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I just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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I was a skint student when I turned 21 and couldn't afford a proper party. But I love dressing up and I love fit men in DJs, so I invited all of my loveliest and most beautiful friends round my house for a very sophisticated* black tie cocktail party in my parents' living room.
I had prepared pitchers of several mainstream-type cocktails, but I wanted to offer my guests something special too. Pan-galactic gargleblaster. For the uninitiated, the effect of a pan-galactic gargleblaster is supposed to be "like having your brains smashed out by a piece of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick". So I surmised that a pan-galactic gargleblaster should contain a lot of alcohol and a lot of lemon. This is what went in:
Vodka
Whisky
Brandy
Dark rum
Light rum
Lemon juice
Lemonade
Lots of slices of lemon floating ominously on top
I didn't feel as if my brains had been smashed out by a piece of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick, but I did feel as if my digestive system had been raped.
*May not have been particularly sophisticated, and may also have involved me in my long black evening dress quaffing mojitos whilst bouncing on an orange space hopper
( , Tue 8 Apr 2008, 17:31, 8 replies)
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"May not have been particularly sophisticated, and may also have involved me in my long black evening dress quaffing nojitos whilst bouncing on an orange space hopper."
Were you wearing a bra?
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One has to wonder why you need to ask this question- pleasurable mental picture?
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"quaffing nojitos whilst bouncing on an orange space hopper"
Now THERE'S an image for a DJ-wearing geek to conjure with!
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Say that photographic evidence is available.
I've always imagined a PGGB to be more dry martini-ish but I might give your concoction a go if I'm feeling brave. I'll give the space hopper thang a miss, though.
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the cost 2.50 and are intended for Glaswegian dockers
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Come to think of it, it was a strapless dress, so no, I probably wasn't wearing a bra! But alas, this was before the age of digital cameras and I haven't a clue where the pics are.
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"I didn't feel as if my brains had been smashed out by a piece of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick, but I did feel as if my digestive system had been raped."
Sounds about right to me...
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You forgot the cocktail onion...
When they did the stage show of Hitch-Hikers at the Finsbury Park empire, they were selling PGGB's in the foyer, and the onions were an essential part.
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