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mystic fred 
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 Posted: September 11 2008 at 01:39 |
 Ricochet wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
5 billion pounds, 15 years of work by 10,000 scientists, a tiny blip on a screen for a millisecond -
..REALLY..?
i bet they're all having a jolly good laugh - what games will the geeks get up to next..? 
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that's what you get for protons you can't even see in the air...flashing! 
(uhm, guys, I'm turning 19 in two weeks...is it a good age to join The Shed?  )
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n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen...?
good age Rico, still a teenager but you have your toe in the door of adulthood - of course you are welcome in the Shed, but you may have to pass an initiation test... 
don't worry will not involve anything more sinister than a left-handed screw driver, sky hook, a long weight (wait) or de-bagging...
you can make the tea and wash up the cups, the boy Alan has outgrown his pinny. you will need to bring in your own chair, bowl and spoon for now though 
i was 19 in 1972, a very busy, boozy happy time as i remember (1973 was horrible), lots of great albums being released, very loud shirts, loon pants, stack shoes - a golden age for a progger - but very expensive
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 02:38 |
mystic fred wrote:
i was 19 in 1972, a very busy, boozy happy time as i remember (1973 was horrible), lots of great albums being released, very loud shirts, loon pants, stack shoes - a golden age for a progger - but very expensive |
I'll take that over the tacky, plastic look of the 1980s metal craze ..went from genuine headbangers in t-shirts and old jeans to idiots in leopard skin tights and blue headbands
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 03:10 |
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tea? uhm...you guys...like tea?
*lightbulb!*
ooh dear...I'm done for it...
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chopper
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 03:15 |
mystic fred wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
5 billion pounds, 15 years of work by 10,000 scientists, a tiny blip on a screen for a millisecond -
..REALLY..?
i bet they're all having a jolly good laugh - what games will the geeks get up to next..?
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that's what you get for protons you can't even see in the air...flashing!
(uhm, guys, I'm turning 19 in two weeks...is it a good age to join The Shed? )
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don't worry will not involve anything more sinister than a left-handed screw driver, sky hook, a long weight (wait) or de-bagging...
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Don't forget the glass hammer (very prog) and the tartan paint!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 03:49 |
I asked for tartan paint in London once - I got both 
prog-chick wrote:
19 eh? just saying that makes us shed dwellers snarl, yikes, we can't even REMEMBER 19!!!! |
Unfortunately, I remember my 19th birthday all too well - 1982, Welwyn Garden City British Aerospace Social Club (cheap beer), eleventyfifteen light & bitters (when was the last time you heard one of those being ordered) & the better part of a bottle of brandy back at my mate's house... with predictable, messy results  
I blame the alcoholic poisoning for my subsequent penchant for the mullet, stretch jeans (yes - with red piping) & Pallas albums.
I got better though.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 03:53 |
See Rico - this is a place for nostalgia (or in a couple of cases, neuralgia, hence Fandango's nickname 'face-ache ) and you're more than welcome, so long as you behave, don't interrupt (or correct  ) your elders and betters, make plenty of tea & make sure Mystic Fred takes his medication as and when needed - they're in the cabinet, next to my 'special' ointment 
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 04:11 |
Well, except some of the part of serving elders of an Empire that hasn't actually conquered my nation in history (but who lost, dramatically,the last match of the European Cup group, against us, two times, back in the very good old days) - we could, instead, make an awkward similarity about how the Romans bashed our pre-ancestors skulls - I can go along well with that, and might even enjoy it... 
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Jared
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 04:11 |
chopper wrote:
Don't forget the glass hammer (very prog) and the tartan paint!
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and I believe Dean needs a new bubble for his spirit level... 
anyway Riccy, the essential thing to remember about 'Sheddism' is that its not so much a number, but more of a state of being... at 40, I am one of the younger members to have been offered the dubious privilege of affiliated membership, but that is only because I prematurely fulfill many of the criteria... I walk into a room and forget what I went in there for, I forget people's birthdays, meander mid sentence, can't remember where I've put my keys and make an involuntary groan when I try and get up out of a lounge chair... 
now, where we I? what was I saying??....
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 04:20 |
Ricochet wrote:
but who lost, dramatically,the last match of the European Cup group, against us, two times, back in the very good old days |
Rule No 3562, Paragraph 36b Subclause iv) Thou shalt not, at any time within the vicinity of the Grey Room Shed (name change: Mystic Fred 25th July concurred Jim Garten 27th July) utter any reference to the prolatarian pasttime commonly known as Association Football (or 'Soccer' if you are Patrick), its players, grounds or sociological impact upon Western Civilisation.
The agreed punishment for doing so within ear shot of any other member, will be enforced washing up duties, vacuuming of biscuit crumbs and collecting of Chopper's (previously mentioned) toenails, for a period of 14 days...commencing immediately from the moment of the initial offense... 
