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>>By borisette (Wednesday, 24 Dec 2003 17:59)
woah woah woah BABES i want to be in the next story. i havent logged on for a while but im making a comeback in 2004, watch out ;) happy xmas everyone!
>>By Ignaty (Wednesday, 24 Dec 2003 18:08)
It's been too long since I've checked in (work, sick kids, moan, whine, gripe). Much to read and catch up on! You all have been busy, esp Buddy, Trident, and B.A.B.E.S. Good thing I'm only pretending to work today!
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, whatever your favored flavor may be! Have a wonderful Holiday Season, FTroop! I hope to see more of you in '04!!. Wait, not "more of you" in the sense of revealing photos or anything like that - I hope to see you more often. There. That's better.
>>By Astroboy (Wednesday, 24 Dec 2003 19:29)
LOL loved the Operation Orders, AIB!
Happy Holidays, all!
Take care, be safe and have a grand time! ;)
>>By Dare (Thursday, 25 Dec 2003 02:17)
ho ho ho... merry xmas...
ye flippin' gods.. i got LD at christmas and goddarn...
started last night, at around midnight, and read for five minutes... checked the time again, and it was 6 am... I really wished i'd read that LL all the way, because LD spoiled a couple of things... won't mention which ones, since i missed the part about how to post spoilers... have to read the whole book and then get back to you after that...
whine whine...
you'd all be glad to hear i'm sketching the outlines of a new trident story, coming up early 2004...
if a non-mentioned swedish author feels that his hero is under threat of being overrun, i'd be more than happy to hear from you, and i'll consider changing my alias.
>>By trident (Friday, 26 Dec 2003 21:49)
Question:
Now as I was browsing through the net and I fell upon the so called AM Fan and News Website
from Randomhouse.co.nz
Why is it they don't update the thing, they only show 2 of his books, the biography is quite limitated and the music is just awfull.
Can't we do something ??
>>By borisette (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 00:49)
Nope, the less people know the better for us, *evil grinning lurking smile*
:D
>>By Deusrexmachina (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 03:48)
Was told today to go poke around at Mainstream Publishing. Guess what?
No Soldier 5 by Mark Coburn.
March Publication date wiped from site.
In fact, not a mention of Soldier 5.
Neither is the title available on search mode.
Amazon.com.jp have copies for sale. Anyone here able to translate Japanese?
>>By Saxon (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 14:38)
Would say buddy is right in her estimation: post the url to a very intriguing site at Andy McNab Gnooks and you can bet the web site or page mentioned will vanish within hours.
I'm out of here, for good. Bye folks. Watch your backs in 2004, CCTV got nothing on this board for intel.
>>By Saxon (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 14:45)
Saxon :
Now I don't know if you're cross with us or with the Gnooks board, but I don't think any of us has anything agains Mike Coburn and his book about B20.
Anyway did a quick checking and his book is out on Amazon.co.uk on february 5th 2004 £12.59.
As for the japanese translation, well I only know how to say "arigato" and I used to know to count to ten in japanese as well. but I've forgotten that now (thanks to my karate lessons).
So don't go away....the more we are the merrier
(now is that how you write it).
>>By borisette (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 20:27)
Quick visit, hurrrraaahhh!!! I did get DIrect Action (ha ha) and very good it is too (well only at chap. 2). Hope santa was good to you all, now where did I put those gold hotpants I got?........
>>By Bethan (Saturday, 27 Dec 2003 20:34)
Hey Bethan, aren't they icy cold?! *grins*
Watch out not to get too much goosebumps, Mr Andy's not there for the warmups!
:D
>>By Deusrexmachina (Sunday, 28 Dec 2003 01:00)
Hey I just got some hot Apfelstrudel out of the oven, anyone want some.......
A must read I recommend to all of you is :
First into Action SBS. by Duncan Falconer.
Really enjoyed it.
Now I'm halfway on DW, but as I allready know the ending, I'm not enjoying it so much.
And I keep on sneeking some pages to see when NS is gonna kiss Suzy. He's a real "Wanker" when it comes down to women! Maybe he should get those hotpants Bethan was looking for.
>>By borisette (Sunday, 28 Dec 2003 18:06)
>>He's a real "Wanker" when it comes down to women! Maybe he should get those hotpants Bethan was looking for.
By borisette (Sunday, 28 Dec 2003 18:06)
Actually this sounds like me!... o_O
I've to try out these hotpants, but aren't they cold!? Brrrrrr... goosebumps on the family's jewels! (er, "gioielli di famiglia" in italian!)
