stroppycow
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Magic, thanks!!
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Tragic City Thieves
BUGGER!!!!!! Can they go on later instead of earlier? Or at original time??? I really dont want to miss them but I think I'd be pushing my luck if I left a wedding reception after only an hour.
They're so great they should be topping the bill in any case! Their gig at King Tut's last weekend got brilliant reviews.
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Dammit thats early. I'm going to be in trouble, I can tell.....
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What time will Tragic City Thieves be onstage on Saturday? I have to go to a bloody wedding but am going to leave early so I can see them and need times tonarrange transport back to town!!
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The rather fabulous Robyn Hitchcock will play the Lemon Tree on Friday 9 April.
Very excited about this already!!
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About bloody time they were back where they belong on the date they always play!! Hate Warehouse as a venue and its not the same in October.
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Excellent!
Tragic City Thieves play the Moorings on Saturday 10th April
Thank you! That's cheered up my first day back at work!
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Tragic City Thieves
Tragic City Thieves are FABULOUS!!!!! Saw them at King Tuts a few weeks ago and loved them brilliant presence and a great sound. Would love to see them again.
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Can we have Tragic City Thieves please? I saw them in King Tuts at the weekend and they were fabulous (though not as fabulous as the sex god that is Har Mar Superstar who they were supporting. He kissed me twice. And sucked my lower lip. I nearly wet myself......)
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I started watching Drag Me To Hell on Saturday (my husband has sophisticated movie taste) but have reached an age where old ladies removing their falsers and gumming the chins of young ladies, who are then going to kill a kitten is beyond my tolerance (or stomach strength) so I retired to a different room and read a nice book instead.
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Signed...
...and circulated to half the office and all other likely suspects and easily bullied individuals.
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I came second in the planche? I was fucking bleazin by the time we did that as well!
You were encouraged to continue and work hard by the glass of cider raised helpfully to your lips each time you lifted yourself up.
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dangly bits
Can I pre-emptively remind people not to upload photo's of Teabag's (or anyone elses really) knob please?I'm assuming he got it out again. Had to delete a few pictures of it after last year's contest.
I'll edit them. I will however put them all up on Facebook which doesn't seem to have an anti-nudity policy,unlike Bebo, so all who want to see him in all his glory can see it there!
Fiona
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Mr Moorings - porn shots
Anyone got photos?We have some photos and I'll try to get them to you asap. I think all the competitors did really really well - especially given how freezing it was in the alley!! Great fun again.
Fiona
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Dammit
Bollocks - I'd just about recovered from your ghost stories of a few years ago and now I'm all freaky again. I think I'll revert to teenage years and visit the ladies with a friend or two.
OK,Here are my ghost stories... sure I've posted these before but what the hell?
The ghost turns off the gas cylinders at the valves. You're in the bar yourself, working through the day, no other staff, nobody has access to the gas. Suddenly the beer stops pouring so you go downstairs and there no CO2 pressure, you think this is weird because you only changed the cylinder the day before, so you check and sure enough it's turned off. If was clearly on earlier because the beer was pouring then. This also happens with the mixed gas, but not with the fizzy drinks machine.
It also turns off the gas feeds to individual drinks. All of a sudden the Guinness or whatever will stop pouring and you go down and the keg is full, then you notice the gas pressure to the Guinness is down, and that the valve has been turned off at the cellar buoy. This can happen with pretty much any product,
Pretty much all the full time staff (the ones who change kegs and cylinders) have experienced this at least once, and some of us have had it happen many times. It gets worse when there's building work going on.
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After the bar is shut, you can hear people walking about down in the cellar, this is very common. If you go down there you can hear people walking about upstairs. It's usual to hear the keg cellar door slam shut, a noise we're used to, but a bit creepy if all the bar tenders are upstairs...
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Glasses quite often jump off the shelves. I've seen this happen and it was like the glass was pushed/knocked off.
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Once the duty manager and myself were in cleaning up at around 2am. Nobody else was in the building. Back then the mop bucket used to live behind the bar. It's a sturdy little thing on wheels. I was up at the dance floor sweeping and Dougie was cleaning tables down near the door. We were both sober. There's this rumble rumble noise then a thump, then rumble rumble rumble, then the mop bucket appears at the bar hatch, then a thump and it rolls off the step onto the floor. Then it rumbles a couple of meters forward into the middle of the floor, a good 10 yards away from either of us, and then it tips over onto it's side which should be fucking impossible as it has 4 wheels. It was empty BTW. So this bucket had rolled forward 12 ", negotiated a perfect 90 degree right turn, rolled forward 3 feet, negotiated another perfect 90 degree to to bring in in line with the hatch, rolled neatly through the hatch barely wider than itself, down a step, another couple of meters then fallen onto it's side.
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One evening I was the only person in the bar and finishing up in the cellar. I was in the office which is roughly under table 4/table 5. It was around 2.30 am. Earlier in the week the police had been in with a missing persons form. This woman who was a regular customer of the bar had gone missing and nobody knew where she was. We had to call a number if we saw her. This woman had been drinking in the bar since the 70s.
Anyway I started to get the chills, and feel a thumping in my head. Suddenly this little piece of paper fluttered down from the cellar roof and landed face up on my desk. It was a little B&W passport photo, and old photo of a woman. Now the chills really intensified and I broke out in massive goosebumps. My head was absolutely pounding and it felt like the pressure in the room had intensified. My focus as directed completely at this picture and I was feeling a rising sense of panic. I turned it over and on the back in said "Anne 1976". It was an old photo of the missing woman. I bolted up and out of the cellar, upstairs then out of the bar. I stood outside for 20 minutes to scared to go back in and lock up. Later on we discovered than Anne had died. I don't know the full circumstances.
I've never seen the photo again, but later found a similar one, from the same set, in some old bar documents that I had at home.
That was creepy shit.
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Once I came up from the cellar and a small knife flew past my head. It was a harmless bread knife. I just assumed that someone had hidden after closing and was playing a joke on me - there was nobody there.
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A few weeks back I went downstairs to get my jacket to leave, I heard Amy and Chris should goodnight but Teabags was still upstairs. I could hear him moving about. I did my end of day shit, got my jacket and headed back up. There was no sign of him so I thought he must have gone for a piss or a wank as I could hear noises from the gents. I waited for ages and eventually went into the toilets looking for him. Turned out that he'd left with Chris and Amy. BTW you are all cunts for leaving me alone in there
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I'm competing again. If the beer gutts gotten bigger since last time, then I'm fucked. I'm not sure if I'll be nude though. Perhaps wear a very fetching mini-skirt.
I'll lend you one if you like. And a feather boa for that saucy touch.
Fiona
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Teabags bags
I thought it was Teabags... Last year was a traumatic night for all who attended.It was slightly alarming, especially from my viewpoint on the stage trying to judge the contestants in a professional manner.....
He definitely won on cheers - his 'spreading-the-arse-cheeks' pose will stay with those who saw it for a very long time,......
Sadly his athletic skills were less dynamic.
I might bring surgical gloves for tomorrow's event in case he manages to display any more of his internal organs.
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I'll show you the scars.
I actually think you might be serious. OW!!!!!!8o
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If it's any consolation... the week before we got married the dog bit my nose off. Seriously.
OFF?? Well its nicely reattached if that is the case!
I can't help but suspect you are exaggerating somewhat.....
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Bugger, there goes my artistic license. The original story had everything: drama, excitement, and tragedy. Now that the tragedy is cut, we're just left with a run of the mill ninja combat yarn
Sorry hon! Mind you - I think his eyebrow will still look interesting as far off as May...... I was (and still am) VERY angry about this, and am, in a way, glad I wasn't there as I don't believe my temper would have helped the situation any. The Moorings absolutely does not need total idiots of this type turning up. They have their own skanky little places to hang out and this is exactly why the rest of us don't go to them.
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poor guy indeed
Married next week????? He'd better not be - he's meant to marry me in May (by which time his face will have healed and the dickheaded wankers who did this will hopefully be drowned in the harbour or have contracted a painful and protracted terminal and disfiguring illness.
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ROASTED PARSNIP AND PARMESAN SOUP
Serves 6
450 g parsnips cut into lengths
50g freshly grated parmesan cheese
tbsp olive oil
15 g butter
medium onion finely chopped
1 tbsp plain flour
1.5 litres vegetable stock
salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons double cream
Pre- heat the oven to 200C
Simmer the parsnips in salted water for 3 minutes. Drain well and toss in half the parmesan cheese. Put the olive oil in a roasting pan and heat in the oven for 3-4 minutes. Arrange the parsnips in the roasting pan add the butter and bake for 45 minutes basting frequently. Drain the excess oil into a large saucepan and cook the onion gently without colouring until soft. Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Add the stock, stirring constantly and bring to the boil. Add the parsnips and simmer covered for 10 minutes.
Liquidise the soup with the remaining parmesan cheese until smooth. Stir in the cream, taste for seasoning and reheat.
!!!The Wig Is Back!!!
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Looking forward to seeing a new genesis of an old favourite. I would hope that a nod will be given to the history of the place, especially regarding the name, and that not all ties with the judiciary will be lost? Would be very sad if Tilted Wig became a name only, with no evidence in the bar as to how it got the name.....