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Offline Darwins Selection

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #780 on: August 31, 2009, 09:56:59 PM »
We are all but sand in the egg timer of life. sad24:

But we are each single grains in someones oyster my dear old dog.  ;)

I once put a single malted granary in someones ostler, does that count? whistle:

Only if it produced a pear.
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #781 on: September 04, 2009, 03:01:10 PM »
Keith Waterhouse 80. Author, columnist, playwright.

Billy Liar - one of my favourite books and a cracking good film as well.

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #782 on: September 04, 2009, 03:06:30 PM »
I interviewed him once. In a wine bar. Christ he can drink  noooo:

I ended up in a gutter  redface:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #783 on: September 04, 2009, 03:34:29 PM »
You can tell a man that boozes
By the company he chooses
And the pig got up and slowly walked away
Yes the pig got up and slowly walked away


Shame about KW tho' ~ I've enjoyed his column for many years.
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #784 on: September 04, 2009, 03:35:30 PM »
I would have enjoyed meeting him.

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #785 on: September 04, 2009, 03:36:12 PM »
I can't recall a thing about it  noooo:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #786 on: September 05, 2009, 05:41:45 AM »
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He wrote to me once...
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #787 on: September 05, 2009, 04:46:54 PM »
About?

Not a motor bike?

He had plenty of hair, so it can't be about wigs  rubschin:

Insurance? Or a loan?
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #788 on: September 05, 2009, 04:49:01 PM »
Prolly one of those standard letters with a photograph they send out in response to fan mail ~ you know the ones that are signed by his secretary
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #789 on: September 05, 2009, 04:51:39 PM »
Like the one about George Melly's cleaner and the motorbike I got. Quite  noooo:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #790 on: September 06, 2009, 04:05:29 AM »
About?

Not a motor bike?

He had plenty of hair, so it can't be about wigs  rubschin:

Insurance? Or a loan?
I wrote to him enquiring as to how I might become a journalist like wot he was like...  whistle:

He graciously took time out of his busy schedule to write something along the lines of "You haver to write stuff you snivelling little toe rag"  cloud9:

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #791 on: September 07, 2009, 06:09:29 PM »
Okay - so Im a Johnny Come Lately and all that - and no I havent looked through all 50 odd pages in case its mentioned - but have you seen the site About2Croak.com?

(And I will work out how to get a pic and fancy stuff going when I post - But this is number 1 which I think deserves a drumroll: )

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #792 on: September 07, 2009, 06:11:26 PM »
Hi ~ Nice to see you here. Mine's a pint of best ....... in an ashtray please.
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #793 on: September 07, 2009, 06:24:55 PM »
An unusual place to welcome someone (since we're usually mourning the departed) but hey, welcome!  ;D
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #794 on: September 07, 2009, 07:01:53 PM »
Good evening and welcome ..... cloud9:

Whatya drinking ???


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