Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"The Lakes" - I was curious.
Assuming this is what you are referring to http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/

Beautiful !

Yes, the books are quite worn or "foxed" as you put it.
The 1916 Manual of Chemistry (the taller book to the right of the Spaten) looks like a lab experiment gone awry.

[prendrelemick]

Yes it is lovely - here's what the tourist sites don't mention.

http://www.alexanderspagesonanything...---for-sue.php

[Sancho]

That website is oddly addictive, Mick, and found myself trying to think of a question for Alexander and also looking around for my checkbook.

[Paulclem]

Have a nice time in the Lakes Mick. It certainly is a fantastic area.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I wonder how the weather's doing for Prendrelemick.
Here it's still very warm and dry. Wish we could get some of the Lakes "Cumbrian Fell" rain. A cool front is supposed to arrive this weekend with 50% chance of rain. Hope we're under the 50% cloud.
Well it's been lonely round here, that sucking sound you hear are all the folks heading out to the great art debates. It's just me, swingin doors, a juke box and a bar stool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxfgkDzL5Po

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[Sydneysider]

Hi guys.

I am having a rare day off. Later I may head down to the harbour to a waterside bar where they make killer bloody Mary's. It is a nice sunny day here in Sydney.

[MarkBastable]

I am having a rare day off. Later I may head down to the harbour to a waterside bar where they make killer bloody Mary's. It is a nice sunny day here in Sydney.

...don't drag us into your private hell....

[Sydneysider]

Ha! The wind really picked up so I walked up the road and visited a very nice Greek restaurant. Nice meal and some good wine. I live in inner Sydney surrounded by fine restaurants and cafes selling great coffee.

Hell on Earth! My booking for tomorrow also fell through. If the weather is good I am going to play golf on a course over looking the Pacific ocean.

Chances are I will stay in and practice all day. Gigs all weekend though...

[Scheherazade]

Ha! The wind really picked up so I walked up the road and visited a very nice Greek restaurant. Nice meal and some good wine. I live in inner Sydney surrounded by fine restaurants and cafes selling great coffee.

Hell on Earth! My booking for tomorrow also fell through. If the weather is good I am going to play golf on a course over looking the Pacific ocean.

Chances are I will stay in and practice all day. Gigs all weekend though...

Oh, Sydney... How you must suffer!

Meanwhile, back in the UK...

Cloudy with intermittent rain. 15 C max. (noon)

[Sydneysider]

It is 8.56 pm and 17 degrees C here in Sydney.


My only concern is the state of Aussie cricket!

This is why I am a happy user.

:-) :-D ;-)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hi guys.

I am having a rare day off. Later I may head down to the harbour to a waterside bar where they make killer bloody Mary's. It is a nice sunny day here in Sydney.

Howdy Sydneysider, nice to see a fresh mug around here.
Ale, sports, poetry, females, music, allotments, plays, you name we cover it.

Welcome.

[MarkBastable]

Ale, sports, poetry, females, music, allotments, plays, you name we cover it.

This is not entirely true. I mean, I tried to promote a conversation about the thematic allusion to classical myth in nineteenth century European art and it got absolutely nowhere, despite my pitching it as 'clock the hooters on that allegorical preRaphaelite....'

[Sydneysider]

Howdy Sydneysider, nice to see a fresh mug around here.
Ale, sports, poetry, females, music, allotments, plays, you name we cover it.

Welcome.

Thanks mate.

Am not great with poetry, but the rest is fine with me. Cricket season is approaching. All smiles here. Music of course is my lover. So all good there.
Females are becoming more beautiful with each of my passing years. Sadly time has the opposite effect upon me. Ale never goes out of style.

Nice to be here. :-)

[prendrelemick]

This is not entirely true. I mean, I tried to promote a conversation about the thematic alluson to classical myth in nineteenth century European art and it got absolutely nowhere, despite my pitching it as 'clock the hooters on that allegorical preRaphaelite....'

Nice try, should've tied it in to Twilight.




Coming home tonight, if the floods have cleared.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

This is not entirely true. I mean, I tried to promote a conversation about the thematic allusion to classical myth in nineteenth century European art and it got absolutely nowhere, despite my pitching it as 'clock the hooters on that allegorical preRaphaelite....'

In fact that's a perfect example of "...you name it we cover it" Given the cyclical nature of our subjects, I'm sure this, or some variant, will be coming back around.

Nice try, should've tied it in to Twilight.
...

or Fifty Shades of Gray - aka The Ashcan School

Thanks mate.

Am not great with poetry...

Nice to be here. :-)

Poetry courses through Blokes blood. You’re wise with that modest positioning at the outset.
I mean, just look at this brilliance:

(excerpts from the Blokes 2010 Christmas play)

Bigfoot:
No use crying over spilt milk,
But lethal weapons of that ilk,
Those blunt, milk-jugg-knockers,
Should be kept firmly in their lockers.
Or handled with the utmost care,
Lest they ruin all your breakfast fare. ………courtesy Premdrelemick

(The locker’s clasp fails. A tidal wave of mammantous flesh and fur sweeps breakfast vittles to the floor)

Madam:
Thou furry knave go sweep the floor
The Lucky Charms and grits du jour
Spotless I expect the floor to be
Or contents of my locker you’ll never see.

Go now and empty the chamber pot,
a loathsome task for thy male lot.
Let not foul drop escape the rim
I’ll have you scrub the floor with your gin. ……….courtesy Gilliatt

Bigfoot: (Soliloquy – delivered while sitting on a chamber pot thumbing through Vanity Fair)
For Madam thinks she always rules the roost,
And so her ego I shall give a boost.
But as I scrub the dishes, wipe the plates,
And let her off to nightclubs with her mates,
I snigger to myself for I still know,
That even as I clean I rule the show.
To other's eye it seems my claim's a sham,
With all the work I have to sweat and cram.
And as you toast your friends and glasses clink
I know my place, it's she who only thinks. ………courtesy Paulclem

(Scene ends with Bigfoot tidying up, but forgetting to empty the chamber pot)