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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on January 10, 2008, 11:48:22 PM
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"Women flew spitfires" - True or false?
Well (apart from those who saw "The One Show" on telly tonight), you're all wrong, because it's true! They really did.
I've just been watching darts on BBC, and there are two women in the final (the women's final of course), and they're not bad lookers. I think the final is on tomorrow if anyone wants to have a look.
Whatever next? Anyway, I love 'em all (the gorgeous ones especially), so good luck to them.
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It's always been my gripe that women complain about the glass ceiling and want more females in excutive roles, but don't campaign to get more women down the mines or sewers.
This is quite a serious issue, as the reason men are over-represented in full-time executive roles is because they're over-represented in full-time shite-shovelling roles too. They cross the whole gamut of employment.
I've worked for bad female bosses as well as males, but the two good female bosses I had were both lesbians. Go figger. The bad men bosses were at least straight with you in a David Brent way, but the bad female bosses plotted and were extemely sneaky, trying to skew results to benefit their favourites, convinced that they were too clever to be found out.
I feel sexuality was a key factor in the performances of both the bad male AND female bosses, but in the case of the females it was suppressed and ultimately more dangerous. The bad males were just ridiculous in their barely concealed sexism and insulting behaviour to women, the bad females were very proper, but over-compensated by instilling a puritanical regime where touching was outlawed.
One woman lost the plot completely at one point and put up a list of do's and don'ts.
We found out after her marriage broke up she had been having an affair with a co-worker, a very uptight, morally superior bloke who wouldn't say boo to a goose and who never took part in any of the office jollities.
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It's always been my gripe that women complain about the glass ceiling and want more females in excutive roles, but don't campaign to get more women down the mines or sewers.
This is quite a serious issue, as the reason men are over-represented in full-time executive roles is because they're over-represented in full-time shite-shovelling roles too. They cross the whole gamut of employment.
I've worked for bad female bosses as well as males, but the two good female bosses I had were both lesbians. Go figger. The bad men bosses were at least straight with you in a David Brent way, but the bad female bosses plotted and were extemely sneaky, trying to skew results to benefit their favourites, convinced that they were too clever to be found out.
I feel sexuality was a key factor in the performances of both the bad male AND female bosses, but in the case of the females it was suppressed and ultimately more dangerous. The bad males were just ridiculous in their barely concealed sexism and insulting behaviour to women, the bad females were very proper, but over-compensated by instilling a puritanical regime where touching was outlawed.
One woman lost the plot completely at one point and put up a list of do's and don'ts.
We found out after her marriage broke up she had been having an affair with a co-worker, a very uptight, morally superior bloke who wouldn't say boo to a goose and who never took part in any of the office jollities.
I think you may have been unlucky - but, as you know, it takes all sorts and you seem to have found them all!
I have often wondered why the 'underlings' don't band together and sort out the problem.
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Vulch, my experiences were over a few different types of jobs, from supermarkets, warehouses to art studios. It's amazing , as one gets older how "types" become more and more visible.
It was more fun when I was young, when I didn't have the ability to pick a bad 'un from a good 'un, but now I can spot a chancer or a user (or a bad boss) from a hundred metres away.
It certainly saves time, you're spared the weeks or months of dancing around while you figure why this guy can't give you a straight answer or why this woman won't look you in the eye, and your own sexuality is less of a factor too. As an older person you have developed coping strategies and a quiver of first rate excuses that prevent you from fully confronting idiots and keep you out of trouble.
I do make light-hearted jest at lesbians expense, because I know and have known many gay women, all of whom I got on with. The real trouble stems from spurned heterosexual women, or female bosses in unhappy relationships who bring their problems to work.
I work with a number of women "bosses" at the moment in the form of editors, and imho the best syndicate head is a woman, namely Amy Lago at WPWG, who has been very supportive of my work, much more than any male exec.
I was at a party over Christmas and the talk got around to peoples' workplaces. All the women, without exception, said that they would hate to work in an all female team. They actively sought male company as often as possible and felt they needed men.
Many of the guys already worked in all-male environments and didn't want things to change. The ones who worked in mixed workforces tended to stick to male company during their work breaks, etc.
I found all this fascinating, and it reinforced to me my feeling that the real glass ceiling is one which women have installed and maintain.
