Brendan

egzactly!

I agree Dom. I patronise the Castle on occasion. (Normally those occasions when Mrs B is not around.) I was just giving the fellow an idea of what to expect.

Welcome to the area Tommy. I second what has been said about the Crystal Palace Tavern (CPT). It?s a top pub! It is over here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=534030&y=174658&z=1&sv=534030,174658&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf The Castle is also what one would call an ?old school boozer? but a bit more shall we say, rough around the edges. It is up the road. Expect the locals (which include a few vaguely humanoid beings and a couple of dogs) to stop their conversations and turn to look at you when you walk in.

Am I correct in assuming that the JD was mixed with Coke? The Coke helps to re-hydrate you and all the sugar helps too. I drank loads of JD and coke on Friday night and didn?t feel that bad yesterday. Last night however I was at a party and halfway through the evening the hostess decided to start making liberal with ?cocktails? that consisted of chilli-vodka mixed with Cava. Today I feel like something that was scraped off the sole of a shoe.

Once met a big scary biker in a bar in bad part of Johannesburg who had a home made looking tat across his arm that said (spelt exactly this way) KILER. I thought it best not to mention the spelling mistake.

downsouth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ED does seem to be over endowed with journalist > folk and to think you were all deriding the estate > agents! Bloody cheek... That could be why this forum is so successful. There are lots of people on here who are. A - Opinionated B - Lazy C - Both It makes for good reading. Let?s be honest, estate agents would probably fill it with baddly speld threads about silk ties and how to avoid the speed cameras on the South Circular.

I assume you mean actually saying the term MP.

I would really love to be a writer and sub-editor for an online magazine about construction who does a bit of freelance writing and also acts as secretary to a body of construction industry representatives who lobby government. Then I would be so bored I could spend ages on this forum everyday.

There is bound to be on something so full of cobblers.

I wonder if there are any other kinds of footwear on the forum

I am the 1998 winner (and current record holder) of the Liverpool to New York doggy paddle. I once penned the source code for a disk operating system on the back of a beermat and gave it as payment to a lapdancer called Bill. My life as an adored philanthropist and notable deflowerer of virgins has taken me to all 3 corners of both continents and most of the bits in-between. When not giving my council to world leaders or answering Hawkins? inane questions I captain an astral darts team consisting of history's most notorious boozers and well known crack shots, Genghis Kahn, Kurt Cobain and Jesus van Nazareth. It is a well established scientific fact that I am always correct about everything and the most devastatingly handsome male specimen the human race will ever produce. Unlike that Lush fellow I am too modest to go on about my achievements. I am also the founding and only member of the tortured, misunderstood and under-appreciated genius that is: Lord Saxonbard's Christmas Haemorrhage and the Three Pints of Sugar Band. Although I am considering leaving due to creative differences.

I read comic books and have coco pops for breakfast as a treat on Saturdays.

There will be a cudgeling in it for him.

Bugger is a funny one. It has almost completely lost its literal meaning. If you are sitting around a boardroom table in a meeting and you drop your pen and say ?oh bugger!? nobody will mind that much. But say ?oh bum sex!? and they spill their coffee down their silk ties. Ties eh? Silly item of clothing. What?s the point? Perhaps a question for another thread.

I draw the line at recycled toilet paper!

There?s a really tricky bit on the corner of Landells Road and Lordship Lane.

I knew a guy who worked for Oddbins and had done his degree in wine (winery? wineing? wineology?) at Stellenbosch University near Cape Town. He was indeed passionate about it. Unfortunately we were acquainted at a time when I had a much more desperado, quantity over quality approach to alcohol than I do now so I never took much heed of his wisdom on the subject. I do like the thwap myself but can only achieve it with a cosh which, as I?m sure you know, is cheating.

This is ED. Surely you only use organic fair-trade leaches from independent retailers.

Or in a modern, adapted production of Hamelt. ?I?m gonna cudgel yo ass good!?.

That's a knobkierie that is. Can you drink wine out of it?

(tu) Good idea

Sean I wasn?t having a pop at all! It is something I don?t know much about. I am genuinely interested and appreciate the input as I feel that my, ??? = quality method of selecting wine is seriously lacking. Last night was a typical example where I felt like a bottle of wine, spent 20mins in the supermarket trying to decide which one to get and then was not very impressed when I drank it.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't buy oversugared rubbish wine from somewhere > that doesn't give a shite about wines Who are you refering to here, Sainsbos or Threshers or both?

?Suits are like swear words.? Nice comparison. I see them as a necessary evil. A well cut suit is always comfortable but I have never liked conforming so I do subtle things to make myself feel rebellious (sad I know). For instance today I am wearing a pinstripe suit but I have pictures of Elvis on my cufflinks and a skull and crossbones on my tie. How cool am I? B):-S I don?t mind going out in Westminster after work in my suit but I always feel uncomfortable and out of place wearing one in ED. I will always make the effort to go home and change when I go out locally.

? I still sometimes walk home without stepping on the cracks.