"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
FedupLurker wrote:
As usual, no matter the topic you bunch think you're the experts.
Just chuck it down and get on with it.
Nobby Sircom would drink the lot of you under the table.

Typical response of someone with a drink problem. Any alcohol will do.

At last some recognition for my legendary alcoholism! Now maybe I'll get
the respect around here that is long overdue.

I'm a bit puzzled re your silliness about Malts, your high camp indignant
posts to this group always conjured an image of you with a Pina Colada
with a tiny parasol floating with a slice of pineapple wedged on the rim
and you in a mankini?

In article ,
FedupLurker wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
FedupLurker wrote:
As usual, no matter the topic you bunch think you're the experts.
Just chuck it down and get on with it.
Nobby Sircom would drink the lot of you under the table.

Typical response of someone with a drink problem. Any alcohol will do.

At last some recognition for my legendary alcoholism! Now maybe I'll get
the respect around here that is long overdue.

You might get help if you ask nicely.

I'm a bit puzzled re your silliness about Malts, your high camp indignant
posts to this group always conjured an image of you with a Pina Colada
with a tiny parasol floating with a slice of pineapple wedged on the rim
and you in a mankini?

I suppose this make sense to you. But not to me.

Are you some form of drag queen with your reference to 'high camp'?

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In article , FedupLurker
wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article , FedupLurker
wrote:
As usual, no matter the topic you bunch think you're the experts.
Just chuck it down and get on with it. Nobby Sircom would drink the
lot of you under the table.

Typical response of someone with a drink problem. Any alcohol will do.

At last some recognition for my legendary alcoholism! Now maybe I'll get
the respect around here that is long overdue.

I'm a bit puzzled re your silliness about Malts, your high camp
indignant posts to this group always conjured an image of you with a
Pina Colada with a tiny parasol floating with a slice of pineapple
wedged on the rim and you in a mankini?

Oh-er missus! Too much information! 8-]

FWIW I have occasionally drunk Pina Coladas and Mie Ties (if that's how you
spell it!). But only some decades ago when on Hawai'i (the Big Island and
Kaua'i, not O'ahu) and with fresh coconut or pineapple. Seemed appropriate
at the time. I should hasten to add this was only on work trips to Mauna
Kea, though. Gad! It was hell working in astronomy back then. Fortunately
decent drinks were also available since the telescopes I was developing kit
for were run by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. ;-

However I recommend you avoid drinking alcohol if you are going to
altitudes much about 8000 ft... unless in a pressurised cabin, of course.

Slainte,

Jim

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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...

In article , FedupLurker
wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article , FedupLurker
wrote:
As usual, no matter the topic you bunch think you're the experts.
Just chuck it down and get on with it. Nobby Sircom would drink the
lot of you under the table.

Typical response of someone with a drink problem. Any alcohol will do.

At last some recognition for my legendary alcoholism! Now maybe I'll get
the respect around here that is long overdue.

I'm a bit puzzled re your silliness about Malts, your high camp
indignant posts to this group always conjured an image of you with a
Pina Colada with a tiny parasol floating with a slice of pineapple
wedged on the rim and you in a mankini?

Oh-er missus! Too much information! 8-]

FWIW I have occasionally drunk Pina Coladas and Mie Ties (if that's how
you
spell it!). But only some decades ago when on Hawai'i (the Big Island and
Kaua'i, not O'ahu) and with fresh coconut or pineapple. Seemed appropriate
at the time. I should hasten to add this was only on work trips to Mauna
Kea, though.

We seem to have hit on another favourite topic of yours, alcohol! And of
course you are the groups expert no doubt? I always had an image of
you Jim back then as a Watneys Red or Party Seven type?
When you flew the Globe, were you a smuggler?

Gad! It was hell working in astronomy back then. Fortunately
decent drinks were also available since the telescopes I was developing
kit
for were run by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. ;-

Are you implying alcoholism was rife there back then?
As Paul Merton once pointed out, it's a perplexing puzzle as to how
science got to the point we can put a man on the moon but as yet
nobody has put a woman on Patrick Moore.

However I recommend you avoid drinking alcohol if you are going to
altitudes much about 8000 ft... unless in a pressurised cabin, of course.

Is that an inference to my Crack cocaine habit? If so I'll have you know
I am very careful, only new World reds whilst snorting, preferably Chilean
Merlot....


Slainte,

Jim

In article , FedupLurker
wrote:


"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message ...

In article , FedupLurker
wrote:

I'm a bit puzzled re your silliness about Malts, your high camp
indignant posts to this group always conjured an image of you with a
Pina Colada with a tiny parasol floating with a slice of pineapple
wedged on the rim and you in a mankini?

Oh-er missus! Too much information! 8-]

FWIW I have occasionally drunk Pina Coladas and Mie Ties (if that's
how you spell it!). But only some decades ago when on Hawai'i (the
Big Island and Kaua'i, not O'ahu) and with fresh coconut or pineapple.
Seemed appropriate at the time. I should hasten to add this was only
on work trips to Mauna Kea, though.

We seem to have hit on another favourite topic of yours, alcohol!

I was just making polite conversation regarding your introduction of Pina
Coladas. :-) Afraid I've not tried one for about 30 years, but what you
said did remind me of ancient times.

When you flew the Globe, were you a smuggler?

I did once smuggle vacuum onto an aircraft. It was in a Frank Low Helium
Crysostat I carried abroad in a rucksak. Back in those days you could get
away with that sort of thing. What *did* surprise me at the time was that
the security guards with the old hand-loop metal detectors didn't ask any
questions when the dewer set off their loops.

The dewer had an octagonal top (bit like fragmentation facets) and had a
big label 'IRA' in red letters on it. This, of course, stood for Infra Red
Apparatus which Low used to stick on all his dewers at the time. The guards
looked at this, looked at me, and shrugged and waved me onto the plane. :-)

Don't try it yourself, may not work so easily these days. ;-

Mind you, when some of the visitors we had a few years ago tried to fly
down from Edinburgh to Heathrow with the same plastic land-mine as they'd
flown up with, the staff stopped them. For some reason they refused to
believe it had dummy explosives inside and was just for test purposes.

Slainte,

Jim

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Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html