So many new members suddenly!!
Posted by: Rasher on 06 February 2004
Anyone else noticed? or is it just me never previously noticing that newbies stick their heads in for a while and think....Nah...load of tossers! and go away again.
Has there been a recruitment drive by Richard?
I've also noticed that the regulars are dropping off. Where has Tom been for instance?
I love to see new members though. Keeps me from my work
Posted on: 07 February 2004 by P
Maybe it's because they have indethipherable nameths?
P
Stands for Pete (who was already here when I registered)
Posted on: 07 February 2004 by P
Hey
I thought you had a life!
P
Posted on: 07 February 2004 by Minky
quote:
Originally posted by Jez Quigley:
ps. Minky - why don't you change the 'i' in your name to an 'a' ?
OK, if you change the "Jez" in your name to "Stan" and the "Quigley" to "Ogden".
Posted on: 07 February 2004 by MichaelC
What are the newbies to think???
Welcome to ... I am not entirely sure but I have been around for a while and am still here ... nurse!
Mike
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
quote:
OK, if you change the "Jez" in your name to "Stan" and the "Quigley" to "Ogden".
Ok Manky, it's a deal.
Regards, Stan.
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Minky
You can't just say it Jez. You have to BE Stan. String vest, eleventy pint gut, stroke induced mumble, Hilda's "muriel", the lot. Are you sure you can you make that kind of commitment ? Frankly, I don't think you (or any of your mudflap pals for that matter) could pull it off
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Minky
quote:
Originally posted by Nick Lees:
Compared to my posts, yours are announced by a scantily clad lady of Jordan-esque proportions accompanied by "Entry Of The Gladiators". Major cities hold tickertape parades. Fireworks coruscate across the sky. Strong men weep and women swoon. When you sign off, the combined choirs of St. Paul's and Westminster Cathedral sing Alleluias.
I'd be lucky to get an intro from Hans Moleman while tumbleweeds blow across the screen to the sound of a broken shutter banging in the wind.
Nick, I think you may have mistaken me for Messers Robinson, Parry, and the other members of the "Mudflap gang", but thanks for giving my household a big laugh to start us on our working week.
As Tom has just pointed out, just because you don't get replies doesn't mean that you are being ignored. When I see "Nick Lees" on a post I always read it because I know that it'll be worth the effort.
I think we both have yet to come to terms with the (less than dynamic) dynamics of social life in cyber-space.
P.S. The whistling wind blowing the tumbleweed across the stage after the weekly "bad joke" in "shooting stars" had me rolling round the floor with laughter every week. Sad eh ?
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Brian OReilly
Hallo Minky,
and welcome to the forum, I hope you'll enjoy-HANG ON! over a thousand posts!
I must have been a sleepin'
Regards
Brian (Gang of one).
PS Have you considered changing the "k" in your name for a "t" ?
It might keep things fresher.
Brian OReilly
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Martin D
quote:
P.S. The whistling wind blowing the tumbleweed across the stage after the weekly "bad joke" in "shooting stars" had me rolling round the floor with laughter every week. Sad eh ?
Me too - bloody great
Martin
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by long-time-dead
quote:
Originally posted by Brian OReilly:
PS Have you considered changing the "k" in your name for a "t" ?
It might keep things fresher.
Replacing the "M" with a "K" might have the same effect !!!
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by count.d
quote:
The whistling wind blowing the tumbleweed across the stage after the weekly "bad joke" in "shooting stars" had me rolling round the floor with laughter every week. Sad eh ?
It's nice to know I wasn't the only one to roll around laughing every week.
P.S. Have you tried the Asics DS Trainer with IGS?
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Minky
Nick,
YES.
count.d,
I'm wearing 2090's at the moment. One month old and already starting to feel a bit flat. <disingenuous question>I wonder why the boffins at Asics can't come up with a midsole material that lasts as long as the outer ?</di>
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Bob Edwards
Tom--
As if number of posts qualifies someone as a newbie...I don't recall you on the original forum...
Bob
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
quote:
You can't just say it Jez. You have to BE Stan. String vest, eleventy pint gut, stroke induced mumble, Hilda's "muriel", the lot. Are you sure you can you make that kind of commitment ? Frankly, I don't think you (or any of your mudflap pals for that matter) could pull it off
I already wear the vest on a daily basis, in fact I haven't taken it off at all in 30 years, but it is getting a little tight around the eleventy pint gut.
As for 'pulling it off' I have been doing that since I was 10.
Here is a recent pic
Posted on: 08 February 2004 by Minky
Stan,
I can feel an apology coming on. Oops, there goes an opening for a cum gag !
Posted on: 09 February 2004 by count.d
quote:
I'm wearing 2090's at the moment
I gather you over pronate or this shoe could give you back injury.
Posted on: 09 February 2004 by Minky
count.d,
Don't get me started on running shoes.
Before I started using Asics I was a Nike man, largely because there was bugger all else on the market in 20BC. Waffle trainers through to Pegasus. A few pairs of Adidas TRX, a couple of years of Reebok (Aztec), a disastrous flirtation with NB (9000's - the first $US100 running shoe ever made and like having a pair of breeze blocks nailed to your feet) which were left on the roof of my dad's car, never to be seen again. Went to Tiger/Asics "Gel lite trainers" which became 2010's. Since then I have (with a few stupid detours through Nikeland) had enough pairs of 2020, 2030, 2040 .. 2080 to sink a small battleship. Once in a while I get a pair of Kyanos but they always give me gyp.
Anyway, all of that and no running related injuries so far. I told you not to get me started ..
Posted on: 10 February 2004 by Jez Quigley
Manky,
This is the standard issue for the Mudflap agent.
Best wishes,
Stan.
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by Minky
Thems is might fine boots Stanjez. Is dare any way I could pay my dues and be ME a mudflapper, and gets me some of dem big boots too ? Please Jiz, I is a BEGGIN you.
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by matthewr
Minky -- It was possibly before your time but you can read all about the ins and outs of the various forum cliques
hereEnjoy.
Matthew
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by Simon Perry
The cut out and keep guide to being Stallion in that linked thread is a classic!
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by ErikL
Is that the one where Stallion claimed to be performing a social experiment on everyone? If so, it is indeed classic.
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by ErikL
Ah, it is that thread. Thanks for bringing that to light again Matthew. (I wasn't around when it was posted, but read it via some reference months ago)
Minky- Highly recommended reading. *****
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by Minky
Posted on: 12 February 2004 by matthewr
Minky,
Tony now runs Pink Fish and is sort of semi-banned from here in ways that are not exactly clear.
Marco is rumoured to be banned but apparently he has said he isn't and has just chosen to abscent himself over a difference of opinion about the new Naim amplifers.
Vuk is so banned its not even funny.
Mick Parry's Solomon like judgement was rewarded when he was appointed Lord Parry of The Forum a short time later.
Matthew
PS The broken link you are missing can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/3hca2
