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Fine research Matron, and he seems to have left the chat area for a venture that I hope pays off for him – seems rather fair at a pound a shot but he does have that premium service. Maybe he has Kathy doing his books (tax)….so presumably the Mersey thing .like a lot of small forums has bitten the dust.
Nathan thank you for that and yes I looked over the thread and Slippy (salsabil) has a version of the past I will be correcting – but Slippy if you read this please wish Christian well and hope that his replacing the peaches on the beaches on the Costa is still better replaced by the more mundane early morning rain rattaty tat rattaty tat.
Drone I replied exhaustively to you and Nathan on my lost posting but although I am a lover of conspiracy – Pilsen’referencing me, which my cursory check failed to evidence can more logically be explained by my surprise inclusion in this year’s poster of the year comp. Drone some of yourself and Wit’s contributions are sometimes seen as the fifth dimension in here but please keep pushing that envelope – intensity and variety adds to make a house froth at the rafters.Nathan I did take several months sabbatical on here but it might interest you to know that months turned into years only because I was denied access.My password was rejected and a message came up that I was not a registered member and strangely, was denied a route to change it – and trying to re-register came up with the message that the name gamble was taken. I could have come in as something else but problems would have ensued, and I did wonder and had just a small suspicion that maybe someone took the view to bar me due to my past reputation of mayhem in my shadow’s following makeup.
I do hope New Years are going well for you all – My delay, if a delay is possible in the lounge was not planned but I try to write when in the mood and that was missing. I am forced ro write now on my titchy mobile – because my laptop is for the dungheap ( where did he go ?) – oh well it’s less inspiring but ‘does job’as they say up north !
Quite a few have had log in problems over the years gamble, I think the server switch over or whatever it was caused a few ripples
The mobile is a nightmare for typing barring text messages
You also have to deal with any of those predictive changes to words
I haven’t bothered to post on here via mobile for years
good luck with it, would give me a right headache it wouldI had to laff at the bet-unfair forum, all those threads bumped up from Ricky with my username on there ‘Snaith’ it won’t let me reply for some reason, possible due to absences over there, not sure. Ricky certainly likes to report the death of TRF each year, but here we all are, still posting away.
I have to admit to having a dip in interest on the horses, I still watch the big races and keep up to date with the news of it all but if it wasn’t for the competitions on here I’d have even less interest. Over the long haul I lose more than I win on the horses which adds to the dip.I’ve had a few more fingers in different pies over the last year, I’ve built upon what I started and things are moving in the right direction, it’s bloody hard work as a lone father and two jobs on the go but it will be worth it if I can keep it progressing.
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Well Nathan you have always been very open about yourself – and well me just as much as you -but I had the benefit of anonymity. My sex and age have been state secrets and Glenn who I met twice in bankbroke – and both times he nicely drunk me under the the table -always refused to divulvge the exact size of my breast measurements and if those two bev sisters came between us and whether he was drinking in a real bar or a bra bra. I never got down south to M…to see him – so many things undone and so many things unsaid.
I had no idea you are a single father and yes that’s tough, and demanding. You can call me John or Jane on my agony pole – and Sky described me as having a resplendent glowing mane – leaving all three possibilities – but we wont go there dinner soon. You have an awful lot on your plate, so my advice as I gyrate around this bloody pole like a monkey IS ….pace yourself, and make do as best you can, and time should be kind to you and it’s a case of getting through. Yes writing on this godamned awful mobile just won’t do.. but it’s where I am at sadly. The letters are so small I need 2/3 attempts to get my password right and just now had to wait 30 minutes locked out. …hmmm.. eating cold chicken and brussels sprouts in a jiffy- the dog’s having spinach soup – and my leftovers always look like that and I sometimes pass down the olive oil and call him popeye.Nothing to beat your deaf Jon exposes of old Nathan, and sorry the union is rare these days. Pass on my very best wishes – I almost feel I know him – so real were those narratives of yours and often backed up by piccys of him in the real world !!!! THATS REAL TECH AND I WANT IT
Cubone (Don Butler)tried it on here for a while, but found the pace too slow, and after a thread that turned into a sort of Q & A and some minor later input he left.
