The Drawing Room

[HonaloochieB]

If I can just make my small contribution to the new section.

It's a charcoal sketch of BBW and Ted Max playing table tennis.

BBW is portrayed as Johnny Depp who has just smashed one over the net to TM who is obviously Brad Pitt and who has casually dispatched it back towards BBW, the ball is suspended over the net.

Ted's gaze is focussed beyond BBW, to the lower right hand corner where Jennifer Aniston is smoking a cigarette.

An Embassy Regal.

For some reason I was going to depict an elderly woman with a handkerchief stuffed into the right hand sleeve of her Evans blouse.

But I thought it might make it a little fussy.

[Huguenot]

Your coal nevertheless highlights a bead of sweat on the 'Max' brow within which the entire scene is caught once more.

[Ted Max]

Is BBW shown in his three-quarter length trisers, three lions tattoo visible above the ankle?

I'm not going in that there drawing room - its imagined content has cast a cold grip of terror round my waking dreams. Instead I am staying here in the The Lounge, the place for whimsy and mimsy, dimsy and flimsy construct.

Let us embrace trivial mundanities through the dim fog of second-class minds that display the attention span of the golden retriever, the gravity of the spring lamb.

As those modern prophets the Indigo Girls said; "The less I seek my source for some definitive; The closer I am to fine."

[Muley]

Golden Retriever- Super Furry Animals

Can't seem to navigate my way around this new layout yet...

[annaj]

Ha! Get me. I've just been in and posted.

Stuck to what I know, obviously, but feel very brave.

[Moos]

Anna, there was Doctor all over your post, it was most impressive.

[Ted Max]

Club biscuits or Penguins?

[Ted Max]

Pink gin or Pimms?

[woofmarkthedog]

Do you have to whisper in there? feels like it.

[annaj]

Moos, I'm counting that post as revision....

Not this one though, better get back to it...

[Brendan]

I?ve just completed this watercolour. It is called Off Topic.

There is a busy street in soft blue, white and light shades of beige. A forlorn looking shopkeeper is trying in vain to appease a queue of people who seem desperate to purchase something he does not sell. Monochrome people on the street pass by not noticing but for one or two faces turned towards the commotion in obvious amusement (for some unknown reason one of them is eating a chocolate bar). In the grey clouds above the street you can make out Hermes delivering a message to Zeus.

[Huguenot]

Did you ever work for Athena?

(That's a multi-level quip).

[Brendan]

Oh, like the houses of parliment.

[Ted Max]

I feel certain that at this very moment Mockney is standing with his back to the fire, hands wrapped round a brandy glass, arguing politely but fiercely with MarmoraMan over the lasting legacy of the Albigensian Crusade and what it tells us about modern day secular educational policy.

Steam rises from MarmoraMan's tweeds as he wonders whether now is the time to inject his killer fact about the unintended outcome of the Last Cathar's Rebellion.

Meanwhile, in the Lounge, the dullards are left only to talk of the weather.

[????]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> I feel certain that at this very moment Mockney is

> standing with his back to the fire, hands wrapped

> round a brandy glass, arguing politely but

> fiercely with MarmoraMan over the lasting legacy

> of the Albigensian Crusade and what it tells us

> about modern day secular educational policy.

>

> Steam rises from MarmoraMan's tweeds as he wonders

> whether now is the time to inject his killer fact

> about the unintended outcome of the Last Cathar's

> Rebellion.

>

> I thought you said you weren't going in there Ted?

[Moos]

Dear Ted is torn, he is hovering in the doorway. He longs to be invited in but fears his O'Level Latin might be too rusty.

[Ted Max]

Dear Ted is torn, he is hovering in the doorway

...lying naked on the floor, wasn't it?

I'm not going in there. I'm in the Lounge impressing the dim girls by doing somersaults over the back of the sofa.

[????]

I've opened a book on first ban from there

BBW evens (favourite)

Mark WTD 5/4

TLS 3/1

Mamora Man 20,000/1

[Moos]

Illusion never changed into something real - in other words, that's not a somersault. I may be dim, but I'm not that easily impressed.

[Muley]

Even I can tell that was more of a belly flop than a somersault, and my mind is only third rate.

[Ted Max]

????, have I accurately described the scene? Then it is worse than I feared. Still, at least it leaves us with a clear run at these bints with the GCEs in Home Economics.

Did I ever tell you about that place I have by the coast? Two hours to get there in the Spider and a charming local pub next door where nobody knows your name.

[????]

Yeah, but we'll be missimg out on all the birds with glasses....I'm going to wing it in there

[Brendan]

Here?s another, it is entitled First Knob Gag.

It is an Alex Schomburg style comic book frame depicting a caped superhero, lantern jawed and broad shouldered, punching a wretched looking villain clean through a set of French windows. A yellow lightening bolt containing the word KAPOW! in red lettering adds dramatic effect.

[Ted Max]

I like that Brendan. It is going to be a fine collection in there.

I had thought perhaps a Punch cartoon, entitled "A lady fails to provide sufficient references to back up her theory". In a Victorian salon, several gentlemen in frock coats inspect the embroidery of one of the ladies present. One bewhiskered gent says: "My dear, as arguments go, yours is a severally fine one. And methinks the holes are quite the finest part."

[Brendan]

Did I mention the superhero has an A emblazoned on his chest?