The perils of being a UK member

[Ishtar]

The perils of being a UK member of this forum are this:

Because of the time difference, you can only really talk to everyone else when they are:

Grumpy and befuddled because they've just got up.

Too busy to talk because they're at work.

Sozzled because they've been on the red wine all evening.

Thus you have to have enormous patience ... to get any sense out of anyone!

Luckily, I can draw on my experience of working with special needs children.

[Forum Monk]

Move to the US. You know you would rather be here anyway.

[Ishtar]

You've seen straight through me, FM!

[Minimalist]

If you hurry you can get here in time to vote for Obama.

[Ishtar]

If all you guys lived in the same town, I would definitely come.

As it is, the US is enormous and I expect you're all plane rides from one another, and I'd probably end up in some god forsaken, fundamentalist, inbred redneck backwater, like in Deliverance, where I'd very quickly get strung up for my beliefs.

So I'm sorry FM, but I think it would be better for me to stay this side of the pond and just lob over the odd bombshell, from time to time.

[Minimalist]

where I'd very quickly get strung up for my beliefs.

They burn witches.

[Ishtar]

where I'd very quickly get strung up for my beliefs.

They burn witches.

Exactly!

[rich]

Nah - just go to Woodstock or New Paltz - you'll fit right in - and have a blast too.

[War Arrow]

The perils of being a UK member of this forum are this:

Because of the time difference, you can only really talk to everyone else when they are:

Grumpy and befuddled because they've just got up.

Too busy to talk because they're at work.

Sozzled because they've been on the red wine all evening.

Thus you have to have enormous patience ... to get any sense out of anyone!

Luckily, I can draw on my experience of working with special needs children.

If it's any help, Ish - I usually get myself ready for this forum by listening to my Lynryd Skynyrd greatest hits CD.*

*: Jocularity aside, I do actually have this CD.

[Forum Monk]

If it's any help, Ish - I usually get myself ready for this forum by listening to my Lynryd Skynyrd greatest hits CD.*

*: Jocularity aside, I do actually have this CD.

"Sweet Home Alabama"

Cogs is in Cali, I think John and others in Washington, Min in Arizona, Beags in Tennessee and I am here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVi-DXOfnAM (not far from where this songs events occured)

I live very close to where this performer grew up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9dFs0KaXA

ETA: The ohio bible belt is south of me.

[dannan14]

Well we are weighted towards the West coast. Michelle is somewhere in SoCal (sorry Michelle i can't remember which town) and i'm in NorCal. Chico to be exact. There are more in Cali as well, but i'm spacing names atm.

But Ish, if you lived on the coast pretty much anywhere from Monterrey, CA to Portland, OR you'd be more likely to fit in rather than be strung up.

[john]

The perils of being a UK member of this forum are this:

Because of the time difference, you can only really talk to everyone else when they are:

Grumpy and befuddled because they've just got up.

Too busy to talk because they're at work.

Sozzled because they've been on the red wine all evening.

Thus you have to have enormous patience ... to get any sense out of anyone!

Luckily, I can draw on my experience of working with special needs children.

Ishtar -

You're gonna owe me for this one.............

Victoria, British Columbia, on the Southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

A wonderful city. I hop on the ferry from Port Angeles on the US side

And a little more than an hour later, I'm there.

Beautiful harbor basin, ringed by the city proper,

Then well kept residential neighborhoods running upland and outward.

For example, Victoria has a proper tobacconist and pipe shop - yes I

Smoke a pipe -

Superb restaurants, "Matisse", for example, incredible museums, and

Other pleasures which the American side is absolutely,

Permanently blind to.

Vancouver Island is flat out gorgeous.

On the negative side, yes,

There is that slightly decayed effluvium

Typically present in the former jewels of the previous

Colonial crown of the Brit Empire.


So there you go; you got options.


hoka hey


john


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The perils of being a US member of this forum are this:

Because of the time difference, you can only really talk to everyone else when they are:

Grumpy and befuddled because they've just got up.

Too busy to talk because they're at work.

Sozzled because they've been on the red wine all evening.

Thus you have to have enormous patience ... to get any sense out of anyone!

Luckily, I can draw on my experience of working with boatbuilders,

A curious and lunatic bunch.

Last, but not least, GW Bush.


j

[Ishtar]

I wish that I could be ...

I’ve been all around this great big world
And I’ve met all kinds of guys.
But I’d just love to be there in the States
With the greatest guys in the world.

West Coast Mich is hip
I really dig those jeans she wears.
And Cogs and Dan with the way they talk,
They'd knock me out when I’m down there.

The Mid-West Forum Monk could really make me feel so right.
And Westport John with his pipe and verse
Would keep a lady warm at night.

I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be a West American girl

The South-West has the sunshine
And so I could get all tanned,
I’d watch Min doing laps in his warm chlorine pool,
And dream in the desert sands.

I’ve been all around this discussion board,
And I’ve seen all kinds, like Rich.
And Frank, KB and even michaelruggeri,
Rokcet, Paul-Marc and Knuckle Sandwich.

PattyIt’s a great girl, Seeker’s far out man,
Barracuda and Shark are fine fish.
Then there's lovely Leona, and Popelane too,
And even Beags when we're not having tiffs.

I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be a West American girl

See I just can’t choose between you all
So let’s continue to converse.
And at least over here I’ve got War and Dig,
So things could be much worse!

Still ...

I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be
I wish that I could be a West American girl

[War Arrow]

...I’d watch Min doing laps in his warm chlorine pool...

We demand actual footage! If not here, then maybe Min could put something on YouTube?

FM - nice vids, thanks - must admit I'm completely in the dark where CSNY are concerned but that's a fine bit of music. On the subject of that whole Kent State thing - I realise probably nobody on this board can stand them, but I've always been a big fan of DEVO, and according to their collective biography Kent State was what inspired them to form the band. Gerald Casale (guitarist) was a student there when it happened and said the sheer horror of the event made him realise that all was not well with the world - and DEVO was a sort of reaction against that.

[MichelleH]

Well we are weighted towards the West coast. Michelle is somewhere in SoCal (sorry Michelle i can't remember which town) and i'm in NorCal. Chico to be exact. There are more in Cali as well, but i'm spacing names atm.

But Ish, if you lived on the coast pretty much anywhere from Monterrey, CA to Portland, OR you'd be more likely to fit in rather than be strung up.

Dannan - I'm in Huntington Beach aka Surf City USA and in Phoenix, Arizona

Ish....come on over; I'm so close to Los Angeles anything and everything goes here! Can you say Paris Hilton??