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Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HB, you are my favourite flavour of pencil. > > What did GigGirl have to imaginarily do to get the > imaginary part? Or are you leaving that to.. Why Moos what a nice compliment. A chance remark on a lost wallet thread some time back led to the idea being mooted about the time I found a wallet belonging to an ice cream magnate. We bacame firm friends and I ended up marrying his top international model sister. There was talk of Clooney for the role of me, and Giggirl was all set for the part of my top international model wife. Sadly the imaginary backers turned out to be the worst sort of scoundrels imaginable and ran off with the counterfeit money. Even now my pretend lawyers are trying to trace them with a view to serving cigarette papers on them. Still, that's the imaginary film business for you.

The Only Way Is Up - Yazz

Well in my chilhood days Tufty Squirrel used to teach us all about road safety, and how to look right, look left and right again before crossing. If Tufty'd've been a rat we'd've all shat ourselves and just ran into the road in sheer panic and all been killed under lorries. A whole generation dead because of the wrong choice of rodent. It makes you think.

Beat On The Brat - The Ramones

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For the record, I've never met Giggirl and have no > idea who she is. I've never met Giggirl either, though I did once offer her a part in an imaginary film I was pretending to make. It was a non-existent co-lead role, too.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's a 45" plasma? It sounds impressive. It sounds as if it should be on the astrology thread, somehow.

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Just missing the same bus, in the rain for ever and ever and ever...

Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds

Cassius Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Recently the world has been full of people who > think they are someone because they have a Prada > outfit and a 45" Plasma TV - I'd be very glad to > see the end of THAT world. Me too. Unless of course they manage to combine the two and produce a Prada outfit that has a 45" waist. Then I'll be right on board.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > did u know you can get wind up lamps these days? > ... Yeah right KK, next you'll be telling me you can get portable phones that take photographs. I had to check the calender to make sure it wasn't April the first.

Hold On I'm Comin' - Sam And Dave

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mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's no man. But, like why man?

A book and earplugs make any journey so much easier.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you not seen Mad Max? The next thing you know > they have surrounded your compound and are > demanding you send out butternut squash and all of > last year?s Cabernet Sauvignon. I think I speak for the whole of East Dulwich when I say NOT TIL THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, HANDS!

Rose - Mott The Hoople. And as far as john Cooper Clarke is concerned, in my humid opinion he's acceptable on a song game thread, provided there is a musical accompaniment, also he is a poet, not a 'sort of' one. h

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Now just stop your grizzlin' and-a drizzlin', lets's all join hands and chant together. Everything will be all right. Everything will be all right. Everything will be all right. Everything will be all right. Everything will be all right. Everything will be all right. Everythi. Everything wil ball right. ng will be alight. Now, admit it, don't you feel better?

MadWorld74 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Me! Because I'm such a bad speller and I'm so > non-discript in my postings. I'm sure those things will be taken into consideration. In the meantime, do you have a hat? And do you require a comfort break?

"You can feel the wind about your collar, where the barber's number two grade has exposed your neck. You remember a few tiny flakes of dandruff, no more than is normal, surely, falling onto the dark nylon cape, and not being able to decide whether to shrug them off. Perhaps doing so would draw more attention. You weren't going to go for such a low grade, but hadn?t objected". This is my favourite line, so far. Is the narrator passively accepting what is given to him, or is he deliberatly or perhaps subconsciously building up a sense of grievance against an individual, or the world in general. At the same time it comes across as the most poignant acceptance of his lot in life. Genuinely when I read it, it took me straight to one of my favourite lines in a song. Jimy Webb's 'Wichita Lineman' as sung by Glen Campbell. Doesn't the line 'I know need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain' create the same sense of melancholy as TM's.

glau Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can report no improvement in evening service - > just got home on the no 40 where two old ladies, > one drunk, one deranged, got into a fight, making > it a tedious if slightly hallucinogenic journey. I feel obliged to defend myself here. The two old ladies made certain comments regarding my cravat, that a boulavardier such as I could not but take isssue with, if only for the sake of my tailor's reputation. Their insistence that the brightish red scarf with horse racing motifs, binoculars, riding crops etc, clashed violently with my brown leather safari coat caused me to forget their grey hairs and inform them, with some heat, that tweed and brogues in London were not at all the thing. A little harsh perhaps, but by thunder they were asking for it. As for the deranged, he really did ask for it by taking it upon himself to pass remark upon my spats in a derogatory fashion. Noticing that his own footwear indicated he was all set to take part in a sport of some kind, I suggested he try taking a run at himself. Naturally he took offence and an embarrasing melee ensued. Bloody glad when I got to my stop, conveniently close to a grog house and was able to avail myself of a couple of largish sharpeners before making my way home. Sorry for any inconvenience, and all that sort of rot.

I say the award stands and is granted on the seventh of each month. As for the possible accusations of cronyism, lets not give a fig about it. Do you think the the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences frets abouit people wondering if they're a bit too matey for their own good? Does the Booker Prize committee worry whether the great unwashed make slighting remarks about the their long lists and short lists? Do you think George Clooney lies awake worrying when it's hinted that some of his films might just be a bit of a jolly-up for him and his 'buddies'? The answer to all of the above is, do they buggery. If someone even hints there might be some some sort of elitist shennanigans going on, on the EDF, tell him quietly and firmly to go shit in his hat.

I think the above nominees are indeed worthy, but have to say that Ted's narrative on the CPT thread has me hooked and he should be the inaurgural Forumite Of The Month. I've also just fallen in about Ted's whereabouts after seeing Sean M's post again. I'd always thought of TM as a very big fan of rock 'n' roll, in fact I shall continue to do so.

There's something about it that puts me in mind of Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. The atmosphere and a sense of quiet frustration/desperation perhaps. That one didn't end too well, hope it turns out better for our hero. Fine stuff Ted, more power to you.