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Bossman posted 06-30-99 01:37 PM ET
No offence to people who have only been on this sight for a couple of weeks, we all start some time. However there seems to have been an influx of "Newbies" into this forum since I last browsed this sight.
As I said before, no offence to newbies but is there any one out there who knows who I am?

Darkstar posted 06-30-99 01:39 PM ET
A few remember. Why do you ask?
-Darkstar
(The Doctor is In[Sane in the membrane...})
Picker posted 06-30-99 01:39 PM ET
I have a vague memory of you.
Bossman posted 06-30-99 01:46 PM ET
Well this is the first time I have used the Forum for a while and I was hoping to renew a few contacts with people I knew.
I remember you Darkstar but I dont recollect having met "Picker".
googlie posted 06-30-99 01:50 PM ET
Bossman,
Welcome back. We missed your wisdom.
(I've got a lot of hard copy of the pre-crash forum threads, which I still refer to for tactics and pass on to the newbies currently posting
googlie
Bossman posted 06-30-99 02:03 PM ET
Aha,
A person whom I actually new I new you were lurking in the shadows somwhere hiding from the killer newbies! I think it is time to come out of the fungus and face them!
Bossman posted 06-30-99 02:04 PM ET
That will be 'knew' not 'new' before some smart ass tells me that my grammars appaling!
Bossman posted 06-30-99 02:04 PM ET
That will be 'knew' not 'new' before some smart ass tells me that my spelling is appaling!
Picker posted 06-30-99 02:20 PM ET
You probably wouldn't remember me, bossman. I have only recently started posting here regurlarly. Back when I first registered for the forum I used to read the stuff in here though, that would be why I would remember you.
Bossman posted 06-30-99 02:22 PM ET
I see, well Im glad at least to see someone who isnt exactly classed as a newby! They get on my nerves!
HelloKitty posted 06-30-99 02:26 PM ET
I know who you are. I only started posting recently. I lurked for ~3 mos until MtG made a "fag" joke and had to get involved.
You're a bad mothe...
Shut your mouth
But I'm just talkin about Boss
Nell_Smith posted 06-30-99 02:28 PM ET
Bossman:
I dunno whether I'm a newbie or not (OK, yes I am, thinking about it), but I think I remember you from a while back... or maybe it was just someone else talking about you...hehe
Nell... who will probably stay a newbie forever, at this rate...
HelloKitty posted 06-30-99 02:30 PM ET
You're no NEWBie you're a CUTEie
ME-OW
Bossman posted 06-30-99 02:33 PM ET
Nell, How could I forget you!
Dont you remember me?
I certainly remember the days when you were the one and only female SMACer on the forum! And one time when you posted at least two posts every hour for 24 hours! I wouldnt class you as a newbie.
Bossman: A man on a mission
Nell_Smith posted 06-30-99 02:51 PM ET
Bossman:
lol... just kidding... of course I remember you... I had wondered where you'd gone, but then I just assumed you'd transcended and become a Veteran Lurker, or a Lurking Veteran, or something... anyway, welcome back!
Nell... older than a newbie, but newer than an oldbie... errr... I think I just made that up
Bossman posted 06-30-99 03:16 PM ET
Oh well Im just not as quick as I used to be!
I didnt spot the obviousy sarcastic tone in your message. (I love that symbol!)
Bossman posted 06-30-99 03:17 PM ET
Now this is the time I would love FIRAXIS to have put an edit button on the messages,
DOH!!!
JAMstillAM posted 06-30-99 03:27 PM ET
Bossman,
They let you out again? Where are you now? At a library? I'm warning you, quit downloading those bestiality jpegs in front of the kiddies, else you'll be Bubba's girl again!
Oh by the way, have you you seen Bry uhn Rain Olds, recently? Tell him I said "Hi!"
Welcome back, be good, and nobody will get hurt.
JAMiAM
JAMstillAM posted 06-30-99 03:28 PM ET
Oh, and . I like 'em too!
