There will now be a fortnight in which historical gibberish in bad English may be freely expressed. See you in the new year, when I shall be returning from Italy and calls for ancient Chinese and pike-and-shot Mexicans will be renewed even until the skies re-echo and Ian's flinty heart is moved to sympathy.
Middle east peace, flying bacon, and good English cooking by arrangement at the same time.
Happy Saturnalia, folks.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 December 2014, 12:50:32 AM
I'm giving up on the Aztecs.
Happy Saturnalia, folks.
Two can play at this game. And I have not heart.
BTW - ITS BELTAINE.
IanS
I thought Beltaine was in May?
Saturnalia was some Roman rubbish before they discovered the Baby Jesus
Have a nice trip!
Quote from: Fenton on 13 December 2014, 10:51:49 AM
Saturnalia was some Roman rubbish before they discovered the Baby Jesus
Does that mean that they couldn't con us as much buying those damned silly cards ??
IanS
Have a good time in Italy.
Just to make me more jealous, whereabouts in Italy?
;)
The only Christmas I spent in Italy it persisted down!
But as Arold sed efter winnin hustings "ifs FK aren't here whoo wull put us rite my preshussssss'
;D ;D ;D
:'(
Quotehustings
:'(
Mea Culpa, i fougot teh apostrefi it should be:-
husting's or
hustings' or is it
husting's'
Have a great time FK, where are you going?
Our tavarich is going to Italy apparently.
..... there's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza ..... there's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza. A hole!
We may find a moment to meet if the planets alignment is right.
.. when the mooooon is in the seventh house ... and Jupiter aligns with Mars .... perhaps?
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Astonimedomini?
Aren't they a Birmingham team?
Quote from: Techno on 18 December 2014, 06:59:21 AM
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Promises. B)
Funny enough, I was listening to Dark Side of the Moon last night .....
The lunatic is on the grass .... The lunatic is on the grass ... Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs ... Got to keep the loonies on the path ... 8-} ... or is that the Pendraken Forum? :)
[Come back FK, all is forgiven?]
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Those were the lines that were going thro' what passes for my mind, as I was typing.
FK ?!.....When we've got the Syd Barret of war-gaming, in Nobby (FSN) here, to keep us amused.........
Cheers - Phil (Shine on you crazy diamond ;))
PS....Will....Shouldn't there be an 'R' in there ? :-\
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
The forum "to a T" :)
Probably, was arf asleep when I wrote it!
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 December 2014, 11:32:15 AM
...When we've got the Syd Barret of war-gaming, in Nobby (FSN) here, to keep us amused.........
Is he the one who made this?
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/barrett-m107.jpg)
:D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 December 2014, 12:08:48 PM
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
The forum "to a T" :)
Is this the Baldrick school of poetry? (Boom, boom, boom, boom etc., etc.)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 December 2014, 12:08:48 PM
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Probably just a scratch in the LP.
(For younger readers: in the days when Techno was young, he hunted aurochs and courted the woad maker's daughter from the next village. When night fell, these poor souls played music on reed flutes and drums made from the skulls of animals to keep their morale up and the evil spirits at bay. Crones hugged the dark corners and made crude effigies of animals and humans as hunting totems or love charms. The old men drank mead from horn cups and babbled stories of their past exploits whilst eyeing the young men with envy and the young women with regret.
Many years later. Many, many, many years later, Thomas Edison stole and patented an idea from Emile Berliner and recorded sound on a physical medium. Fast forward to the 1920's and the "record" was in use in homes everywhere. The concept of a flat disc of some medium such as vinyl, onto which is incised a groove. This groove, when tracked by a needle and amplified reproduces the recorded sound with some clarity.
Sometimes, a scratch on the surface of the vinyl lead to the needle jumping back and so a single phrase from a song could be repeated ad nauseum.
In Wales, Techno has hunted the aurochs to extinction, but apart from that, not much has changed.)
Quote from: fsn on 19 December 2014, 09:17:03 AM
In Wales, Techno has hunted the aurochs to extinction, but apart from that, not much has changed.)
You are going to get
such a smack one of these days, Nobby. ;) ;D ;D
And things
have changed.....It rains even more.....If that's possible. :'( :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil.
Popping in on you lot while lying admiring the view from my hotel window (can see both the Torre del Mangia and the Campanile, which means Siena for those who are totally out of touch with civilisation. Does anyone still listen to that stuff you're all gibbering about?
Well over a million to the stuff I was gibbering about, since the single has platinum certification here in the UK.
What would you have preferred?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 December 2014, 06:08:01 PM
Popping in on you lot while lying admiring the view from my hotel window (can see both the Torre del Mangia and the Campanile, which means Siena for those who are totally out of touch with civilisation. Does anyone still listen to that stuff you're all gibbering about?
If there's any horse racing going on in the Piazza del Campo whilst you're there, would you mind putting 50p ... naw ... to hell with it .. a full Euro (gulp!)... on the favourite? I'll square up with you later ... in fact, just take what I owe you out of the winnings. Honest. :^o
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 December 2014, 06:08:01 PM
Popping in on you lot while lying admiring the view from my hotel window (can see both the Torre del Mangia and the Campanile, which means Siena for those who are totally out of touch with civilisation. Does anyone still listen to that stuff you're all gibbering about?
Did you feel the earthquake ? :-\
Has there been another?
It's probably the change of diet. :D
What do they put in the water?
QuoteTorre del Mangia and the Campanile, which means Siena
Sienna is a truly beautiful city, there is a very nice restaurant directly opposite the Campanile which serves wonderful vintage Chianti.
They know how to paint and cook. Not how to put together a timetable that has even a distant relationship to 'bus and train times. Where are you when we really need you, Benny?
But tortellini with truffle filling, and quattrocento frescoes, do make up for a few chilly hours at the railway station.