Soul Music v*I*deo & Virgin, me in Reading
Mike Gilbert
Finally summoned up the strength to drag small son into Taunton on Saturday, with the express porpoise of purchasing SM vid, using someof the hoard of WHS token donated by desparate inlaws. Went into Virgin, went wibble, tried to switch out the chaos, looked for display, anything. Asked Suit-with-badge, who seemed to be an employee, who tried to drag me over to music section. Nononono, screamed I. So, in Italian tones, he directed me towards the interminable queue at the help desk. Sod this, methinks, and turns to leave. And nearly walked right into bloody great display of SM. About a foot from where said suit had stood. Buggrit, buggrem, see if I don't, said I. And bought one.
And anyway. Why is the interview on _first_? Much as I appreciate the
pearls of wisdom that drop from the lips of the dominus, surely
waiting till after the main feature? And Nobby's too tall. And human.
Aside from that..... it aten't the book, so it's different, but I
liked it. Books are always better, though. The pictures inside your
head are drawn perfectly, with no expense spared.
Signing off, if anyone is at a loose end in Reading on 26th, 27th or
28th May and fancies a pint of an evening, I've got to suffer a 3 day
NT Server course, and could do with some hum^H^H^H^primate company.
Mike
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Darrell Ottery
In article <ant18195...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
<mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
>Signing off, if anyone is at a loose end in Reading on 26th, 27th or
>28th May and fancies a pint of an evening, I've got to suffer a 3 day
>NT Server course, and could do with some hum^H^H^H^primate company.
Loose end. Reading. Can't see a connection there at all.
Yeah, I'll be about. Fiends have decided to descend upon me to eat me
out of house and home on the Monday, but I'll be about on either of the
other two days. All we have to do now is persuade any other locals to
come out of the woodwork.
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Elaine Charlson - Sun ENO
In article uZYo0AAg...@toreador.demon.co.uk, Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org> writes:
>In article <ant18195...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
><mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
>>Signing off, if anyone is at a loose end in Reading on 26th, 27th or
>>28th May and fancies a pint of an evening, I've got to suffer a 3 day
>>NT Server course, and could do with some hum^H^H^H^primate company.
>
>Loose end. Reading. Can't see a connection there at all.
>
>Yeah, I'll be about. Fiends have decided to descend upon me to eat me
>out of house and home on the Monday, but I'll be about on either of the
>other two days. All we have to do now is persuade any other locals to
>come out of the woodwork.
(Peers out of knothole and exits via a crack between two planks) Yes, it's
possible. Wednesday would be better for me.
MisElaineous of Misalliance.
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Gideon Hallett
On Sun, 18 May 1997 22:09:52 +0100, Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org>
spoke in tongues:
>In article <ant18195...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
><mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
>>Signing off, if anyone is at a loose end in Reading on 26th, 27th or
>>28th May and fancies a pint of an evening, I've got to suffer a 3 day
>>NT Server course, and could do with some hum^H^H^H^primate company.
>
>Loose end. Reading. Can't see a connection there at all.
>
>Yeah, I'll be about. Fiends have decided to descend upon me to eat me
>out of house and home on the Monday, but I'll be about on either of the
>other two days. All we have to do now is persuade any other locals to
>come out of the woodwork.
Provided I'm not busy on M.S.C. work, I'll be free on Tuesday and
Wednesday. I'll have to come from work, so I'll be wearing a suit (ick!)
Gideon.
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Mike Gilbert
In article <uZYo0AAg...@toreador.demon.co.uk>, Darrell Ottery
<URL:mailto:dar...@lspace.org> wrote:
>
> In article <ant18195...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
> <mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
> >Signing off, if anyone is at a loose end in Reading on 26th, 27th or
> >28th May and fancies a pint of an evening, I've got to suffer a 3 day
> >NT Server course, and could do with some hum^H^H^H^primate company.
>
> Loose end. Reading. Can't see a connection there at all.
>
> Yeah, I'll be about. Fiends have decided to descend upon me to eat me
> out of house and home on the Monday, but I'll be about on either of the
> other two days. All we have to do now is persuade any other locals to
> come out of the woodwork.