Bossman posted 06-30-99 03:30 PM ET
Jam Man,
Great to hear from you. Change of name?
Oh Bryon I booted his ass from here to bristol a couple of months back! Oh and I got a personal message from the REAL brian telling me that I should grow up.
JAMstillAM posted 06-30-99 04:30 PM ET
Bossman,
Yeh, my original name got wiped out at midnight EST, 5/10/99 when the multiplayer forum crashed. I had to choose another. My old password stopped working, but when I tried to get the password sent to me, it said no users registered at my address. Then I tried re-registering the name. It said that the name was in use. I wrote the webmaster and they never responded. On a lark, I tried to register JAMiAM again, a couple of days ago. Imagine my joy when it allowed me to register it. They sent me a confirmation with a new password and I went on to type up a wonderfully cogent and relevent reply to some thread, only to find that upon submitting, I got the message that my password was incorrect!!! I was so pissed, I just cleared fields on the post.
JAMiAM
for I have angered the Gods.
umbra1 posted 06-30-99 05:05 PM ET
Damn, missed another Bossman thread party... See you next month I guess.
Aredhran posted 07-01-99 05:14 AM ET
So what happened to you in the past two months, Bossman ?
Aredhran
-Yes, I do remember you-
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 05:52 AM ET
Bossman, I remember you didn't talk to you much though... just checked your profile. You're from Reading? Me too. Spooky.
jig posted 07-01-99 06:24 AM ET
Bossman, I remember you very very faintly but you wouldn't know me, of course, since I've only posted a grand old total of about five (!) posts in the game forum.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 06:33 AM ET
Bossman, You don't know me but I know your name from some old threads. I thought you were dead.
Welcome back to the living.
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 08:36 AM ET
Heyyyyy London posse in da house! (Reading counts as London by the way... hehe)
Nell... we'll beat those Yanks yet...
PS: Shepherd's Bush here... you know, they had a fight in the BushRanger a while back, and they sent TWENTY-FOUR, yes 24, police cars and riot vans... it was wall-to-wall Boys In Blue from horizon to horizon... hilarious
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 08:50 AM ET
Nell, you trying to start something? How dare you suggest that Reading is a part of London. It's it's a thriving cultural haven in its own right. (That's a joke, for anyone who's never been there it's actually pretty cool in an "Oh god, not the Turtle AGAIN kind of way.")
Can I make extremely unfunny observational jokes about Reading that no-one but me and maybe Bossman will get? Please? Can I?
Aredhran posted 07-01-99 08:56 AM ET
NO.

Red H
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 08:59 AM ET
Thanks, saved me from myself.
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 09:13 AM ET
lmao... sorry Mike, couldn't resist that... although all it's gonna take is a few more out-of-town shopping complexes on the edge of West London and you'll be able to walk from Reading to Charing Cross without once leaving Tesco/IKEA/Toys R Us...
Mind you, a lot of the people I spoke to in Florida seem to think that the whole of Britain is in London... and that only about 10 people live in London as well...
Me: Hello, I'm from Bristol.
American person: Is that in London?
Me: No, it's 120 miles to the west.
A.P.: Oh, it's in London then?
Me: Whatever.
A.P.: You must know my cousin, he lives in London.
Me: There are 6 million people in Greater London.
A.P.: Sure... his name's Bob... say hi to him from me when you see him!
hehe
Nell... meaning no offence to any American people by the way... just my (bad) sense of humour...
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 09:32 AM ET
Bristol, I go there quite a lot, nice place. My brother's living there apparently although I haven't heard from him in a few months. You must go through Reading on the way home stopping at our wonderful railway station or passing Juctions 10,11 and 12 of the M4, possibly the M4's best junctions.
Insert "because you can use them to get out of Reading" joke here.
umbra1 posted 07-01-99 09:33 AM ET
Nell, Mike... I think it's time we owned up and stop living the lie...
London is a small picturesque town situated on the banks of the Thames river, It has a population of about 40 people, with another 20 or so professional actors commuting in every day for the cheerful cockney street scenes. It has two pubs, a butchers, William the Fishmongers (Fresh Haddock Every Day !) and a small branch of Woolworths.
