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    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
    Posts.

    We're at 920,000 odd, and with jocky posting at the moment, it should only take a couple of days to knowck the rest off!
    Duhhhhhh.

    I see it now. A hefty thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    No, Abeyance was just one of those pompous words I learned on my Russian course, at that point in my life when I was smothered with Brylcreem. I can't remember what the heck the Russki word was, now, but then since I've forgotten most of it, that's no surprise. As for a historian, I wrote a piece yesterday for one of the mags that is misguided enough to print my stuff, which was a Roman soldier's letter home to his Mum. Does that count?

    Personally, I feel that The Curmudgeons Arms is the perfect name. Having done a few books on pub signs, I shall have to put on my Thinking Head and come up with something. The "After" picture on the front page of my website is probably appropriate - as well as handsome!!!!
    Aye, this is all very well but we have still not established if you are Welsh. You are clearly on about one of the Vinderlander tablets, personally I prefer the Vindaloo with a side dish of a bucket of lager. Life has always been tough on the frontier up Shropshire way.

    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    You can borrow my narrow barrow
    when I've consulted the Tarot.


    (and emptied it of carrot)???


    Genius never goes unrecognised in the Blokes Thread, but in this case it will. Any poet worth his salt can make hay with carrot but turnip has always been problematical.

    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    Duhhhhhh.

    I see it now. A hefty thread.
    I should be able to knowck off 800,000 posts in no time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post
    Ah, to be at the pub in old England town listening to their politics intead of this constant talk of immigrants...are you hearing the constant rattle too, Gilliatt?
    Not as of late, having been exiled north of the Mason Dixon for the next few months. “Land of Lincoln…who are they kidding?...more like the land of Orville Redinbacher!
    I’ve never seen so much corn in my life! Why, I’ve got corn up to my ears!

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    No, Abeyance was just one of those pompous words...

    Personally, I feel that The Curmudgeons Arms is the perfect name. Having done a few books on pub signs, I shall have to put on my Thinking Head and come up with something.
    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    As it happens...in abeyance and leaving them there.
    Also quote Atheist :

    First, booze. Well, it is a party.

    I guess that we do try to appeal to a family audience in LitNet and there probably won't be too many schoolkids wanting a double scotch, so we should keep all boozy references in here.

    My suggestion for TBC would be for Parker to get everyone's absolute favourite tipple, be it a cold draught or a Dram of buie - Parker being the genius he is will ensure you have a measure of it arranged for the particular time and place needed!

    end Atheist's quote

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    My grandmother always had a hankerin for drambuie, she’d always keep a bottle tucked under the edge of her mattress. Each time she'd knock one down, us grandkids would get the emty bottles to play with. I remember the sweet aroma wafting up from those bottles.

    I kept one of her old Drambuie crates made of honest to goodness wood!
    I’d be happy to donate it to the cause, you know for tot’n adult beverages around.

    Keep me informed.

    Gilliatt
    "Mongo only pawn in game of life" - Mongo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10

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    Quote Originally Posted by jocky View Post


    Genius never goes unrecognised in the Blokes Thread, but in this case it will. Any poet worth his salt can make hay with carrot but turnip has always been problematical.
    You know that's the sole reason Australia invented the bunyip?

    Can't rhyme "turnip" mate?

    We'll make up a new word for ya!

    Always practical, Australians.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
    Not as of late, having been exiled north of the Mason Dixon for the next few months. “Land of Lincoln…who are they kidding?...more like the land of Orville Redinbacher!
    I’ve never seen so much corn in my life! Why, I’ve got corn up to my ears!
    Excellent metaphor!

    Your metaphors, jocky's alliteration, Mick's rhymes... we have a bloody poetry group!

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
    I kept one of her old Drambuie crates made of honest to goodness wood!
    I’d be happy to donate it to the cause, you know for tot’n adult beverages around.

    Keep me informed.

    Gilliatt
    How big is it?

    Can we squeeze Mrs Jocky in it and send her to Boston?
    Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."

    Anon

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    If a rhyme can't be found, one can usually be contrived .

    She had a 'ead the shape of a turnip
    And a child that was clasped to 'ur 'ip.

    or

    If a rhyme with turnip, you need
    relax and substitute swede.


    Gilliatt: couldn't they just share the horses.
    Last edited by prendrelemick; 08-16-2010 at 06:53 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
    Ok chaps!

