Yesterday, Ewan McGregor told me (during an interview) that his uncle played Wedge Antilles.
The geek in me can now die happy. Also, my tickets for the Prodigy's Warriors Dance festival have just been posted. Huzzah!

This is a good week to be me. How's your week going, fellow B3tan?
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:58, 89 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Not bad, not bad
I'll be moving from The North to The South soon; Spain won the last match and... oh, yes, I have no food today :( That's not good.

Tomorrow we're going to Woking to celebrate Mark's parent's 40th anniversary; I'm cooking paella for 12.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)

Where in the south?
Should I board up my doors & windows in advance?
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)

Not bad. I got a PhD place, work's OK and the weather's less stifling.
( Labmonkey last thought about having another coffee on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:05, Reply)

alright I reckon
after drinks with Paris last night and waking up to find Alexander Skarsgard in my bed this morning I'd say things are looking up
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Fucking shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Did someone scratch your Bowie cd?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:08, Reply)

I hate when that happens

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:12, Reply)

-commiserates-

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)

What's wrong Montykins?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)

I'm in more than a bit of a financial tight spot to be in on the fucking 1st.
And I've just been told I'm DJing again on Friday, somewhere shit again. I can't say no (apparently I've already said yes) and I just cannot be bothered with anything at the moment.

^oh dear - emo....

'and my parents don't understand me OR MY MUSIC'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:18, Reply)

Mont lad
I'm financially fucked as well.
I'll have to start eating from the 99p shop again.
And then I'll keep getting fatter.
And then I'll be fat and single.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:22, Reply)

I think my child maintenance may have bounced.
This is very, very bad indeed.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)

Oh shit
The Gorgon will be right off the scale.
Can you borrow it and wire it immediately?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)

I think I shall have to take it out as cash on my credit card.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:29, Reply)

Do it
Deal with the consequences later, but get it to her
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Believe me I shall.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:32, Reply)

What are your thoughts on that Adam Buxton chap.
He's a bit obsessed with that Bowie fella.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)

I have no thoughts on him, other than 'I wonder who he is'.
I bet he's less of cunt than Bowie though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:19, Reply)

I preferred him in Jekyll

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:10, Reply)

Mixture of good and bad
+ I saw an old friend yesterday and had a good gossip, mother is happy to see me, ditto cat, sister has done incredibly well at uni and I'm proud
- I'm miserable and the palms of my hands are blue-green.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)

How the jiggery whatsit?
Do you get blue-green palms?

Unless you're interfering with a Smurf?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:14, Reply)

Henna
Couldn't find plastic gloves, put sandwich bags over my hand, gave up half way through.

I wouldn't mind my hair to be that colour, but the base colour is yellow so it'd end up bright green.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:16, Reply)

She made Papa Smurf
wear a Sexface mask and then she abused him. It's the only way she can get moist these days.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:16, Reply)

yeah Sexface was just an innocent victim
I think I need to put (!) afterwards to denote irony.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)

A bit bobbins generally.
The boiler that we knew was on the way out has developed an internal leak meaning the water getting into the electrics and tripping out the electricity in the whole house necessitating scrambling around to get the money together for an immediate replacement.

My 11 year old daughter's monthly phone bill (on a £10 /month contract) was £92 for last month,which was bad timing given the above.

It's Frank Sidebottom's funeral tomorrow.

On the plus side a mate in the transport business is doing free collections for me on the two "local pickup only" bits of camping kit I 've bought on e-bay. So don't worry, I'll be ok.
(Cave Duck, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:17, Reply)

pretty good
I'm going to a festival this weekend, so this time tomorrow I'll be drunk.

Speaking of name dropping, Wiggy was hanging out with the drummer from James last night. He sounded very pleased when he dropped it into conversation to me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Poor Wiggy.
James are (were?) mediocrity personified. Like New Order.

Beige music.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:25, Reply)

leave him alone, he loves James.
Sit Down is the only song he can remember the words to. Ever.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)

Sit Down was terrible.
I always thought - 'no, YOU sit down - sit down and fucking SHUT UP.'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)

What about SOMETIIIIIIIIIMES
when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your sooooooooul.
Or She's a Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

I bet you hate those too.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:30, Reply)

Your money is safe - of course I do.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)

he probably hates rainbows

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Yeah. And smiling.
Fucking 'smiling'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:32, Reply)

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
*falsetto*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)

It's not 'closedown' already is it?
*checks watch*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:38, Reply)

*spins globe*

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:58, Reply)

If Sit Down came on in a club and people started actually doing the sitting down thing
then my friends and I would respond by doing the dosey-do around them.

Incredibly, not one of us went on to forge a successful career in music-based comedy.
(Cave Duck, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:35, Reply)

Should have taken the opportunity
to kick them in the fucking face. I know I would - were I ever to have been so stupid as to put myself in a position to have heard that tune in a club.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)

Oh my god I might have known you'd hate them.
I bet you hate Crowded House too.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)

My sister likes them.
That's 'exhibit A' if you needed it. My sister also likes Enya.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:28, Reply)

Monty in 'hating things' shocker

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:35, Reply)

'Hating things' is the only thing I don't hate.
That and Himmler's castle.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:40, Reply)

what about Tractor?
I feel once again I should thank you for making me aware of them. I'd listened to a few tracks and found myself particularly loving the reuglar drum fill on one of them, and on further listening found that he does similar stuff all the the way through the album!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)

OK they're 'not too bad'.
I can't believe they evaded my attention for 20+ years of music research and record collecting. Maybe it's their slightly underwhelming name.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:49, Reply)

I suspect you might be right
I'm fond of a band called Anyone. In the early days of the internet finding them proved very difficult.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:55, Reply)

The Who are lucky they predate the internet, aren't they?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:56, Reply)

very much so
also, they would be thought very average these days.

what are your thoughts on The Kinks?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Mostly fucking brilliant..

