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Topic: The Shed
Posted By: Jared
Subject: The Shed
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 11:47
Ok Folks, I have taken the liberty of starting off another Grey Room...please feel free to come up with some suggestions for the new name...Wink
 
as it is, the same biscuit crumbs are matted into the carpet, pile of washing up in the sink, and beer stains on the dining table, so make yourselves at home....Approve


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson



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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 11:57
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

 
as it is, the same biscuit crumbs are matted into the carpet, pile of washing up in the sink, and beer stains on the dining table, so make yourselves at home....Approve


OK - who gave everyone a key to my house?  Angry


Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:02
I hope the original Grey Room entries are being archived and held for posterity. I suggest we publish it as a book. A few hundred pages of bullsh*t maybe, but that doesn't seem to have stopped Jordan selling loads of books.


Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:03
And just in case anyone missed it, the next Prog Curry night is this Friday. Probably best to PM me for details as the arrangements are in a state of flux at the moment.


Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:29
Hah! I thought the original GR had been closed as we'd finally managed to offend someone

We need to come up with some serious 'Grey' issues to discuss toot-sweet; it's all too easy for a thread like this to fade away when re-opened as a newie

An idea for a new name?

Change?

Here?

You'll be making the tea next!

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:35
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



An idea for a new name?

 


The Shed Room

edit:  silly redundancy, really, maybe just "The Shed".  Tongue


Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:44
Obviously I'm traumatised by the death of the original GR, and regret having not contributed much to it, but as my 40th birthday looms - well in 5 months, I like to think I will have plenty of grey issues to discuss here.

In Spinal Tap tradition, the even greyer room does raise the question how much more grey can one get? and the answer is none...

None more grey...


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 13:33
The Old Farts Room - Jim Garten woz ere

Wink


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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 13:56
I wish there was a Middle Youth chat thread on here.

I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.  I'd like to think I'm too young for here... but that might be wishful thinking! LOL


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 13:58
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:


I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. 


but..but...I'm older than you!  Embarrassed

(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us.  Confused)




Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:01

Too old to rock and roll but too young to die.  I like to think that I fit in between the two categories as well.  The occasional silver hair shows up from time to time, but no outwardly grey appearances as of yet.   I was alive when prog was at its height, but not nearly old enough to have been affected by it until years later. 



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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:03
New name - Grecian Ruins?

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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.


Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:13
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:


I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. 

but..but...I'm older than you!  Embarrassed

(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us.  Confused)

Yes, Pat, but you're male. LOL  (It shouldn't make a difference, but it sort of does, I think... Cry)  The PA youth movement can look up to you as a role model...  As for me... I fear they'd consider me matronly. Ouch

(I guess most people our age are diligently WORKING instead of having inane online conversations!  I have a stupid job that doesn't really require me to think too hard - and also I get lots of time off during the summer.  Now, what's your excuse...?! Wink)


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:15
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:


I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. 

but..but...I'm older than you!  Embarrassed

(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us.  Confused)

Yes, Pat, but you're male. LOL  (It shouldn't make a difference, but it sort of does, I think... Cry)  The PA youth movement can look up to you as a role model...  As for me... I fear they'd consider me matronly. Ouch

(I guess most people our age are diligently WORKING instead of having inane online conversations!  I have a stupid job that doesn't really require me to think too hard - and also I get lots of time off during the summer.  Now, what's your excuse...?! Wink)


Current efforts involve long computation times...Wink


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:15
well, my feelings on the re-naming of this room are that each of our beloved regulars should come up with a suggestion.  Whichever one which meets with the pre-requisite number of grunts, sighs and strains of approval, should be handed over, either to Jim or Dean for an official naming ceremony...
 
..all this however is on the provisio that he who initially created the domain, Steve the Mystic one, offers a belch of approval...Wink


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:16
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

New name - Grecian Ruins?
 
Grecian 2008?Wink


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:18
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

New name - Grecian Ruins?
 
Grecian 2008?Wink

As long as you don't call it 'Just For Men'... Tongue


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:20
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

New name - Grecian Ruins?
 
