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dimabbq wrote:no offense but, you people are insane...

I take it you wont be comming along then?

crozboz wrote:....and when we got home, our father would murder us in cold blood and dance around on our grave singing halleluja!

You had graves? You don't know you were born. We had to build our own funeral pyres and set light to them by rubbing two stale eccles cakes together

You don't know your born.

We had to get up 2 hours before we went to sleep, work 36 hours down't pit, then walk 36 miles home in our bare feet o'er broken glass and went we got go the tin can where we lived our dad would beat us to death.

...If we were lucky.


btw meet tommorow.

I should be there by 1-sh I should think but it could be later as there are no trains from my local station this weekend

In honour of the original - just in time for tomorrow maybe......

Totally Mental: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

Mandrake: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Abraxus?

Abraxus: You're right there, Mandrake.

Greeno: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

Totally Mental: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

Mandrake: A cup o' cold tea.

Greeno: Without milk or sugar.

Abraxus: Or tea.

Totally Mental: In a cracked cup, an' all.

Greeno: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

Mandrake: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

Abraxus: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

Totally Mental: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

Greeno: Aye, 'e was right.

Totally Mental: Aye, 'e was.

Greeno: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

Mandrake: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

Abraxus: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

Totally Mental: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

Greeno: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

Mandrake: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

Abraxus: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

Totally Mental: Cardboard box?

Abraxus: Aye.

Totally Mental: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

Mandrake: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

Abraxus: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

Greeno: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

Totally Mental: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL: They won't!

Sorry - just had to be done

So another successful outing

The Dini/greedo challenge ended as an unsatisfactory draw (apparently a knife fight was not an apt tie breaker).
Bronz and friend accosted a hesitant yet impressed neighbouring table. Monkey swallowed balloons as usual.
Totally mental and 'dini hid in a corner and talked all things mental whilst I took the moral high ground on all this esoteric. Abraxus (according to 'dini had a more pressing engagement which although vital was sorely missed).
All in all a marvellous time and great to see totally mental at our wee soiree

London bloody Underground and their effing bloody trackworks - 1hr 45 minutes to get from the pub to Twickenham.....

Great to see you guys - it was a good afternoon and evening - looking forward to the next one already

i've only just calmed down, what i had planned yesterday - i couldnt make either, a small group of "children" had gotten into this alledgedly secure area which we can use as storage - they'd broken into 3 (including mine) units, and nicked - well, not much, but i spent yesterday sorting out a new door and cleaning up...

gggrrrr..

anyway, glad it went well lads - can we sort a double christmas one?

It was So-so at its very best. Bloody magicians throwing cards about I ask ye.

The Next Greedo/Dini challane is the humble chop cup. Let battle comence.

Totally what was the name of that "special deck" you had by the way?

Not many specs this time but what the hey it was a good afternoon out of annoying the bar staff yet again.

I second 'Braxus's double trouble xmas idea, perhaps we could have a bit of a magic pub crawl? After my altercation with the little sh*t from Davenports I also advocate some sort of horrible revenge on the place as a highlight of the day. Any ideas?

Markdini wrote:
Totally what was the name of that "special deck" you had by the way?

I call him George

I thought he was more of a Dave.

To be honest I don't know what it was called - it came in a free goodie bag as a special offer when I spent far too much on CUPS one day.

It is a good'un though - the look on both yours and Monkeys face was a treat

I am sure it came from Merchant of Magic though - give them a ring, they may be able to help.

So xmas bash?

Dates?

Xmas is the only time people eat them isnt it

Any two days beard cant do

Well at the moment I am available on both 15th and 22nd December (if you are still going for Saturdays) - although it is quite likely a booking will come in for both those days.

But, if I can make it, I will be bringing my Ghost with me