Okay, right, now the coordination bit. I'm staying in something
called the Upcross Hotel on Berkeley Avenue. As my only recollections
of Reading are filtered through a rather hazy year of attendance at
the Uni eighteen years ago, any pubs I might have known are probably
shut or sanitised.
Suggestions welcome.
Elaine Charlson - Sun ENO
In article ant22222...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk, Mike Gilbert <mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes:
>Okay, right, now the coordination bit. I'm staying in something
>called the Upcross Hotel on Berkeley Avenue. As my only recollections
>of Reading are filtered through a rather hazy year of attendance at
>the Uni eighteen years ago, any pubs I might have known are probably
>shut or sanitised.
>
>Suggestions welcome.
I'll have to bow to Darrell's superior Reading knowledge here since I only
venture in about once a year and *always* end up driving around totally
unknown streets. The words "good navigator" and "elaine" are antonymous.
My crowning glory came when I was two hours late for a gig because I couldn't
find Thruxton airfield (which was cunningly disguised as a racing circuit).
Please could we aim for a pub with parking nearby.
MisElaineous of Misalliance.
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Darrell Ottery
In article <ant22222...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
<mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
>Suggestions welcome.
OK then. Having done a modicum of checking (and the fact that I've not
been there in a while) I'm going to suggest the Lyndhurst Ale House,
found at the end of Watlington Street. Should be OK for a smallish
number of people, and there's some nearby parking to be had. I'd suggest
the pub opposite me, but Wednesday is the local quiz night there.
Time: From about 7:30pm Wednesday 28th May.
Directions as follows:
All fun and games with the one-way system...
I'll direct from Cem. Jcn, since that's probably easiest.
At Cemetery Junction, take the left hand fork along London Road.
Travelling along London Rd (the A4) from the East, you'll notice a Murco
garage on your right, opposite the Royal Berks. hospital. Turn right
just before here into Watlington St. Park where you can on the side of
the road, the pub is at the very end, on the corner.
Map:
Key roads only marked, not to scale. An attempt to mark one-way system
included.
If you end up on the IDR, the tortuous one-way system *does* lead back
round eventually, but there's no way I can map it... Follow signs for
A329 and you end up going round the Watlington St Gyratory. Stay in RH
lane, then peel off ASAP to drop back onto Queen's Rd (town centre
again). Go past pub, and take 1st L (Sidmouth St) before traffic
lights.Take next L to end up on South St, leading to Watlington St.
Queen's Rd
<- To IDR======<======<=====<=======================
" " " T@ \
^ v " ! \
" "-S-St--! Cem. Jcn.
" " G! /
Berkeley Ave/ ====+=<=+====<=========<====London Rd.=====/
Pell St. " " HH
^ v
" "London St/
So'ton St" "Silver St
(to town centre) " "
\ /
\ /
O-----------Christchurch Rd/To Uni.
"
"
"From M4 J10
@ - Pub. Note T at end - no access from Queen's Road.
G - Garage.
HH - Hospital.
Hope this makes some sense. The pub, however, is a decent one. Or it was
last time I went there.
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Gideon Hallett
On Sun, 25 May 1997 18:45:43 +0100, Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org>
wibbled ASCII maps thus:
Darrell, for the benefit of us benighted souls who cannot drive, how
gettest thyself there from t'station?
>Hope this makes some sense. The pub, however, is a decent one. Or it was
>last time I went there.
>
Zounds! We don't go to a pub because it's decent, we go because it's
not! (bonus marks if you can get the landlord to give your group at
least three glowers per hour...[1])
Gideon.
[1] It should be noted in the annals of Bristol 2: The Brisfits that
Helen and Rob managed to turn up before the pub opened, stood outside
for ten minutes and managed to get off on the wrong foot with the
landlord virtually instantly. Nice going!
David Langford
>On Sun, 25 May 1997 18:45:43 +0100, Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org>
>wibbled ASCII maps thus:
>
>Darrell, for the benefit of us benighted souls who cannot drive, how
>gettest thyself there from t'station?
On foot, from Reading station to the Lyndhurst Arms....
Start at the Heathrow RailAir Link bus pull-in, just outside the
station. (Immediately in front of you if you leave the main station
concourse by the small street exit near the toilets; round the corner
to the left if you leave by the main exit nearer the platforms.)
