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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Redundant on March 17, 2012, 10:16:52 AM
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First, hello...that's the pleasantries dealt with. I have a "vague" question which can probably only be answered by someone who has...to put it delicately...possibly too much interest in Beau Peep, you know the unhealthy kind of interest...Beau Peep pyjamas, a pillowcase with a life size head of the Nomad...
Anyway, more years ago than lots, I was sitting in my favourite barbers [sadly I don't have or need one now], and whilst awaiting my turn was browsing an old Beau Peep book which had two or three strips regarding an accountant, or about accountancy which I found particularly funny, given I was one at the time [an accountant I mean].
So before I leap over to E-B*y and part with any money-laundered loot, does anyone possibly recall the particular book it might have been?
As a clue there was a lot of desert in it, some legionnaires, the odd camel...
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Anyone can say they are legal...show us the Beau Peep Cameldung secret handshake.
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Rob will know the answer, but I'm not sure about the pyjamas, etc.
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Welcome, Redundant!
I have absolutely no idea where the strps you mention might be found. As Bill said, your best bet lies with Rob Baker who tends to know about these things. Hopefully, he'll pop in soon.
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Thanks for replies, and hopefully a solution in due course. As for legality and secret handshakes [a euphemism if ever I heard one]...there, satisfied? I know, a cam thingamajig would have proved useful at that point but it's in the repair shop being demisted after last weeks broadcast of my periodic "wobbly and wrinkly can still be sexy" podcast.
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;D
I have the feeling you may fit in here.
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We all love using odd brackets {even curly ones} and love odd [and nonsensical] punctuation. I find your posts <and the parentheses contained within> inspiriting and *in an odd way* totally groovy.
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Does "inspiriting" exist?
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Thanks Roger...I think. Sadly I may already have peaked and started the slow spiral into innuendo, another great word to type by the way, I like words that make you pause part way to consider the spelling. I digress, so feel free to ban me should it get to the "ooh er missus" level.
Thanks also Mince, your post caught me mid flow [it's starting] replying to Rogers' post [or is that Rogers, definitely not Roger's]. Thank you very much for your comments, I blushed but put that down to high blood pressure brought on by watching my wifes' family consuming my wine at a depressingly rapid pace.
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Does "inspiriting" exist?
From The King’s English by H.W. Fowler:
The reader's experience has probably been that the constant fresh starts are at first inspiriting, that about half-way he has had quite enough of the novelty, and that he is intensely grateful, when the solitary semicolon comes into sight, for a momentary lapse into ordinary gentle progress.
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H.W. Fowler was a loonie.
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H.W. Fowler was a loonie.
I think (s)he's a relative of Mince's!
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Anyway, more years ago than lots, I was sitting in my favourite barbers [sadly I don't have or need one now], and whilst awaiting my turn was browsing an old Beau Peep book which had two or three strips regarding an accountant, or about accountancy which I found particularly funny, given I was one at the time [an accountant I mean].
So before I leap over to E-B*y and part with any money-laundered loot, does anyone possibly recall the particular book it might have been?
As a clue there was a lot of desert in it, some legionnaires, the odd camel...
Hello Redundant, and welcome to the home of a bunch of loonies devoted to Beau Peep.
Your query is doing my head in as I can vaguely remember a strip where accountants are mentioned, but I can't find it at the moment. I'll keep trying though. But I'd suggest you invest in all the Beau Peep books you can get your hands in -- the older ones are getting very rare now -- and they're all brilliant.
Have a little look on the 'Just a Fort' thread where you find out about the brand new book -- the first for 14 years. I can't comment on it as I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered from America. It's on Amazon.com (not .co.uk) -- http://www.amazon.com/The-Return-BEAU-PEEP-Volume/dp/1463693281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332024749&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Return-BEAU-PEEP-Volume/dp/1463693281/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332024749&sr=8-1)
As Mr Kettle said, you're going to fit in well here....
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Hi Rob, and thanks for the reply, sorry about your head but, and to be a tad brutal, it's a pain of mine shared, which works for me! I'll be following your advice on the books, including the new one, which is totally cool after 14 years, and I hope I do get to fit in here, and so do all my Doctors. <grin>
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Dont forget about the 'other' forum which has the books for viewing. That is no excuse for not buying them though.
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Dont forget about the 'other' forum which has the books for viewing. That is no excuse for not buying them though.
Bil, where's the plug for the mugs! I thought all newbies were 'encouraged' to buy them for their relatives and Redundant seems to have a lot...
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Hi Rob, and thanks for the reply, sorry about your head but, and to be a tad brutal, it's a pain of mine shared, which works for me! I'll be following your advice on the books, including the new one, which is totally cool after 14 years, and I hope I do get to fit in here, and so do all my Doctors. <grin>
Did Rob give you a head-butt? We call that a "Glasgow kiss" up here.
