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avenginangel
12-11-2004, 16:07
Time for the annual poetry competition at the albert, Sunday Nov 21st 5pm. Start sharpening those quills... (The attached image is crap quality, because i couldn't work out how to get the file small enough to post otherwise. Any tech heads want to help me, i could mail you a good quality picture to play round with. Thanks)
The last one was an absolutely fantastic night, but could the Albert sort out the fucking air conditioning?
It's like diving headlong into a full ashtray some nights....
IntoStella
12-11-2004, 16:15
Attaching images is hopeless. All you need to do is go to www.imageshack.us and upload the file. You don't even have to register. :)
Don't make it TOO big though! :eek:
I am so looking forward to this. It was fantastic last year.
The 21st is Anna Key's birthday as well! Perhaps I can persuade Andy B to pen a birthday ode? ;)
avenginangel
12-11-2004, 16:22
[QUOTE=IntoStella]Attaching images is hopeless. All you need to do is go to www.imageshack.us and upload the file. You don't even have to register. :)
Don't make it TOO big though!
And then how do i get it here? sorry...
:confused:
IntoStella
12-11-2004, 16:35
[QUOTE=IntoStella]Attaching images is hopeless. All you need to do is go to www.imageshack.us and upload the file. You don't even have to register. :)
Don't make it TOO big though!
And then how do i get it here? sorry...
:confused:
No worries.
see where it says
file: and there's a blank box? Click on the Browse button to the right of that window.
Then navigate to the file on your computer so the filename appears in the box.
Then click on the button underneath that says 'Host it! '
Then a new page appears with different boxes on it. Copy the text in the top one -- the one that says ......
Then just paste that line of text into your post on here and it links directly to the hosted pic on Imageshack.
Donna Ferentes
12-11-2004, 16:37
The 21st is Anna Key's birthday as well! I thought that said 21st birthday for a moment.
avenginangel
12-11-2004, 16:38
http://img42.exs.cx/img42/5273/thebardofbrixton.jpg
avenginangel
12-11-2004, 16:39
aah... thanks
:)
IntoStella
12-11-2004, 16:40
ROFL @ the esteemed panel of judges. :D :D
IntoStella
12-11-2004, 16:41
I thought that said 21st birthday for a moment.
It is his 21st. He has just had an EXTREMELY hard life. :)
IntoStella
12-11-2004, 16:44
OOOH! I just thought! Naughty Natasha is bound to turn up and recite her favourite explicit odes to her rude bits.
Vic will be so pleased.
I take it the incumbent won't be entering, seeing as he's a judge? (Mind you, this is Lambeth ;) ).
Mrs Magpie
12-11-2004, 21:12
I could only recognise the first three esteemed elders....
Mr Retro
12-11-2004, 22:54
It is his 21st. He has just had an EXTREMELY hard life. :)
Not THAT hard. He doesn't look a day over 25.
so what's the format of the event?
avenginangel
13-11-2004, 15:21
From what i remember, contestants put their names down on the list (last year there were 18 entered) and their performances are graded by the panel of judges, with the top 5 (i think) going through to the play-offs, and the bard being the one judged the best out of them. Not sure what the judging criteria is... But if you want to enter get there by 5pm, and make sure you know more than one poem, just incase you make the final stage.
passpat2
15-11-2004, 06:16
just a word on the editors comment about the state of the albert..... I, more than anyone, AM TOTALLY P****D OFF with the current state of the PUB!! I have been on to the brewery for the last 8 months ( well since i got here in fact) about some investment in the place... The word back to me at the moment is that the company, who is now Green King and not Laurel pub Co, is on a zero spend policy.... which means that if the repairs are not 'buisness critical' then it doesn't get done!!!
At the moment the powers that be are conducting a survey of it's estate which is scheduled to be finished in January... Then I am lead to believe that they are looking at refurbishments etc!!!
As far as the extraction in the pub is concerned...... Although I am a smoker.. ( ONE WHO IS TRYING HIS BEST TO GIVE UP!!!) I find the extraction very very poor indeed!!! I sympathise with those who do not smoke and those ( including me and the staff).... or is it the staff and I?????? anyway, who have to sit in there and tolerate the awful smog!!!!
Again my apologies for the situation and believe me i am doing my best to try and get as much money spent on the place as possible.
passpat2
15-11-2004, 06:18
just a word on the editors comment about the state of the albert..... I, more than anyone, AM TOTALLY P****D OFF with the current state of the PUB!! I have been on to the brewery for the last 8 months ( well since i got here in fact) about some investment in the place... The word back to me at the moment is that the company, who is now Green King and not Laurel pub Co, is on a zero spend policy.... which means that if the repairs are not 'buisness critical' then it doesn't get done!!!
