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As the sun is still covert both teams are packed and ready. Borisette has slept well and looks bright, Lynn has slept around well and looks … Well, actually she doesn’t even look.
L (eyes still closed) : “Where’s the van taking us Boris?”
Bo (can’t believe her ears) ” We are taking the Pen-Y-Fan!!!”
L (yawns): “A Penny Van ???”
Bo (impatient now): “NO, we are gonna climb the Pen-Y-Fan!! Wake up !! IT’S CHALLENGE DAY!!”
L (eyes wide open now): “ And DF is coming too??”
Borisette don’t even bother answering, she’s just happy Lynn is awake now.
BABES are looking sharp as ever, CF is looking…eerr.. gold as ever. And BULLIES check gear for the last time.
Lynn (fearfully) whispers to Borisette) “Are you sure about this challenge?? I heard BG is an excellent cliff-hanger.”
Borisette raises one eyebrow and whispers back: “She’s a rock climber! Did you bring all on the list?”
L: “Sure” (doesn’t look sure)
B: “then we stand a good chance. Just try to keep up”
L: (looks around) “is something up???”
Borisette doesn’t answer as DF, stunning as ever appears. Both Bo & L wipe their saliva.
AIB follows right after with an unusual red face.
AIB: “Thanks for the ride Duncie, I could have taken a McNab…but eerr….” (giggles)
DF just answers with a big smile and a wink.
AIB (spreads her arms, in both hands a flag): “All welcome to Day 2: MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE !!!!
All got the 10 essentials?” (all mumble). AIB continues to preach. “There are no armchair hikers here today !
Bailing will not be accepted !! No Batman and Robins – we all work together !!”
L (leans towards Bo and hisses): “What on earth is she saying???”
Bo (leans back and hisses) “Dunno, but let her speak.”
Babes and CR are devoutly listening. DF is listening with a goofy smile.
On the side line public is present to cheer the teams on. We see Pomplemous, Lethe, Swedish Reader, Paul R., Otlieb and a lot of others. Majorette is doing her eeerr.. thing. Nomad is lying on the floor, hiding behind an old fallen tree with a long curtain of Ivy, looking through night-goggles, Dare, in her old army outfit, is standing next to him.
D: Are you mad?
N: You dare !!
D: Yes, I’m Dare, are you Mad?
N: NoMad !
They shake hands. Dare looks into his eyes and thinks: He’s cute! Nomad looks at her army outfit and thinks: He’s cute!
AIB: “Any bootie you find… it could be….to dog a move….drop science...... oh bejesus…..”
Lynn has dozed off again, Bo, B and BG are staring glassy, CR and DF are winking to each other, when all of a sudden they are startled when AIB yells :
“READY TO GO ???”
AIB (she looks from Babes to Bullies): “To get the spirits up, would you like to say something to each other before you all go off? Which reminds me (looks at Traser with McNab background): do hurry, I’m meeting AM in 15 minutes. We’re gonna evaluate last night…eeerrr (blushes)….. last challenge” DF looks disappointed.
BG & B (look at Bullies and yell): “BRIDEZILLAS !!”
Bo (yells back): IGNORANUSES !!
L (yells): LATITUDINARIANS !!
BG, B & Bo all look at Lynn.
Lynn raises her shoulders and looks at her shoes. CR and DF continue their winking.
AIB raises both arms, flags are waving high above her head. All suddenly hear the scream of an eagle and look up. High above an eagle is circling. CR observes : “There must be an Eagles Nest here somewhere”. Borisette & Lynn look at each other and wink. CR and DF finally each join their own girls.
AIB wants to steal her moment and lets the teams wait in tension but then remembers AM is waiting.
The flags come down and AIB yells : GET OFF !!!!
All look at each other but then realise they have to get walking. It doesn’t take long before Babes take a head start with CR as leadman and B & BG staring at his butt. DF who was starting Bo & L up, soon realises that following CR’s example is the only way to set the pace and curses himself for wearing his combat trousers instead of his own copy of CR’s goldies. Soon he finds however that Bo & L have their own preferences and slowly the distance between Babes and Bullies lessens.
Will Babes keep their head position?
Which team will be the first to start singing ‘The hills are alive…….”
What’s the Eagle up to and who’s side is he really on??
Will AIB make it on time to McNab?
And when will Mac pop up?
Find out, nah experience it all, in Part 2 of Mountain challenge.
>>By B.U.L.L.I.E.S (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 13:41)
Hi Majorette!
Welcome to the board. Your Regimental inspiration regarding photographs is quite evident.... ;)
>>By ortlieb (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 17:05)
Well, you know what they say: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
>>By Majorette (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 19:01)
Yeah, at least Majorette uses the classic touch (not like someone with a duck on his head...)!