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:59, Reply)

glad to hear it
listened to Dedicated Follower of Fashion this morning.

fucking superb
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)

"'The' is a commonly used word and has been omitted from your search terms.
'Who' is a commonly used word and has been omitted from your search terms."

Fucking google...

Edit: Beaten to it. Arse!
Bugger it: same joke but for The The.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:56, Reply)

In your own time, Joey.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:59, Reply)

It's these limp wrists, they make it hard to type at speed...

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)

Enya and Crowded House
The former I had to endure a week of during my work experience on the record counter at WH Smiths in 1989. I hate Orinico Flow to the point where I'd quite happily have bludgeoned our stereo to death.

The latter's best of album was on loop constantly in my ex-g/f's (nee ex wife) bedroom for three months in 1998. I'm surprised it didn't provoke erectile dysfunction.

I don't agree on the New Order point though.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)

I really cannot understand the appeal.
Everyone loves New Order but to me they register a complete emotional flatline. I truly don't get it at all.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:50, Reply)

The early stuff is a continuation of the Joy Division emo theme.
Which fitted in with my teenage MO quite nicely.

The screaming disco queen in me loves Blue Monday and I quite enjoyed the raw jangliness of Confusion too. The latter is underrated. IMHO.

The Perfect Kiss is quite a good chill out track too.

[edit]
Thieves Like Us and Bizarre Love Triangle sucked donkey balls though and bits of Technique were a tad unambitious.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:52, Reply)

I don't like Joy Division either.
Just sounded like middle-of-the-road pop music to me, if I'm honest. I don't like Ian Curtis' vocals and that fucking 'same on every track' bass-playing drives me to distraction. Perhaps they should have also had an actual bass player, to fill out the bottom end*...

*not a euphemism

I have to go back to work now - see ya
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:59, Reply)

you don't like anyone that isn't ACDC

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:03, Reply)

Skint already, physically rather run down
But seeing my boyfriend tomorrow so all is well.
There's cake and booze in the fridge, and all else can fuck off :D
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:24, Reply)

I bought lots of delicious booze last night
Pear Koppaberg, alcoholic ginger beer, alcoholic ice tea, gin...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:26, Reply)

my friends brought alcoholic ice tea to the barbecue at the weekend
it was called Hard Tea or something. I'd rather have a Long Island Ice Tea.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)

Think that's the stuff
It's on offer in Tesco, thought I'd give it a go.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:28, Reply)

Tesco had
strawberry and lime kopparberg the other day. It was fucking mint*. If you spot it, buy it, 'cause it's awesome.


*Not actual mint
(berk, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Alcoholic Iced tea?
That sounds great. What alcohol?

Plus gin and ginger ale is lovely.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)

Gin and GA is indeed lovely!
I didn't see what alcohol was in the iced tea, I'll check tonight.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:28, Reply)

I invented a cocktail, sweetest thing in the world
ginger ale, gin and grenadine.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:33, Reply)

What did you call it?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)

Pink and Mix
was named by a friend, as it tasted of sweets.

I wanted either Sup G, 3G or G-Sus Christ, but no one agreed :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:40, Reply)

I think I might have a lead on where to get bottled Deuchars in Liverpool
I might get extra favours from djtp if I manage to find it
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:28, Reply)

Like he might let you do that thing
That makes you both groan like a suspension bridge covered with fatties?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:30, Reply)

Here's hoping, Lab,
here's hoping...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)

I shall keep my fingers crossed for you
Because I like you
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:32, Reply)

Back atcha bruv

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:33, Reply)

you're the Anti-Beekers

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:29, Reply)

In what way?
Other than I haven't shagged a lot of b3tans.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:30, Reply)

You buy alcoholic pop, and...

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:31, Reply)

he pops alcoholics?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:32, Reply)

Pops them with his 'Becks Blue' or whatever it was.
I'm slightly out of my depth here, making a joke about an incident I was hundreds of miles away from. Who knows, maybe I have got the whole thing wrong - or, of course, it's just not a good gag.

I'm going with b)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)

You're fine, Mr Boyce, it was me being slow
And you're spot on about his buying of 'woofta Becks'.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:35, Reply)

Because you bought booze with booze in it.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:33, Reply)

God I'm being slow today

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:33, Reply)

I dated a girl who's aunt owned a farm in Sweden which grew fruit bought by the Koppaberg people
Tenuous, but I thought it worthy of postage here.

You might have sampled an ex-g/f's aunt's pears.

Have I descended into apostrophe hell?
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:49, Reply)

'whose Aunt'
Other than that, you're good, old boy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)

Schoolboy PJM, schoolboy
I ought to know better.

*hari karis*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:53, Reply)

For some reason I already knew that bit of trivia
and my week is going exactly like all the indistinguishable weeks that preceded it.

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in at this petty pace..."
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Me too
He said it in Bike magazine just before The Pantson Menace came out, alongside the awesome quote "There isn't a day I wake up and don't think "I'm Obi fucking Wan Kenobi!""
( Peej, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:42, Reply)

Scottish people are reknowned for their terrible lies, their alcoholism, and their lack of teeth

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:51, Reply)

You forgot their love of heroin.

( Peej, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:43, Reply)

Did you not know that?
I thought everyone* knew that.

*worth their geek-salt.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 18:22, Reply)

Not much of a geek if you didn't know that!
I think stars wars is pap, and even I knew that!
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:23, Reply)