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     Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Right, you folks. We've been having some disagreements, a bit of aggression and a bit of upset elsewhere on this board since I've joined (hey, it's not my fault is it? Were you like this before I joined?), so I reckon it's about time we started some positive thinking. I've therefore started this "happy thread" and I want you to all try and cheer me up (I'm a miserable sod by nature)! So, tell me something nice that's happened to you, or that you've heard/read about. Or something that makes you smile. Anything that will cheers us all up. Apparently, smiling's good for you - and laughter is even better. I can't think of any examples of nice stuff offhand, so it's over to you ... (BTW anyone who starts negative thinking on this thread will get a virtual kick up the backside from me  ) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Here's one... My five-year-old son said to me, in Italy the other week, upon realising that he loves the sea: "The sea is just a big bath without edges" | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Awwwww. That's the spirit - that made me giggle! Keep 'em coming ... (BTW Gary, I reckon your son already has literary talents, to come out with a comment like that) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Oh, he's deep. Even when he's paddling in the shallow end. Just like his dad. ;-) | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.236.16 |
Yesterday I saw a big black bra on the path in the city. Busty and proud it was. An old man with a walking was trying to get past it as if afraid to disturb it lest it attack him. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
As moderator, I'm afraid I've become a little institutionalised, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to delete this thread on the basis of its inflammatory nature. Sorry. You were warned. Read the guidelines. No good humour allowed here. Rancour, misery, arguments, shouting, name-calling, back-biting, neurotic projection, death threats - yes. Happytweelittlebunnyness - no. Out, Caroline - out you go!!! Provocative hussy!!! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
[mayhap I should add an irony emoticon there: never know who's reading . . .  ] | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
>>>Even when he's paddling in the shallow end. Unlike Charlie, Zed is shallow in the paddling end. | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
Saw a doctor the other day after experiencing moderate to severe chest pains. She told me that it was some sort of upper torso indigestion (something like that) and that my heart, according to her machine, was 5 by 5 and strong as hell. I was very glad to hear that. -Darren | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
..there's a song called 'Happiness' on my 4 track CD out in a couple of weeks. (Shameless plug!) gcw | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>..there's a song called 'Happiness' on my 4 track CD out in a couple of weeks.<< That's not the same one Ken Dodd recorded way back, is it?  Gary (F, that is) - I'm really glad you added that smiley as, for a horrible minute when I started reading your post, I thought you meant it!  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Don't take anything I say seriously. I'm a buffoon. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I know - and a sweet one at that. *Caroline pushes her luck even further* | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
You need a sense of humour after being born in Bradford. You need an even bigger one moving there from elsewhere. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.12 |
I saw a baby giggling when a kitty cat tried to leap a rainbow and went tumbling into a field of daisies where butterflies danced on the fingertips of smiling children licking giant swirly lollipops. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.109.19 |
"...>>..there's a song called 'Happiness' on my 4 track CD out in a couple of weeks.<< That's not the same one Ken Dodd recorded way back, is it?." Had that one already - TA! gcw | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>I saw a baby giggling when a kitty cat tried to leap a rainbow and went tumbling into a field of daisies where butterflies danced on the fingertips of smiling children licking giant swirly lollipops.<< Craig, you're not taking this seriously, are you? Either that, or you've been putting some funny stuff in your pipe and smoking it.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.225.243 |
Alright then, Caroline. Ummm.... I stumbled across a used CD of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, HARD PROMISES (1981) - never heard the whole album before, but I thought it pretty damn good. Sounds like it could have been released yesterday. ... that's all I got.... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
OK folks, you asked for it - I reckon it's time for me to resurrect .... THE HAPPY THREAD!! Let's have less hate, more love, and a lot of laughter and happiness once more on the RCMB. Go on, tell me something HAPPY to cheer us all up (even a bad joke if you like, Weber) ... | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