The London you see on TV is a mock-up, based in the village of Shepherd's Bush, next to Nell's house.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 09:40 AM ET
Umbra! I can't believe you told them that! That's treasonous isn't it?
What about Eastenders? That IS real, there's no way THAT is a mock up in Shepherds Bush!
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 09:52 AM ET
Nell,
Would you believe it we're almost neighbours! I live just into W4 right on the W12 border. Know the Bushranger well, but it wasn't me in there fighting.
Resource Consumer
- nerve gas pacifist -
umbra1 posted 07-01-99 09:53 AM ET
Eastenders is real enough.. For all the people who haven't seen it, here's the scipt from every episode..
"Fraank"
"Ricckkeey !"
"Tiff-ney ?"
"bay-bee !"
"FAMILY !"
"Fraank"
"Court-ney !"
"Fraank"
dum dum dum....
<Credits>
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 09:55 AM ET
So many Brits living so close together and the only person I've met in person through these forums was from North Carolina.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 09:57 AM ET
Umbra I think you missed a "Fraank!" from the script there.
Aredhran posted 07-01-99 09:58 AM ET
umbra, that's High Treason. You'll get the rope for that
Aredhran
Aredhran posted 07-01-99 10:00 AM ET
(I was referring to the truth about London of course - cross-posting)
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 10:12 AM ET
Have you noticed how many of the cast can't say "BianKa" properly so they cheat and just say "B".
Abbreviated or what.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 10:19 AM ET
It seems to be a general difficul'y yes. There are a lo' of lost con'nants in that sor'a speech.
It's the ar' of sayin' the c in Bian'a wivou' pronouncing i'
umbra1 posted 07-01-99 10:23 AM ET
The accents in eastenders arn't as bad as the "Irish" accents on Brookside..
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 10:25 AM ET
True. Not as bad as americans doing Irish accents though, that really is funny.
Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt both spring to mind.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 10:32 AM ET
What gets me, though, chaps is when the yanks refer to "English" accents. Don't they realise that they have the accents and we speak English like what it should be spoken.
umbra1 posted 07-01-99 10:35 AM ET
They don't speak like whot we do, do they ?
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 10:42 AM ET
Nah, they ain't gawt a clew Mary Pawpins.
Anyone see the MTV movie awards, Hugh Grant was introduced as a "Person with an accent" Why do Americans think that the English have an accent? They have accents, we speak English proper. Honestly.
and Quaint is NOT a good thing.
Rimmer posted 07-01-99 10:44 AM ET
Oh yeah Sid and Johnny speak perfect english like all good Brits.
God save the queen
Rimmer
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 10:46 AM ET
MikeH jumps to attention salutes
"Gawd bless the Queen Mum"
Aredhran posted 07-01-99 10:59 AM ET
No, no, no, not that old hag!!!
"Gawd bless the Rave Queen !"

Aredhran
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 11:02 AM ET
Red H you are very lucky I have nothing but disrespectful comments to make about our Royal Family otherwise I'd be angry about that one as it is I'm laughing my arse off.
Resource Consumer posted 07-01-99 11:23 AM ET
... but they're not OUR Royal Family.
It's just a Eurocon for us to pay for them instead of the Germans.
MikeH II posted 07-01-99 11:28 AM ET
Ja stimpt.
Darkstar posted 07-01-99 01:29 PM ET
Hey, you guys DO have an accent. When WE make the movies and records. When you make the movies and records, WE have the accent. Its all part of Einstien's Theory of Relativity. Really!
HAIL ERIS!
-Darkstar
walruskkkch posted 07-01-99 02:03 PM ET
I thought we got custody of the language as part of the Lend-Lease deal in 1940. You want destroyers? Then it's our language.
Your faithful and obedient servant
Q Cubed posted 07-01-99 03:06 PM ET
Bossman...
I remember you.
Not from where you posted, but that name...
