listening to a mate on the wireless and he's been all dead and everything :-(
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listening to a mate on the wireless and he's been all dead and everything :-(
Is he communicating from beyond, c?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
A wee radio special on his anniversary :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Songs are one thing but the interview is altogether weird
Makes you think, dunnit. There he was, being interviewed, all alive and everything, with thoughts and ideas and beliefs and words and fears and hopes and all that. Next minute, dead, and NONE OF IT MATTERED.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
It's a waste of time being alive and we all might as well be dead, that's my considered view.
Exactly.Burn the candle at both ends.Eat dead beastie in lard,drink like a swine and smoke like a chimberleyQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:music:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
"So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves, and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
It seems so unfair
I want to cry"
That's right. You've turned into Morrissey. :hehe:
I prefer Beckett, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams for an instant, then it's night once more."
"Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forceps."
Does one 'put on' forceps? :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The Venerable Bede described life as equivalent to a sparrow flying into a mead hall from the night, being bathed in warmth and light for a brief period and then flying back out into darkness.
Cheery lot, yer Anglo-Saxons.
Only I hear the stones lament them:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us,
high they builded us;
but they are gone. They are gone.
The Hobbit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
This lad, I think. Is he a hobbit, was he in that book? I lost track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120916035151
One of the grown up ones I think - I'm having it for my epitaph c.
He's an elf you blithering arse r!Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Oh? Well he looks like a girl, that's for certain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
According to Tolkein he is between 500 and 2,000 years old.I do believe old JRR was on the gearQuote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
. . . . . . . .
Well quite r. If I ever found myself in gaol for an extended period and had to consider talking my pleasure in the 'back of beyond' so to speak, I would prefer someone that at least looked like a girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Mr Kennedy?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Mad that it's a year since.
:old:
Unfortunately Sir C is now a non-smoking, teetotal vegan who wants to live until there is absolutely no reason to be alive at all. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Unless one fears the pit of eternal damnation, of course. Luckily, that's made up.
:nod: Haven't had a drink since Sunday - and not a drop will touch my lips until Friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
68 days since I enjoyed a fag.
Haven't had a cigarette in more than two months.
I am in the pub, where I have spotted this fellow, whose look I greatly admire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
He is about 4’11”, btw.
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Are you sure it's a chap? You wouldn't want to misgender someone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I wasn’t sure at first due to the tits and the Joan Armatrading hairdo, but he’s definitely a geezer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
that's the very fellaQuote:
Originally Posted by SWv2