Looking across the road from this bus stop, you will see the Flyer and
Firkin pub slightly to the right.
Cross the road and head downhill to the left until you reach a largish
roundabout (ignoring smallish roundabouts actually adjacent to the
station). Straight ahead, now, is Forbury Road. Follow the pavement on
the right of this road past various landmarks to the right (a) a
walled public park, Forbury Gardens; (b) a church; (c) two sides of HM
Prison where Oscar Wilde was banged up a century ago. Forbury Road
turns into Watlington Street at the next major junction (King's Road).
When you've crossed the two river/canal bridges and reached Queen's
Road, the Lyndhurst should be visible.
(For those who like the Pretty Route: enter Forbury Gardens via the
gate next to the "largish roundabout" above, walk to the extreme far
corner, exit via a tunnel which comes up in the Abbey ruins, head
downhill between these ruins and HM Prison wall, turn left as you come
to the river, join the above route at the first bridge, cross the
bridge and proceed straight ahead along Watlington St.)
Typical bloody afp organization, having this thing clash with the
Arthur C. Clarke Award presentation in London....
Dave
--
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Adam
Am I to believe that you mean a meeting in Reading, Berkshire?
If so please please please let me know because I live there, an I wanna I
wanna I really really wanna come along!
Email is Breco at Globalnet dot co dot uk
Adam
Adam misled and lied in article
<01bc6aa9$553cda80$8255...@test.globalnet.co.uk>...
> Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org> wrote in article
> <EZ8i0FAH...@toreador.demon.co.uk>...
> > In article <ant22222...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
> > <mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
> > >Suggestions welcome.
>
> There is actually a fairly big car park at the back, accessed from the
road
> at the side of the pub.
Sorry, the pub I was thinking of is at the top of Watlington street, though
they do have a car park you could use (at your own risk!)
and then walk down the hill to the Lyndhurst.
Adam
Darrell Ottery <dar...@lspace.org> wrote in article
<EZ8i0FAH...@toreador.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <ant22222...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
> <mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
> >Suggestions welcome.
>
> OK then. Having done a modicum of checking (and the fact that I've not
> been there in a while) I'm going to suggest the Lyndhurst Ale House,
> found at the end of Watlington Street. Should be OK for a smallish
> number of people, and there's some nearby parking to be had. I'd suggest
> the pub opposite me, but Wednesday is the local quiz night there.
>
There is actually a fairly big car park at the back, accessed from the road
at the side of the pub.
It is still a nice place, and is convienently opposite my girlfriend's
lodgings! Hooray for beer!
I was thinking, it should have been on a monday night so I could have had
the hangover on Sunday!
Adam
Kitten
Once upon a time, the literary genius known as Adam
<Ad...@Globalnet.co.uk> scribed for our perusal...
>
>
>Am I to believe that you mean a meeting in Reading, Berkshire?
>
>If so please please please let me know because I live there, an I wanna I
>wanna I really really wanna come along!
_Why_ didn't all these new people come out of the woodwork when I had my
Reading meet a couple of weeks ago? *sulk*
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David Langford
On Tue, 27 May 1997 10:42:45 GMT, al...@lspace.org (The Bellinghman)
wrote:
>ans...@cix.co.uk (David Langford) wrote:
>
>[snip Reading meet instructions]
>
>>Typical bloody afp organization, having this thing clash with the
>>Arthur C. Clarke Award presentation in London....
>
>Excuse us, but there was a Reading meet just a couple of weeks or so
>ago, on a Saturday no less. If you can't get away from polishing your
>Hugos long enough to get down to the Monk's Retreat, well, what are we
>to do?
Family hassles that weekend, alas. Much regretted.
I should add that the polishing of the Hugos is not my task but is
lovingly carried out by bevies of gorgeous ladies, in a ritual too
erotic and lubricious for description on a newsgroup where young folks
hang out....
Adam
Kitten dipped her paws in some congealed mouse entrails and scratched in
the woodwork.....
> Once upon a time, the literary genius known as Adam
> <Ad...@Globalnet.co.uk> scribed for our perusal...
> >Am I to believe that you mean a meeting in Reading, Berkshire?
