I can track them down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Brilliant...only I'm struggling with who should get those lines; Old Seth or Padre Martini?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Great choice for a closer, we'll work that in. I recognized the T-Rex front man at the intro.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Were you blokes part of the revolution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcxd9wtXUE
Is that Mick at 0:50 with the pork chops and lavender shirt?
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Yes, I can understand the performers fighting over who gets those lines!
That can't be me, I was a pretty boy in them days. Although Jeepster by T rex was the first record I ever bought.
I always think fondly of those mark Bolan lines:
Oh Deborah
You look like a Zeborah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX4bmlOuDEM
When I compile 'best of' albums on my phone, I give them names that I feel should have been used by the artist in question. For instance, my Springsteen collection is called The Swamps of Jersey. My Elton faves are filed under Queen's Greatest Hits.
The T. Rex section is titled Over-rated Elf.
Actually, it isn't going that bad; I may actually pay last years taxes before they take back the house:biggrinjester:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Yes, I think I have one of fames tire marks on my fanny...otherwise. Love the poem; where's Jocky and Atheist off too?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I don't know, it seems to me that David Bowie carried off the drag act a bit better:wink5:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
After the last few years, Parker will not get the chance to drag me behind another screen. Last time, I found myself next morning in Pauls shed with Prens pink tup, Jockys wallet and gator boots and a tarred and feathered life sized Prince Charles doll...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
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Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Ah yes, that can happen.
Prince Charles! That's the Hag's Beson! The parasite that lives in Camilla Parker's Bowels!
Oh boy, I'm not touching that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Sounds...by god, you just made the script with that morsel. It will fit in well. Parker is one of the actors. The blokes names will have to be altered, if you (and they) don't mind, to protect the innocent.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
I'll be heading to the east Texas pines this weekend to visit my sister and nieces.
Have a great weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=audxGqo5AkQ
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Originally Posted by soundofmusic
The play is coming on well.
By the way, I know what fanny means in the US, but do you know what it refers to in the UK?
Have a good time. My wife really likes that song.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
A propos "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper"- around five or six years ago there was a series of space larps around here, mainly inspired by the style of Douglas Adams, I think. (not certain, for some strange reason I managed not to make it to any of those larps)
I'm not really sure what this is (a trailer? a compilation of material? something?), but it was made out of some images and videos made during those games plus some other stuff and it's set to the music of "I Lost My Heart To The Starship Trooper".
I wouldn't have been half as upset if the blow up doll was Brad Pitt:leaving:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Ah, so that's why Camilla always turns her heels in when she walks:wink5:Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Glad I could help; it sounds like a doosey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
No, what does fanny mean in the uk?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Well, fanny in the US means bum. In the UK it's a similar region on a woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Delicate or what.
That's a good topic...in the states, fag means homosexual, in the UK it means a ciagarette :eek6:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem