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dormouse

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Jan 20, 2003, 8:38:08 PM1/20/03
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start reading here...

Chapter One

There was JJ (good thing too, it was his house), Vee, DrHyde; then
dormouse joined in. Mark turned up for a while on Saturday evening. He may
even find the newsgroup, if someone remembers to send him its name[1].
Humbug was not well and didn't get there until Sunday.

Someone else will write of Friday evening, and of DrHyde's culinary
prowess, because dormouse didn't arrive until after breakfast on Saturday
(though can't have been much after because Vee was still in pyjamas).

Settlers of Catan took somewhere between 6 hours and 7 days to play. It
may have been because those of us who hadn't met it before had to have the
rules and scoring explained again on nearly every round. Vee did superbly
well with nonchalant ease.

Fluxx was faster: we managed to fit in several games of it. It's over
really quickly if dormouse puts down a goal card which wins the game for
somebody else on the second round.

Vee won Munchkin by killing a potted plant. This could be classed as
cheating, as she has had special training and is licensed to kill
houseplants. JJ had a sex change during the game, and looked stunning in
pink.

Time for food: Chinese takeaway in preference to leftover chilli. Vee and
dormouse went to get it, and Vee took the opportunity to employ various
methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.
Particularly Bear, who is clearly weirder than most.

Music featured throughout. CDs, guitar (mmm, isn't JJ good on guitar), and
singing. Not by Vee. No, of course not. She isn't allowed to sing at
meets. Anything that may have sounded slightly like a duet version of the
chorus of the Hebrew slaves was a figment of other people's imagination.

Chocolate was also plentiful, and pistachios. And pistachio shells; lots
of them. (Is one allowed to mention the other stuff?) And books. After a
brief attack of Dilbert we had a re-naming: dormouse is henceforth also
known as Alice.

On Sunday, Humbug was held up by closures on the M6; couldn't have
breakfast without him, so while waiting we started on Captain Parks'
Imaginary Polar Expedition. Brilliant game. Gave Vee a chance to use her
amdram skills and we all tried out funny voices. some people got so into
character, they sat in the Gentlemen's Club reminiscing instead of taking
their turn.

Humbug arrived bearing a gift for Vee: a splendid Thornton's Toffee jar.
Full of toffees, too :-).

Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt. Richmond chipolatas, bacon,
mushrooms, fried bread, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, and black pudding done
west Lancs style (boiled - brings out the spices and doesn't add grease).

JJ emerged as Supreme Champion of Fluxx, and celebrated with an extra-
special victory dance. His new title can be seen proudly displayed in his
sig.

Humbug will have to write the next chapter, because dormouse left early to
go and cuddle Flook in Gatley :-)
And the meet went on until half-way through Monday!

[1] ok, ok, emailed

[2] no, not that Ben

--
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Bear

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Jan 20, 2003, 9:20:53 PM1/20/03
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In article <b0i8a0$pm69u$1...@ID-157835.news.dfncis.de>, dormouse waffled
thus ...

> Time for food: Chinese takeaway in preference to leftover chilli. Vee and
> dormouse went to get it, and Vee took the opportunity to employ various
> methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.

Don't tell 'em your name, Pike!

> Particularly Bear, who is clearly weirder than most.

I'm not even in the top ten of weirdest bikers I know ...

... IMHO of course.
--
Bear
These are my own opinions, and not necessarily those of all Bears
Bear's Current Paw Track: Amanda Marshall: "Ride"

Vivianne

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Jan 21, 2003, 5:32:50 AM1/21/03
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In article <b0i8a0$pm69u$1...@ID-157835.news.dfncis.de>, dormouse
<s...@hotmail.com> writes

>
>Someone else will write of Friday evening, and of DrHyde's culinary
>prowess, because dormouse didn't arrive until after breakfast on Saturday
>(though can't have been much after because Vee was still in pyjamas).

Dr Hyde and I arrived sometime lateish and ate chilli cooked by JJ -
excellent! (JJ was watching the Kylie dvd when we arrived.) We played
some games and chatted. Can't remember any more.

DrHyde cooked an excellent FEB. We played games. Doormouse arrived.


>
>Settlers of Catan took somewhere between 6 hours and 7 days to play. It
>may have been because those of us who hadn't met it before had to have the
>rules and scoring explained again on nearly every round. Vee did superbly
>well with nonchalant ease.

Eh? Are you sure?


>
>Fluxx was faster: we managed to fit in several games of it. It's over
>really quickly if dormouse puts down a goal card which wins the game for
>somebody else on the second round.

Of course if I won it didn't count and eventually DrHyde decided that if
JJ won it didn't count either.


>
>Vee won Munchkin by killing a potted plant. This could be classed as
>cheating, as she has had special training and is licensed to kill
>houseplants.

It's true! Bizzie Lizzies and spider plants don't stand a chance with
me.

>JJ had a sex change during the game, and looked stunning in
>pink.

I remember something about his nether regions but can't remember what
game tha was in - probably Munchkin.


>
>Time for food: Chinese takeaway in preference to leftover chilli. Vee and
>dormouse went to get it, and Vee took the opportunity to employ various
>methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.
>Particularly Bear, who is clearly weirder than most.

Well, you have to admit, I was direct. The thumb screws didn't work,
not did the Chinese food-withholding ploy. This dormouse is good as
resisting. I did find out that Bear is a wonderful cook so he cooks the
next FEB. We need to find a way of getting him to ameet unless he can
send the FEB by courier.


>
>Music featured throughout. CDs, guitar (mmm, isn't JJ good on guitar), and
>singing. Not by Vee. No, of course not. She isn't allowed to sing at
>meets. Anything that may have sounded slightly like a duet version of the
>chorus of the Hebrew slaves was a figment of other people's imagination.

Me sing? No no no no.... I'd like to see Mike K stop Dormouse form
singing. ha!


>
>Chocolate was also plentiful, and pistachios. And pistachio shells; lots
>of them. (Is one allowed to mention the other stuff?)

Yes.

>And books. After a
>brief attack of Dilbert we had a re-naming: dormouse is henceforth also
>known as Alice.
>

Also followed by a quick rendition of "Alice's Restaurant" by someone
anonymous.

>On Sunday, Humbug was held up by closures on the M6; couldn't have
>breakfast without him, so while waiting we started on Captain Parks'
>Imaginary Polar Expedition. Brilliant game. Gave Vee a chance to use her
>amdram skills and we all tried out funny voices. some people got so into
>character, they sat in the Gentlemen's Club reminiscing instead of taking
>their turn.

Drinking gin and farting, I think.


>
>Humbug arrived bearing a gift for Vee: a splendid Thornton's Toffee jar.
>Full of toffees, too :-).

Wonderful! A useful pot for putting things in. I wonder where all the
toffees went.... DRHYDE!!!!


>
>Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
>chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt. Richmond chipolatas, bacon,
>mushrooms, fried bread, fried eggs, scrambled eggs, and black pudding done
>west Lancs style (boiled - brings out the spices and doesn't add grease).

Ooooooooooooooohhh................... and she said she couldn't cook!


>
>JJ emerged as Supreme Champion of Fluxx, and celebrated with an extra-
>special victory dance. His new title can be seen proudly displayed in his
>sig.
>
>Humbug will have to write the next chapter, because dormouse left early to
>go and cuddle Flook in Gatley :-)

Ooooh, now I need some more details on that.

>And the meet went on until half-way through Monday!

WE played Settlers again after you left for 7 hours!!!!!!!

DrHyde and I had bacon sarnie (thanks for the bacon JJ) before I dropped
him at the station. He loks like a right well-'ard bouncer/bodyguard
with a long black coat, dark glasses and a hat. Scary, really but such
a sweetie. Can even do 'puppy-dog' eyes when he wants to trade
something particular in Settlers.


>
>[1] ok, ok, emailed
>
>[2] no, not that Ben
>

Don't forget the words to The Chorus of the HS!!!!!

--
"We aliens, set apart, reach only with fantasies"

Vivianne

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Jan 21, 2003, 5:33:17 AM1/21/03
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In article <MPG.1896bee0b...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, Bear <bastardUN
DERSCO...@yahoo.com> writes

>I'm not even in the top ten of weirdest bikers I know ...

You are in mine because I don't think I know 10 bikers, weird or not.

Mike

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Jan 21, 2003, 4:11:45 PM1/21/03
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dormouse writes

Ah, good - a proper Virgin Meet Report, just as they should be :)

>start reading here...

But it's blank here...^

>Chapter One

Chapter two, shirley?, if someone else has to write of Friday.

>There was JJ (good thing too, it was his house), Vee, DrHyde; then
>dormouse joined in. Mark turned up for a while on Saturday evening. He may
>even find the newsgroup, if someone remembers to send him its name[1].
>Humbug was not well and didn't get there until Sunday.

I had hoped to add myself to the list but, alas, couldn't make it :(

>and of DrHyde's culinary
>prowess,

Oh bugger! I missed a meet that someone else cooked for: They're the
best sort, imo. Was it the later mentioned chilli that DrH cooked? By
far the best option for catering at a meet - if you can be bothered at
all, that is - is chilli; will sit and improve and cook for *days*
without spoiling. Even vegetarians will eat good home-made beef
chilli...

>because dormouse didn't arrive until after breakfast on Saturday
>(though can't have been much after because Vee was still in pyjamas).

So, presumably, pre 15:00 - 13:00 being the time to start thinking
about getting dressed...

>Settlers of Catan took somewhere between 6 hours and 7 days to play. It
>may have been because those of us who hadn't met it before had to have the
>rules and scoring explained again on nearly every round. Vee did superbly
>well with nonchalant ease.

I'd have been the same as yourself and DrH, tbh. Never could get to
grips with those sort of roleplay/strategy/war based board games. I
do, however, spend the majority of my waking hours playing it on the PC.
Shame I missed the spectacle of Vee apparently sailing through a brand
new board game though.

>Fluxx was faster

Figures.

>Vee won Munchkin

Is this somebody's friend that attended?

>killing a potted plant.

Its one of her strong points.

>This could be classed as [...]a sex change game

Oops! Dropped m' scissors %

>Time for food: Chinese takeaway in preference to leftover chilli.

Fools! See above about chilli standing and *improving*

>methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.

Are you a weirdo biker? Alice in chains <g>

>Music featured throughout.

Always does :-)

>CDs

Go on then, which ones?

>guitar (mmm, isn't JJ good on guitar),

UGH! I'm sorry but I loathe and detest solo guitarists of any standard.
Can't shake it at all.

>singing. Not by Vee. No, of course not. She isn't allowed to sing at
>meets. Anything that may have sounded slightly like a duet version of the
>chorus of the Hebrew slaves was a figment of other people's imagination.

Oh dear. I try not to sing because I know I can't. I mouth backing
vocals instead.

>Chocolate was also plentiful, and pistachios.

Both bad for my gout, fortunately.

>And pistachio shells; lots
>of them. (Is one allowed to mention the other stuff?)

Nothing is sacred.

>And books.

For those... quiet... moments

> Alice.

PTMY. Like the chains.

>On Sunday, Humbug was held up by closures on the M6;

Oops. GPS (whatever that is) being what it is.

>couldn't have
>breakfast without him,

Thinly sliced and lightly fried was he?

>so while waiting we started on Captain Parks'
>Imaginary Polar Expedition. Brilliant game.

Was it invented as it went?

>Gave Vee a chance to use her
>amdram skills

!

>and we all tried out funny voices. some people got so into
>character, they sat in the Gentlemen's Club reminiscing instead of taking
>their turn.

One sober time-keeper helps but that duty tends to detract from food.

>Humbug arrived bearing a gift for Vee: a splendid Thornton's Toffee jar.
>Full of toffees, too :-).

Can I have any left-over liquorice ones please.

>Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
>chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt.

Humbug?

>Richmond chipolatas, bacon,

*Good* bacon..? Its important stuff, you know ;)

>mushrooms,

Ah now I'd have had to have some On!on thrown in there first, well
fried.

>fried bread, fried eggs,

THE combo!

>black pudding done west Lancs style (boiled - brings out the spices and doesn't add grease).

<GUotBP>

Bleurgh!! Eee, its enough to start over on the War of the Roses!

>Humbug will have to write the next chapter

Ah, chapter three...

>And the meet went on until half-way through Monday!

Thus, chapter four... up bandwidth...

--
Mike

dormouse

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Jan 21, 2003, 4:36:13 PM1/21/03
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Mike says...
> dormouse writes

>
> >start reading here...
>
> But it's blank here...^

That's where you take a breath, innit? Otherwise you won't even get to the
end of the first phrase.

> Chapter two, shirley?, if someone else has to write of Friday.

It'll be a flashback. Trust me, it works. You change the first person and
the time. Makes a better film then.

> I had hoped to add myself to the list but, alas, couldn't make it :(

Aww, sorry not to meet you



> Oh bugger! I missed a meet that someone else cooked for: They're the
> best sort, imo. Was it the later mentioned chilli that DrH cooked? By
> far the best option for catering at a meet - if you can be bothered at
> all, that is - is chilli; will sit and improve and cook for *days*
> without spoiling. Even vegetarians will eat good home-made beef
> chilli...

it was a JJ Monster Chilli

> >because dormouse didn't arrive until after breakfast on Saturday
> >(though can't have been much after because Vee was still in pyjamas).
>
> So, presumably, pre 15:00 - 13:00 being the time to start thinking
> about getting dressed...
>

> I'd have been the same as yourself and DrH, tbh. Never could get to
> grips with those sort of roleplay/strategy/war based board games. I
> do, however, spend the majority of my waking hours playing it on the PC.
> Shame I missed the spectacle of Vee apparently sailing through a brand
> new board game though.

In full galleon mode :-)

> >Vee won Munchkin
>
> Is this somebody's friend that attended?

I don't know... Vee! What have you done with Mark?

> >methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.
>
> Are you a weirdo biker? Alice in chains <g>

I'm still not talking :-)



>
> >CDs
>
> Go on then, which ones?

Have to ask JJ! (Keep Music Live)

> >And pistachio shells; lots
> >of them. (Is one allowed to mention the other stuff?)
>
> Nothing is sacred.

Apparently it is used in religious rituals. So I hear.

> > Alice.
>
> PTMY. Like the chains.

They are cute, aren't they? Special lightweight ones.

> >so while waiting we started on Captain Parks'
> >Imaginary Polar Expedition. Brilliant game.
>
> Was it invented as it went?

I *think* we stuck to the rules :-)

> >Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
> >chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt.

Guess again

> >Richmond chipolatas, bacon,
>
> *Good* bacon..? Its important stuff, you know ;)

Good. Maybe not as good as my fav shop-bought bacon, which is Duchy
Original

> >mushrooms,
>
> Ah now I'd have had to have some On!on thrown in there first, well
> fried.

It was suggested, but I don't like cooking onions

> Bleurgh!! Eee, its enough to start over on the War of the Roses!

Nah, we have to be friends since the M62, don't we?

Vivianne

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Jan 21, 2003, 4:49:39 PM1/21/03
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In article <b0kegd$qmt2j$1...@ID-157835.news.dfncis.de>, dormouse
<s...@hotmail.com> writes

>I don't know... Vee! What have you done with Mark?

I remember packing him along with my dressing gown but I can't find him
anywhere. Back of the sofa....

Vivianne

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Jan 21, 2003, 4:48:20 PM1/21/03
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In article <Sj80nSBR...@clara.co.uk>, Mike <mi...@clara.co.uk>
writes
>dormouse writes


>
>Oh bugger! I missed a meet that someone else cooked for: They're the
>best sort, imo. Was it the later mentioned chilli that DrH cooked?

No. DrH cooked the FEB on Saturday morning after a little gentle
persuasion.

> By
>far the best option for catering at a meet - if you can be bothered at
>all, that is - is chilli; will sit and improve and cook for *days*
>without spoiling. Even vegetarians will eat good home-made beef
>chilli...
>

Some might, some might if you lie to them!!!!

>>because dormouse didn't arrive until after breakfast on Saturday
>>(though can't have been much after because Vee was still in pyjamas).
>
>So, presumably, pre 15:00 - 13:00 being the time to start thinking
>about getting dressed...

You know me.


>
>>Settlers of Catan took somewhere between 6 hours and 7 days to play. It
>>may have been because those of us who hadn't met it before had to have the
>>rules and scoring explained again on nearly every round. Vee did superbly
>>well with nonchalant ease.
>
>I'd have been the same as yourself and DrH, tbh. Never could get to
>grips with those sort of roleplay/strategy/war based board games. I
>do, however, spend the majority of my waking hours playing it on the PC.
>Shame I missed the spectacle of Vee apparently sailing through a brand
>new board game though.

I think dormouse is being polite. Or maybe I did and I have just
forgotten it.
>
>>Fluxx was faster
>
>Figures.

Cards.


>
>>Vee won Munchkin
>
>Is this somebody's friend that attended?

No. I tried for the dragon but JJ's nailed it to the floor.


>
>>killing a potted plant.
>
>Its one of her strong points.

My only strong point, some would say.


>
>>This could be classed as [...]a sex change game
>
>Oops! Dropped m' scissors %
>
>>Time for food: Chinese takeaway in preference to leftover chilli.
>
>Fools! See above about chilli standing and *improving*

There wasn't enough left for 3 (taking into account DrH and JJ's
bottomless stomachs). I think JJ just wanted to keep it for himself on
Monday, Tues, Wed....


>
>>methods of torture to get dormouse to Tell All about those weirdo bikers.
>
>Are you a weirdo biker? Alice in chains <g>
>
>>Music featured throughout.
>
>Always does :-)
>
>>CDs
>
>Go on then, which ones?

Round ones. Flat and shiny.


>
>
>Thinly sliced and lightly fried was he?

Skinned and boiled like the black pud.


>
>>so while waiting we started on Captain Parks'
>>Imaginary Polar Expedition. Brilliant game.
>
>Was it invented as it went?

It didn't go anywhere. That was the point.


>
>>Gave Vee a chance to use her
>>amdram skills
>
>!
>

Ha! It were a larf.

>>and we all tried out funny voices. some people got so into
>>character, they sat in the Gentlemen's Club reminiscing instead of taking
>>their turn.

"Gin!"


>
>One sober time-keeper helps but that duty tends to detract from food.
>
>>Humbug arrived bearing a gift for Vee: a splendid Thornton's Toffee jar.
>>Full of toffees, too :-).
>
>Can I have any left-over liquorice ones please.

Paul's eating them. :)


>
>>Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
>>chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt.
>
>Humbug?

dormouse.
>
>

>>black pudding done west Lancs style (boiled - brings out the spices and doesn't
>add grease).
>
><GUotBP>
>
>Bleurgh!! Eee, its enough to start over on the War of the Roses!

It was delicious! So was the one we had on Saturday as well. Both were
delicious.


>
>
>
>>Humbug will have to write the next chapter
>
>Ah, chapter three...
>
>>And the meet went on until half-way through Monday!
>
>Thus, chapter four... up bandwidth...
>

Chapter 4 was an epilogue. "We said goodbye......."

Vivianne

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Jan 22, 2003, 4:48:41 AM1/22/03
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In article <ecor2vkujfptjtj8a...@4ax.com>, JJ
<ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:36:13 -0000, dormouse wrote:
>>Mike says...
>
>[...]

>>> >CDs
>>>
>>> Go on then, which ones?
>>
>>Have to ask JJ! (Keep Music Live)
>
>Er... Monty Python Sings, John Adams - Harmonielehre, Sting - Brand
>New Day, Rocky Frisco - The Raccoon's Revenge, Steve Ray Vaughan -
>Live box set... there was probably some other stuff too but I can't
>remember <g>
>
And Beautiful South - Dream a Little Dream.

nogginthenog

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Jan 22, 2003, 10:02:25 AM1/22/03
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Mike wrote:
> dormouse writes

> >Chocolate was also plentiful, and pistachios.
> Both bad for my gout, fortunately.

I read somewhere about something that can help gout - maybe
it was that doctor's column in The Daily Telegraph. It's
on-line, I'll have a look....


Ah.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fhealth%
2F20032F01%2F13%2Fhdoc12.xml

> >fried bread, fried eggs,
> THE combo!

Try poached eggs on butttered crumpets. They're nice....


> >black pudding done west Lancs style (boiled - brings out the
> > spices and doesn't add grease).

> <GUotBP>
>
> Bleurgh!! Eee, its enough to start over on the War of the Roses!

Doesn't frying melt some fat & result in a net loss of
fat from the BP?

I wonder whether BP in pastry (a la pork pie) would be
worth trying...

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Vivianne

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Jan 22, 2003, 7:24:18 PM1/22/03
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In article <93bu2vs84vc5m0rbd...@4ax.com>, JJ
<ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes

>On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:48:41 +0000, Vivianne wrote:
>>In article <ecor2vkujfptjtj8a...@4ax.com>, JJ
>><ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes
>[...] meet music

>>>Er... Monty Python Sings, John Adams - Harmonielehre, Sting - Brand
>>>New Day, Rocky Frisco - The Raccoon's Revenge, Steve Ray Vaughan -
>>>Live box set... there was probably some other stuff too but I can't
>>>remember <g>
>>>
>>And Beautiful South - Dream a Little Dream.
>
>Oooh! Forgot that one!
>
># Stars shining bright above you
># Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
># Birds singing in the sycamore tree
># Dream a little dream of me
>
Once more in French (WOCAB).

Mike

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Jan 23, 2003, 1:25:16 PM1/23/03
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JJ <ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes

>Er... Monty Python Sings,

Shotgun please

>John Adams

**************
*****BANG*****
**************

Bugger!

>- Harmonielehre

Bless you

> Sting

Vinegar

--
Mike

Mike

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Jan 23, 2003, 1:22:52 PM1/23/03
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dormouse writes
>Mike says...

>> >start reading here...
>>
>> But it's blank here...^
>
>That's where you take a breath, innit?

No, I did that here.

>Otherwise you won't even get to the
>end of the first phrase.

Third Phrase. Chapter 1.2:vol 6~40

>It'll be a flashback. Trust me, it works. You change the first person and
>the time. Makes a better film then.

Who had the camera?

>> I had hoped to add myself to the list but, alas, couldn't make it :(
>
>Aww, sorry not to meet you

Bullshit <g>

>it was a JJ Monster

Yes, I'm sure.

>> Shame I missed the spectacle of Vee apparently sailing through a brand
>> new board game though.
>
>In full galleon mode :-)

That'll be the glitter on the eyelids.

>> Are you a weirdo biker?
>

>I'm still not talking :-)

--

>sacred


>
>Apparently it is used in religious rituals. So I hear.

Yes, apparently so. Other than that though, I still find it an odd
word.

>>chains
>
>Special lightweight ones.

Fur lined I suppose.

>>>Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
>>>chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt.
>
>Guess again

DrH

>Duchy
>Original

Charlie?

>>On!on


>
>It was suggested, but I don't like cooking onions

It should happen as one starts to cook breakfast

>> Bleurgh!! Eee, its enough to start over on the War of the Roses!
>
>Nah, we have to be friends since the M62, don't we?

No

--
Mike

Mike

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Jan 23, 2003, 1:30:27 PM1/23/03
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Vivianne writes
>Mike writes

>DrH cooked the FEB on Saturday morning after a little gentle
>persuasion.

Ouch! The full three hour coffee whine

>Even vegetarians will eat good home-made beef
>>chilli...
>>
>Some might, some might if you lie to them!!!!

One did

>I think dormouse is being polite. Or maybe I did and I have just
>forgotten it.

The latter

>Cards

Happy Birthday
Merry Christmas
Glorious 'AGE'
GWS
MY
Etfc...

>I tried for the dragon but JJ's nailed it to the floor.

Mirrors shouldn't be on floors

>>Fools! See above about chilli standing and *improving*
>
>There wasn't enough left for 3

Stop.

You can add to chilli

>bottomless stomachs

There's one at every gathering I go to...

>shiny

[SNIP]

--
Mike

dormouse

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Jan 23, 2003, 7:45:03 PM1/23/03
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JJ says...

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Vivianne wrote:
> >In article <93bu2vs84vc5m0rbd...@4ax.com>, JJ
> ><ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes
> [...]

> >># Stars shining bright above you
> >># Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
> >># Birds singing in the sycamore tree
> >># Dream a little dream of me
> >>
> >Once more in French (WOCAB).

