my dad just called me from marks & spencer!!!

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just the thought of my dad, in the UK, is WEIRD

background info: he's 58, born and raised in nebraska, wears trucker hats unironically, only eats ground beef, and calls the british "limeys"

i will post more adventures of my dad in the UK later

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

keep us posted mandee

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Is he just visiting?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

why do ppl call the british "limeys" anyway?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

why do ppl call the british "limeys" anyway?

british sailors kept large quantities of limes on board to ward off scurvey.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

so do people ever get scurvy any more?

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha Tom knows someone who got scurvy in college.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

i think i have it right now!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Also because of their great dental work it looks like they like they are usually sucking on limes :(.

― :), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

It's almost impossible to get though!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

You need to have zero vitamin C for an extended period.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Is drinking margaritas and dos equis enough to ward it off?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Actually yes!

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i cant afford to make rent so im not eating very much or very well at the moment and theres always this nagging worry in the back of my head that i might end up with it

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

If he only ever eats ground beef that's a fine recipe for scurvy.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Even subpar amounts of vitamin C will prevent scurvy...you literally have to get NO vitamin C whatsoever.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i am wearing a marks & spencer sweater right now, in america.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

ally- oh okay. im sure my occasional grapefruit vodka will protect me then

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Why do australians call them "pommies"?

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Pommelos for scurvy?

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I miss the Marks & Sparks in Paris.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

maybe my dad will run into the pinefox, somewhere

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 February 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

i got it at the m&s in madrid.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Marks & SPencer vs. Benson & Hedges

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

ah ilx where it only takes 19 minutes before a thread automatically becomes a TS or C/D

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

i dont feel like choosing between those two

nervous, how's your hair lookin today?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

a little dirty but overall not too bad. and i found my headband thingy (after losing it yesterday) so altogether i am having a good head day
which is what i'm holding onto since i have about 5 hours of work to do in the 3.5 hours before the drinking begins

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

(less mature ilxers please do your best to ignore the fact that i said 'good head' in the above post-- my brain isnt processing double entendres very well right now)

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Is your father a thief?

― Codename: Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

is he? i dont think so. he's a stand up guy.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

oh...

'Cause someone stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I got that from this site:

http://www.amazinghumor.com/pickuplines/

A good resource.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

"amazinghumor.com"!

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

amazing!

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

andy: explanations of "pommies"

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

Interesting; I lived in a boarding house in Sydney for a time and the Liverpudlian next to me was called "Pommie Tommy" which is like the rhyming slang described in your reference.

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

mark c calls americans SEPPOS

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

good begad!!!!! DAD BAD!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

i bet nervous'#s hair looks amazingkly untidy in an amazing way!

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

d. latin are you a tad DRUNKY?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Hey Adam, did it hurt?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 February 2006 06:09 (twenty years ago)

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 February 2006 07:05 (twenty years ago)

a couple of students in the uk got scurvy about 8 years ago or so. they has been living on oven chips and white wine.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN, ADAM?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 February 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I thought this thread was about your dad meeting Mark S and Spencer C.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 18 February 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

that would be even better!

what on earth would have to take place for mark s., spencer chow and my dad to hang out? THE END TIMES?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Saturday, 18 February 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

he's a stand up guy.

Your Dad's a comedian?

― C J (C J), Saturday, 18 February 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

what on earth would have to take place for mark s., spencer chow and my dad to hang out?

the best FAP ever?

― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 18 February 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I would pay money to drop in on a conversation between your dad and The Pinefox.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 February 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I imagine he was scouring the racks of M&S for a bottle of this stuff http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/drsoda_1881_144452964

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 19 February 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

probably! i wonder what he got up to yesterday. i should text him and find out.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 19 February 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

What is your dad doing in UK in the first place?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

just CHILLIN'

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Speed skatin'.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 February 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Providing entertainment for the good folks of ILX.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 19 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he will, Amanda.

The question, Cookie, is ... to whom ... would you pay it??

!!!

― the pinefox, Sunday, 19 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

To whomever would arrange it. Or to you, and he. Or to my television subscriber.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 February 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

how about we donate the proceeds to a charity of ally c's choice?

aka the LOSER RESEARCH FOUNDATION?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 19 February 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

update: my dad is at some pub in chelsea watching the daytona 500!!!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

What's that?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazing the Daytona 500 is actually aired in the UK. Props to your Pops, Mandee!

― Gukbe (lokar), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

is that a joke or a real slip?

this thread is funny and so is daddy wright in the UK (& US, even), by the sounds of things!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 February 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

It's true - there's something tremendously endearing about American fathers visiting the UK. I can't quite put my finger on the Why.

Any updates, M?

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Monday, 20 February 2006 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Uh, apart from the Daytona 500 thing, which doesn't count because I've never seen it and don't entirely understand how it works.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Monday, 20 February 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

I had to google "Daytona 500" to find out what it is, at first I thought it was like Beverly Hills 90210 or something. There are few forms of entertainment on this planet that I'd find more stupid than car sports. Bullfighting probably.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 February 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Whilst I know that it's something to do with motorcars, I can't help but picture it as an uber-flash brand of sports uber-shoes.

I suppose I may as well ask Mandee's father about it, seeing as he's over here and all.

― Nicholas Passant (Nicholas Passant), Monday, 20 February 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

daddy wright went to see a musical the other night. he reports that it was "just okay. " - he has also noted that london is "real old"

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 20 February 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

HAHA. He's summed it all up already!

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I live in M & S clothes - literally - I have a house made out of old jeans ho ho.
No, but really I wear nothing but clothes from there - they cater for the..er..larger gentleman. I am currently wearing exclusively M & S including my underwear, socks and slippers...too much info I know...sorry.

And can I just say I am not sitting here in just those...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

M&S William Pear & Butterscotch Lakemead yoghurt. Such a treat.

― Alba, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

they'll be glad of the promotion

― banriquit, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:45 (seventeen years ago)

it's the Lakemead what makes it so tasty

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

what's it mean to "turn tables round" in Marks & Spencer's?

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

Something to do with this guy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Christus_Ravenna_Mosaic.jpg

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

he was more turning tables over, right?

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

what an odd shaped wang he has. no wonder he's embarrassed.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

It's huge tho.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

"right here baby"

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

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