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It all sounds too complicated for me, Malc. In my working life I only had one bad experience: a younger woman who had been there some time and, I think, saw me as a rival to her authority. Being generally laid back, I just let her get on with her bossing until one day I 'cracked'. My working life became a little easier but then improved considerably when I was made redundant! From that time I became self-employed and I could be bossy as I liked.
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I utterly respect women, and actually think it's quite nice to have a bird or two about the place. I do enjoy my own company, yes, but it can also be quite reassuring, and comforting, to be relaxing in front of the telly with a drink, hearing the clinking of pots and pans being washed up after a splendid meal.
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::) Only in a heavily male populated forum.......!!!!!! ::)
I've been down the sewers! Okay, lets not go there!
Nigel, nigel, nigel!!!!! words fail! ::) ::) ::)
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I utterly respect women, and actually think it's quite nice to have a bird or two about the place. I do enjoy my own company, yes, but it can also be quite reassuring, and comforting, to be relaxing in front of the telly with a drink, hearing the clinking of pots and pans being washed up after a splendid meal.
Laying aside the fact that I'm probably too old for you - you certainly wouldn't get such delights in my house! ;D ;D
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::) Only in a heavily male populated forum.......!!!!!! ::)
I've been down the sewers! Okay, lets not go there!
Nigel, nigel, nigel!!!!! words fail! ::) ::) ::)
Why was this post edited by a man????
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I would like to know that as well. Perhaps she revealed something about him.
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::) Only in a heavily male populated forum.......!!!!!! ::)
I've been down the sewers! Okay, lets not go there!
Nigel, nigel, nigel!!!!! words fail! ::) ::) ::)
Why was this post edited by a man????
Perhaps AW was busy making dinner and asked Tarquin to make the necessary correction...
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::) Only in a heavily male populated forum.......!!!!!! ::)
I've been down the sewers! Okay, lets not go there!
Nigel, nigel, nigel!!!!! words fail! ::) ::) ::)
Why was this post edited by a man????
Perhaps AW was busy making dinner and asked Tarquin to make the necessary correction...
I'm glad she asked. Good manners becomes a lady. Well done, AW.
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Tarqs was hogging the kitchen table with his laptop, whilst I was cooking tea.... or rather the tea he cooked the evening previous, but made too much and I was merely warming it up. He commented that my first smiley wasn't smiling and was needing a bit of 'space' to make it work! Tarqs being all powerful and such and having the power of a moderator meant he could do such a thing. So he fixed it. However, in doing so added to my post a footnote that he had changed/amended it.
No mystery, nowt rude or bad...... he just made my smiley smile. What a nice man!
Sorry to disappoint :).
Oh.... It was spag' Bol' our recipe ;)
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Can I just say how lovely you look in that new photo on the other forum, AW?
Personally, I think it's great when an attractive bird does herself up to help herself look gorgeous. Okay, it can delay the departure time when going out, (what with putting the "slap" on etc.,) but it's great to walk into a bar with a little trophy on your arm!
Gawd bless 'em.
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Nige, I know I've said this before but I bow to your bravery.
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I'm sure she'll thank you in her own time, and in her own way, Peepsie, but just for the record, that was AW totally slap-free! Which is more than I can say for you when she catches up with you.
For the purposes of clarity, and other members on here who haven't a Scooby what Peepsie is on about (what's knew?), AW won't mind if I repost the
picture in here. AW is the one in the foreground.
Caption Competition, anyone?
(http://www.ccgb.org.uk/q_and_a_forum/simpleforum_files/images/attachments/AW_and_him.jpg)
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Can I just say how lovely you look in that new photo on the other forum, AW?
Personally, I think it's great when an attractive bird does herself up to help herself look gorgeous. Okay, it can delay the departure time when going out, (what with putting the "slap" on etc.,) but it's great to walk into a bar with a little trophy on your arm!
Gawd bless 'em.
Hang on, Peeps. AW looks lovely; she's attractive (but needs help to look gorgeous), she has to use 'slap', and all that makes her a trophy...... I would think 'foolhardy' rather than 'bravery' is a better description.
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I'm sure she'll thank you in her own time, and in her own way, Peepsie, but just for the record, that was AW totally slap-free! Which is more than I can say for you when she catches up with you.
