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<points anyone wanting to know how we got here to [www.jasperfforde.com] >

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2007 09:50PM by SkidMarks.

<looks for vaulenteers to join in a Strip the Willow in a welcome to the new tree house thread ceilidh!>

<Vaulenteers, but is not sure what he has just done>

<Volunteers to help in any way he can>

<Hopes it involves Alyson Hannigan>

<Watches Skids guarantee himself an complete absence of pie for at least a month. Wonders if that means Warwick Davies is out. Realises this means no Marvin the paranoid android and cheers up considerably.>

<prefers the Warwick Davis Marvin to the David Learner costume>

<prefers the look of the radio version to either film or tv versions>

<throws picture of Tony Head towards mrs. SkidMarks, thus distracting her from Hannigan shennanigans and ensuring no disruption to pie supply>

(Edited to change Patrick Head (race car designer) to Tony Head (actor) at request of mrs. SkidMarks)



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<arrives to install himself as resident Evil Villain>

<prepares to create dramatic conflict>

<wonders why "Revenge of the Squirrels" contains no squirrels as yet>

<decides to correct that>

<chuckles Evilly in true Evil Villain form>

<waits for two more peeps to join us for a Strip the Willow>

<Remembers to tell Daffy and Kitten they have vaulenteered too!>

<Quickly raids the obligatory ceilidh buffet table, ooh the food is sooo yummy!>

<wants to know what Strip the Willow is>

<inventories all possible jokes to make now>

<is paralyzed by indecision>

<decides to take the initiative since will not be posting for two days since the weekend hath rolled 'round>

<wonders who will be the willow>

<draws a comic>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<Tries to find green skirt. realised only actually owns black clothing ... >

<wonders why we are starting a new one since a full page will take the same amount of time to load anyway>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<doesn't know, but was asked a while ago to keep threads to about 12 pages max to help those on dial up connections.>

<wonders if it is an index sub-index thing>

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

<Is incabalbe of evening saying vaulen... vaul... va...>

<Would like to vaul... join in the fun, but only after knowing more>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

<directs attention to [en.wikipedia.org] >

<thinks this is a very clinical description that captures none of the fun, also would like to offer the substitution of English Barn Dance to Ceilidh dance, only cos I have only ever done it at ceilidhs>

<Adds to description - the principal aim of the dance is to see how fast you and your partner can spin - i.e. who falls first, also get to spin unsuspecting participants>

<fantastic work out, hope everyone enjoys themselves, if there are enough for an Orkadian Strip the Willow!>

<confesses that When he was in a Morris side.... >

<waits for laughter to die down>

<after twenty minutes decides to continue anyway>

<continues to explain that the Morris men would occasionally push an extra man into a set stripping the willow causing havoc!>

<Adds disclaimer that this was at ceiledhs/barn dances where most people were reasonably experienced dancers. Considers that it would be unfair to do it to novices, who are perfectly capable of getting themselves into all sorts of mess without help.>

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2007 10:59AM by SkidMarks.

<through the tears of laughter, (I find Morris dancing highly amusing!), thinks Skids ought to try out this intriguing idea!>

<points out that this is not an idea: we did it! - and were asked to leave Cecil Sharpe House>

Ever try the stick and bucket dance? :P

(heehee, hankies and bells and everything was it?)

<reminisces about Morris dancing with hankies, bells and very stout sticks>

<remembers how strange it was that when the side "invited" a member of the audience to join in, it was usually the gobbiest heckler and it always seemed to be a stick dance>

<assumes that this tradition still continues, having not been in a side for over 25 years>