[F] Manchester meet 12th - 15th preliminary report ( long! )
Martyn Clapham
way to get my version of events in first! :-)))
Also there are several holes in this as will be obvious later.
Attendees ( some intermittent, and in no particular order ) :-
Darren, Mary, Sarah ( Nanny Ogg ), Stu, Shadow, Kevin, Homicide, Goth
Alex, Doofie, Cookie, Nick ( IIRC ), Peter Ellis and his brother and
several more that I've forgotten due to serious brain fade!
The brain fade also means that I _really_ want corrections to things
I've got wrong!
I arrived in Manchester and dumped my car at Mary's, then went into the
meet by bus.
I arrived at the pub and looked round for the meet, especially upstairs
where Mary said she would be. No sign! I went back down and got accosted
by this strange man and his even stranger side-kick! This turned out to
be Shadow and Homicide who had recognised my by my T-shirt ( which to
make things easy has my name on it! :-) ). They hadn't found Mary
either, so a cunning plan was thought up and we rang her mobile. The
statement 'We are downstairs, where are you?' got the reply that they
were upstairs and would wave when we appeared and also that Stu would be
sent to find us. We went up the stairs at the front of the pub,
unfortunately Stu came down the ones at the back! Oops!
Any we all got together and beer was hired. About 3.15 it was decided
that myself, Shadow and Homicide should migrate to the signing while the
rest stayed in the pub.
( break number one :-) )
We ended up about a third of the way down the queue and while we were
waiting ( Terry was late coming from Sheffield ) Goth Alex turned up.
At one point he decided to try and scare me by being 'Scary Alex',
however as this didn't work he decided to try 'Teletubby Alex'!! Let me
tell you that Alex coming towards you saying 'Big hug!' is _really_
scary!
Eventually, we got to the front of the queue, but as my T-shirt was
obviously connected with afp the others wanted me to go after them, I
managed to get in front of them though. :-)
Having got to Terry I then had to talk to him when he saw the T-shirt,
for someone as shy as me this was _not_ easy, but I got through it.
Eventually we got back to the pub and rejoined the meet.
Various people appeared and disappeared until closing time including
Peter Ellis, who was presented with a T-shirt saying 'The Singing Ewok'
by Mary as a late birthday present. When the pub shut the following
headed back to Mary's.
Sarah, Mary, Stu, YHN, Cookie, the Ellis brothers, Shadow, and Homicide.
The first three in Sarah's car and the rest of us by taxi.
Various things I'm really trying to forget happened until about 3.30am
at which time most of us crashed out and Sarah drove home.
Saturday
Cookie disappeared at some unearthly hour of the morning.
I woke up around 9.30 and started reading T5E, others stirred later and
eventually Blake's 7 was put on and geeked at, with YHN and another
still in their sleeping bags. Eventually we were all up and a visit was
made to the chippy and off-licence for dinner. This was at about 2.15pm,
unfortunately the chippy shut at 2! A decision was made to go to KFC, on
arrival there the menu was perused and it was decided to buy two mega-
buckets. This comprised 28 bits of chicken and 8 lots of fries!
After dinner the football was put on so YHN disappeared into another
room to read T5E! :-))
About 5pm I set off for Buxton and a performance of Maskerade as
advertised by Sarah.
( break number two )
The play was well performed and while I spotted a few things that
niggled me, two turned out to be pronunciation jokes by Terry that the
cast got right while I was wrong. :-(
While there Sarah was contacted and told that she was welcome to follow
me back to the meet.
I arrived back at the meet at about 11.30pm.
Around 12.15am Trivial Pursuit was mentioned and as this is one of the
few things I'm good at I supported the idea of a game. Again brain fade
has intruded, but I'm pretty sure that the teams were as follows.
Peter Ellis, Mary and Stu.
YHN, Sarah and Peters brother.
Doofie, Shadow and three others ( later joined by Darren )
Given my ability at this game it will come as no surprise to hear that
our team won.
Around 2.30am folk crashed out and Sarah went home.
Sunday.
