Faculty of Pogonology at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

Time for a new specialism, methinks!

yes but can you get a taxi home Maud?

Anyway, London's far too noisy for us these days, we have retired to the country with our Hunters and Barbour jackets .

When I need to, yes - especially as it's such a short journey, unlike to the urban wastelands of ::shudder:: Wormwood Scrubs - but I usually travel by car.

::creating my very own hole in the ozone layer emoticon::

ahhh, The Scrubs, how I remember fondly my short spell inside visit to the area.

Well to a hick Islander like me all London is the height of sophistication and glamour.

Cupcake shops and heart-throbs, that would be a good title for my proposed chick-lit extravaganza. And before you ask, that was a joke.

Hail, Spiro, my fellow insomniac. I used to go to bed around midnight and toss and turn till all hours, but now i trot off about 3 a.m. do a bit of mental writing and hey presto, it's the next morning. If I could only remember what I'd written I'd be the next , well, I was going to say Jilly Cooper but of course it would be nothing that light-weight. perhaps if you crossed her with Mrs Gaskell and threw in a bit of Terry Pratchett...

Are you actually a man, Small? The Scrubs is a male prison or at least it was when I was last there.

or at least it was when I was last there.

Are you a man too, then Maud?
I have heard of a man named Marion, but Maud...???

Let's just say I have done some bird, Massive.

::enigmatic::

Here's one from the family album

Oh, they do look like a bunch of desperate characters nice crowd...

Oh yes. Family is very important to sarf London gangsters around here.

Have we had a celebratory picture of the victorious Firthmeister yet?

Luverly! Well done our Colin!
Maybe we will see another black-shirted gentleman in similar happy circumstances by the time he reaches the Firthmeister's age.

If that is what he wants, that would indeed be splendid. And fewer remarks about the Firthmeister's, ahem, age, if you please.

I don't remember whether I've posted this before. .

Wow! I love the dress, I want one. And a nice snake-hipped tango meister like Clin, too. No, we had not seen that before. Is the rest of the movie any good?

Re the happy circumstances for the other black-shirted gentleman I agree. Not necessarily the same as the Firthmeister's. joy. It should be whatever most floats his boat. He has launched a good few ships, after all

or even Colin. I think I have crumbs in my keyboard, it keeps sticking.

I've never seen that film Maud, is it good? That scene is very watchable. How old is the Firthmeister then? I didn't think he was that old.

No Maud, I am not a man, it was just a mistake

Ah, I thought I might have posted it before. I know nothing about the film, apart from what I've read on Wiki, but as it has the Firthmeister, the marvellous Ms Scott Thomas and jazz age songs I feel an SMFV-fuelled foray to that Great Global River coming on.

And are those crumbs in the keyboard or congealed dribble?

::Passes the anti-bac spray::

Mr Firth is an extremely youthful and boyish 50 years old and is thus in his prime.

Is he 50? I wouldn't have guessed that. 50 is the new 40 I hear.

LOL @ Small's rural pursuits..

And are those crumbs in the keyboard or congealed dribble

Bit of both, probably, I do tend to do a bit of ahem comfort eating, when the strain of watching all the pics and vids gets to me.

Quadruple choc chip muffin, anybody?

I would think there's a possibility that our favourite black-shirted gentleman might be up for a little gold bloke before he reaches 50. Surely Thorin Oakenshield has got Best Actor in a Supporting Role written all over it?

Easy Virtue looks great - will definitely have to have a look at that. Mr Firth did a fine job there (although if I'm honest I can't help but think someone else may have had a little more smoulder...)

When we start the next thread - I was thinking - would it be agood idea to move locations - was thinking of 'Off The Beaten Track' but I think one of our 'drive-bys' of the other night hangs out on there.

What do you reckon - any suggestions, or stay as we are?

I think it's appearing in most active that draws attention rather than location Spiro.

Do we care about drive-bys, anyway? If they don't get what we're about, surely it's their loss. We could work out a standard policy, if you like -- ignore, humour, engage the polite ones etc etc.

We could work out a standard policy...

We'll be starting our own website next (thought hadn't occured to me for a minute )

No - to be honest I couldn't give a flying fishcake about 'drive-bys'. If someone can't see us and the thread for who/what we are - that is indeed their issue - not ours.

Sleb Twaddle it is then - are we agreed on the JP theme for the next one then?