[ANNOUNCE][F] Chocmeet 1.0 28 Nov: QUITE URGENT!
MegaMole
[Rather typically, my ISP decided to send this to me straight after I
made my followup to afp/abp. *sigh* Tap]
Mole Productions is Prout ("prout?") to Present... mmmm, chocolate...
Chocmeet 1.0 - It Ate'nt Dead - Sat 28 Nov 1998
The International Festival of Chocolate
_Hall 2_, The Royal Horticultural Halls (NOT the main Royal
Horticultural Hall)
nr. Vincent Square
NOTA BENE:
Start time: 2.00pm (14.00) at the door of Hall 2, Saturday 28 November
May decamp for alcoholic refreshments at 4 or 5pm (by
arrangement).
How to recognise a MegaMole:
Large brown Akubra hat on large bespectacled moustachioed person. May
be wearing a Trinity Hall (black and white) scarf. Usually seen with a
Pterrybook (prolly Hogfather this time) and listening to Purcell on a
Discman.
Admission: ukp7.50 *ON THE DOOR* (contrary to previous postings)
OR 5.00 in advance
(tickets available from +44 (0) 171 828 4125)
Directions: (from Victoria Station; Victoria, Circle and District Lines)
Walk down Victoria Street (towards Westminster Abbey).
Turn RIGHT down Thirlby Road at the traffic lights.
(If you pass the Army and Navy you've gone too far).
Carry on down Thirlby Road until it becomes Emery Hill
Street.
Keep walking until you hit Rochester Road. (ouch!)
Turn until you can see Vincent Square.
Then look for Elverton Street, which should be the first road
on
the left.
Walk down Elverton Street 200 yards; Hall 2 should be on the
corner.
Meet/greet/hug this huMMble mole.
EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE!
Love
MM.
- --
MegaMole
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MegaMole
use of diacritic wibbles, and turns the name into Acejo), Dmark (the
only afper to be named after a currency) and Rand the Kiwi.
There is some doubt as to whether this meet was quorate; we decided de
facto that it was.
*********************************************************************
The report:
Having met and made introductions to the two afpers (Rand and Dmark)
there at 2pm, and greeted An~ejo with appropriate *hugs*, we waited for
a further 15 minutes outside the exhibition hall for others to turn up
while playing the time-honoured "Spot the AFPer" game. There seemed to
be a large meet going on in the street nearby, so we geeked loudly at
them but nobody got (or admitted to getting) the message.
We entered the exhibition, and with a keenness of eye born of long
practice An^ejo headed straight towards the Maya Gold stand.
Discovering herself short (of pecuniary wherewithal, that is) she looked
pleadingly at this mole, who lent her some mole moolah and was promptly
WYMMed. (Need I say that I accepted?) Much Maya Gold was bought by all
concerned.
We wandered around the various stalls, chugalugged cassis from a camp
Cananananadadadadadian, saw the world's largest chocolate bar (100 tons
- Cadbury's - is that really chocolate?) and Belgian chocolate bar
(yours for only ukp10000 from Harrods). An~ejo, our official meet
porn^Wphotographer, realised her camera batteries had gone flat.
Whereupon Rand lazily muttered "Do you need two of these" and promptly
produced replacements from the depth of his sack.
The assembled afpcontingent was photographed with a man dressed as a
large cocoa bean. This mole, convinced that the bean had a hidden
agenda, had to be restrained from making Mr Blobby noises at said bean.
He also found that An~ejo is extremely ticklish.
After a Frenchman cognac-geeked at us for a quarter of an hour, free
Remy Martin Cognac, of two different vintages - the VS and the exclusive
1738 - was drunk/quaffed with varying degrees of enthusiasm while the
three male AFPers ogled the proud, tumescent charms of a young lady in a
1780s dress - and An~ejo sulked (see quotefile). This would never
happen with scumble.
We then repaired to a local hostelry selling various "real" "ales" (cave
Gid) and reflected upon sex, cats, silly colours, that horrible pukey
colour that Fiats come in, sport, AFP, sex, old farts, newbies, sex, the
curry flavoured condoms for sale in the Gents and "aging grapes" (a term
for the not-exactly-old-fart-but-been-around-for-a-while with which
An~ejo christened this mole). Reference was made to the famous Damp
Spot of AFPCam. An~ejo extolled the virtues of the A-Plan diet - salad
and chocolate. As we disbanded, promises were made to reconvene at
AFPHogswatch.
Official photos to be available from An~ejo in due course, and hopefully
uploaded to Barry R's website.
*********************************************************************
Moment of the afternoon:
An~ejo's face upon seeing the Maya Gold stand, then upon being offered
the wherewithal to purchase by this mole.