    As I'm sure you've noticed, there's a piss-up on for the forum's millionth

    (No, that doesn't mean soundo and one of the All Blacks!)

    First, booze. Well, it is a party.

    I guess that we do try to appeal to a family audience in LitNet and there probably won't be too many schoolkids wanting a double scotch, so we should keep all boozy references in here.

    My suggestion for TBC would be for Parker to get everyone's absolute favourite tipple, be it a cold draught or a Dram of buie - Parker being the genius he is will ensure you have a measure of it arranged for the particular time and place needed!

    Piece of cake!

    Make it a surprise on the day and post pics!

    Was there a second?
    Why do I never notice these little rows until someone is put in the stocks
    Tell Parker to leave the Vodka and Whiskey for the men; I'll take a girls drink...something with pinapple or a cherry in it...
    The idea with me and the blacks doing a dance sounds good too

    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post
    Do they do scholarships out your way? Even the queens son would be on one over here....what is the other Oxford?

    They do scholarships yes.

    As for the other Oxford - I meant that Oxford has two Universities - The famous posh Oxford, and the other one which the lad will hopefully be going to.
    Congrats to young Paul; I hope he's half the great man his dad is.
    Does the other Oxford have internet degrees for Americans; we Americans are so impressed with words like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Rhodes...I thought I might run against Sarah in 2012...I've adopted a baby and bought the perfect outfit.

    Quote Originally Posted by jocky View Post
    Last Sunday I was sitting on the sofa with my feet on the coffee table looking forward to watching the Charity Shield. Suddenly Mrs Jocky burst into the living room.... " Jocky get the car oot of the garage we are going shopping and remember the Bank card. " Oh no, I wiped the sweat off my forehead and did as ordered. Our first stop was the hat shop. Mrs J, why do you need four hats? " Don't be so bloody stupid, they will go with the four new outfits and four pairs of shoes I need. "
    Mrs J sounds like a lady after my own heart; I like a pair of shoes and a bag to match each outfit; though lately, everything has to go with my Nikes.

    Curmudgeon Arms, I like it.
    If you get a pole, I can do my little dances in my cheerleader outfit and I hear the mods will bring the highbrows in with poetry contests and starbucks coffee...

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    No, Abeyance was just one of those pompous words I learned on my Russian course, at that point in my life when I was smothered with Brylcreem. I can't remember what the heck the Russki word was, now, but then since I've forgotten most of it, that's no surprise. As for a historian, I wrote a piece yesterday for one of the mags that is misguided enough to print my stuff, which was a Roman soldier's letter home to his Mum. Does that count?
    Brylcream, a little dab will do you...does that take me back...back to the days when mothers had to scrub the collars of those starched white shirts to get the grease out and a girl didn't dare run her hands through a fellows hair.

    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    As it happens, My buisness model is based on putting things in abeyance and leaving them there.
    Sounds like my whole life

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle View Post
    Not as of late, having been exiled north of the Mason Dixon for the next few months. “Land of Lincoln…who are they kidding?...more like the land of Orville Redinbacher!
    I’ve never seen so much corn in my life! Why, I’ve got corn up to my ears!

    Hey, don't be hating on Orville; have you ever had his carmel corn...better than spending the night with Atheists harem




    Also quote Atheist :

    First, booze. Well, it is a party.

    I guess that we do try to appeal to a family audience in LitNet and there probably won't be too many schoolkids wanting a double scotch, so we should keep all boozy references in here.

    My suggestion for TBC would be for Parker to get everyone's absolute favourite tipple, be it a cold draught or a Dram of buie - Parker being the genius he is will ensure you have a measure of it arranged for the particular time and place needed!

    end Atheist's quote

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    My grandmother always had a hankerin for drambuie, she’d always keep a bottle tucked under the edge of her mattress. Each time she'd knock one down, us grandkids would get the emty bottles to play with. I remember the sweet aroma wafting up from those bottles.

    I kept one of her old Drambuie crates made of honest to goodness wood!
    I’d be happy to donate it to the cause, you know for tot’n adult beverages around.

    Keep me informed.

