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Subject: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 07:35 AM HI wanted to post to the thread about me with an update on how we got on over the weekend but I can't find it :-( Anyone any ideas? The thread was called "This thread IS about me" (I think) and, as far as I know, there was nothing controversial on it. Cheers Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 07:40 AM Ahhh - Just noticed that there are lots of references to saved threads. Some sort of disaster at Mudcat HQ? Been away for the weekend. What have I missed? DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Blandiver (Astray) Date: 22 Feb 15 - 07:47 AM There are references to 'Another thread saved by PFR' - I asked what was up but my comment was immediately deleted. What the fuck is it with this place?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 22 Feb 15 - 08:07 AM Cracking session on Saturday afternoon in a great pub in the back-end of nowhere. Dave, please pass on the thanks of myself and Christine to all the lads, and yourself of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: maeve Date: 22 Feb 15 - 08:11 AM Mudcat has had a big crash. Two months of data are gone. Max is the one who may be able to retrieve things eventually, but for now Joe Offer in particular is trying to find cached threads to keep us going along with a semblance of whatever is normal here. In the meantime, I imagine it's up to each of us to read threads like Tech: Mudcat Crash. Punkfolkrocker did just that and immediately offered the use of all the threads he had saved. Thus the thanks. I imagine things are a bit busy for Joe and Max and others, so perhaps they can't take time to reassure each one of us in each thread they revive. Several people have been kind enough to send financial support to make a start on the cost of fixing this situation. It's a good idea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 10:01 AM It was a pleasure, Raggy. Our thanks to you and Christine as well. Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Bill D Date: 22 Feb 15 - 11:15 AM ..also... use GOOGLE to find it. Google will usually save all posts. Enter Mudcat, your name, and/or some word or phrase that you know was in the post. (This is often faster than doing it within the Mudcat search even when Mudcat is not injured or slow.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 11:19 AM Good idea, Bill. Apart from the Google entry is no help if the post is not there. As it is in this case :-( |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,# Date: 22 Feb 15 - 12:04 PM http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=156716 That's Dave's original thread. Ain't nothin' there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Musket Date: 22 Feb 15 - 12:04 PM Eeh.. All those pearls of wisdom on the Caliphate and Historian threads by our two learned sages.. Not there any more. Gone! Their wise guidance and thoughtful comments are. like the library of Alexandria, beyond the grasp of the future's historians. We will never be able to let future generations ensure the mistakes of today don't become the reality of the future. Woe is us!!!! Eyup Dave, how yer diddlin'? |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 12:36 PM Reet gradely thanks, Musket. Just back from a weekend of overindulgence and feeling particularly blessed. Your sage words are the icing on the cake :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 15 - 01:06 PM It might be possible to retrieve your thread, Dave, but they need some editing to make them readable when they're pasted in en-masse. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 15 - 01:22 PM Here goes - let's see what happens: Subject: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 03:45 PM In answer to the current fashion of people saying "This thread is not about me" I would like to start a thread on a completely different premise. To keep it with a musical bent I would just like to say that my favourite band at the moment is Blackbeard's Tea Party. My all time favourite band is either Jethro Tull or Steeleye Span and I play (badly) accordion, concertina, guitar, gob iron and tin whistle. Now, if you would like to make this thread about you, please feel free. But I will probably take the piss and upset some people. :D tG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:10 PM no....its all yours. tell us some other things about you. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,DTM Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:12 PM Mentioning the accordion is a 'thread killer', DTG ;-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:16 PM True, DTM. It could well be. OK, Al, I was born in 1953 in a suburb of Manchester. My Dad was Polish and has recently passed away and my mother is English and still with us. I like Superhero movies and have a small collection of them and I like to play dominoes (double nines). Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: ranger1 Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:21 PM Oh! Which superhero movie is your current favorite? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:22 PM This thread is too flutey for my liking. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Greg F. Date: 27 Jan 15 - 04:43 PM Nice thought, but way too late, Dave - Keith has posted NUMEROUS threads that were entirely about himself. Ditto pete. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:08 PM ranger1 - Guardians of the Galaxy. Brilliant. Can't wait for Howard the Duck :-) Prior to that? Not sure if it was Avengers 1 or Thor 2. I must say I do have a liking for Green Lantern, but they did not make a good job of it :-( Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:13 PM What's your opinion on sporks? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:14 PM ...2 different universes for anyone who didn't know. No DC/Marvel crossovers yet as far as I know but I would appreciate one. :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:15 PM Double nines is for wimps, unless you're playing fives and threes. Real men play with a double six set - four players - and that's a game of skill. Will (taught by Jim Lindsay, landlord of the New Inn, Lancaster in the mid-60s). But back to you, Dave... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:15 PM I like sporks. I like anything that does 2 or more different things. :D Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:17 PM Will. You are the spawn of Satan. As are your double six bones. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: gnu Date: 27 Jan 15 - 05:50 PM I gotta go shovel again. Fuckin winter eh? Does that count? As far as musical, I can't sing as I am shovelling. Oh. I could but that just leads to bronchitis. Fuckin winter! Blizzard warning? What about the bronchitis warning? Fuckin winter! Hmmm... there might be a song in there. A VERY angry song. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 27 Jan 15 - 06:00 PM If this thread is ALL about you, Dave, when do we get your bank details? I do like the complete picture... :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 27 Jan 15 - 06:23 PM A song for gnu Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Jan 15 - 07:00 PM I thought of this song for gnu. It was one of my father's favorites. (Ancient Music, a parody by Ezra Pound) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,achmelvich Date: 27 Jan 15 - 07:11 PM i always think that superhero films and magazines etc are designed for 10 year old boys . why would anyone else be iterested in that stuff? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Donuel Date: 27 Jan 15 - 10:09 PM Any thread about ego would be shockingly revelatory to anyone who may not know the full extent of the damage and disillusion it causes in people without their awareness. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Janie Date: 28 Jan 15 - 01:47 AM Love it Stilly. If I lived in the cold north, gnu, I'm sure I'd join you on the chorus! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Piste up Musket Date: 28 Jan 15 - 03:57 AM his bank details are in the Messiah Emeritus with Gnomish Attributes application form that Betty Swollox should have sent you. Although she was last seen renting a penthouse static caravan near Morcambe. Have you checked your bank balance lately Dave? Ok. Straights or 5s & 3s. Any deviation is like putting a cherry in a pint of Thwaites. (Trying to keep referendes the wrong side of the hump here...) The original Star Wars trilogy, the rest is just fantasy. Guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin etc, but nothing with lungs. But as this is about Dave, I have just found some google hits that say otherwise. You lose. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 04:56 AM achmelvich you old grouch - They are for the young at heart! :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 07:26 AM Used it as joke many a time but I really did leave school (1969) with O levels in Maths and Art! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jan 15 - 07:40 AM Will. You are the spawn of Satan. As are your double six bones. Excellent - my life's ambition achieved! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 07:57 AM My pleasure :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:13 AM If you want a thread killer here it is ...................... Learn to play a banjo! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:18 AM Won't work, Raggytash - there'll just be a reiteration of all the old banjo jokes and the thread will go on for ever, drifting off into space with poor old Dave on its coat tails. Incidentally Dave, did you hear about the four Yorkshire men playing dominoes in a pub? None of them would knock in case the waiter came... (When I were a student in Leeds in the '60s, our local in Chapeltown still had a waiter who went from bar to bar, taking and bringing drinks orders). Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:37 AM I used to be a waiter in The Farmers Arms (Red House), Swinton for a good while around the mid 70's. I have to be careful with Yorkshire jokes now I have moved here, albeit a mere 8 miles from the border. You can always tell a Yorkshireman. But you can't tell him much... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Piste up Musket Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:39 AM Quite a few of the pubs that are now city centre wine bar types do waitress service still. Here in Tignes, every bar does table service. Waddling back from the bar with a tray of eight beers in my ski boots isn't a good idea anyway.... (Scarborough Arms in Leeds, across from the train station, they do at seat service. I love it, mainly because we can prop up the bar and drink without having to continually move out of the way. Worth getting early for your train home.....) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:50 AM Ah, Leeds - student memories of going tenpin bowling in the Merrion Centre (which had just been built when I was in Leeds in the early '60s) on Saturday mornings, followed by ham rolls and a pint or two in the Whitelocks. Which, if memory serves was really the Turks Head Diner in Turks Head Yard, a kind of alley off one of the main streets. Friday night was either jazz or blues at the Coburg in Woodhouse Lane. Ed O'Donnell and his jazz band, or the Victor Brox blues outfit. I really liked Leeds at that time - never been back - hope it's not lost anything except the soot on the Town Hall. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 08:58 AM Worked in Leeds for a year or so. 2008/9-ish I think. I like the place too - Third favourite city after Manchester and Brussels. Although last couple of trips to Manchester proved to be stressful with all the building work. It could slip down the list and be replaced by Chicago if it gets any worse! Anyway - Where I worked in Leeds sas a new development. All that was left of the old area was the home of Leeds folk club - The Grove Inn. Lovely real ale pub with live music of one sort or another most nights. Highly recommended. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Piste up Musket Date: 28 Jan 15 - 09:15 AM crap football team mind... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 28 Jan 15 - 10:15 AM ... yes - I used to root for the Trotters in those days. Fat lot of good it did me - come back, Nat, all is forgiven, we used to say. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Jan 15 - 02:17 PM Used to sup in a pub right next to Burnden. There was a helluva good Chinese chippy opposite, next to where I waited, pissed up of course, for the last 52 home. One night I ate a giant battered cod whilst waiting for the bus. The bus was late so I had another. One night in that pub, whose name I've forgotten (the Trotters, maybe?), was the only time in my life I've ever tried illegal drugs. It wasn't, though - it was just an untipped woody. Jeez,I knew how to live. But this isn't about me, Dave. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Jan 15 - 02:25 PM so when did this gnome business start? is Dave your real name> Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 28 Jan 15 - 02:33 PM Have you ever hired out as a lawn ornament? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 02:39 PM Sometime in the 70's I think, Al. If we could still post pictures I would show you. Are you on Facebook? Yes, my real name is Dave gillymor - Not yet, but if you are hiring... Steve - There was a pub facing Burnden Park that my mate 'Champ' Mistry took over and ran a printing business from there. We had all our early Swinton Folk Festival posters done by him. Small world init? :D tG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 02:56 PM Just posted on my Dad's obit thread as well if you want more insight into mysterious Gnomish ways... :-P Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 28 Jan 15 - 03:01 PM Dave, if the neighborhood kids keep placing my gnome in a compromising position with my pelican I might call you. Do you own a Tazer? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 03:44 PM No Tazer but your neighborhood kids have never come in contact with a Gnomes steel toecapped boot up their arses :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Jan 15 - 03:52 PM yes i'm on facebook as Alan Whittle mainly. lets do the facebook thing. i put songs up and natter most days. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 15 - 04:33 PM I'll send you an invite, Al. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Jan 15 - 04:50 PM thankyou! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 28 Jan 15 - 05:49 PM "North to Alaska...A little south east of gnome" Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 28 Jan 15 - 06:57 PM "North to Alaska...A little south east of gnome" ^southeast of Gnome^ edittroll Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 29 Jan 15 - 01:28 PM whats -your favourite tv programmes whats your most hated tv programmes do you reckon Micael Portillo is still a bit of a fanny Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Jan 15 - 06:40 PM He's on in a minute - I'll tell you later! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Piste up Musket Date: 30 Jan 15 - 02:41 AM I do enjoy his railway journey series. Mr Portillo does come over as rather intense. Met him once, when he was booked as an after dinner speaker at a business conference. Lots of tittle tattle about other Tories and amongst the (scripted) jokes, a wee bit of bitterness that he couldn't get selected for a seat because of his sexuality, yet he could (but wouldn't) name two cabinet ministers who were leading double lives and the duplicity of the "party he loves." Complicated character, but let's not forget he was on the repugnant right wing as a minister.. Whilst Dave thinks, I'll give you mine. Favourite programme- oh, err. Wheeler Dealers, Top Gear, Fifth Gear etc, and Dr Who. Occasionally watch satirical comedy such as Have I Got News For You and Mock the Week. Three cheers for Dave, Least favourite? Wouldn't know. I record what we want, (football obviously live..) turn the telly on, watch it and turn the telly off again. The thought of watching something I wouldn't like doesn't occur to me. I doubt, looking at the trailers that Come Dancing or those talent shows would be of interest, let alone soaps. I have never seen Knob Enders, Corry had Ena Sharples in it when I last sat through a whole episode and Emmerdale Farm, I watched one episode when a plane crashed into the pub because I designed the machines that gave the huge fireball blasts. (Modified silo cannons, usually used to release stuck contents with compressed air, but filled with gas and a nearby flame for a special effects company in Leeds.) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Jan 15 - 09:33 AM Favourite TV progs - Current series of the Musketeers (Sorry Musket - Not seen you in it yet). Foyle's War. All the Sharpe TV films, although I have them on DVD now as well. Sherlock. Fargo. Least favourite: Any of the reality crap that seems to being spewed out by everyone. I avoid even glimpsing it at all costs! Quite like Portillo's railway journey stuff and I like his taste in jackets. Apart from that, I don't know enough about him to say if he is a bit of a fanny :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Piste up Musket Date: 30 Jan 15 - 11:37 AM You must have done. I'm the suave sophisticated swashbuckling one that the women giggle over behind their fans, wondering if the rumours are true about my "Prince Albert." Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 30 Jan 15 - 11:48 AM and gnomic utterances......how does that work? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Jan 15 - 04:38 PM Al. Gnomes first law. The sun must be cold, br=cause the nearer you get to it, the colder it gets. Don't believe me? Wander up Ingleboroug tomorrow and test the theory! Musket: Ahhh, got it. You rare the the with the big willy that isn't Doctor Who. Answer me one thing though. Just watching tonight's episode. How did Joan of Arc get involved? Did anyone run the plot line by a historian? :DtG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 31 Jan 15 - 03:38 AM what's good day for Dave the Gnome what's a good night Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:19 AM Good day - Walking the fells (but nothing too strenuous nowadays!) Good night - Pub with good beer, company and music. Preferably after a day walking the fells :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:25 AM The last time I walked over Ingleborough we got to a pothole called Bull Pot - to discover a small group of potholers with one of their number trapped down there with a broken leg. No mobile phones in those days, so we hared back down the fell to the nearest police station to report it, and they called out the local rescue team. I was once winched down Gaping Ghyll, which I still believe to be one of the most incredible places - an underground cavern big enough to fit St. Paul's Cathedral inside it. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musket near Macon Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:31 AM the train rumbles through France, Musket gets bored. Got a signal for a while.. Joan of Arc? I'm in the right place to ask, but buggered if I know. I'm not a historian, never mind an historian 😎 Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:46 AM Just making arrangements for a shortish (5/6 miles) walk on 21 Feb - The annual sheep shagging festival for the Swinton Hardy Intrepid Trekking Society (SHITS for short) Evening of 20th and 21st will find us at the Station, Ribblehead, disturbing the peace. If anyone is interested. Some spectacular pots round there, Guest, 31 Jan 15 - 07:25 AM. Just past Bull Pot (Well, one of them - The one in Kingsdale) there is an old Show Cave called Yordas Cave. Well worth a visit when it is dry and provided you have good lighting. It is an easy walk in one but a stream does flow through it and after heavy rain it can get impassable for all but the maddest :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:59 AM Last post but two was me - temporarily de-cookied. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Le Musket Date: 31 Jan 15 - 07:59 AM Ribblehead Station? Does Ted Woof still run a precast concrete yard in the station yard? The pub a bit further down towards Ingleton, where you cross from Whernside to go up Ingleborough, can't recall the name but we will be in there when we do the three peaks, our annual get fit in May. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 08:11 AM Hill Inn, Musket. We will possible be aiming for that as the centre point of our walk on the 21st. Three Peaks are way beyond us at the moment sadly :-( Let me know when you will be there though and if I can help at all with ferrying people about, providing sustenance and shelter or simply getting pissed at the end of it :-) Don't know about Ted Woof I'm afraid. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 08:14 AM Hill Inn is not what it used to be a few years back when the landlord was a hippy who ran rock concerts in the barn. Still good food and beer though. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 31 Jan 15 - 08:16 AM The time I did the Three Peaks I had brand-new boots on, which was an incredibly serious error. We started and finished at Ribblehead but the piss-up was in Settle. I once stayed at Ingleton youth hostel at a time when the warden was a luvly feller but with an unfortunate extremely short temper (he came into the kitchen when we were washing up and he screamed blue murder at us for not letting the pots drain enough before using the tea towels). I've done a lot of botanising round there. There are some rare plants and a great flora round Selside, Colt Park Wood and a disused little quarry near Ribblehead. But this isn't about me. :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 08:24 AM We started a walk from a quarry a couple of years back, Steve - Is it this one? Sorry - You will have to stand on your head to read it. It's a bugger if you download it to a tablet that auto-orients the screen as well. And this thread can be about you too if you like :-) Anyone is welcome. Well, most people anyway. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 31 Jan 15 - 09:10 AM ""Fuckin winter!"" Unfortunately, born in the wrong country. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 09:23 AM Another bit about me. I cannot resist a bargain. Just had a stroll up to the village and spotted a Bradsport Gore-Tex jacket in my size for a fiver! Seems pretty good but one of the tapes on the seams is coming adrift. While we are on the subject of things outdoor, anyone any recommendations to re-seal said tape? Ah - Just found something called 'Seam Grip'. Anyone any experience of it? Which leads on to another bit about me - I do tend to ask a lot of stupid questions on Mudcat :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 31 Jan 15 - 09:24 AM I was a bit hesitant to identify it because it's a location of the very rare Coralroot Orchid but that looks like it. We just called it Ribblehead Quarry. You'd have to be something of an expert to find that plant so I don't think I'm giving anything away! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 09:33 AM Ah - Sorry, Steve. As there is the leaflet available I don't think I have give the game away either. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Le Musket Date: 31 Jan 15 - 11:57 AM I've got your email, I'll let you know. Be nice to meet up, although back up etc is sorted, (we organise it via a cancer charity that Mrs Musket, a breast surgeon, is involved with.) I don't think you ask stupid questions mate, I just don't think stupid people manage to answer them! 😇 Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jan 15 - 04:14 PM Aye, I suppose so, Musket. It was not so much the questions being stupid though as me being stupid asking them here when there are so many people who will want to make political gains out of my ignorance. Still, it makes for the occasional diversion from reality ;-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Where's that ruddy cookie Musket Date: 01 Feb 15 - 03:47 AM Aye, the problem is, Mudcat is like shit to a wet blanket for them. The more odious their view, the more they try to assert it. The more they assert it, the more they try to belittle people. The more they belittle people the more likely they are to attract the attention of those of us who don't like seeing a decent music website polluted with dogma. Still, a BS section will attract them, odd interpretations of moderation will encourage them. Laughing at them at least makes for a diversion from reality from time to time. A thread about you isn't such a bad idea. Gives balance to the threads about indecent megaphones, shows the world that there are decent blokes around... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 15 - 04:22 AM Naughty Musket! :-D - Still, even if you are making political statements, at least they are erudite and witty. On a more serious note, maybe we should have a thread where everyone gets to know people better. The more we know of someone the better we understand them and the less likely we are to fight. There are still some people I would probably not want to know better but the more peace and harmony we have, the happier my inner hippy is :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 01 Feb 15 - 05:18 AM some people say- just stay at home it isn't safe for a little gnome but if you're a gnome - you go out hobblin' to prove that you're a brave little goblin Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 15 - 06:47 AM Hey Whittle! I have never gobbled in my life :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 01 Feb 15 - 09:52 AM how dou feel about sausages Dave. i love lincolnshire sausages meself, made by a proper lincolnshire butcher with LOADS of sage in there. i wonder if they have lincolnshire sausages in America. obviously not in israel or muslim countries. must be a bastard living somewhere where they don't do lincolnshire sausages. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 15 - 10:20 AM Lincs are OK. Our butcher makes his own and my favourite were the Christmas Special - Rudolph's revenege. Venison with a lot of chilli in. Burnt going in and out! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 Feb 15 - 11:48 AM Gotta be a simple pork sausage for me, no fancy additions such as apples or leeks, made by a butcher. Someone bought us a present from Donald Russell at Christmas, and, I must say, the pork sausages were superb. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 15 - 12:55 PM I am quite pissed at the moment. Pint of Wainwrights in the Castle at Skipton. 4 pints of Black Sheep in the Kings Head. On my first glass of some Aussie Chardonnay and very likely to have some more. Anything I have posted before now is valid. Anything after is suspect :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 Feb 15 - 01:19 PM Jaysus, Dave. It's only twenty past six. I'm still on me first glass of cheap Prosecco! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Feb 15 - 01:20 PM Us old blokes in Yorkshire have early nights... :D tG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 01 Feb 15 - 03:14 PM The worst thing is having a thirst at a band gig - where I'm driving - and knowing that a pint's my absolute limit. We were doing a fairly local gig last night - about 5 miles from me by car - and there was lashings of free beer (our mandolin player got to take away a free polypin of Harveys). I could have murdered a second pint, but you just can't risk it... Anyway, I'm going round to his house on Thursday night to have a swallow of some of it. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 Feb 15 - 03:30 PM Aye, it's a reet bugger is that, Will. And it always seems to come round to my turn to drive at unfairly frequent intervals. Dammit, at least I'm not alone... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Backwoodsman Date: 01 Feb 15 - 04:32 PM Get pancreatitis - you won't be able to drink alcohol at all then. My last drink anywhere - at home, on holiday, when I'm on a gig, at a folk club, wherever - was in December, 2005. Knowing I can't drink without seriously endangering my health, maybe my life, hardens my resistance to temptation, and it's a comforting thought that I'll never get done for drunk-driving. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 01 Feb 15 - 04:56 PM I have a story about an intimate personal experience I had with a number of gnomes. Hopefully, I have told it here before, to bore you, (especially Musket). As a teen, I was with a group of my friends in a local small town in the wee morning hours. We were bored. We came up with a novel social experiment. What we did was exchange the many garden gnomes throughout the town- we spent hours taking gnomes from various houses and putting them in gardens and lawns in other locations. Our intended social experiment was to follow up and see if there were affairs, friendship, and such resulting from initiatives by gnome owners retriving their property. But, unfortunately, we moved on to another idea, and never collected the post-gnome moving initiative. But, we did hear some talk about how strange was that someone, likely teens, were doing weird stuff with gnomes. Who did the deed was never revealed to the.locals. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 01 Feb 15 - 04:58 PM Now, why did I think this thread was all about gnomes, imbibing ones or not? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 01 Feb 15 - 04:58 PM Oh, I forgot:) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musket musing Date: 02 Feb 15 - 03:29 AM A company up near Newcastle used to make rude garden gnomes, all the way from a bulge in trousers to being able to arrange them having a ménage a trois Cast from concrete, about eight to ten inches. (High) I mention this because casting in latex and providing the vibration needed for dry ish quick setting concrete ain't easy. In a former life, that was the sort of puzzle I solved for a living. Granted, I put the bits about channel tunnel etc on the CV, not giving better detail on wanking garden gnomes. Poor bugger went out of business after the SME business grant was recalled, the local council didn't know that his gnomes were a niche market, if you get my drift. They found out via an ad in Private Eye. Still, the previous Mrs Musket's garden is a haven for gnomes who like dogging, if you are ever in Derbyshire. Even got a few statues erected (as it were) to let you know you have the correct garden. Keep an eye out for her dogs though, they have been trained to go for anyone who plays in folk clubs, trust me... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 03:32 AM Well, was tucked up in bed not long after 10 after watching "Death in Paradise" on catch-up - A current favourite I forgot to mention. Didn't get up till just before 8 so no hangover :-) Hopefully that is the last of the big binges until mu Birthday. Oh, hang on, that is this week... :-D Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 02 Feb 15 - 05:33 AM i suppose you can always say to yourself, at least i'm not concrete and in garden. mind you - would it be worth being concrete to be perpetually frozen into an act of joyful copulation? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 05:41 AM Hmmmm - Dunno if I fancy it myself, Al. Remember the scene in 'Barbarella' where there are two lovers frozen in stone, locked in an embrace that could never go any further? How frustrating! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 05:55 AM Another little known fact about me. In fact I only just discovered it. I would love this thread to reach 100 :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 02 Feb 15 - 06:13 AM If you need any help getting the thread to 100, always here to help Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 06:39 AM Homes for Gnomesby Owain GlynOGWould you give a gnome a home? Sit him down on sculpted foam? Find a pleasant shaded spot, Not too cold, and not to hot. Somewhere by your Goldfish pool, They do like water, as a rule. You'll need to keep your pet dog, clear, Don't want him pissing in his ear. And if you've got a crazy cat, You'll need to just get rid of that. As for the kids, don't be a fool, Just send them off to private school. The pleasure you will get is real, Such happiness, you can't conceal. A new dimension to your life, And he won't nag, not like the wife! ! We bought one, the other day, To be quite fair, it's in the way. The bedroom really ain't the place, To see its grinning, evil face. Every time that I undress, I feel it staring, I confess. It seems to laugh, in measured glee, Then, it's fishing rod, I see. So, please, give a Gnome a home, I'm sitting here, right by the phone...... A/N If you could find him a partner, it might distract him, Maybe Elton John...... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Owain Glyn Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 08:32 AM Some of my better contributions to Mudcat :-) Updated Old Town Russian Folk Songs Lancashire Legends Gone downhill ever since :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 08:57 AM Steve (Shaw) - Just linking to the Lancashire Legends and found a discussion on pubs called "Eagle and Child". Did you ever go to the one in Whitefield when the folk club was there? Me and my mate Dave (We have a third as well - Go by the name of the posh submarine captains "Dave, Dave, Dave"!) ended up stranded there one snowy night and ended up walking back along the hard shoulder of the M62! Not sure if we were mad, brave or under the influence of Joseph Holt's finest :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 09:00 AM "I am me... you are not - end of story" Urban Dictionary Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 09:44 AM Ahh, the French:) Fly this airline? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 09:45 AM I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together? Ed T, in the words of the great Homer, if you don't start making sense we will have to put you in a home :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 09:50 AM Is "making sense" a relative term;) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 11:20 AM Not sure about relative terms. I believe incest is relatively boring though... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 02 Feb 15 - 12:15 PM One or two round this way have to have flutes made with more holes and guitars with more strings, if you get my meaning. The Six knuckle shuffle is a popular tune.... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 12:57 PM "Be kind considerate to your young grand kids, nieces and nephews. You'll soon need their help to smuggle booze into the nursing home" Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 02:13 PM Yay! Topped the ton :-) Extra bonus points. I once won a fancy dress party as a garden Gnome :-) My next best prize after that was a Delft tankard I won in a Heineken competition back in the 70's. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 02:20 PM Do post a picture of yourself in a fancy dress, whether it be gnomesome, or not-so-gnome. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 02 Feb 15 - 02:22 PM Dave, I like flat fish but not as much as I like you. After all there's no plaice like gnome. I'll get me... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 02:55 PM Oh dear, gillymor - On yer pike... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 02 Feb 15 - 03:11 PM Holy mackeral, I thought that joke just smelt, but maybe I'm just hard of herring. Oh honest to cod,maybe I should just clam up and stop vexing me verbal mussels gnOme's a quick bloke, eel get even. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Feb 15 - 03:26 PM I have some Welsh ancestry so I suppose I could respond by singing... Whale kipper whelk -ome in the hillside but who would play the music? I could ask the Halle-but they are too expensive. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 03:45 PM ""Another loose-living gastropod is the periwinkle. This shameless little libertine with its characteristic ventral locomotion ... is not the marrying kind: 'Anywhere anytime' is its motto. Up with the shell and they're at it."" Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 02 Feb 15 - 04:18 PM When in Rome like Dave the Gnome do as Romanns do join the Cosa Nostra pinch ladies bottpms too throw coins in the Treffi sing the songbook of Dean Martin but watch out for the garlic it always sets you fartin' Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 02 Feb 15 - 04:25 PM Nostragnomemus Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musketypoos Date: 02 Feb 15 - 06:02 PM whale oil beef hooked... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Feb 15 - 05:26 AM Another loose-living gastropod is the periwinkle Now, there's a Limerick challenge if ever there was one :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 15 - 05:58 AM When ah were a nipper ah brought home a toy bucketful of winkles from Morecambe one day. I'd thought they were just shells, but they ended up crawling all over the downstairs room carpet and me mum screamed blue murder. A lively young Morecambe Bay winkle... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Feb 15 - 06:50 AM stuck for a subject, I think I'll tell of a Morecambe Bay winkle who caused great uproar all over Steve's floor when he popped out of his shell, for a tinle Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Feb 15 - 07:03 AM Whan I was 16 I went, with 3 friends, camping in Rhos-on-sea. Amongst the many strange things that happened (remember this was 1969) including a couple riding round the campsite on 'chopper', completely starkers, was a winkle fight. We had gone down to the shore and collected a pan full of winkles. Someone told us that you boil them in sea water, so we did. We all tried a few but were not overly impressed. So, what to do with the best part of a pan of cooked winkles? Winkle wars! I think the whole camp site got involved at one stage :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Feb 15 - 07:13 AM so you did your bit for the world food shortage, there were children in africa who would have eaten those winkles.... Cliff Richard wouldn't have thrown winkles. didn't Jesus feed the five thousand with a pin, a bottle of Sarsons and a bag of winkles? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Feb 15 - 07:16 AM Al, the bronchitis is getting the better of you. :D tG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Iain Date: 03 Feb 15 - 11:38 AM When I was a lad living in sarf London, I used to make garden gnomes on a weekend in sunny Worcester Park. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Feb 15 - 01:05 PM I think I was made somewhere near sunny Victoria Park in a 2 up 2 down terraced house in Swinton, Lancashire :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musketypoos Date: 03 Feb 15 - 03:51 PM so... Where's the beer? I left a comedy club in Hertford to get to this party, at least a can of Tetley and a quarter of scotch egg eh? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Feb 15 - 04:02 PM Tetley? Pah! Brewed in Wednesbury I believe. Within 5 miles I have Naylors (Crosshills), Copper Dragon (Skipton), Old Bear (Keighley) and Taylors (Keighley) . Not sure about the scotch egg. I don't do solids... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 03 Feb 15 - 06:53 PM Got a feeling that I was an al fresco production and that the precise three-seater structure in Whitefield still exists in a park somewhere. A pint of Thwaites's bitter and a Greenhalgh's meat 'n' tater pie'll do me! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,musketypoos Date: 04 Feb 15 - 02:58 AM aye but Dave said a party. Forgive me if I'm wrong but parties tend to have tinned beer and nibbles. Or I have been leading a sheltered life. If we can choose then Black Sheep for a session, Old Peculiar for eventual oblivion. Must have solids or after a while I might pick up Dave's squeeze box and sing Jerusalem. I can't play the squeeze box by the way, but have never let that get in the way of beer infested talent. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Feb 15 - 03:06 AM I remember Party 4's, party 7's and Sparklets beer taps. Not that we ever used beer taps. It never stayed in the can long enough. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 Feb 15 - 05:42 AM Ah, those illicit under-age purchased Party 4s! But no bloody can opener! I remember the back streets of Bolton, trying to get into one with an old screwdriver and a stone to hit it with. Once you got in, the beer was as flat as a witch's tit and tasted like horse pee. Happy days! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Feb 15 - 08:35 AM I remember a parody of "Where do you go to my lovely" containing the words "I remember the back street of Bolton". Or maybe Salford? Certainly not Naples. Also had, if I remember rightly "Your clothes are all made by Tesco, and there's nits and bogies in your hair". Eeeeeeh. They don't write 'em like that anymore. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,musketypoos Date: 04 Feb 15 - 11:10 AM Les Barker, "Where do you go to my Doris" He originally wrote it about Stockport. Obviously, everybody, yours sincerely included, altered it to wherever we lived. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Feb 15 - 01:18 PM That's it! "Where do you go to, my Doris, when you're alone in the bog..." Never know it was Les Barker though. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Feb 15 - 01:38 PM Just noticed this about Bolton. Hope you were not going to make it your next winter sports destination by train, Musket :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 04 Feb 15 - 02:34 PM Where do you go to my Doris, When you get on the bus Are you seeing a smoothie in Buxton Is it all over for us? I remember the back streets of Bramhall Two children playing a game Each with inverted ambition To shake off a middle class name When the snow falls you're found in Widnes With the others of the jet set Where you sup your Domestos and soda And down it in one for a bet Etc etc. I think, without looking, that it appears on the Mrs Ackroyd Superstar album. But I might be lying because I have no proof of this via Google even though I know it to be a fact. I can't find anyone on my list of clever people who I can quote. 😇 Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Feb 15 - 03:10 AM It is my birthday today :-) Got some good music. Alison Kraus, Paulo Nutini and George Ezra - None of your folk crap :-P Can't do a big celebration tonight as I am working tomorrow but hope to get out a couple of times over the weekend at least. If anyone is in Skipton on Saturday afternoon I'll buy you a pint! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 05 Feb 15 - 03:24 AM Why was he born so beautiful? Why was he born at all? He's no bloody use to anyone He's no bloody use at all! Have a good 'un. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 05 Feb 15 - 12:23 PM Happy Birthday, Dave - have a good one! Skipton's a bit far for me these days, but I remember the town well. Have a pint for me - which boozer(s) do you use? I've just dedicated my latest YouTube vid to you - pity you don't care for jazz... :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVq9pwUpC9o Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 05 Feb 15 - 12:25 PM Bloody link-maker! Honeysuckle Rose Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Feb 15 - 02:08 PM That was really lovely - Thank you Will. Unusual Guitar too :-) While it is true to say I am not into Jazz I do like quite a bit of the stuff like that. The problem I have with contemporary Jazz is that I do not understand it. Probably how my brain works! I had the great pleasure of being in Brussels while there was a Jazz festival on and I saw lots of acts that I did enjoy and lots that just left me shaking my head. I suspect the dividing line I make of liking trad jazz and not contemporary is a bit more blurred than that but, roughly, that encompasses it. Same with opera - nothing beyond G&S for me I'm afraid. I am probably what aficionados of most things would call a light weight :-) One of my favourite artists, and a good friend, is Pete Ryder who does a lot of jazz and blues in a very laid back way. If you don't know him already here he is with what I believe is one of his own compositions. At the folk club that I helped to set up and run for almost 30 years until I emigrated to Yorkshire. Cheers DtG Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Feb 15 - 02:15 PM Going back to the Swinton days (all of 2 years ago :-) ) My favourite acts there must include regulars Pete Ryder, and Gary and Vera Aspey as well as regular booked guests Anthony John Clarke and Stanley Accrington - May give you a good idea of my diversity of tastes :-) Loads of others of course so if you have appeared there and I have not mentioned you, it doesn't mean I don't like you. Then again... :-P Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 06 Feb 15 - 04:08 AM Gary & Vera.. That takes me back. The last booking we ever had at The Boundary Inn in Worksop before eventually folding the club back in 1985 ish. "Don't get married lads, It'll make you bloody ill, You know she's taking smarties When she says she's on the pill" (I wasn't too keen on their song about Gracie Fields though.) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 15 - 04:28 AM They are still doing the same stuff, Musket - Why ruin a good formula :-) Lovely mention of them by Colin Irwin in his book "In search of Albion". He had given them a rather poor review in the past and was quite worried when he came across them in his tour for this book. His fears were, of course, groundless and he finishes with the words "Vera is a saint". :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 06 Feb 15 - 04:55 AM back in the '70's i took my parents to see Gary and Vera. my mother was outraged at Gary's depiction of nothern man. makes me smile to think about it. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Feb 15 - 06:05 AM Hope you had a good' un, Dave. We don't drink Thursdays any more but I shall raise a glass to you tonight! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 15 - 06:37 AM I did thanks, Steve. Had a modest amount last night (is about 6 units modest?) Hope to have a couple more tonight and will clink glasses with you across the ether :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 15 - 10:52 AM You know them stupid quizzes that pop up on Facebook? You know, what kind of camel were you in a past life and Let us work out your favourite flavour of paint? Well, to pass the time I will occasionally give in and do one, usually having a giggle at the outcome. That I was a 23 year old woman was the best :-) But I just did a 'what is your song' one and it said - Your song is:"Like a Rolling Stone" You're tend to be guarded and hidden to outsiders. The people who really know you are those who gained your trust by understanding and loving you for who you are and not what may or may not lie on your outside. The way you carry yourself and the kinds of things you're into make you brilliantly mysterious, and quite impressive to say the least. The people who seem to misunderstand you are simple-minded and never worth your time. You recognize this so well that you only spend time with people who matter! Now, not sure about the hidden mysteries but I must say that the last two sentences brilliantly summarise my feelings this place:-) Coincidence can sometimes be right.... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,DtG Date: 06 Feb 15 - 10:53 AM ...feelings ABOUT this place... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musket getting ready Date: 06 Feb 15 - 11:05 AM I'll raise a glass in your direction tonight Dave. Although I need to stay sober till 9.30 ish as I am opening the second set for The Red Dirt Skinners at Doncaster Roots tonight. Busy setting my DI blender etc ready for the sound check later. Managed to bugger up my finger last week in France so only finger picking songs, no frailing.... Anyone nearby, I hear there are still a few tickets left, £10.00. Ukrainian Club main hall. Ian Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Feb 15 - 02:23 PM I hope you had a great birthday, Dave. I also hope you didn't get crap in the mail like we seem to here in the US - our age seems to be a matter of public record so that when you reach A Certain Age instead of birthday greetings businesses start sending you invitations to plan your funeral. SRS Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 15 - 03:07 PM I did thanks Stilly - and still doing so. Should last until Sunday at the earliest :-) No crap in the mail for my birthday but still under the threat of an HMRC (your IRS) bill for about £1200 :-( Ah well. I have had it, I suppose I should pay the tax. Pity I am not a corporate friend of the chancellor... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 15 - 05:49 PM It was a Cab. Sav. Tonight and I toasted you all. Only a bottle though - quite restrained I thought :-) Into Skipton tomorrow. Couple of pints and then a meal all being well. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Feb 15 - 06:04 PM As promised I raised a glass to you tonight, Dave. Waitrose Rich and Intense Italian Red, from Puglia, £4.74 the bottle if you buy six. Yes, plebs, I did say Waitrose... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 07 Feb 15 - 04:01 AM back to you Dave - give us some good news! what are you really looking forward to in the coming year? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Feb 15 - 04:16 AM Ooooh. So much. Mastering 'Planxty Irwin' on accordion. The new series of 'Game of Thrones'. Possible promotion. Grandsons growing up and taking them hiking. Winning the lottery (fat chance). Some Mudcat posters coming to their senses (even less). Many more - I am an optimist so most things really :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 07 Feb 15 - 04:47 AM Do you do much hiking, Dave? When I was in my late teens and living in Lancaster, me and a mate used to go youth hostelling and fell walking every weekend in the summer. One of my favourite routes was to start off from Patterdale YH and go up Helvellyn along Striding Edge, then back down to Grasmere. Other favourites were Sergeant Man and Pavey Ark. I remember walking Fairfield one Easter. The ridge had about a foot of snow and the sun was brilliant. We were walking along with no tops on, sweating like pigs - but the moment we stopped, on went the shirts and sweaters in double quick time! I had some great black and white photos of that day - long since lost over the years. Alas, my fell walking days are over - 70-year old hips and knees put a stop to all that - but the memories are as vivid as ever. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Feb 15 - 04:57 AM Would like to do a lot more, Will. Nothing as ambitious as your old stomping ground nowadays but can still do up to 10 miles over moderate hills. Being a Manchester lad I cut my hiking teeth in the Peak District and did some pretty tough routes. Nowadays I do most from my front door in Airedale with the occasional sortee into the Dales proper. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 07 Feb 15 - 06:43 AM Sounds good mate. Weather and household chores permitting, we are popping up to Swaledale for a walk tomorrow. I have plotted out a nice 12 mile gentle hike that takes in three old disused lead mines. Cue singing Fourpence a Day at folk clubs next week. (Curious. At the gig last night, the mc and I were reminiscing old festivals and Gary & Vera Aspey came into the conversation. (Gary refusing to work with the hired pa company who were crap.) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Feb 15 - 07:06 AM Been to Swaledale many a time but never walked there, Musket. The Wainwrights coast to coast prog. with Julia Bradbury (?) showed some lovely bits around there including some old lead mines. Nearest I have walked around there is Wensleydale and then only Hawes which was the termination of a section of the Pennine Way from Horton. I really quite fancy doing the walk described by Bob Pegg in "The Gypsy" which would terminate in Upper Swaledale. I started a thread about it here. If I ever get it off the ground, would you be up for it? Probably over the course of 3 days. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 07:32 AM If anyone finds an Olympus Trip camera case on Ill Bell, it's mine. Blew away from me one day in 1981 in a roaring gale! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 07 Feb 15 - 09:10 AM It certainly isn't the worst suggestion ever... If it gets any closer to being a reality, email me. (Believe it or not, from being the original, I am the least posted Musket on Mudcat these days and miss many threads.) Mrs Musket musing, we might now be doing a round walk in North York Moors instead, parking at Osmotherly, over the wainstones, down to Chopgate and across back. Done it before although a bit knackered at the end... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,achmelvich Date: 07 Feb 15 - 10:46 AM so there is another dave in skippy eh? i go there fairly often to see old friend 'jap dave' when he is over - in the royal shepherd usually or the cock and bottle (where i still have a couple of beer tokens from a quiz win a couple of years back) last time we went for a meal at 'microwave dave's' restaurant (brody's ?) on t'main street. there is another dave (dave teach?) that jap knows - but it in't dave gnome. though perhaps our paths have or will cross - pete teach (in my bentham/ingleton days) nice wee town innit? we got married there a few years back and had my first ever cocktails there last year (in some cheerful wee wine bar - can't remember the name of the place. or much about the night) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 01:34 PM Has your other thread gorn begging, Dave? Been out retail therapising all day... |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 15 - 01:32 PM Part 2 - Mudcat truncated the first post. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Feb 15 - 04:03 PM Happy to meet up when you are next here, achmelvich, even if we disagree about super hero movies :-) My favourite pub is the Narrow Boat - Home of the folk club and purveyor of some superb beers. I walked into Skipton today, about 5-6 miles down the canal, and met Mrs G at the Castle pub. It was however over full and we had a wander, ending up in Calico Jacks (Think TGI Fridays with Pirates!) Had prawn fajitas and a couple of pints of Peroni. Wandered down to the Narrow Boat where I had a super pint of pale ale and found out that Copper Dragon Brewery has closed :-( All is not lost though - It is opening again at a nearby site combining with a new brewery called While Owl (I think). Went for the bus but was 40 minutes early so had a glass of very nice cider in The Fleece. Not sure what happened to my other thread, Steve. Seems threads attacking Muslims and Gays can stand but ones suggesting people talk about themselves are deleted. C'est la vie as they say in Oswaldtwistle. (I suspect this will be deleted too but hopefully someone will se it first :-) ) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 08:04 PM I'll have thee know that me gran on me dad's side were born in Ozzletwizzle tha knows! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 08:20 PM About a year ago I took me old mum for a nosh at The Bull at Broughton, near Skipton. There's a somewhat remote chance that I might repeat the exercise next Monday. Just sayin'! Though it could just as easily be the Three Fishes at Mitton, or even the Red Lion at Hawkshaw... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 08:22 PM When I say next Monday I'm talking northern next Monday, you understand. Not this Monday coming but the one after, but you already knew that, of course... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 07 Feb 15 - 09:05 PM "Seems threads attacking Muslims and Gays can stand but ones suggesting people talk about themselves are deleted." This kind of incessant shit is what gets threads deleted and rightly so. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Feb 15 - 09:29 PM Mods.... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 08 Feb 15 - 04:09 AM Sadly, some moderators see no problem with "free speech" but delete reactions to "free speech." As ever, this ain't about Dave, it's about the duty foreigner from a place where equality is still as novel as culture and heritage. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 08 Feb 15 - 05:09 AM i think this is a really good thread. we are learning about Dave. dave and i have had misunderstandings in the past, i feel sure if we had known each other better - this would never have happenened. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Feb 15 - 05:32 AM Very true, Al. Although I think any disagreement we have had has never been acrimonious. Even if there has been misunderstandings they have always been resolved. I think! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 08 Feb 15 - 05:50 AM My main misunderstanding is how he took so long to discover the benefits of living on the right side of "the hump." Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 08 Feb 15 - 10:44 AM "dave and i have had misunderstandings in the past, i feel sure if we had known each other better - this would never have happenened." Maybe you two can get to know each other better through PMs and spare us the inanity. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link Date: 08 Feb 15 - 11:26 AM Yrs past my wife, kids and some muso friends hired a cottage by the stream at kettlewell. Pretty remote. One early morning I went for a walk to hubberholme where I remember seeing wall paintings that had survived the Puritan times. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Feb 15 - 11:58 AM I do not log in any more, dear Guest 08 Feb 15 - 10:44 AM, so how do I get PM's? Maybe you could get a modicum of intelligence to spare us from your drivel. Or better still, just fuck off. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 08 Feb 15 - 12:10 PM Here ya go Dave Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 08 Feb 15 - 12:24 PM Goo on Dave! Clock him a fucker!! (If I had a fiver for every time I heard that outside night clubs in Sheffield.) If the guest (interloper, whatever) hadn't noticed, this thread is about Dave. A fine squeezer of the chest expanders with vocal accompaniment. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Feb 15 - 03:42 PM And, Guest, you don't log in because? Aye, Musket, I would, but clocking him a fucker would probably send him into ecstasy. Funnily enough another thing I have heard outside Sheffield night clubs... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 08 Feb 15 - 04:10 PM "And, Guest, you don't log in because?" Because of posters like Musket, Carroll, Shaw, Ed T, and you who turn threads into personal attacks against other posters which has driven away many regulars and made this forum a shadow of its former self. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Feb 15 - 04:18 PM Errrr, and you think I should log in because? Presumably cannot see the irony of complaining about personal attacks by making a personal attack? Please carry on. You can only show us how daft you can be :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Feb 15 - 04:41 PM Troll, Dave. Feed not! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Feb 15 - 05:24 PM I know, Steve, but I look at it as a sort of 'car in the community' issue. Until it starts to dribble out of the sides of it's mouth I can put up with it :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musketypoos Date: 08 Feb 15 - 06:19 PM Notice that the bottom feeder lists those who challenge bigots, liars and criminals. Hence too ashamed to log in. One of those who has driven Mudcat down to the gutter. "wasn't it good when we could call them poufs, niggers and Pakis without some politically correct bastard challenging us?" Just lie quietly and die, whoever you are. The twenty first century clearly didn't appear for your distasteful existence. Operation Yew tree is mopping up the remains of your culture. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 08 Feb 15 - 06:38 PM Correct Steve, we have seen this annon. "guest" troll going from "thread to thread", trolling about. Mods obviously are content allow this annon. guest troll to continue in his personal attack, trolling. If others took this approach, they would be censured or PM ed to cease such trolling. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 08 Feb 15 - 06:47 PM Yet it's your and the pack's posts and threads that get deleted and closed.....get a clue. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 08 Feb 15 - 07:08 PM Why do you sound so squeaky, guest? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Feb 15 - 08:24 PM Dave, Musket, Ed, don't talk back to him. Mods, get a bloody grip for once, will you, please? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Feb 15 - 01:35 AM so what squeezeboxes have you got? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 02:42 AM I have an East European unnamed 72 bass piano accordion; a Hohner 12 bass piano accordion; a 30 button Lachenal anglo concertina in C/G and a no-name anglo 20 button in D/A. Just sold a 48 bass Crucianlli piano accordion. Also have a rather good 'Guvnor' steel strung guitar and a nylon strung Chinese one. Umpteen whistles and mouth organs of varying qualities and a Mandolin. Oh, and a bodhran. But we don't talk about that... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 03:38 AM Why did you have to bring the Bodhran up Dave? We were really enjoying a thread about you and all of a sudden, there's an elephant in the corner... Gob irons. We had a discussion about them at a local folk club last week. Everybody who plays and owns a few seem to agree that chromatic jobbies are a bugger to get on with and far better to carry one for every key. What's your take? (Oh, the anonymous poster. The only person I know of who uses the word "pack" when referring to Honourable and Right Honourable Members is the one whose abuse resulted in a kid with "problems" if people around where I live are accurate in what they tell us. As Steve said though, anonymous trolls don't count, although this one didn't before he went anonymous.) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Feb 15 - 03:54 AM you do a lot of ceildhs - that sort of thing - or are you the folk clubber/singer specialist. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 03:55 AM Got my mustache caught in the slide of a chromatic one once. Never again! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 04:05 AM I like ceilidhs but now so much for the dancing nowadays - Just love dance music. Ran a folk club and festival for nearly 30 years but rarely attended elsewhere. Enjoyed Fylde and Whitby festivals for many a year but stopped in the 90s for no particular reason. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,DtG Date: 09 Feb 15 - 04:08 AM now so much=not so much! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 09 Feb 15 - 04:30 AM She isn't a he, Steve. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:11 AM I agree with the poster not prepared to endure the torrent of abuse from you people if he gave his name. "Because of posters like Musket, Carroll, Shaw, Ed T, and you who turn threads into personal attacks against other posters which has driven away many regulars and made this forum a shadow of its former self." I have made the same observation many times. Musket, ""wasn't it good when we could call them poufs, niggers and Pakis without some politically correct bastard challenging us?" I have been here a lot longer than you Musketpoos (I like that name, poo being a euphemism fo shit) and I can tell you that we have never had people who expressed such racist views. It is an invention of yours. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:20 AM Why bring it over here, Keith? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:26 AM I dont know wtf you are talking about keith. Unlike with Liz the Squeak, I have rarely discussed anything with you. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:28 AM I did not bring it here Dave. The issue was already raised here and you and others replied to it. It is an issue that I think important, so why shouldn't I express my view. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:36 AM What issue, Keith? This thread is about me, not any issues you may have. The clue is in the title. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Muketypoos Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:09 AM No you haven't Keith. You have been here as long as your last post, just like everyone else. Lies and rants advocating "legitimate" bombing for schools and hospitals, let alone odious views on British people of Asian origin do not qualify for anything, and reminding us how long you have been polluting Mudcat with your puerile bigotry just exacerbates your unfortunate position.. This is about Dave, a decent member of the human race. If it were about you, it would come with a health warning. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:13 AM There goes Musket poo with a lying personal attack on me for expressing a view. Dave, the issue of personal attack as a tactic used by a pack of people here was not brought to this thread by me as you accused. I merely joined in after you and others already had. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:21 AM As far as I can see there was no personal attack at all until Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 08 Feb 15 - 10:44 AM "dave and i have had misunderstandings in the past, i feel sure if we had known each other better - this would never have happenened." Maybe you two can get to know each other better through PMs and spare us the inanity. What did you join in after me "and others already had."? And what has it got to do with a thread about me anyway? Just so as we know. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musketypoos Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:23 AM Quoting your views is lying? If you aren't proud of them, stop polluting Mudcat with them. Hey Dave.. Have you mastered any of the other Planxty tunes? I love them and they run through cadence points like Bach. I wish I could learn more, but Planxty Davis on guitar is about as far as I got. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:27 AM Dave, the issue of personal attack used as a tactic was raised by a Guest on : 08 Feb 15 - 04:10 PM The issue was then taken up by you and others. I even quoted his statement. Why was it wrong of me to express my view on an issue I think important? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:33 AM Keith, 08 Feb 15 - 04:10 PM is after 08 Feb 15 - 10:44 AM, which is the time that the first personal attack was launched by unnamed Guest. Still don't know what you are on about or why you brought it ontoo a thread about me. Musket - No, Just Plaxty Irwin so far but on the Music I have (one of Mally's accordion books) it does run into Shebeg Shemore, another one of O'Carolans tunes. Not even started on that yet :-( Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:33 AM look Keith this bloke came on the thread that we were enjoying and called us inane. he was offensive - whatever his sodding name was. Dave is telling us about himself on this thread. if you want to start a thread about yourself, i promise not to call you inane or insult you. in fact - we perhaps ought to have threads about ourselves where being nasty and rude is verbotten. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:36 AM Whoops - Sorry, 09 Feb 15 - 06:33 AM was me. Hear, hear, Al. Trouble is I suggested that in another thread and that was, for some reason, deleted :-( Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:38 AM Oh - And thanks for getting me over the double ton, everyone. I didn't think I was that important. Or whatever it was the doctor said I was... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:41 AM We have enough threads about Keith as it is. Pass a comment on any thread about distasteful bigots and as if by magic, even on the odd time it doesn't describe him, Keith comes flying in playing the persecution card. It was so nice over the weekend, being able to post on threads without his poisonous venom leaking all over. Piss off Keith. This is about Dave, his beer, his adopted Skipton, concertinas etc, walking in The Dales, heritage and the life and times of fellow folkies. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:43 AM You could have all ignored him but you chose to reply. I just joined in. That used to be how things were done here. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:50 AM Yes, we did chose to reply, Keith. It was a personal attack on 2 people who, up until then, had been enjoying a civilised and sensible discussion. Well, as sensible as one about me can be. Do you believe it is acceptable behavior for a troll to post onto a civilised discussion and then complain that the 'pack' (whoever they are) are attacking them when I respond to the inane drivel that was posted? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Feb 15 - 06:54 AM I can go out and have a great time with just three little diatonic harmonicas, in D, G and A, but the G and A ones do need one note tweaked (3-blow up a whole tone). I've got a couple of good tremolos for variety and a couple of Hohner XB-40s for when everyone else is being too bloody loud. I'm on YouTube somewhere doing Carolan's Concerto in 95-degree heat. I was waiting for the missus and sister to hurry up and have their showers. What's that smell, by the way? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:03 AM I am not a particularly good player of the gob iron and do tend to stick to the native key but I can generally get by in sessions and with accompaniment. I can sometimes bend notes when required but tend to miss out any accidentals outside the key I am playing in! I have seen your rendition of the concerto on you tube and it is pretty impressive :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,DtG Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:05 AM How and why do you 'tweak' the notes BTW? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:13 AM Blues harps have the sixth note of the scale missing in the bottom octave. There are duplicated notes at 2-draw and 3-blow, so you can afford to lose one of those. The usual trick is to tune up 3-blow by a whole tone (a 5-minute job with a mini-drill, a file and a tuner, once you've done it a few times). That puts your missing note back and your harp is now in what's called Paddy Richter tuning, much more useful for traditional tunes. Well-nigh essential for G harps. But this isn't about me! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:16 AM ""What's that smell, by the way?"" It's the putrid odour from disgruntled solders of lost battles - when deodorant fails to mask a nasty smell, disinfectant may cleanse long-festering sores . Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:37 AM Yeah, a bloke I know filed down his gob irons for playing Traddie tunes. It hadn't occurred to me at the time that most you buy are tempered for blues. I keep threatening to buy a fan fret guitar on a similar basis. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:44 AM Just watched your Carolan Concerto Steve. Very good. I "use" harmonicas occasionally but don't begin to claim to be able to play them. There are a few jigs and reels I patiently sat and got right so sometimes give the impression I can play, but it is all parrot fashion really. A hangover from the inevitable "Neil Young" phase sone of us went through in our youth. You seem to have had a Sonny Terry followed by a Larry Adler phase.... Then treated it like a melodeon. My hat off to you. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 07:52 AM You missed the Bob Dylan phase, Musket, but yea, generally my harmonica evolution too :-) First time I played in public - Dirty Old Town on gob iron as part of a massed school band and choir around 1967 I would guess. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 08:23 AM Thinking about it, my first job interview - Late 1969 and once I had decided that a sixth form college run by Catholic monks was not for me, had a mouth organ related bias. Bear in mund that it was just before my 17th birthday and it was a job for a grade 1 (lowest!) clerk at a local council. There were 3 Councillors and 2 senior executives arrayed around the council chamber and I was sat in the pit, being grilled (excuse the pun). Councillor - "What do you outside school time?" Me - "I like to play guitar and mouth organ" Other Councillor - "Huh! Doesn't everyone!" Chief executive - "Well, I don't." There followed an interchange between elected and appointed officials that can best be described as heated and I think the chief exec. appointed me purely to spite the Councillor :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 09 Feb 15 - 08:41 AM Dave "Yes, we did chose to reply, Keith. It was a personal attack on 2 people who, up until then, had been enjoying a civilised and sensible discussion. " The Guest I quoted raised the issue of personal attack and I joined you all in responding. Not sure why you all object, but no wish to continue. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 09:01 AM Good. Glad that is over :-) My favourite thing to eat is seafood. I think my favourite meal of all times was either the first time I had Moulles and frites accompanied by Belgian beer in Brussels or grilled sardines and salad with Rioja at a Quayside cafe in Benalmadena. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 09:03 AM Heard that one before from our resident Major Misunderstanding. Job interviews can be interesting. I was on a panel a while ago for, funnily enough, a chief executive. As he put that he played trad Jazz in clubs, I found him on YouTube and during the interview, to break the ice somewhat, I asked him if his Petit Bouche guitar was a Maccaferri original as I have a decent LAG copy. He looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Surely people looking for senior posts know anything they declare can be looked at? He got it anyway. As the external assessor, I didn't see him again but a regular Django. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 09:17 AM Did they pour Mayo over the chips? I have yet to order chips in Belgium without them pulling that stunt. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 10:01 AM They did, Musket. Luckily I liked it :-) Doesn't work with salad cream on greasy chips from Nobbys burger bar though. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 10:26 AM Oh - Almost forgot. Going back to much earlier in the thread - Just got Guardians of the Galaxy on BluRay as a belated birthday present :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Will Fly Date: 09 Feb 15 - 11:46 AM I started on blues harp about the age of 18 or so. I had a whole bunch of them in different keys - in the days when they cost about 6s.8d. each. Lord knows what they cost now. I bought 10" LP of Sonny Terry playing solo - "The Fox Chase", "Train Tune", etc. Absolutely stunning. The, after a phase with Sonny and Brownie records, I got on to Little Walter, but the bloke who blew me away (pun intended) was Sugar Blue. What a player! I still have a pristine set in the music room - saw them going for a good price on eBay - as the old ones wore out donkey's years ago, but I've hardly touched them. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,achmelvich Date: 09 Feb 15 - 11:51 AM 'neil young phase some of us went through in our youth'- musket. i recall a bbc 2 programme with neil young from about 1972 or 3. i have long since stopped trying to grow my hair so long but continue to look for that style of boots - and am still going strong through my neil 'gawd bless 'im' young phase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1BapsppXM sorry, 1971 - quite a long phase, really. was a very impressionable 15 year old though Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Musket Date: 09 Feb 15 - 12:15 PM I have size 13 feet with wide arches. Can't get hoopy boots on, let alone kick the buggers off again. My hair style is similar to a certain well known gnome.... "Oh to be on Sugar Mountain With all the barkers And the coloured balloons You can't be twenty On Sugar Mountain Even though you're thinking That you're leaving there too soon" Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 12:16 PM The boots look like Doc. Martins to me. Nice clip anyway - Thanks achmelvich. Blue clicky. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,achmelvich Date: 09 Feb 15 - 01:43 PM what is a 'barker' on sugar mountain? i have been wondering for all this time. (well, not all the time obviously - i have had a few other things to worry about. ) like what do the americans mean by 'bangs' and 'bleachers'? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 09 Feb 15 - 01:58 PM A barker is someone who while standing at a carnival midway or at the entrance to a club exhorts passersby to try their luck or come in and see the show. Carnival barker Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Feb 15 - 02:37 PM Bangs - in general, that is the hair that rests on the forehead, usually cut in a straight line or feathered and worn to one side. Bleachers are a form of gym or stadium seating, usually temporary (they can be folded closed to make more room when spectators aren't around). Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musketypoos Date: 09 Feb 15 - 02:41 PM You live and learn. I thought a Barker was a kazoo... My neighbours were called Barker when I was a lad. They had a dog called Nigger. Different world from now.... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST Date: 09 Feb 15 - 03:01 PM ' carnival midway'? yer clip there sounds creepy and not at all encouraging. 'bangs' means a fringe then over this side -and bleachers are seats. what's wrong with the original words? anyway - yes musket, these days we would probably Sue Barkers like that - quite right too. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 04:53 PM I don't think Les Barker was ever a kazoo but in his accounting days he may have used Kalamazoo ledgers. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:03 PM Wonder if he has ever written a piece about a lama and a kazoo? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Feb 15 - 05:18 PM the best seafood i ever came across and highly recommend is the fish soup they make with a lot of sherry in Majorca Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Feb 15 - 10:29 AM Hope to watch Guardians tonight after trying to make sense of a polka given me by my accordion teacher. So much to do. So little time! Out of interest this lad is one of my teachers star pupils and is the son of my local pub's landlady! He gave us an impromptu performance the other night and it was brilliant. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Feb 15 - 10:44 AM I've befriended Tom on Facebook, along with Sam Pirt, in the hope that talent makes it's way through the ether and I can absorb some by osmosis... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 11 Feb 15 - 05:34 AM yes Ozz is a good man... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Feb 15 - 07:32 AM Just had a very odd lunch of Sauerkraut, mixed grilled peppers, olives and jalapenos and a piece of the co-ops cheese and jalapeno bread with olive oil poured on it. Just using what we already had in but can highly recommend it. Move over Gino... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Feb 15 - 01:49 PM How's this for a weird coincidence. I enjoy "Egg Heads" sometimes while relaxing after tea but don't get too many answers right. Tonight the challengers took the Eggs to the wire and won in a sudden death round. The two questions were "Which 2014 film starred Chris Pratt as Peter Quill?". What did I watch last night? Guardians of the Galaxy! Challengers got that. The Eggs lost on the next question. Which English folk songs contains the line "'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year."? You could here me singing it down the street:-) Made my day! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Feb 15 - 02:33 PM songs=song, here=hear. Damn tablet auto-fill... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 11 Feb 15 - 03:02 PM Sauerkraut farts have distinctive aromas, kinda reminiscent of bilgy river mud. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Feb 15 - 05:25 PM I'll have you know another interesting fact about me. My farts do not smell at all! And my nose doesn't work properly although I cannot see that the two things are connected... Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Blind DRink in Blind River Date: 11 Feb 15 - 10:25 PM Okay, maybe this flippin' thread WAS about you...but it ain't no longer, becoz of I have posted here now, see? It is over for YOU. I am the boss now. It's all about ME from here on. I rule! Got that? Good. Now, flip off! - Shane McBride Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Feb 15 - 02:42 AM Ah, but you will forget about on the morning, Shane :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Feb 15 - 03:34 PM Just remembered Gnomes second law. The universe must be constantly expanding and contracting because the uphill bits are always longer than the downhill bits. What it will take a real quangnome physicist to explain is how it does it both at the same time because I have passed people going in the opposite direction who must be experiencing the same phenomenon. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 15 Feb 15 - 09:15 AM Less than a week to the annual SHITS outing. Can't wait :-) Our luxury accommodation awaits. Any who wants to get there brain and ears damaged are invited to The Station at Ribblehead on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 15 Feb 15 - 10:45 AM Dave, I know you've mentioned your culinary preferences on this thread, if you like Corned Beef Hash I will making my internationally acclaimed dish on the 6th March for my Rescue Boat Fund Raiser. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Feb 15 - 09:00 PM Damn. I could well be taking Mother for a drive round the Dales on Thursday, but on Friday the M6/M5 calleth. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 16 Feb 15 - 05:41 AM did you get out to the Dales. i miss all that since we moved south - mind you there are some nice bits of countryside in Dorset. I think both Lancashire and Yorkshire undersell themselves as beautiful counties, I think most people just think of Manchester and Leeds. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 16 Feb 15 - 05:58 AM I live in Airedale, Al. While not in the national park we are just 5 miles from the boundary and a short 2 mile hike puts me on the Pennine Way :-) When I have more time I plan to walk to Malham - Should be able to do it in 2 days but will probably take it easy over 3. I will use a combination of car and bus to get me to and from start and end points rather than sleep under canvas. Getting to old for all that :-( Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 15 - 10:08 PM I do not agree with all this flippin' BS bein' put on MY thread! Stop doin' it now or else! - Shane Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 02:50 AM Oh yea? You and who's army? :P Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 17 Feb 15 - 03:29 AM guest....be nice! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 17 Feb 15 - 04:58 AM One imagines he knows more about army history than all the military historians! Silly Musket. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 05:15 AM Kindly note the title of the thread. Sweet FA to do with history. Not even King Cnut. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 17 Feb 15 - 05:22 AM i used to love that cheese shop and restaurant at Hawes - did you ever get there? They used to do a steak with cheese sauce that was really nice. and what cheeses! breathtaking! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 06:00 AM The Wensleydale creamery is just on the outskirts of Hawes and I have visited once or twice. Never eaten there though if that is where you mean? My favourite shop there was Kit Calvert's Book Shop but I never found out if it really Kit Calvert himself that ran it. At the time I had not heard of Kit and would not have the knowledge to realise I was speaking to the saviour of Wensleydale cheese as well as one of the most renowned Dalesmen of all times. Can't even remember what the owner looked like now. Too much water under the bridge and alcohol through the bloodstream :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Ed T Date: 17 Feb 15 - 10:12 AM "Because of posters like annon. "guest" who has just attempted to turn this tread into personal attacks against other posters..." Ummm, just changing a few words to make it more current? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 10:24 AM I saw the anon post and it's subsequent removal. May have been better if posts referring to it had been deleted as well but that ain't my call. Where does that comment come from though, Ed? Not arguing, just wondering! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 10:55 AM Or maybe it was a different anon post I saw? :-S Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 17 Feb 15 - 02:42 PM yes that's the place. the recipes all have cheese in them - really really deicious! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 17 Feb 15 - 05:39 PM For those of (or with) a culinary bent... Wensleydale Creamery Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 17 Feb 15 - 08:45 PM fabulous place! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musket musing Date: 18 Feb 15 - 02:52 AM Got the T Shirt. In fact, Mrs Musket and I had a "romantic weekend" in a hotel just outside Hawes back end of last year. Clear day Saturday with winter sun and seemed to have the dales to ourselves so we headed to Horton and wandered up Pen y Ghent for the morning, and wandered round the tea shops etc of Hawes in the afternoon. Presumably, judging by irrelevant posting above, I spent the whole weekend regaling Mrs Musket with my knowledge of military history? I reckon someone needs a type of referral that starts with your GP Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 03:26 AM If it was Simonstone Hall, we sort of know people there. Well, relatives do anyway - My Brother has stopped there and told us it was wonderful but we have not been yet. Always used to go to the Dales for our Wedding Anniversary in May, but now we live there not sure what to do! Go to Salford maybe? :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 18 Feb 15 - 04:10 AM Lancashire was a surprise to me. My family was from St Helens and all that way. Then I started going to Alan Bell's Folkus weekends at Waddington Hall near Clitheroe. I had never really seen rural Lancashire before. Very beautiful also! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 08:04 AM You must try the Forest of Bowland, Al - Set of from around Clitheroe, cross over the tops via the trough and end up around Bentham. Beautiful and all within Lancashire :-) Of course, a lot of the Lake District was in Lancashire before 1974 as well. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 18 Feb 15 - 08:22 AM Dang it Dave, I too was going to mention that bits of Lancashire were pinched in 1974. I seem to recall there is a bridge just outside Coniston that has Cumberland engraved on one side and Lancashire on the other. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 08:50 AM Coniston sounds about right - Prior to 1974 the highest point in Lancashire was The old man of Consiton. 31st of March 1974 I left work in Walkden, Lancashire and went home to Swinton, Manchester. 1st April I woke up and went to work in Salford, Greater Manchester! I don't think the area ever recovered from the shock! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 18 Feb 15 - 08:58 AM In 1955 I was born in the County Palatine of Lancashire, lived there quite happily for 19 years then like you I suddenly found myself a resident of the City of Salford in somewhere called Great Manchester. It was time to leave. Incidentally I have been doing missionary work in Yorkshire since 1982! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:20 AM Makes you 60 this year, Raggy, 2 years after me! I have only been in Yorkshire 2 years and have not strayed as far as you - Only a few miles from the border :-) Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 18 Feb 15 - 09:29 AM I recommend the coast Dave, I'm lucky enough to have the sea half a mile away on one side and the North York Moors two miles away on the other. The only issue of any significance is the number of tourists, but without the tourists the town would be dead, pubs and shops would close etc. So long live the tourists. Wouldn't mind cheaper beer mind, Guinness is £3.70 to £3.85 in most pubs. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 10:13 AM I do quite fancy going to the coast, when I retire, but in the other direction. May look between Lancaster and Ulverston but excluding Morecambe! Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Feb 15 - 10:29 AM BTW - I presume the Sam Smiths Stout in the Plough is cheaper but do SS pubs still not allow music? Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 18 Feb 15 - 11:20 AM Sam Smiths still dont allow music or even electronic cigarettes. I was "bollocked" by the landlady of the Plough last week. In her defence Hunphrey has passed an edict to ban them. Real pity about the Plough it really was a stunning venue during folk week, again in it's defence Sam Smiths Stout is really very good. The invite to the Rescue Boat Fund raiser still stands Dave if you fancy a trip to the seaside Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: Big Al Whittle Date: 18 Feb 15 - 10:38 PM so as a squeezebox player have you had a go with a midi interface. Dave Fletcher's mate uses one to great effect. do you know Dave - posts as Goldengob. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Feb 15 - 02:54 AM No, not me Al. I do have an appreciation of midi though and quite fancy giving it a whirl one day. Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Musket terrified Date: 19 Feb 15 - 03:01 AM Lancaster is a wee bit too close to Knott End for my liking. Used to have the T Shirt till a feral beast indigenous to those parts cut it into bits with bacon scissors. 😞✂👩 Subject: RE: BS: This thread IS about me From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 19 Feb 15 - 03:51 AM Ahhh, Knott End. Home to Betty Swallox and Lilo Lil if I remember rightly. Many a Lancaster stag party has ended up with the groom waking up with a tattoo and chained to the oars of the Knott End ferry. Some of them ran aground in Fleetwood and were never seen again apart from peeking between the hollyhocks in the Floral Gardens at the Marine Hall. 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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Feb 15 - 02:43 PM Much appreciated, Stilly. Thanks for that. DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 23 Feb 15 - 04:57 AM Do not worry about the history threads. They only cut off on Christmas Eve. Nothing important was added after that anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Feb 15 - 05:12 AM Just a reminder to anyone interested. This thread is about me :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Musket Date: 23 Feb 15 - 05:22 AM It'll never be about you Dave, it will always be about Yorkshire, and what with you just being an immigrant from the ungodly West side of the hump and all that... I know the problem. I was born less than a mile from the border, but could I open the batting at Headingly? Could I buggery. (Off buying guitars in West Yorkshire today! The Music Room in Cleckheaton, Eagle Music in Huddersfield and assuming my papers are in order at the border checkpoint, down saarrf to Richtone in Sheffield, as per my shortlist.) Anyway, back to you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Raggytash Date: 23 Feb 15 - 06:53 AM I'll have you know Musket that Lancashire is God's county AND I can prove it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Steve Shaw Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:09 AM And his proof is that I agree with him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:12 AM Me too. Must be a consensus... :-P |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Abdul The Bul Bul Date: 23 Feb 15 - 11:25 AM Bloody Lancastrians, Why on earth would God want to be associated with that place. S'neither nowt nor summat. Al |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 23 Feb 15 - 03:07 PM Abdul ............... I did say I can PROVE it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 23 Feb 15 - 03:35 PM Go on then, Raggy, I'll bite :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Steve Shaw Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:51 PM "'Ow does tha mek a Yorkshire omelette?" "Na then, lad, first tha 'as ter nick three eggs..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Feb 15 - 08:55 PM Hi, Dave - The cache of the entire thread is here (click). I admit that I saw it and figured it would take half an hour to restore it, so I passed it by. It has like 3,682 messages, and I can't just post all that into one message. I think I'd have to break it into eleventy-seven posts to get it all in. SRS posted part of it, so bless her. But can you be happy with my cache link? It took me a long time to restore a Ewan MacColl thread Saturday, and I did it without complaint. But Ewan MacColl is Ewan MacColl. And you, well.... Well, you're the guy who sent me a gift package last week, and what has Ewan MacColl ever done for me? So, yeah, if you want a full restoration, I'll do it. Or, hey, you can find all the posts in the link above and paste them here. That's what SRS did, and what I'd do. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Feb 15 - 02:34 AM That's fine Joe - Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 24 Feb 15 - 03:15 AM First question then Dave, what is the established church in this sceptered isle, this precious jewel set in a silver sea. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Feb 15 - 07:40 AM C of E? |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 24 Feb 15 - 08:32 AM Good, we are agreed on that, now who is the head of the C of E |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Feb 15 - 08:35 AM I think I can see where this is going. Duke of Lancaster by any chance? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 24 Feb 15 - 08:49 AM Got it in one Dave, doesn't half confuse Tykes ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Musket Date: 24 Feb 15 - 01:47 PM MMmm.. Let's see.. The Archbishop of Canterbury's digs are in London. Is that in Lancashire? Nope. His local church is in Canterbury. Is that in Lancashire? Nope. The next most important building for the established God botherers is where? That's right. God's own County. In the county city too.. On top of which, Liz, the real head of the church is there because, amongst other things, the Yorkists kicked seven bells of crap out of the Lancastrians. Dick the Shit and all that. Anyway, the most sacred hallowed turf in the world is in Yorkshire. S6 to be precise. Mind you, as I am not a Yorkshireman, I can also relate that you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 24 Feb 15 - 02:25 PM Musket me old love, don't take this too hard but that lot came second. Now, as to Lancashire's being God's county it's really quite simple. The established church in this beautiful county is the Church Of England and the Monarch, at present Elizabeth the First is the head of the church and defender of the faith. Thus she is God's representative in our glorious nation. This is the important bit........... do you know who the Duke of Lancaster is ............... no, let me enlighten you it's the Queen. So the Queen is both the Duke of Lancaster AND God's representative in the jewel set in an azure sea. Thus God's representative is the Duke of Lancaster and so God must have chosen Lancashire as his special county. Simple. One final thing, me being a Mancunian and all that I thought Sheffield Wednesday was a Bank Holiday :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Steve Shaw Date: 24 Feb 15 - 04:50 PM The only good thing to come out of Yorkshire is the westbound Snake Pass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 24 Feb 15 - 04:51 PM Told you before. There is a consensus. You lose, Musket :-P |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Feb 15 - 05:58 AM Really, really, really to the Nth degree pissed off. Just been told I am not being interviewed for an internal promotion and fobbed off with a stupid excuse. They talk about making the most out of their people and how easy it is to get on in this company. What they don't tell you is that if you are turned 60 they are not interested. Bastards. Probably go into a decline for a few days now so if I offend anyone, tough shit :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Musket Date: 25 Feb 15 - 07:37 AM How can I ever lose when defending Yorksheer? I have God on my side. He top trumps Liz. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Feb 15 - 08:16 AM Aye but one exists and the other doesn't :-) Unless you ask Pete of course... |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 25 Feb 15 - 08:22 AM Exactly my point Musket me old fruit, GOD chose Lancashire, that's why OUR Duke is the Monarch and the defender of the faith. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Raggytash Date: 25 Feb 15 - 08:24 AM Sorry Dave, for the purposes of this discussion I am willing to suspend my normal atheism. Owt to upset a Yorkshireman. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Feb 15 - 03:34 PM Sorry about the job situation, Dave. Same thing happened to me 18 months ago - a new dean moved staff around without knowing what they were doing to begin with. It's so broken now that even if she leaves (!) there is no reset button to fix it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: about me? From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Feb 15 - 03:48 PM Thanks, Stilly. Plotting my revenge even now :-) |