> _Why_ didn't all these new people come out of the woodwork when I had my
> Reading meet a couple of weeks ago? *sulk*
Believe me, had I known that such a lugubrious event existed, I would most
certainly have attended!
This is my first week on this hallowed turf, though I have been a Pratchite
for many years.
I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the reference to a Reading meeting,
in fact I was sure that it refered to a reading of the book, not my
wonderous town of habitation.
If its not a naive and silly question, how will I recognise you all
tonight? (White carnations in your lapels, obvious t-shirts, or do you all
arrive carrying copies of CoM?)
I will be wearing a leather Biker waistcoat, emblazoned with the mysterious
words "Route 66". (well I am a Biker).
Look forward to meeting fellow mad people on my trip outside into the
asylum.
Adam (Morn)
Gideon Hallett
>In article <ant22222...@mgilbert.zynet.co.uk>, Mike Gilbert
><mgil...@tme.co.uk> writes
>>Suggestions welcome.
>
>OK then. Having done a modicum of checking (and the fact that I've not
>been there in a while) I'm going to suggest the Lyndhurst Ale House,
>found at the end of Watlington Street. Should be OK for a smallish
>number of people, and there's some nearby parking to be had. I'd suggest
>the pub opposite me, but Wednesday is the local quiz night there.
Darrell, I'm sorry to say that I probably won't be able to make it to
Reading tonight, due to an RS/6000 3AT and upgrading it from AIX 3.2.5
to 4.1.4. Needless to say, it's being a complete and utter git - it's
taken me 3 hours to isolate a loose connection to the power circuit in
the CD-ROM drive and we're searching the entire building for a couple
of coax terminators...
Aaaaaaaaaargh.
Gideon.
(I may be able to make it a little late. If the box behaves from here on
in...but this is an IBM RS6K we're talking about...)
Simon Brown
Adam spake thusly:
> Kitten dipped her paws in some congealed mouse entrails and scratched in
> the woodwork.....
> > Once upon a time, the literary genius known as Adam
> > <Ad...@Globalnet.co.uk> scribed for our perusal...
> > >Am I to believe that you mean a meeting in Reading, Berkshire?
>
> > _Why_ didn't all these new people come out of the woodwork when I had my
> > Reading meet a couple of weeks ago? *sulk*
>
> Believe me, had I known that such a lugubrious event existed, I would most
^^^^^^^^^^
> certainly have attended!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
means." (No, no points at all for this one.)
Or if you did mean it, you just insulted a sharp-clawed feline. Be very
careful.
> This is my first week on this hallowed turf, though I have been a Pratchite
> for many years.
>
> I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the reference to a Reading meeting,
> in fact I was sure that it refered to a reading of the book, not my
> wonderous town of habitation.
Well, if the Reading where you live is wondrous, it should probably be
mentioned that the Reading we're talking about is the one in Berkshire.
> If its not a naive and silly question, how will I recognise you all
> tonight? (White carnations in your lapels, obvious t-shirts, or do you all
> arrive carrying copies of CoM?)
T-shirts, stuffed toys, and Psion organisers are the traditional symbols
of the AFP meet.
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My sex drive has crazy paving.
Adam
Simon Brown correctlt admonished in telling off...
> Adam spake thusly:
> > Kitten dipped her paws in some congealed mouse entrails and scratched
in
> > the woodwork.....
> > > Once upon a time, the literary genius known as Adam
> > > scribed for our perusal...
> > > >Am I to believe that you mean a meeting in Reading, Berkshire?
> >
> > > _Why_ didn't all these new people come out of the woodwork when I had
my
> > > Reading meet a couple of weeks ago? *sulk*
> >
> > Believe me, had I known that such a lugubrious event existed, I would
most
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> > certainly have attended!
>
> "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
> means." (No, no points at all for this one.)
>
> Or if you did mean it, you just insulted a sharp-clawed feline. Be very
> careful.
Ok, I have just looked up lugubrious, and found it meant the exact opposite
of what I thought. I sit head bowed in shame,
I'll just have to learn to check before using word_a_day toilet paper
again!
Soory Kitten, thank you Simon for pointing out my error. (crawls off to
hide in shame)
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