tikay & Red fall out.......

[tikay]

Red & I fell out at Brighton last weekend.

We somehow got to discussing Papillon. As poor Chili will testify (she was trying to get some zzz's on the back seat of the car while Red & I swapped non-stop yarns for 4 hours) conversation ranged far & wide, and anyway, Papillon's name came up.

I remarked on that remarkable fact about Psapillon's "charger". (You have to have read Papillon to know what this sort of "charger" is....).

Anyway, Papillon recalled a remarkable fact about his charger. Whatever way he inserted it, it always - ALWAYS - turned itself round, so that it came out the opposite way it went in. Red scoffed at this. If we have any learned Papillon readers out there, please put Red right.

It was a clever trick, I'll admit, & it makes my eyes water just thinking about it, but Papillon said it. Deffo.

Everyone who agrees, please Post accordingly. If anyone disagrees, they are wrong. Right?

[RED-DOG]

Anatomically impossible. (I know, I've tried it)

[ifm]

If memory serves the charger was a tube about the length and size of a thumb.......
I don't see how it is possible for it to turn around especially as it was erm, put in a place that even a strip search couldn't find.
Though whether it actually says so in the book i don't know.

[ifm]

Was the argument whether it could turn around or that the book says so?

[tikay]

If memory serves the charger was a tube about the length and size of a thumb.......
I don't see how it is possible for it to turn around especially as it was erm, put in a place that even a strip search couldn't find.
Though whether it actually says so in the book i don't know.

It was about the size of a lipstick. Amazing, but true.

[tikay]

Was the argument whether it could turn around or that the book says so?

That the book says so. Much of the book contained "embellished" stories.

[byronkincaid]

I need to get a good book to read on holiday. I've never heard of this one but it's got some excellent reviews. I liked this one

although i have only read a few books i can honistly say that this was the most exiting book i have ever read.

Blonde reccommended?

[Chili]

As I was thankfully asleep when this conversation surfaced, I will say what i would have said then:

"What the hell are you two talking about?"

[tikay]

I need to get a good book to read on holiday. I've never heard of this one but it's got some excellent reviews. I liked this one

although i have only read a few books i can honistly say that this was the most exiting book i have ever read.

Blonde reccommended?

It's a stonker. Unputdownable. The sequel, "Banco" was pretty neat, too. Non-Fiction, but it's embellished truth, really. If you like Underworld figures, real men with a real mens code of conduct, it's a must read. He was French. His name - Papillon - comes from the fact that he has a tattoo of a moth, & Papillon is French for moth.

[julian]

great book, great movie
as for the inserted impliment, such anorak details, i can't remember

[RED-DOG]

Papillon is French for moth.

Butterfly actually.

[RED-DOG]

There is a breed of dog called a Papillon, because it's ears look like a butterfly. Look it up.

[Dingdell]

bottom person here - not possible to turn around items that size without stretching bowel walls to such an extent they could tear...haven't read book but would think that item had an even smaller thing inside that turned around and made it go other way (backwards) rather than actually turn around? Bit like a train with two engines, one on each end.

The rumour about richard gere and the hamsters is also very unlikely, for the same reason. 

[RED-DOG]

Thank you Trace, the voice of sanity.

Go to the bottom of the class!

[tikay]

The argument was not whether it's possible, it's whether Papillon said, in the book, that it happened. He did.