Disappointment of the afternoon:
Not enough free samples, _no_ C^3Bs, and some very ordinary Ivory Coast
hot chocolate. The entry price.
Irony of the afternoon:
Seeing all the attractive young women at the chocolate exhibition
attempting to salve their aching consciences with long periods of
penance at... the WeightWatchers stand.
*********************************************************************
The quotes:
Legend: MM - your h.s., A - An~ejo, D - Dmark, R - Rand
(in approximate chronological order)
A - "I'm fed up with always being the smallest."
A - "If you find a woman who _doesn't_ like chocolate, she's definitely
a transsexual."
A (trying to attract the other meet) - "We should start Pterry geeking
very loudly. <pause> Oh no, then we wouldn't be alt.fan.pratchett."
MM (to Dmark) - "Have you ever had problems being mistaken for a
currency?"
A - "All those Czech blokes have such wonderful cheekbones."
R - "That's probably due to a lack of protein."
A (on seeing the largest choccy bar in the world) "That's REAL?!?!???"
MM - "No, it's Cadbury's."
MM (obHershey bars) "Until some merkins educated me, I thought a Hershey
bar was a lesbian dating agency."
A - "I'm a massage slut too."
MM - "My mother swears by my neck massage. She usually says bollocks."
D - "AFPmeet photos are like those camera shots in travelogue programmes
where the crew has to take off and land twice to get the shot in
properly."
A (obcrashspace) - "In Oxford, I'm not sure whose floor I'm going to
sleep on, but I'm sure I'll find somewhere."
MM (on seeing an ethnic poster showing a South American man brandishing
a very strange weapon) - "That Aztec warrior's threatening me with a
Curly Wurly."
A (on watching the expressions of naked lust on the faces of her male
AFPescorts) - "It's always the same. You think you're out with three
nice afpblokes and there's three Lads getting out from under them."
A (obemail address) - "It's my dragon. I'm in an Anne McCaffrey fan
club."
MM - "Anne McCaffrey? <splutter> It's like Mills & Boon with wings!"
MM - "But I thought Ecksians were into sheep."
R - "Nonononononono, sheep is a myth. It's kangaroos that go up and
down."
A (about jbex) - "Our IT Department goes 'Oh, Internet, newfangled
nonsense. It'll all die out in a few years'"... then she claimed she
was the nearest thing they had to a BOFH.
A - "We all use Lotus applications at jbex..."
MM - "Eurchh..." <grimace>
R - "Oi! I'm a Lotus developer!"
MM (obStinking Bishop cheese) "It was so on the hum it sounded like a
male voice choir".
R (obBlow jobs) "This guy I knew had a bad experience with blow jobs:
his girlfriend had braces... need I say more?"
MM - "Twoinnnngggg!"
*********************************************************************
That's all folks. And don't expect me to keep the quotefile for
Hogswatch. Four people I can manage, but 100....
--
MegaMole
The Official Enrico Basilica
Master of the Molehill and AFPHubby to loads now!
Tigger
MegaMole said:
snip
EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE!
--------------------------------------
eat some for me - pref galaxy - sigh
Anna
Glenn Andrews
PSmit...@countertenor.demon.co.uk says...
> Present: Your huMMble mole, An~ejo (my Cyrillic encoding prevents the
> use of diacritic wibbles, and turns the name into Acejo), Dmark (the
> only afper to be named after a currency) and Rand the Kiwi.
But Rand is a currency too! South Africa, innit?
Regards,
Glenn.
gand...@nospam.demon.co.uk http://www.vetitice.demon.co.uk/home.html
Hint: my email domain is the same as my web domain. Come and visit!
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Añejo
There I was, happily ignoring the local news when they mentioned chocolate.
I looked up to see myself happily pigging out on Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
Not a pleasant sight....
This was followed by the four of us being harrassed by a giant chocolate
bean.
Añejo
Mouse and Woozle
>MegaMole said:
>
>snip
>
>EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE!
>
>
Yes please, if you are supplying it!
Woozle, intrepid reporter
--
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thorin, anejo, any one missing?
Mouse and Woozle
Tigger wrote in message <365ff...@nnrp1.news.uk.psi.net>...
>
>MegaMole said:
>
>snip
>
>EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE!
I WILL EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE.
THANK-YOU
Mouse daredevil
Rand
Ańejo wrote in message <73s7us$j1$1...@library.lspace.org>...
>
Aargh! Nooooo!
I haven't had a flattering photo taken of me since I last had a tan![1]
I'm gonna hafta shave my head so "this way, no-one will recognise me."[2]
[1] About 7 years ago.
[2] Yet another Highlander quote.