Grecian 2008?Wink

As long as you don't call it 'Just For Men'... Tongue


Nah, you actually need hair for that sort of thing.  Wink


Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:23

In that case the "Sharp and Shiny Things Room".  Actually, I think that this says it all: Older, BudWiser room.



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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:28
Balding & British   ?

 



Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:50
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

In that case the "Sharp and Shiny Things Room".  Actually, I think that this says it all: Older, BudWiser room.

 
BudWiser?Dead This is a real ale drinking forum...(hick..Pinch)...proper stuff with mud on the top, brewed in someone's backyard, stored in oak barrels which were acorns at the time of the Roman conquest, and served luke warm.........Approve
 
we'll have none of your designer-lager-week as dishwater talk in here, thank you very much....Angry
 
Wink


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:51
Old Peculiar Wink


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:56
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Old Peculiar Wink


That's no way to talk about Jim Garten. ShockedLOL


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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 15:02
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

In that case the "Sharp and Shiny Things Room".  Actually, I think that this says it all: Older, BudWiser room.

 
BudWiser?Dead This is a real ale drinking forum...(hick..Pinch)...proper stuff with mud on the top, brewed in someone's backyard, stored in oak barrels which were acorns at the time of the Roman conquest, and served luke warm.........Approve
 
we'll have none of your designer-lager-week as dishwater talk in here, thank you very much....Angry
 
Wink
 
I expected that response, but Older, BudGuinness didn't have the same ring to it.  How about Aged to Perfection and Other Gaseous Odors.


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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 15:11
I do hope some more old time Greys show up, lest this place turn into a rumpus room  Wink



Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:18
^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a Censored free-for-all
 
where are our more senior Greys when we need them to stamp the boot of decorum and authority into the soft, fleshy, unprotected groin of youth??.............Pinch


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:18
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a Censored free-for-all
 
where are our more senior Greys when we need them to stamp the boot of decorum and authority into the soft, fleshy, unprotected groin of youth??.............Pinch


taking a nap, natch.


Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:29
Calm down and let's have a nice cuppa tea.

Anyone have ROOM for a biscuit and some EARL GREY?

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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:33
^^too clever, Lee...just too clever...LOL

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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 18:18
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:


I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. 


but..but...I'm older than you!  Embarrassed

(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us.  Confused)


Ah, you'll be needing the short-lived and seldom visited  http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40262 - Crimson Room  the only place where if a tree fell you could actually hear the sound of one hand clapping


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 18:22

^ hey that's the first post in this simulacrum room by some-one who is simultaneously old AND grey



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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:32
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I do hope some more old time Greys show up, lest this place turn into a rumpus room  Wink


Quite - we've already had one quote pyramid, which was something (relatively) unheard of in the GR - we generally have the patience to pick exactly the part of a post to which we wanted to refer, as opposed to just hitting 'quote'. Also you know people don't understand the depth & level of us Greys when they seriously suggest renaming our beloved GR after some appalling lager.

Personally, I quite like Natural Science's suggestion for a new name, i.e 'The Shed'; it's certainly easier on the eye than my initial thought of 'The Sunshine Home For The Terminally Bewildered' - of course, the GR was originally Steve's baby, so he should have the last muttering mumble word.

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:41
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.


Too intelligent?



Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'd like to think I'm too young for here... but that might be wishful thinking!


We do occasionally tolerate those of a youthful aspect here, after all, you're older than James (aka Google Boy ) & being of the female persuasion, Vicky and Rachel would certainly welcome you*; the main question is do you have (or have access to) a shed? If so, how many dead cans of paint does it contain & most importantly, do you have a special stick with which to stir your paint?




*After all, it would mean they have someone to help with the cleaning & washing up +++hides+++

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:45
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

  most importantly, do you have a special stick with which to stir your paint?


Shocked



Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:48
Oh dear - I could have put that better, couldn't I?

+++

Grey Roomers know what I mean!

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:50

There's always one who gets the wrong end of the stick Jim.



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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 05:08
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.


Too intelligent?



Hahaha.  If I was that intelligent, I'd be somewhere else entirely. Tongue

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'd like to think I'm too young for here... but that might be wishful thinking!


We do occasionally tolerate those of a youthful aspect here, after all, you're older than James (aka Google Boy ) & being of the female persuasion, Vicky and Rachel would certainly welcome you*; the main question is do you have (or have access to) a shed? If so, how many dead cans of paint does it contain & most importantly, do you have a special stick with which to stir your paint?

Well now.  We used to have a shed, but it rotted. Wink  Does that count?  All our dead paint is now in the garage (along with parts of a dead moped, assorted spiders, 1970s curtains, etc. etc.)

As for the stick... well, I have a man for that sort of thing. LOL Embarrassed Wink

*After all, it would mean they have someone to help with the cleaning & washing up +++hides+++

If you'd seen my kitchen, you wouldn't ask me to help with that... Tongue

This is bizarre.  This page seems to have been displayed on a larger scale than normal (truly!).  Is that because you people can't remember where you put yer reading glasses??!! LOL


Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 05:52
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Ah, you'll be needing the short-lived and seldom visited  http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40262 - Crimson Room  the only place where if a tree fell you could actually hear the sound of one hand clapping

Nope, I'm too old!! Cry LOL

Oh well, maybe that means I'm in the right place after all... Ouch LOL


Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:02
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.


Too intelligent?





Ahem! I saw thatAngryTongue
James will see that too eventually I guessLOL


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:08
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:


Ahem! I saw thatAngryTongue
James will see that too eventually I guessLOL
Yes, but he would never for one moment think it applied to himself. Wink


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:20
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:


Oh well, maybe that means I'm in the right place after all... Ouch LOL
You can tell when you're in the right place when people reply to your posts Wink
 
...so welcome Big%20smileClap


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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:25
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:


Ahem! I saw thatAngryTongue
James will see that too eventually I guessLOL
Yes, but he would never for one moment think it applied to himself. Wink


I'm only two years away from official membership now... just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry


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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:28
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:


We do occasionally tolerate those of a youthful aspect here, after all, you're older than James (aka Google Boy ) & being of the female persuasion


If only you realised that I do not use Google as much as you believe.  I do know some odd things you know and ones I do not need Google or Wikipedia for. Wink


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:29
It appears someone has put in planning permission to turn the Shed (btw, great name, Jim..Wink..how about 'The Pottering Shed?') into a children's nursery, and a few Greys have recently qualified as Registered Childminders....Confused
 
..and is that hob-nob matted into the carpet, or Farley's Rusk???Shocked


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:30
Originally posted by James James wrote:

  just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
but if she had your beard and penchant for donny osmand hats, who knows...


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:32
Originally posted by James James wrote:

just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
 
...and James, please stop 'hitting' on our newest member in public; you'll give a number of Greys palpitations...Stern%20Smile
 
we'd be most grateful if you could declare your undying love by PM...Wink


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Vicky Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:32

RSPCS

royal society for the protection of cruelty to sheds

remember a shed is not just for summerLOL



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Confusion will be my epitaph


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:34
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

  just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
but if she had your beard and penchant for donny osmand hats, who knows...


I can see Miss M. in a Baker Boy hat actually... but sans beard. LOL


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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:34
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

and a few Greys have recently qualified as Registered Childminders....Confused
 
Me thinks Registered Victorian Chimney Sweeps would be a better use of time and resources.


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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:36
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
 
...and James, please stop 'hitting' on our newest member in public; you'll give a number of Greys palpitations...Stern%20Smile
 
we'd be most grateful if you could declare your undying love by PM...Wink


I'm not "hitting" on anyone, Jared. Wink  I'm just speaking the truth that I am not as beautiful as Melissa. Big%20smile

Besides, I have my eyes on someone else. Tongue


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:37
^^^LOL
 
do we have a spare sharp pointy stick for their bottoms, in case they refuse to go up??Big%20smile


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:38
^ what you do in your spare time is nothing to do with me Jared.

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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
Jim... a word please, I have just found something unsavoury under the sofa and it has your name on it... care to explain?



Shocked




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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.


Too intelligent?



Hahaha.  If I was that intelligent, I'd be somewhere else entirely. Tongue

Originally posted by song_of_copper song_of_copper wrote:

I'd like to think I'm too young for here... but that might be wishful thinking!