Ce souvenir, je te l'rends
Des souvenirs tu sais, j'en ai tellement
Puisqu'on repart toujours a zéro
Pas la peine de s'charger trop
Ce souvenir je te l'prends
Des souvenirs comme ça, j'en veux tout l'temps
Je l'sortirai d'mon tiroir
J'rêve les yeux ouverts, ça m'fait du bien
Ça n'va pas plus loin
J'veux pas voir derrièrre puisque j'en viens
Vivement demain
Un dernier verre de sherry
De chèri mon amour, comme je m'ennuie
Tous les jours se ressemblen à présent
Tu me manques terriblement

Vivianne

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Jan 24, 2003, 4:12:08 AM1/24/03
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In article <rf313vgd345v0m5e0...@4ax.com>, JJ
<ne...@crydee.demon.co.uk> writes

>On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Vivianne wrote:
>[...]

>>># Stars shining bright above you
>>># Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
>>># Birds singing in the sycamore tree
>>># Dream a little dream of me
>>>
>>Once more in French (WOCAB).
>
>Well, one would, of course, transcribe it for one but one does not
>have the cd to hand as it would seem that someone has borrowed it...
>;)
>
You mean you haven't memorised the words in French! (WOCAB)

Vivianne

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Jan 24, 2003, 4:13:24 AM1/24/03
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In article <b0q2af$rpepm$2...@ID-157835.news.dfncis.de>, dormouse
<s...@hotmail.com> writes

Hmmmmmmmmmm, sounds better than it looks.

nogginthenog

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Jan 24, 2003, 9:34:44 AM1/24/03
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dormouse wrote:
> (WOCAB WOCAB WOCAB).

SHUUUUUT UP! (sergeant major to punkahwallah).

This is not intended to be a destructive psot.

David Cantrell

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Jan 24, 2003, 1:57:17 PM1/24/03
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Not only do we have an excellent write-up, we have photographic
evidence at http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/2eggsmeet-20030119

--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

David Cantrell

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Jan 24, 2003, 6:05:48 PM1/24/03
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:22:52 +0000, Mike <mi...@clara.co.uk> said:

>>>>Sunday breakfast was cooked by someone doing an imitation of an Italian
>>>>chef warbling Caro Mio Ben[2] at full belt.
>>
>>Guess again
>
>DrH

I have been known to perpetrate singing on occasion, but I do not
WARBLE. I can actually hit the right note, so do not need to wander
all over the place in the blind hope that the victims^Waudience won't
notice.

Bovine God

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Jan 25, 2003, 12:19:35 AM1/25/03
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:05:48 +0000, David Cantrell
<use...@barnyard.co.uk> wrote:

>I have been known to perpetrate singing on occasion, but I do not
>WARBLE. I can actually hit the right note, so do not need to wander
>all over the place in the blind hope that the victims^Waudience won't
>notice.

not trying to be argumentative..( it think its just my anal nature)

but
being a musician .. and a fairly accomplished singer myself
(being a backup vocalist for 10 years or so .. and musical training
since the age of 4)

... youd be SURPRISED what you can sneak by most audiences..

95% of the general populace dont have perfect pitch .. and that being
so.. cant tell the difference between quarter tones.. and
some even cant tell the difference between SEMI-TONES (sad as it is)

and the REALLY tone deaf people cant even hear the difference between
a major 2nd and a minor third interval

heres the first rule i ever learned in music class

#1 rule of music.. if you make a mistake...
dont stop.. do the mistake again.. it makes it look like its SUPPOSED
to sound like that.

Who's to say .. that it's not just part of your "style"
--

Don't Drink and Hard Drive!

Spuddie

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Jan 25, 2003, 2:54:11 AM1/25/03
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In the year of our lard Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:57:17 +0000 on a heck of
a cold night in Timbuktu, David Cantrell <use...@barnyard.co.uk> with
chattering teeth and goosebumps as big as bottlecaps, was heard to
utter:

>Not only do we have an excellent write-up, we have photographic
>evidence at http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/2eggsmeet-20030119

Ack...so far only the piccy of Dormouse is coming in...the rest won't
load up--just hangin' and hangin' there. I shall try back again
tomorrow.