Thank you for your endorsements Slippy but to correct you there, or maybe it was a typo, but I was never banned from Betfair – Andrew Black who I corresponded with now and then ( rarely actually ) would never have allowed it. I was banned on here and at a time when Daylight was kept up at night by a new baby. Would be around fifteen years ago…. someone had technically hijacked TRF and kept it off the airwaves and down for 3 days. I suggested as a new poster it was me ( a leg pull actually ) but in his sleep deprived state Daylight took me tonmy word and I was dispatched. I can remember the jist of the damning post of mine back then ..that I had come to change things and one line in particular ” My mouth far larger than the Sargasso sea….. ” Anyway Slippy kindly coaxed me back in and well … yes I did change things bringing the page views from chit chat up by their bootstraps to near and then surpass the sacred horseracing views. Daylight’s counter measure was to split the whole shebang into several topics and shove the vastly popular lounge in the least accessible place – unlike Kermit – at the bottom of the stairs and we all went green.
I was a bit of handful in those days of merry old yore yore, but yes, enjoyed all the heavy energy and craic enormously. We were all pioneers back then dipping our toes in a new medium, making history – now its all been there, seen it done it – bring out the old hat !!!The last Noel – and I may be burnt toast as far as the majority of people’s memory or inerest is largely concerned – but my tree in the corner with the small multi coloured lights is still burning bright and is challenging the last official day of Xmas.
Good King Whenishislast
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Well it never is !and I wish it could be Xmas every daay
( shut up Ron )When the crow laid out dazed
at the roundabout
deep and crisp and steamin
All night barked the dog that night
because the cat was cru-el
Then an old man came in tight
Whose for crow ?
It’s The old man’s RULES
Dear Santa,
1. Please can you make Ginge believe in something, anything even the sock he ties to the end of his bed on Reindeers Eve, or that shower over Cheltenham ( the one in his bath) or believe in the fifth…. ( Tchaikovsky’s symphomy but preferably the dimension)
2. Can you breathe life into the lounge so that its comfortable for the flies to crawl up the walls again and be watched again….
no rootin tootin mind
and
days of silence but
after the retreat is
over and all has come to a stopThat sound…
the most beatiful sound
I have ever heard
MARIANO not that- no stop
mucking aboutJust stop
that sound
the ever so faint sound
you can barely hearof a pun
drop
Even Santa would struggle with those two
although I’m sure ginger has a belief in his ability to beat the booksCharles Darwin to conquer the World
Drone my dear fellow – thank you for suggesting that the posts recorded do not reoresent me – there was a reconfiguration and I lost thousands. The long haired Grasshopoer lost all his record and started again at nuk points. I think Grasshopper recorded two seconds in poster of the year behind the prolific Davies. ( My memory and sorry Grass if I am wrong) – you always wanted to be the anti -hero and your contributions rarely failed to hit the nail desoite often going against the grain.
Funny you mention Deaf Jon, Gamble
I had a postcard arrive yesterday
it’s normally the food he moans about but this time the entertainment is awful
I also know when Jon is happy it’s when he is moaning
‘badly organised’ is his favourite phase
I like to go along with him and look for badly organised stuff when I get out and about, I always report it back to him and then we get it’s all down to ‘bad management’
so now I look out for that too….
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Hitler was arguably a greater orator than Churchill – apart from the great man’s ‘never surrender speech which was a motivator’s dream – the word battle between the two giants was close – but no cigar – and I hand this to the ” brilliant” but deluded Adolf. Bboth had commitment, both had flaws, but Hitler touched and manipulated the common man’s sensibilities with a commoner’s harp – he pulled the same yolk in the same fields – Churchill rode a horse !
Deaf Jon has similar Churcillian charisma but has only ever declared a state of war on organisational chaos.
Nathan I did find the postcard a throwback to a Narnia era, and a very nice personal touch – far more personal than Mein Kampf which was brutal and soul emptying, but Jon had a far better front cover and no intention to annex the landscape.
