Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Quite right Tresco.Chris, how does working 210 days without even one day off, sound AND evening meals to cope with as well [:)]How many weekends you had off Chris ? That being theguide line, it's 50 to one on, you are more retired than me but in a few years orless (fingers crossed) , I shall be more retired than you but Dick will have 25,000 postsby then. [;-)] I have worked out that I will need to post every 10 minutes foryonks to catch him up and that's in the hope of him not retiringhimself....if he does, I am doomed and he will be forever the Daddy [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 5k by Christmas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Is 50 to one on 50:1 or 1:50? Sorry to wake you up Miki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 And the rest, you posted close to thousand in just one week [:)] I therefore demand an award for Mr Smith for showing such fortitiude, in the face of deletions [;-)]Hey, that's a point, I have probably lost a few thousand posts indeletions and during my time in purgatory, otherwise know as the placethat now does not........[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I lost 3 this week, but this utterly pointless post (and the last one) has just clawed two of them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 [quote user="Chris Head"]Is 50 to one on 50:1 or 1:50? Sorry to wake you up Miki.[/quote]For those who think the PMU is a bar with too many Televisions !Fifty to one on is.....1:50 which means you have to bet a bullseye to win a oncer [:)] And in the badold days of paying tax, at those odds and placing the best with a bookie, you would actually lose, even ifit won !! The nanny goat is the only way to bet here and so it should be in Angleterre...feeving bookies !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Three !! I can lose that many in half hour !!And the other difference also, is that ALL my posts have a point to make...no drivel from this sector [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I'll be amazed/ashamed to get to 1000 posts. God if my clients knew what I was up to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Ah, but that is true of so many, many things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Agreed Dick, but then again I'm into poignancy tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Ah so very true Mr smith. My old prof for French, a certain Monsieur Spoerry, said I would neverspeak French and if I ever did manage to utter something comprehensibleand at best, be understood, he would be astonished beyond mots.Well at least two out of a few (dozen) inhabitants here can pick out afew words I say. How's that for one in the eye of a language teacher[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 My original French teacher (the one at Grammar School, not Miss Cannon who married Mr Ball or Smithy who had a nervous breakdown when we toppled a bookcase on him) only taught me one phrase: "Smith! N'embrasse pas le radiateur!"It was a very chilly school.>edit< I did get the lowest mark in the class in mock 'O' levels... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 "Smith! N'embrasse pas le radiateur!"You didn't Dick, surely not.......jeepers indeed ! We had a lad at school who would dive from the first floor into a largelaurel bush. The kids in the class below would mark him for his diveand awkwardness of the dive. His best mark was a faultless 10 and thatwas followed swiftly by six of the best !!! Ah what days eh ! He gaveit up by sixth form, he kinda grew up[;-)] Me Mother went mad, she had to pay 4 lots of 10 bob, as sonny boyfailed 4 mocks, thinking it didn't count too much and wouldn't stop metaking the actual exams. Couldn't have been listening about it costingmoney to take the actuals, if one failed the mocks !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Ah, that applied at the grammar school (loadsa money to go there) but not at the Sec Mod, so I could play fast and loose. I think you got charged for retakes, so I didn't do any, and got a job instead. I turned down the first one, which was training to be a calligrapher to make books of remembrance for crematoria. Not a thing you fancy at 16 when you've just bought a Lambretta and a new Parka. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 But I bet you had the bestest Who design on the back of your parka !!My Mum got my uniform for Grammar off the old two bob a week tally manaided by the good old Provident cheque. Me mates brother "found" a bike for meto pedal 9 miles there to school and the same back. That wasn't the bike Imentioned a while back, that in deep smog in the early 60's I went fullpelt in to the back of the local bus and bent the front forks so muchthe wheel was level with the pedals. Dad bought that one !