Beau Peep Notice Board
Beau Peep Notice Board => Just a Fort => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on April 23, 2008, 10:19:57 PM
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I seem to remember that, years ago, postal chess was very popular. (You know, someone sits at home, makes a chess move, posts it to a friend and awaits a letter containing the next move and so on...). I have decided to start an electronic Beau Peep Chess Match. Anyone can play. Okay...
Nomad to Colonel Three.
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Standard opening.
Mad Pierre to Bidet Four using the get-out-my-way rule.
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Bastard. Wasn't expecting that. Time to attack.
Egon to Bidet Four.
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Sneaky! Dennis to Bidet Three, Pokes Egon in Eye. Blinded. Miss a go.
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Are we allowed to use the "Punch Barmen" rule? And how many foxholes are there?
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You're obviously not taking this seriously.
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Time out - medication.
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Abdul to Hamish Six, lands on ladder, goes up to Sopwith Nine.
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Checkmate.
Let's have another game.
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Bags I the red Tiddlywinks!
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...of chess.
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Well played, Malc! Was that the McGookin checkmate, Helsinki, 1968?
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More like the Sainsbury's checkout, Milton Keynes, 2004.
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Strutting up to the chess board - throws a double six and buys Mayfair half price........ follow that infidels !!
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By my reckoning, it's taken you three and a half months to make that move. Time infringement, surely?
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At least the loonies are all in one room... ..0
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GOAL!!!
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Great! I hadn't realised football was involved... ;D
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I thought he was out leg before goal.
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I thought he was out leg before goal.
That's tennis, isn't it?
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Yup, we'll need bigger bats.
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"We're gonna need a bigger bat". Isn't that from "Jaws"?
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"We're gonna need a bigger bat". Isn't that from "Jaws"?
I thought it was: "We're gonna need a bigger frying pan"!
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"We're gonna need a bigger bat". Isn't that from "Jaws"?
I thought it was: "We're gonna need a bigger frying pan"!
;D
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"We're gonna need a bigger bat". Isn't that from "Jaws"?
I wouldn't know, I've only seen it once. Never had the courage to watch it again - wimp, aren't I?
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"We're gonna need a bigger bat". Isn't that from "Jaws"?
I wouldn't know, I've only seen it once. Never had the courage to watch it again - wimp, aren't I?
No, you're not a wimp, Joan. I watched half of the film; the other half was spent with my fingers covering my eyes and my thumbs in my ears 'coz even the music scared me!
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... and I even had someone warn me about the head dropping down, Vulch - I still jumped out of my seat, didn't I?
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Have we turned the board round for first quarter yet I want to now which way to play or we might go backwards.
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... and I even had someone warn me about the head dropping down, Vulch - I still jumped out of my seat, didn't I?
I think Jaws is a terrific film---despite some rubbery moments from the shark. Joan, I remember recommending it to my mother so she went to see it with a friend. I was never forgiven for not warning them about "the head scene"!
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Roger, perhaps that's why you gave me the heads up, or in this case, down. :)
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Spielberg is a great director, underrated because he makes incredibly popular films.
Not all are successful, though. He's like Alex Ferguson in that everyone concentrates on Alex's great purchases and forgets acquisitions like the Massimo Taibi (the goalie who became known as the Blind Venetian).
I also think Spielberg has become a great propagandist in his old age. His film Saving Private Ryan is actually a diatribe against those who he feels let down the Jews during WWII.
Remember the scene where Tom Hanks and his buddies come across a lone German soldier in the countryside? He begs for his life. They haven't the heart to kill an unarmed man and they have a totally unrelated mission, so they spare him.
That German then goes on to kill the Jewish soldier in the squad, in a particularly creepy and personal way, watched by a cowardly American soldier too scared to take part in the fight.
That soldier then goes on to kill the German later in the movie, but too late for the Jewish guy, naturally.
Sorry to inject a note of seriousness into all this, but I was surprised that this subliminal message wasn't highlighted. I didn't think it was that subtle.
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I first became aware of Speilberg after seeing "Duel"---an amazing film---and have been a fan ever since. I even liked his much-maligned "1941". It's interesting that his own favourite among the films he's made is "E.T.".