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To all those waiting for information...

I just spoke to Gareth and Mary as they continue with their mini-tour of the north of England (they did tell me where they were, but I couldn't hear, sorry Mary).

So, there will be FAP-age tomorrow evening (Tuesday Sep 9th). As for places I suguested the Sun and Thirteen Cantons in Soho. It's a Sam Smiths, but I prefer it to some of the others. (Anna in Not Choosing A Bar shocka).

Who's in?

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, if I don't succumb to the dread flu (it's september)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't make it, as I'll be in Southampton on a jolly (aka society of archivists conference). Doesn't sound too fantastic, but I've just been told by my manager to treat it as a bit of R&R, so maybe I won't take my laptop with me after all.

Have a ruinous time!

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i will be there.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun and Thirteen - Great Pultney Street, W1.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Or http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub1613.htm if you prefer.

Have Sam Smiths taken this one over recently Anna? It wasn't Sam's last time I looked. not that that matters.

Not sure I'll be able to come due to possible IRL commitments but I'll make it if I can.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub1613.htm if you prefer.

Have Sam Smiths taken this one over recently Anna? It wasn't Sam's last time I looked. Not that that matters.

Not sure I'll be able to come due to possible IRL commitments but I'll make it if I can.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Resign, me.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

your dreads have flu, ed? [sorry]

count me in :)

fancyapint says it's a fullers, not a sam smiths...

i'm assuming that's the right one anyway.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

anna in not drinking beer so not knowing if it's a sam smiths shockah?!

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Good pub anyway though IIRC.

Why the devil not?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in.

The Sun and 13 Cantos is two minutes from my workplace, meaning I will be sitting there, Skidmore-style, from 5.30. I anticipate a ruinous, disastrous evening.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

will G & M be turning up before 8?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I anticipate polite conversation and gentlemanly behaviour Matt - perhaps the evening might take a Europhilic turn later on, which can only add to a fine night out.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Will they be wearing brown adidas?

I will be there, but probably after seeing a film, as I seem to be having trouble fitting in all the films I want to see at the moment.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fullers = num num, even if the place does describe itself as a brassiere.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

IE full of tits.

Do you work two minutes from every pub in London, Martin? Can you confirm that you're nt actually a paperseller?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of papers, I think it is only good and proper that someone arrives armed with a crossword.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll be buying the grauniad tomorrow (tues = education grauniad) so no worries on that score :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a fool. It's a while since I've been the the Sun and 13, I just remembered I liked it, it was central and non-poncy. (I always confuse it with the John Snow round the corner too).

I will be trying to drink in a sensible fashion, since my memories of the last two FAPs contain long blank periods.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The crossword should preferably be ripped from a free copy of the Daily Mail. Or everyone must find one and bootleg it. They can be graded later on best Questions and best Answers.

Hey, did anything ever happen about the Focus Group at GeetaFAP?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew I am coding it right now! (it and everything else thats going up this evening)

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt I'll try and get there for the same time as you tomorrow, and I'll remember the CDs this time

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got an evening class, but will try to make it around 9-ish. With the Mirror crosswords page! as it is the greatest ever.

― cis (cis), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have to miss ANUTHA FAP as my FAPping days are pretty much over until after my final set of exams in the first week of Dec. (Just in time to defend the ILX Bar Billiards championship??) The course schedule is flipping horrific as is my workload at work right now.

I hope to turn out and see Ned if poss, and maybe if a FAP coincides with my half-term..

Have fun.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know what a canton is? Just out of interest...

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Canton = Swiss county, more or less

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello chums, I will be there too. I'm not hanging around on -line, just looking in.

p.s. RUIN has abated at long last. what a week.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 8 September 2003 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and I must mention that this http://search.msn.com/preview.aspx?&q=cunnalingus (among other things) proves how much FT rocks

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 8 September 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

can't make it to this one.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew, you are addressing me before I've even shown up. It is Matt who works near this one. I work a few minutes from Centrepoint, well known as the centre of London outside HopkinsWorld, so most pubs are near. And I generally knock off at 5. I might even get there before Matt does tomorrow, but maybe not.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bump

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin you are endearingly literalist. Your insistence that UCL must be a proper University because it has University in its name was derided on Saturday and now you dig out the old canard re: Centrepoint.

Oh, yes. I will be along tonight but not for very long because I am bushed, and not in a good way.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Has Martin been pulling out his old canard again?

Sorry I can't make it. I have been delayed in Northern Britain.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

london has no centre: as all know it is a double doughnut with TWO other cities placed concentrically inside it

viz london > city of london > city of westminster

sadly i cannot be there tonight to accept yr plaudits for clarifying the topology of the capital as i am going to an ilx-friend's b'day

mary see you soon i hope

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have indeed mistaken Martin with Matt, and am filled with shame.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand Mark S's topography, the City of London and the City of Westminster are side-by-side, not concentrically within one another.

I did have to consult the map next to me to check this, mind. Unfortunately, I cannot pinpoint the exact positioning of the Fleet Street McDonalds on said map.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(It's more or less opposite the North End of Bouverie St, Matt, but the quicker way to find it is to look right in the middle of the map.)

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(Unless you're using the WRONG MAP of course)

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes the map you're after is of East London Matt.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

haha careless use of word "concentrically" in a claim that [y] has no centre!!

clearly the CoW is "within" the CoL in the sense that an infinitely thin strip of CoW is cast round the entire perimeter of the CoL => thus if you enter the CoW from east, you MUST pass through the CoL (but can never pause IN it at that point)

this is obvious

*goes to consult map*

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Infinitely thin" - har har - shouldn't this be on the Palestine / I mean Geri Halliwell thread..

