[ANNOUNCE] *R* PTerry and the Rolright Stones
Terry Pratchett
In article <02069711...@marian.cs.nott.ac.uk>, jle...@appsearch.com
writes
>
> The Rolright stones are a stone circle near Chipping Norton, there
>are 77 stones in all and they date from 2000BC.
>
> According to folklore, the stones are a knight and his warriors
>petrified by a witch.
>
> The current owner, Pauline Flick, inherited them from her father
>1970 but now she is selling them, the asking price is 50,000.
>
> A local postman, John Attwood and his wife Carol have put together
>an appeal to buy the stones since they are worried that they will
>either be over commercialised or under maintained.
>
> They contact PTerry as a shot in the dark and he has agreed to
>back their bid.
>
Ah, newspapers...
It's slightly more complex than that. The Rollright Stones Appeal
approached me a few weeks ago and asked if I'd support them, and I said,
yep, sure (financially and morally, but read on -- and I'm not the only
backer, btw)
They want to buy the stones to ensure access to them and (these are *my*
words)to preserve them in a more genuine sense than they would be if
they became part of the theme park/heritage industry.
I know there are pagans among their supporters and this causes me no
problems, because I am grown up and do know the difference between
pagans and Evil Black Satanic Devil-Worshippers, even if the distinction
escapes the Sunday Times and a local clergyman they took care to wind
up. I have an abiding interest in them as a piece of solid folklore
and, for want of a better description, as a piece of real England that
ought to be left alone. I'd feel the same if Glastonbury Abbey was at
risk, or Wayland's Smithy up near the White Horse (and certainly the
Uffington White Horse itself...) But the RSA organisers certainly don't
see this as a 'pagan'project, and in fact have set up their appeal in
such an ecumenical way that I feel sure they could bring peace to the
Middle East within a month...
I like the idea of a lot of individuals contributing to the Appeal,
which is what is happening now. It seems that many people, whatever
their religious beliefs, also think that the idea of a genuine public
ownership of the stones is 'right', even if they can't exactly say why.
It would spoil this if other people just stepped in and threw large wads
of cash around, how well-meant, and I'd be happier if 50,000 people
coughed up a quid each.
I think a web site for the appeal is being set up more or less as I
type.
In the meantime, there's a fair amount of general Rollright Stones
information on the web (and you'll see where I get some of my ideas
from) and the Rollright Stones Appeal is contactable on: PO Box 333,
Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 8XA.
--
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Gid Holyoake
Terry Pratchett wrote:
>
> I think a web site for the appeal is being set up more or less as I
> type.
>
You are correct Sir.. I was talking to the web administrator on Friday
night (well actually his SO).. I've certainly chucked a tenner into it..
a most worthwhile project I thought!!
Gid
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Margaret Tarbet
> I've certainly chucked a tenner into it..
> a most worthwhile project I thought!!
And there's my sawbuck waiting for the postie too.
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could get 100% participation from
this community?
Gideon Hallett
On Mon, 02 Jun 1997 18:18:18 GMT, richard...@ukonline.co.uk
(Bryan) spoke in tongues:
>Worst of all, the damn great useless things are stuck right in the
>middle of prime grasslands and, take it from me, they ain't easy to
>mow around. "what were they for?" ask the tourists.
>
>I'll tell you what they're for. They were built by bloody-minded
>west-countrymen determined to cause the maximum possible irritation to
>their decendants.
Erm. Bryan. That's not zummat yer 'sposed to share with them
vorriners. Iss a zeecret, loike.
Besides, they're nice to look at, and we _all_ know that the future of
the West Country is in tourism, isn't it *g*.
Gideon.
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In article <3393057a...@news.ukonline.co.uk>, Bryan <richard.bryan
t...@ukonline.co.uk> writes
><worthy sentiments etc snipped>
>
>I really don't get this at all.
This is unfortunate.
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Russ
In message <33935F...@netcomuk.co.uk>
Gid Holyoake <G...@netcomuk.co.uk> writes:
> I've certainly chucked a tenner into it..
> a most worthwhile project I thought!!
bloody hell, must be a good idea if GSH has donated 6 pints worth of
drinking tokens to it. BTW I visited the Rolrights a couple of years
ago on the BSH Landmarks dothing. Big and little stoney things. err. yeah.
Russ...going on hols for 2 weeks seeya all soon
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I just made mine payable to "The Rollright Stones Appeal".
Reckoned that'd fetch it well enough.
On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 07:56:05 GMT,
Gideon_...@3Com.com (Gideon Hallett) wrote:
> Does anyone have a name to make a cheque payable to?
Sean Storey
Phill the cat wrote
<FX:Snip>
>Well, I live quite close to Stonehenge meself, & I'm not at all keen on
>the place, big pile of *nasty* dead stones.
<FX:Crackle>
>Avebury, however, much better. Not much life in the stones,
<FX:Pop>
>[1] & I have attended a Midsummer ritual in a real live stone circle,
How you check for life ?
Very sharp needle / sledgehammer ?
Sean Storey
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Bryan
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:19:42 +0100, Phill the Cat
<Phill...@thepowerfamily.dxexmxoxn.co.uk> wrote:
>Hear Ye the words of the Bryan <richard...@ukonline.co.uk>, from the
>Holy Work known as <3393057a...@news.ukonline.co.uk>.....
>>I mean, i was brought up between Avebury and Stonehenge, you can't
>>throw a trilithon around here without hitting at least one white
>>horse, surely if there was anything special about circles of large
>>rocks, i'd have noticed it by now?
>>
>Well, I live quite close to Stonehenge meself, & I'm not at all keen on
>the place, big pile of *nasty* dead stones.
It does feel dead, yeah. I don't think anyone'd be all that upset if
the assembled artillery boys on the plain were to, um, sort of miss.
>Avebury, however, much better. Not much life in the stones, but a very
>cumfy place all the same, even if the shops are horrendously expensive.
>+ the Red Lion serves a good pint of beer.
People *live* in Avebury. And work there. And a good few more people
would if newcomers like Ludovic bloody Kennedy hadn't been outraged at
anyone disturbing "their rural idyll" and closed down Avebury Manor.
Which had a damn' good falconer, i must say.
>The Rollrights, however, are a different kettle of worms.
>
>Now, although I am a Witch[1], I don't claim to be particularly
>magically gifted. In fact, I know quite a few housebricks more psychic.
>However, I found that the Rollright Circle did fare spin I round! It is
>still a very powerful place, giving the impression that if anyone tried
>anything stupid with crystals and other NewAgey gubbins, all that would
>be found would be the preverbial pair of smoking pixieboots....[2]
You *really* got that from being around a bunch of stones? Do you get
similar stuff from Silbury Hill (personal theory - all that dirt from
the Avebury dykes had to go somewhere) or the various Longbarrows?
>>Every year, hundreds of silly buggers turn up, park all over the
>>place, take photographs (of *rocks?) and shout at other people
>>(presumably, to judge by volume, in Hawaii) and wear loud and
>>obnoxious clothes.
>>
>& that's just the Police & journo's!
Mostly the BBC, to be fair. And the hot-dog sellers.
>>Try getting any bloody work done. Moving your cattle across the road
>>for milking is not exactly easy in these circumstances. Getting
>>*anywhere* on a tractor makes you public enemy number 1.
>>
>Yes, but that's not just at Circle time, is it? Between you lot & the
>milkfloats, no-one gets any work done cuz they can't get anywhere!
At least tractors have an excuse. We can't go faster than 30mph. And
we indicate. Rather more than old ladies in Metros do.
Still, i claim immunity on the grounds of having left the soil and
gone to work in the IT business. Kitten'll tell you i don't drive at
30mph anymore.
>>Worst of all, the damn great useless things are stuck right in the
>>middle of prime grasslands and, take it from me, they ain't easy to
>>mow around. "what were they for?" ask the tourists.
>>
>"Getting lots of money out of you lot!" think the locals to themselves.
"Bugger off and mind thine own" more like.
>>I'll tell you what they're for. They were built by bloody-minded
>>west-countrymen determined to cause the maximum possible irritation to
>>their decendants.
>>
>Shush! You'll ruin centuries of Archeological blarney and PR!
Whoops. Sorry.
>They were built by our mystical ancestors, using skills and technologies
>hidden to us lesser mortals, honest!
Er, yeah. Okay. Fine.
>btw, did you know that the last Stonehenge stone that fell, did it in
>1965? Plus, the biggest triathalonthingie's remaining stone is buried
>about 5-6 feet into the ground, much deeper than it's pair, which is why
>it fell over!
No!?! "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
eyes?"(3points)
>But seriously, I think this appeal is great & I am personally going to
>help out as much as I can.
>
>Ffi, try http://www.whitedragon.demon.co.uk
Likewise, actually. Despite snooty comments from certain authors :)
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Jacqui
Bryan wrote:
> People *live* in Avebury. And work there. And a good few more people
> would if newcomers like Ludovic bloody Kennedy hadn't been outraged at
> anyone disturbing "their rural idyll" and closed down Avebury Manor.
> Which had a damn' good falconer, i must say.
It's always the way (don't start me on Jeremy Paxman and the London
Children's holidays in Turville...).
> >However, I found that the Rollright Circle ....(snipped gubbins)
> You *really* got that from being around a bunch of stones? Do you get
> similar stuff from Silbury Hill (personal theory - all that dirt from
> the Avebury dykes had to go somewhere) or the various Longbarrows?
I once spent a VERY spooky night at some Longbarrows (Cheril Downs,
IIRC). Avebury certainly does feel *friendlier* than Stonehenge. And
the Rollrights are lovely (venue of many school/Brownie trips).
> >btw, did you know that the last Stonehenge stone that fell, did it in
> >1965? Plus, the biggest triathalonthingie's remaining stone is buried
> >about 5-6 feet into the ground, much deeper than it's pair, which is why
> >it fell over!
>
> No!?! "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
> eyes?"(3points)
And horses can't vomit.
Jac
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Suzi
Jacqui wrote:
>
> Bryan wrote:
>
> > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
> > eyes?"(3points)
>
> And horses can't vomit.
And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
ears).
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Heather Lougheed
Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
<3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
> Jacqui wrote:
> >
> > Bryan wrote:
> >
> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
> > > eyes?"(3points)
> >
> > And horses can't vomit.
>
> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
> ears).
>
heather
Pete Dean
In article <01bc71c6$2dcb6920$08b4...@heather.imro.ie>, Heather
Lougheed <heather....@imro.ie> writes
Pete
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Terry Pratchett
In article <01bc71c6$2dcb6920$08b4...@heather.imro.ie>, Heather
Lougheed <heather....@imro.ie> writes
>Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
>> Jacqui wrote:
>> >
>> > Bryan wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
>> > > eyes?"(3points)
>> >
>> > And horses can't vomit.
>>
>> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
>> ears).
>>
>and the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
No, Morris the Medical Maniac has at least seventeen.
And the elephant's closest relative is the rock hydrax, about the size
of a rabbit.
--
Terry Pratchett
Alistair Max Bleeck
Terry Pratchett wrote:
> And the elephant's closest relative is the rock hydrax, about the size
> of a rabbit.
And humans are ore closely related to monkeys
than horses are to donkeys.
Max
Piers Cawley
In article <01bc71c6$2dcb6920$08b4...@heather.imro.ie>,
"Heather Lougheed" <heather....@imro.ie> writes:
> Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
>> Jacqui wrote:
>> >
>> > Bryan wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
>> > > eyes?"(3points)
>> >
>> > And horses can't vomit.
>>
>> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
>> ears).
>>
> and the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
What about a morris side then? That's certainly an animal with far
more than four knees...
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Annette Fraser
Terry Pratchett wrote:
> In article <01bc71c6$2dcb6920$08b4...@heather.imro.ie>, Heather
> Lougheed <heather....@imro.ie> writes
> >Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
> ><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
> >> Jacqui wrote:
> >> > Bryan wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
> >> > > eyes?"(3points)
> >> >
> >> > And horses can't vomit.
> >>
> >> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
> >> ears).
> >>
> >and the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
>
>
> of a rabbit.
>
It's actually a hyrax. No 'd'.
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Heather Lougheed
mmes...@mindspring.com wrote in article
<33982D...@mindspring.com>...
> Alistair Max Bleeck wrote:
> >
> > Terry Pratchett wrote:
> >
> > > And the elephant's closest relative is the rock hydrax, about
the size
> > > of a rabbit.
> >
> > than horses are to donkeys.
> >
> > Max
>
which are
> the infirtle offspring of which males and which females, and which
are
> just synonyms. This bothers me, does anyone want to englighten me
so I
> don't have to look it up?
>
ass is another name for either an african or asian donkey (or a
bum/arse) and as far as i can remember a mule is the sterile
offspring of male donkey and a female horse. a burrough doesn't
exist but ........... it sounds like it's like a county, don't it?...
however, a burro is a small merkin donkey! and a borough is a town
represented in the house of commons or a municipal corporation in
certain merkin states.... there - that's that sorted out now, i think
*phew*
heather (hastily putting the dictionary back where it belongs)
Suzi
mmes...@mindspring.com wrote:
><snippety snip>
> And a burrow is where dwarves live?
Nooooo..... man-eating rabbits!
Gid Holyoake
Nonononono.. Dwarfs (and Dwarves) live in caves or mines.. Hobbits live
in holes.. Moles live in tunnels.. Rabbits live in warrens.. Edgar Rice
lives in burrows!!
Gid
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In article: <RJhI3AAOcRlzEA$b...@thepowerfamily.demon.co.uk> Phill the Cat
<Phill...@thepowerfamily.dxexmxoxn.co.uk> writes:
>
>[snip]
> btw, did you know that the last Stonehenge stone that fell, did it in
> 1965?
I was just remembering when I was taken to see Stonehenge back in
the days before the wire; great fun, climbing all over the fallen stones
and pushing against the standing ones for the humorous photograph...
..must have been over 30 years ago...
..oh shit.
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Anima wrote:
<appropriate omnomatopoea>
>
> Ideally, in my opinion, such a book would not only describe the sites and
> tell how to reach 'em, but say helpful things like, "When visiting
> Toadsone Circle, visitors needing a comfortable and affordable hostelry
> stay at the Crown and Garter (but avoid the haunted room in the Auld Wing)
> just across from Mistress Masham's Repose at the edge of town. The local
> workman's production of Pyramus and Thisbe is always a midsummer
> highlight."
>
> Even without such helpful hints for the impecunious Fortean on holiday,
> there have to be books picturing, describing, locating, commentating,
> interpreting, and generally bringing the reader up to snuff on the major
> UK antiquities, yes/no?
>
> Advice, commentary, titles, and authors-- not necessarily in that order--
> are welcomed.
>
> an...@io.com
Most of that was entirely over my head, but I noticed the bit about
Mistress Masham's Repose and only wanted to say: I brought up T.H. White
first...
White and Pratchett and both on my list of favo[u]rite authors, and I
wonder occassionally if Terry (I feel guilty calling him that, but as
elsewhere on this group someone implies something about sex and
hamsters, I guess it's over the respect threshold) liked Terence
Hanbury.
I also wonder whether after Terry is dead, literary critics will write
about him being "a bitter, lonely man." This is what they always say
about anyone who is funny and philosophical (White, Twain, etc.) And
then they will make nasty implications about his drinking habits, but I
doubt any of them will have the gall to imply anything about hamsters...
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mmes...@mindspring.com
Gid Holyoake wrote:
>
> Nonononono.. Dwarfs (and Dwarves) live in caves or mines.. Hobbits live
> in holes.. Moles live in tunnels.. Rabbits live in warrens.. Edgar Rice
> lives in burrows!!
>
> Gid
>
> --
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Er, Dwarfs that is, not Edgar Rice (sounds like a soup dish.) I've never
actually read anything by him, but I saw a reference book attributing
the Martian Chronicles to him. I have read bits of those, so I suppose
you could say I've *almost* read Edgar Rice Burrows, since it's only the
covers that say Ray Bradbury.
mmes...@mindspring.com
Mike Harre' wrote:
>
> Close but no cubans. Edgar Rice _Burroughs_ wrote the Barsoom books
> (Princess of Mars etc) also the Venus series, and _many_ others.
>
> Mike
>
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Michelena Riosa
On 6 Jun 1997 22:38:41 GMT, nc...@fidalgo.net (MUSE) wrote:
>>Okay, something small, mammalian and hot. Sheesh...
>HOT? OMG! Well, whatever you do in the privacy of your own home....
*ack*muse...you caused me to have to cancel a post!
but mine was funnier....wazzn't it Pterry?
>Muse
>NObody Mention any Hamsters to ME!!!
no, that'd be a *vomming* offense......
but the vomband slowly grows.....
Missed you! Ya big lug!
Michelena
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MUSE
In article <Ir7mjLA5...@unseen.demon.co.uk>,
tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk says...
>
>In article <3397A5...@unicentre.edu.au>, Annette Fraser <annette.fra
>>Oooh, I *really* hate pedanting at the great man himself but I have to.
>>It's actually a hyrax. No 'd'.
>
>Okay, something small, mammalian and hot. Sheesh...
HOT? OMG! Well, whatever you do in the privacy of your own home....
Muse
Mike Harre'
On Fri, 06 Jun 1997 18:09:17 -0500, these pearls of wisdom fell from
the lips of mmes...@mindspring.com
>Er, Dwarfs that is, not Edgar Rice (sounds like a soup dish.) I've never
>actually read anything by him, but I saw a reference book attributing
>the Martian Chronicles to him. I have read bits of those, so I suppose
>you could say I've *almost* read Edgar Rice Burrows, since it's only the
>covers that say Ray Bradbury.
Close but no cubans. Edgar Rice _Burroughs_ wrote the Barsoom books
(Princess of Mars etc) also the Venus series, and _many_ others.
Mike
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Roger Barnett <Ro...@natron.demon.co.uk> scribbled:
>In article: <RJhI3AAOcRlzEA$b...@thepowerfamily.demon.co.uk> Phill the Cat
><Phill...@thepowerfamily.dxexmxoxn.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>[snip]
>> btw, did you know that the last Stonehenge stone that fell, did it in
>> 1965?
Um...exactly _when_ in 1965? Just asking *grin*
>I was just remembering when I was taken to see Stonehenge back in
>the days before the wire; great fun, climbing all over the fallen stones
>and pushing against the standing ones for the humorous photograph...
Family pics somewhere at home of my sister and myself standing on one
of the fallen stones. I remember going there often as a child. Last
time I went I was so disappointed that I've never been back.
>..must have been over 30 years ago...
*grin*
>..oh shit.
*even-bigger-grin*
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Alex Burr
In article <Ir7mjLA5...@unseen.demon.co.uk>,
Terry Pratchett <tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3397A5...@unicentre.edu.au>, Annette Fraser <annette.fra
>>>
>>> And the elephant's closest relative is the rock hydrax, about the size
>>> of a rabbit.
>>>
>>It's actually a hyrax. No 'd'.
>
>Okay, something small, mammalian and hot. Sheesh...
Oh yes - the rock hyrax is so called because it does its business from
a rock into running water. In domestication, it very conveniently
uses the loo.
Alex Burr
Bryan
On 5 Jun 1997 15:36:07 GMT, "Heather Lougheed"
<heather....@imro.ie> wrote:
>Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
>> Jacqui wrote:
>> >
>> > Bryan wrote:
>> >
>> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
>> > > eyes?"(3points)
>> >
>> > And horses can't vomit.
>>
>> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
>> ears).
>>
>and the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
And cattle are incapable of farting. I just added that one to stop
people going on about hazards to the ozone layer from farting cows.
Actually, the hazards are real but the methane/ammonia is expelled
orally.
Never let a cow belch in your face.
Sebastian Vielhauer
On 7 Jun 1997 09:32:08 GMT, aj...@thor.cam.ac.uk (Alex Burr) wrote:
>In article <Ir7mjLA5...@unseen.demon.co.uk>,
>Terry Pratchett <tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <3397A5...@unicentre.edu.au>, Annette Fraser <annette.fra
>>s...@unicentre.edu.au> writes
>>>
>>>It's actually a hyrax. No 'd'.
>>
>>Okay, something small, mammalian and hot. Sheesh...
>
>Oh yes - the rock hyrax is so called because it does its business from
>a rock into running water. In domestication, it very conveniently
>uses the loo.
My hyrax never closes the lid when it has finished. Can I train it?
Sebastian
Paul E. Jamison, Esq.
On Sat, 07 Jun 1997 01:03:56 GMT, a little light bulb went on over the
head of Mike Harre' (redd...@ww.co.nz (Mike Harre')),
and he/she wrote, like an infinite number of monkeys, thus and so to
alt.fan.pratchett:
>Close but no cubans. Edgar Rice _Burroughs_ wrote the Barsoom books
>(Princess of Mars etc) also the Venus series, and _many_ others.
I feel I should point out that he created one of the most enduring and
popular characters of modern fiction, just to be pedantic. I'm
talking the Lord of the Jungle, He Who Talks to the Animals, Lord
Greystoke himself. In one word.
T A R Z A N
(And actually, they're not bad reads.)
The Official Michelena Riosa Testosterone Brigade
Undersecretary in Charge of the Irish Question
... and proud member of LUHU
Jacqueline Hookey
Lady Kayla <lady...@wibble.org> wrote:
> Roger Barnett <Ro...@natron.demon.co.uk> scribbled:
>
> >I was just remembering when I was taken to see Stonehenge back in
> >the days before the wire; great fun, climbing all over the fallen stones
> >and pushing against the standing ones for the humorous photograph...
>
> Family pics somewhere at home of my sister and myself standing on one
> of the fallen stones. I remember going there often as a child. Last
> time I went I was so disappointed that I've never been back.
I also used to go there a lot whan I was child, it was great getting
right up to those huge stones (I guess they must have seemed even bigger
then - not that I've grown much though!!!!!). I've been back once since
they put up that bloody wire - I have to agree it's just not the same,
the place looks and feels so different now - bears little resemblance to
the place I knew as a child <sob, sniff> :o(
> >..must have been over 30 years ago...
>
> *grin*
Well more like 28ish years...
> >..oh shit.
>
> *even-bigger-grin*
Darn I'm feeling old....
Ookey
--
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AFPurity 51% - Official Member of the Gid Holyoake Harem - AFPetite
Terry Pratchett
In article <5nb9cp$55m$1...@library.lspace.org>, Lady Kayla
<lady...@wibble.org> writes
>Family pics somewhere at home of my sister and myself standing on one
>of the fallen stones. I remember going there often as a child. Last
>time I went I was so disappointed that I've never been back.
I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the
landscape.
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of
Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
--
Terry Pratchett
mmes...@mindspring.com
Terry Pratchett wrote:
> I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the
> landscape.
>
> I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of
> Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
>
> --
> Terry Pratchett
Microsoft, Apple, who can tell the difference anymore?
-Mary (who likes DOS and all other ancient monoliths, and is therefor
looking forward to her first ever visit to Great Britain, The United
Kingdom, England, or whatever. Except, of course, that while I'm there,
Terry Pratchett will be in New Zealand. <g>)
Jacqueline Hookey
Terry Pratchett wrote:
>
> In article <5nb9cp$55m$1...@library.lspace.org>, Lady Kayla
> <lady...@wibble.org> writes
> >Family pics somewhere at home of my sister and myself standing on one
> >of the fallen stones. I remember going there often as a child. Last
> >time I went I was so disappointed that I've never been back.
>
> landscape.
>
> I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of
> Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
>
> --
> Terry Pratchett
I like the analogy (being a Mac user <G>) - and do most heartily agree
that Avebury has a right kinda feeling about the place. Where as
Stonehege does not and seems to me to be getting worst - what with all
the commercialization, I kinda expect CMOT Dibbler to pop up and try to
sell you the stones next!!!!!
"I could make you one heck of a deal on the heal stone you know, 's
going cheap today - one for the price of two..." and I'm cutting me own
throat...
Phill the Cat
Hear Ye the words of the Roger Barnett <Ro...@natron.demon.co.uk>, from
the Holy Work known as <461995...@natron.demon.co.uk>.....
>In article: <RJhI3AAOcRlzEA$b...@thepowerfamily.demon.co.uk> Phill the Cat
><Phill...@thepowerfamily.dxexmxoxn.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>[snip]
>> btw, did you know that the last Stonehenge stone that fell, did it in
>> 1965?
>
>
>the days before the wire; great fun, climbing all over the fallen stones
>and pushing against the standing ones for the humorous photograph...
>
>
>
Hey, remember that huge storm we had a few years back? When Michael Fish
said "No way are we going to have a storm!" and it diverted mid-Adlantic
to hit England? Well...
Just before the storm changed course, English Heretics^H^H^H^H^Hitage
DRILLED into some stones to take samples! Coincedence? Hmmm.....
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Phill the Cat
Hear Ye the words of the Bryan <richard...@ukonline.co.uk>, from the
Holy Work known as <3396a98d...@news.ukonline.co.uk>.....
>On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:19:42 +0100, Phill the Cat
><Phill...@thepowerfamily.dxexmxoxn.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Hear Ye the words of the Bryan <richard...@ukonline.co.uk>, from the
>>Holy Work known as <3393057a...@news.ukonline.co.uk>.....
>
>>>I mean, i was brought up between Avebury and Stonehenge, you can't
>>>throw a trilithon around here without hitting at least one white
>>>horse, surely if there was anything special about circles of large
>>>rocks, i'd have noticed it by now?
>>>
>>Well, I live quite close to Stonehenge meself, & I'm not at all keen on
>>the place, big pile of *nasty* dead stones.
>
>It does feel dead, yeah. I don't think anyone'd be all that upset if
>the assembled artillery boys on the plain were to, um, sort of miss.
>
Well, the Tourist Industry might, they _are_ great Grockle-bait, after
all!
>>Avebury, however, much better. Not much life in the stones, but a very
>>cumfy place all the same, even if the shops are horrendously expensive.
>>+ the Red Lion serves a good pint of beer.
>
>People *live* in Avebury. And work there. And a good few more people
>would if newcomers like Ludovic bloody Kennedy hadn't been outraged at
>anyone disturbing "their rural idyll" and closed down Avebury Manor.
>Which had a damn' good falconer, i must say.
>
Bastard! (G with lots of r's!) >¦(
>>The Rollrights, however, are a different kettle of worms.
>>
>>Now, although I am a Witch[1], I don't claim to be particularly
>>magically gifted. In fact, I know quite a few housebricks more psychic.
>>However, I found that the Rollright Circle did fare spin I round! It is
>>still a very powerful place, giving the impression that if anyone tried
>>anything stupid with crystals and other NewAgey gubbins, all that would
>>be found would be the preverbial pair of smoking pixieboots....[2]
>
>You *really* got that from being around a bunch of stones? Do you get
>similar stuff from Silbury Hill (personal theory - all that dirt from
>the Avebury dykes had to go somewhere) or the various Longbarrows?
>
Yes, yes & yes, different ppl pick up different things in different
places. I feel comfortably at home in Avebury and, strangely enuf, I
feel something very similiar in Salisbury Cathedral!
Btw, most Lesbians take offense at being called "dirty". ;)
>>>Every year, hundreds of silly buggers turn up, park all over the
>>>place, take photographs (of *rocks?) and shout at other people
>>>(presumably, to judge by volume, in Hawaii) and wear loud and
>>>obnoxious clothes.
>>>
>>& that's just the Police & journo's!
>
>Mostly the BBC, to be fair. And the hot-dog sellers.
>
I dunno who would be most offended, CMOT or Gaspode!
>>>Try getting any bloody work done. Moving your cattle across the road
>>>for milking is not exactly easy in these circumstances. Getting
>>>*anywhere* on a tractor makes you public enemy number 1.
>>>
>>Yes, but that's not just at Circle time, is it? Between you lot & the
>>milkfloats, no-one gets any work done cuz they can't get anywhere!
>
>At least tractors have an excuse. We can't go faster than 30mph. And
>we indicate. Rather more than old ladies in Metros do.
>
You do??!? Can't say _I_ noticed! Mebbe it was all that mud(?) caking
the indicators.
>Still, i claim immunity on the grounds of having left the soil and
>gone to work in the IT business. Kitten'll tell you i don't drive at
>30mph anymore.
>
Heeheehee, so now we get our revenge! Loads of AOL "tractors" pulling
out in front of your "Porshe" on the Information Superhighway!
>>>Worst of all, the damn great useless things are stuck right in the
>>>middle of prime grasslands and, take it from me, they ain't easy to
>>>mow around. "what were they for?" ask the tourists.
>>>
>>"Getting lots of money out of you lot!" think the locals to themselves.
>
>"Bugger off and mind thine own" more like.
>
Get orf my laaaand!
--------------8<---------------
>
>--
>Bryan
>http://web.ukonline.co.uk/richard.bryant/
>A sig? Yes please. Got a light?
YES, DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
u02ndc
Bryan (richard...@ukonline.co.uk) wrote:
: On 5 Jun 1997 15:36:07 GMT, "Heather Lougheed"
: <heather....@imro.ie> wrote:
: >Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
: ><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
: >> Jacqui wrote:
: >> >
: >> > Bryan wrote:
: >> >
: >> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
: >> > > eyes?"(3points)
: >> >
: >> > And horses can't vomit.
: >>
: >> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
: >> ears).
: >>
: >and the elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
: And cattle are incapable of farting..
Another one would be that dolphins seem to be able to hear through their
teeth. All to do with vibrating fibres connected to nerves and such.
IBP
--
the answer to life
is a double edged knife
what we seek and have read
we find when we're meek and dead
Damian Conway
mmes...@mindspring.com writes:
>Horses mules asses donkeys and burroughs, I can never remember which are
>the infirtle offspring of which males and which females, and which are
>just synonyms. This bothers me, does anyone want to englighten me so I
>don't have to look it up?
Don't know about the rest, but burroughs are definitely the Martian ones.
:-)
damian
Damian Conway
karen
In article <339B0B...@cadvision.com>, Jacqueline Hookey
<hoo...@cadvision.com> writes
>Terry Pratchett wrote:
snip
>> I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of
>> Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Pratchett
>
>I like the analogy (being a Mac user <G>) - and do most heartily agree
>that Avebury has a right kinda feeling about the place. Where as
>Stonehege does not and seems to me to be getting worst - what with all
>the commercialization, I kinda expect CMOT Dibbler to pop up and try to
>sell you the stones next!!!!!
>
>"I could make you one heck of a deal on the heal stone you know, 's
>going cheap today - one for the price of two..." and I'm cutting me own
>throat...
>
>Ookey
Have you been to Avebury recently?? A collection of tat is available of
a variety to make CMOT green with envy (to match the'sausage in a bun'
even).
That said, as someone who regularly used to cuddle the stones at
Stonehenge on the way down to Cornwall and apparently wanted to live
there 'when I grow up' I find the site very depressing these days, not
least because my own small children can't get anywhere near the stones.
Last year we went past and they found the 'straw henge' more interesting
that the Stonehenge. At Avebury they can cuddle the stones and wonder at
them just like I did when I was little - not so vvery long ago. Oh well,
about 25 yrs ago I suppose. ( Anyone know a good supplier of zimmer
frames? I feel ancient in this newsgroup any more over 30's out there?)
--
karen
Paul Wilkins
Phill the Cat wrote in article ...
>Hey, remember that huge storm we had a few years back? When Michael Fish
>said "No way are we going to have a storm!" and it diverted mid-Adlantic
>to hit England? Well...
>
>Just before the storm changed course, English Heretics^H^H^H^H^Hitage
>DRILLED into some stones to take samples! Coincedence? Hmmm.....
Of course it is a coincidence.
As everyone knows, coincidences happen nine time out of ten.
--
"What the hell, anyway." - Terry Pratchett
Paul Wilkins
Simon Brown
mmes...@mindspring.com spake thusly:
> Terry Pratchett wrote:
> > I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the
> > landscape.
> >
> > I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of
> > Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
> >
> > --
> > Terry Pratchett
>
> Microsoft, Apple, who can tell the difference anymore?
That's easy. Microsoft have finally caught up to where Apple were in the
80s, and Apple are still there :)
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[INFP] http://www.amdev.demon.co.uk/ / Voted Most Likely to be Someone Else
You mortals are as nothing to me. I could crush your puny existences without
apparent effort. You are mine to command, to control, to use as I please and
discard when no longer required. Whose round is it?
Lethargic Man (anag.)
> : >Suzi <xsuzi.h...@capgemini.co.ukx> wrote in article
> : ><3396F2...@capgemini.co.ukx>...
> : >> Jacqui wrote:
> : >> >
> : >> > Bryan wrote:
> : >> >
> : >> > > "Did you know the Elephant Shrew never closes its
> : >> > > eyes?"(3points)
> : >> >
> : >> > And horses can't vomit.
> : >>
> : >> And snakes hear through vibrations through their jaws (they have no
> : >> ears).
