One day....
My mum is one of *those* people, who once in a blue moon goes insane and gives everything in the house to the charity shop. And then disinfects the toaster. This is an unfortunate character to have as a mother as a child who greatly values their limited possessions.

wavy lines


I had been eating Kellogs cornflakes for weeks, despite the fact that they made me want to do a sick. And, from the back of these cornflakes, I had collected the tokens. I had put the tokens in an envelope, sent them to Kellogs, and been rewarded with Thunderbirds 1, 2, 3 and 4. I was now munching my way through cardboard flakes for the grand prize of Tracey Island. And I did it. I sent my tokens off, and it arrived at my house in its shiny wonder. It even had a button that would send messages from the control room. It had taken months, and now I had everything I had ever dreamed of.



About a month later my mum went insane, and *tidied*.

I never saw it again. It had gone by the time we went back.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 22:42, 47 replies)

MM
I never would have picked you for a thunderbirds fan
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 22:46, closed)

THUNDERBIRDS
ARE GO!

thunderbird 3, ready for launch krchhchchchchchc

*cries*
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 22:48, closed)

Thunderbirds are rubbish
you know it's true.

I do have a soft spot for the water ad Brain is in though
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 22:56, closed)

Becky
I'm not even going to begin to explain how wrong you are.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:03, closed)

with becky on this one
Tbirds are rubbish. However you do have my sympathy that is related to all breakfast cereal promotion products being crap. Like the parachuting snap/crackle/plop that I had to eat eight tonnes of rice crispies for when I was 8. a lovely white plastic tennisball sized ball, encasing a lovely red parachute with strings and a crackle on, which you chuck into the air, and is supposed to floatyfloaty float down gently to the ground in a lovely cool parachuty way? no. ball goes up. ball comes down. ball does not open. ball smashes on floor. child cries. the end.

hello MM!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:07, closed)

Aww
I'm sorry HLT but I must admit to snorting with laughter at your story. Sorry.

MM, you know it's Thundercats you love really, not the birds kind at all
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:12, closed)

Evening HLT
Poor youse! However, my Tracey Island was made of brilliant, and you are now both wrong.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:15, closed)

ta becky
tempted to post it properly so peoples can click and everything but don't want to steal mm's thunder (ho ho) or be a plagiarist.

*guzzles wine*
*steals interwebs*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:15, closed)

I was always a fan of 'Biker Mice From Mars' when I was a kid
That, and 'Transformers'

Never really liked Thunderbirds. I thought 'Team America' was what Thunderbirds should have been like.
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:17, closed)

@MM
are you going to let Bert have his name back?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:20, closed)

HLT
Not yet. But he's been very busy and as such not been able to tell me quite how winning I am.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:21, closed)

I remember watching biker mice from mars
once only. At butlins at 6am while my assorted friends were frantically rutting with their prizes for the night. I wasn't interested so mine was made to stay up all night and watch bad tv instead.

Still remembering the theme music brings chaotic pictures to my head.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:23, closed)

Huh
How dare they neglect us lovely b3taladies! maybe they are hoping to be punished. By Becky. Who will make them watch Biker Mice from Mars!

Woo!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:26, closed)

@beckyjsbx
Chaotic pictures? Were you, perchance, stoned that night? The same thing happened to me while watching 'Knightmare' after one too many joints
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:28, closed)

Nope
for once considering I was a total stoner when I was 16. Chaotic pictures refers to the lasting memories I have of my friend Sarah frantically searching the flat for some clingfilm or a balloon so she could have sex with her conquest as neither had any condoms.

*safety first kids*

Off to make some food, back soon.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:32, closed)

hahahahaha!
clingfilm!
balloons!

hahahhaa!
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:38, closed)

Evenin' all!
Thunderbirds FTW! But not the new film, that was rubbish.

*click for insane mother understanding*

EDIT:

I have just seen the most disgusting advert. In a kind of SATC way, there are some ladies wot lunch. One sits down looking miserable, and another says "bad hair day?"

She replies: "No, when I went to the loo it was really hard and it hurt!"

She then gets some caring advice (take this product, it helps soften your poo), and they finish on a joke:

"I had a painful shit once..."
"But then she got rid of him."

Laugh? I nearly passed a solid turd. :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:42, closed)

hi DiT
*waves*
*falls over*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:45, closed)

*picks up*
Now then, I know it's exciting, but we must try and hold ourselves together...

*passes champagne*

In fact, anyone for a Kir Royale?

*cocktails*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:50, closed)

DiT!!!!!!
You are now in my little book of extra special people.


I was just thinking about how quiet it was on here.

Then I realised it was friday night.

And I'm on the internet.

Again.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:50, closed)

phwoar, Kir Royale!
*scrapes self off floor*

woo!

yay!

*does a party*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:52, closed)

*prides*
I'm glad I could be of assistance!

We are the rockiest of the rollers. Oh yes.

At least next week we'll be in the pub!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:53, closed)

Yes we will!
oo oo I went to see Madness last night. It was so ace.

*happies*
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:54, closed)

Hugs DiT
I was in a pub earlier if that counts. Crooked surgeon in Leicester Sq FTW
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 23:56, closed)

What...
The real madness? Cool!

I met Suggs in the Nelly Dean not long ago. Top chap!

*hugs becks back*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:00, closed)

Yes, the REAL Madness
And it was free.
And I went to the afterparty.
And I am so cool.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:01, closed)

*Crosses MM off 'favourite B3tans list*
*but adds to B3ta LEGENDS list*









*jealous*


Glad you had a great time tho!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:06, closed)

Meh
I've got a mate who plays viola for loads of the big bands. She left to go on tour with Mark Ronson today.

I just bask in her reflected glory.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:07, closed)

Not really a fan of Madness
but that's pretty damn awesome all the same
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:09, closed)

Reflected glory is still glory!
I'm going to Counting Crows at Hyde Park next weekend and I can't wait!

Oh, jesus. Karate in the morning. I should be sleeping! ;)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:14, closed)

Decides there is too much oestrogen in here
Leaps in with a testosterone fuelled (and Bourboun-enabled) stagger.
Evening all, is this the chat thread for tonight then?
And Becky- how come you are so thin and gorjus when you are always hunting for food? Or are you just a bad hunter?
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:14, closed)

Oooh
Counting Crows is good. I saw them once in Edinburgh.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:16, closed)

DiT- sleep is for wimps. Ask Kaol.
Evening belms.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:17, closed)

They is!
Saw them on the Hard Candy tour in 2003. Great band. Great, great band.

Sleep is for wimps, you're right. *awakens*
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:20, closed)

I'm not thin and gorjuss
Everyone at the bash said I looked nothing like my profile pic :) On the matter of food, I'm not into food in a big way, so it's only when an ad comes on tv or I smell something tasty that I remember I haven't eaten in hours so go to make foodstuffs. Tonight...fried cheesy toast. mmm...

Night DiT, very very jealous about Counting crows
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:21, closed)

Whaddya think of "Saturday Nights..." then?
I think it's a great album, has some really stand out tracks on it. It'll never be 'August', but I just love the songwriting.

Looking forward to Donovan Frankenreiter too, and booked tickets for Thrice later in the year tonight. 2008 is all about Live Music and Vegas!

EDIT: And Spore. My creatures rock!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:27, closed)

I'm rather partial to
Sleeping in a perfect blue myself.

*Needs to find gigs to go now now I have a job and can go fun places again*
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:32, closed)

Stumbles in
sober.

Is this where we're hanging out tonight?

EDIT: @MM: Sympathy hugs for the story.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:34, closed)

Evening spak
sober too.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:36, closed)

Hey Spakka!
*passes baton*

I have to go to snoozeville. It's been a pleasure chatting with the ladies, but I'll have to bow out gracefully!

Night MM!
Night Becky!
Night Spakka!

Prolly see you all tomorra! :)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:37, closed)

Evening Spakkaman
How's it going?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:37, closed)

Night night DiT
check under the bed for monsters first
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:38, closed)

'night DIT
Am managing to curb my b3ta addiction. Got some job applications sent off today and dismantled my computer so I could clean dust out it's innards.

Have spent the past hour or so skimming through this week's QOTW and offering sympathy hugs to anyone who needs them.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:42, closed)

Its all gone a bit quiet
and I'm tired, so I'm off to bed as well.

Night all
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:56, closed)

'night beckx

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 0:59, closed)

This week's chat threads.
Using Kaol's first post as a beacon, I've linked the chat threads I've found. If you think I missed one out, let me know.

Has gone quiet in here, but I'll stick around a bit so I'll go to bed. G'night.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sat 28 Jun 2008, 1:31, closed)

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Chat continues here
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( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 2:23, closed)