For the purposes of clarity, and other members on here who haven't a Scooby what Peepsie is on about (what's knew?), AW won't mind if I repost the
picture in here. AW is the one in the foreground.
Caption Competition, anyone?
(http://www.ccgb.org.uk/q_and_a_forum/simpleforum_files/images/attachments/AW_and_him.jpg)
Is Batman AW's trophy?
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Peepsie, I'm fast approaching forty and even faster turning in to a cantankerous old moo.
Don't mess with women, or rather A Woman, entering the menopausal stage of life. Dangerous place to be with or without slap! :-*
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I wasn't referring to AW as requiring "slap" etc. Far from it. AW has a natural beauty. She may need her eyes testing, but she and Tranquil make a good team. No, I was talking about the vast majority of women, without which, Boots No. 7 would go out of business.
I should also state, in case people start to wonder if I'm a misogynist, that I help cook the meals very often when I have a bird round. Only once, since I've been here on Bute, has a girl walked out on me during our meal preparations. (That was a couple of years ago, and I was only pointing out something wrong she was doing, but in a helpful way).
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It would be a better caption competition if AW was facing the other way, but I think we all know that.
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Can I just say how lovely you look in that new photo on the other forum, AW?
That was my first bit. I then went on to write this about my birds:
Personally, I think it's great when an attractive bird does herself up to help herself look gorgeous. Okay, it can delay the departure time when going out, (what with putting the "slap" on etc.,) but it's great to walk into a bar with a little trophy on your arm!
I really didn't mean to imply that I was writing about AW. That would've been impudent, at the very least. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Just wanted to put it on record.
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Peepsie, this is from her...... :-*
She'd have posted it herself, but she's just cracked open the 12-year-old Cardhu.
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Can I just say how lovely you look in that new photo on the other forum, AW?
That was my first bit. I then went on to write this about my birds:
Personally, I think it's great when an attractive bird does herself up to help herself look gorgeous. Okay, it can delay the departure time when going out, (what with putting the "slap" on etc.,) but it's great to walk into a bar with a little trophy on your arm!
I really didn't mean to imply that I was writing about AW. That would've been impudent, at the very least. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Just wanted to put it on record.
Sorry, Peeps, just the fact that you lump all your girlfriends as 'birds' says it all. I'm way to old to be taken in by your pseudo apology. ::)
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Peepsie, this is from her...... :-*
She'd have posted it herself, but she's just cracked open the 12-year-old Cardhu.
Just don't take advantage of her when she's flat on her back!
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... members on here who haven't a Scooby what Peepsie is on about (what's knew?)
Are you sure this is correct?
Nice bird, by the way.
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Sorry, Peeps, just the fact that you lump all your girlfriends as 'birds' says it all. I'm way to old to be taken in by your pseudo apology. ::)
It's just a term of endearment. I wasn't calling all women "birds", just mine.
I wouldn't have the cheek to think of you as a bird, Vulture. ::)
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Notice how quickly the bravery crumbles.
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Notice how quickly the bravery crumbles.
I never started out trying to be "brave". I was singing the praises of the females that share our planet. Someone should write a book about them.
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I was singing the praises of the females that share our planet.
Who is the "our"?
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It's all very confusing when Peeps and Vulture start conversing. Peeps has a vulture avatar and Vulture doesn't have a vulture avatar. So the vulture avatar isn't Vulture and the non-vulture avatar IS Vulture.
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I'm having the same problem, Roger.
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It's all very confusing when Peeps and Vulture start conversing. Peeps has a vulture avatar and Vulture doesn't have a vulture avatar. So the vulture avatar isn't Vulture and the non-vulture avatar IS Vulture.
And Vulture isn't a bird, even though a vulture is a bird.
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I'm having the same problem, Roger.
Clever. Annoying but clever.
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Peeps have you ever heard of the saying "Stop digging you are too deep now."
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May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.. here you go.
(http://malcmcgookin.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/batman-aw.gif)
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Notice how quickly the bravery crumbles.
I never started out trying to be "brave". I was singing the praises of the females that share our planet. Someone should write a book about them.
We're specimens now? :D
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Who is the "our"?
Now is.
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May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.. here you go.