For those of us that believe in evolution; I might add that the human ear
bones actually evolved from the reptilian jaw parts.
ttfn,
Mchl Grnt
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shorten it _again_ if necessary...
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the junkyard dog
The Junkyard Dog notes that on Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:49:30 +0100, karen
<ka...@goodgulf.demon.co.uk> writ the following:
>In article <339B0B...@cadvision.com>, Jacqueline Hookey
><hoo...@cadvision.com> writes
>>Terry Pratchett wrote:
snipped
>
>Have you been to Avebury recently?? A collection of tat is available of
>a variety to make CMOT green with envy (to match the'sausage in a bun'
>even).
>
>That said, as someone who regularly used to cuddle the stones at
>Stonehenge <snipped> when I was little - not so vvery long ago. Oh well,
>about 25 yrs ago I suppose. ( Anyone know a good supplier of zimmer
>frames? I feel ancient in this newsgroup any more over 30's out there?)
Yep. Young Terry for a start. Me. But then I'm no-one really. erm...
You.
--
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Sig under construction.
Jacqueline Hookey
Phill the Cat wrote:
>
> Hear Ye the words of the Jacqueline Hookey <hoo...@cadvision.com>, from
> the Holy Work known as <339C74...@cadvision.com>.....
> >I have not be able to visit Avebury for about 7-8 yrs now, though went
> >there a lot when I was little (no still little, eer young then), as
> >well as Stonehege - but we stopped going to Stonehege when it started to
> >get too commercialized. After that we would just go the Salibury and
> >visit the Cathedral and Michael Snell's Gataux Shop (this is still there
> >and is the best place in the whole world for pigging out on great cake -
> >could someone pleeeease e-mail me a bit!!!!!).
> >
> Best I can do, sorry!
> _
> _-" )
> |~~~|
> |~~~|
> =====
> (cc'd by email)
Nummy, nummy, nummy my fav Micheal Snell's choccy gataux...
> And yes, they do still do those crispy chocolates, too!
Now who could forget them <slobber, drool>
> Mebbe we should organise an afpmeet there?
See e-mail for ideas...
Phill the Cat
Hear Ye the words of the Jacqueline Hookey <hoo...@cadvision.com>, from
the Holy Work known as <339C74...@cadvision.com>.....
>I have not be able to visit Avebury for about 7-8 yrs now, though went
>there a lot when I was little (no still little, eer young then), as
>well as Stonehege - but we stopped going to Stonehege when it started to
>get too commercialized. After that we would just go the Salibury and
>visit the Cathedral and Michael Snell's Gataux Shop (this is still there
>and is the best place in the whole world for pigging out on great cake -
>could someone pleeeease e-mail me a bit!!!!!).
>
Best I can do, sorry!
_
_-" )
|~~~|
|~~~|
=====
(cc'd by email)
And yes, they do still do those crispy chocolates, too!
Mebbe we should organise an afpmeet there?
>> That said, as someone who regularly used to cuddle the stones at
>> Stonehenge on the way down to Cornwall and apparently wanted to live
>> there 'when I grow up' I find the site very depressing these days, not
>> least because my own small children can't get anywhere near the stones.
>> Last year we went past and they found the 'straw henge' more interesting
>> that the Stonehenge. At Avebury they can cuddle the stones and wonder at
>> them just like I did when I was little - not so vvery long ago. Oh well,
>> about 25 yrs ago I suppose. ( Anyone know a good supplier of zimmer
>> frames? I feel ancient in this newsgroup any more over 30's out there?)
>
>Maybe we could get a group deal on zimmer frames?????
>
>I 'm also in the over 30's in age (if not in attitude) catagory and know
>more than a handful of others who would also qualify.... ;o)
Me and my wife are both called Bri^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H over 30!
Alex Burr
In article <3399a32a...@news.uni-hamburg.de>,
Sebastian Vielhauer <p15...@public.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>On 7 Jun 1997 09:32:08 GMT, aj...@thor.cam.ac.uk (Alex Burr) wrote:
>>In article <Ir7mjLA5...@unseen.demon.co.uk>,
>>Terry Pratchett <tprat...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>a rock into running water. In domestication, it very conveniently
>>uses the loo.
>
>My hyrax never closes the lid when it has finished. Can I train it?
I don't think you ought to try, the poor thing might slip and get caught
inside!
Alex Burr
:-)
Paul Wilkins
Gid Holyoake wrote in article <33A031...@netcomuk.co.uk>...
>Justin R Macfarlane wrote:
>> Mike Harre' decided to enlighten us thus:
>> < "Have a potato"
>> no thanks, i don't smoke ...
>Ok.. have a gorilla then!!
Thank you, thanks, but not during the mating season.
Paul Wilkins
Gid Holyoake wrote in article <33A18A...@netcomuk.co.uk>...
>> Thank you, thanks, but not during the mating season.
>Victoria instead.. Moriarty, the box!!
No! No! Not the box again <fx: breaks down> Nooo... *wail*
jes...@innotts.co.uk
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 08:40:52 GMT, redd...@ww.co.nz (Mike Harre')
wrote:
<snipped E.R. Burroughs, martian stuff>
>
>Mike
>
>"Have a potato" - (ppoint for the reference, and I'll be really
>surprised iffen anyone gets this one <g> )
Blackadder II ?
"They'll be eating tham next!"
--
Andy Brown
Not a member of anybody's Brigade, Sect, Harem or other organisation
In fact, totally disorganised!
(71%)
Michelena Riosa
On 14 Jun 1997 00:44:41 GMT, "Jim Hathaway"
<j...@burnis01.airtime.co.uk> wrote:
>Does this mean that for those of us who don't believe in evolution
>the human ear bone evolved from something else?
Personally, I fell that the great Manitee^H^Hou found some stuff
caught behind the sofa cushions when He/She/IT was looking for spare
change...and hence the inspiration for the ear....
Michelena
--
"and."
-Terry Pratchett
Phill the Cat
Hear Ye the words of the Anima <an...@io.com>, from the Holy Work known
as <anima.8...@bermuda.io.com>.....
>Interesting stuff, and I'm glad I caught this thread before it had
>completely vanished. Surely y'all know of good books that are Still
>Available (in pauperback?) at least in the U.K. (where Blackwell's
>delivers all the way to Merkinlands). No, no, not just any books, not even
>Pterry's books. I mean books on standing stone thinies and obscenely
>inspirational hillside giants and such so that a tourist-- I mean,
>traveling researcher-- could find its way to the sites and know what to
>look for once there?
>
>Ideally, in my opinion, such a book would not only describe the sites and
>tell how to reach 'em, but say helpful things like, "When visiting
>Toadsone Circle, visitors needing a comfortable and affordable hostelry
>stay at the Crown and Garter (but avoid the haunted room in the Auld Wing)
>just across from Mistress Masham's Repose at the edge of town. The local
>workman's production of Pyramus and Thisbe is always a midsummer
>highlight."