Cheryl
~~~Mens sana non potest vivre in corpere sicco
(A healthy mind cannot live in a dry body)~~~

Mike

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Jan 25, 2003, 4:59:29 AM1/25/03
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David Cantrell writes

>On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:22:52 +0000, Mike <mi...@clara.co.uk> said:

>>>Guess again
>>
>>DrH
>
>I have been known to perpetrate singing on occasion, but I do not
>WARBLE.

Not even in duet with Dormouse?

>I can actually hit the right note, so do not need to wander
>all over the place in the blind hope that the victims^Waudience won't
>notice.

Ah well I've not met ya so I was going more on the vision than the
sound. Give myself a picture, you know.

--
Mike

Vivianne

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Jan 24, 2003, 8:21:53 PM1/24/03
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In article <j2333vsj3f9no4f0t...@4ax.com>, David Cantrell
<use...@barnyard.co.uk> writes

>Not only do we have an excellent write-up, we have photographic
>evidence at http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/2eggsmeet-20030119
>
Only three!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We was done.

Anna Begins

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Jan 25, 2003, 12:22:13 PM1/25/03
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Mike said:
> Even vegetarians will eat good home-made beef
> chilli...
>
>
Not this one...

I'm enough of a mad cow as it is, fanks...

--
Anna

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we
can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr. Strange,Love!~

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Jan 25, 2003, 1:42:31 PM1/25/03
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Spuddie <the...@spuddie.net> wrote in message news:<fdg43vs9aqlfvgfih...@4ax.com>...

> ~~~Mens sana non potest vivre in corpere sicco
> (A healthy mind cannot live in a dry body)~~~

Mens sana non potest vivre in corpere obesus.
--
DSL!~

Dr. Strange,Love!~

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Jan 25, 2003, 2:41:09 PM1/25/03
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David Cantrell <use...@barnyard.co.uk> wrote in message news:<j2333vsj3f9no4f0t...@4ax.com>...

> Not only do we have an excellent write-up, we have photographic
> evidence at http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/photos/2eggsmeet-20030119

The "disembodied Vee hand" looks a bit risque.

Can-Can without knickers?
--
DSL!~

Loz Pycock

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Jan 26, 2003, 6:47:46 AM1/26/03
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Mumble, mumble Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:19:35 -0500 mumble, Bovine God
<Manmade...@SPAMhotmail.com> mumble, "Hello, my name is Inigo
Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die", mumble, mumble wrote:

<SNIP>


>
>heres the first rule i ever learned in music class
>
>#1 rule of music.. if you make a mistake...
>dont stop.. do the mistake again.. it makes it look like its SUPPOSED
>to sound like that.
>

2# If that doesn't work, stomp of stage complaining that people don't
understand experimental music, where you are SUPPOSED to miss that
note... <g>

Loz

'...Whitehall officials have admitted privately that the "no-fly" patrols,
conducted by RAF and US aircraft from bases in Kuwait, are designed to
weaken Iraq's air defence systems and have nothing to do with their stated
original purpose of defending the marsh Arabs and the Sh'ia population of
southern Iraq.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,853370,00.html

David Cantrell

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Jan 26, 2003, 10:12:13 AM1/26/03
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:19:35 -0500, Bovine God
<Manmade...@SPAMhotmail.com> said:

>being a musician .. and a fairly accomplished singer myself
>(being a backup vocalist for 10 years or so .. and musical training
>since the age of 4)

Similar background here.

>... youd be SURPRISED what you can sneak by most audiences..

Troo, but I'd like it to not sound too ghastly to myself too, both
during the performance and afterwards when I listen to the recording.

Rosie Tavener

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Jan 26, 2003, 6:42:42 PM1/26/03
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In message <hju73vgqura7jf8kr...@4ax.com>, David Cantrell
<use...@barnyard.co.uk> writes

>On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:19:35 -0500, Bovine God
><Manmade...@SPAMhotmail.com> said:
>
>>being a musician .. and a fairly accomplished singer myself
>>(being a backup vocalist for 10 years or so .. and musical training
>>since the age of 4)
>
>Similar background here.

Really? I'd like to hear you sing sometime.

All together now.... "Sometime".

--
Rosiebint

dormouse

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Jan 26, 2003, 10:17:32 PM1/26/03
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David Cantrell says...

>
> I have been known to perpetrate singing on occasion, but I do not
> WARBLE. I can actually hit the right note, so do not need to wander
> all over the place in the blind hope that the victims^Waudience won't
> notice.

That's wobbling, not warbling :-). Vibrato of a minor third, etc.

I do more of the occasional wurble[1].

[1] Peter Holman: "And, I think, a little Baroque wurble on the fourth
quaver of bar 67..."

--
dormouse

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