Rand
Rand
8 ' Flesh Eating Dragon
^
| Afprepated to Antti, stewart, supper mouse, jonathan, shiv, claire,
| thorin, anejo, any one missing?
Sounds tasty... <g>
Adrian, proving that afpedantry is alive and well :-)
Suzi
>
> I WILL EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE.
>
> THANK-YOU
>
> Mouse daredevil
Mouse?... what're you doing up at that time of night... no school
tomorrow?... or is it too much chocolate keeping you awake <g>
Suzi
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Mad Purple Dragon
Suzi wrote in message <36628D...@lspace.org>...
>Mouse and Woozle wrote (on Sun 29 Nov at 23:36):
>>
>> I WILL EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE.
>>
>> THANK-YOU
>>
>> Mouse daredevil
>
>Mouse?... what're you doing up at that time of night... no
school
>tomorrow?... or is it too much chocolate keeping you awake <g>
>
>Suzi
EEK... thats my fault i let them reply to things and said i would
send them when i next connected and i forgot until i went to bed
so that is why there are about 6 posts from the wombats sent
at half eleven! Well last time i let her send something without
me
checking she wanted to punish me so i have to check them first
now!
Mad Dragon purple women sister to Flesh Eating Dragon
--
Mouse & Woozles mum, in Anttis Anthology, Afpiencee to Stewart,
Afpbussombuddies to Heather, and AFPbigsis to Thorin and
AFPstepmum to Claire, lighter of Marts fire and in the Molehill!
Antti Lehtola
Paul Wilkins wrote:
>Paul Wilkins wrote:
>> And let us not remember, some of the pest things said come "from
>>the mouth of babes" :)
>
>Argh No!! Don't kill me yet, Let me explain!
>I meant best. not pest. Best things said... <whimper>
Not sure if our very own Purple Dragon would *not* agree
with the first version...you know, the Dragon who opens
her presents before her birthday...
...which is *bad*.
:(
Antti - antti....@kolumbus.fi
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Mouse and Woozle
8 ' Flesh Eating Dragon wrote in message
<01be1c39$f4279160$47c426cb@morganpalaeo>...
I hope Felsh Eatinng Dragon dosent want to eat you.
mouse deardevil realeted to
--
Afprepated to Antti, stewart, Supermouse, jonathan, shiv, claire,
Jonathan Amery
Mouse and Woozle <Oli...@maddragon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Tigger wrote in message <365ff...@nnrp1.news.uk.psi.net>...
>I WILL EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE.
I would eat lots of chocolate if I had lots of chocolate to eat at the
moment. Guess that means I'd better go to Sainsburies again...
Jonathan.
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jester
<Sz$DuGAQn...@countertenor.demon.co.uk>:
<Chainsaw>
>A - "If you find a woman who _doesn't_ like chocolate, she's definitely
>a transsexual."
Wanna bet? And liking chocolate doesn't guarantee that she isn't
Andy Brown
Martyn Clapham
<antti....@kolumbus.fi> writes
>
>Paul Wilkins wrote:
>
>>Paul Wilkins wrote:
>>> And let us not remember, some of the pest things said come "from
>>>the mouth of babes" :)
>>
>>Argh No!! Don't kill me yet, Let me explain!
>>I meant best. not pest. Best things said... <whimper>
>
>Not sure if our very own Purple Dragon would *not* agree
>with the first version...you know, the Dragon who opens
>her presents before her birthday...
>
>...which is *bad*.
>
>:(
>
I've just had my ear bashed by the two who we called 'nice children' for
being nasty about their mummy!
Mart - keeping his head down.
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Martyn Clapham
<pm...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> writes
>Paul Wilkins wrote:
>> And let us not remember, some of the pest things said come "from the mouth of
>> babes" :)
>
>Argh No!! Don't kill me yet, Let me explain!
>I meant best. not pest. Best things said... <whimper>
>
Hmm, looks like time for the chain-mail again. I mean, St George didn't
just fight dragons did he?
Can't have you upsetting my fire-lighter and her little 'darlings'.
Mart.
Simon Callan
jes...@innotts.co.uk (jester) wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:15:12 +0000, MegaMole wrote in message
> <Sz$DuGAQn...@countertenor.demon.co.uk>:
>
> <Chainsaw>
> > A - "If you find a woman who _doesn't_ like chocolate, she's
> > definitely a transsexual."
>
> Wanna bet? And liking chocolate doesn't guarantee that she isn't
Most of the TSs I know definitely like chocolate, if they are not
chocaholics already.
Simon
Paul Wilkins
> EEK... thats my fault i let them reply to things and said i would
> send them when i next connected and i forgot until i went to bed
> so that is why there are about 6 posts from the wombats sent
> at half eleven! Well last time i let her send something without
> me
> checking she wanted to punish me so i have to check them first
> now!