(http://malcmcgookin.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/batman-aw.gif)
I think it's "hanged" actually, (wearing my pedant's hat).
How long before that image is all over the internet? ;D
Are you going to post it on the cartoonist's forum, Malcolm?
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It's all very confusing when Peeps and Vulture start conversing. Peeps has a vulture avatar and Vulture doesn't have a vulture avatar. So the vulture avatar isn't Vulture and the non-vulture avatar IS Vulture.
And Vulture isn't a bird, even though a vulture is a bird.
Peeps, your pet name for a female is 'bird'. Your sentence above is confusing because I am a 'bird'.
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I'll leave it as "hung". Know what I mean? ;)
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I'll leave it as "hung". Know what I mean? ;)
Well hung it is then.
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Peeps have you ever heard of the saying "Stop digging you are too deep now."
No. How does that one go then?
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Oh gawd - my current bird's just joined the forum. :-\
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Malc, you know your theory about how you can convey and carry off a gag by describing it in words, without the need to put it into visuals?
Gonnae stick to that in future, pal?
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Oh gawd - my current bird's just joined the forum. :-\
Pull up a chair, Lucy, and tell us all your story. :)
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Malc, you know your theory about how you can convey and carry off a gag by describing it in words, without the need to put it into visuals?
Gonnae stick to that in future, pal?
Exactly. And she's a vegetarian too remember, Malc.
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Shhh! >:(
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Peeps have you ever heard of the saying "Stop digging you are too deep now."
No. How does that one go then?
Its like you are doing now. I should stop before the rope is notable to reach you.
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That reminds me of a word quiz I was once given. The same sequence of letters is missing in each instance:
"The ------- was --- ---- to dine, as there was -- -----."
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That reminds me of a word quiz I was once given. The same sequence of letters is missing in each instance:
"The ------- was --- ---- to dine, as there was -- -----."
The notable was not able to dine, as there was no table.
Must stop trying so hard.
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i wrote it three times and still I got it wrong
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Oh gawd - my current bird's just joined the forum. :-\
Pull up a chair, Lucy, and tell us all your story. :)
Tranquil - Lucy's been having problems on her computer trying to post on this site. (I haven't been there to show her how easy it is, unfortunately). Think of it as Roger Kettle syndrome.
She tells me she gets this great big cartoon image with some waffle about the Daily Mail. She can see bits of this site behind it. I reckon it's a pop-up of some kind. We shouldn't be having pop-ups on here, Mincey.
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Ah. I thought you'd forbidden her from posting. ::)
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No, I haven't forbidden her. I've even said she can make posts without clearing them with me first. (Look out for spelling errors and misplaced grammar.) :D
I'm waiting for Mince to get to the bottom of her pop-ups.
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That's nice of you, maybe you can translate too.
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That's nice of you, maybe you can translate too.
Hi, Poppet! Looking forward to your coming round tomorrow afternoon. (The kitchen needs a clean).
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I've decided to put a picture of Lucy on here. This was taken in a remote part of Luzon, north of Manila, in the Philippines. That's our car with driver and bodyguard parked in the background by the paddy fields, (an export from Ireland). Notice the motor "tricycle" passing in the background, with about 37 people balanced on it. I think they were aiming to get in the Guinness Book of Records.
(http://www.nigelsutherland.co.uk/Philippines/images/10%20Luzon%20Lucy%20By%20Road.jpg)
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Welcome, Lucy. I am SO sorry for you.
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There are a few unlucky people in the world Lucy.
They just all seem to be on this board.
Just watch out for Mince who will pick holes in every thing that you post.
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Hi, Lucy. Welcome to the board. We only need a few more females and we'll outnumber the shirkers! :D :D
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Thanks Peter I been warned!
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I can only console myself knowing that men will be extinct( a thing of the past) . Im not so sorry now . Better make the posting quick while the peepmaster away :)
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Oh no! I've just got back from the pub. Thanks for being so lenient. Where do I start?
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Oh no! I've just got back from the pub. Thanks for being so lenient. Where do I start?
Go back to the pub.
Hi, Lucy! ;D
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This was not a good idea.
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all good ideas seem that at first.
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all good ideas seem that at first.
??? Mince... Help...
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He's talking about the man who threw himself out of a skyscraper. At each floor he said: "So far, so good."