Hihihihi, hey B.U.L.L.I.E.S., keep it up... er, no, keep on going... nah, well, swell job gArls (and swollen feet later!). :D
I've a question for all: is there something, ANYTHING, that you DON'T like of Mr Andy, or of Nick Stone?
o_O
Hey hey hey, don't flork me of hatred messages & viruses (quite impossible thru Flork!), it's just an idea. I have a couple, mainly dealing with Stone. Better write it in spoiler though, for those who didn't read "Crisis Four" yet! :)
I didn't like it when Nick accused Sarah of being the reason of his divorce; if there's something wrong, it was because of some cracks between themselves from the beginning (Nick and his ex-wife!).
Ok? ;)
>>By Deusrexmachina (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 19:48)
If you don't mind, a short excerpt from Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
You just got to love that Blackadder......
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Narrator: In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London towne, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder -- the kindest and loveliest man in all England.
Ebenezer: [from outside the main door] Humbug! Humbug!
[enters, holding a bag of sweets]
[holds out the bag, in offering] Humbug, Mr Baldrick?
Baldrick: Oh, thank you very much. [takes one]
Ebenezer: Well, I've got all the presents...
Baldrick: ...and I've nearly finished the Christmas cards.
Ebenezer: [taking off his tall hat] Oh, splendid! Let me see...
[opens up a card he has picked up from the desk]
"A Very Messy Christmas." I'm sorry, Mr Baldrick -- shouldn't that be `merry'?
Baldrick: "A Merry Messy Christmas"? All right, but the main thing is that it should be messy -- messy cake; soggy pudding; great big wet kisses under the mistletoe...
Ebenezer: Yes... [going to hang up his coat and scarf] I fear, Mr Baldrick, that the only way you're likely to get a big wet kiss at Christmas -- or, indeed, any other time -- is to make a pass at a water closet.
However, be that as it may... [Baldrick gives him the card again] "A Merry Messy Christmas." `Christmas' as an H in it, Mr Baldrick.
Baldrick: Oh...
Ebenezer: ...and an R. Also an I, and an S. Also T and M and A... ...and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning. Congratulations, Mr Baldrick! Something of a triumph, I think -- you must be the first person ever to spell `Christmas' without getting any of the letters right at all.
>>By ortlieb (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 21:14)
Hey...
Does any1 know when AM will next make an apperence at an online chat...
does any1 have the last online chat so as i can get a read...
ohhh... and i think Deusrexmachina is reading a bit much into the Crisis 4 thing...
>>By Yes-Man (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 21:36)
Not only that book Yes-Man! ;)
:D
>>By Deusrexmachina (Sunday, 11 Jan 2004 22:01)
Deus, how does one do that nifty Spoiler section on this Board? I have a Nick Stone annoyance but I don't want to spoil Remote Control for those who haven't read it yet.
>>By Majorette (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 00:23)
Hey all, it's really nice to see so many people here!
I just want to thank my St Claus for his lovely gift. I'm halfway through (my signed copy of) DW and till now it's the best Nick Stone I've ever read. Thank you so much!
*Borisette: you talked a long time ago about Manipulation and I don't think you got a reply. It's the French translation of Remote Control. And yes, most of AM books are out of stock in France although they're regularly republished.
>>By alice (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 02:15)
Hi Major-Ette! (never mind, it's 6:33 a.m. right now... *yawns*!)
Well, you've to write like this:
< spoiler> [WITHOUT the space between "<" and "spoiler"] to begin, and
</ spoiler> [WITHOUT the space between "<" and "/"] to end.
More details are available in this link:
http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/
text+formatting.html
You'll see plenty of examples there. :)
Who invented Gnooks.com wanted it to remain a simple webpage, so many things I've seen in other forums are omitted, like writing a 50-long text; that link has 53 characters so it has to be reduced. Just copy it in a row in the address bar (erm, "barra degli indirizzi" in Italian... not too awake in remembering the exact translation in English.).
:)
Returning IN-TOPIC, I'll try to say something else tonight... hopefully! :(
Bye, have fun! ;)
>>By Deusrexmachina (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 06:43)
Oooohmiyes, BULLIES and BABES!
But you realize, don't you, that you're seriously(?) compromising AIB's impartiality with all these up-close-and-personal encounters with .... ! hahaha! Do carry on!
Welcome back, Alice!!!
Thanks for clearing up that Remote Control = Manipulation -- "Geez! It's like those French have a different word for everything!"* (*Comedian Steve Martin)
Sheesh, Ortlieb...
Between you and BULLIES vs BABES, I'll have to start buying industrial strength BenGay!
Welcome, Yes-Man...
Truth is, advance notice of anything related to AM is very, very hard to come by. Hopefully though, F Troop has made enough of an impression that we might start getting earlier heads-ups. A copy of the 20 Nov 2003 "This Is London" online chat should be amongst your florked messages.
Hi again, Majorette...