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Nice try on the mugs but my lot use government issue generally and Suzannes' [that's my better half] lot use cups which are like mugs only smaller, harder to hold and much much easier to break. Who knew they came in sets?!
Nice also to see romance isn't dead in what I assume is Scotland, I had a Scottish girlfriend once, well more than once actually, and she frequently used the same method as a substitute for foreplay, particularly on Bingo nights as I recall. Ah, happy but painful memories. I'm off to clear EB*y of Beau Peep books.
Don't know about another forum, ignorance is a hobby of mine, I know one that starts with "go" but I don't recall Beau on there. If I can figure out sending messages I'll send you that link.
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Have a look in recent post in the last 6 months (you could just look at the thread topics). That will point you to our Asian sister site where you can immerse yourself in Beau Peep books. Don't read the 1st book there as Diane already produced it here.
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Don't buy the first two books. They're too thin and are useless for propping up wonky tables.
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Reduntant, I can't help thinking that, if your former girlfriend preferred head-butting to foreplay, you just might have been doing something wrong. Even on Bingo night.
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Doesn’t it seem that new members get a bit bouncy around the topics when they first get on these forums. Do you think it has something to do with the entrance examination that Mince set up for newbies? Nobody should have to blow up that many balloons.
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Reduntant, I can't help thinking that, if your former girlfriend preferred head-butting to foreplay, you just might have been doing something wrong. Even on Bingo night.
Although we do seem to be straying slightly from the subject of the original post, one feels compelled to respond to what appears to be the faintest suggestion that "all is not well in the bedroom department".
I admit the thought, as expressed so elequently by yourself Roger, that perhaps I was failing somewhat in the physical expression of my [then] undying love and devotion did cross my mind. Or at least it did once the paracetamol kicked in. But I dismissed the possibility when the same young lady expressed quite forcefully that, and I quote, "It was the best two-and-a-half minutes of my life" [Well it was a none bingo night].
To this day I believe we would have remained forever bonded but sadly fate decided otherwise, she had to leave me to go and take care of a sick aunt who apparently lived on the one Orkney Island men were forbidden to land on [fate was ever thus cruel]. I still think of her fondly, although rarely for more than two-and-a-half minutes.
Sorry this is a tad epic, but I just finished work and needed to unwind...
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Doesn’t it seem that new members get a bit bouncy around the topics when they first get on these forums. Do you think it has something to do with the entrance examination that Mince set up for newbies? Nobody should have to blow up that many balloons.
I'm not really sure what this means, but I like the notion of being a bit bouncy, as for entrance examinations, least said soonest mended. If it helps try not to think of me as a new member, but more a carbuncle [it's weak I know but I have been gagging to use that word in a sentence].
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First, hello...that's the pleasantries dealt with. I have a "vague" question which can probably only be answered by someone who has...to put it delicately...possibly too much interest in Beau Peep, you know the unhealthy kind of interest...Beau Peep pyjamas, a pillowcase with a life size head of the Nomad...
Anyway, more years ago than lots, I was sitting in my favourite barbers [sadly I don't have or need one now], and whilst awaiting my turn was browsing an old Beau Peep book which had two or three strips regarding an accountant, or about accountancy which I found particularly funny, given I was one at the time [an accountant I mean].
So before I leap over to E-B*y and part with any money-laundered loot, does anyone possibly recall the particular book it might have been?
As a clue there was a lot of desert in it, some legionnaires, the odd camel...
You may well have Beat the Baker -- I can find just one strip with a reference to Accountants. It's from Book 11 and was originally published in the Star on 28th January, 1988.
(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk284/nomad2010/strips/accountancyvulture.jpg)
... I have a "vague" question which can probably only be answered by someone who has...to put it delicately...possibly too much interest in Beau Peep, you know the unhealthy kind of interest...Beau Peep pyjamas, a pillowcase with a life size head of the Nomad....
'ere -- what's wrong with Beau Peep pyjamas? And I've got a life size cut-out of Beau standing in my hall 8)
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"You may well have Beat the Baker -- I can find just one strip with a reference to Accountants. It's from Book 11 and was originally published in the Star on 28th January, 1988."
I am so, so impressed! Rather than beating the Baker I'd suspect my powers of recall first, and you may well succeeded, which is...frankly awesome! I did some carpet bombing on E-B*y, books 9, 7, 17 and 13 are on their way allegedly. I somehow seemed to have bid for two copies of book 6 as well, which is unsuprising given confusion and I are never very far away from each other. Outstanding Rob, simply outstanding, thank you very much.
As for the pjyamas and the life size cut-out...absolutely nothing wrong with either, and the restraining order should be with you in the morning, you probably never wanted to visit the Isle of Man anyway...but still, best to be sure.