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I have decided to decline exposing myself at this stage – my head is still not right.
Zorro you took my words of upset slightly too seriously – but no matter I thoroughly enjoyed your bovine benificence. I was to have skipped the dream and offered three written pieces this evening; two about and detailing myself and one other. One would have interestingly been false.
 When I am re-energized in the distant future I may return to complete the task. You Zorro are more pragmatic than I – a more well rounded individual, but we two do indeed have similarities in our tendency to stretch out on a non-conformist limb. The turtle is marshallian, and yes has stretched my patience in various ways of late, but he/she is a find, a treasure.
  There is some unhappiness in me which you Z picked up on, and it is a complicated mixture of life events and missed opportunity. I firmly believe I share this in common with most, but I am a joyous person too and am prone to breathe in life’s offerings so deeply I sometimes feel to burst.  I am all done and May the 3rd – a welcome double banger* will be a very different day. I leave you all with a thought.
  If the one billion sheep that inhabit this spinning ball :spin: of mind-popping possibility were to stand hoof to hoof and take up arms against the six billion two-legged monkeys, who indeed would win ?
The wooly ones are all saints who wouldn’t hurt a fly, and armed with slendour tongues that lick mother nature in the long grasses to bring a mona lisa smile.
 That is easy to answer, but a more difficult one would be who should win ?
 I advise you all to take up arms and don the fleece, baaaa the lamb of God.
flatcapgamble..that’ll be about it then
* a public holiday ÂÂÂ
(Edited by gamble at 11:33 pm on May 2, 2004)
I am now fully recovered from the chianti and yesterday excess, but felt an hour earlier not to post tonight and to tamely shake my tail and leave. I do appreciate this thread is now worn out and to divert it directionally, strains once more my touchy relationship with the White Knight, but hey this wont take long and I am a gambler, and one above all – who occasionally allows others the last laugh
…the enigma that is gamble :puke:
flatcapgamble….Oi
And are you fond of the works of Dr Seuss ?
<br>  Never heard of him, but have since learned he is an american centenarian and famous for getting children to read :laugh: It’s all bull, Bull
O’Flaherty is not a modern read and I remove the word vulgar for myself
 Zorro parries then thrusts with a tickler under the belt
Zorro, I have a hangover from purgatory this afternoon, but must say your nicely crafted posting, has eased the pain. A kind heart seems to flow through it and I thank you. Above that heart however rests a mind that harbours within its broad breadth a sharp clever chisel, and I must use care. I finished a canvas last night and celebrated by cracking open two bottles of chianti. My choice of wine may not surprise you, but I got some specially in after the lambs, as I sort of live my strange words.
you seem to be a brilliant man ? but an unhappy one
I will leave the first quetion mark for later, but unhappy ? Yes indeed I am, restricted so in this mortal coil to change things, and boxed next to the Thames. Every few seconds of my life I enjoy internal laughter though. My mindwork has brought me cherry blossom in winter and heavy thick snow when the fan blows cooling air. I am disturbed by the shortness of life that still stretches long before me and the frailties of the monkey men that rule our planet.
 I write in long intensive bursts of two or three weeks. This burst is drying up, but I intend, White Knight permitting, to bring you a final curtain that will surprise and hopefully entrtain.
  I am a vulgar person and have read little. I own books but but never read them. Orwell, Graham Greene, but none of the modernists, O’Flaherty and so. I may well move to Oxford on your recommend. I love fine buildings and the occasional punt.
flatcapgamble…da boss lists some errata
 Turtle your shell was full of chianti last night and I saw a two headed monster.
 The word grandmaster was poached from an article, I write with loaded gun.
 I will write next of a dream and then three postings to expose and blow the lid of the enigma that is gamble.
p.s. I will not write tomorrow
:shhh: Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
  Dear God, in three billion years<br>   there’s nothing left<br>   what we gonna do ?
It is 3.20 am and I se no sight of Davies<br> The man is not a machine after all<br> I believe he is re-charging his battery.<br> Zorro – I am no ogre<br> Turtle you are <br> God bless America<br>
Chapter V111
The detective seemed to have shrunk. His complexion had gone lined and blotchy, and there was a dazed look in his eyes that stabbed the Saint with a twinge of pity.
<br>flatcapgamble….that’s Charteris for you, a black label writer.
Zorro, you seem to have an unusually unhealthy interest in my mental health and it is finally beginning to bug me.
The below may bore and is for Zorro’s eyes only
I believe to some extent in serendipity. Today after backing the winner of the guineas, I journeyed with a full pocket to a ramshackle house where I keep part of my scattered possessions. Incidentally, I was very dissapointed to be met by the sight of a garden taken root – gone big fruit cake, with a privet almost as unruly as your bad manners. Kicking open the door I was greeted by an ugly cubic yard of recycled tree consisting of letters, gratis local rags, flyers and freebies. Yuk,yuk, leave me be
 I was thinking of your somewhat indolent advice – don’t know why – when I stepped into the front room. I had piles of unopened books stacked up in crates, largely I repeat unopened and uninvestigated and there it stared at me full of surprise. What? ….Serendipity.
  An old paperback I had picked up a long time ago in a job lot – never looked at it.
The Saint  v. Scotland Yard by Leslie Charteris.
On the back cover a clue…The Scorpion meets the Saint and regrets it. My mind turned to you. The price was printed – 3 shillings and the first publishing date of 1932, and above a disclaimer..
  the villains in this book are entirely imaginary<br>     and have no relation to any living person
 The book opened naturally at page 130 and therein I spotted a small calendar from 1983 with some red flowers pictured on the front, possibly poppies or tulips ? It opened up to display the months and on the back cover this..
  Veux et souhaits de Nouvel An<br>     de l’imprimerie h. lapersonne <br>     11, avenue jules-ferry 78500 sartrouville..tel (3) 913-07-68
 I was curious and investigated this page 130 – interestingly enough chapter 1 of part 3. The chapter was entitled ‘The melancholy journey of Mr, Teal.’
 I collect old detectives, but have never read Charteris much, thinking him a bit duff… anyway the chapter interestingly started so, and contained the serendipity…
 Now there was a day when the saint was quite mad.<br>   Ofcourse, one might with considerable justification say that he always had been mad (crikey)<br>,anyway, so that the metamorphosis suggested by that first sentence would be difficult for the first observer to discover, Patricia Holm said so, quite definately; and the saint only smiled.
 That is the answer I thought, albeit wrapped up in a difficult mouthfull.
The Grandmaster, on this occasion beefy will just smile :angry:  at your mask.
flatcapgamble… Anybody who read the above check your hands for unusual hairgrowth and abnormality<br> ÂÂÂ
(Edited by gamble at 9:06 pm on May 1, 2004)
Quote: from Ian Davies on 2:30 am on May 1, 2004[br]Gamble,
I think it’s less to do with business<br>
Fair enough :) Yes the names are sometimes quite interesting, and some have numbers attached.
When I first heard of Zorro I didn’t think much of the name. I have grown to like it – sort of grown on me, and I now think its a cracker. It has an aura of mystery and excitment about it, and I suppose that’s why he chose it. The name gave a lot of enrgy to this thread.
Baaaa. You feel an animal by your left side would diminish your weight of argument. I do understand if it is slightly a business decision.
Most of the people slightly in the public eye; yourself, apracing, Zorro, all wear no clothes.
flatcapgamble…I see Razeen’s TV career went up in smoke :biggrin: The man occasionally writes about the horse, but let’s be honest, he’s a typical lounge lizard
(Edited by gamble at 2:32 am on May 1, 2004)
That is not such a ridiculous question. Since I got fleeced my whole behaviour has changed – something a mere name like yours Ian Davies could never appreciate.
I have a much more gentle nature since the change, and when I walk the pavements I do imagine myself as a sheep. Seriously this is so – however not always. I have also grown to love sheep with more than just a fond eye.
 Tooting just the other day was telling me his feelings about the pig, and how it had changed him. If you had the courage, to put back and lay at the back of your mind for a day or so and try it you would change too. you could be a pig.
(Edited by gamble at 2:00 am on May 1, 2004)