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Funny thing about The Who. No, I never had any writing on me Parka (in fact it lasted about 2 weeks) and I always thought that I had never been into the Who when I looked back. Then a couple of weeks ago they showed 'The Kids are Alright' on BBC3 and I realised that I had been, could do all the words etc. My eldest son is a big, big fan - partly because he is a drummer and idolises Moon.Odd connections - one of my major memories of the 60s is seeing an open-air festival which had the Bonzo Dog Band on in the afternoon. On stage came the band, and a bloke in a gorilla suit who played the drums. Like a lunatic, wrecked the drum kit and then threw it in the press area, took off the gorilla head and turned out to be none other than Keith Moon. I was talking about this in our staffroom recently and it turns out that, teaching in our Geography department, is none other than the daughter of Sam Spoons, who is still playing, though I don't remember the name of the band - in fact they are local to Miki's old stamping ground at the western end of the Upper Richmond Road (in the 70s I used to go to see the Bonzos at the Star and Garter by Putney Bridge - do you know that one, Miki?). Small world, innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Funny thing about The Who. No, I never had anywriting on me Parka (in fact it lasted about 2 weeks) and I alwaysthought that I had never been into the Who when I looked back. Then acouple of weeks ago they showed 'The Kids are Alright' on BBC3 and Irealised that I had been, could do all the words etc. My eldest son isa big, big fan - partly because he is a drummer and idolisesMoon.[/quote]A friend of mine now lives right next to the 2000 club near Egham whichwas an old haunt of Keith Moon. I'd like a pound for all the times we sawthe Who on our ventures.Keith Moons ex wife Kim, died this summer in acar accident (I think) in the US. I think it pretty obvious to anyone,that the Who, as we all knew them, died when Moon the Loon passed away.Do I know the Star and Garter !! what kind of question is that dear boy!! Nice pub, apart from having some good nights in there, we used tohave a pint on occasion in there before watching Fulham (Besty, Marshand Moore ) play at home (Chelsea away).Have you watched theelectric proms his week on the old beeb ? The Who have been on and itbought a lump to me throat, when they sang Tea and Theatre, it's beencalled a sorta maudlin retrospective, if you can, do sit and listen to the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 When we went to Fulham to watch Best, Marsh & Moore we used to have a few pints at a vault at the northern end of Putney Bridge - I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. Used to be completely unreconstructed Edwardian - I imagine it's long gone now.I realised watching 'The Kids' that I couldn't remember the name of the drummer who took over, so I think you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 Now you're talking - the Bonzos, the original Who...A couple of odd comments, a few years ago we went to a gig at a village hall in Sussex, and the 'entertainment' was something called the Bill Posters Will Be Band, that consisted of several original Bonzos. A rather pleasant surprise. What's left of the Bonzos (7 originals plus Ade Edmonson and Phill Jupitus) is currently on tour in Britain. The late Viv Stanshall is one of my heroes.I quite agree that the Who, as was, ceased when Moon the Loon shuffled off the mortal coil. But even without Moon or Entwistle they still, along with the Floyd, showed the current generation how it should be done at Live Aid. Incidentally it was Kenny Jones (ex Small Faces) who took over from Moon, the current drummer being Zak Starkey, son of an even more famous drummer, though he was supposedly taught initially by Moon who was a friend of the Starrs.And don't start me on the grammar school days in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I know I saw Viv Stanshall play somewhere. It may have been with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band...or not.It will have been between 1978 and 1980 but I can't remember where. Those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 The reason you lot are racking upo so many posts is that you don't go to bed at a proper time. Matron should spank the lot of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Dick was that place you called the Vault, near to Mancini's GoldenGloves boozer on the Palace Road ? Looked like a public baths ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 [quote user="Cassis"]The reason you lot are racking upo so many postsis that you don't go to bed at a proper time. Matron should spankthe lot of you.[/quote]Says the sozzzie with nearly 4000 posts since Easter....................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Whaddya want me to do? Get a life? [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Yeh, I got one on promo at Leclercs this weekend. Can't wait to try it out on me hols [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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