I suppose one might have a Top of the Fish &Chips if one was given to rating things like they do on telly and in the papers but I always found that double steak pudding, double chips, double peas, double bread and butter,double gravy, with an HP sauce squirter and a pint of thick stewed tea, served up by a sweaty, overworked fatty blowing her fringe up with her bottom lip, after eight or nine pints of whichever to be best at the time you had your snout in it.
Last Friday night's version being already on the shrimp counter in a presentable form for the tourists happy to be pretending how wonderfully English they were in their "Kiss Me Quick" hats and flower patterned frocks with buttons up the front.
(just easing myself back in gently...)
I was saddened today to hear of the death of Paul Hunter, snooker player, Yorkshireman and father. He was 27, and had been diagnosed with stomach cancer last year, IIRC. He continued to play professionally even during his chemo.
This thread seemed appropriate, given that snooker is a mainly British sport - although growing massively in the Far East I believe. I'm a TV snooker fan (not got the patience or bladder control for live games) and an occasional player of little talent (highest break of 22, most breaks are reds only!) Any other snooker fans or players out there in A2K-land?
I love playing snooker. But I don't have the patience to sit and watch it on TV.
Bit of a shock really last night.
I've watched Paul Hunter play many times. I always watch the big English competitions more or less from beginning to end. It's a great game. So civilised. A marriage of intense competition and skill and gentlemanly behaviour plus superb coverage from the TV production crew. I bet on it and that's the way to learn about things.
They say that being any good at it is a sign of a mis-spent youth and I must admit to being a victim. I won a small local comp at 17 but I once had a few frames with the Welsh champion and he murdered me. That's where I learned about the gulf between a pro and the amateurs which applies in every sport. The top players need to practice for hours every day.
Every young man should learn to play to an acceptable level. It's a ticket to friends and thus jobs etc anywhere in the world where the game is played. Most sports are.
A lot of women watch the game on TV and Paul was a ladies' darling.
We are all going to miss him a great deal.
I smiled at the headline in The Sun today:
"How do you solve a problem like Korea"
You think deeply about it Mac whilst you're dipping your soldiers into your soft boiled egg and if you come up with a solution you should write in to Mrs Beckett. In the event that you're baffled you should do extra toast and spread it with thick-cut orange marmalade.
Then place The Sun somewhere out of sight so that any visitors don't know you've been reading it.
Some joker rang me up earlier to tell me that there was a fascinating programme on the idiot channel called Trinny and Susannah Undress. It was spellbinding in its sheer crass dreary awfulness.
Do people watch that sort of thing? You should have seen the bloke. An Agony Aunt's dream. He was enough to kick a mid-life crisis off at anytime.
Mornin' smorgs. How's the head?
Groan...
I'm going back to bed now - just heard thunder!
I posted your 'thing'
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smorgs wrote:I posted your 'thing'
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I'm glad, I didn't send you a pic of mine!
smorgs wrote:Groan...
I'm going back to bed now - just heard thunder!
I posted your 'thing'
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Brilliant! Was it sent first class? When it arrives, I'll strap it on immediately.
I used to watch snooker all the time - in the halcyon days of Hurricane Higgins, Steve Davies, Jimmy White and Ray Reardon (dracula).
If it was on late - I would tape it then watch it on 'fast forward' in the morning.
I watched Steve Davis's live 149 break.
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McTag wrote:McTag wrote:Dorothy Parker wrote:Would you like me to pick you up a nice little rug while I'm there Walter?
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Yeah, a syrup. :wink:
This is what I
CALL a syrup
Tha's an interesting post, McTag, opening as it does opportunities to discuss hairstyles, ill-advised wigs, The Sopranos crime TV series, or a whole panoply of related topics.
MuckT wrote:
That's I great word...
I'm going to slip it in at least 5 times today.
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spendius wrote:You think deeply about it Mac whilst you're dipping your soldiers into your soft boiled egg and if you come up with a solution you should write in to Mrs Beckett. In the event that you're baffled you should do extra toast and spread it with thick-cut orange marmalade.
Then place The Sun somewhere out of sight so that any visitors don't know you've been reading it.
Some joker rang me up earlier to tell me that there was a fascinating programme on the idiot channel called Trinny and Susannah Undress. It was spellbinding in its sheer crass dreary awfulness.
Do people watch that sort of thing? You should have seen the bloke. An Agony Aunt's dream. He was enough to kick a mid-life crisis off at anytime.
Spendy, if only everyone were as perfect as you, how much better off we all would be.
I should make clear I saw The Sun headline only briefly, as I was in my newsagent's premisis to purchase my usual quality daily paper and The London Review of Books.
I thought the Sun's headline was brilliant!
Made me chuckle for hours...
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smorgs wrote:I thought the Sun's headline was brilliant!
Made me chuckle for hours...
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Thank Christ! Somebody actually reads my posts. I thought I was typing in invisible ink. :wink:
I read a the whole panoply of your posts...
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