Post by PASTIE on Sept 11, 2006 22:27:00 GMT -1
All done!
You are trapped on a strange island like the cast of Lost which 606ers would you like to have with you and why?
So that you all know, AC said: (I'D BETTER BE INCLUDED THESE QUESTIONS HAVE TAKEN DAMN AGES - I COULDN'T COPY AND PASTE!!!)
First choice then would have to be AC. Everywhere needs somebody cheerful, honest, full of enthusiasm for all that goes on, intensely gullible and easy to wind up and with something even warmer than a tolerance for short people.
Beyond that, I am happy to see that I did not have to come up with a certain number nor do I have to specify a particular hierarchy so I can largely stay out of trouble with this one. Apologies to anybody I miss out.
All the Prowlers are required; we can entertain each other for hours and we are virtually “Lost” souls anyway. Among the Prowlers there are some with particular skills that might prove useful. Roaster could emit smoke signals for attracting passing aircraft. Sterland can do a fine job levelling the floor of a person’s hut (“you can roll a coconut straight over that”). Peter2dc can keep guard, thus ensuring that our borders were always open to any visitors. Morton can help to maintain the peace when the stranded inevitably become fractious – they’d certainly use him as a punch ball. GfJ can take the role of morale officer and offer guidance for anybody threatening to lose the plot. Super Danny Webber can serve his community service on the island and assist with general maintenance as a part of his ASBO. Mr Millwall can do night patrol and the wake up call. Golden Boy can befriend all the local species and do his Darwinian best for the island’s gene pool. Mrs H can keep the Stafford boys mesmerised if ever they threaten to kick off. Hulsey can arbitrate any trouble and then star in an annual pantomime. DantheRed can act as doorman on the hut where Hulsey puts on his frock (GB might need containing). Gresley, as mentioned in Volume 1 would be essential as Camp Joker with the dual back up role described earlier in case we all get hungry or felt the need to sail off in a pelvis made for 15.
Beyond the Prowlers I could mention so many on here who keep me entertained – but I’d need the rest of the Argyle fans to be back in the UK posting team news (I’m assuming our desert island has wifi otherwise we’d all end up killing each other in minutes). Jenny Lollipop would also have to join us to keep everything in perspective and to make sure we are all well informed of the latest tunes in the Indie charts.
Apologies to anybody omitted from this. On the plus side, it’ll probably never happen.
Is it correct that those who can do and that those who can't teach?
Absolutely. I spend my other waking hours trying to think of something else to do. I didn’t really study Geography but fell into it by accident; I have no skills or trades and absolutely nothing springs to mind. My problem is that quietly I think I’m a pretty good teacher, and therefore I seem to have become trapped in it. This is my 10th year all of a sudden. As I mentioned in Volume 1, if there are suggestions for a better career for me, post them on RBNO2. I’ll consider all options.
When are you going to get a proper job your part-timer - loads of holidays type person?
See above answer!
Being a teacher... how many "A's" did you give the "good looking girl" in class?
My God, another thigh rubber! I do worry about the punters on this site! I’d never get away with it, but there has to be some part of human nature that allows anybody to be charmed into offering that little extra bit of assistance…!
What did your father REALLY do with those illuminous condoms?
No, I’m afraid that they really were tied to the top of somebody’s tent in the middle of Dartmoor. I don’t remember whose, I don’t remember why but I do remember it looked positively spectacular. It must have cost us a fortune too.
What happens in LAs Vegas, stays in LAs Vegas...... how many sheep are being quiet in Wales?
There is, of course, no obvious answer to this one. To fully address the issue raised one has to consider the gambling habits of those domestic animals, a phenomenon often mistaken as the gambolling habits so frequently misinterpreted in nursery rhymes. The reality is, that most Welsh sheep only have minor gambling habits and that their trips to Las Vegas should be viewed as innocent and recreational. The bad sheep that lose control can thereafter be subdivided into two categories – those that join the wrong flock and engage in criminal activity and those that were permanently affected by the Chernobyl disaster. In the latter case, it should be recognised that these sheep have no future and nothing to live for, so a certain hedonistic nihilism is inevitable and we should sympathise. In their case I feel they have a right to silence and we should respect that. For the former, truly bad sheep, I believe that silent or otherwise they should be hounded out, however much they bleat, and we should tackle the situation no matter how much they may try to pull the wool over our eyes.
Good question, thanks for posting it. It is rare that we get to tackle real issues on this site.
How do you come up with excuses not to show up at the RNBO party?
Answered previously I believe – and delivered with the same sense of shame and guilt. Like a fool I seem to be prioritising my relationship, my family, my home and my job. One of these days I will need to take a long hard look at myself and decide that it is finally time to just bloody grow up.
Peter2dc is flying 3282 miles to London, then hitching a two hour drive to Stafford, organising a place to sleep and flying back to DC after the party.... don't you feel slightly retarded by NOT going to the RBNO piss up?
Yeah yeah yeah, actually deeply retarded, not slightly. Guilty, disappointed, slightly bitter – I intend to be on the end of a phone to see if you lot all talk in typo errors when pissed up as well. Might even try to record the conversation!
Don't you think the corridors look a lot less dank since the windows were installed?
They certainly do and I regret it. What people don’t seem to appreciate is that I designed the corridors to be dank. There we have a place where people can walk in stinking of cigarette smoke, urinals and stale beer and nobody would notice the difference. The light has to be subdued to accommodate all those bloodshot eyes. The installation of windows compromises the whole quality of the environment. What next? People will be putting in sofas FFS.
On a scale from 1-10 rate the prowlers (10 being fucking amazing!)
Easy
Gresley 9 – always funny, alwas remembers I have to put the bins out on a Monday.
Roaster 9 – he neglects the corridors a little and his RBNO is sporadic but the efforts on the Caption game are superhuman.
DantheRed 8 – given a lower score just because he doesn’t yet have history on his side but what a valuable addition he has been and so dependably online in the early hours!
Peter2dc – 8 – also lacks the history but has really taken well to Prowling and has taken custodianship of the corridors when I’ve been away. Very funny, but I do worry about National Security if he has anything to do with it, plus there is always the worry that when he is in charge the corridors could be subjected to a Feng Shui
Golden Boy 9 – seems to have disappeared of late but he thoroughly has history on his side having been a late late night regular on LNF along with Hulsey (9 too but too often absent from the late shifts these days) and both always made me laugh – our nights baiting BWGH used to go on til 4 in the morning and leave me crying laughing.
Mr Millwall – 7 – not a frequent poster as he prowls all by himself and it is hard to interact, but he does his duties solidly and responsibly.
Sterland – 9 - I remember when I had a higher post count than Sterland and we were rookies here together. Been blown away since. What we have to remember is that this bearded dwarf started both RBNO and the Caption game which has sustained us for months ever since.
SDW – 6 – infrequent these days and too prone to name changes meaning that he can sometimes be around for a few days before I finally realise who he is.
GfJ I want to give top marks to, but has to settle for an 8 as he keeps abandoning us; top bloke but stealing people away just as we were getting settled seemed a pity. All forgiven, but we want him and the others rattling around the corridors again.
I must have missed someone? Brain us getting addled. JJ can sod off as he won’t have read this far! The point is the collective score has to be 10 – we are only as good as the sum of our parts and the evolution of a Prowling Community here has more than made up for the passing of the late late LNF! Long Prowl the Prowlers!
Have you always been the "bitch" at home?
Erm. Actually, between spending too much time here, or working, or drinking, or playing sports or watching Argyle I think I can be fairly accused of taking diabolical liberties…
Given the power, which 5 guys on 606 would you force to cross-dress for a night out, either for amusement or blackmail purposes?
Can all 5 be Gresley? He would need a larger than average frock and would present a challenge even to Long Tall Sally. The fact is that I believe Gresley patrols all threads at all times and the minute a bombshell is dropped he is on it like a rash, drawing upon a photo library the BBC must envy (apart from THAT photo). To survive Gresley I believe one would require a minimum of 5 blackmail cards to hold against him…
If a bomb was dropped on Plymouth and the footy team no longer who would you support and why?
Tough call. It couldn’t be Exeter but could be Torquay as they have so many of our explayers. I could follow Yeovil as they do at least play in Green. It wouldn’t be a Premier League Club as I couldn’t cope with the success nor the prices!
If my cat went up against the kids from your school, how much would my pizza cost?