Well, hopefully you missed out on the Great War. It was awful.
Nell_Smith posted 07-01-99 06:18 PM ET
RC:
Hmmm I'd challenge you to a Bushranger drinking contest but I know who'd win...
Anyway, Eastenders is actually filmed IN my house (well, flat)... Frank Butcher lives in my fridge and I keep Rickaaayyy under the sofa for emergencies... and Phil 'n' Grant are presently busy doing the washing-up and the ironing... hehe
MikeH: Hey which bit of Bristol? I've got a house there (rented out) opposite Southmead Hospital... bet you really wanted to know that! I go back there all the time... one weekend in two, at least... home is where the heart, not to mention the zyderrrr, is...
Aredhran:
God save the Rave Queen? Well someone needs to, and surely God's the very chap! (copyright Billy Connolly, all rights reserved)
Nell... never needing to go anywhere near Piccadilly Circus Tube, and damned pleased about that!
PS: umbra will be hanged with full SMAC military honours (2-1-1 Laser Squad salute) tomorrow morning on Tower Hill
PPS: Hello Q
umbra1 posted 07-01-99 07:29 PM ET
Been hung allready, they did the job very well.
OldWarrior_42 posted 07-01-99 11:09 PM ET
I too know of you Bossman...as a matter of fact I have it all on video and am willing to sell it back to you at a price of course.
Koshko posted 07-02-99 12:03 AM ET
I may or may not know you, and you may or may not knowe me. I started post here mid-March.
Alexnm posted 07-02-99 12:21 AM ET
Hi, Boss!
(Bossman thinks: "who is this Alexnm? I've never heard of him before. Maybe he's a lurker...).
I remember you. From a long time ago, on a galaxy far far away...
MikeH II posted 07-02-99 03:56 AM ET
Nell I've got some friends who live in Totterdown (lovely area) I've got no idea where my brother lives. I think somewhere near the university. I've also got a friend who's just started Uni in Bristol and she is in halls up by the downs, actually she's just finished her first year I should really ring her.
Nell_Smith posted 07-02-99 10:04 AM ET
Mike:
Cool... someone else who knows (and likes!) Bristol...
I used to work at Bristol Uni... was secretary to a Prof. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering... he it was who first got me interested in Windows and all its horrid habits... Win3.0, now that really was dire! So it's all his fault... hehe
Actually he was a planet-brain who used to design the chips for MoD vision-guided vehicles... they spent �6m on a prototype, got all the military top brass out to watch its trial run... and drove it straight down a mineshaft! God that was funny...
Nell... chuffed as a carrot
MikeH II posted 07-02-99 10:19 AM ET
At Reading Uni my friend was doing Cybernetics. The staff built a robot to run in the reading half marathon, it was supposed to follow a line on the road. Come race day the robot ignored the line completely and went straight for the sun and was immediately disqualified, seems they used UV reflection or something. They obviously didn't get out into the real world much.
Bristol is cool, some good clubs there apparently although everytime I am there we don't go to them.
Nell_Smith posted 07-02-99 12:56 PM ET
Mike:
Nell_Smith posted 07-02-99 01:00 PM ET
Uh? OK, brain failure... take two:
Mike:
lol... yeah the days when robots run the world are errrrr many years in the future!
As for clubs in Bristol, try Lakota or Trinity... I saw Judge Jules at Lakota a few months ago and they get plenty of big-name DJs there. I think there's some problem with the licence at the moment (when is there not?) but hopefully they'll sort it out soon
Nell... off home this weekend, as it happens
Bossman posted 07-02-99 04:13 PM ET
Is it me or is everyone pleased to see me?
Nell_Smith posted 07-02-99 06:57 PM ET
... and why wouldn't we be?
Nell
trippin daily posted 07-02-99 07:14 PM ET
not everybody
Trippin Daily
-yeah, i remember you.. but that was a long time ago-
MikeH II posted 07-03-99 08:26 PM ET
Bossman, earlier tonight someone said "Everyone I meet is from Reading" I had to respond. "Everyone's spiritual home is Reading." Obviously I was laughed out of the pub but in my heart I knew it was all so true.