This time it was Peter who disappeared early in the morning.
I woke up around 8.30am ( Having less lie-in on Sunday than on Saturday
was very strange! ) Eventually everyone surfaced and waited for the time
to go to the pub for lunch. While we were waiting a new version of the
'Pants game' was invented, as I'm pure and innocent ( just ask Stu, Mary
and Sarah ) I'll simply say that it was called the dildo game and leave
others to provide the sordid details! :-)
Eventually we all trooped off to a pub lunch, where the level of the
conversation can be guessed by the fact that the _mildest_ comment was
about the vibration harmonics of someone's chest!
I left before the others to go to the shop and watch Blake's 7.
( break number 3 )
When everyone got back Blake's 7 was put on and geeked at ( including
disparaging remarks about Cally! ).
At this point the meet split up and some people went upstairs to listen
to music.
Sarah turned up again and went to join the music group.
Eventually I got fed up of Callys antics and also went upstairs.
Favourite lyricists were discussed and me and Stu geeked ELO. :-)
Eventually I thought I ought to come home and left the meet at around
7.30pm.
I would just like to publicly thank Mary and Darren for opening up their
house to a load of nutters and also Sarah, Stu, Doofie and others for
their efforts at getting me to lighten up and enjoy myself. These must
have worked, because at one point I even rendered Stu speechless, which
is extremely difficult to do! :-)))
Mart.
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Martyn Clapham
Firstly, there is something that was noticed in Nanny Oggs Cookbook.
I was browsing through this at the pub and saw the scrabble letters at
the bottom of the picture of Leonard of Quirm. I made the mistake of
mentioning this to Peter Ellis. :-)
Suddenly he's trying to decode the words that the letters make!
He got 'Oh wretched mortals' from one set, and something strange which I
can't remember from the other.
The second item is actually something I need help on.
Just before I left last night people were moaning that it wasn't a real
student type meet as no one had brought a traffic cone back to the
house. ( Although the person I took to KFC wanted to bring back one of
the 'Wet Floor' cones! )
On the news tonight was the announcement the persons unknown had stolen
4 large traffic signs from Manchester centre.
My question is, should I tell the police of my suspicions?
:-))
Rosemary Warner
<mar...@mclapham.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Following up my own post cos I forgot a couple of things.
>
>Firstly, there is something that was noticed in Nanny Oggs Cookbook.
>
>I was browsing through this at the pub and saw the scrabble letters at
>the bottom of the picture of Leonard of Quirm. I made the mistake of
>mentioning this to Peter Ellis. :-)
>
>Suddenly he's trying to decode the words that the letters make!
>
>He got 'Oh wretched mortals' from one set, and something strange which I
>can't remember from the other.
>
A lot of messing with the letters later I got "See your peony". Could
that have anything to do with the Language of Flowers section later
on, with the obscene peony definiton? oh gosh I'm really scraping the
barrel here............
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> This is mainly a preliminary report on the ongoing Manc meet, but also a
> way to get my version of events in first! :-)))
Time to incriminate people I think!
> ( break number one :-) )
One can fill this gap in the pub with *glug*. The quote file, for the main
part was written up to and including this bit but to save trees, ink and
sanity it stopped. Shame, will have to make things up...
> Various things I'm really trying to forget happened until about 3.30am
> at which time most of us crashed out and Sarah drove home.
*glug* ?
<fx:blank expression>
I seem to remember something about public school boys and bisquits...
[ Saturday ]
I went home, had a shower, changed into something that didn't smell of pub
and did some work. Arrived back at the meet at 5:00pm...
Curry was consumed, and very good it was too. Vodka was consumed... errr...
Trivial Persuit!
> Given my ability at this game it will come as no surprise to hear that
> our team won.
Modist as always :p
[ Sunday ]
<snip>
> ...a new version of the
> 'Pants game' was invented, as I'm pure and innocent ( just ask Stu, Mary
> and Sarah ) I'll simply say that it was called the dildo game and leave
> others to provide the sordid details! :-)
***decency warning*** kids, don't ask your parents what is going on until
you are old enough to understand.