>>By Deusrexmachina (Sunday, 28 Dec 2003 22:10)
On the subject of Andy's lack of explicit sex in his books, well, read on. After all, if he reveals his secret 'passions' (inverted commas) he might please some of you, but the chances are he'd upset the majority, 'cos men never really know what women want unless told what to do, hence confusion. (few that is, with exception of one or two in a woman's lifetime)
Hey, I finally found out how to delete myself from Flork. Thanks to MG. I hope you have a great 2004 on this board, I won't be around on the Internet much as I'm hoping to move house, wish it was country sometimes, but desert islands don't come cheap!!
ACT FOUR <<< FINALE>>> Dick Whittinton & His Cat (Pusskins)
ALICE IS FRANTICALLY LEANING OUT OF BEDROOM WINDOW SHOUTING FOR HELP (TAIL LEANING OVER HER SHOUDER) AS CLIP-BOARD BOY (aka DTO) DASHES OFF-STAGE LOOKING OVER 'HIS' SHOULDER AT TWO PUNK RATS SNEAKING UP BEHIND PUSSKINS.
FITZWARREN (aka big-wig publisher) WHISPERS TO PUSSKIN (Loudly): Go out front m'lad, and see to it that a B great S is put on the end of DARE and Win. It should read starring 'Who Dares Wins' ic. FITZWARREN WIGGLES TWO FINGERS EITHER SIDE OF HIS HEAD. And be sure you highlight D-Troop...By St George and the Dragon we can't have any more Storming-Norming entrances on this stage by US flippers and F-Troop gettin' the upper hand.
PUSSKINS: OK, but what about Alice?
ALDERMAN FITZWARREN. Tai.i...i...l, in flagrate delicto with my daughter. By gad I'll have his guts fer garters and his tail fer the cats. Wait til I gets me blunder-bust to that good fer nothing dog-rat.
FITZWARREN STORMS OFF THROUGH BACK ALLEY.
ALICE (aka Lynn): Oh Dick, where for art thou Dick?
TAIL STRUGGLES WITH ALICE (aka ex SAS corp) Stop wriggling wilya, girl, an' come wiv me.
NEARBY BUSH SHAKES (violently) AS PUSSKINS SHOUTS: He's otherwise engaged.
AUDIENCE SHOUTS: Behind you, behind you... PUNK RATS SEEN CLOSING ON PUSSKINS - WITH MALICIOUS INTENT.
PUNK RAT 1 (aka Beth) SHOVES A HOT-DOG IN PUSSKINS BACK. Paws UP!! Paws spread!!!
PUSSKINS: Damn my dashed whiskers, the DRAT squad's dropped one on me.
LITTLE VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: We told you so, but you didn't believe us...
PUNK RAT 2 (aka bikergirl) FRISKS PUSSKIN - REMOVES SHINY EXCALIBER DAGGER FROM PUSSKINS LEFT BOOT. ...S' right chum, we's the DRAT squad stan'n for, Drone Rodent Appreciation Team in disguise as Lit Agents.
PUNK RAT 1: Tie Puss up. Quick now, before someone comes.
PUNK RAT 2: Am so, am so. Give over wills ya.
PUNK RAT 1: What the hell is that?....LOOKS AGHAST AT WHAT HAS JUST BOUNCED ONTO THE STAGE.
PUSSKINS: Oh that, it's just a Roo! G'day mate.
PUNK RAT 1 & PUNK RAT 2 STEP BEHIND PUSSKINS AS ROO CUTS A THRUST WITH HIS BOXERS AND A COUPLE OF KICK DROPS.
ROO (aka Paul R): Just a Roo? INDIGNANT. For a guy looking for a big break, what better than a KitKat. Hand it over DRATS.
DRATS (aka Punk Rats) SHUDDER WITH FEAR. NEARBY BUSH SHAKES (violently) ROO JUMPS CLOSER TO BUSH AS ALICE SCREAMS AND LEANS OUT OF WNDOW YET AGAIN, 'TAIL' LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER.
ROO: Want some help with the Shee'la mate?
TAIL GRINS, ALICE LOOKS CONFUSED.
ALICE: My name is not Sheila, my name is Alice and I am in great peril.
ROO SWIGS FROM CAN OF BEER, NARROWS EYES: You will be when Roo gets up there.