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:) :) :) :) :) :) Hiya Lucy. Great to see you here. :) :) :) :) :) :)
Join old Peepsie up with the local darts, snooker,fishing,shooting :-\,running team..... or anything that means you get PC access.
The invasion of Women is underway, boys!!!!! :D :D
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Please don't use up all the emoticons. Leave some for the rest of us.
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Welcome Lucy,
I didn't realise that you were a real person - I thought you were another of Peepmasters "friends". ;)
All new people on the board are required to tell us who is their favourite Beau Peep character. ;D
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Please don't use up all the emoticons. Leave some for the rest of us.
I was just being expressive! :-[ oops, there goes another one ;)
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All new people on the board are required to tell us who is their favourite Beau Peep character. ;D
Are they? Did I? I don't think I did. I'll do it now - what are their names again?
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Please don't use up all the emoticons. Leave some for the rest of us.
I was just being expressive! :-[ oops, there goes another one ;)
AW, you use as many emoticons as you like - they're ten a penny. In any case, Mince can always make some more. ;)
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All new people on the board are required to tell us who is their favourite Beau Peep character. ;D
Are they? Did I? I don't think I did. I'll do it now - what are their names again?
John, Paul, George and Arthur.
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Re: emoticons:
In any case, Mince can always make some more.
Vulture, Mince is too lazy to make them.
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:) :) :) :) :) :) Hiya Lucy. Great to see you here. :) :) :) :) :) :)
Join old Peepsie up with the local darts, snooker,fishing,shooting :-\,running team..... or anything that means you get PC access.
The invasion of Women is underway, boys!!!!! :D :D
Hey - she's got her own computer at her house. I let her use one of mine when she's here, (supervised of course). Mind you, she wastes all her time playing online Scrabble with strangers, when she should be doing more for her Open Uni course. ::)
I don't like to nag though.
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Welcome Lucy,
I didn't realise that you were a real person - I thought you were another of Peepmasters "friends". ;)
Diane, people will start thinking I'm strange. How's your yak?
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Definitely George, though Arthur's pretty funny too (he's the one who sits on a rock, right?).
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Definitely George, though Arthur's pretty funny too (he's the one who sits on a rock, right?).
No, he doesn't actually sit on a rock; there's this big knife stuck in a rock and Arthur's trying to get it out to prove....... whatever....
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Ah - Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom ofthe water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's that I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
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I wrote something similar but it didn't fit into four panels.
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DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's that I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?[/i]
This place is going to the dogs.
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DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's that I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?[/i]
This place is going to the dogs.
If you're going to the dogs, put a bet on for me.
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DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's that I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?[/i]
This place is going to the dogs.
Don't tell Peter that.
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I think there should be a woman quota.
Nothing against the bints, mind. Just as long as they stay on the carpeted area and aren't allowed to mark the club's newly polished floorboards with their high heels.
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I think there should be a woman quota.
Nothing against the bints, mind. Just as long as they stay on the carpeted area and aren't allowed to mark the club's newly polished floorboards with their high heels.
I haven't worn high heels since the eighties; I value my comfort too much. Come to that, I have three daughters-in-law and a daughter and, apart from weddings, they don't wear high heels either!
It might just be possible that most 'bints' wouldn't 'wear' your club either - unless, of course, they were so besotted with you ........... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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It was a moose.
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If it was a mouse how did you see it among the snow.
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Women do tend to get besotted with me eventually.
Hang on, I should really go look up what besotted means. Give me a moment...
(sounds of footsteps disappearing down tiled hallway)
(sounds of footsteps approaching up tiled hallway)
Oh I see, in that case not besotted, more a mixture of bewildered and totally pissed off.
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It was on stilts Peter.
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Women do tend to get besotted with me eventually.
Hang on, I should really go look up what besotted means. Give me a moment...
(sounds of footsteps disappearing down tiled hallway)
(sounds of footsteps approaching up tiled hallway)
Oh I see, in that case not besotted, more a mixture of bewildered and totally pissed off.
The hallway is a strange place to keep your computer.
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The hallway is the route to my dictionary, a huge tome which squats, a forbidding, judgemental edifice. at the entrance to my home.
We haven't moved it since we got back from Manchester and left it behind the front door.
The dictionary, that is, not Manchester.