Missing Topic ?

[BILLW]

Was I dreaming ? All that work John - seems a shame to just poof it, LOL.

Bill

[brink]

The topic is missing and so is any hint of what you're talking about. Enlighten us please.

Which lake?


quote:Originally posted by joveski:
john fowles came along and told us all to jump in the lake, basically

[BILLW]

John proposed a new award - "the most pathetic poster of the week" and listed a number of runner ups. It was funny, sort of, but I guess he decided some folks might take it the wrong way so he deleted it - which also causes the replies to vanish. (If you delete the original post in a thread all the replies get deleted at the same time - FYI)

Bill

[Gaby]

Come on! John!
Pop it back.
I thought it was a hoot.
The Watchman’s right! (Cripes – did I really just say that? )
It was funny and the topic is a great tongue-in-cheek idea.

I wasn't on that list, was I?

[BILLW]

I believe you were. Can't check tho', LOL.

Bill

[SilverHeels]

Yes, John, put it back up. I didnt see it first time around.

I don't even remember there being such a topic. Was it a thread or was it something else you could go to from the main page?
(It's no surprise to me that I was on there)

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
but I guess he decided some folks might take it the wrong way so he deleted it -
Bill
You are partly correct Bill yes I did on reflection think that my lengthy rant was a bit over the top and liable to offend as much as amuse you all as I had intended.
I guess Gaby came closest when she sugested I had got out of the bed on the wrong side yesterday!!
In fact the main reason that I deleted the whole topic was that one reply emphasized a
project I am working on that I did not want aired in public
for the record I highlighted as candidates
Walter Stoneborder,(catman) Ron (Chidgey), Mende Joveski,Florian,BillW(allace),Al the Watchman,Valerie Magee and the winner Char/Char1/Charlene/Chargex on two counts 1.because she had conspired with Florian to include a pair of incorrectly orientated cutting scans in her wonderful "Treasure Vault" on this site and I had recently found that to read them I had to stand very uncomfortably on my ear because neither Char nor Florian had had the gumption and/or ability to rotate them.
I then linked to a rotated jpg of one of them

2.My rant had actually started when I was flabberghasted to read in the Topic: "Inspiration Lady" video gets press Char's comment about a pic of Gord she wanted to present:-
"I've sent it to Watchman hoping he will post it here. I have no clue how to go about such a thing!
lol"
I initially thought that I had previously been through the exercise of elucidating for Char how to post a picture this way but found I had done so for Jenney and Kimberley only.So I will be refining my litle tutorial on the small talk forum soon
OK that is most of the punters I was snide about except for
DMD3 of course I also featured you as follows
\2Next is Dunkin' Michael Douglas the Third where "third" is to be pronounced with an Irish accent with a silent "h" and also a silent "p" (yes I realise there is no "p" in third but I am taking either the p or the Mickey/Michael out of that young gentleman he is nominated for proudly proclaiming that he had made up a useless and silly e-mail addy to place in his profile. As his penance he will cease wittering on about his lightweight and more importantly edit his profile at:- http://www.corfid.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ub...&UserName=DMD3
and while he is about it reveal the names behind the cryptic initials (there is room where it says "home page" to do that Duncan or is it really Douglas after all??"
Anyway I was particularly pleased to now find that Al said
"It took me awhile to catch onto John's humor but once I did, a lot of his stuff is pretty funny".
I am always trying to finds the funny side of things which sometimes gets me into trouble!!
It comes from a long heritage of admiring a string of brilliant British comedians who from the genius who thought that having a ventriloquist and his wooden dummy star in a comedy series (Educating Archie) would make sense and be funny and then contrived to present it on (non-visual) radio of all things through the extreme innovations of Peter Sellers and Spike Mulligan as The Goons which led to Monty Python then the satirical strain created in the 60's by TW3 (That Was The Week That Was for all you younguns!!) and in turn the wonderful Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in which made such a star of Goldie Hawn. Damn you Watchman you've got me going again.Now I'll have to start a topic on English, Welsh and Scottish humour. But I'll do that in the appropriate place (the small talk forum) and report back here in due course
Over and out
John fowles




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starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[Dermot Ology]

John,

Peter Brough & Archie Andrews?