At the moment the powers that be are conducting a survey of it's estate which is scheduled to be finished in January... Then I am lead to believe that they are looking at refurbishments etc!!!
As far as the extraction in the pub is concerned...... Although I am a smoker.. ( ONE WHO IS TRYING HIS BEST TO GIVE UP!!!) I find the extraction very very poor indeed!!! I sympathise with those who do not smoke and those ( including me and the staff).... or is it the staff and I?????? anyway, who have to sit in there and tolerate the awful smog!!!!
Again my apologies for the situation and believe me i am doing my best to try and get as much money spent on the place as possible. led... lead??? well it was done at 6 in the morning
isvicthere?
15-11-2004, 12:28
OOOH! I just thought! Naughty Natasha is bound to turn up and recite her favourite explicit odes to her rude bits.
Vic will be so pleased.
I take it the incumbent won't be entering, seeing as he's a judge? (Mind you, this is Lambeth ;) ).
I'd love to get another dose of Natasha and her gynaecological wordsmithery. Unfortunately, I'll be out of the country.
IntoStella
15-11-2004, 12:37
I'd love to get another dose of Natasha and her gynaecological wordsmithery. Unfortunately, I'll be out of the country.What a coincidence! :D :D
IntoStella
15-11-2004, 12:45
The word back to me at the moment is that the company, who is now Green King and not Laurel pub Co, is on a zero spend policy.... which means that if the repairs are not 'buisness critical' then it doesn't get done!!!Business-critical???? You can tell Greene bloody King from me that there are things in those toilets that are going to eat one of your customers before too long. And if that don't impact on business, I don't know what will.
Though you could always do a roaring trade with botanists keen to track down hitherto undiscovered greeblies.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
avenginangel
20-11-2004, 17:01
a little reminder... still got time to sharpen your quills ;)
citydreams
21-11-2004, 15:21
Brixton Bard in days of old?
http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/images/screens/Bard_Web_PS2_4.jpg
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 10:25
Brixton Bard in days of old?
http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/images/screens/Bard_Web_PS2_4.jpg Days of old? That could have been taken last night!
Absolutely top top toppety top night.
I got a bit pissed. :o
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 10:25
No sign of Naughty Natasha though.
citydreams
22-11-2004, 10:32
I got a bit pissed. :o
I'm sorry to have missed it!!
Who won the honour of Coldharbour madonna?
Donna Ferentes
22-11-2004, 11:02
I hope it was rather better than the open mic session I was unfortunate enough to witness at Mango Landin the other night. Dear God there was an absence of talent present.
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 11:09
there was an absence of talent present.
:confused: :confused: :confused:
Donna Ferentes
22-11-2004, 11:13
I am confused by your confusion. What has confused you?
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 11:27
I am confused by your confusion. What has confused you?
How can an absence be present? :confused: :confused:
Donna Ferentes
22-11-2004, 11:30
It's a paradox.
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 11:34
It's a paradox. I'm far too hung over for any of that malarkey.
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 11:49
But not too hung over to spot this BEAUTY in a story I'm subbing about a regeneration project in Edinburgh:
John Haxworth, Associate of Hyland Edgar Driver, said: “It's a difficult site but it overlooks the Forth of Frith."
I would be very alarmed if that was what the architect said.
Honestly! What do we pay these people for? :rolleyes:
Donna Ferentes
22-11-2004, 11:50
"I blame the subs".
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 11:56
"I blame the subs". If it wasn't for the subs it'd be Forths of Frith all round. As any fule kno, most reporters these days are illiterate.
Donna Ferentes
22-11-2004, 12:06
Frith is God in Watership Down.
Except for David Frith.
lang rabbie
22-11-2004, 12:27
...this BEAUTY in a story I'm subbing about a regeneration project in Edinburgh:
John Haxworth, Associate of Hyland Edgar Driver, said: “It's a difficult site but it overlooks the Forth of Frith."
I would be very alarmed if that was what the architect said.
Given the location, is it a subbing error or verbatim report following a few drams at the launch party...
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.
IntoStella
22-11-2004, 12:29
Given the location, is it a subbing error or verbatim report following a few drams at the launch party...
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police. I couldn't even say that if I was sober!!
My mother used to jokingly call it the Fourth of Fifth but the Forth of Frith is a new one on me.
Fuck Tha (Leith) Police - NWA
:cool: ;)
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