>
>Even without such helpful hints for the impecunious Fortean on holiday,
>there have to be books picturing, describing, locating, commentating,
>interpreting, and generally bringing the reader up to snuff on the major
>UK antiquities, yes/no?
>
>Advice, commentary, titles, and authors-- not necessarily in that order--
>are welcomed.
>
>And 'slong as I'm asking for guidance, and since I've already confessed to
>being new to this thread (though, under another name, a long-time lurker
>hereabouts) just what and where are the Rolright Stones?
>
>Thank y'all kindly.
>
"A guide to the Prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England & Wales" by
Jacquetta Hawkes was good. I say "was" as me mum's copy was first
published in 1951 and her revised edition was published in 1975 - when I
was ten!
It has a Gazetteer in the back listing all the sites with their grid
ref. etc.
Pity it misses Scotland though, as there are some great sites up there
also!
You will find some good guides published locally to most sites, I advise
lurking round the museums and chatting up the Curators - you never know
your[1] luck....;@)
[1] But will they believe theirs?
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Simon Brown
Michelena Riosa spake thusly:
My personal theory is that the Creator got sick of his creations going
"eh?" every time he tried to tell them something.
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Michelena Riosa
>My personal theory is that the Creator got sick of his creations going
>"eh?" every time he tried to tell them something.
That means that the original creations were Canananandians?
Hmmmm, I knew I was _old_ but....
Glenn Andrews
Justin R Macfarlane <jus...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in article
<5o0glg$sqv$2...@cantuc.canterbury.ac.nz>...
> Gid Holyoake decided to enlighten us thus:
> < Justin R Macfarlane wrote:
> < > Mike Harre' decided to enlighten us thus:
> < > <
> < > < "Have a potato"
> < > no thanks, i don't smoke ...
> <
> < Ok.. have a gorilla then!!
>
> shall we dance?
But if you want to dance, you need a Gibbon:
"Take your Gibbon by the hand,
listen to the rythm of the band,
slap him up and down upon the floor.
Tickle his feet to hear him giggle,
Then unzip him down the middle.
Give that gibbon what he's hollerin' for!"
Oh, stuff that gibbon with me just one more time Miss Willoughby.
Glenn.
*Who has been reading afp for too long, and not replying for long enough*
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Thank you.
Paul E. Jamison, Esq.
On 16 Jun 1997 18:02:49 GMT, a little light bulb went on over the head
of "Glenn Andrews" ("Glenn Andrews" <gand...@dra.hmg.gbH>),
and he/she wrote, like an infinite number of monkeys, thus and so to
alt.fan.pratchett:
>But if you want to dance, you need a Gibbon:
>"Take your Gibbon by the hand,
> listen to the rythm of the band,
> slap him up and down upon the floor.
> Tickle his feet to hear him giggle,
> Then unzip him down the middle.
> Give that gibbon what he's hollerin' for!"
>Oh, stuff that gibbon with me just one more time Miss Willoughby.
I can't help myself. I've *got* to reply to this one.
"Do, do, do the Funky Gibbon
We are here to show you how.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, the Funky Gibbon"
A Goodies reference and all I can dredge up without digging into the
vinyl.
It's been that kind of week.
Paul E. Jamison, Esq.
The Official Michelena Riosa Testosterone Brigade
Undersecretary in Charge of the Irish Question
... and proud member of LUHU
Peter Ellis
"Glenn Andrews" <gand...@dra.hmg.gbH> wrote:
>
>But if you want to dance, you need a Gibbon:
>Oh, stuff that gibbon with me just one more time Miss Willoughby.
>
It's prickly, but FUN!
Peter
Suzi
Paul E. Jamison, Esq. wrote:
>
Snippety, snip
> "Do, do, do the Funky Gibbon
> We are here to show you how.
> Ooh, ooh, ooh, the Funky Gibbon"
>
> A Goodies reference and all I can dredge up without digging into the
> vinyl.
I am *really* glad that I'm not the only person who has this as an item
in their black-plastic-flat-flowerpot collection <G> (And *No*, I don't
know *why* I bought it... And I only ever played the B-side once - my
parents did *not* think it was funny!!!)
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Suzi wrote:
>
> Paul E. Jamison, Esq. wrote:
> >
> Snippety, snip
> > "Do, do, do the Funky Gibbon
> > We are here to show you how.
> > Ooh, ooh, ooh, the Funky Gibbon"
> >
> > A Goodies reference and all I can dredge up without digging into the
> > vinyl.
>
> I am *really* glad that I'm not the only person who has this as an item
> in their black-plastic-flat-flowerpot collection <G> (And *No*, I don't
> know *why* I bought it... And I only ever played the B-side once - my
> parents did *not* think it was funny!!!)
>
I love it, it's still one of my favourite records (I poached it from my
oldest brother years ago):
'Run down, run down, working the line
Hey buddy well we're gonna make money honey..."
<sigh> Graeme Garden <sigh>
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Glenn Andrews
Paul E. Jamison, Esq. <pau...@dtc.net> wrote in article
<5o769a$c...@nnrp4.farm.idt.net>...
> On 16 Jun 1997 18:02:49 GMT, a little light bulb went on over the head
> of "Glenn Andrews" ("Glenn Andrews" <gand...@dra.hmg.gbH>),
> and he/she wrote, like an infinite number of monkeys, thus and so to
Or one very talented ape with a spare afternoon and a library pass...
>
> >But if you want to dance, you need a Gibbon:
>
> >"Take your Gibbon by the hand,
> > listen to the rythm of the band,
> > slap him up and down upon the floor.
> > Tickle his feet to hear him giggle,
> > Then unzip him down the middle.
> > Give that gibbon what he's hollerin' for!"
>
>
> I can't help myself. I've *got* to reply to this one.
>
> "Do, do, do the Funky Gibbon
> We are here to show you how.
> Ooh, ooh, ooh, the Funky Gibbon"
>
> A Goodies reference and all I can dredge up without digging into the
> vinyl.
>
> It's been that kind of week.
>
Come work for us, it's *always* that kind of week.
*blink* The funky gibbon? Oh heck. I've got a *big* hole in my 60's comedy
reportoire here, haven't I? Can someone post/email the remains of the song
(preferably in a non-metal container)
Cross-wiring I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again with Pratchett: Anyone heard
the Prune Players production of McBeth? Definitely a close runner-up in the
funnyest Shakespear rip-off ever. So many classic one-liers it's not even
funny. Oh, well. Maybe it is then.
Manservant: "Awake, awake! The king, my master is no more. His lids are
heavy and inclosed, The breath of life has flit his aged frame, and his
sould has gone to Abrahams bosom."