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Palestine is a little sensitive about it's weight if you don't mind

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm coming to this if I wake up in time!!! I haven't slept in 36 hours or so! I just checked into "The Finsbury Residences," which appear to be mainly a squat lump of concrete just inside the Islington boundary. The man behind the desk there is also squat. He has a face like a red and sweaty onion. Each task he grips with a peculiar kind of perplexed intensity: he handled my cash deposit for the room as if he had never seen money before, laying each note in the cash register as if it might break. He would move from one section of his desk to another--franking receipts or whatever it is he does--with a gravity usually reserved for professional condolence. I was afraid I wouldn't get the room but I did!

I'm kind of scared to meet you guys, actually, what's up with that??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

And is Mary coming or is she in North Cumboria or something, I don't get it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome back to Britain, Tracer! Are you staying in this 'Finsbury Residences' just temporarily? It sounds quite comical.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

will Gareth and Mary actually turn up? let's hope so, but it'll be a great 'Welcome to London, Tracer' FAP if nothing else in addition.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! 'mericans everywhere!!

don't be scared tracer, i'm sure we're not as weird as that new york lot ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer, you're about 5 minutes walk from gareth, mary and I, want to walk down with us?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 90 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

It wasn't even 48 hours

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no -- I forgot Pout and Space NK. I did make it to John Lewis, Topshop, Uniqlo, and Muji though ...

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 11 September 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What the bloody hell were you doing up at 6:21AM you don't get up then?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 11 September 2003 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

My mind was playing tricks on me.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

aw, poor mary's mind :)

SO, Calthorpe Arms tomorrow night then?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 11 September 2003 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm... Ordinary.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of idiot would spend a precious Friday night that they can never have again on the ruin with menkos?

Answer:

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

'RickyT' is also an acceptable answer to that question.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

but tom, that's the same thing we do every friday night...

― Pinky and the Brain (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Try to take over... the pub.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally I'd successfully blocked "the Kahuka" from my memory until now, thanks a lot.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 11 September 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't make tomorrow night so I hope people are up for continuing the ruin into the next night (I'll catch up with you then)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, our offical photographer, what will my lovely hair do?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If people wish I shall bring digicam and chronicle the ruin.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed: please don't.

Pete: Let's ask Toby, his advice is bound to be good.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 11 September 2003 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry, I shall forget and unless I tidy up real good I shan't be able to find my digicam.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what with all the obscuring lumps of unfinished cheese

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i now fear the wrath of Tim for posting a pic of him...but it's okay cos i got mad rhyming skillz

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I cleared those.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Clearing Stevem's rhyming skillz was harsh but at least it leaves the way clear for my wrath to descend upon him mightily.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer I cannot block it from memory, I'm practically married to it :(

I see no reason why you shouldn't suffer too!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

next time i see Tim and Pete at a FAP i would enjoy it very much if they shouted 'damn you papparazzo!' at me every time i unleash the digicam

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Compared to what we have in store for you, anyone would enjoy that.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, that one pic of Tracer and Gareth standing together, they both look very smug, why are they looking so smug? Anna, I just realized I have dyed my hair the same color as you, I am sorry for biting your style but I didn't know.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

they're not smug, that's the G-man's natural expression surely? and Tracer is just being amused by Tom's recital of the entire episode of 'The Ark In Space'

Tim is really scaring me now - what terrible wrath have i yet to receive?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

or Tom could be saying 'gentlemen I give you Gareth!' in a late 19th century philanthropist stylee

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Did that really happen? Because if it didn't I'm gonna make sure it does next time I see Gareth.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

sadly i'm making this all up :(

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna, I made it to Pout and Space NK in Covent Garden (on the backside of my traditional Super Lovers visit). I loved Pout -- it was like a Tinkerbell fantasy of playing with make-up, though more expensive than it appeared, unfortunately.

I wasn't so impressed with Space NK, it seemed more clinical and high style and not all warm and fuzzy like Pout, but maybe that's just because I saw Pout first and had already dropped a pretty penny there on a couple of lip glosses....

Thanks for the recs as always....

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 15 September 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kahuka, but only the upper half:

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/turbonegro/kahuka.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf? he is wearing that t-shirt again!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 18 September 2003 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

He really likes that t-shirt maybe??

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone has to.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at the expression on his face though, is he not adorable? Like a kitten? A kitten in a Good Housekeeping t-shirt?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://bitchcakes.topcities.com/turbonegro/eli.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Makes you just want to pet him, and give him a big bowl of Tummy Yummies.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

He's dreamy!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear God!!! Why does Millar looks so suspicious? He's the one who showed me the goddamn Kahuka in the first place. As far as the second pic goes, I can't believe I forgot to bring my ear cosy to England with me.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 September 2003 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ear cosy! I'll bring it when I go. I like how the girl behind you (M.......e?) is totally ignoring you both.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

She is, sensibly, looking away from the flash.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That flash was mad! Look at the shadowing! Is it art or pain?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 20 September 2003 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

kahuka 40 hands

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

best idea EVER.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Invented (but not yet enacted) in London

All your fun belongs to us.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't it rise to 70 hands?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

possibly, cos we don't have 40s here

70 hands is one big horse.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't think it's a wee bit sad that you have to steal our fun to invent your own? You should have something involving tea, like scalding hot tea should be thrown on Tracer and then you all laugh while he runs around screaming. Actually, I think I'll save that for when next I see him, forget I said it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

We are mearly remixing your fun.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

You should involve a focus group in it somehow perhaps?

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, that was unnecessary.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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