The theory for the pants game is you replace a word in a story or film title
or whatever with the word pants. For instance "No-one like a smuggler who
drops his cargo at the first sign of an imperial war ship" becomes "No-one
like a smuggler who drops his pants at the first sign of an imperial war
ship". If you insert a dildo (you will have to excuse the expression) this
improves further to "No-one like a smuggler who drops his pants at the first
sign of an imperial dildo".
More examples:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Dildos
The Dildo Is Not Enough
The Dildo
Dildo (covers a lot of... anything!)
Natual Born Dildos
Full Metal Dildo
I would go on but the game went on for an hour an a half (maybe longer...
ohh err) and I can't remember all of it!
<snip>
> I would just like to publicly thank Mary and Darren for opening up their
> house to a load of nutters and also Sarah, Stu, Doofie and others for
> their efforts at getting me to lighten up and enjoy myself. These must
> have worked, because at one point I even rendered Stu speechless, which
> is extremely difficult to do! :-)))
My thanks as well, and keep my Vodka cool for next time!
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Greetings Dooferlad
><fx:blank expression>
>
>I seem to remember something about public school boys and bisquits...
And Toast Rack duty...for some reason the only people who
knew about these things were the two who didn't go to public
school.
Odd.
>Curry was consumed, and very good it was too. Vodka was consumed... errr...
Vodka consumed by you - I just sat there watching the
cold Vodka looking viscous.
>Trivial Persuit!
Trivial indeed - why is it you can always answer the
other teams questions and not your own?
>***decency warning*** kids, don't ask your parents what is going on until
>you are old enough to understand.
Or read the "What Kenny Says" page which I managed to
track down last night :)
>improves further to "No-one like a smuggler who drops his pants at the first
>sign of an imperial dildo".
And you can blame Stu for that one ;)
>More examples:
>
>Lock Stock and Two Smoking Dildos
>The Dildo Is Not Enough
>The Dildo
>Dildo (covers a lot of... anything!)
>Natual Born Dildos
>Full Metal Dildo
My personal faves:
Dildo the Dead Donkey (My fault that one, Martyn seemed quiet
shocked as well <g>)
7 Dildos for 7 Sisters
>I would go on but the game went on for an hour an a half (maybe longer...
>ohh err) and I can't remember all of it!
Oh then we got onto book titles. :)
120 Days of Dildo
Lady Chatterly's Dildo
We did do some Pratchett books but I don't think we'll
elaborate.
>My thanks as well, and keep my Vodka cool for next time!
It's probably still in the Freezer :)
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> In article <JFQySFAp...@mclapham.demon.co.uk>,
> Martyn Clapham <mar...@mclapham.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Attendees ( some intermittent, and in no particular order ) :-
> > Goth Alex
>
> Who left, intending to return, shortly after the signing, ran into a
> whole wodge of sticky, nasty, painful Real Life, combined with total
> brain-death exhaustion, and never made it back... I'm sorry for that,
> mainly because it looks like I missed a good 'un.
>
> Still, in the true tradition of MancAFPmeets, I did end up in women's
> clothing again, at a party I attended on Saturday night. I looked
> *very* cute!
<worried> I didn't think you looked cute unless you were dressed in bloke
intended clothing. Are there pictures of you in this state so we can avoid
them? </worried>
> > Let me tell you that Alex coming towards you saying 'Big hug!' is
> > _really_ scary!
>
> It's worse when I'm in a short red dress and stockings...
Arghhh! Burn out my eyes! Stop me from thinking!
Rudewind-Rustling BF, _Shad0w_, Chris Crowther BF
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Greetings Dooferlad
><worried> I didn't think you looked cute unless you were dressed in bloke
>intended clothing. Are there pictures of you in this state so we can avoid
>them? </worried>
I really want a pic of him wandering around Whitby
wearing his girfriends knickers on his head; that has to be worth
seeing.
>> It's worse when I'm in a short red dress and stockings...
>
>Arghhh! Burn out my eyes! Stop me from thinking!