The Collector was a book that had gruesome followers and motivated more than one serial killer. Fred Dineage lives in the South of this island. He uses his voice to describe such deviants who snuff out life for depraved self interest.
I was once at a party with Fred a long time ago- He was there with his son and it was Fireworks night and there was this private Guy Fawks display – Catherine Wheels,bangers,Roman candles and rockets – but tame, particularly in decibels, compared with the Blitz.
Outside on the drive was a Rolls and a Maserati – inside the wheeling nouveax rich – Me – I was there an accident of opportunity.
Fred sat in one corner with his young son both bored out if their heads. I sat in another corner alone bored, but watching an ice cube slowly dissappear in a drink. I wanted to go over and have a chat – well, I thought we had a commonality – we were both outsiders and both inside but bored.
Why did we never come together ? I rather resented his icon status and me back then, well I was a nobody. I was knee high to a grasshopper and sociability – Fred despite his sticvlike legs had the HOW factor and was a predator and hence as his victim I never spoke and we never uttered the word Hallo let alone HOW which he would have recoiled at !Well Fred if you are reading this, and who knows – Hallo and HOW
Johnny deaf
had two best friends,
I can’t remember the name of the 1st one but he lived in a caravan. I met him twice, the first time was when myself and Jon were off to Exeter races but the closer we got the heavy the rain was coming down and we decided to abandon the idea and visited Jon’s friend in the caravan who lived down that way. He made me a cup of tea in one of those bone china cups, it was bloody hot, deliberate I guess in case I asked for a re-fill. I’m sure he said he was a United fan and laughed at my team. Who’s laughing now ..!! The second time was when on the way to the Antiques with Father, deaf Jon and my Son we picked him up on the way, took him ages to get out of the caravan, perhaps he was drinking hot one. Jon and him went about their business at the antiques leaving myself, father and Alex to make do with our own company. I think Jon’s friend felt like he was above us but it didn’t bother me as I noticed he was flying low and his shirt was hanging out of the gap.His other best friend is a man called Fred, possibly not HOW but with my luck I wouldn’t bet on it. I never met Fred, he passed away, sometime last year. Jon always said that Fred was up himself and full of his self importance’s or something like that. I can’t think he’d be as bad as the other friend but Jon was running Fred down. He said the 3 of them went on holiday to Benidorm, I’ve recycled the postcard. Anyway they took a Taxi into town and got out of it with Fred wearing a stetson hat. Some bloke shouted over ‘Look it’s JR’ the chap off Dallas. Everyone around were p!ssing themselves with laughter and Fred never wore that hat again.
I’ll have to ask Jon the name of his friend when I see him next…
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Alex seems to think the chap we took to the antiques was called Fred
and that the stetson hat wearer’s name was Brian …..
I’ll possibly see Jon on Saturday so will get that confirmedCharles Darwin to conquer the World
‘Brian’s’ gone then hmmm.. which leaves Jon with a yet to be confirmed Fred as his sole remaining friend, and a necessary trip to a possibly remote caravan when racing is deluged for a cup of scalding tea to make sure the bond survives.
There is a certain romance to the idea of caravans, particularly tbe manure driven ones.
The closest I got to that style of living was a weekend in an ectrically heated gazebo with some friends on land earmarked for building. I have a natural fondness for birds and the shotgun incident was unfortunate and my belated apologies to any surviving relatives of the old actor Jack Warner.
I do think foxy Fred, if I may be so cruel, and I am sure he will be confirmed as the four wheeled dweller, was spot on about bone china being the right receptacle for any fine ceylon blend of the stronger breakfast variety.
His clever artful dodge, or more correctly described – artifice, involving the serving of scalding tea to avoid the time consuming, unnecessary and costly gesture of pouring a second cup – was so much more tactful and delicate, than twisting the neck round, making direct eye contact, and saying in a deep, imperative tone “Isn’t it about time you were GOING “?
( shut up Ron )
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