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     Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.116.103.246 |
... or to all you Brits across the puddle -- "Nyah nyah ny-nyah nyah! We got away-ay! You suck, you suck!" [insert extended raspberry sfx]  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.83.68 |
Didn't want you lot anyway... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.39.58 |
Tea - you - us - bovvered! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.180.244 |
So when are you yanks going to start paying all the rent you owe? You can ask Mel Gibson to deliver it, if he's not too busy slaughtering those dastardly evil colonising English. ;-) Happy 4th of July! | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Just saw this thread. A friend of mine who's in the US at the moment mentioned something I found interesting / weird / disturbing - apparently around this time in labour wards there's a huge number of induced labours, planned caesarian sections and so on because there's a great desire on the part of a certain part of the US demographic to have a 4th of July baby. I'd not heard of this practice before & I must say I find it bloody weird | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.6 |
Stop trying to blackly stereotype us Americans, John. We rip our babies out for all sorts of holidays.... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Is it true that American babies born on halloween are orange and already know the word "Bejewelled" which they speak in a deep man's voice? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
No reference to Liszt? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
He's in THE BOOK OF LISZTS, published in the USA. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I blame the demon Tzsil, for these orange babies. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
In later life, Liszt was an exorcist. It's true. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
It was the only way he could get to turn girls' heads. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
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| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Sigh. I went to the US to spend the day with my American relatives, forgetting that each year I vow not to return for the occasion. Sadly, my relatives you see, are republican sock puppets. "Grace" before dinner was the usual "bless this country - the best country in the world" bruhaha. I spent the whole day biting my tongue. Donald at least got to do some water skiing. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
A, are you and Donald back together? Apologies if I've missed a posting where this was explained. And apologies if it's an insensitive question. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.59 |
Is it true that American babies born on halloween are orange and already know the word "Bejewelled" which they speak in a deep man's voice? Where do you get these strange notions about us, you tea-sipping, teeth-rotting, loafer-light blanch-white "Guvnor!"-spouting Queen-bowing ale-addled pederast?  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.83.68 |
Cor blimey! All right guv! Wos this geeza on abaht? Lawks a lordy! Blood and stomach pills! Still, at least you're not making fun of my bowler hat... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.1.59 |
Nah. I wouldn't make fun of your bowler hat, Mick, or the umbrella you use as a walking stick. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.24.122.40 |
Craig, do you have a fat ass? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
He needs it so he can fit in his big gas guzzling car to go to the rodeao and toss dwarfs | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.191 |
 --> Gary, at the affront - note the red neck  --> Weber - how could you know? | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Hi Joel, I think the answer is yes. Donald is back home and we're working on things. I was going to post the news, but didn't want to jinx it. I really appreciate all of the support...  | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I was talking to him about the folk on the board last night, and how lovely you've all been, and I think I nearly made him well up. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.83.68 |
We want Donald back! Craig - a picture for you of me walking to work:-  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.191 |
The scary thing is, all joking aside... and minus the kick-leg... as it is, I knee-jerk picture all you Brits this way.... No, actually, that's not true. I do picture the kick-leg. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.35.108 |
Adriana, I do hope you and Donald are able to work things out. Good luck! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.83.68 |
Adriana, I do hope you and Donald are able to work things out. Good luck! Indeed; I echo Huw's sentiment wholeheartedly. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Thanks. I think D does too. Though I'd prefer more confidence from him then mere hope. At least I also have the TIME LORD for now. Almost at the end of season 2 now! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.83.68 |
Are you going to share Doctor Who with D. or keep him for yourself, A.? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.168.227 |
Best of luck with everything, Adriana. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
Thanks, Joel. Mick, I'm keeping him. I've offered to share, but D doesn't get how awesome the Doctor is, so alas... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.190 |
You miss L.A., A?... Why is it now you and I never hooked up while you were out here...?  | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.237.60 |
Hey Craig, I don't know if I miss L.A. I miss taking long walks into the hills. And most certainly the planetarium -- have you seen the astronomy show??? But I don't miss the 8$ teas at the STANDARD. I think the reason we didn't meet up, was that we were both worried the other was likely a raving lunatic. ;) | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.237.60 |
All kidding aside it seemed clear you didn't want to. No biggie. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.230.123 |
Raving, not necessarily.... It had occurred to me, but I made no effort, a loss on my part. I live on the outskirts of Hollywood/L.A. - I usually have to clamber over my reclusiveness to brave those environs. I have friends I talk to regularly, who live there, whom I will see a handful of times a year. One, a writing partner on some projects, I haven't seen in over 2 years! Excuses excuses.... Mea culpa. Tell you what, A: next time, I'll buy you a tea at the Standard, and we'll wax rhapsodically on - what else? - Mr. Campbell. (I'm actually going out to The Villas today [see: "The Hills"], picking up mail for another friend - gonna be anywhere near The Grove? Lunch at Farmers maybe...?) Haven't seen the planetarium in years either... sad.... I should be horse-whipped for all the things I regularly don't partake in down here, except, I'd probably enjoy it too much.  | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.237.60 |
I'll never forget when I booked my ticket to England to meet up with this lot -- when I told friends that I was traveling across the ocean to meet up with "horror writers I'd met online," a plethora of concerns for my life came flooding in... lol funny that it didn't even occur to me at the time that there could be any danger. Though both Zed and GF were worried that Tony might never show up to meet me. ha ha. That trip is such a blur, (journeying from town to town to meet so many comrades I'd only known on the page) but what a lovely adventure. Even Ramsey came out! Traveled into Chester to meet us for lunch and a tour of the local used bookshops... Damn I miss you guys. (Funny thing is - normally I shy away from social interaction - I'm a recluse here in TO.) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Here's a photo of that very day.  | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.95.99.168 |
hee hee | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I especially was fond of Ramsey's finger tip black cloud. The way he would make it float about and rumble. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
To you it might have sound like "rumbling"... I heard something else... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Bumbling? That may have been the bumble wasp trapped in the greenhouse. |