Hmm, too late here...you really don't want to think about
it.
Jonathan Ellis
>Around 12.15am Trivial Pursuit was mentioned and as this is one of the
>few things I'm good at I supported the idea of a game. Again brain fade
>has intruded, but I'm pretty sure that the teams were as follows.
>
>Peter Ellis, Mary and Stu.
>YHN, Sarah and Peters brother.
erm, how come I'm the only one there whose name you didn't remember? :-(
>Doofie, Shadow and three others ( later joined by Darren )
>Given my ability at this game
> it will come as no surprise to hear that our team won.
Must say I really enjoyed the party myself. We shall have to have
another some time...
Jonathan Ellis
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Martyn Clapham
<jona...@franz-liszt.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>Martyn Clapham wrote in message ...
>>few things I'm good at I supported the idea of a game. Again brain fade
>>has intruded, but I'm pretty sure that the teams were as follows.
>>
>>Peter Ellis, Mary and Stu.
>>YHN, Sarah and Peters brother.
>erm, how come I'm the only one there whose name you didn't remember? :-(
No comment!
>>Doofie, Shadow and three others ( later joined by Darren )
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Given my ability at this game
>(?????)
</nice guy>
Let's be honest here.
You said yourself you were only good at music questions and although
Sarah answered several of our questions, she spoiled things by answering
one for another team! :-)
Seriously, my parents now refuse to play the game as me or my brother
always won as he covers the gaps in my knowledge. You really don't want
to play when me and him are on the same team!
I would also like to point out that as my head is full of the trivia
need to win at trivial pursuit, there is no room for important things
like 'How to make friends', 'How to chat up women' etc.
Luckily I haven't needed the first of those on here as everyone wanted
to make friends with me when I joined. :-)
Tarty Marty
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<snip>
> I would also like to point out that as my head is full of the trivia
> need to win at trivial pursuit, there is no room for important things
> like 'How to make friends',
You are right, that is important...
> 'How to chat up women' etc.
... but this? Well, I've only ever tried one, and it didn't succeed, but
personally I can't say I'd consider *that* to be an important thing to know.
> Luckily I haven't needed the first of those on here as everyone wanted
> to make friends with me when I joined. :-)
I won't ask how you've got along with out the second.
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Rosemary Warner <r.wa...@zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> >He got 'Oh wretched mortals' from one set, and something strange which I
> >can't remember from the other.
> >
> A lot of messing with the letters later I got "See your peony". Could
> that have anything to do with the Language of Flowers section later
> on, with the obscene peony definiton? oh gosh I'm really scraping the
> barrel here............
>
BTDT
The whole phrase is "Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes", which is probably
a quote from somewhere, I just dunno where!
I love that picture, notice also in the background not only the "Mona Ogg"
but a Nanny Ogg in Titanic pose :)
Herald
Martyn Clapham
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>
>Rosemary Warner <r.wa...@zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:38307b17...@news.lspace.org...
>
>> >
>> >He got 'Oh wretched mortals' from one set, and something strange which I
>> >can't remember from the other.
>> >
>> A lot of messing with the letters later I got "See your peony". Could
>> that have anything to do with the Language of Flowers section later
>> on, with the obscene peony definiton? oh gosh I'm really scraping the
>> barrel here............
>>
>BTDT
>
>The whole phrase is "Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes", which is probably
>a quote from somewhere, I just dunno where!
>
Can me and Peter use the excuse that we were in the pub when we tried to
decode it? :-)
Actually, thinking about it, we were trying to read the words from the
out side in, which is completely the wrong way to do it!
>I love that picture, notice also in the background not only the "Mona Ogg"
>but a Nanny Ogg in Titanic pose :)
Is that a polite way of saying that she's got nowt on?
Of course, given that Mary has called me 'Tarty Marty' due to other
things that happened in Manchester, I should now speculate on which of
the afp Nanny Oggs the drawing is based on.
However, given that I want to keep the use of my legs for a while
longer, I'd better not go down that road! :-))
Tarty Marty.