I've got a joke. I even sent it in to Adam & Joe but they didn't use it... Now they are no longer on the radio. Coincidence? I don't think so. Q. Which Doctor Who does all his cooking in graveyards? A. Tomb Baker. | ||
| Stephen Theaker (Stephen_theaker) Username: Stephen_theaker Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 62.30.117.235 |
I'm jolly happy to be the new chair of the BFS, by the way, even if it's just till September. | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.215.237.98 |
What goes 70 miles an hour along the seabed? A motorpike and sidecarp... Shall I stick to the hate thread???? | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
I just went to Staples to order posters for WHC and EasterCon. I returned and not only had the guy we got in to re-do the bathroom tile finished and left, I wasn't killed in an automobile accident during my entire set of errands! …I'm really stretching to find something happy, aren't I? | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 82.22.70.137 |
I've got the ISBN number sorted for the Back From The Dead antho - and it'll be going to print by the end of next week. Also, all of the stories and copyrights have been cleared for the 1959 reissue of the Pan Book of Horror Stories after a bit of a struggle - and my introduction for the book is finished and looking good. Last but not least, I'll be working with a very respected editor on a new anthology this year which will be released next January. The theme is Jack the Ripper, but not in the old foggy london streets way. People will be asked to submit a story around May/June time... | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 89.241.202.76 |
I got my long-delayed copy of Gaslight Grotesque (damn those slow postal services, but hurrah that they came good in the end!), along with payment for my story! And my snowman story is nearly done, and may well be one of the best things I've written. S | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.215.237.82 |
Let's see now. UM... I know.. James Herbert has finally given in and accepted my marriage proposal. And I'm ALIVE!!!!! Chill and enjoy, peeps, it's Sunday and the sun is shining | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>it's Sunday and the sun is shining<< Sun? We didn't have any sun here today - just damp, cold rain.  Oh dear, you've all got into the spirit of happiness and I'm still fed up. Let's see, last week: 1. My fibromyalgia flared up 2. Our central heating broke down 3. The lock jammed on our front door 4. The cat got constipation and had to go to the vets for an enema (I can tell you, it's no fun driving back from the vets with a stressed cat and a pile of cat poo in a basket because he couldn't hang on to it till I got home ) BUT I'm still smiling, so it can't be all that bad, can it?  | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 88.202.206.180 |
I've just made an amazing discovery that's had me grinning very smugly since yesterday. I found a horror film that Lord P has NEVER SEEN. More than that, he'd never even HEARD of it!  FYI: It's "The Children" (1980), which scared me silly as a kid. School bus drives through toxic nuclear cloud and turns kids into black-fingernailed zombies who kill their parents with a death-hug. Can't wait to see it again! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.2.132 |
Kate: I never heard of it either. This isn't it, but this looks like a - is it a remake? http://vimeo.com/2139216 Whatever it is, it looks good too! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
I've heard of it! Was in one of my Hammer/horror magazines. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Talking of Lord P (as Kate, Craig and Tony were), I haven't seen him here for a while. What have you done with him, Kate? Have you locked him in the attic like a crazy relative, or bricked him up in the cellar? | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Baron von Probertstein always was a fan of amontillado, wasn't he…? | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 88.202.206.180 |
I haven't done anything with the good Lord P. (I wouldn't dare!)  Rest assured he's merely busy with his secret experiments in the laboratory. When he's not watching scary movies or exploring graveyards with me, that is. We're still both revelling in the joy of having someone to do all these horror-themed things WITH, rather than by ourselves. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.143.99.210 |
My daughter got married on Saturday. It was a very happy occasion. (And my speech at the reception was universally praised). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Congrats! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Congratulations, Des. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
That's great news, Des! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.186.66.18 |
Good stuff, Des. Will they put their names on the register only after a year of marriage, de-Nemononymising-style? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Congrats, Des. Hope it was a great day. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Aw, that's lovely, Des. Congrats to you and your family. You may be hearing the patter of tiny grandchildren feet soon, perhaps? (or are you already a grandad?)  |