At gnooks.com/discussion/text+formatting.html you can try out the Spoiler feature MG designed especially for us -- :o) -- very covert, very clever!
Uh-oh, Rex...
Did something maybe get lost in Crisis Four's translation? (wouldn't be the first time)
Chapter 6:
Three weeks later, and back with the rest of the team in Pakistan, the cover story of being a couple was now played out for real. ... I'd been married for four years and things hadn't been going well. Now they were in shit state. ...
.....
It was only a month after we'd landed at Heathrow that I left my wife. We were just existing together, and it didn't seem right to be sleeping with her and thinking of Sarah.
Oddly enough, Rex...
Within that same passage of CF is an example of what, for me, makes NS so appealing (vs something/anything I don't like).
... She paused. "Look, the more intimate we were, the more you would protect me, right? Am I right?"
I nodded. She was right. I would probably have died for her.
WOOHOO!
The headline reads: "McNabb leads comeback in overtime thriller"
Philadelphia's football team (yeah, the non-soccer kind of football) won tonight and McNabb is the team's quarterback. Okay, okay...so it's a stretch but it's a kick (pun intended!) seeing that name on the sports jerseys everyone's wearing in Philly right now!
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 07:23)
With guidance from Ryan,
They'll leave B.U.L.L.I.E.S. cryin'
Hey bg someone has faith in us!! Nice one that.
B.U.L.L.I.E.S damn, you can win if I can keep running behind the hotpants!!
>>By Bethan (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 09:39)
Yes-Man
You can pre-order soldier 5 on amazon, and their publishers have assured me that it will definitely be published in the UK in March. Just beware the black hole.....
>>By Bethan (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 09:42)
Hi again i just wanted to know if Mcnab had any more deals like he had promoting that watch company Baby G or Taser? Because he mentions leather man a lot
Ps i orderd the Solider 5 book but havent fallen in any black holes yet.
>>By Psicosis (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 10:45)
There was a young Girl from Madras
Who had the most beautiful Ass
but NOT what YOU think, firm round and pink
But grey with long ears and eats grass.
There ya go Majorette. EEEAWWW.
B.U.L.L.I.E.S and B.A.B.E.S - this is getting confusing, especially the bit
They shake hands. Dare looks into his eyes and thinks: He’s cute! Nomad looks at her army outfit and thinks: He’s cute!
Is dare a he or a she?
>>By Nomad (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 11:25)
What do YOU think Nomad??? I mean, it's YOUR line.. ;o)
>>By Lynn (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 11:48)
It's a bit ambiguous - I look at HER army outfit but I think HE's cute -
This is a stab in the dark and no offence intended to Dare but - maybe I'm looking at a rare SAS hermaphrodite? She did well to infiltrate my special place, my LUP if you like.
So what's happened to the lashes Lynn?
Anyone else fed up about the World darts replacing Eddit Stones final swan song and memoires on SAS Survival Secrets. I was so aggrieved I ripped the toilet from it's footings and threw it out the bathroom window into the garden where it shattered into smithereens.
>>By Nomad (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 12:17)
I sat through 15mins of Darts waiting for SAS Survival Secrets just to be told it would be shown at a later date, hopefully it will be on soon.
Does anyone now is the history channel or the discovery channel ever repeat any of the Bravo two Zero programs as I haven’t seen any yet.
>>By Psicosis (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 12:30)
"...I ripped the toilet from it's footings and threw it out the bathroom window into the garden where it shattered into smithereens."
Uh-oh, Nomad....
So what now? Cling film? :o\
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"Does anyone now is the history channel or the discovery channel ever repeat any of the Bravo two Zero programs..."
Some more than others, Psicosis...
Two programs have been aired more than once on BBC:
Panorama's "Bravo Two Zero: A Question of Betrayal"
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/audiovideo/
programmes/panorama/1802091.stm)
And a documentary version of Michael Asher's "The Real Bravo Two Zero." (don't have any link for this program).
Unfortunately, neither of these programs aired (to my knowledge) here in the US.
There was a program on the History Channel (aired in March 2003), "Bravo Two Zero: Behind Iraqi Lines" which was quite good and featured online chats with AM and CR after it aired twice.
(http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/
_mainsite_flash/index.php?subpage=
chat_live&action=LoadContent)
Search for "Bravo Two Zero" to get to the synopsis and the chat transcripts
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 13:13)
well AIB I guess it's hard routine until the new water closet arrives.
>>By Nomad (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 13:31)
Nomad: " It's a bit ambiguous "
Darn, just a bit?? Have to work harder next time :o)
>>By Lynn (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 13:47)
Don't talk to me about darts, but what about the fat guy's hair. Game on Mr Mullet indeed. Let's hope they don't 'forget' to show it.....
