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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 the

guide line, it's 50 to one on, you are more retired than me but in a  few years or

less (fingers crossed) , I shall be more retired than you but Dick will have 25,000 posts

by then. [;-)]

 I have worked out that I will need to post every 10 minutes for

yonks to catch him up and that's in the hope of him not retiring

himself....if he does, I am doomed and he will be forever the Daddy  [;-)]

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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 in

deletions and during my time in purgatory, otherwise know as the place

that now does not........[:)]

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[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 bad

old days of paying tax, at those odds and placing the best with a bookie, you would actually lose, even if

it won !! The nanny goat is the only way to bet here and so it should be in Angleterre...feeving bookies !!

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Ah so very true Mr smith.

My old prof for French, a certain Monsieur Spoerry, said I would never

speak French and if I ever did manage to utter something comprehensible

and at best, be understood, he would be astonished beyond mots.

Well at least two out of a few (dozen) inhabitants here can pick out a

few words I say. How's that for one in the eye of a language teacher

[;-)]

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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...

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"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 large

laurel bush. The kids in the class below would mark him for his dive

and awkwardness of the dive. His best mark was a faultless 10 and that

was followed swiftly by six of the best !!! Ah what days eh ! He gave

it up by sixth form, he kinda grew up[;-)]

Me Mother went mad, she had to pay 4 lots of 10 bob, as sonny boy

failed 4 mocks, thinking it didn't count too much and wouldn't stop me

taking the actual exams. Couldn't have been listening about it costing

money to take the actuals,  if one failed the mocks !!

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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.

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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 man

aided by the good old Provident cheque. Me mates brother "found" a bike for me

to pedal 9 miles there to school and the same back. That wasn't the bike I

mentioned a while back, that in deep smog in the early 60's I went full

pelt in to the back of the local bus and bent the front forks so much

the wheel was level with the pedals. Dad bought that one !!

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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?

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[quote user="Dick Smith"]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.[/quote]

A friend of mine now lives right next to the 2000 club near Egham which

was an old haunt of Keith Moon. I'd like a pound for all the times we saw

the Who on our ventures.Keith Moons ex wife Kim, died this summer in a

car 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 to

have a pint on occasion in there before watching Fulham (Besty, Marsh

and Moore ) play at home (Chelsea away).Have you  watched the

electric proms his week on the old beeb ? The Who have been on and it

bought a lump to me throat, when they sang Tea and Theatre, it's been

called a sorta maudlin retrospective, if you can, do sit and listen to the lyrics.

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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.

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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.

 

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[quote user="Cassis"]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.

[/quote]

Says the sozzzie with nearly 4000 posts since Easter....................[:D]

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