    Gilliatt

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    Jocky - Thou asketh if I am Welsh. Look, this is strictly between thee and me, so don't whatever you do tell anyone else - they'd spread it all over Litnet, but I am of distant Welsh ancestry, but in my case it was so distant, I was born in Sahf Landan, in the glorious district of Lewisham. However, going back far enough in history, our family, being somewhat upper class, provided hewers of wood, drawers of water and suppliers of "night entertainment" to the gentry. I can't help but wonder - what on earth made you think that I wasn't German, say, or Latvian? However, one's genealogy has left me with a taste for Felin Foel bitter, and Penderyn whisky. Well, any whisky, actually, but then, you and Mrs J would know more about that than me. Did you ever get her out of the barrow?
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    I have a Welsh Granny, and a Swiss Great Grandad, which explains why I feel the urge to yodel the chorus of "Feed me o thy Great Redeemer". Blood will out.

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    Mongrels all!! And some idiot will always talk about "racial purity".
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

    My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!

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    Irish, Northern England and Bedfordshire. Sailors, cow herders, miners. My wife has done a bit of research and confirmed her assumptions about my ancestry. This little boy is made of tar, pats and coal. I've risen far to the heights of an average income.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post
    Congrats to young Paul; I hope he's half the great man his dad is.
    Does the other Oxford have internet degrees for Americans; we Americans are so impressed with words like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Rhodes...I thought I might run against Sarah in 2012...I've adopted a baby and bought the perfect outfit.
    He gets his results on Thursday. Fingers crossed. Due to my predilection for jokes and being embarrassing, he does think I'm an idiot. I may start to introduce myself as his "Idiot Father".

    Thanks you for your wishes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    I have a Welsh Granny, and a Swiss Great Grandad, which explains why I feel the urge to yodel the chorus of "Feed me o thy Great Redeemer". Blood will out.


    Or eat Swiss cheese Welsh rarebit!

    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Mongrels all!! And some idiot will always talk about "racial purity".
    Hey, I'm one of those - my race is pure mongrel!

    What, with the Mediterannean French influence from my paternal grandmother, 1000 years in the poor house from my paternal grandfather, Jewish on the maternal grandfather's side and pure white blonde/blue eyed Saxony from the mother's mother, I couldn't be more Euromongrel if you tried!

    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post
    Tell Parker to leave the Vodka and Whiskey for the men; I'll take a girls drink...something with pinapple or a cherry in it...
    Beer with pineapple... hmmm.

    Also, we may need to shelve the party plans for a while - it looks as though it will take us a year to get there!

    I'll resurrect the thread in six months or so.

    No matter, it'll give more time for the wine to age properly! I think we might have a special vintage bottle laid for the occasion!
    Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."

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    I shall take my duties of sampling wines for suitability very seriously. Call me at the crack of noon.
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    I shall take my duties of sampling wines for suitability very seriously. Call me at the crack of noon.
    The crack of noon or the Crack of Doom, was that?
    Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dafydd manton View Post
    Jocky - Thou asketh if I am Welsh. Look, this is strictly between thee and me, so don't whatever you do tell anyone else - they'd spread it all over Litnet, but I am of distant Welsh ancestry, but in my case it was so distant, I was born in Sahf Landan, in the glorious district of Lewisham. However, going back far enough in history, our family, being somewhat upper class, provided hewers of wood, drawers of water and suppliers of "night entertainment" to the gentry. I can't help but wonder - what on earth made you think that I wasn't German, say, or Latvian? However, one's genealogy has left me with a taste for Felin Foel bitter, and Penderyn whisky. Well, any whisky, actually, but then, you and Mrs J would know more about that than me. Did you ever get her out of the barrow?
    Daffyd, your secrets are safe with me, everyone will tell you I don't do private messages, though I have been sent one or two by the mooderators. Thank you for your concern for Mrs Jocky, I have been worrying myself sick about the poor sods in Boston If she ever gets there. It could turn out to be the tea party from hell.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Atheist View Post
    You know that's the sole reason Australia invented the bunyip?

    Can't rhyme "turnip" mate?

    We'll make up a new word for ya!

    Always practical, Australians.


    The life of a poet is never easy.

    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    If a rhyme can't be found, one can usually be contrived .

    She had a 'ead the shape of a turnip
    And a child that was clasped to 'ur 'ip.

    or

    If a rhyme with turnip, you need
    relax and substitute swede.

    Och, it could have been a lot worse I could have used brussels sprouts.

    Quote Originally Posted by soundofmusic View Post



    and I hear the mods will bring the highbrows in with poetry contests and starbucks coffee...


    Aye, I can see all the punters in the Blokes Thread falling over themselves to get invited.

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