Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[sovietsong]

do you think you could handle this for a brekkie red?

7/10 - eggs look sub standard and where is the fried bread?

[Colchester Kev]

Bangers undercooked, tinned tommys on plate ... epic fail imo.  and as for the toast, its like paper thin !!

[Bongo]

There might be a lot of it but it doesn't look very nice!

[gatso]

no tea, no brown sauce. and it's not even on a plate ffs, that's a tray, you can see the handles

[AlexMartin]

lol, blondeites have eaten too many brekkies. Remember once in newcastle having a prop with romanello about eating an enormous amount.

[ ] gg roberto

[ ] he didnt have to enlighten the female pensioners at 7am with a view of the dark and light side of the moon leaving.............

[TightEnd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kjjnx/South_Pacific_Ocean_of_Islands/

Much recommended if you have not seen it, right up your alley.

[kinboshi]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kjjnx/South_Pacific_Ocean_of_Islands/

Much recommended if you have not seen it, right up your alley.

Saw some of that last night.  Those robber crabs are big buggers!

[TightEnd]

yup, the bungee jumping and shark/albatross sequences are simply stunning too

[gatso]

just watching an old episode of top gear with ronny wood on who always claims to be a Gypsy but says in his interview with clarkson that he was the first member of his family to be born on dry land since the 1700s. so is he not what you would call a Gypsy?

[kinboshi]

just watching an old episode of top gear with ronny wood on who always claims to be a Gypsy but says in his interview with clarkson that he was the first member of his family to be born on dry land since the 1700s. so is he not what you would call a Gypsy?

No, he's obviously a hippo.

[CelticGeezeer]

I thought you might find this of interest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00825q5/Pavee_Lackeen_The_Traveller_Girl/

[RED-DOG]

just watching an old episode of top gear with ronny wood on who always claims to be a Gypsy but says in his interview with clarkson that he was the first member of his family to be born on dry land since the 1700s. so is he not what you would call a Gypsy?

No. I would not call him a Gypsy, but the word Gypsy seems to have been stretched to encompass many groups these days.

[RED-DOG]

I thought you might find this of interest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00825q5/Pavee_Lackeen_The_Traveller_Girl/

Thank you. I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this.

Very interesting in spite of being wildly inaccurate.

[RED-DOG]

Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.....



A few weeks ago, I was browsing a poker forum when I came across a debate about small boys and air rifles, or, more accurately, a debate on the advisability or otherwise of allowing the twain to meet.
Many a good argument was put forward, both for and against. I didn't offer an opinion either way, and nor am I going to. I am however, of a mind to tell you an air rifle story from my own boyhood.

I have told this story before, several times, but even now, all these years later, certain parts of it still make me squirm, and I always end up telling an edited version that shows me in a better light. Now, prompted by the air rifle debate and a strange urge to confess my sins as I get older, I would like to finally tell the real story. Unabridged, warts and all.



Somewhere around the late 50s or early 60s, a budding movie director by the name of Sam Peckinpah submitted a script for consideration as a storyline for the highly popular TV series “Gunsmoke”. The script was rejected, due, apparently, to the “Graphic nature” of it's content.. Sam re worked it, and  eventually it aired as an episode entitled “The Sharpshooter” which turned out to be such a big hit with it's gun loving American audience that it soon became a TV series in it's own right.

Tan tan taaan.... Lucas McCain is..... Tan tan taaan...... “The Rifleman!” ...... Peeeyowww Peeeyowww!!

The Rifleman was a lanky raw-boned cowpoke who carried a Winchester rifle with him at all times and solved  his problems by shooting at them.
Every no account bushwhacker, flim-flamer, cattle rustler, side winder and claim jumper soon found himself biting the dust after eating McCain's lead.
Innocent men were spared the hangman's noose when McCain (Alias Chuck Connors) severed the rope in the nick of time with a well aimed bullet. Rampaging bulls were knocked out cold (but not harmed) by the anesthetizing effect of a slug creasing their forehead  as they stampeded towards some hapless school ma'am and her gaggle of wide-eyed, gap-toothed pupils.
McCain's Winchester served every purpose. Firewood was obtained by shooting logs to pieces, and rows of nails, hit squarely on the head by a deadly accurate stream of projectiles from the (Modified for rapid fire) rifle,  were driven into neatly the walls of  newly erected barns.
In one episode, when his horse threw a shoe. McCain didn't stop to replace it, he just shot off the three remaining shoes and rode on without breaking stride.

Meanwhile, in a land far far away, a small boy sits in a caravan. His face is almost touching the flickering 8.5in black and white screen of  the “Perdio Portarama” 12 volt  TV.
Mesmerized, he  follows McCain's weekly adventures. He is agog with admiration. Eventually, the inevitable happens, he vows to become Rifleman MKII.

North Fork Virginia had Lucas McCain,  Sheffield would have Tom McCready.

Peeeowww!! 



To be continued....

[Karabiner]

Oooooh goody gum-drops, not had a story for ages...