>>By Bethan (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 14:10)
just in from the bookstore, and behold... no 'dark winter', no 'first into action'. but they had 'the real b20', 'shoot to kill' (both by michael asher), ratcliffe's 'eye of the storm' and robin horsfall's 'fighting scared'. didn't really know which one(s) i wanted to read, so i bought them all.
anyone else out there have any experiences with these books? i know 'the real b20' has been discussed here a number of times, so i was wondering about the rest of them...
>>By trident (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 14:17)
Wow, I'm jealous that y'all get so many SAS shows in the UK. I've never seen one over here, even on our BBCAmerica satellite channel! (Of course, we do get tons of CIA, FBI, and other spook shows, so I guess the networks know their audiences...) I'm sure most of the dialogue on this board would make much more sense to me if I had actually SEEN an episode of Survival Secrets of the SAS!
BTW, trident, your little slogan about "the only easy day was yesterday" is also the Navy SEAL motto. Sometimes it's also my motto after a hard day at work, and I come home to find my baby is constipated, the house is a mess, and I have inlaws coming the next day... I would pull an am-i-binned toilet removal myself, except there is nothing worse than a full house and no toilet!
Deus, the thing I don't like about Nick Stone is...
How he lied to Kelly throughout most of Remote Control about her parents' death. I felt generally uncomfortable about it and thought he should have been straight with her from the get-go. I also didn't like the way he was always telling her to take a bath. Would have seemed a little creepy to me, had I not known McNab was the father of a little girl himself and he was just practicing good hygeine. Right?
>>By Majorette (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 14:46)
Oh-no-no-no, please, Majorette!
None of Nomad's toilet removal tactics for me! Hard routine and cling film are okay in my reading but not in my reality, thank you!
Worst part about us not getting the Brit programs, we can't even get taped copies cuz the format is PAL vs our NTSC. Grrrrrrrr!
Hi again, Trident...
eBay is a good source for books. There are four copies of DW listed right now. For me Ratcliffe's EotS is a study in "attitude", and although I've had Asher's TRB20 for a while now, I still haven't read it yet. Borisette recommends First into Action (eBay'd), and Fighting Scared is on my "watch for" list. Others recommends: Close Quarter Battle/Mike Curtis, Sabre Squadron/Cameron Spence, Ghost Force/Ken Connors, Baptism of Fire/Frank Collins, and Freefall/Tom Read.
>>By am-i-binned (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 15:58)
Majorette:
I've just started reading RC (again, thanx AIB! :), and I agree with your point about NS not telling Kelly the truth from the beginning (or at least by chapter 14, which is how far I've read so far). As I know NS is more or less biographically based on AM himself, it's no surprise that he in the beginning delays telling the truth to Kelly because he just wants to get the messy situation out of the way, get rid of Kelly and be off.
I didn't find his habit of getting Kelly to take a bath weird as you did though - regardless of AM being a real-life father or not. I interpreted it as NS trying to his best abilities to exert his paternal skills, both in the sense of maintaining personal hygiene, but also in terms of having one (of many routines) to have Kelly perform so that he
A) Doesn't have to deal with her (I guess becoming a parent just like that takes up a lot of energy)
B) He gets a breathing-space to clear his head and plan his next move
>>By ortlieb (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 16:08)
From the History Channel link AIB posted:
"It is a mission the British Government still refuses to confirm ever happened."
Not very likely ?!
>>By ortlieb (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 16:09)
Majorette - I did the toilet removal not IAB.
SAS SURVIVAL SECRETS is a blow by blow account of the SAS SOP's in action with several ex members (two with blurry faces to protect identity - or because they are so ugly they would break the camera?)) and unblurred dems expert John MAC macaleese of the mexican moustache and flinty eyes school all led by Staff Seargen Eddie Stone - a very hard and grizzled if slightly balding Scot. I love his wry smile.
They took us through various likely scenarios the SAS train for and have regularly carried out ops involving, - setting up covert OP in enemy territory, sniping, doing the whole CQB thang, escape and evasion, surviving interrogation, close protection and body guarding VIPs. LAst night was to be the finale and I was on tenterhooks waiting to follow ES's Selection experiences, memoires and what the regiment look for in candidates.
World Darts with Fatty spoiled my night. Lucky the television didn't follow the toilet outta the windae.
Anyway will be looking out for when it finally is shown.
>>By Nomad (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 17:06)
Gutted about SAS Survival Secrets. I was ready and waiting with my box of maltesars and a bottle of wine... and fecking world darts was on instead. I am emailing the BBC to complain! lol
>>By TabariGoddess (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 17:26)
am-i-binned...
i have either not recieved your message about the "this is london" chat or i dont know how to get it...
ive tried login on and it says i have no new messages...
HELP ME!!!!!!
bethan,,, thanx for the amazon thing...
i'll order one now...
>>By Yes-Man (Monday, 12 Jan 2004 18:40)
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