We do occasionally tolerate those of a youthful aspect here, after all, you're older than James (aka Google Boy ) & being of the female persuasion, Vicky and Rachel would certainly welcome you*; the main question is do you have (or have access to) a shed? If so, how many dead cans of paint does it contain & most importantly, do you have a special stick with which to stir your paint?

Well now.  We used to have a shed, but it rotted. Wink  Does that count?  All our dead paint is now in the garage (along with parts of a dead moped, assorted spiders, 1970s curtains, etc. etc.)

As for the stick... well, I have a man for that sort of thing. LOL Embarrassed Wink

*After all, it would mean they have someone to help with the cleaning & washing up +++hides+++

If you'd seen my kitchen, you wouldn't ask me to help with that... Tongue

This is bizarre.  This page seems to have been displayed on a larger scale than normal (truly!).  Is that because you people can't remember where you put yer reading glasses??!! LOL
It's just the large print version especially for us hard of seeing GR members.
Personally I still favour The Shed as the new name, but we'll have to open another one in 4000 posts time and, taking James' posting rate into account, that's in about 2 weeks time.


Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
Vicky! The protection of cruelty? You want to encourage those who would be cruel to sheds?

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

It appears someone has put in planning permission to turn the Shed (btw, great name, Jim..Wink..how about 'The Pottering Shed?') into a children's nursery, and a few Greys have recently qualified as Registered Childminders....Confused
 

..and is that hob-nob matted into the carpet, or Farley's Rusk???Shocked


I can't claim the credit for suggesting "The Shed" - that was Natural Science (and he's American ), but I wholeheartedly believe we need some kind of re-naming to make it absolutely clear this is NOT the Suede Room & those who'd treat it as such can bugger off!

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
Originally posted by Vicky Garten Vicky Garten wrote:

remember a shed is not just for summerLOL

 
no...it's also for when Jim is in the dog house....LOL
 
or should that be 'shed'??....Ermm


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:42
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

It's just the large print version especially for us hard of seeing GR members.
Personally I still favour The Shed as the new name, but we'll have to open another one in 4000 posts time and, taking James' posting rate into account, that's in about 2 weeks time.
 
yes, we'll have finally got around to deciding by post 3975, then have to start all over again....LOL


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:43
The Shed: issue 17 - shovels and digging tips

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:45
my goodness James...naked female buttocks in the Grey Room...Shocked
 
...Holy Mary Mother of God...where are my rosary beads??....ShockedShocked


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:52
Well Jim should have hidden it better... that's really an embarrassment, especially with the girls' recent coffee morning!

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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:53
OK, OK, OK....

I think it's time, in deference to the Grey Room's founder to re-post his opening speech from 2006:

Originally posted by Mystic Fred Mystic Fred wrote:

Welcome to The Grey Room - for those members who are the wrong side of forty (or thirty for that matter!) here's a place you can discuss gigs from long ago, the price of hair restorer, how lucky the kids are today - are they spoilt brats? Have they never had it so good? Did we have more freedom in the sixties/seventies (eighties)?

Look at the lighter side of maturity - not strictly to have a moan like grumpy old men, unless Rick W. decides to pop in and have a grouse!! Did we have things better when we were teenagers? Has nothing really changed? Are you chuffed that your favourite classic Rock and Prog is still being found and appreciated by new generations, and new bands creating new music and following a strong tradition? Did you dig your Dad's record collection - i never liked my Dad's music - Glenn Miller and The Sound of Music, i was a rebel, i wanted something they hated - Prog!! I find it amazing that todays young people are into music their parents liked, things have certainly changed.

Do you like the world we're in today - did girls look better in frocks? Did you recently buy a motorbike and are reliving your adolescence? Do you believe in the Mid-life Crisis? Are we eating chemically infused rubbish? Did Grandad's tomatoes taste better? How did we manage without computers, mobile phones and digital TV with all those channels - was TV better when there were just three? Where is Rock heading in the future - will it change completely or continue to go round and round in circles?

........discuss!


Behold - the Mission Statement from our founder. It's our solemn duty to uphold Steve's original ideals & not descend into suede-esque banality. We must remember the feel and the atmosphere of the original, when days could go by without a post, but they were usually well worth reading when they appeared.

