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 Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:22 pm
Yay - new members! Welcome to both of you biggrin
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:52 pm
georgehippo Poppetta it's always fun to visit London ...as you can see, Poppy is quite mad! the cheek of it! it is fun, and the best bit is coming home again sweatdrop Mrs.Reaper, getting married doesn't mean you have to be grown up!! no no, just means you get to play house all the time 3nodding and yes!! i have read Going Postal and i loved it, i finished it and then read it all over again blaugh
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Keep Calm I am The Doctor
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:35 pm
Poppetta it's always fun to visit London Try living there 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:48 pm
i wouldn't go that far sweatdrop
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Keep Calm I am The Doctor
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:17 pm
Poppetta i wouldn't go that far sweatdrop Coward.
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:48 pm
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Keep Calm I am The Doctor
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:51 pm
Cluck cluck BUK-ERB
Right.I can't do chicken noises gonk
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:52 pm
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:37 pm
Right. *deep breath* Here goes:
I'm Erik. Yep, that's my real name, but some call me Doc, some call me Carp, and some call me the Tonedeaf Wonder. Others call me 'Hey, you with the outdated specs!' I've not gotten new glasses since the late '80s.
(This is reading like a stand up comedy routine, isn't it?)
I'm a teacher who can't keep his mouth shut, so please pardon the random corrections of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. If you happen to catch me being a hypocrite on that point, please inform me.
Ummmm... I love spouting Texanisms that I've picked up from my friend Cork, a bona fide transplant who can talk like a New Yorker when it suits her, and drives us completely bonkers with such words as 'bugtussled' and 'wilfarked' and 'THUNDERATION!' - always capitalised because it is always exclaimed explosively at ridiculous volume. Y'all.
I am der Geekmeister, a man of numerous addictions, bizzare hobbies, and a lack of any place to put my collection of books, which reaches the ceiling now. I play a whole slew of stringed instruments, am decent at piano, and can now play 'Yellow Submarine' and 'Greased Lightning' on the pipe organ without cracking up.
Aaaanddd... that's it! I think.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:32 am
Hi, I'm not from Great Britain, but my husband is an Old Radliean who grew up in Camberly from the age of 2 1/2. We visited there in Sept. 2000. We saw Buckingham Palace, a play at Windsor, Henry V in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the British Museum, Blackwells in Oxford, Uffington White Horse, the Rollright Stones, Avebury, Stonehenge ( I love big rocks), Glastonbury, The Shuttleworth Collection, Ely Cathedral, punted on the Cam, 3 loooong days visiting all the schools hubby attended and/or taught in, ate in many wonderful pubs, drove by the same Mongolian Barbeque in Camberly at least 20 times, and spent a whole week trying to see inside the house he grew up in. We wanted to go the Scotland and Wales, but there was a fuel shortage and we ran out of time.
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:17 am
Welcome welcome biggrin
Erik! you sound like you have Englishness down to a tee, well done indeed 3nodding I do feel the need to mention one thing though, a true Texan wouldn't dream of Y'alling at you with only 2 l's, you really need to draw it out quite a bit wink
Your friend has some excellent words though! What context would bugtussled be use in? I find that one particularly endearing 'well i'll be bugtussled!' rofl
And Annanoria, hello to you too biggrin
You've visited some interesting places in the damp isle of ours 3nodding
One thing about living in a country is that you tend to avoid the tourist attractions, and maybe miss out on seeing something special.
I've visited Glastonbury, Clark's shoe shops everywhere and old vinegar containers full of cider stacked at the side of the road, well it said it was cider, at £1 for 5 gallons i imagine the vinegar might have tasted better.
Anyway we didn't climb the Tor, though we did drive past it, i was about 17 at the time so i didn't really appreciate what i was seeing.
I'd love to have the opportunity to visit this countries historical sites though, maybe one day..
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:23 am
Annanoria We wanted to go the Scotland and Wales, but there was a fuel shortage and we ran out of time. oh, that old chestnut! 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:26 am
Poppetta
I'd love to have the opportunity to visit this countries historical sites though, maybe one day..Its true...I live here but i have never been to any of the places mentioned by Anna confused
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:46 am
THUNDERATION! razz I like that - I'll be saying it as often as possible from now on, in or out of context - thank you, Erik! xd
Welcome, new members - the natives here are very friendly - hope you enjoy your stay! 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:34 pm
i like that word too, i've often been tempted to start up a thread where people can list the more obscure cuss words that they use or have heard, if Erik can supply us with more this may yet happen 3nodding
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