Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...It seems alot of fuss about nothing, I mean who hasn't played naked billiards with a couple of chicks in a Vegas penthouse.?

I have a hard time believing Sammy did, but Dino and the rest of the Pack likely participated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38GV-...eature=related

[MystyrMystyry]

Indeed Gilliatt!

As for Harry, who's to say it's even him? I mean look at the disguise - look at the disguise, the disguise, I say - that could be anyone under the hat and shades.

[prendrelemick]

That's the best disguise I've ever seen! - Who's that in the hat stood behind him?

[prendrelemick]

Another cloud burst yesterday, and this time it washed away our road because of a blocked culvert. The only comfort is I now have the oppotunity to burst into the National Trust office (It's their road to maintain) full of rightous indignation and declare,"I told you so".

This is very important to a curmudgeonly old git like me

Two years ago they re-did the road and replaced the large square stone slab culvert with a plastic pipe - that was a constriction - then they managed to put it in in such a way that it only took half its full capacity. When the first downpour happened a few weeks later, I noticed this and TOLD them. They said they'd keep an eye on it. I told them again the next time, then I gave up.

So anyway I've spent this morning clearing rubble from the mouth of the pipe and filling in the gullies and removing the boulders that have appeared in the road.

The trouble is I've made it passable for the moment, so nothing will be done.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...Two years ago they re-did the road and replaced the large square stone slab culvert with a plastic pipe - that was a constriction...

Pie aren't squared!!


Bake 'em one of these to drive the point home:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/10/p...ay-pi-pie.html

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[prendrelemick]

A half-baked one would be more fitting.

[Paulclem]

The rain finally came - just as I was planning to pop down to the allotment. Not the road destroying type, but just rain unsuitable for working the ground.

Just a week to go before I am thrust into the maelstrom that is Enrolment week. Anything can happen in Enrolment week, though the rule:

1% of the students caused 99% of the problems

generally holds true.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

The rain finally came...

...before I am thrust into the maelstrom that is Enrolment week...

Send some of the rain our way. "Maelstrom" such a great word.

There's a thread out there about crossing the Rubicon.
This past weekend I took my son out to get some new duds for the upcoming school year.
I figured why not grab a couple pair of breeches for myself.
There was a time when my inseam number was greater than the waist line.
The Rubicon is met when they equal. I crossed the river a few years ago, but kept my distance within view of the banks, now I can't even hear the water.

[prendrelemick]

As a lad I paddled in the Rubicon at 32/32
Then came marriage, and that pulled me through, (In the wrong direction)
Now alas my legs to waist do show a deficit,
I think they must've gone an' shrunk a bit.

[Paulclem]

Just got back from Heathrow. The lad's on his way to Japan. After waiting and travelling on the coach, the lad was already over the Urals by the time I got back.

[prendrelemick]

A small world indeed, (as long as you're not on the M6.) Mine came back from China last night. He rang up from Schiphol at 8 and was home before midnight. Fortunately his Company will no longer allow him to have a private lift (me) to and from the airport. This is because they were sued in America by someone who crashed while running one of their employees to JFK.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

As a lad I paddled in the Rubicon at 32/32
Then came marriage, and that pulled me through, (In the wrong direction)
Now alas my legs to waist do show a deficit,
I think they must've gone an' shrunk a bit.

Glorious.
We'll add it to the wall of shame behind the bar.

Just got back from Heathrow. The lad's on his way to Japan. After waiting and travelling on the coach, the lad was already over the Urals by the time I got back.

Good luck to him, in his edeavours.

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Another typical saturday night at the Blokes Bar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlNZF...eature=related


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[Paulclem]

That was an amazing clip. That's never happened in any bar I've been in except the Bloke's bar.

The dancing, as I remember it, was more jiggy with a bit of posturing.

[Paulclem]

Whew. Just finished enrolling hundreds of people at my building and others around the city. Pretty tired now, but it's over for another year. I presume you chaps are also very busy.

Good news - England beat Moldova 5-0, and looked good on it. It doesn'tmake them worldbeaters by a long chalk, but we can qualify for the next world cup.

[MarkBastable]

Good news - England beat Moldova 5-0, and looked good on it. It doesn'tmake them worldbeaters by a long chalk, but we can qualify for the next world cup.

It comes to something when it's worth noting that we can qualify for the World Cup.