Bossman posted 07-04-99 06:51 AM ET
Im off to Manchester today for a taste of the local wildlife (Birds mainly) and the nightlife apparently it is "wicked"
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Author	Topic: Heads down as newbies storm the forum
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 01:37 PM ET No offence to people who have only been on this sight for a couple of weeks, we all start some time. However there seems to have been an influx of "Newbies" into this forum since I last browsed this sight. As I said before, no offence to newbies but is there any one out there who knows who I am?
Darkstar	posted 06-30-99 01:39 PM ET A few remember. Why do you ask? -Darkstar (The Doctor is In[Sane in the membrane...})
Picker	posted 06-30-99 01:39 PM ET I have a vague memory of you.
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 01:46 PM ET Well this is the first time I have used the Forum for a while and I was hoping to renew a few contacts with people I knew. I remember you Darkstar but I dont recollect having met "Picker".
googlie	posted 06-30-99 01:50 PM ET Bossman, Welcome back. We missed your wisdom. (I've got a lot of hard copy of the pre-crash forum threads, which I still refer to for tactics and pass on to the newbies currently posting googlie
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 02:03 PM ET Aha, A person whom I actually new I new you were lurking in the shadows somwhere hiding from the killer newbies! I think it is time to come out of the fungus and face them!
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 02:04 PM ET That will be 'knew' not 'new' before some smart ass tells me that my grammars appaling!
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 02:04 PM ET That will be 'knew' not 'new' before some smart ass tells me that my spelling is appaling!
Picker	posted 06-30-99 02:20 PM ET You probably wouldn't remember me, bossman. I have only recently started posting here regurlarly. Back when I first registered for the forum I used to read the stuff in here though, that would be why I would remember you.
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 02:22 PM ET I see, well Im glad at least to see someone who isnt exactly classed as a newby! They get on my nerves!
HelloKitty	posted 06-30-99 02:26 PM ET I know who you are. I only started posting recently. I lurked for ~3 mos until MtG made a "fag" joke and had to get involved. You're a bad mothe... Shut your mouth But I'm just talkin about Boss
Nell_Smith	posted 06-30-99 02:28 PM ET Bossman: I dunno whether I'm a newbie or not (OK, yes I am, thinking about it), but I think I remember you from a while back... or maybe it was just someone else talking about you...hehe Nell... who will probably stay a newbie forever, at this rate...
HelloKitty	posted 06-30-99 02:30 PM ET You're no NEWBie you're a CUTEie ME-OW
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 02:33 PM ET Nell, How could I forget you! Dont you remember me? I certainly remember the days when you were the one and only female SMACer on the forum! And one time when you posted at least two posts every hour for 24 hours! I wouldnt class you as a newbie. Bossman: A man on a mission
Nell_Smith	posted 06-30-99 02:51 PM ET Bossman: lol... just kidding... of course I remember you... I had wondered where you'd gone, but then I just assumed you'd transcended and become a Veteran Lurker, or a Lurking Veteran, or something... anyway, welcome back! Nell... older than a newbie, but newer than an oldbie... errr... I think I just made that up
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 03:16 PM ET Oh well Im just not as quick as I used to be! I didnt spot the obviousy sarcastic tone in your message. (I love that symbol!)
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 03:17 PM ET Now this is the time I would love FIRAXIS to have put an edit button on the messages, DOH!!!
JAMstillAM	posted 06-30-99 03:27 PM ET Bossman, They let you out again? Where are you now? At a library? I'm warning you, quit downloading those bestiality jpegs in front of the kiddies, else you'll be Bubba's girl again! Oh by the way, have you you seen Bry uhn Rain Olds, recently? Tell him I said "Hi!" Welcome back, be good, and nobody will get hurt. JAMiAM
JAMstillAM	posted 06-30-99 03:28 PM ET Oh, and . I like 'em too!
Bossman	posted 06-30-99 03:30 PM ET Jam Man, Great to hear from you. Change of name? Oh Bryon I booted his ass from here to bristol a couple of months back! Oh and I got a personal message from the REAL brian telling me that I should grow up.
JAMstillAM	posted 06-30-99 04:30 PM ET Bossman, Yeh, my original name got wiped out at midnight EST, 5/10/99 when the multiplayer forum crashed. I had to choose another. My old password stopped working, but when I tried to get the password sent to me, it said no users registered at my address. Then I tried re-registering the name. It said that the name was in use. I wrote the webmaster and they never responded. On a lark, I tried to register JAMiAM again, a couple of days ago. Imagine my joy when it allowed me to register it. They sent me a confirmation with a new password and I went on to type up a wonderfully cogent and relevent reply to some thread, only to find that upon submitting, I got the message that my password was incorrect!!! I was so pissed, I just cleared fields on the post. JAMiAM for I have angered the Gods.
umbra1	posted 06-30-99 05:05 PM ET Damn, missed another Bossman thread party... See you next month I guess.
Aredhran	posted 07-01-99 05:14 AM ET So what happened to you in the past two months, Bossman ? Aredhran -Yes, I do remember you-
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 05:52 AM ET Bossman, I remember you didn't talk to you much though... just checked your profile. You're from Reading? Me too. Spooky.
jig	posted 07-01-99 06:24 AM ET Bossman, I remember you very very faintly but you wouldn't know me, of course, since I've only posted a grand old total of about five (!) posts in the game forum.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 06:33 AM ET Bossman, You don't know me but I know your name from some old threads. I thought you were dead. Welcome back to the living.
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 08:36 AM ET Heyyyyy London posse in da house! (Reading counts as London by the way... hehe) Nell... we'll beat those Yanks yet... PS: Shepherd's Bush here... you know, they had a fight in the BushRanger a while back, and they sent TWENTY-FOUR, yes 24, police cars and riot vans... it was wall-to-wall Boys In Blue from horizon to horizon... hilarious
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 08:50 AM ET Nell, you trying to start something? How dare you suggest that Reading is a part of London. It's it's a thriving cultural haven in its own right. (That's a joke, for anyone who's never been there it's actually pretty cool in an "Oh god, not the Turtle AGAIN kind of way.") Can I make extremely unfunny observational jokes about Reading that no-one but me and maybe Bossman will get? Please? Can I?
Aredhran	posted 07-01-99 08:56 AM ET NO. Red H
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 08:59 AM ET Thanks, saved me from myself.
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 09:13 AM ET lmao... sorry Mike, couldn't resist that... although all it's gonna take is a few more out-of-town shopping complexes on the edge of West London and you'll be able to walk from Reading to Charing Cross without once leaving Tesco/IKEA/Toys R Us... Mind you, a lot of the people I spoke to in Florida seem to think that the whole of Britain is in London... and that only about 10 people live in London as well... Me: Hello, I'm from Bristol. American person: Is that in London? Me: No, it's 120 miles to the west. A.P.: Oh, it's in London then? Me: Whatever. A.P.: You must know my cousin, he lives in London. Me: There are 6 million people in Greater London. A.P.: Sure... his name's Bob... say hi to him from me when you see him! hehe Nell... meaning no offence to any American people by the way... just my (bad) sense of humour...
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 09:32 AM ET Bristol, I go there quite a lot, nice place. My brother's living there apparently although I haven't heard from him in a few months. You must go through Reading on the way home stopping at our wonderful railway station or passing Juctions 10,11 and 12 of the M4, possibly the M4's best junctions. Insert "because you can use them to get out of Reading" joke here.
umbra1	posted 07-01-99 09:33 AM ET Nell, Mike... I think it's time we owned up and stop living the lie... London is a small picturesque town situated on the banks of the Thames river, It has a population of about 40 people, with another 20 or so professional actors commuting in every day for the cheerful cockney street scenes. It has two pubs, a butchers, William the Fishmongers (Fresh Haddock Every Day !) and a small branch of Woolworths. The London you see on TV is a mock-up, based in the village of Shepherd's Bush, next to Nell's house.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 09:40 AM ET Umbra! I can't believe you told them that! That's treasonous isn't it? What about Eastenders? That IS real, there's no way THAT is a mock up in Shepherds Bush!