Further to which:

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:58
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

my goodness James...naked female buttocks in the Grey Room...Shocked
 

...Holy Mary Mother of God...where are my rosary beads??....ShockedShocked


Absolutely!

Please cover the legs on the 'Grey Room' piano.Unsightly and disgraceful.Whatever next!

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:04
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Further to which:

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...
Smell it??!! I can practically taste it, even after all those years - and a Watsonian sidecar had the same pungent aroma times 10 Smile


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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:05
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

my goodness James...naked female buttocks in the Grey Room...Shocked
 

...Holy Mary Mother of God...where are my rosary beads??....ShockedShocked


Absolutely!

Please cover the legs on the 'Grey Room' piano.Unsightly and disgraceful.Whatever next!


Whilst cleaning up after the coffee morning, I also found Jim's copy of The Sentinel... Shocked  The thing is, it wasn't on the coffee table, or in the vinyl rack... it was actually on the turntable!  The cover is not about though, all I found was the vinyl itself...

So fess up, who's been playing it? Shocked


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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:07
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...



Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.



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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:07
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

my goodness James...naked female buttocks in the Grey Room...Shocked
 
What the Censored?
Did I miss something?
 
 


Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:17
wandering about like a doddery old soul I am thinking "I recognise this place, but somethings not quite right"
 
WTF happened to the GR? IS it really that long since I logged in? Where are the biccies in this new room? When will the smell of new paint and carpet subside? Is it autumn already? Did I work through summer? Did Jim drown at Cropredy? Should I give up cafiene in my coffee? Is there a loo handy?
 
 
Yours,
Confused of Wiltshire.


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:21
It's the same room, everything is as it was before.

It's just had a spruce up and the gaudy purple has been replaced by a lovely puce.  It's much more hospitable here now.  We also have new locks on the door and the letterbox has been taped up, to stop the spammers slowing us down, like they were before.

And who's cardie and sandals are these? Shocked  Worse still... socks with sandals!


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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:37
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...



Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.



You guys create a very pleasant image of how old cars used to smell. I seem to remember my dads Triupmh(Dolomite?) and his 1973 Austin Allegro smelling vaguely of stale cup-o-soup, and cigarettes. The Allegro rotted fronm the inside out, if I remember rightly. That was a bloody awful car!


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:57
Originally posted by James James wrote:

It's the same room, everything is as it was before.

It's just had a spruce up and the gaudy purple has been replaced by a lovely puce.  It's much more hospitable here now.  We also have new locks on the door and the letterbox has been taped up, to stop the spammers slowing us down, like they were before.

And who's cardie and sandals are these? Shocked  Worse still... socks with sandals!
Pah! I'm not fooled for one minute - that's not my leather wingback chair - thats a trompe l'oeil painting of my chair on a cheap tea-chest with a piece of MDF gaffa taped to the back.... even the biscuit crumbs are painted on. Shocked
 
 
...you've had that bloody Llewellyn Bowen round again haven't you Angry


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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:00
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...

No, but I do remember my Dad's Hillman Avenger:



I'm not sure if it had the black roof, but it was a vivid yellow colour.  We used to call it 'Flora Dora'. Tongue

And yes, I can still remember how my little legs used to stick to the black vinyl seat covers when it was hot.  Ouchie! Ouch


Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:21
^^^

My Grandfather always bought Hillmans/Routes Motors.

I can remember him having a turquoise/mint green Hillman Hunter in the 1960's. A Gazelle and an Avenger in the 1970s.

Because I suffered from travel/motion sickness as a child,he (my Grandfather) fitted friction strips to the back wheelarch. It cured the travel sickness instantly.

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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:22
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

You can tell when you're in the right place when people reply to your posts Wink
 
...so welcome Big%20smileClap

Aw, thanks Dean. Smile

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

  just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
but if she had your beard and penchant for donny osmand hats, who knows...

