Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[soundofmusic]

Please excuse my brief diversion from the current topic, but I wanted to bring this important bit of infomation to your attention.
As you well know, one of my responsibilities as a card carrying bloke, is to periodically check in on the TBRC.
I am happy to report the 10th annual Texas Bigfoot Conference will take place October 30th in Tyler Texas.

http://www.texasbigfoot.org/

Unfortunately, I am stuck here in Illinois, so I will not be able to attend.
However, I will follow up this weekend and try to get my hands on a copy of the meeting minutes.

In the meantime, perhaps I can locate a similar organization up here in Illinois.
Regardless of location, we are all "brothers in feet".

Gilliatt

No worries, we will bring the convention to you...Atheist, do you think Parker has enough provisions for the group?

We had a topic?



Hell yes!

I am a respected member at Bigfoot Forums!

I'd love to go to a bigfoot syposium. As long as those goons from the 2008 hoax weren't there. Most 'footers I know are fine people.

Just a leetle bit eccentric, but in a place like The Blokes' Club, a little eccentricity doesn't go amiss.



Where the hell do bigfeet hide in Texas? Behind oil wells? In Dallas?

Who's eccentric I'm still looking for the other eccentric parts of our group; I think we may have lost them when we went down to Area 51 for their convention...I hope poor Jocky isn't boxed and tagged by now

[The Atheist]

No worries, we will bring the convention to you...Atheist, do you think Parker has enough provisions for the group?

Boots, plaster of Paris, directional microphone & recorder, movie camera, trowel, rifle, hiking gear [strike]bigfoot costume[/strike] ....

Piece of cake. Shall we hire some local porters and go in style? A sedan chair, perhaps?

I could just see us being carried around the wilds in chairs, sipping martini/kahlua. Travel in style!

By the time we get there, we'll be seeing bigfeet everywhere.

[Paulclem]

Boots, plaster of Paris, directional microphone & recorder, movie camera, trowel, rifle, hiking gear [strike]bigfoot costume[/strike] ....

Piece of cake. Shall we hire some local porters and go in style? A sedan chair, perhaps?

I could just see us being carried around the wilds in chairs, sipping martini/kahlua. Travel in style!

By the time we get there, we'll be seeing bigfeet everywhere.

Sounds like a great trip. What about an elephant with one of those chairs on the top? Or a balloon. Or a Zeppelin type. Always fancied a go on one of those - the ones with inert gases inside.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...Atheist, do you think Parker has enough provisions for the group?

Boots, plaster of Paris, directional microphone & recorder, movie camera, trowel, rifle, hiking gear [strike]bigfoot costume[/strike] ....

Piece of cake. Shall we hire some local porters and go in style? A sedan chair, perhaps?

I could just see us being carried around the wilds in chairs, sipping martini/kahlua. Travel in style!

Sounds like a great trip. What about an elephant with one of those chairs on the top? Or a balloon. Or a Zeppelin type. Always fancied a go on one of those - the ones with inert gases inside.

If we are to employ beasts of burden, then species selection is critical depending on where the expedition takes place.
Gigantopithecus (Bigfoot, Yeti, Snanaik, Abominable snowman, Timber Giants, Splintercat, Sasquatch, et al), have a keen sense of smell.
If we were to enter a particular bigfoot habitat with a species of pack animal not native to that habitat, the pheromones emanating from said pack animals will result in one of two actions.

One – The Bigfoot mob will be spooked at the alien scent and simply disperse.
(by the way a group of three or more Bigfeet are known as a “mob”)

Or

The Bigfeet will become aroused and attack the caravan having their way with you.
I don’t know about you Paul, but having a randy Bigfoot on my heels is not my idea of research.


Gilliatt

[soundofmusic]

Boots, plaster of Paris, directional microphone & recorder, movie camera, trowel, rifle, hiking gear [strike]bigfoot costume[/strike] ....

Piece of cake. Shall we hire some local porters and go in style? A sedan chair, perhaps?

I could just see us being carried around the wilds in chairs, sipping martini/kahlua. Travel in style!

By the time we get there, we'll be seeing bigfeet everywhere.

I thought I might just wear my Queen of Sheba outfit...
As to the sedan chair, maybe we can take one off of Onassis' old yacht; I hear they covered them with fabric made from an elephants foreskin... Gosh, I wouldn't want to be the fellow with those clippers

Sounds like a great trip. What about an elephant with one of those chairs on the top? Or a balloon. Or a Zeppelin type. Always fancied a go on one of those - the ones with inert gases inside.

