Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[celtic]

Oh, and to be fair, mantis' recollection of what happened when we met us 100% true.

Are you still ridic tall?

[the sicilian]

As I recall when I met celtic at Walsall he blew me out for dinner, said I looked like a double-glazing salesman and gave me the flu. Therefore dinners are firmly off the menu until I get some proper love.

But yah I have moved to Surrey next to a polo club and Luton is the closest good casino. Anyway, the Birmingham market is dead to me now after sucking out all the monies so am moving on to Luton. Interested in that £100 jobbie but the website doesn't have a schedule. This weekend is a possible tho.

LOL.... southern england is not 5 miles square

[MANTIS01]

Yo 42.7 miles...down the motorway...middle of the night. I'm not towing a caravan or anything. Think it's best if some of you let your husbands do the driving in the future. Anyhow it's either that or choosing from a range of 'fun' casinos or casino 'nightclubs' in the area. And anyways I like the banter at Luton, kinda old skool, and the standard is very bad.

[ForthThistle]

Yo 42.7 miles...down the motorway...middle of the night. I'm not towing a caravan or anything. Think it's best if some of you let your husbands do the driving in the future. Anyhow it's either that or choosing from a range of 'fun' casinos or casino 'nightclubs' in the area. And anyways I like the banter at Luton, kinda old skool, and the standard is very bad.

WP Mantis. You played there before.

[MANTIS01]

Yo 42.7 miles...down the motorway...middle of the night. I'm not towing a caravan or anything. Think it's best if some of you let your husbands do the driving in the future. Anyhow it's either that or choosing from a range of 'fun' casinos or casino 'nightclubs' in the area. And anyways I like the banter at Luton, kinda old skool, and the standard is very bad.

WP Mantis. You played there before.

Yep I've played Luton a few times. Last time I was there my mrs played AK of diamonds very badly and got knocked out. I remember on the long journey back to Birmingham I gave her a full analysis of the hand from start to finish, running through all the different scenarios, what she should've done, why everything she did was wrong. I think she really appreciated that.

[Tal]

I might be about to embarrass myself, but I did not know that the film Jaws (or, rather the book on which the film is based) is based on a true story.

This is an incredible sequence of events. Absolutely incredible:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916

I particularly wonder about the huge variations of reaction: fisheries people saying everything's fine, tourists coming up with all manner of descriptions, bounties on sharks' heads, you name it.

[Tal]

As a big reader and a lover of odd stories, have you read much about the likes of Burgess, Blunt, Maclean, Philby and "the fifth man"?

There's a programme about Philby tonight on BBC Four at 10pm.

The Spycatcher novel is something really quite eye-opening and I read a book on Philby not long afterwards (it's most unusual for me to read consecutive books on the same subject).

These James Bond stories about double agents, secret passages and never really knowing who you're working for all seem a bit implausible but you then read about these fellows and question the very world you live in. The head of MI6's Anti-Soviet unit was a KGB agent. So was the keeper of the Queen's pictures. This wasn't Ian Fleming's penmanship, but a work of non-fiction.

[Jon MW]

...

The Spycatcher novel is something really quite eye-opening ...

Possibly, but didn't you think it really wasn't particularly well written?

I'd classify it the same as a few other books I've read where the content is great - but the execution fairly mediocre.

[Tal]

...

The Spycatcher novel is something really quite eye-opening ...

Possibly, but didn't you think it really wasn't particularly well written?

I'd classify it the same as a few other books I've read where the content is great - but the execution fairly mediocre.

It has been a while and I don't recall having a strong opinion either way, but I expect I was more interested in the content than in the storytelling. I think I'm more critical these days of stuff like that. Probably part of getting old

[Tal]

30 years old is that there compilation. Still sells a million copies an issue,  85 issues later, with Now 86 on the Christmas shelves.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10478974/Now-Thats-What-I-Call-Music-Happy-30th-birthday.html

The idea behind the branding came from one Richard Branson, after he bought a poster to impress a girl he liked and the poster had a pig on it who said "Now that's what I call music!"

Side one
Phil Collins : "You Can't Hurry Love"
Duran Duran : "Is There Something I Should Know"
UB40 : "Red Red Wine"
Limahl : "Only for Love"
Heaven 17 : "Temptation"
KC & The Sunshine Band : "Give It Up"
Malcolm McClaren : "Double Dutch"
Bonnie Tyler : "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Side two
Culture Club : "Karma Chameleon"
Men Without Hats : "The Safety Dance"
Kajagoogoo : "Too Shy"
Mike Oldfield : "Moonlight Shadow"
Men at Work : "Down Under"
Rock Steady Crew : "Hey You (Rock Steady Crew)"
Rod Stewart : "Baby Jane"
Paul Young : "Wherever I Lay My Hat"

Side three
New Edition : "Candy Girl"
Kajagoogoo : "Big Apple"
Tina Turner : "Let's Stay Together"
The Human League : "(Keep Feeling) Fascination"
Howard Jones : "New Song"
UB40 : "Please Don't Make Me Cry"
Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack : "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"

Side four
Tracey Ullman : "They Don't Know"
Will Powers : "Kissing with Confidence"
Genesis : "That's All"
The Cure : "The Love Cats"
Simple Minds : "Waterfront"
Madness : "The Sun and the Rain"
Culture Club : "Victims"

[theprawnidentity]

Side two
Culture Club : "Karma Chameleon"

BOOM




Hows it going Mr Kendall?  What's the word on the street?  It has been a while since I frequented these parts....

[tikay]

Side two
Culture Club : "Karma Chameleon"

BOOM




Hows it going Mr Kendall?  What's the word on the street?  It has been a while since I frequented these parts....

Well now Mr Son of Tom, funny you should ask.

I'm fine & dandy thank you, if a little busy. Which is good, it keeps me out of mischief I suppose.

Sadly, my Diary is like one of those bulging "In-Trays", I spend so much time dithering whether to start at the top bottom or middle, that I never actually manage to do any of it.





Anyway, you've goaded me into trying. Don't really know where to start, really, so I'll just try & post some random stuff that caught my eye, or crossed my desk. Won't be much, am a bit busy, but I do very much miss this Diary.

Anyway, how are you? Getting the lot, I assume?

I do actually love your "blonde-style", lots of fun stuff, always seeing the humorous side of things. Moaners get on my tits these days, they really do. We see plenty of moaning at work, we come to Forums to have a little fun. 

[tikay]

I was playing some small-ball poker the other night & I inadvertently upset a young man. In fact, I made a bad call, & lost the hand to him, but he seemed to think this was a good spot to demonstrate his keyboard-warrior skills. He chased me across numerous Tables throughout the evening, with the standard sort of "you are so bad" stuff, but the great thing about it was he used a word I was not familiar with.

putz

As in,

you are such a putz

Now I really do get a bit tired & intolerant of the usual "douche", "scumbag", "moron", "retard", "twat" stuff. I mean, surely they can do better than that, at least try someting with a tad of originality, or maybe use a thesaurus now & then to freshen it up?

So I rather liked that, though I had to look up the meaning first. I can choose to be a"worthless idiot" or a "penis" I now gather.

I tend to get a little testy when described as an idiot or moron, & why not, but I felt rather chuffed to be described as a putz.

Wonder if it will catch on? I do hope so. Showed a bit of class, I thought.

[theprawnidentity]

Mr Kendall, I am in very good health thank you (perhaps a little stressed out).  Just a ton of real life stuff on my plate atm, still trying to keep it all upbeat though (see diary for further deets).  Haven't really had too much time to play recently, but will hopefully be able to resume service as normal once I get my life sorted out.

I thought 'putz' was a really old-school internet insult (like really popular in the early days of the internets).  In my opinion, in times of serious rage, you can't beat the good old 'diagf'.

[tikay]

Lewis Collins passed away last week.

He was a huge star, back in the day, & had a quite "interesting" off-screen life, too. I think he just acted as if he was in real life.

I had not been aware of his background until I read his Obits. Obits care SO interesting. 

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

He sort of faded off the scene after "The Profesionals", & ended up in Los Angeles, like a thousand other aspiring Hollywood movie-star wannabes. I guess being a film star is a bit like poker, in that so many strive for that one moment of glory which will propel them to fame & fortune. 

There must have been thousands of publicity pics of Lewis, usually across the bonnet of his oh-so-cool Ford Capri, toting a gun, & looking well hard. I think he'd like to be remembered that way, in fact.

RIP Mr Collins.