If the cat is already skinned, I think you’ll find that the pizza cost would rise considerably irrespective of whether it came up against the kids from my school. Beyond that you have to consider a sliding scale of which of the 11 methods plus one donkey variant that was used to skin the cat. In any case, I would expect a little change from £8.50.
If you could see the boys play any team, in any competition, in any stadium in the world, who would it would it be, in what and where???
Could I have arrived at AC’s questions?
OK, despite the overseas possibilities, I would elect for watching us against Man Utd at Old Trafford, as I have never been there. It would be in the Premiership, ideally the first game of a season when we were newly promoted, and we took the same sorts of numbers that we took when we played the 1984 semi-final (even though they wouldn’t let all 30,000 of us in). Can you imagine the atmosphere we could generate in a stadium like that? Giving me goose bumps thinking about it (or maybe I have sat here so long my circulation is starting to pack up)
You are in your local and the Northern Ireland v England game is on, Tony Calpaldi is playing, who would you cheer for?
Been there, done that. When he played left back against Joe Cole and then Shaun Wright Phillips and kept both in his pocket when Ireland won 1-0 in the qualifiers I couldn’t help but love it. Part of it was the natural inclination to support the underdogs, part of it was it being Capaldi (even though I don’t rate him particularly), partly it was because England and Sven were so bad, but mainly it was the fact that they were wearing green that had me rooting for Northern Ireland I’m afraid…
Just who is your favourite Green on 606 - remembering as she couldn't copy and paste has just had to type out all these damn questions - exalts very welcome!!!
Has to be Laura. Did she help you do this?
Oh – oops – I see. Ok, favourite Green on 606 has to be AC –even though she blatantly stood me up when I offered her the Alzheimer’s Society Date. The time will come again, she has been duly exalted for doing all of this as well as giving me the chance to be in the Hotseat. There is little I like more than sitting at a PC spouting utter drivel – in fact given this opportunity to just spew a stream of consciousness without interruption I have started to contemplate whether I need any of you at all!
And that is it – Volume 2 completed, and I believe that was 35 questions. I may even have written as much as Roaster did (and I’m not even at work). Did anybody bother reading this far?
You are trapped on a strange island like the cast of Lost which 606ers would you like to have with you and why?
So that you all know, AC said: (I'D BETTER BE INCLUDED THESE QUESTIONS HAVE TAKEN DAMN AGES - I COULDN'T COPY AND PASTE!!!)
First choice then would have to be AC. Everywhere needs somebody cheerful, honest, full of enthusiasm for all that goes on, intensely gullible and easy to wind up and with something even warmer than a tolerance for short people.
Beyond that, I am happy to see that I did not have to come up with a certain number nor do I have to specify a particular hierarchy so I can largely stay out of trouble with this one. Apologies to anybody I miss out.
All the Prowlers are required; we can entertain each other for hours and we are virtually “Lost” souls anyway. Among the Prowlers there are some with particular skills that might prove useful. Roaster could emit smoke signals for attracting passing aircraft. Sterland can do a fine job levelling the floor of a person’s hut (“you can roll a coconut straight over that”). Peter2dc can keep guard, thus ensuring that our borders were always open to any visitors. Morton can help to maintain the peace when the stranded inevitably become fractious – they’d certainly use him as a punch ball. GfJ can take the role of morale officer and offer guidance for anybody threatening to lose the plot. Super Danny Webber can serve his community service on the island and assist with general maintenance as a part of his ASBO. Mr Millwall can do night patrol and the wake up call. Golden Boy can befriend all the local species and do his Darwinian best for the island’s gene pool. Mrs H can keep the Stafford boys mesmerised if ever they threaten to kick off. Hulsey can arbitrate any trouble and then star in an annual pantomime. DantheRed can act as doorman on the hut where Hulsey puts on his frock (GB might need containing). Gresley, as mentioned in Volume 1 would be essential as Camp Joker with the dual back up role described earlier in case we all get hungry or felt the need to sail off in a pelvis made for 15.
Beyond the Prowlers I could mention so many on here who keep me entertained – but I’d need the rest of the Argyle fans to be back in the UK posting team news (I’m assuming our desert island has wifi otherwise we’d all end up killing each other in minutes). Jenny Lollipop would also have to join us to keep everything in perspective and to make sure we are all well informed of the latest tunes in the Indie charts.
