Conference back40::soapbox

knob off Saad you big puff, or I'll send the Newcastle supporters
over there!  (if I can get them out the pub, that is)

Chris.

Is this the UK Football Clubs note?

    Take it to the star trek note...

eh?  No bleedin appreciation of footy, these foreign types.

Chris.

    Maccam's the lot of yers.

    haad yer gob, yerbuggermar

aye, bugger off ya geet puff.

Chris.

    Hey, isn't Geordie that guy on Star Trek who wears half an automotive
    air filter over his eyes?

Yeah, but Geordie is also a variant of George, not just the collective
name for the football hooligans that live on Tyneside.

Chris.

    Newcastle has been listed in the top ten party cities of the world. I 
    kid you not. I believe Amsterdam holds top ranking. 
    
    Barry. 

>    Newcastle has been listed in the top ten party cities of the world. I 
>    kid you not. I believe Amsterdam holds top ranking. 
    
I heard it was the 8th most popular city in the world for tourists.
Obviously I'm biased in favour of the place, but that amazed even
me.

Chris.

    
    Probably because of Lord Percy getting all that exposure on Blackadder II.

    re .11 - shut-up you smelly northerner !!

>    re .11 - shut-up you smelly northerner !!

knob off you malignant southern poove.

Chris.

    How far up the party scale is Reading?
    
    - 10 on a scale of 100 I would guess.
    
    Though I do agree with Amsterdam being tops. It`s probably the only
    place outside of Reading I would consider living. 
    

    Doesn't reading already have the distinction of being the benchmark
    for "average" when it comes to UK towns?

    The vast majority of people write Reading off as being a dull comuter
    town. But they are wrong! Places like Basingstoke and Bracknell are
    dull comuter towns.
    
    In fact,(and I swear this isn`t a lie),my Dad used to work with people
    from Dallas,Paris,Canada er,a other places and they didn`t want to move
    back to their places of origin. `Cos they saw the light and realised
    Reading was in fact a great place to live.
    
    Am I talking crap or what?
    
    

    .17
    
    Codswallop.

    
      Well, for '95, my vacation bucks have waddled off.  But suppose
     I could fly to Reading, in my typical Hawaian shirt, camera around
     neck.  What would an American tourist gawk at in Reading ?
    
      bb

>What would an American tourist gawk at in Reading ?
    
the crap football team.

Chris.

    
    They would gawp at Reading Gaol, where Oscar Wilde wrote his ballad and
    Stacey Keach did his 3 months soft time for dope smuggling.
    
    Then walk down the canal to the ruins of Reading Abbey, destroyed
    during the dissolution of the monasteries but Henry VIII.  A plaque
    there indicates that the earliest known instance of written music was
    at the Abbey.
    
    Thence to Mapledurham, a picturesque setting on the river with a
    working mill,  fine church and country house.
    
    Catch a ferry down the river to Henley-On-Thames, home of the regatta.
    See the homes of the rich & famous and lunch at the Bull.
    
    Visit the Roman walled town of Calleva, to the Soutch of Reading,
    noting the Church that dates from the 900s.  Eat at the Red Lion in
    Silchester on the way home.
    
    Rent a boat and spend a day navigating the Thames or better still, the
    Kennet and Avon canal.
    
    Walk the ridgeway path, a ancient trackway and ley line that runs 76
    miles across the high chalk.   Or rent a four wheeler and drive through
    mud puddles of African proportions.
    
    Take in the small but interesting museum and art gallery. 
    
    Eat a good curry.
    
    
    
     
    
    
    

    > Reading Gaol, where Oscar Wilde wrote his ballad 
    
    actually, Oscar wrote De Profundis in gaol - but the Ballad of Reading
    Gaol wasn't written until after he'd left prison, if memory serves.
    
    DougO

        Re Mapledurham,
        
        Take a look at the (working) water-mill there - used as the set
        for part of the movie "The Eagle has Landed"
        
        Andy

  >    Well, for '95, my vacation bucks have waddled off.  But suppose
  >    I could fly to Reading, in my typical Hawaian shirt, camera around
  >    neck.  What would an American tourist gawk at in Reading ?
    
    If you're planning to dress like that, I'd say you'll be spending quite
    a lot of time gawking at the pavement after being beaten up by a few
    skinheads. You wouldn't have the camera long either.
    
    good job I'm not a PR bod for the home town. Well, it isn't really like
    that. That's only at football games.

    Mapledurham is very nice. I used to cycle up there when I was a lad. I
    remember a couple of tourist type people stopping me and saying "gee,
    don`t you think this is the most fantastic countryside? Aren`t you
    lucky to live round here?" etc,etc. I didn`t have a clue what they
    were going on about. Still don`t really.
    
    
    

I actually saw a note in soc.culture.celtic the other day asking about Geordie 
culture.  Bizarre.

Chris.

    
    
    I used to work for a Geordie, and I thought Sid the Sexist was fiction
    until I met him.    Even more bizarre !!
    
    
    Conrad
    (Southern Celt)
    
    

    Do they still do Viz then?

>    Do they still do Viz then?

they certainly do, although I have yet to buy the last issue due to being 
skint.

Chris.

>    I used to work for a Geordie, and I thought Sid the Sexist was fiction
>    until I met him.    Even more bizarre !!
    
nah, we're all like that.  Even the women.

Chris.

    
    
    
    Well I haven't been home for 6 months, but one of the guys in the
    group went home last sept and picked up a copy, I didn't notice the date
    though.
    
    
    Conrad

    Viz isn`t funny like it used to be.
    
    A bit like myself,really.
    

    
    	Except, of course, that Viz was funny at one time.
    

    Oh,I dunno.
    
    I thought I was quite hilarious under the guise of "Joe Strummer".
    
    A raving nutter,in fact. 
    

    Yes, that would be an accurate description.