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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: September 11 2008 at 04:42 |
fandango wrote:
I walk into a room and forget what I went in there for,
and the phrase 'it must've been unimportant' no longer applies
I forget people's birthdays,
forgivable but occasionally embarrassing
meander mid sentence,
you can always just say you're stoned and apologize
can't remember where I've put my keys
time to start planting spares around the house
and make an involuntary groan when I try and get up out of a lounge chair
that may be the chair
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Edited by Atavachron - September 11 2008 at 04:43
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 04:51 |
fandango wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
but who lost, dramatically,the last match of the European Cup group, against us, two times, back in the very good old days |
Rule No 3562, Paragraph 36b Subclause iv) Thou shalt not, at any time within the vicinity of the Grey Room Shed (name change: Mystic Fred 25th July concurred Jim Garten 27th July) utter any reference to the prolatarian pasttime commonly known as Association Football (or 'Soccer' if you are Patrick), its players, grounds or sociological impact upon Western Civilisation.
The agreed punishment for doing so within ear shot of any other member, will be enforced washing up duties, vacuuming of biscuit crumbs and collecting of Chopper's (previously mentioned) toenails, for a period of 14 days...commencing immediately from the moment of the initial offense...
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 now that we mention it, you ought to know that I haven't been really educated a lot with chores...so even if I'm put to do some, and would do it ought of respect, I still might do them utterly wrong...
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Syzygy
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 05:00 |
Ricochet wrote:
tea? uhm...you guys...like tea?
*lightbulb!*
ooh dear...I'm done for it...
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Yes, tea. A nice big mug of hot tea. Make sure the water is boiling - a real roiling boil - and then let it stand for a few minutes before adding just a little milk. And some nice home made biscuits while you're at it. Or chocolate hobnobs if Garten's had all the home made biccies again.
Chop chop!
Then you can pop down to the store room and ask for a long stand.
Edited by Syzygy - September 11 2008 at 05:00
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 05:04 |
fandango wrote:
chopper wrote:
Don't forget the glass hammer (very prog) and the tartan paint!
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and I believe Dean needs a new bubble for his spirit level... |
still waiting on James to get me that 
I do need a pound of atmospherics for the Shed's old steam radio - John Peel's Perfumed Garden doesn't sound right without them, and if they've got any Luxembourg Effect diodes then a couple of those would be good too.
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 05:39 |
Syzygy wrote:
Yes, tea. A nice big mug of hot tea. Make sure the water is boiling - a real roiling boil - and then let it stand for a few minutes before adding just a little milk. And some nice home made biscuits while you're at it. Or chocolate hobnobs if Garten's had all the home made biccies again.
Chop chop!
Then you can pop down to the store room and ask for a long stand. |
Oh, better get on to it then, in time for 5 o'clock. Oh wait, that means 7 o'clock here. Phew! Enough time to put a bit of Shostakovich instead... Instead of those biscuits (which, if home-made, would be more like ruin-made), how about some Naty Water Rolls? it's the only thing I got in the house right now...
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song_of_copper
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 05:50 |
Atavachron wrote:
fandango wrote:
and make an involuntary groan when I try and get up out of a lounge chair
that may be the chair |
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Hehe, shades of Reggie Perrin! "Sorry, CJ..." 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 05:58 |
Eeeerm - that wasn't the chair actually...
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Chris S
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 06:19 |
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^ Yeah...but it still groaned.
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 06:24 |
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 06:52 |
Syzygy wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
tea? uhm...you guys...like tea?
*lightbulb!*
ooh dear...I'm done for it...
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Yes, tea. A nice big mug of hot tea. Make sure the water is boiling - a real roiling boil - and then let it stand for a few minutes before adding just a little milk. And some nice home made biscuits while you're at it. Or chocolate hobnobs if Garten's had all the home made biccies again.
Chop chop!
Then you can pop down to the store room and ask for a long stand. |
...and don't even think of putting in salt or spitting in it ...
though a little rum wouldn't go amiss...
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song_of_copper
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Posted: September 11 2008 at 07:03 |
mystic fred wrote:
Syzygy wrote:
[QUOTE=Ricochet]tea? uhm...you guys...like tea?
*lightbulb!*
ooh dear...I'm done for it...
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Yes, tea. A nice big mug of hot tea. Make sure the water is boiling - a real roiling boil - and then let it stand for a few minutes before adding just a little milk. And some nice home made biscuits while you're at it. Or chocolate hobnobs if Garten's had all the home made biccies again.
Chop chop!
Then you can pop down to the store room and ask for a long stand.[/QUOTE
...and don't even think of putting in salt or spitting in it ...
though a little rum wouldn't go amiss... |
Maybe an Irish coffee would be nice too...  When you fetch those biscuits, don't forget to put the doily on the plate. And hold it properly, by the edge, so you don't get fingermarks on the confectionery. Gosh, is this what it feels like to have 'staff'??! I could get used to this...
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