Mcbeth: "You mean he's dead?"
Manservant: "I dunno, I'll just go and check."
<fx: feet going away... feet returnng>
Manservant: "Yes"
Oh! Happy days.
Regards,
Glenn.
harvester
Bill : I've seen one an' all.
MacB : Is this dagger I see before me?
L. MacB : No.
MacB : Oh. (pause) Well is this a dagger I see before me?
etc etc exeunt.
Harv
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In message <33AAA0...@bath.ac.uk>
harvester <py6...@bath.ac.uk> writes:
> > *blink* The funky gibbon? Oh heck. I've got a *big* hole in my 60's comedy
> > reportoire here, haven't I? Can someone post/email the remains of the song
> > (preferably in a non-metal container)
60's??? IIRC 70's surely.
Russ
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In article <199706211...@zetnet.co.uk>, Russell Goff
<r.g...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>In message <33AAA0...@bath.ac.uk>
> harvester <py6...@bath.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> > *blink* The funky gibbon? Oh heck. I've got a *big* hole in my 60's comedy
>> > reportoire here, haven't I? Can someone post/email the remains of the song
>> > (preferably in a non-metal container)
>
>
>60's??? IIRC 70's surely.
>
>Russ
>
Karen
>
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Glenn Andrews
karen <ka...@goodgulf.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<eIf8oEAI...@goodgulf.demon.co.uk>...
SorryPardon. Whenever I think of Bill Oddie and Graham Chapman, I
automatically think of I'm sorry I'll Read That Again, which I think was in
the 60's. Not that I was around then. Or in the seventies, really.
Oh, well. You're right, we're looking at late 70s here, aren't we
<fx: puts a sprout in the revolver, spins the chambers and holds it to his
head>
I'm... truly... sorry about this.
karen
In article <199706232...@spam.inna.bun>, Russ
<r.g...@spam.inna.bun> writes
>In message <01bc7fcf$bf9f3090$840b5092@gandrews>
> "Glenn Andrews" <gand...@dra.hmg.gbH> writes:
>
>> SorryPardon. Whenever I think of Bill Oddie and Graham Chapman, I
>> automatically think of I'm sorry I'll Read That Again, which I think was in
>> the 60's. Not that I was around then. Or in the seventies, really.
>
>> Oh, well. You're right, we're looking at late 70s here, aren't we
>
>
>Taylor AKA *The Goodies* [1] were responsible for the Funky Gibbon.
And don't forget the flying geese to the tune of the dambusters!!
> Graham Chapman was, IIRC a Python.
Spot on
> Played Brian in Life of same. Big
>fella, blonde, a bit, you know, nice boy?
Terrible waste really, But then you should Always Look on the Bright
Side of Life.
>nuff said. SAY NO MORE.
>
Oh alright then
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Glenn Andrews
Russ <r.g...@spam.inna.bun> wrote in article
<199706232...@spam.inna.bun>...
> In message <33AC9C...@groo.com>
> Denis Hackney <paln...@groo.com> writes:
>
> > Macbeth: Is this a dagger I see before me, or should I quit smoking
> > that green stuff?
> > ...
>
> > Lady Macbeth: Out, out damn Spot! Can't you see I've got no clothes on?
>
> > Spot: Woof, woof!
>
> > ...
>
> upon visiting the Merkin tele psychics,
>
> Is this a spammer I see before me?
>
> RTuss
>
>
>
*sigh* Oh, well. Why not indeed?
"Now to stab you, Duncan!"
*bang*
"I was right! It wasn't a dagger!"
Narrator: "...After the murder, Macbeth enjoyed the usurped throne. He used
to lock the door so no-one would find out..."
Witch: "You, Banquo, you shall not be king, yet, you shall be royal"
Banquo: "Oh, oh! I'm going to be queen!"
I'm sorry about this. If I had time and memory, I'd put in the whole
"murderer's" scene. But I havn't, and anyway. I'm getting far to cheerful
writing this.
Glenn
Jacqui
Russ wrote:
>
> In message <01bc7fcf$bf9f3090$840b5092@gandrews>
> "Glenn Andrews" <gand...@dra.hmg.gbH> writes:
>
> > SorryPardon. Whenever I think of Bill Oddie and Graham Chapman, I
> > automatically think of I'm sorry I'll Read That Again, which I think was in
> > the 60's. Not that I was around then. Or in the seventies, really.
>
> > Oh, well. You're right, we're looking at late 70s here, aren't we
>
> nope mid 70's for both.
Ur - no.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/union/susoc/cass/homes/pc/pc943285/isirta.html
will give you the whole story - ISIRTA is mid 60s, and Chapman was part
of the Cambridge Footlights team which initiated it, but was replaced
for radio by Graeme Garden. I have original reel to reel tape of it
from 1967... (Dad's, not mine.)
Jac
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after me..."
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In message <33B034...@dwcon.lspace.org>
Jacqui <Jac...@dwcon.lspace.org> writes:
> Ur - no.
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/union/susoc/cass/homes/pc/pc943285/isirta.html
> will give you the whole story - ISIRTA is mid 60s, and Chapman was part
> of the Cambridge Footlights team which initiated it, but was replaced
> for radio by Graeme Garden. I have original reel to reel tape of it
> from 1967... (Dad's, not mine.)
Thanks for that I'll have a look, but I'm sure ISIRTA went on into
the 70's and eventually died. Do you have a machine on which to play
your tape, because I'm sure I know a man who has.
Q Gid.
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Russ wrote:
Jacqui writes:
> > ISIRTA is mid 60s, and Chapman was part
> > of the Cambridge Footlights team which initiated it, but was replaced
> > for radio by Graeme Garden. I have original reel to reel tape of it
> > from 1967... (Dad's, not mine.)
>
> Thanks for that I'll have a look, but I'm sure ISIRTA went on into
> the 70's and eventually died.
Possibly, but I suspect it died around the same time Python did (ie
1971-2 ish) and for roughly the same reasons...
Do you have a machine on which to play
> your tape, because I'm sure I know a man who has.
Yup, many. It's handy having relatives who worked for EMI and
Rediffusion...
Jac
Sac6thform
Oh coooooooooool!
I just wrote about the ISIRTA Macbeth 30 mins ago!!!
How about:
The messenger informed them of Duncan's demise.
"Lady Macbeth began wailing..........
>Thar' she blows!
"Macbeth sank to his knees...........
>blub, blub, blub (sinking noises,
okay?)
OR:
"Macbeth was standing on his bulwarks,......... no mean feat!
OR:
"This damn spot it won't come out
>That's why Lady Macbeth should use Hairy Liquid!
I should stop, but Glenn congratulations on having good taste!
Yours,
John/ I need a cold shower/ Chris!