The Shed
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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...
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....
------------- 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
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.... |
OK - who gave everyone a key to my house?
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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.
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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.
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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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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 12:35
Jim Garten wrote:
An idea for a new name?
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The Shed Room
edit: silly redundancy, really, maybe just "The Shed".
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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...
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 13:33
The Old Farts Room - Jim Garten woz ere
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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!
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 13:58
song_of_copper wrote:
I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.
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but..but...I'm older than you!
(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us. )
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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.
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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:13
NaturalScience wrote:
song_of_copper wrote:
I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.
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but..but...I'm older than you!
(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us. )
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Yes, Pat, but you're male. (It shouldn't make a difference, but it sort of does, I think... ) The PA youth movement can look up to you as a role model... As for me... I fear they'd consider me matronly.
(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...?! )
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:15
song_of_copper wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
song_of_copper wrote:
I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room.
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but..but...I'm older than you!
(I am in favor of a Middle Youth chat room, but there appear to be very few of us. )
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Yes, Pat, but you're male. (It shouldn't make a difference, but it sort of does, I think... ) The PA youth movement can look up to you as a role model... As for me... I fear they'd consider me matronly.
(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...?! )
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Current efforts involve long computation times...
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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...
------------- 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: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:16
Man Erg wrote:
New name - Grecian Ruins? |
Grecian 2008?
------------- 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: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:18
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:20
Nah, you actually need hair for that sort of thing.
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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
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:50
rushfan4 wrote:
In that case the "Sharp and Shiny Things Room". Actually, I think that this says it all: Older, BudWiser room.
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BudWiser? This is a real ale drinking forum...(hick.. )...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.........
we'll have none of your designer-lager-week as dishwater talk in here, thank you very much....
------------- 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 14:51
Old Peculiar
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 14:56
NaturalScience wrote:
Old Peculiar
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That's no way to talk about Jim Garten.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 15:02
fandango wrote:
rushfan4 wrote:
In that case the "Sharp and Shiny Things Room". Actually, I think that this says it all: Older, BudWiser room.
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BudWiser? This is a real ale drinking forum...(hick.. )...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.........
we'll have none of your designer-lager-week as dishwater talk in here, thank you very much....
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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
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:18
^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a 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??.............
------------- 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 17:18
fandango wrote:
^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a 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??............. |
taking a nap, natch.
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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.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 17:33
^^too clever, Lee...just too clever...
------------- 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: Dean
Date Posted: August 11 2008 at 18:18
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
Atavachron wrote:
I do hope some more old time Greys show up, lest this place turn into a rumpus room |
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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:41
song_of_copper wrote:
I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. |
Too intelligent?
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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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:45
Jim Garten wrote:
most importantly, do you have a special stick with which to stir your paint?
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 03:48
Oh dear - I could have put that better, couldn't I?
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Grey Roomers know what I mean!
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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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
Jim Garten wrote:
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.
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. 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.
*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... |
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??!!
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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 05:52
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!!
Oh well, maybe that means I'm in the right place after all...
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:02
Jim Garten wrote:
song_of_copper wrote:
I'm too old (and too much of a wimp!) for the Suede Room. |
Too intelligent?
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Ahem! I saw that James will see that too eventually I guess
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:08
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 06:20
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:25
I'm only two years away from official membership now... just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:28
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.
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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....how about 'The Pottering Shed?') into a children's nursery, and a few Greys have recently qualified as Registered Childminders....
..and is that hob-nob matted into the carpet, or Farley's Rusk???
------------- 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: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:30
James wrote:
just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful.
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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
James wrote:
just two years younger than Miss M. and a lot less beautiful.
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...and James, please stop 'hitting' on our newest member in public; you'll give a number of Greys palpitations...
we'd be most grateful if you could declare your undying love by PM...
------------- 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: 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 summer
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:34
I can see Miss M. in a Baker Boy hat actually... but sans beard.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:34
fandango wrote:
and a few Greys have recently qualified as Registered Childminders....
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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
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:37
^^^
do we have a spare sharp pointy stick for their bottoms, in case they refuse to go up??
------------- 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: 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?
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
song_of_copper wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
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.
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. 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.
*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... |
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??!!
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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.
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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?
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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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:39
Vicky Garten wrote:
remember a shed is not just for summer |
no...it's also for when Jim is in the dog house....
or should that be 'shed'??....
------------- 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: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:42
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....
------------- 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: 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...
...Holy Mary Mother of God...where are my rosary beads??....
------------- 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: 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:
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?
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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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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 07:58
Absolutely!
Please cover the legs on the 'Grey Room' piano.Unsightly and disgraceful.Whatever next!
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:04
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:05
Man Erg wrote:
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... 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?
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:07
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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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:07
fandango wrote:
my goodness James...naked female buttocks in the Grey Room...
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What the ?
Did I miss something?
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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.
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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? Worse still... socks with sandals!
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:37
Man Erg wrote:
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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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!
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 08:57
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? Worse still... socks with sandals!
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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.
...you've had that bloody Llewellyn Bowen round again haven't you
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Posted By: song_of_copper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:00
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'.
And yes, I can still remember how my little legs used to stick to the black vinyl seat covers when it was hot. Ouchie!
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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
Aw, thanks Dean.
James wrote:
I can see Miss M. in a Baker Boy hat actually... but sans beard.
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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. I've never found a Baker Boy cap that wasn't too big for me, unfortunately.
I am in no danger of growing a beard, people.
James wrote:
I'm not "hitting" on anyone, Jared. I'm just speaking the truth that I am not as beautiful as Melissa.
Besides, I have my eyes on someone else.
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Goodness me, flattery-a-go-go! Haha, don't worry, James is the perfect gentleman really!
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 09:51
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? Worse still... socks with sandals!
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They're Jim's. I'll bet he was wearing them at Cropredy. In fact they're probably mandatory there.
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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!
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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
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.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:14
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!
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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).
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:42
Dean wrote:
Don't worry Rach, it's just the people upstairs moving furniture. |
or the people moving their furniture upstairs...
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 10:45
prog-chick wrote:
what do I do if the water starts getting higher?
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don't worry Rachel, it'll just be God washing Swindon free of all its sins...
...and he might be some time....
------------- 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: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:28
Blacksword wrote:
Man Erg wrote:
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.
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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
chopper wrote:
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
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... |
Well, if you did, you'd be in http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/20/highereducation.artsandhumanities - good company ...
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 12:49
Blacksword wrote:
Man Erg wrote:
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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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.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 14:35
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!
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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.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: August 12 2008 at 19:15
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
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 Saturday
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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:17
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:19
fandango wrote:
^^quite right David; open up a new room and it becomes a 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??............. |
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
Heavyfreight wrote:
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 Saturday |
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
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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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:27
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...
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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
fandango wrote:
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... |
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
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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:35
Bugger - I'm talking to myself again.
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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
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 frozen off in the late 18th century...
...are you sure they're not albino ones on the posters??
------------- 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: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 05:00
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