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VanderGraafKommandöh 
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 Posted: June 18 2008 at 03:55 |
You would if I was playing Nick's guitar. Shall I pop round?  Then I could do a cover of Barclay James Harvest's "The Day That I Played John Lennon's Guitar" but with a name change, of course. 
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 03:57 |
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mystic fred
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 05:22 |
i remember VC - beware the troll in clown's clothing! come to think of it i miss the old b***er 
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Man Erg
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 06:13 |
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Last I heard,VelvetClown was in one of the locked Velvet Rooms unable to find a way out. Cyber imprisonment eh!?!
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Wilcey
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Posted: June 18 2008 at 17:04 |
Can I interupt the slurs on MJ to give an important announcement?
Today my daughter won a GOLD Blue Peter Badge!!!!! 
I am a smug and proud parent! and my Mum was thrilled to bits when I called her! Yay Yay Yay!!!  |
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 01:21 |
WELL DONE! will she be on on the programme? what did she do to win a GOLD.??
i got a blue peter badge from Val when i was 10 for some paintings 
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Wilcey
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:09 |
There was a competition to go to Beijing and take part in the Olympic closing ceremony where they hand the torch over to the UK, she really really wanted to go and to win.......... I was a little concerned (esp as she nominated me her "responsible adult chaperone" !) the whole Tibet thing, and well, a whole political mine-field going on.............. anyway she didn't win, (She had to write a letter to a child in Beijing) but she came a top runner up, and as it's the 50th Anniversary of BP she got herself a gold badge!
We went on line last night to apply for BP-ID you need an ID card to get into all those places for free now, because of "badge fraud" 
She got a bunch of other stuff too.......... but lets face it, it's the badge that is the true prize!
R x
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:35 |
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:38 |
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Well done Rach and daughter.
I also got a Blue Peter badge for a painting that I did @ 1970.
I also got the Magpie equivalent(?) for a painting that I did for the 1970 World Cup? It's all a bit hazy. I can remember painting a picture of Gordon Banks for the Magpie comp'. Was Magpie in existance in 1970?
I wasn't one of those who watched either Blue Peter or Magpie,I watched both. Jenny Hanley....Cor!!!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 03:40 |
Quick serious moment - yesterday, I posted a certain picture of a certain person, which on reflection was inappropriate in the context used; I was going to delete this as soon as I got into work this morning anyway, but to avoid being in any way connected to or tarred by appalling behaviour on another thread, this has now been deleted. I'll not discuss this matter on this thread, so if anyone wishes to discuss this, please PM me 
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Wilcey
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 04:01 |
Time for your medication Jim? ow!
Thanks for the congrats......... here she is...
I am being dead smug but also like so many of you I tried and tried and never won a thing!
big big clappies to Man Erg and Mystic Fred for winning BP badges back in the glory days of BP  I am in awe my friends!
R x
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 04:11 |
nice one Ms PC's daughter. Smuggnessabounds, as it rightly should - well done.
I never won anything either - sent dozen's of paintings in to Vision-on and not one made it to the Gallery (cue the music... dum..dee di dum-tee di dum). I did win second prize in the village painting comp when I was 8 - first prize went to a boy who coloured-in one of my discarded drawings
Edited by darqDean - June 19 2008 at 07:35
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 04:19 |
aw, congratulations to you and your daughter progchick, even though I don't know what a Gold Blue Peter Badge is   (sounds like some national art prize though)
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 04:47 |
 Jim Garten wrote:
Quick serious moment - yesterday, I posted a certain picture of a certain person, which on reflection was inappropriate in the context used; I was going to delete this as soon as I got into work this morning anyway, but to avoid being in any way connected to or tarred by appalling behaviour on another thread, this has now been deleted. I'll not discuss this matter on this thread, so if anyone wishes to discuss this, please PM me |
Although I have NO idea what Jim is talking about, I would just like to make it clear that I have absolutley no objection to having my posts censored, edited or deleted by an Admin who is willing enough to delete his own and admit it in public....
indeed, I deem it a privilege.... 
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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: June 19 2008 at 04:53 |
anyway folks, yesterday, I went to Shugborough Hall in Staffs...I was the first one in and (just about) the last one out at 5pm...thoroughly fascinating place, and a highly recommended day out...
...I returned home via Wolverhampton, to see Queensryche do the entire OMI & II set, and 'Empire' encore...absolutely superb stage show, but Geoff Tate just can't hit the high notes any more...
oh well, its good to be back, and share some interesting GR reading...well done to Rachel's daughter on the BP award...that's really wonderful.... |
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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: June 19 2008 at 04:58 |
Atavachron wrote:
aw, congratulations to you and your daughter progchick, even though I don't know what a Gold Blue Peter Badge is (sounds like some national art prize though)
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David - Blue Peter is a children's TV show that has become a national institution, it began in 1958 and encourages kids to be creative in many areas and award a badge for the lucky ones (the Gold is the highest honour) - sport, paintings, making things from sticky-backed-plastic and cereal boxes, looking after pets, etc, its wholesome presenters and some of the pets become very famous .
recently BP badges were being sold on ebay, some early ones for a lot of money, though this stopped after a public outcry shaming those who sold their cherished badges! 
Edited by mystic fred - June 19 2008 at 05:18
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Wilcey
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 05:06 |
fandango wrote:
...I returned home via Wolverhampton, to see Queensryche do the entire OMI & II set, and 'Empire' encore...absolutely superb stage show, but Geoff Tate just can't hit the high notes any more...
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wowser! I saw OM1 at the Hammy O (before it got named after some beer and a spacecraft  ) and it was really really incredible and spesh through and through! I would kind of like to see the current tour show, but I really never "got" OM2 It's a bit like the original movie of Highlander compared to all the lousy spin-offs..........
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^^yes, I tend to agree...OMII is musically rather 'average' and the story line not as gripping...but I went, because I honestly think it will be the last time I see them, and it was a suitable 'farewell'....
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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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Wilcey
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 05:31 |
don't get me wrong Fanny, there is a small ammount of the green eyed devil going on! (sick with jealousy in fact!!!)
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Jared
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 06:31 |
^^ I know someone who is giving away 2 tickets for the Queensryche gig in Southampton next week, if either you (or indeed, Dean) are interested...
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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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