I well remember them. I once saw Peter Brough on TV, he could not talk without moving his mouth, so the radio was the ideal place for him. If I remember rightly he used a very large cigar to try and hide his ineptitude. I think Archie was the brains in that act.

I can recall an American vent, Edgar Bergan I think, he was every bit as good as Peter Brough.

[Shazia]

I never saw the post.

[Gaby]

Originally posted by BILLW:

quote:All that work John - seems a shame to just poof it, LOL

poof – does this word not have the same connotation in the US of A as it does over here in the UK?

I’m sure John never poofs anything!

(btw, John – do you really want to share that fag in Toronto?) .

[Janice]

quote:Originally posted by Gaby:
Originally posted by BILLW:

poof – does this word not have the same connotation in the US of A as it does over here in the UK?

I’m sure John never poofs anything!

(btw, John – do you really want to share that fag in Toronto?) .


Sounds to me like "poof" might just mean something else over there - Here it's used to suggest instantaneous occurrence. Like now you see it, now you don't. I can only imagine based on your next comment what it might mean in Brit lingo - on the other hand, I'm pretty sure John doesn't smoke

[BILLW]

Gaby,

# 1 I'm as old as dirt so my slanguage sometimes throws people off a bit. # 2 Here in the USA, I'm not sure about elswhere, we are expected to use politically correct words and mannerisms. I usually refuse to go along. Here a fag is a fag. In my youth, when I was gay and carefree a fag (or faggot) was a bunch of kindling used to start a fire. I know a fag is a butt or a smoke (cigarette) but I never liked sharing them much, they were always too hot by the time your turn came around, LOL.

Bill

[johnfowles]

quote:Originally posted by Janice:
on the other hand, I'm pretty sure John doesn't smoke
Interesting
In my family a poof was something you put your feet up on (as you relaxed in an armchair enjoying a fag possibly!!
My Collins Concise UK English Dictionary defines poof as
"Brit slang a male homosexual" ( half of a Californian married couple??)
and fag as
1. a boring or wearisome task
2. Brit (esp. formerly) a young public schoolboy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect (note public school in this UK usage is of course a fee-paying Private school
obviously a misnomer to confuse visiting yanks!!
or
Brit sl a cigarette
or sl chiefly U.S. short for faggot (Sl chiefly US a male homosexual-the other half of a Californian married couple??)
(Thinks I mustn't be too rude about California why this is becoming accepted practice right here in New Jersey too)
anyway I used the term fag on my Nevil Shute web site section at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/nevilshute
complete with a link to an encyclopedic definition of fagging that I found
and right Janice I thankfully after some 40 years quit the weed in January 2000 after a full 40 years of puffing/coughing away.(it's not the cough that carries you off it's the coffin they carries you off in). Yes after thousands of attempts at giving up. (You know you always will give up the next one!) I found that my 4 months in hospital after my January 2000 stroke did the trick and truthfully I very rarely even think about it nowadays. So I am naturally most concerned if the similar condition that Gord endured did not make him quit too.Mind you just before I had the stroke I was working far too hard and through the night so that for each of three succesive nights I probably chain-smoked though about three packets hence
I strongly believe that the heightened level of Carbon Monoxide in my blood led to the near fatal blood clot. As it happenned the stroke actually probably saved my life as having shortly thereafter arrived in NJ newly married I was checked over and a heart surgeon diagnosed severe heart problems necessitating a quintuple heart by pass in October 2000.
so now you know where I stand so poof I'll be off!!!

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[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited April 22, 2004).]

[Gaby]

LOL

I have to admit - I was a bit worried I might have offended the PC Brigade with that post!!!!