PUSSKINS: What about me, hands tied, and...
ROO SHOVES PUSSKINS BACKWARDS INTO DRATS (aka Punk Rats)
PUNK RATS (in unison) EEEEEEEEEK!!!
PUNK RAT 1: E in't very vocal is he, an' ya know what they says about quiet ones.
PUNK RAT 2: NODS HEAD IN AGREEMENT The quiet ones is the most dangerous ones.
THE PUNK RATS MAKE A RUN FOR IT AS ROO SHOVES PUSSKINS AGAIN AND PUSSKIN LOSES BALANCE AND TUMBLES INTO BUSH AND DISAPPEARS.
DICK (aka AIB): Ouch! Of all the people in all the world I end up in the same bush as you.
PUSSKINS: Believe me, I had no choice. So shut it and start nibbling my bonds.
CUE THEME MUSIC: "CASABLANCA"
ROO COCKS AN EAR TO BUSH, RUBS BOXERS TOGETHER AND MAKES FOR FRONT DOOR AS ALDERMAN FITZWARREN REAPPEARS WELL-ARMED.
FITZWARREN: Good God a Kingaroo, I mean Kangaroo.
ROO: Yepper, a Kingaroo in a right old jabberwocky.
FITZWARREN: Break down that there door, m'fella and I'll pay you a handsome advance, and all the gold you could want if you writes up your 'Real' story afterwards. FITZWARREN WIGGLES TWO FINGERS EITHER SIDE OF HIS HEAD.
ROO: My Real story?
FITZWARREN: Well I got a good idea something worthwhile is hiding in that there jumpsuit.
ROO: You reckon?
FITZWARREN: What with working out who is who hereabouts and who is pretending to be who, who else would be in a stupid jumpsuit?
ROO: So who am I really up against if I go knock down that door?
FITZWARREN LOOKS AROUND, LOWERS HIS VOICE: The one that got a way, who else?
ROO BACKS UP: In that case, NO call for me to go getting my boxers all blooded up over a shee'la.
FITZWARREN: Coward!
ROO: Just choosy who I hooks up with, matey.
BLUNDER-BUST IS RAISED AT ROO'S HEAD
FITZWARREN: Kick in that door or so help me I'll put a dose of shot in your pocket.
ROO: Biggest Sporren around, init? ROO GRINS, BIGTIME. Carries all I needs in here, see. PROCEEDS TO RUMMAGE IN POUCH. Bit a wire, bit a plastic, and a tick-tock.
FITZWARREN DROPS BLUNDER-BUST AND RUNS OFF-STAGE.
TAIL LEAPS OUT OF WINDOW AND FOLLOWS IN HIS TRACKS.
NEARBY BUSH SHUFFLES OFF-STAGE - PUSSKINS & DICK WHIT CURSING EACH OTHER...
ALICE LOOKS LOVINGLY AT ROO: My hero!
ROO THROWS THE BIT OF WIRE, BIT OF PLASTIC, AND THE TICK-TOCK TO ALICE.
ROO: Bin it for me, there's a good shee'la. ROO TURNS TO AUDIENCE. See, don't take much to get 'em all running scared. ROO SITS DOWN SWIGS AT A BEER CAN. Bit a wire, bit of plastic, a tick-tock, and I didn't even.....
BOOM!!!!!!!! IS HEARD.
DICK WHIT SHUFFLES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OF STAGE DRAGGING PUSSKINS BY BOOTS, PUSSKINS HANGING ON TO BUSH, THEIR CLOTHES IN TATTERS.
ROO LOOKS AT HIS BIG T (my little pony pic) WRISTWATCH.
ROO: Thank god for that. Someone had to make a stand against women who got nothing better to do with their time than gob off about AM.
ROO LIFTS COSTUME-HEAD FROM HIS SHOULDERS.
THE AUDIENCE SHOUT: BOOOOOOO!!!!!
CHEAKY-VOICE IN THE AUDIENCE SHOUTS: You in't McNab. E'd come 'ere as a warty hog.
ROO: Why a warty hog?
CHEAKY-VOICE: Only a warty hog would 'ide hisself like McNab does.
ALICE APPEARS WITH SOOTY FACE: Andy is not a warty hog, not a warty hog, not a warty hog.
CHEAKY-VOICE: Oh yes he is.
ALICE: Oh no he isn't.
AUDIENCE: Oh yes heeeeee issssssssss.