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 09:52 AM ET Nell, Would you believe it we're almost neighbours! I live just into W4 right on the W12 border. Know the Bushranger well, but it wasn't me in there fighting. Resource Consumer - nerve gas pacifist -
umbra1	posted 07-01-99 09:53 AM ET Eastenders is real enough.. For all the people who haven't seen it, here's the scipt from every episode.. "Fraank" "Ricckkeey !" "Tiff-ney ?" "bay-bee !" "FAMILY !" "Fraank" "Court-ney !" "Fraank" dum dum dum.... <Credits>
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 09:55 AM ET So many Brits living so close together and the only person I've met in person through these forums was from North Carolina.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 09:57 AM ET Umbra I think you missed a "Fraank!" from the script there.
Aredhran	posted 07-01-99 09:58 AM ET umbra, that's High Treason. You'll get the rope for that Aredhran
Aredhran	posted 07-01-99 10:00 AM ET (I was referring to the truth about London of course - cross-posting)
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 10:12 AM ET Have you noticed how many of the cast can't say "BianKa" properly so they cheat and just say "B". Abbreviated or what.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 10:19 AM ET It seems to be a general difficul'y yes. There are a lo' of lost con'nants in that sor'a speech. It's the ar' of sayin' the c in Bian'a wivou' pronouncing i'
umbra1	posted 07-01-99 10:23 AM ET The accents in eastenders arn't as bad as the "Irish" accents on Brookside..
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 10:25 AM ET True. Not as bad as americans doing Irish accents though, that really is funny. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt both spring to mind.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 10:32 AM ET What gets me, though, chaps is when the yanks refer to "English" accents. Don't they realise that they have the accents and we speak English like what it should be spoken.
umbra1	posted 07-01-99 10:35 AM ET They don't speak like whot we do, do they ?
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 10:42 AM ET Nah, they ain't gawt a clew Mary Pawpins. Anyone see the MTV movie awards, Hugh Grant was introduced as a "Person with an accent" Why do Americans think that the English have an accent? They have accents, we speak English proper. Honestly. and Quaint is NOT a good thing.
Rimmer	posted 07-01-99 10:44 AM ET Oh yeah Sid and Johnny speak perfect english like all good Brits. God save the queen Rimmer
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 10:46 AM ET MikeH jumps to attention salutes "Gawd bless the Queen Mum"
Aredhran	posted 07-01-99 10:59 AM ET No, no, no, not that old hag!!! "Gawd bless the Rave Queen !" Aredhran
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 11:02 AM ET Red H you are very lucky I have nothing but disrespectful comments to make about our Royal Family otherwise I'd be angry about that one as it is I'm laughing my arse off.
Resource Consumer	posted 07-01-99 11:23 AM ET ... but they're not OUR Royal Family. It's just a Eurocon for us to pay for them instead of the Germans.
MikeH II	posted 07-01-99 11:28 AM ET Ja stimpt.
Darkstar	posted 07-01-99 01:29 PM ET Hey, you guys DO have an accent. When WE make the movies and records. When you make the movies and records, WE have the accent. Its all part of Einstien's Theory of Relativity. Really! HAIL ERIS! -Darkstar
walruskkkch	posted 07-01-99 02:03 PM ET I thought we got custody of the language as part of the Lend-Lease deal in 1940. You want destroyers? Then it's our language. Your faithful and obedient servant
Q Cubed	posted 07-01-99 03:06 PM ET Bossman... I remember you. Not from where you posted, but that name... Well, hopefully you missed out on the Great War. It was awful.
