Writing as a `virtual friend` (am I?, I thought I was..) I`m surprised that given I`m running one of the most exclusive motors in the UK, that no one has given me a wave, a flash of the light, honk or even virtual Mars Bar.
Yep, in 3 years only seen 5 others like my noble and exclusive chariot.
Anyway, in the language of youth. Have you ever `clocked` a `virtual friend` from the Forum in what may be our common reality? (formal previous meetings excluded)
You would think there would be little coffee sessions at motorway service areas, perhaps with a smear of grease, Toyota badge, or snigger, or snort, or Mars Bar, concealed in a secret handshake as a way of revealing membership.
Humph was almost in my backyard a few weeks ago..
Regards ;)
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Someone here thought he clocked me but shared it in the confidence of an e-mail. So no name and shame from me !
PS
My plate isn't that personal;
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You could try the 'are you having a midlifecrisis' if you ever get stopped on a midlands motorway. Of course, if it's not me then you'll have some explaining to do :)
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There have been a couple of "meets". Adam (I think) organised one for the Mancunian contingent and another ran darn sarf four or five years ago. The sadly missed GRowler, over here on a visit, also met a few others including HJ at the ACE cafe.
Perhaps we need some sort of a car sticker?
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The car sticker idea was discussed many years ago, seemed a good idea but sort of got lost it in the organising
CBG
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'Humph was in my backyard...'
He gets around, that HB. A few months ago he parked, on my advice here, near where I sometimes park to get my grandnippers out of school, although (smirk) he probably had to pay our Borough's bargain rates for parking rather than being indulged on the double yellows...
Edited by Lud on 25/10/2008 at 15:55
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So true Lud. I probably get quite close to most of the UK contingent from time to time. Some of the Europeans as well occasionally. My plate is a bit personal but you would have to remember my old handle and be a bit of a crossword buff. Or maybe that should be fan...um....innit....randomly.
May I propose a recognition phrase in the spirit of all clandestine meetings ?
" Your warranty may have expired "
to be responded to with......
2 "Yes, but my DMF is still healthy "
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You shouldn't have any problems spotting my reg - it's got 289 in it...
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Perhaps we could all have a nodding trilby on the parcel shelf?
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Re-reading your OP Oily, did you think you had "clocked" me then ?
If you saw a debonair, Clooneyesque, clearly erudite sort of chap nonchalantly rebuffing the advances of the fairer residents of your town with a casual quip, it quite probably wasn't me.......
If, however, you saw a scruffy, downtrodden,............
;-)
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No Hump, But on a quiet day I could have heard your engine ;)
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That Humph gets around a bit...
He was on my front doorstep a couple of weeks ago at the Messe in Koeln. Less than ten miles away.
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Hmmm, intrigued.....anywhere in particular I should give it an extra blip in future ???
Feel free to E-mail me through the Mods if you prefer.........I could tell you a funny story of mistaken identity and intent pertinent to all this.......He who was not in a Jag at Cherwell Valley services knows what I mean.........
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Beginning to make me sound like that guy you had to spot in seaside resorts to win money from a newspaper !!
What was his name ? Nobby or something ?
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Colley Cibber HB, in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock... comes to a sticky end I think at the hands of Pinkie et al...
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Colley Cibber? I don't think he would have made into Brighton Rock or does he have a namesake? "A biography of English actor and playwright Colley Cibber (1671-1757)." Lobby Lud was some chap from a tabloid paper and you got £1 if you spotted him in a holiday resort AND were carrying a copy of the Daily Rubbish/Red Top when you challenged him.
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My memory sometimes plays me false AS, but I think Colley Cibber is the name (in Greene's novel adopted for the purpose, obviously , as I imagine Lobby Lud was in the real world). Evidently newspapers have been doing this for some time. Tabloids didn't start with the Daily Mail and the Dirty Digger.
Lobby Lud was rhyming slang for blood, used by cheap-and-cheerful horror/slasher film makers in the sixties and still used for all I know.
'Fred? Send us another couple of gallons of Lobby after lunch, would you?'
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My 'Knowledge' sometimes plays me false Lud! I defer to your superior erudition! BTW - I understand Erudite is some sort of glue or am I wrong again?
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It was Lobby Lud - do sharpen up!
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>>What was his name ? Nobby or something ?>>
Lobby Lud.
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"that guy you had to spot in seaside resorts to win money from a newspaper !!