ALICE: Whatever!!! STAMPS HER FOOT AND STORMS OFF STAGE:
<<CURTAIN FALLS>>
SOUND LIKE FIRECRACKERS HEARD
<<CURTAIN RISES>>
THE CAST TAKE A BOW.
<<CURTAIN FALLS>>
ALICE PUSHES HER WAY THROUGH THE CURTAIN INVITES 'C-VOICE' BACKSTAGE.
C-VOICE: Forget it, an I in't comin' back yer for my birfday treat.
ALICE: Where would you like to go for your birthday treat, then?
C-VOICE: Down the road for Moulin Rouge
ALICE: WE could do Moulin Rouge especially for you, wouldn't that be fun?
C-VOICE: What, men in drag? Forget it.
ALICE: No No, we are women, honest.
C-VOICE: Getaway wid 'ya, an' my grandma's Andy McNab.
THE AUDIENCE LAUGH AND BEGIN MAKING THEIR WAY OUT OF THE THEATRE. ALICE RETREATS BEHIND CURTAIN AND C-VOICE SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS - PULLED BEHIND A PILLAR.
VOICE BEHIND PILLAR (aka so-called Andy McNab): Shhh. Just so you know I.m NOT a warty hog.
C-VOICE: Getaway wi 'd ya. You's McNab?
VOICE: Yeah, honest.
C-VOICE: Prove it!
VOICE: Er, uhmmm, SNAPS FINGERS... Got a book in my car. I can autograph that, special like.
C-VOICE LAUGHS: Nah, it's OK. I ain't no boy, neither. REMOVES BASEBALL CAP.
VOICE: I figured that much for myself. LOOKS AT BIG T WRISTWATCH. Joking aside, and serious. I can sign somethin' else if you want..
C-VOICE: Such as?
VOICE: Give me five, VERY BIG GRIN, and meet me in the black Beamer, out back.
VOICE (aka Andy McNab) DISAPPEARS
C-VOICE WHISPERS: Got him, now we can get his prints, a mug shot, DNA sample, and...
C-VOICE RECEIVES TAP ON SHOULDER. TURNS TO SEE MAN DRESSED IN ARAB GARB.
NOMAD: Best to be safe than sorry. DISPLAYS A BLINDFOLD.
C-VOICE: Just a minute, who are you?
NOMAD: Trust me, Andy won't wait around if he sees you approaching with anyone else.
C-VOICE: You expect me to wear that?
NOMAD: It's that or no Andy.
C-VOICE ACCEPTS BLINDFOLD: I don't like this, don't like this at all.
NOMAD ESCORTS C-VOICE TO BLACK BEAMER, BUNDLES C-VOICE INSIDE, BLINDFOLD IS REMOVED AS CAR SPEEDS AWAY.
C-VOICE: Youuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!! ?
VOICE (aka Andy McNab): Yeah, meeeee!!!
C-VOICE: OK, signed book will do, and you can let me out at Elephant & Castle, and I promise I won't tell anyone that you're nothing like Nick Stone.
VOICE: Let you out. No way. Give it a few days and you'll be just another statistic in a long line of dead characters.
C-VOICE: You can't, you wouldn't, you're not Nick Stone, you can't just keep leaving bodies lying around.
VOICE: Enjoy the ride, it's what you wanted, and I can only write in first person and that means personal experience and I can't keep killing off wives and girlfriends, I get confused with all that emotional crap, and can't write sex scenes neither.
C-VOICE: Don't you have sex with them, then?
VOICE: Yeah, like having a big bag of sweeties init, and when you've had every mix in the shop what you supposed to do then, start your own Top100 bestselling ex's flavour list.
C-VOICE: Got an idea. Why don't you become celibate and live a reclusive lifestyle and say you need space to think and to write. It's all the rage these days, and that way you can make out sex is no big deal for you.
VOICE: You mean women won't expect a big deal, and I needn't ever have to write about sex to keep my books in the bestseller lists?
C-VOICE: Yeah, now let me out of here.
VOICE: No. If I follow your advice, won't I come across as a big wuss to all those men out there who read my books?
C-VOICE: Nah, you'll come across as a man in need of a woman and sales of your books will soar.
VOICE: How come?
C-VOICE: 'Cos most women always think they, and they alone can change a man, and that you haven't met the right one yet, and they're the right one.
VOICE: Will it work?
C-VOICE: It'll work. Trust me. Now let me out of here.
