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Mathos
 
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Reply Wed 13 Dec, 2006 03:39 pm
He probably buys second hand wigs at house clearance sales!
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smorgs
 
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Reply Wed 13 Dec, 2006 03:45 pm
spends wrote:

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Which gets easier in direct proportion to the number of pints one has sunk.


Why can't you just say 'beer goggles'?

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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 13 Dec, 2006 04:16 pm
smorgsie-

If you are going to get literary on me I will say in defence of my phrase that it is much superior to 'beer goggles' because it allows for gradations and "beer goggles" don't. With beer goggles you would have to have a carrier bag full graded for "rosy glow" coefficient and keep changing them.
They don't really get the proper effect of gradual reduction in taste and discernment operating unconsciously. And you would look daft stood at the bar with a pair of goggles on. The comparison doesn't stand up to literary scrutiny. The beer coat works because you've had a skinful when it's needed.

It's a cliche anyway. Out of VIZ. The intellectual's comic.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 12:04 am
It suits Brits better to be discussing the merits of Viz than the works of the Marquis de Sade, I think.

A very fine publication.
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dadpad
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 12:18 am
POMS are on top in Perth gents. Early days yet.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:00 am
spendius wrote:
smorgsie-

If you are going to get literary on me I will say in defence of my phrase that it is much superior to 'beer goggles' because it allows for gradations and "beer goggles" don't. With beer goggles you would have to have a carrier bag full graded for "rosy glow" coefficient and keep changing them.
They don't really get the proper effect of gradual reduction in taste and discernment operating unconsciously. And you would look daft stood at the bar with a pair of goggles on. The comparison doesn't stand up to literary scrutiny. The beer coat works because you've had a skinful when it's needed.

It's a cliche anyway. Out of VIZ. The intellectual's comic.


Oh no, these are special beer vari-focal goggles, with the new 'Reaction' lenses...

Look down - you can still focus on the beer

Look up - see the laydees in all their splender

The more you drink, the more the lenses react, the more splendiferous the laydees become.

It's all science really - them there Beer Vari-Goggles are intellegently designed for men.

But they work on laydees too.

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:06 am
Morning everyone btw!

Works doo on Friday night at the Masonic Hall in Manchester. Late bar, cheap drinks, disco and buffet, all for a fiver!

I have my outfit, but I can't decide whether to have my hair straight or bouffont as it's 60's theme.

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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:11 am
What about a Dusty Springfield creation, Sarah?

Your hair is long enough for that, yes? Right colour, anyway.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:17 am
Oh yes Msolga (hiya X)

There will be an element of Dusty in there...

But I was thinking along the lines of Marrianne Faithfull (without the Mars bar). I like the 'boho' look, it's more comfy and less groomed than Dusty, although I will pay h'omage to Dusty with lashings of black eyeliner and mascara.

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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:22 am
Friday night, going to Edinburgh if southern Scotland is not too flooded to drive through. Rolling Eyes

Shame we can't share some of our surplus rainfall with out Aussie chums.
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:23 am
Yes, I see, Sarah.

Dusty if you want to have a bit of fun & cause some amusement. (a lot of grooming & uncomfortable clothes & shoes, but ...)

Marianne if one chooses to be cool-ish on the night ...

All depends, doesn't it?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:24 am
Still, makes a nice change to be on top.

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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:27 am
I don't know what it is that makes me love you so-
I only know I never wanna let you go...


(prances round the room, waving hands in the air)
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:31 am
I'd rather be comfy, M

Wouldn't you?

Besides, it would be un-becoming of a lady to fall in a hedge in a blue chiffon mini, I'd end up with foliage in my behive! Or worse - a squirrel!

Got fab earings though... big blue perspex hoops.

Do call in on a regular basis M, I can't talk eyeliner with spendius - he's not in touch with his feminine side.

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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:31 am
McTag wrote:
Friday night, going to Edinburgh if southern Scotland is not too flooded to drive through. Rolling Eyes

Shame we can't share some of our surplus rainfall with out Aussie chums.


Wouldn't it be good if it was that easy, McTag? We could barter bits of our weather to & fro: Too hot here. Scotland can take take a bit of this heat off our hands. We'll swap that for a bit of their rain. Perfect. Everyone's happy!
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:33 am
gotta give me some, give me some of your lovin'
gotta give me some of your lovin'
i'm not a greedy girl, i don't need the world
just give me some, some of your lovin, whoa, whoa


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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:34 am
McTag wrote:
I don't know what it is that makes me love you so-
I only know I never wanna let you go...


(prances round the room, waving hands in the air)


Big show-stopping group number:

I don't want yer lonely mansions
with a tear in every room,
All I want's the lurve you promised
Beneath the haloed moon ......

Laughing
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:40 am
I mean, Sarah, when you think about it Marianne was such a wimp! Back then, I mean. Not here later stuff, which I love.

In best wobbly, sensitive voice:

It is the evening of the day.
I sit & watch the children play ....



Rolling Eyes
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:41 am
Is that 'Golden rings and silver needles'? or something like that?

I know it - can't think...

Notice the great shoes she's wearing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3EuRXs2fmQ

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 14 Dec, 2006 01:43 am
Marianne was no wimp, M...

She was arrested, nekked, wrapped in a bearskin rug, with Mick Jagger for posession of cannabis.

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