I can see Miss M. in a Baker Boy hat actually... but sans beard. LOL

LOL Y'know, I'm actually renowned for being an habitual hat-wearer.  I am particularly fond of my Peruvian hat which looks like a 1920s cloche. Big%20smile  I've never found a Baker Boy cap that wasn't too big for me, unfortunately. Cry

I am in no danger of growing a beard, people. LOL
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful. Cry
...and James, please stop 'hitting' on our newest member in public; you'll give a number of Greys palpitations...Stern%20Smile
 
we'd be most grateful if you could declare your undying love by PM...Wink

I'm not "hitting" on anyone, Jared. Wink  I'm just speaking the truth that I am not as beautiful as Melissa. Big%20smile

Besides, I have my eyes on someone else. Tongue

Embarrassed Goodness me, flattery-a-go-go! LOL  Haha, don't worry, James is the perfect gentleman really! LOL


Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:51
Originally posted by James James wrote:

It's the same room, everything is as it was before.

It's just had a spruce up and the gaudy purple has been replaced by a lovely puce.  It's much more hospitable here now.  We also have new locks on the door and the letterbox has been taped up, to stop the spammers slowing us down, like they were before.

And who's cardie and sandals are these? Shocked  Worse still... socks with sandals!
They're Jim's. I'll bet he was wearing them at Cropredy. In fact they're probably mandatory there.


Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:59
I'd liek to make it clear that I am NOT scared of thunder.................... but it's been thundering for about an hour now, it's as dark as night and the rain is coming down like stair rods!
 
and I'm on my own............. what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! that was a big one, felt the house shake that time!
 
Shocked


Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:06
Don't worry Rach, it's just the people upstairs moving furniture.

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:09
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:


Because I suffered from travel/motion sickness as a child,he (my Grandfather) fitted friction strips to the back wheelarch. It cured the travel sickness instantly.
...they should try that on aeroplanes. Cool


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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:14
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

I'd liek to make it clear that I am NOT scared of thunder.................... but it's been thundering for about an hour now, it's as dark as night and the rain is coming down like stair rods!
 
and I'm on my own............. what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! that was a big one, felt the house shake that time!
 
Shocked


My wife hates storms, particularly in the middle of the night.  Fortunately my 2 year old can apparently sleep though anything (we had some pretty violent storms last week).


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:42
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Don't worry Rach, it's just the people upstairs moving furniture.
 
or the people moving their furniture upstairs...Wink


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:45
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

 what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Shocked
 
don't worry Rachel, it'll just be God washing Swindon free of all its sins...
 
...and he might be some time....Wink


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:28
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day?

Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.


You guys create a very pleasant image of how old cars used to smell. I seem to remember my dads Triupmh(Dolomite?) and his 1973 Austin Allegro smelling vaguely of stale cup-o-soup, and cigarettes. The Allegro rotted fronm the inside out, if I remember rightly. That was a bloody awful car!


In my case, it was initially an old Ford upright Poplar, followed by a 1963 Ford Anglia (LUR 374C as I remember ); both notoriously unreliable, rusty & (similarly to Andy's memories) smelling vaguely of cigarettes... and I loved them both



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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:32
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Worse still... socks with sandals!
They're Jim's. I'll bet he was wearing them at Cropredy. In fact they're probably mandatory there.


You're kidding - if I'd worn socks with sandals last weekend at Cropredy, I'd have spent a majority of my time there on my arse in the mud!

I never, ever wear socks with sandals!

much...

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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:38
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

You're kidding - if I'd worn socks with sandals last weekend at Cropredy, I'd have spent a majority of my time there on my arse in the mud!

I never, ever wear socks with sandals!

much...

LOL

Well, if you did, you'd be in http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/20/highereducation.artsandhumanities - good company ...


Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:49
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

OK, OK, OK....

Does anyone remember exactly how the interior of a 1950s/1960s car smelled on a hot day? Cloth seat trim doesn't have that certain something as good old leather or crackled vinyl & certainly doesn't have the same effect when hot as the old materials used to have on school-shorts clad 5 year old legs...



Oh Yes!

The smell of plastic coated 'walnut' dashboard and hot moulded plastic fittings added to the faint odour of Shell 4 Star and melting Rolos that had fallen down the back of the rear seat.That's one Proustian rush that I don't mind never experiencing again.