What was his name ? Nobby or something ? "
I think you will find that his name was Chalkie White (Andy Capp's mate) and that you could claim 25 quid if you identified him and had a copy of the Mirror -
I was "Chalkie White" one summer - not a bad holiday job I can tell you.
I seem to remember being "The Reveille Rover" at times as well - though the duties of that job are lost in the mists of time!! I do remember doing a lot of driving between different holiday resorts late at night in an assortment of awful vehicles (Commer vans, early Transits and an old Austin truck where the doors sort of came in through the corner/back of the cab, oh, and a Thames Trader)
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Email request sent...
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C`mon hump ;) Cloak it up a bit and stick it on the Forum ;)
....By the way, you were near the M62/M1 interchange.
Hey, If anyone ever wants a coffee at Woolley Edge or Ferry bridge Services...
Edited by oilrag on 25/10/2008 at 17:05
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The only thing I ever do at service areas is have a wee. The price of their coffee and fuel offends my now ex-patriot but nonetheless deeply instilled Scots calvinist genes. As discussed here recently, I seek out the nearest Morriburyos cafe if food is needed and carry my coffee in a Thermos. More than happy to bring an extra cup sometime though.....Aye, ye'll no gang faur wrang wi' a wee flask.....'specially noo it's a wee bit nippit oot there....
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And I guess the Thermos will have a plaid design ?? (of the famous McFlask clan ?)
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No, stainless steel pro job if you please. Matches the fake metal dash trim in my "new" cooldudemobile. Cough....
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Oh to heck with it. It doesn't betray any confidences and might make some smile.
What PU is referring to further up the thread is an instance I told him about. Some will remember that one of his recent hankerings included the new Jag XF ?
Anyway, I was filling my car up at Cherwell Valley services early one morning. The car at the pump in front of mine was a new Jag XF in a very fetching shade of metallic grey. The reg number pretty much spelled "Pugugly" The guy filling it up was a perfectly normal looking 40 something business type. I became convinced it was our very own man.
I thought, hmm, he's kept that quiet but y'know, why not, I suppose. So I start off by catching his eye and sort of winking in a knowing way. Naturally enough, as it subsequently turned out not to be him, the bloke began to look nervous and henceforth avoided my gaze.
Later when we were waiting in the shop to pay he looked quite rattled as I stood behind him inching up the queue. I expect it sort of upset his day........
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And responded to.
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Now I know that Pugugly frequents these parts from time to time, in fact, past postal jollyments reveals that he goes into the same pubs (in Beaumaris) as myself and Mrs Ian.
I have often been sat in the Liverpool Arms looking at the faces wondering if PU is one of them. No, before you ask, I am not obsessed with PU , but I'm sure that I saw him one evening sat in the pub-3 sheets to the wind - wearing a tom o'shanter tilted at a jaunty angle and learing over a local gal.
Or then, I could be wrong.
Ian
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Now if that had been the Sailor's or the Boathouse in Red Wharf Bay !!!!! Been to the Lobster Pot in Church Bay as well - as good as anything that the SMoke has to offer at half the price - if slightly darker !
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Well I drive a big blue Scania artic with red, yellow and white writing all over it. It has PAT in the windscreen and I always wonder if the courteous car driver could be one of my virtual friends from here!
Pat
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Not now we know who you are we won't be........and if I ever get stuck behind you trying to overtake another HGV....well there will be some furious posts on here pda. I can tell you.
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Speaking of "clocking"...........Don't forget !!
Extra hour's kip tonight.....
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Or in my case with 2 young kids, an extra hour with no sleep !
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Same with my dogs - especially the youngster - it'll take them days to adjust to new timings.
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Speaking of "clocking"...........Don't forget !!
Oh! thought you meant all those drivers of youthful supermini's were meant to go out and wind 50k off the clock as they wear so well these days ;)
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Honest Guv it were that Trevor McDonut wot told me to do it.... He said don't forget to put yer clocks back so I nips out wiv me Black and Decker an' done 'em all. Straight up Guv........
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Is you extracting the michael mate?
Corblimeyguvnar
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Just getting my coat.......
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and the tassled Italianesque loafers ?
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Getting cross now. Huff imminent......
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I guess I would be a relatively easy spot - Rover 75 around the A41/M25 to Heathrow with R40 on the plate. No pipe at that time of the day, nor pipe and slippers lol
I do on occasions take the V8 in instead - sticks out a bit it does ;)
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i dont think many people could miss me but rather then waves and flashing it will a beating from people still on the mitsuibushi waiting list i'd be getting :-)
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