Well she _did_ have just cause, didn't she?
And let us not remember, some of the pest things said come "from the mouth of
babes" :)
Paul Wilkins (Disk Daemon)
Paul Wilkins
> And let us not remember, some of the pest things said come "from the mouth of
> babes" :)
Argh No!! Don't kill me yet, Let me explain!
Andy Davison
> I WILL EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE.
I just bought the last 600g for the price of 400g bar of Galaxy at my
local Tesco. There was a lady there who was very rude to me but I can't tell
you what she said coz it's too rude![1]
(Mouse and Woozle space)
[1] An Oedipus son of Angua
--
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andyd...@oiyou.force9.co.uk
JZR RIP
Tim Bagot
> OK, all you chocolate lovers out there. As you know, we Merkans are
> seriously deprived in the "good" chocolate department, Hershey being
> the standard here.
>
> So, I have a question. Yesterday while browsing through our favorite
> little wine shop I noticed a rack of imported candies and
> chocolates. The chocolate brand was Lindt, is it any good? If not,
> does anyone know of any good chocolate that's available on this side
> of the ocean?
I personally find Lindt very pleasant chocolate, and not unreasonably
expensive (though it may cost a little more over there, as it has further
to travel). If you have not had it before, high percentage chocolate is
something of an acquired taste, but ITYWF you acquire it really quite
quickly :-). Their milk chocolate is also delicious. Just try some - it
should only be a couple of $s a bar at most. Of course, you then find
yourself inexplicably buying more and more....
Tim Bagot (not addicted to chocolate. Really.)
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> So, I have a question. Yesterday while browsing through our favorite
> little wine shop I noticed a rack of imported candies and
> chocolates. The chocolate brand was Lindt, is it any good? If not,
> does anyone know of any good chocolate that's available on this side
> of the ocean?
Depends. It has the advantage of a highish percentage of cocoa,
and to me the disadvantage of a taste I can't quite like.
Objectively, however, it is a good quality chocolate, as good as
you're likely to get in a non-specialist shop; try it, you might
like it better than I do.
Richard
Añejo
>The chocolate brand was Lindt, is it any good?
Yes.[1]
Añejo
[1] But not as good as Maya Gold.[2]
[2] Phew, avoided a OWF
isw...@asmoday-atm.rz.uni-frankfurt.de
It's funny.
In Germany Lindt chocolate is very expensive and quite
posh. (I usually afford this luxury with two bars of
christmas chocolate round this time)
In Spain there's a chocolate by Lindt which is among the
cheapest chocolates there, but still delicious.
No, this isn't really funny.
It's unjust!
isw.
Rand
>isw...@asmoday-atm.rz.uni-frankfurt.de wrote in message ...
snip>
>It's funny.
>In Germany Lindt chocolate is very expensive and quite
>posh. (I usually afford this luxury with two bars of
>christmas chocolate round this time)
>In Spain there's a chocolate by Lindt which is among the
>cheapest chocolates there, but still delicious.
>
>No, this isn't really funny.
>It's unjust!
>
>isw.
I found that my favourite Choc in Germany was the cheap Ritter (sp?) that
somes on square blocks.
Alpin Milch was my fav.
Can't seem to get that flavour where I am - there's Alpine Milk, but it's
not the same.
Rand
isw...@amalia-atm.rz.uni-frankfurt.de
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Rand wrote:
>
> I found that my favourite Choc in Germany was the cheap Ritter (sp?) that
> somes on square blocks.
> Alpin Milch was my fav.
> Can't seem to get that flavour where I am - there's Alpine Milk, but it's
> not the same.
>
> Rand
>
You don't have a very exquisite taste then ... :-)
I once saw a report on TV about chocolate, and they explained
that the quality of chocolate depends (beside others) on how
often the chocolate mass has been rolled out, the more often
the higher the quality.
They showed examples of often rolled out and few rolled out
chocolate, and the latter looked like Ritter Sport.
When buying normal milk chocolate I usually buy Milka.
A couple of years ago (well, back in the eighties) Milka
was rather expensive - not in the range of Lindt but about
20 % more expensive than the average chocolate. They came
down on normal prices eventually. (Chocolate is one of the
few things that I can remember getting *cheaper*)
I like Ritter though because of the wide range of flavours
they offer and occasionally buy Olympia and Almond.
They were the first company that offered Almond chocolate
in Germany. Possibly even only as late as the 90s, believe
it or not. (Or the first that I noticed to do so).
Still no German brazil nut chocolate, though, I believe.
<goes off to buy some posh Lindt Weihnachts Chocolade)
isw.