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Post by bluedemon25 on Dec 18, 2022 22:04:02 GMT
I think I'd have trouble making such a thing too. I'm not sure I can picture it well. I don't follow any or nearly any modern music.
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Post by bimble on Dec 24, 2022 7:08:54 GMT
Here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubbuteoMany, many years ago I and a flat-mate used to play the cricket version, which is proper mad. We'd keep a cricket score book* and invent stupid teams, like Hollywood Horror actors vs The Marilyn Monroe Invitaion XI and such things: Lana Turner bowling bouncers at Peter Lorre was a complete joy! *If I can find you a picture of a cricket score book I'll post it here Mare. A properly done one is a thing of great beauty. Ours was not, largely due to an excess of alcohol. You have no hope of understanding either! Thank you for the link, bimble ! I think the card players would have been sucky after having the little rubber/plastic/metal ones. I can't believe it took the dude over 20 years to get the game on the market. All in all, it sounds like it could be rowdy fun in the house for kids and with the over 18 crowd with the addition of alcohol perhaps some collateral wreckage of brick mum's treasures. Grin. I would have fun with the Cricket silly team, series and championship trophy names. What a blast that must have been. I do not think Mr. Partridge would have used his best soldiers, though. They are too valuable. Perhaps some duplicates with scratched up faces and missing paint. What kind of shape are the Back Porch Subbuteo pieces in? Are there such things as tiny Monty Python figurines? (Gumbys, Missus Leagues of Recreations of Military Battles, various favorite characters and Terry Gilliam creations...) With some Cricket game rule instructions, I would like to call that game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRZjsPCkj0 Have a look at this, Mare. Not all of it, you'll go mad. Gives you an idea of Subbuteo Cricket!
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Post by Mare on Dec 26, 2022 19:33:16 GMT
Thank you for the link, bimble ! I think the card players would have been sucky after having the little rubber/plastic/metal ones. I can't believe it took the dude over 20 years to get the game on the market. All in all, it sounds like it could be rowdy fun in the house for kids and with the over 18 crowd with the addition of alcohol perhaps some collateral wreckage of brick mum's treasures. Grin. I would have fun with the Cricket silly team, series and championship trophy names. What a blast that must have been. I do not think Mr. Partridge would have used his best soldiers, though. They are too valuable. Perhaps some duplicates with scratched up faces and missing paint. What kind of shape are the Back Porch Subbuteo pieces in? Are there such things as tiny Monty Python figurines? (Gumbys, Missus Leagues of Recreations of Military Battles, various favorite characters and Terry Gilliam creations...) With some Cricket game rule instructions, I would like to call that game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRZjsPCkj0 Have a look at this, Mare. Not all of it, you'll go mad. Gives you an idea of Subbuteo Cricket! Thank you, bimble! I watched the whole thing. That must have taken forever to shoot! I wonder if he did the voice over after editing all the bits together or if it was done live in chunks. I especially liked how the videographer did an on camera backstory at the end. He had a nice voice! I enjoy matching up faces with voices, I think a person like me could learn from that, since it was drawn from an actual what...test match? Not sure on the language of the sport, only familiar with Midsomer Murders patchy verbiage assimilated by my Borg. I also like that I can stop the video, go back and review the play. (I thought that the addition of replays into the game were AWESOME!) I remember that The Cleevedon Peer likes Cricket. Is it pronounced Sub-boo'-tio? I've been saying it Sub-bew-tay'-oh. Because I have no idea. I'm grinning. Thank you!
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Post by Mare on Dec 26, 2022 19:47:49 GMT
So maybe...we are inviting Mr. Partridge to the wrong things? Would he be interested in Subbuteo versions of say various battles from the Napoleonic Wars-or is that just too outré-we don't want to recreate any battles at all?
If I were to even assume to be Mr. Partridge, I wouldn't want to acknowledge people who invite me to distasteful things or where people will intentionally or inadvertently cover old ground that has been planted, fertilized, harvested, eaten and digested in the same field without ever rotating the crops.
What is Mr. Partridge interested in, these days? What would he feel comfortable sharing? Maybe he just wants to be left alone to have conversations with those dearest to him or those interested in his own interests.
Mr. Partridge, I will likely always be interested in what you have to say because of the way you say it. Or sing it. Or whisper it or bellow it. If silence is what you need, I will listen to the pauses that are in between.
Thank you for being you: the self you have shared, the fact that you have had boundaries with others, it all adds up to something-no someone that I care about.
Mare
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Post by bluedemon25 on Dec 26, 2022 21:15:33 GMT
We need to invite Andy to Festivus I think that is the correct one for him.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Dec 26, 2022 21:17:16 GMT
That said when he was less off the rails I really did enjoy when he would talk about music he liked and had occasionally shared songs I never heard of that were very interesting. I don't know how willing he would be to talk about his own music although obviously that's of interest I imagined to all of us. And for myself I really do like the fuzzy warbles and his subsequent recent releases. But I liked hearing about other artists and songs that he enjoyed and why too That would be I would hope safe ground.
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Post by Mare on Dec 29, 2022 0:53:52 GMT
A couple days ago, my landlady and her partner were over, waiting for the furnace people to have a look upstairs and I said something about XTC in passing. Landlady's partner perked his head up and said that XTC, there's something you don't hear everyday. My mind was completely blown that a human being in my home unrelated to me would even know about XTC. This is a very nice person who explains all kinds of household repair and science things to me in a manner which is inclusive, not insulting. I was delighted! My landlady said she didn't know of or remember XTC, so I started singing Generals and Majors and he mentioned Senses Working Overtime. Not familiar for her. He and I were geek-nerding out-not meant to insult but rather to italicize how I felt. I was so surprised that after saying "Do you know about the band XTC?" and being met with blank looks and no answers - here was someone that knew in a scant instant who I was talking about. My landlady was turning her head aside and trying to hide her laughter behind her hand. She was amused. Perhaps she doesn't see this from him very often.
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Post by donavan on Jan 28, 2023 9:48:53 GMT
I don't think Andrew is ever going to come. Said the actress to the bishop.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Jan 28, 2023 15:00:43 GMT
Wait--this thread is about extending an invitation? I thought all this time that Andy's looks were being described as inviting.
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Post by donavan on Jan 29, 2023 8:39:03 GMT
Oh, blimey no. The last time I had a very brief chat with him years ago, he had a full head of hair. And my hair wasn't silver. Time and tide, eh?
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Post by donavan on Mar 7, 2023 8:45:09 GMT
No Andy but, cloudeleven is in the house. So let it rain. 🌧
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Post by donavan on Jul 15, 2023 22:33:03 GMT
No Andy but, cloudeleven is in the house. So let it rain. 🌧 Or maybe not.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Jul 15, 2023 22:51:55 GMT
Must have stormed out of here.
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Post by donavan on Jul 16, 2023 2:37:07 GMT
Bit of a damp squib.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on Jul 16, 2023 17:28:10 GMT
Hope he didn't rain on your parade.
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