You guys create a very pleasant image of how old cars used to smell. I seem to remember my dads Triupmh(Dolomite?) and his 1973 Austin Allegro smelling vaguely of stale cup-o-soup, and cigarettes. The Allegro rotted fronm the inside out, if I remember rightly. That was a bloody awful car!

Certainly was, until Clarkson got his hands on them.Wink


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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 14:35
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

I'd liek to make it clear that I am NOT scared of thunder.................... but it's been thundering for about an hour now, it's as dark as night and the rain is coming down like stair rods!
 
and I'm on my own............. what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! that was a big one, felt the house shake that time!
 
Shocked

It absolutely peed down here this morning, fortunately it stopped just before I had to leave for work. The entrance to Hornchurch station, which floods if someone sheds a tear in the forecourt, was under water, as was the road going past. I had to take a detour to get in the station, it was either that or take the shoes and socks off and paddle in. All the t**ts with their 4x4s were driving past at 30mph just to show off, causing tidal waves that soaked a few pedestrians. Apologies to anyone here with a 4x4 but you don't really need them in Hornchurch.


Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 19:15
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

 what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
 
Shocked
 
don't worry Rachel, it'll just be God washing Swindon free of all its sins...
 
...and he might be some time....Wink


LOL

Well luckily for Rach and I, we don't live in Swindon then. Wink


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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 19:19
I still remember my father's car when I was young, it was one of these:



Except it was darker blue than this one.


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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:16
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

And just in case anyone missed it, the next Prog Curry night is this Friday. Probably best to PM me for details as the arrangements are in a state of flux at the moment.
 
It'll be something else in a state of flux on SaturdayLOL


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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:17
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



An idea for a new name?

 


The Shed Room

edit:  silly redundancy, really, maybe just "The Shed".  Tongue
 
DefinitelyClap


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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:19
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a Censored free-for-all
 
where are our more senior Greys when we need them to stamp the boot of decorum and authority into the soft, fleshy, unprotected groin of youth??.............Pinch
 
Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?


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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:21
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

And just in case anyone missed it, the next Prog Curry night is this Friday. Probably best to PM me for details as the arrangements are in a state of flux at the moment.

It'll be something else in a state of flux on SaturdayLOL


Ah yes - eleventeen pints of real ale & a curry; certain to cause a commotion in the nethers & consternation in the khazi (not to mention a certain degree of discombobulation 'neath the duvet)

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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:24
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?


They'd just lie about their age to get in.

Mind you, Dean and I are both Admins, so could use our arcane powers of deletion every time we see a post by an undesirable...

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:27
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

 
Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?
 
I believe Dean installed one of those before...the problem was, the kids were somehow able to 'reverse' the filter, which just ended up keeping the oldies out...Confused


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:30
Oh well, just as long as we don't start seeing Arctic Monkeys posters on the wall.  I prefer the teak panelling and claret paintwork to stay unfettered.

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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:32
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Can we not put an age filter on viewing and posting to keep the children out?
I believe Dean installed one of those before...the problem was, the kids were somehow able to 'reverse' the filter, which just ended up keeping the oldies out...Confused


Hmmm - I noticed that a couple of pages ago.


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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:35
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

Oh well, just as long as we don't start seeing Arctic Monkeys posters on the wall.  I prefer the teak panelling and claret paintwork to stay unfettered.


I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys, so long as they are photographed in the middle of being hung, drawn & quartered until they're really sorry for pretending to be in any way, shape, form or manner talented.

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:35
Bugger - I'm talking to myself again.

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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012


Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:42
It's the diet coke!

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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 04:02
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:



I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys....
 
forgive me Jim, but I don't think there are any monkeys in the arctic...the last surviving one had their Censored frozen off in the late 18th century...
 
...are you sure they're not albino ones on the posters??
 
Confused


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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson


Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 05:00
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

I don't mind posters of The Arctic Monkeys....

 

forgive me Jim, but I don't think there are any monkeys in the arctic...the last surviving one had their Censored frozen off in the late 18th century


Now that's an idea.Let's send the Sheffield Indie Pap combo to the Arctic to have their nether-regions frozen off...Doh! It won't work. Bl**dy Global Warming.

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