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chopper

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Posted: December 09 2008 at 13:26

Or the water would put the fire from the explosion out.

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Posted: December 09 2008 at 14:27

Dean wrote:

You pee yourself?

how do you know??...

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 02:02

A belated happy birthday Vicky! Hope you had a great day.

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 02:55

Strange last night - Vicky and I went for a couple of sherberts & some food before Bill Bailey to The Coal Hole in The Strand... seemed weird us being there & not being surrounded by PA types...

fandango wrote:

Dean wrote:

You pee yourself?

how do you know??...

No-one else is going to do it for him

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 03:03

^^which is probably as it should be... I can't imagine 'the company of Shed types' being the first thing on Vicky's birthday wishlist...

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 04:25

Jim Garten wrote:

Strange last night - Vicky and I went for a couple of sherberts & some food before Bill Bailey to The Coal Hole in The Strand... seemed weird us being there & not being surrounded by PA types...

Must have been like a shed without a tangled hose pipe, some gently rusting garden implements and paintbrushes with only 3 bristles left.

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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 04:37

Syzygy wrote:

Must have been like a shed without a tangled hose pipe, some gently rusting garden implements and paintbrushes with only 3 bristles left.

that's what she shed

** runs far away **

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 06:29

Thanks for the birthday wishes guys & gal

The Coal Hole was strange though without the Shed invasion !

Bill Bailey was a star

Confusion will be my epitaph

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 06:36

We nearly sat at the same table in The Coal Hole as the last gathering used, but then something changed our minds... perhaps it was the memory of last time, when we were regaled with the sight of several semi naked people hanging out of the windows of the building opposite.

I second Vicky's comment on Bill Bailey - what a performer

I shall never again be able to watch any of the Terminator films without thinking of Frank Spencer

One remembered quote (from so, so, so many):

"I don't trust joggers... it's always them who find the bodies"

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Posted: December 10 2008 at 15:59

Belated happy birthday Vicky. Glad you enjoyed the gig. Had a phone call from Mr Szakerley yesterday and have just posted details of a forthcoming Noddy's gig on the forum. He was asking after you and Jim and wondering when we could get up there for a curry.

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 02:41

Ah good old Noddy himself, eh? Nice to know they're still going...

Be great to get up to see Tom & share another curry with the man... Maybe he'll try to play us another drunken version of Honky Tonk Train Blues... "Recognise this...?"

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 02:58

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKY! ..xxx.....yesterday..

my 9 year old nephew passed his Karate Black Belt on Sunday - after the family driving all the way to Bath and training/waiting around all day - he did it!

...must be careful not to tease him too much now - i don't fancy being floored by a kid..

Edited by mystic fred - December 11 2008 at 02:59

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 04:11

mystic fred wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKY! ..xxx.....yesterday..

my 9 year old nephew passed his Karate Black Belt on Sunday - after the family driving all the way to Bath and training/waiting around all day - he did it!

...must be careful not to tease him too much now - i don't fancy being floored by a kid..

hey that's great Steve, I taught kids for years and it was rare when one earned their blackbelt ..and in Bath, my favorite English town!

Edited by Atavachron - December 11 2008 at 04:13

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 04:17

mystic fred wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKY! ..xxx.....yesterday..

my 9 year old nephew passed his Karate Black Belt on Sunday - after the family driving all the way to Bath and training/waiting around all day - he did it!

...must be careful not to tease him too much now - i don't fancy being floored by a kid..

That's excellent - I did judo and ju jitsu when I was younger but never got to 1st dan, which is something I regret now.

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 06:18

Vicky and I are off to The Novello Theatre this evening to see Hamlet - unfortunately without David Tennant, but Edward Bennett has been getting good reviews... still, at least Patrick Stewart is still there in the dual roles of the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his brother the king (also getting rave reviews)

I suppose it's a vain hope he'll get the line "make it so" in, or at least say "Engage!"

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 07:19

mystic fred wrote:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VICKY! ..xxx.....yesterday..

my 9 year old nephew passed his Karate Black Belt on Sunday - after the family driving all the way to Bath and training/waiting around all day - he did it!

...must be careful not to tease him too much now - i don't fancy being floored by a kid..

Wow, that's impressive for a 9 year old. I'm aiming to get mine before I'm 50 (but probably won't, too old and creaky now).

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 08:08

I got to black belt in Kateda (Tibetan martial art) back in the 80's, but couldn't keep it for long

The whole thing was about self-defence (20 defensive/counter attacking steps) , and "central power" meditation - the ability to take blows to the body without injury. one of the tests for this was to take a brick, neatly sliced along its length, and this would be slapped against your solar plexus and (hopefully) would break. I got quite good at this and would attend demos. An important role for brown and black belts was to run a class, something i had problems with and eventually walked away from it, but still cherish my suit and belt!

there was apparently a BBC documentary about Kateda, years later i read something about my former masters in the News of the World but haven't heard much about them since...

http://www.kateda.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateda

Edited by mystic fred - December 11 2008 at 08:27

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 19:04

^ fascinating discipline, hadn't known much about it, thanks Steve

I got my black in Kenpo, a Japanese variation of the Chinese animal forms with a good measure of jujitsu and Hawaiian streetfighting ..yeah running a class is tough, took me years to become a good instructor

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 23:39

I told this girlfriend I had a long time ago that I had a black belt in cunnilingus. She told her dad, who she thought would be thrilled to have a martial artist around. I thought he was gonna rip my head off.

Ya just gotta watch your tongue, ya know?

Edited by Dan Bobrowski - December 11 2008 at 23:40

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Posted: December 11 2008 at 23:43

Atavachron wrote:

^

I got my black in Kenpo,

I used to train with a guy who was a Kenpo instructor. Lots of "disabling" techniques.