VOICE: No, it's not working, is it?
C-VOICE: It won't work on me, it was my idea.
VOICE: Oh right. CAR STOPS.
C-VOICE WATCHES BLACK BEAMER DISAPPEAR, BIG SMILE ON FACE.
>>By buddy (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 00:43)
Hi all
I'm new on Flork and after reading some messages, wondering if I've done the right thing! lol...
Watched SAS Survival Secrets last night on BBC2...was fab...love it..especially Mac's moustache. Should have a show of it's own.
>>By TabariGoddess (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 14:04)
Welcome TG, not that I'm a spokesman for the AM board, but seems like everyone else is laden down with too much turkey!! (didn't have any , nor yucky xmas pud) Will be doing the New Year big style, ha ha, tossing the Haggis....
Your coming here makes for three of us from similar folds - C & A Psc's
No chance of 'androcentrism' on this board, but loads of campus scuttlebut to mull over offboard for P's. You'll be well up on Misattribution paradigm, right, and will enjoy getting to know all the enthusiastic booky adventurers who've signed up for F-Troop during 2003. Quirky lot, granted, and it won't be long before they'll have you wondering how you previously survived without them.
Forewarned is forearmed ;)
>>By buddy (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 17:03)
Re SAS Survival BBC2
Never mind the moustache, what about the hair-piece!
>>By buddy (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 17:07)
Hi TabariGoddess, don't let the message fool you. We are really much worse than that :o)
So the final curtain for your pantomime Buddy? Sorry, but my English is too crappy to understand it all... I do think Alice (aka Lynn) is involved in some blow (away) job???
I did like the one were you saying "Cos most women always think they, and they alone can change a man"
Hehe, could Moses split the sea??? (As in: it took a miracle)
>>By Lynn (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 17:12)
Yo TG, and welcome (not that I'm the spokesman either). Pity I can't see any of that SAS survival stuff over here, so I can't help you with that.
But have you read any SAS books yet..?
Yo Buddy,...well I wasn't interested and looking for any sex-scene in DW, (I allready know there ain't none, and frankly don't think there the type of books to ave them), compris? Et alors ! Cherchez La femme!
>>By borisette (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 19:37)
Hi Tabby, and welcome!
It's usually a lot more activity in here, but I suppose you'd have to blame those old Romans who said to themselves 2004 years ago: "Ah, crap! This sucks! Let's go and show that guy claiming to be the One a thing or two about crusifixes!"
Oh wait.... perhaps that's Easter?
Anyway - give the regulars a couple of minutes to digest the turkey and things'll be running as normal shortly.
>>By ortlieb (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 19:58)
Some dumb things :
"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman." —Arnold Schwarzenegger, during the California recall campaign
"As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know." —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
>>By borisette (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 20:40)
"I triple guarantee you. There are no American infidels in Baghdad." —Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (AKA "Baghdad Bob")
>>By borisette (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 21:04)
Don't know about the rest of NATO, but things here in the US don't get back to "normal" until next Monday. Which probably explains the lack of recent comment from AIB, Dare, and some of the other Yanks.
Orty - I love your explanation of Xmas. That kind of irreverent religous humor is always a bit dicey, but count me as a fan and fellow practitioner. I have been on the receiving end of some fairly cold looks whenever I refer to the MASSIVE Baptist church around the corner as the "Jesus Dome".
Hi to TG as well. What led you to this board? Are you a fan of Andy's? Which of his books have you read?
The Sean Bean version of Bravo 20 is coming up in my Netflix queue. I'm going to assume that some of you have seen it, but I haven't seen any reviews in prior pages. Any opinions?
>>By Astroboy (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 21:20)
Astroboy: well here in Little Italy we're all working, ya know what they say......time is money, ... and here they don't waste time at all.
About B20 and Sean Bean, don't know, just read that the quality is quite poor and a bit disappointing. But whom am I to criticise, I haven't even seen it.
>>By borisette (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 23:11)
How you look at it.
An Army grunt stands in the rain with a 35lb. ruck on his back, 15lb. weapon in his hands, after having marched 12 miles, and says, "This is shit".
An airborne infantryman stands in the rain with a 45lb. ruck on his back, weapon in hand, after having marched 18 miles, and says with a smile, "This is good shit".
A Ranger lies in the mud, 55lb. ruck on his back, weapon in hand, after swimming 10 miles to shore, crawling through a swamp and marching 25 miles at night past enemy positions, says with a grin, "This really is good shit".