Even cooler

If we are to employ beasts of burden, then species selection is critical depending on where the expedition takes place.
Gigantopithecus (Bigfoot, Yeti, Snanaik, Abominable snowman, Timber Giants, Splintercat, Sasquatch, et al), have a keen sense of smell.
If we were to enter a particular bigfoot habitat with a species of pack animal not native to that habitat, the pheromones emanating from said pack animals will result in one of two actions.

One – The Bigfoot mob will be spooked at the alien scent and simply disperse.
(by the way a group of three or more Bigfeet are known as a “mob”)

Or

The Bigfeet will become aroused and attack the caravan having their way with you.
I don’t know about you Paul, but having a randy Bigfoot on my heels is not my idea of research.


Gilliatt

Okay, I'll be at the back of the caravan...Atheist, are you on the front lines

[Paulclem]

If we are to employ beasts of burden, then species selection is critical depending on where the expedition takes place.
Gigantopithecus (Bigfoot, Yeti, Snanaik, Abominable snowman, Timber Giants, Splintercat, Sasquatch, et al), have a keen sense of smell.
If we were to enter a particular bigfoot habitat with a species of pack animal not native to that habitat, the pheromones emanating from said pack animals will result in one of two actions.

One – The Bigfoot mob will be spooked at the alien scent and simply disperse.
(by the way a group of three or more Bigfeet are known as a “mob”)

Or

The Bigfeet will become aroused and attack the caravan having their way with you.
I don’t know about you Paul, but having a randy Bigfoot on my heels is not my idea of research.


Gilliatt

Research? And here was me thinking it was going to be one big picnic. Better get the old army trousers on. I'll follow your lead in not provoking our hairy-assed friend - bigfoot I mean.

[Emil Miller]

Looking at some old posts on the former Music Appreciation sub forum, I came across this comment about performances of opera in modern dress.
Given some of the ribald comments on this thread, I thought that contributors might be interested.

Now, I may be one of those 'old geezers' but I often hate modern scenery and costume. I sometimes get the feeling that the old piece must be modernized by hook or by crook. So we find Nazi officers in uniform in an 18th century opera, there are naked people or whores where they do not belong. A friend of mine saw an opera in Dresden at the Semperoper (!) with half the choir naked. One of the men had an erection on stage - he couldn't help it and seemed to be very much ashamed.

[prendrelemick]

I have a clear childhood memory of seeing Bigfoot in the Upper Calder Valley. I was sat on my Mums knee in the front seat of the Landrover, we were driving down through some woods and I saw a large hairy ape-like creature keeping pace with us about 30 yards away among the trees. It was the size of a large man, and was jumping along like a kangeroo. Although I was only three at the time it is a clear memory. I admit, I had put it down to a three year olds imagination, untill Gilliat's scholarly treatise on the subject.

It may have been a South Pennine sub-species of the more famous Texan Bigfoot or perhaps, like the Grey Squirrel, an introduced alien.

Is it time we had a Yorkshire branch of the TBRC?

[The Atheist]

[QUOTE=Paulclem;972069]Sounds like a great trip. What about an elephant with one of those chairs on the top?

I have a photo of me in one of them.

From Auckland Zoo, circa 1962, when that kind of thing was considered ok.

Bring back the Chimapnzees' Tea Party!

Or a balloon. Or a Zeppelin type. Always fancied a go on one of those - the ones with inert gases inside.

You've reminded me of my favourite invention of all time!

"Hey guys, I have this brilliant idea! We get a stupendously huge bag, fill it with the most-volatile naturally occurring substance in the entire universe, then pack a load of people into a pod slung right underneath it."

If we are to employ beasts of burden, then species selection is critical depending on where the expedition takes place.
Gigantopithecus (Bigfoot, Yeti, Snanaik, Abominable snowman, Timber Giants, Splintercat, Sasquatch, et al), have a keen sense of smell.
If we were to enter a particular bigfoot habitat with a species of pack animal not native to that habitat, the pheromones emanating from said pack animals will result in one of two actions.

One – The Bigfoot mob will be spooked at the alien scent and simply disperse.
(by the way a group of three or more Bigfeet are known as a “mob”)

Or

The Bigfeet will become aroused and attack the caravan having their way with you.
I don’t know about you Paul, but having a randy Bigfoot on my heels is not my idea of research.


Gilliatt

Well, precisely. They're not just shy, they're as cunning as humanoids.

This is why yeti-hunting is a lot easier - you can use yaks as beasts of burden.

Soundo on the elephant, me in the sedan chair carried by six strapping Samoan sheilas, Paul astride the trained lion... Not as though we'd make much noise either!

I have it!

We'll borrow Santa's sleigh and use moose instead of reindeer.

Okay, I'll be at the back of the caravan...Atheist, are you on the front lines

Oh, leading the way, for certain.

A friend of mine saw an opera in Dresden at the Semperoper (!) with half the choir naked. One of the men had an erection on stage - he couldn't help it and seemed to be very much ashamed.

Don't you love when arts get mixed up.

Thank god it wasn't the Vienna Boys' Choir - you'd have been trampled by men in black dresses.

[The Atheist]

I have a clear childhood memory of seeing Bigfoot in the Upper Calder Valley. I was sat on my Mums knee in the front seat of the Landrover, we were driving down through some woods and I saw a large hairy ape-like creature keeping pace with us about 30 yards away among the trees. It was the size of a large man, and was jumping along like a kangeroo. Although I was only three at the time it is a clear memory. I admit, I had put it down to a three year olds imagination, untill Gilliat's scholarly treatise on the subject.

It may have been a South Pennine sub-species of the more famous Texan Bigfoot or perhaps, like the Grey Squirrel, an introduced alien.

Is it time we had a Yorkshire branch of the TBRC?

No, that's definitely a Bunyip.

Obviously, one of those rich Pommies had one in his private zoo that escaped.

I doubt it's still alive or free now, the tiger would have killed it for sure.

[prendrelemick]

"He who sees the Bunyip, knows he's going to die" - Rolf Harris

Well it could have been a Bunyip, but a slow acting one. () It was fifty years ago, and I'm not dead yet.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

No, that's definitely a Bunyip.

Obviously, one of those rich Pommies had one in his private zoo that escaped.

"He who sees the Bunyip, knows he's going to die" - Rolf Harris

Well it could have been a Bunyip, but a slow acting one. () It was fifty years ago, and I'm not dead yet.

Great stuff guys!...I mean mates!

Whoa !!!
Is that the new Sounds I see ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7khpJ0Gv8



Gilliatt

[The Atheist]

"He who sees the Bunyip, knows he's going to die" - Rolf Harris

Well it could have been a Bunyip, but a slow acting one. () It was fifty years ago, and I'm not dead yet.

But you sure as hell know you're going to die...

Great stuff guys!...I mean mates!

Whoa !!!
Is that the new Sounds I see ?

Speaking of dead dudes...

Morrison was an alien rather than a cryptohuman, wasn't he?

[prendrelemick]

Have Parker run me yet another cold bath, Sounds is posting pictures of herself in her pomp again.

[soundofmusic]

Research? I'll follow your lead in not provoking our hairy-assed friend - bigfoot I mean.

I'm glad you made that clear, Paul, I thought maybe I had waited alittle to long to shave

Looking at some old posts on the former Music Appreciation sub forum, I came across this comment about performances of opera in modern dress.

Now, I may be one of those 'old geezers' but I often hate modern scenery and costume. I sometimes get the feeling that the old piece must be modernized by hook or by crook. So we find Nazi officers in uniform in an 18th century opera,

Reminds me of this movie I absolutely hated; It was the story of Edward II set near the time of WWII

I have a clear childhood memory of seeing Bigfoot in the Upper Calder Valley. I was sat on my Mums knee in the front seat of the Landrover, we were driving down through some woods and I saw a large hairy ape-like creature keeping pace with us about 30 yards away among the trees. It was the size of a large man, and was jumping along like a kangeroo.

I do hope your dad was in the drivers seat

[QUOTE=The Atheist;972420]

Sounds like a great trip. What about an elephant with one of those chairs on the top?



Soundo on the elephant, me in the sedan chair carried by six strapping Samoan sheilas, Paul astride the trained lion...

Oh, leading the way, for certain.

Sounds like a great trip

Great stuff guys!...I mean mates!

Whoa !!!
Is that the new Sounds I see ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7khpJ0Gv8

Gilliatt

I love my song Gilliatt...I thought I'd put a picture up that's a bit closer to my age

Have Parker run me yet another cold bath, Sounds is posting pictures of herself in her pomp again.

Hold that thought, prendrelemick...and Parker make that a hot bath; after all, this tuesday is erection day in Florida