3 things that we did not know about you

digiveg · Post: # 31664Post **digiveg** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:30 am

OK - in response to repeated bludgeoning from Hedgie:

1) I went to California in 1981 for a 2-week holiday, met my wife on day 3, and stayed for 18 years.

2) On our way to live in Manhattan we came to the UK for a 2-week holiday in 1998...and are still here.

3) Can't think of anything else.

Lou8 · Post: # 31731Post **Lou8** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:55 pm

multiveg wrote:
Lou8 wrote: 3) I have recetly passed an astronomy course with the OU.
Ooo well done. My hubby did that course. S28something?

Yeah that's the one. I really enjoyed it. Will start another one next April hopefully.

1) Doing TMA avoidance things such as reading this forum. TMA 05 due 15th September.

Oooh, good luck.

Lou8 · Post: # 31732Post **Lou8** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:56 pm

Shirlz2005 wrote: Aww Lou that's fantastic... BIG congratulations!!!!!!

Thanks Shirley.

Bigsis · Post: # 31757Post **Bigsis** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:58 pm

Stuff you don't know about me (not including Andy and Dave)

1. I was living in Washington DC during 9/11

2. My only claim to fame is that I taught at a school who's pupils included Haile Selassie's great-grandchildren - oh and I was on the Big Breakfast for about 10 seconds once..

3. I once drank a cup of pee having been told it was lemonade. (I was about eight at the time, my brothers were six)

Andy Hamilton · Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:10 pm

Bigsis wrote:Stuff you don't know about me (not including Andy and Dave)

2. My only claim to fame is that I taught at a school who's pupils included Haile Selassie's great-grandchildren - oh and I was on the Big Breakfast for about 10 seconds once..

3. I once drank a cup of pee having been told it was lemonade. (I was about eight at the time, my brothers were six)

I did not know these two as it goes. Hang on a vauge recolection of 3 is coming back to me. I see that you neglect to mention the butter, flour and LP incident a year or so earlier

I don't think you have heard the whole of funky monkey shirley so here you go..... don't tell Dave.

hedgewizard · Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:30 pm

digiveg wrote:OK - in response to repeated bludgeoning from Hedgie:

1) I went to California in 1981 for a 2-week holiday, met my wife on day 3, and stayed for 18 years.

2) On our way to live in Manhattan we came to the UK for a 2-week holiday in 1998...and are still here.

3) Can't think of anything else.

Can't you? Hmmm. A mild one then; Digi and his weebler (metal-detector) found a cufflink dating from (I think) the seventeenth century. More than a year later, and more than a mile away, he found the other one.

Andy Hamilton · Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:36 pm

do you wear them digi?

Millymollymandy · Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:17 am

I like it too! I also like the Sheila's Wheels song. What does that say about my musical taste?

wulf · Post: # 31823Post **wulf** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:57 am

digiveg wrote:1) I went to California in 1981 for a 2-week holiday, met my wife on day 3, and stayed for 18 years.

2) On our way to live in Manhattan we came to the UK for a 2-week holiday in 1998...and are still here.

I bet you're a little bit careful about where you go on holiday now!

Wulf

Camile · Post: # 31860Post **Camile** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:04 am

After having fun reading your posts .. I thought I might give it a go ..

1. I'm being made redundant for the 3rd time here in Ireland in the last 6 years. (Out of 4 companies, last one was doing the same thing but left just after the announcement so doesn't really count, otherwise it would be 4 out of 4).

3. I moved to Ireland for 6 months ... more than 6 years ago.

3. I kiss good night to the goat and sheep when putting them to bed at night. And they seem to enjoy it !

Camile

digiveg · Post: # 31906Post **digiveg** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:07 pm

To Andy:
No - they're rather lovely (silver with whopping great cut quartz 'gems', but alas cufflinks are something I don't (ever, ever) wear. So, they have pride of place in the Digiveg (& Mrs. D'Veg) Retirement Fund Collection instead. But, Mrs wears a love token which dates from 1660-ish. It sitll works. She would be wearing an early medieval brooch as a ring in a necklace into which to slot her glasses, but when she was cleaning it up a bit last week (with Brasso, indoors) she felt extremely faint and was eventually whizzed up to Dorch hospital in an ambulance. She's ok, but doesn't really want to either wear said brooch or smell Brasso, ever again!

So we're stuck with it, I guess. And I found another on Saturday - definitely a 'his'. So we have a 'his' and 'hers', and nobody is wearing either one. Sigh.

To wulf:
Right first time! We tend to go away separately - I spent a month in India in March, which Mrs D'Veg did 2 years ago. If we go away together we now leave the dogs as hostage in a local kennels - so then we HAVE to come home!

To Camile:
Sounds like you have the same problem with, er, 'moving' as we do...and we kiss the dogs goodnight. I bet when we have sheep, chickens, etc we do the same to them! (Just other people in funny clothes, right?).

And, despite Hedgie's voluntary no. 3 for me, here's another bit: For my first 4 years in north California, I lived up in the hills at the end of a 10-mile dirt road with 3 locked gates across it. No running water, no electricity, no just about everthing. Lots of wildlife, no paperwork, wonderful. And - having no other source of income - had to grow pot for a living. Not much, just enough to get by. I don't smoke it now, and don't advocate it - it clouds the mind too much, and I'd rather be (well, a bit more) clear. I'm not proud of it, or ashamed - it's just what everyone was doing at the time. And I was an illegal alien for the same period. And, during my interview for a green card, my lawyer committed perjury and almost got disbarred...

Bigsis · Post: # 31907Post **Bigsis** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:13 pm

I like it too! I also like the Sheila's Wheels song. What does that say about my musical taste?

I don't know what it says MMM but you'd have to say the same about me as well. *sings* For ladies who insure their cars.

Stonehead · Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:33 pm

1. I made money out of writing and performing poetry. True - I even had a regular spot at Club Forefront in London with an improv jazz band for backing. (And then lost the demo tape master!)

2. While climbing at Booroomba Rocks, near Canberra, Australia, I was stemming between the main rock face and a huge slab of rock (200+ tonnes). I'd had no probs with this pitch before but this time, when I pushed with right foot, the slab slid off the main face. (Luckily I swung away from the slab and I was the second so there was no one below me. I still remembered to show "Below", though!) It made a heck of a thump when it hit the ground.

3. I used to hang out with a very famous British film actress, doing very odd things like reading poetry while sitting on a signal gantry above the railway lines at Waterloo Station, having midnight picnics in parks and inviting dossers to join us, car surfing naked around London in the wee hours, etc. And no, we weren't drunk or on drugs. It was just fun.

hedgewizard · Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:56 pm

I almost hate to ask, but what the hell is car surfing? No, wait, I'll look it up...

http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/carsurfing.html

No, tha's just plain wrong!

Stonehead · Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:00 pm

hedgewizard wrote:I almost hate to ask, but what the hell is car surfing? No, wait, I'll look it up...

http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/carsurfing.html

No, tha's just plain wrong!

It only hurts if you fall off!

You want roof racks, climbing boots and gloves for grip, and a driver you can trust. Then just smile for the security cameras...

I did have a video somewhere but I don't think I'll be putting that up here!

PS And don't be like that dude - you can't surf and drive.