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Yes, Bob is most definitely a Dulwichmum. Not that I have anything against them, well, perhaps their gargantuan '4x4 buggies', but that's not really fair because they are soooo desirable. Anyhow, I digress. Bob? Just a note to help your man masquerade more successful. Top Trumps was not a 'collecting' phenomena, not in the strictest sense, it was a card game. One didn't barter the cards in the play ground in that misty eyed, nostalgic way you are describing. That refers to the still present 'cigarette card/Panini sticker' fads boys enjoy so much, an innate quality of adolescent masculinity that has been exploited by scurrilous marketeers for generations. If I may refresh your memory, 'Bob'. The cards were themed around topics chosen to excite impressionable boys, aforementioned 'qualities' coursing through their veins, each a budding speed freak, geek or embryonic despot: Tanks, Ships, Helicopters, Fighter Planes, Super Cars, Bridges, etc Each card, or trump, carried an illustrated example of the theme (a cypher, really for the sublimation of aforementioned) which was assigned a 'value' based on the included data (statistics and dimensions etc). The game was organised around a principle of pitching stats against stats, strong against weak; no bartering took place. Just a process of annihilation as the strong 'Top Trumps' devoured the weak. One could swap entire sets (but that was for the truly geeky and never actually happened, not in my school anyway). Ok, 'BoB?'


By the way, I saw the actress who teams up with the 'Peep Show' boys in the fancy kids shop in Lordship Lane. I think she was after a 4x4.

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dulwichmum Wrote:

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> Gosh, I am sorry! I read something about James

> Nesbit and it just makes me see red...



What did you read, dear lady? Or was it the mere mention of this much maligned actor's name, that has sent you into a frenzy?

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DaveR, no, not really, I just had a feeling, followed my instincts. Bob is on an earlier thread trying to get in with the guys, doing guy jokes, 'mate'. You know the sort. She was very good but over extended herself and the top trump faux pas gave her away. I, sleuth like, had to exposed her. Just a question of putting the clues together, any bloke could do it. Once you've learnt how to do it properly, though, the manmasks fall away quickly, some don't have the stomach for it, but you have to be vigilant at all times, they're sneaky. It's no good just going in there 'Cleese at the stoning'- 'are there any women here?'- no, you won't catch 'em like that. Need to wait in ambush, they'll get carried away at some point, bring in some exponential truth gleaned from a magazine article read at the hairdressers, or such like. Some vicarious mis-register of a guy experience that just won't seem right to seasoned masculine ears. They'll get carried away. They like the sound of their own (textually deepened) voices too much, couriered in on fraudulent appellations. Lie in wait, DaveR, Victor/Victoria will hoist herself, soon enough, just don't be fooled by the petard. Move the thread onto BBQ's, they'll be armed but you'll know the territory. Don't get seduced.
Peckhamgatecrasher

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And from yesterday's "Telegraph" an interview with Mr Nesbitt:


How much did your home cost to buy and what's it worth now?


Can I start talking about the house I owned before? It's just that we did particularly well with it. About ten years ago we bought a four-bedroom semi-detached house for ?250,000 in East Dulwich, not far from where we are now. Then three years ago we sold it for ?500,000, and I thought that was a very good profit.


We moved to our current home, an Edwardian detached, and that cost me around ?750,000. We have had some renovation work done to it and goodness knows what it's worth now - I keep reading that property prices are falling so I'm not optimistic.


I have also bought a seasonal ownership in a five-bedroom home at Gleneagles because I am mad about golf. It means we are entitled to a certain number of holiday weeks there each year and I think it's a good deal when you think about what you are saving on staying in a hotel.

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