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Fair play – that’s a pretty good answer, Tank.
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gamble, I never said that I didn’t understand that, but most on here don’t. A lot of the new lads just think you’re writing gibberish
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Tank and gamble about to handbag eachother..
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Nathan, you’re a good lad but far from being the sharpest tack in the box. I’m trying to help gamble.
I get that but
gamble is hardly going to change now is he
doesn’t need a sharp tack to work that one outBlackbeard to conquer the World
People can always change – remember the badger on betfair – he only ever wrote one word… usually ‘ safe ‘
You certainly were sailing on full sail and in the open sea with your inspired opening to this thread Ship.
Back in 2013 early 2014 I suggested thread of the year and post of the year. The former was sensibly taken up. I much enjoyed your opener for its brilliance and the energy it created, but simpler posts can also win, and I keep going back to, this one by ‘Nathan is the news.’
“Used to read the dandy and the beano as a kid when mother used to take us for a haircut
I once got nearly all the way home reading one until mother noticed and marched us back to the hairdressers to hand it back..
”The old discipline at play would certainly please gamble and its just such a simple post, but it does it for me also, and so wonderfully as it conjures up the past and how things used to be and the simplicity and order of life back then deep into the last century when choice was so limited but nonetheless lived to the full.
The racing section is notably for the serious minded. I feel that tradition might be eroded sometimes on a lazy Sunday, but not as much as yesterday and with the wholesale hijacking of threads. Yesterday was an aberrant exception as Lennon would have similarly shouted.
As for twitter, well Glen once encouraged me to try it, but I’m a very ‘umble person who knows his place to be in the back alleys and little waterways where you can splash about unnoticed and without the crowds and turbulence of that big mad world – where I would probably lose my head.
I have edited the above to correct the balance. Posts can be highly regarded under the informative factual, opinion, banner.
I was writing above on energy and charm. Both Ship’s and Nathan’s win in these separate categories – simple as that.
Thank you gamble,
that day would have ended with the wooden spoon
I quietly enjoyed itBlackbeard to conquer the World
The comic post had an old Mother Hubbard quality about it. It still begs the question of whether you were handy with the dandy or a little Gambino with the beano. You probably don’t remember but as a detective I was immensely curious.
It would have been the Beano
Haircuts were done from oldest to youngest I was middle child and there were two hairdressers so it wouldn’t have matter if we went up singularly or if both chairs were open as my older brother would have always grabbed the dandy no matter what.
I don’t think I would have had the guts to have waited for him to put it down when leaving to pick it up. Much more likely the slip up a sleeve job to what I was already holding.Blackbeard to conquer the World
I would have bet on that same result Beano by default. I was also a Dandyman.
I do think if there were four Denis’s and you taking part in an ID parade to nail the perp of a large comic theft in Taunton town – no witness could have told any of you apart.
( Denis = Denis the Menace – for the younger crowd and those sometimes short of a shilling like the middle young Tank)
** As an added curiosity it was one Mason Gamble that played the 5 and a half year old tearaway in the 1933 film which also starred Walther Matthau.
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