Nell_Smith	posted 07-01-99 06:18 PM ET RC: Hmmm I'd challenge you to a Bushranger drinking contest but I know who'd win... Anyway, Eastenders is actually filmed IN my house (well, flat)... Frank Butcher lives in my fridge and I keep Rickaaayyy under the sofa for emergencies... and Phil 'n' Grant are presently busy doing the washing-up and the ironing... hehe MikeH: Hey which bit of Bristol? I've got a house there (rented out) opposite Southmead Hospital... bet you really wanted to know that! I go back there all the time... one weekend in two, at least... home is where the heart, not to mention the zyderrrr, is... Aredhran: God save the Rave Queen? Well someone needs to, and surely God's the very chap! (copyright Billy Connolly, all rights reserved) Nell... never needing to go anywhere near Piccadilly Circus Tube, and damned pleased about that! PS: umbra will be hanged with full SMAC military honours (2-1-1 Laser Squad salute) tomorrow morning on Tower Hill PPS: Hello Q
umbra1	posted 07-01-99 07:29 PM ET Been hung allready, they did the job very well.
OldWarrior_42	posted 07-01-99 11:09 PM ET I too know of you Bossman...as a matter of fact I have it all on video and am willing to sell it back to you at a price of course.
Koshko	posted 07-02-99 12:03 AM ET I may or may not know you, and you may or may not knowe me. I started post here mid-March.
Alexnm	posted 07-02-99 12:21 AM ET Hi, Boss! (Bossman thinks: "who is this Alexnm? I've never heard of him before. Maybe he's a lurker...). I remember you. From a long time ago, on a galaxy far far away...
MikeH II	posted 07-02-99 03:56 AM ET Nell I've got some friends who live in Totterdown (lovely area) I've got no idea where my brother lives. I think somewhere near the university. I've also got a friend who's just started Uni in Bristol and she is in halls up by the downs, actually she's just finished her first year I should really ring her.
Nell_Smith	posted 07-02-99 10:04 AM ET Mike: Cool... someone else who knows (and likes!) Bristol... I used to work at Bristol Uni... was secretary to a Prof. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering... he it was who first got me interested in Windows and all its horrid habits... Win3.0, now that really was dire! So it's all his fault... hehe Actually he was a planet-brain who used to design the chips for MoD vision-guided vehicles... they spent �6m on a prototype, got all the military top brass out to watch its trial run... and drove it straight down a mineshaft! God that was funny... Nell... chuffed as a carrot
MikeH II	posted 07-02-99 10:19 AM ET At Reading Uni my friend was doing Cybernetics. The staff built a robot to run in the reading half marathon, it was supposed to follow a line on the road. Come race day the robot ignored the line completely and went straight for the sun and was immediately disqualified, seems they used UV reflection or something. They obviously didn't get out into the real world much. Bristol is cool, some good clubs there apparently although everytime I am there we don't go to them.
Nell_Smith	posted 07-02-99 12:56 PM ET Mike:
Nell_Smith	posted 07-02-99 01:00 PM ET Uh? OK, brain failure... take two: Mike: lol... yeah the days when robots run the world are errrrr many years in the future! As for clubs in Bristol, try Lakota or Trinity... I saw Judge Jules at Lakota a few months ago and they get plenty of big-name DJs there. I think there's some problem with the licence at the moment (when is there not?) but hopefully they'll sort it out soon Nell... off home this weekend, as it happens
Bossman	posted 07-02-99 04:13 PM ET Is it me or is everyone pleased to see me?
Nell_Smith	posted 07-02-99 06:57 PM ET ... and why wouldn't we be? Nell
trippin daily	posted 07-02-99 07:14 PM ET not everybody Trippin Daily -yeah, i remember you.. but that was a long time ago-
MikeH II	posted 07-03-99 08:26 PM ET Bossman, earlier tonight someone said "Everyone I meet is from Reading" I had to respond. "Everyone's spiritual home is Reading." Obviously I was laughed out of the pub but in my heart I knew it was all so true.
Bossman	posted 07-04-99 06:51 AM ET Im off to Manchester today for a taste of the local wildlife (Birds mainly) and the nightlife apparently it is "wicked"