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Offline Roger Kettle

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Round the dinner table.
« on: June 26, 2008, 06:56:49 PM »
A couple of years ago, I went out with some friends for a meal. Round the table were...
A dentist.
The editor of The Beano.
A social worker.
A T.V. actor.
A comic strip writer. (Um...me).
The owner of a Post Office.
That's eclectic, that is. Let's hear your best mix.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2008, 07:27:16 PM »
I had dinner in London one evening with the Beau Peep strip writer and an actor from The Bill...
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2008, 08:01:22 PM »
Most of my friends are farmers or teachers.
People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2008, 08:03:32 PM »
Most of my friends are farmers or teachers.

The smell must be dreadful!
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2008, 09:40:03 PM »
I wasn't implying that farmers smell, by the way.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

madjock

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2008, 10:01:29 PM »
Don't know if this counts but, went drinking with Prince Charles and his best man at his wedding.

Vulture

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2008, 10:02:20 PM »
Don't know if this counts but, went drinking with Prince Charles and his best man at his wedding.

Which one (wedding)?

madjock

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2008, 10:04:22 PM »
His first lol :D

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2008, 10:16:31 PM »
I think Prince Charles marginally trumps the Beano Editor, MJ. How did you get in on that one?

How about a cartoonist, a colourist, a former prostitute and a former pimp? Yes, we did say grace!
I apologise, in advance.

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2008, 10:41:55 PM »
Just who were you and Sam dining with? (And, yes, I realise this leaves an opening for jokes about who on earth the cartoonist and colourist were).

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2008, 11:32:29 PM »
Just who were you and Sam dining with? (And, yes, I realise this leaves an opening for jokes about who on earth the cartoonist and colourist were).

She is an old friend of Sam's from the days before she plunged completely over into the dark side, and met me. He was her friend, and (we assumed) former 'business partner'. Both now pursuing very different career paths, and highly entertaining dinner guests. I did a vegetarian haggis.
I apologise, in advance.

Joan

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2008, 05:25:33 AM »
A "street dinner" a few year's ago:

 - an IT consultant (hubby)
 - a couple who run a company that makes small springs and things
 - a couple of lawyers (not related)
 - somebody quite high up in Warner Music Australia
 - a radiographer
 - an accountant
 - An ex socceroo (Australian national team), who was and is assistant coach to the socceroos and coach for the Olympic team
 - a couple who owned a company which makes smart cards
 - a sign writer who ran a car hire business offering various versions of old cadillacs and was also an Elvis impersonator
 - an advertising person (not quite sure what she did in advertising)
 - a couple who run a company which imports bathroom tiles and accessories from the UK
 - a PR consultant
 - one or two spouses (at least one male) who help their other halves and children manage their lives (including me)
 - a retired couple (not sure what they did when working)

Most of the people above have moved out of the street, which is a shame as we don't have the dinners any more.  It's an isolated cul-de-sac with thirty houses in a semi-rural area, so a lot of the first ones that moved here got together to socialise periodically.

Not as intriguing as yours, Tarquin, but a fair old mix of people - at least five Brits in there.


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Malc

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2008, 06:17:02 AM »
Joan, was that Graham Arnold you were with?

I'm not a fan, just football curious.

madjock

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2008, 08:57:22 AM »
I think Prince Charles marginally trumps the Beano Editor, MJ. How did you get in on that one?

I was on board HMS York (the Captain was his best man). And got chatting to Charlie on the flight deck and got asked to go for drinks with him and the skipper. Don't ask me why or how, becasue I still don't know to this day!

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Round the dinner table.
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2008, 02:56:52 PM »
I didn't know that prostitutes and a pimps were considered exotic - of course we've had Christmas dinner with them too.
People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad