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I wish!

Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I met dastoor on the street and he said something about the puking in the flowerbeds comment above and so I can only guess he's refraining from posting for some reason (over-pallyness? who knows) or other reasons.

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Just to remind anyone that steve and I shall be runnin' tings down at the Double-T pub Quiz tomorrow....

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"james joyce round"?!

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

.....there is a question on James Joyce. perhaps....

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

How far is it from Manchester to Glasgow? Would the unsuspecting visitor benefit more from a sojourn to Edinburgh or to Glasgow, or indeed to Dundee?

Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, pub quiz! Where?

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

the doublet, on park rd. off gt. western road, behind the hogs head...

best bar in glasgow!

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No it isn't (I used to live about a hundred yards from it, and it's full of scary people). I think we should try this, but I bet none of the others want to...

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

the doublet's not scary at all! i thought it was scary at first, but once you're in their always unfailingly pleasant to everyone. (except overly noisey young people. and quite rightly).

and the bar staff call me lovely there. like, as my name.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I may have been an overly noisy young person though...

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

..their always unfailingly pleasant to everyone what?

I will be on holiday again. Sorry.

Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

ailsa, I'll be there.

mary: glasgow!

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

well, it was only really one group of noisey young freshers who came in, and were asked to keep it down, and left uppily.

i was drinking in the afternoon once with a few friends, and the bar man came close to telling us off for neglecting our studies. ach it's brilliant and (until tomorrow, i dare say) the best pub quiz...

xpost

they're alway unfailingly pleasant...

my apologies...

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck's sake, cook, you're only just back off your holidays...

(is there, like, prizes, btw?)

ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard your quiz is 'pretentious'.

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

£25 in drink vouchers for the winner, £15 for second....

xpost

who told you my quiz was pretentious? nobody's seen it but me and the Steve "The Vancouver Hoover" Cole...

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been playing football.

I hurt myself. would you like to see my bum?

cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

ahhhh, so that's who told you...

i don't think its particularly pretentious. his questions more than mine.

in fact, one of the questions is to accurately represent the decline of the working classes through mime and/or dance.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree with cozen.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

How is Dundee?

Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone want to see Dani Siciliano at Cottiers on Saturday?

N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

oooooooh. I'm in! I won't go.

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry - Sunday, not Saturday.

Quite a weekend of Glasgow live music, potentially

Friday - Sons & Daughters (OK, again)
Saturday - Multiplies or Wu-Tang Clan
Sunday - Dani Siciliano

Don't be a wuss, cozen.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

s&d - never seen. are they OK?
multiplies - mebbe.
siciliano - I'm down.

are you pub quizzing tonight, N.?

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I am preparing my wu moves.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

(ie. yes, OK)

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

don't be a wu, N..

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Siciliano is £12 but yeah, I think I'm down.

Sons & Daughters are great if you don't hate guitar bands entirely. I noticed on your musicmobs page that THE STROKES are by far you're top-played artist, so I guess you don't. It's at Sleazy's and only two quid, so why don't give a whirl?

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate doing that and I hate that I hate doing it even more.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

you and your crazy capitals. I feel misrepresented by my musicmobs page, bah -. (that strokes 'phase' ws post-break-up hysteria, see.) £12 is a bit steep, hm. I think I'm down though. I need to find a career first. multiplies played the other night too; I'm a bit wary. they sound like devo?

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post, ach shut up.

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah.

They were pretty amazing at Bunker the other night. Maybe Devo is the comparison I was looking for. I mean, I don't really know Devo, but I thought they must sound like something.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops - have got my days in a twist. Friday is Multiplies and Saturday is Sons & Daughters. I think I was thinking of Friday's child being loving and giving.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

who is down for the pub quiz, then? cathy, ailsa, N., me?

cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard that exotic Carey was coming too.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that our own Carey is not exotic in her own way, but she doesn't have to cross oceans to reach us)

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(not that she's crossed oceans just to reach us)

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry I'm missing all of this. There's never a good week to go away, it seems. Go see Multplies and Sons and Daughters. They're the best two bands in Glasgow, perhaps.

Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Apart from the old guard, are there even any other contenders?

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

pro forma, although they rarely play out these days.

lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oops. except for saturday night, when they're playing with sons and daughters!

lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurrah (I don't know them).

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

and i'm not angry that i can't be there to see them, not at all.

lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

What time is this quiz, again? I need to rest first.


How far is it from Manchester to Glasgow? Would the unsuspecting visitor benefit more from a sojourn to Edinburgh or to Glasgow, or indeed to Dundee?

It's about three hours on the train. Through the Lake District - pretty. Edinburgh would take you longer, as it's on the East coast, but it's a WORLD HERITAGE SITE or something very pretty blah blah. Dundee? No, I don't think so. If I were you I'd want to go up to the Highland around Torridon or something. It's stunning, and not packed with people like the Lake District is. The English aristocracy got rid of them all har har. Talking of which, Sutherland is maybe my favourite county of all, but it's not as dramatic and is kind of spooky. It appeals to something deep in my psyche. But maybe you're not into the countryside.

N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Sutherland is my middle name (blame the Aristocrats getting rid of everyone from there for that...) but i don't think i've ever been. also there not cold counties in scotland, though i can't remember what they're actually called...

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I prefer Sunderland to Sutherland, but thanks for the advice.

What kind of stuff is there to do in Glasgow?

Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/image001e.jpg

Sitting on buckets?

El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Oor wullie (your wullie, ma wullie, abodie's wullie (hee! hee!)) from Glasgow? dundonian cunts are always claiming that he's fae there.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just hazarding a guess, I have no idea.

El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link


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