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Time: Saturday 8th December, 3 until whenever.

Venue: The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London. Ground Floor.

Agenda: FUN AND GAMES in the afternoon! THE ILE AWARDS in the evening!

You Must Bring: an ILE award! An award-of-awards for the best one. These should be very CHEAP!

Food: We will be going to the LAHORE once the awards have got given out.

Sounds: um...the Betsey has a jukebox.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New answers and suggestions for GAMES!

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SPLASH!

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TELL ME

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can you still buy TELL ME in the SHOPS?

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know. You TELL ME.

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

truth or dare jenga . or trival pursuit

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could bring my Buffy Top Trumps cards as long as they do not get any MORE beer spilt on them. Also I think me and Mark S will be the only ones to play. We shouldn't play If I Was Swindon. Unless we are That Drunk.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last call for Nuclear Missiles Top Trumps.

― Nick, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Round the Table Soup is a great game Tom and appropriate given the wintry season. It also requires no cards or other paraphernalia.

Charades is another good Xmassy game. So long as no one does Jaws.

― Emma, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jaws-only charades is good.

I don't like round-the-table soup because I am so bad at it.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You limeys are daft, what is this soup gaqme of which you speak ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Soup and cheese is an even better game (if there is an odd number of people). The group gathers in a circle and the first names a Heinz Variety of Soup. Next person names a cheese. Then back to soup. This continues until the individual runs out of soups or cheeses, cannot name one and is out.

There is a joker you can play if you run out, bit you are only allowed it once. You make a soup or cheese up and when challenged you go "Yes, it is real, I had it for dinner last night".

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heavens above Pete you have been indulging yourself, whenever I have played it has been EITHER soup OR cheese but never both together. I disapprove as both together is too easy.

― Emma, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But cheese is better than soup and who could rob us of the opportunity for a pleased and satisfied GRIN at the mention of a particularly fine mature SOMERSET CHEDDAR [insert x cheese of choice]?

HA I laff at the advert for Cheddar when FRANCE hacks their website arf arf.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hrumph, only london people involved in the awards. sounds like nepotism to me. fine go on and have fun without me, I'll just watch more TVSN

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I change my vote for best thread to "Nuclear Weapons Top Trumps"?

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WONKEY DONKEY!

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Starry - go here.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wonky Donkey is finished and complet-o: that is why Ant and Dec are retiring from CD-UK, only one ep after the End-Times were announced.. It has been proved by science there are no more komikal adjiective-animal rhymes.

Quietly and without fuss, the stars were going out…

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But can you confirm that top Gull recording artistes Typically Tropical have been booked for the event?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And where are the transporter platforms so that folks like Dan and myself and the Dunedin bunch and Anthony and all that can beam in for the celebrations? I ASK YOU.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Typically Tropical said they'd bring some but I've not heard a peep out of them since.

― Tom, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i had to cancel the chucklebrothers. but they were fine with that and followed it up with a round of "to me, to you, to me, to you" so all's well.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But the question remains: can you confirm that top Splash recording artistes Jigsaw have been booked for the event?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And while we're at it, I see no mention of top Triumph recording artiste Michael Cox vis-a-vis attendance of this event.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And HOWDAHELL can you hope to have a proper Xmas party without top Incus recording artistes Tea Time?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's today! Hooray!

― DG, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

uuurgh, i am all hung over from office party yesterday! how'm i gonna do this??

― katie, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

c'mon katie yr meant to be rock & roll now ;) but no dancing for you, we don't want a reoccurance of last week's exploding leg now do we...

― carsmilesteve, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nickie will be attending in my absence. We are more or less the same.

― Nick, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It must be horrible for the person who has to go home half way through to post the sexy results for the rest of us to drool over.

― Ronan, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

keep up ronan, graham can post live video- streaming results-as-announced, from a bus, a tram, a bicycle, a pub, down a sewer, even on the end of a skewer etc

― mark s, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On the end of a skewer eh? now THATS sexy. people will pay to see that.

― Ronan, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

With great regret, after much soul-searching, penny-counting, and staring at transport timetables, the final straw was discovering that buses out of here have been cancelled due to a fair to commemorate our church being ripped apart by a Cavalier own goal 400 years ago (not much to celebrate? oo aarrrr loife moves slow raaaand ere moi luvverrrs an' andzums), and while paying forty quid for the taxi home from civilisation was slightly more than I felt happy paying when I'm broke, am going to have to spend much money next year, and I haven't bought any Christmas presents yet, paying for a taxi both ways was, I felt, probably unjustifiable. Sigh. When's ILE's birthday?

I HATE THIS TOWN. Any Royalists reading: if you feel like doing anything right then at least blow the WHOLE DAMN THING up next time. Thanks. xxx

Oh, and obviously it was an absolutely feeble excuse for a fair, there weren't any stalls or rides or flashing lights or candyfloss vans or anything, just some Sealed Knot types wandering round in uniform not actually doing much, a man dressed as Santa, and some carols. So I got mildly drunk, eyed up the Sealed Knot members in the pub, remembered that they were probably all Levellers and New Model Army fans (but still, buff coats + muskets + feathery hats = rowr!), stared at someone I thought I knew but didn't quite dare to say hello to, bought the NME because I was that bored, and went home again. I then managed to read the NME from cover to cover without actually noticing, so it must have been a long and exciting read. Whee.

I hope you guys had fun, anyway.

― Rebecca, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and I received no streaming skewervision! Did Graham not receive my subscription cheque? *weeps*

― Rebecca, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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