Apologies to anybody omitted from this. On the plus side, it’ll probably never happen.
Is it correct that those who can do and that those who can't teach?
Absolutely. I spend my other waking hours trying to think of something else to do. I didn’t really study Geography but fell into it by accident; I have no skills or trades and absolutely nothing springs to mind. My problem is that quietly I think I’m a pretty good teacher, and therefore I seem to have become trapped in it. This is my 10th year all of a sudden. As I mentioned in Volume 1, if there are suggestions for a better career for me, post them on RBNO2. I’ll consider all options.
When are you going to get a proper job your part-timer - loads of holidays type person?
See above answer!
Being a teacher... how many "A's" did you give the "good looking girl" in class?
My God, another thigh rubber! I do worry about the punters on this site! I’d never get away with it, but there has to be some part of human nature that allows anybody to be charmed into offering that little extra bit of assistance…!
What did your father REALLY do with those illuminous condoms?
No, I’m afraid that they really were tied to the top of somebody’s tent in the middle of Dartmoor. I don’t remember whose, I don’t remember why but I do remember it looked positively spectacular. It must have cost us a fortune too.
What happens in LAs Vegas, stays in LAs Vegas...... how many sheep are being quiet in Wales?
There is, of course, no obvious answer to this one. To fully address the issue raised one has to consider the gambling habits of those domestic animals, a phenomenon often mistaken as the gambolling habits so frequently misinterpreted in nursery rhymes. The reality is, that most Welsh sheep only have minor gambling habits and that their trips to Las Vegas should be viewed as innocent and recreational. The bad sheep that lose control can thereafter be subdivided into two categories – those that join the wrong flock and engage in criminal activity and those that were permanently affected by the Chernobyl disaster. In the latter case, it should be recognised that these sheep have no future and nothing to live for, so a certain hedonistic nihilism is inevitable and we should sympathise. In their case I feel they have a right to silence and we should respect that. For the former, truly bad sheep, I believe that silent or otherwise they should be hounded out, however much they bleat, and we should tackle the situation no matter how much they may try to pull the wool over our eyes.
Good question, thanks for posting it. It is rare that we get to tackle real issues on this site.
How do you come up with excuses not to show up at the RNBO party?
Answered previously I believe – and delivered with the same sense of shame and guilt. Like a fool I seem to be prioritising my relationship, my family, my home and my job. One of these days I will need to take a long hard look at myself and decide that it is finally time to just bloody grow up.
Peter2dc is flying 3282 miles to London, then hitching a two hour drive to Stafford, organising a place to sleep and flying back to DC after the party.... don't you feel slightly retarded by NOT going to the RBNO piss up?
Yeah yeah yeah, actually deeply retarded, not slightly. Guilty, disappointed, slightly bitter – I intend to be on the end of a phone to see if you lot all talk in typo errors when pissed up as well. Might even try to record the conversation!
Don't you think the corridors look a lot less dank since the windows were installed?
They certainly do and I regret it. What people don’t seem to appreciate is that I designed the corridors to be dank. There we have a place where people can walk in stinking of cigarette smoke, urinals and stale beer and nobody would notice the difference. The light has to be subdued to accommodate all those bloodshot eyes. The installation of windows compromises the whole quality of the environment. What next? People will be putting in sofas FFS.
On a scale from 1-10 rate the prowlers (10 being fucking amazing!)
Easy
Gresley 9 – always funny, alwas remembers I have to put the bins out on a Monday.
Roaster 9 – he neglects the corridors a little and his RBNO is sporadic but the efforts on the Caption game are superhuman.
DantheRed 8 – given a lower score just because he doesn’t yet have history on his side but what a valuable addition he has been and so dependably online in the early hours!
Peter2dc – 8 – also lacks the history but has really taken well to Prowling and has taken custodianship of the corridors when I’ve been away. Very funny, but I do worry about National Security if he has anything to do with it, plus there is always the worry that when he is in charge the corridors could be subjected to a Feng Shui
Golden Boy 9 – seems to have disappeared of late but he thoroughly has history on his side having been a late late night regular on LNF along with Hulsey (9 too but too often absent from the late shifts these days) and both always made me laugh – our nights baiting BWGH used to go on til 4 in the morning and leave me crying laughing.
Mr Millwall – 7 – not a frequent poster as he prowls all by himself and it is hard to interact, but he does his duties solidly and responsibly.
Sterland – 9 - I remember when I had a higher post count than Sterland and we were rookies here together. Been blown away since. What we have to remember is that this bearded dwarf started both RBNO and the Caption game which has sustained us for months ever since.
SDW – 6 – infrequent these days and too prone to name changes meaning that he can sometimes be around for a few days before I finally realise who he is.
GfJ I want to give top marks to, but has to settle for an 8 as he keeps abandoning us; top bloke but stealing people away just as we were getting settled seemed a pity. All forgiven, but we want him and the others rattling around the corridors again.
I must have missed someone? Brain us getting addled. JJ can sod off as he won’t have read this far! The point is the collective score has to be 10 – we are only as good as the sum of our parts and the evolution of a Prowling Community here has more than made up for the passing of the late late LNF! Long Prowl the Prowlers!
Have you always been the "bitch" at home?
Erm. Actually, between spending too much time here, or working, or drinking, or playing sports or watching Argyle I think I can be fairly accused of taking diabolical liberties…
Given the power, which 5 guys on 606 would you force to cross-dress for a night out, either for amusement or blackmail purposes?
Can all 5 be Gresley? He would need a larger than average frock and would present a challenge even to Long Tall Sally. The fact is that I believe Gresley patrols all threads at all times and the minute a bombshell is dropped he is on it like a rash, drawing upon a photo library the BBC must envy (apart from THAT photo). To survive Gresley I believe one would require a minimum of 5 blackmail cards to hold against him…
If a bomb was dropped on Plymouth and the footy team no longer who would you support and why?
Tough call. It couldn’t be Exeter but could be Torquay as they have so many of our explayers. I could follow Yeovil as they do at least play in Green. It wouldn’t be a Premier League Club as I couldn’t cope with the success nor the prices!
If my cat went up against the kids from your school, how much would my pizza cost?
If the cat is already skinned, I think you’ll find that the pizza cost would rise considerably irrespective of whether it came up against the kids from my school. Beyond that you have to consider a sliding scale of which of the 11 methods plus one donkey variant that was used to skin the cat. In any case, I would expect a little change from £8.50.
If you could see the boys play any team, in any competition, in any stadium in the world, who would it would it be, in what and where???
Could I have arrived at AC’s questions?
OK, despite the overseas possibilities, I would elect for watching us against Man Utd at Old Trafford, as I have never been there. It would be in the Premiership, ideally the first game of a season when we were newly promoted, and we took the same sorts of numbers that we took when we played the 1984 semi-final (even though they wouldn’t let all 30,000 of us in). Can you imagine the atmosphere we could generate in a stadium like that? Giving me goose bumps thinking about it (or maybe I have sat here so long my circulation is starting to pack up)
You are in your local and the Northern Ireland v England game is on, Tony Calpaldi is playing, who would you cheer for?
Been there, done that. When he played left back against Joe Cole and then Shaun Wright Phillips and kept both in his pocket when Ireland won 1-0 in the qualifiers I couldn’t help but love it. Part of it was the natural inclination to support the underdogs, part of it was it being Capaldi (even though I don’t rate him particularly), partly it was because England and Sven were so bad, but mainly it was the fact that they were wearing green that had me rooting for Northern Ireland I’m afraid…
Just who is your favourite Green on 606 - remembering as she couldn't copy and paste has just had to type out all these damn questions - exalts very welcome!!!
Oh – oops – I see. Ok, favourite Green on 606 has to be AC –even though she blatantly stood me up when I offered her the Alzheimer’s Society Date. The time will come again, she has been duly exalted for doing all of this as well as giving me the chance to be in the Hotseat. There is little I like more than sitting at a PC spouting utter drivel – in fact given this opportunity to just spew a stream of consciousness without interruption I have started to contemplate whether I need any of you at all!
And that is it – Volume 2 completed, and I believe that was 35 questions. I may even have written as much as Roaster did (and I’m not even at work). Did anybody bother reading this far?
guard the borders?
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Forever without exception. x