A Special Forces trooper, up to his nose in the stinking, bug-infested mud of a swamp with a 65lb. ruck on his back, weapons in both hands, after having jumped from an aircraft at high altitude, into the ocean, swimming 12 miles to shore, killing several alligators to enter the swamp, then crawling 30 miles through the brush to assault an enemy camp, says, "I love this shit".
A Blackhawk pilot sits in an easy chair in his air conditioned, carpeted, quarters and says, "The cable's out! What kind of shit is this???"
***Ok, Ok, I'm off to bed now won't bother you guys anymore with my silly jokes***
(there's just no sense of humour anymore)
>>By borisette (Monday, 29 Dec 2003 23:58)
OOOH WELL, I pwomise this is the last one.........
A marine company making a road march passed a small hill where a Green Beret trooper on the top of the hill yelled down "You Jarheads are a bunch of sissies"
The company Captain sent Sgt.Rock the toughest man in the outfit to shut him up. When Sgt.Rock got to the top of the hill he and the Green Beret disappeared behind the crest of the hill. Dust arose from the back of the hill then the Green Beret reappeared and yelled, "You Jarheads are still sissies."
The captain then got three of the toughest men in the outfit and told them to go up there and "Take care of that guy." They then disappeared behind the hill more dust appeared and again here came the SF Trooper and he yelled down"Is that the best you can do?"
The Captain said "That's it send up a squad." Again dust arose but this time a marine appeared and yelled out "Captain don't send any more people up here it's an ambush, there's two of them Green Berets up here"
>>By borisette (Tuesday, 30 Dec 2003 00:01)
Hi to all and thanks v much for the warm welcome!
I too managed to avoid turkey like the plague, thankfully...and avoid most of my family in the process. There must be a god.
So what led me to this board???...mmm...now that's a philosophical question! LOL.. To answer the question though, I guess it was via a search on google to find more info on the SAS programmes with Eddie Stone and Mac in. ...a couple of characters indeedy!! Sunday nights are without dullness now for me..sigh..
I am a real fan of Andy McNab and have read Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action. Have bought most of his books which have then been promptly swiped by visiting male relatives and not returned...they'll get theirs..gggrrrrrr!!! Always been fascinated by special forces since I was a little kid, and have never grown out of it.
Can't wait for the next SAS Are You Tough Enough series which is coming soon I understand. Can't wait to see those whiners get an earful from Eddie!!
Thanks again for the welcome all!
>>By TabariGoddess (Tuesday, 30 Dec 2003 02:00)
Some Brits abroad can sound so innocently naive, and given that this board is technically floating in International Space, it's no wonder then that Americans snigger up heir sleeves everytime they see "I am a real FAN of whoever."
I can still vividly remember two American airman watching Brit TV in the village of Fairford, back when it was a much more important US airbase and Upper Heyford was still active as the main US airbase on UK soil (post Greenham Common). What they were watching was a "seasonal" (loose term for BBC reshowing of ancient re-repeat programmes) and it was a Fanny Craddock cookabout including her poor abused husband.
Not only was she called Fanny, but the pre-programme introduction mentioned old fans of her cookery series. Well, needless to say the Americans fell about in hoots of laughter, some almost tearful as they kept repeating "Arse face, who thought that one up" or words to that effect. Which is quite funny if you've ever witnessed a FC cookabout.
To be honest, they were a nice bunch of guys, but you know, when you stop and think about it, I reckon who ever set up the first American Fan Club dedicated to an American star was taking the goddamned piss... not only out of the star but the ****, too. I've long understood the meaning of the American colloquialism: Arsewipers -bastardisation of Asswipers.
Oooooh Lynn, I've yet to meet a Hollander that doesn't speak/write/understand English to the max. You's a true grey girl... ;)
Tabari Goddess: Lost your Andy McNab books to male relatives. Wow, it's the women who venture in to my place and head for the gold embossed Andy McNab corner - the men avoid it like the plague after a sneak preview when they think nobody is watching.
Whiners in SAS Are You Tough Enough? SHEEESH TRAITOR!!! :)
It was a girl what won it last time...
>>By buddy (Tuesday, 30 Dec 2003 11:13)
Sometimes the simplest things cause a laugh, or not as may be the case for those made a laughing stock:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/
sm_845945.html?menu=
news.weirdworld.badtaste
>>By buddy (Tuesday, 30 Dec 2003 11:42)
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