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THE BRITISH THREAD II

 
 
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 08:54 am
We all ought to be grateful that everyone who is taking a bike ride today desists from coming on here to inform us all. I certainly am. The thread would be ten thousand pages long by tea-time.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 10:36 am
Yes but how many of those went by way of Grangethorpe Drive, Mauldeth Road, Yew Tree Lane, Burton Road, Barlow Moor Road and Parrs Wood Lane?

Damn few.

Right, I'm off by train soon, going to see a film in town.

Have you finished Finnegan's Wake yet, Spendy?
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 12:10 pm
Don't be so daft Mac. It is impossible to ever finish that. It was written for an "ideal reader with an ideal insomnia."

Here's a bit which your post reminded me of a very little-

Quote:
Anam muck an dhoul! Did ye drink me doornail?
Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad. Sure you'd only lose yourself in Healiopolis now the way your roads in Kapelavaster are that winding there after the calvary, the North Umbrian and the Five Barrow and Waddlings Raid and the Bower Moore and wet your feet maybe with the foggy dew's abroad. Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cotterick's donkey with his shoe hanging, clankatachankata, or a slut snoring with an impure infant on a bench. 'Twould turn you against life, so 'twould....


Fairly streetfurrowed eh that what?

Anthony Burgess did a Finnegan made easy book but it is hard to find. There a handful in the US on Abe Books and they are not cheap. If ever you see one let me know.

A little tip so you don't look a gump when you're posing all literarylike sometime. It's Finnegans Wake and not Finnegan's Wake. It's a mental gym.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 05:47 pm
Well spotted Spendy old bean.

No doubt you object to Joyce writing "foggy dew's" in that excerpt ypu quoted or was that you?

As far as literary posturing is concerned, well who would ever know more about that than you yourself, whatever?
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 06:09 pm
Nah. I'm not posturing Mac.

I just don't think people should go through life without have read, studied actually, JJ. They have had him stolen off them by posturers. Literary critics who think you can read a good book in a couple of evenings.

How does one posture with JJ. He was serious low-life. If Immigration could spot his fans they would send them back to where they came from.

Wasn't it a lovely quote though. Almost as good as the one I put up for our resident temptress. Read it through a few times and get the feel off it and then do it out loud when you've had a few.

You'll soon find Have I Got News For You boring after a few weeks of practice. Medieval even. Not as good as Homer.

Nothing worth doing is easy.
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 6 Sep, 2007 06:10 pm
Isn't that right smorgsie?
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 01:47 am
what film did you see McT

?

Last one I saw was The Simpsons Movie.

(Homer featured in it Spendy)

Anyway it all kicks off in Paris tonight, now they've cleared the gypsies out of the way. Allez les Bleues!
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 02:23 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
what film did you see McT

?

Last one I saw was The Simpsons Movie.

(Homer featured in it Spendy)

Anyway it all kicks off in Paris tonight, now they've cleared the gypsies out of the way. Allez les Bleues!


The film was "Knocked Up". Quite funny in an American kind of way. Good scene in the birthing room, including what may be a first in a feature film on general release, a shot of a vagina with a baby's head coming through. (to squeals from younger members in the audience)

Thanks to Spendy for sage advices, as gratefully received as ever. No I didn't mean that too sarcastically.
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Francis
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 02:24 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
Allez les Bleues!


Only the girls, Steve? How about men? (Allez les bleus)!
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 03:06 am
oh sorry forgot your adjectives have gender too

what a funny language you speak Francis

I nearly got lynched in the pub the other night for saying I hope France win.

Because I live near London do I have to support Tottenham Hotspur?

Arsenal are a French team anyway

I support England at cricket

Manchester United for football (Or Stockport County)

France or maybe South Africa at rugby.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 04:24 am
I don't care too much about the rugby (perhaps because Scotland are also-rans before we start), but I like to see New Zealand slicing through the opposition like a hot knife through butter.

NZ and Australia are highly skilled and can foul at high speed and very brutally, as can South African forwards (Voerwarts) and recently a French forward blindsided Brian O'Driscoll with a punch off the ball and fractured his nose or his cheek. These boys don't mess about. Vive le sport, by the way.
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 09:24 am
Don't forget the cricket tomorrow. I'll be glued to it from start to finish.

Rugby players even look lowbrow. Fancy being famous for being a giant. Or having size 17 feet like that swimmer.

Cricket has everything. Even the commentary leaves everything else standing.
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 11:52 am
spendius wrote:
Don't forget the cricket tomorrow. I'll be glued to it from start to finish.

Rugby players even look lowbrow. Fancy being famous for being a giant. Or having size 17 feet like that swimmer.

Cricket has everything. Even the commentary leaves everything else standing.


Cliff Morgan, the Neville Cardus of rugby. Bill McLaren was worth a listen too. Eddie Butler can write a bit.

A lot of Irish players traditionally are doctors. Not too lowbrow.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 12:27 pm
McTag wrote:
spendius wrote:
Don't forget the cricket tomorrow. I'll be glued to it from start to finish.

Rugby players even look lowbrow. Fancy being famous for being a giant. Or having size 17 feet like that swimmer.

Cricket has everything. Even the commentary leaves everything else standing.


Cliff Morgan, the Neville Cardus of rugby. Bill McLaren was worth a listen too. Eddie Butler can write a bit.

A lot of Irish players traditionally are doctors. Not too lowbrow.
Jesus that was an awful film you saw with heads popping out of vaginas. Anyhoo the Irish doctors can stitch themselves. Allez les bleus in 30 mins.

So no one supports the Kiwis? Smile
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 12:33 pm
Ian Thorpe wrote:
(on annoucing his retirement) "there are things in my life that are more important to me and I have to pursue them now".
yeah like flower arranging and being an aussie beach bum bender:)wimps all of them
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 02:05 pm
Spendius Wrote;-


Cricket has everything. Even the commentary leaves everything else standing.



Simple things for simple minds, comes to mind following a statement like that!

Tell me clever man, which member of The Royal Family was killed by a cricket ball?
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 02:34 pm
I don't know but I think Sir Alec Douglas Hume's brother was the agent in a game at Eton.

Obviously you will think cricket is simple. To not do would imply that you were thick and we all know what a genius you are.

Was Prince any good? Did he primp and prance to your liking?
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 03:11 pm
I cannot give you bullshit and say I thought Prince was good! I was quite pissed off to be truthful. The wife enjoyed the show and I must say I was VERY impressed with the arena.

I'll let you have a write up on these pages over the weekend.

That does not mean of course that he was not good for the remaining twenty two thousand nine hundred and ninety nine or so who paid to see him.

I was having a chat with one of the security guys there, he reckoned every night had been a virtual sell out for the show.
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Mathos
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 03:22 pm
It was Prince Frederick. The eldest son of George 11 who became Prince of Wales in 1729. I happened to be told the tale by a rather amusing 'English Gentleman' of some age in a famous London Hotel over afternoon tea. He was somewhat confused but the basics were there and he told me he was a hundred and four years of age. Still walking and reasonable in the marbles department for such an innings.

He wasn't sure as to the ball hitting Fred on the head or chest, but in any event it killed him. Maybe you can Google it and get full detail for us, it's not really my cup of tea.

I did think it would interest you though, and you surprised me by not being aware of it. You ignorant bloody oaf!
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spendius
 
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Reply Fri 7 Sep, 2007 06:14 pm
Mac wrote-

Quote:
A lot of Irish players traditionally are doctors. Not too lowbrow.


What does "too" mean.
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