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And, for the sake of equality, I should also wish Modge a happy birthday. Which I shall do.... now: Happy Birthday Modge!
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Hey Modge - happy birthday! Here's a stalkerishly apposite poem by Php. Larkin to celebrate:
quote:Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album
At last you yielded up the album, which, Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on the thick black pages! Too much confectionery, too rich: I choke on such nutritious images.
My swivel eye hungers from pose to pose - In pigtails, clutching a reluctant cat; Or furred yourself, a sweet girl-graduate; Or lifting a heavy-headed rose Beneath a trellis, or in a trilby hat
(Faintly disturbing, that, in several ways) - From every side you strike at my control, Not least through these disquieting chaps who loll At ease about your earlier days: Not quite your class, I'd say, dear, on the whole.
But o, photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing! that records Dull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds, And will not censor blemishes Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards,
But shows the cat as disinclined, and shades A chin as doubled when it is, what grace Your candour thus confers upon her face! How overwhelmingly persuades That this is a real girl in a real place,
In every sense empirically true! Or is it just the past? Those flowers, that gate, These misty parks and motors, lacerate Simply by being over; you Contract my heart by looking out of date.
Yes, true; but in the end, surely, we cry Not only at exclusion, but because It leaves us free to cry. We know what was Won't call on us to justify Our grief, however hard we yowl across
The gap from eye to page. So I am left To mourn (without a chance of consequence) You, balanced on a bike against a fence; To wonder if you'd spot the theft Of this one of you bathing; to condense,
In short, a past that no one now can share, No matter whose your future; calm and dry, It holds you like a heaven, and you lie Unvariably lovely there, Smaller and clearer as the years go by.
I made one of those hilarious cards that have a picture from the olden days, and then a caption mocking the person in the photo!
Preparations for the first ballet-on-surboards event were coming along 'swimmingly'
does that even work? I thought that they looked like they could be standing on surfboards or something, because of the way their arms are. So, I suggested that they might be doing some kind of ballet on surfboards event, which is patently ridiculous. I thought it might be funny because you do ballet, but you don't surf!! Do you see, it's a joke.
I was going to post a picture of some feet doing that thing where you stand on the end of your toes in ballet, but I figured that there has been enough foot related content from me today, in that I mentioned VPs feet earlier.
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Here's a nice Modge anecdote - I remember once she sort of quickly got off with Sky in the back of a cab. I was there but Kovacs wasn't. Pathetically, that made it all alot better: I felt I'd clawed back some points from the time he watched the lezzer floorshow London and Rose Davis put on in the streets of SoHo, kovacs staring on slackjawed as London molested Rose's tits. It came to an abrupt halt when ben stepped in and stopped the whole thing, which was a real shame. Things like that just don't seem to happen at meats these days. Take last time, for example. Balloon popping on the highstreet? Absolute rubbish.
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quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Cynthia Payne was aquitted of being a madam.
Umm... Any relations present?
Oh hahahaHA! This is excellent! No-one has ever made that joke before! HaHa!
Happy birthday VP! The first time I met VP she picked up my necklace from around my neck and said in her Daawzet accent "Shiny! I loike shiny things!" The second time I met VP she leant in close, picked up my necklace from around my neck and went to say "Shiny! I loike shiny things!" however being as I'm from London and someone leaning in close to you on meeting is generally an indication that they are going in for the "welcome kiss" so I responded in kind and went to do the customary lips-to-cheek movement. VP responded like a cat when you stroke their fur the wrong way as she recoiled in disgust spitting out the sentence "Aye don't do kisses. I'm not from London." And turned away from me and my shiny necklace.
Anyway, happy birthday, ice-princess and happy birthday Modge the fairy-princess! I would tell you an amusing anecdote about Modge too but she doesn't really talk to me at meats. I don't think she likes me very much actually
she didn't have the same birthday, BUT she's a tragic figure in teh science world. too clever for maurice but no real recognition in her lifetime.
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quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Cynthia Payne was aquitted of being a madam.
Umm... Any relations present?
Oh hahahaHA! This is excellent! No-one has ever made that joke before! HaHa!
I don't get it.
quote: Happy birthday VP! The first time I met VP she picked up my necklace from around my neck and said in her Daawzet accent "Shiny! I loike shiny things!" The second time I met VP she leant in close, picked up my necklace from around my neck and went to say "Shiny! I loike shiny things!" however being as I'm from London and someone leaning in close to you on meeting is generally an indication that they are going in for the "welcome kiss" so I responded in kind and went to do the customary lips-to-cheek movement. VP responded like a cat when you stroke their fur the wrong way as she recoiled in disgust spitting out the sentence "Aye don't do kisses. I'm not from London." And turned away from me and my shiny necklace.
That's the funniest thing I've read all week!
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My boss' other PA has made me a cake. It fell apart a bit, so she has remodelled it to represent Stonehenge; even printing out a colour pic of the ancient monument onto card and putting it around the cake as backdrop. Fucking brilliant.
Also, we just went and did lunch. She got all excited and was trying to mouth me something. I thought she was telling me my nose stud was about to fall out, but apparently it was because a celebrity called Rachel Stevens was sitting behind us. Anyone heard of her? She complained about her steak and didn't eat it.
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quote:Originally posted by My Name Is Joe: I don't get it.
Payne is the surname of myself and my two sisters. And Auntie Cyn.
Aha. With every name learned, every photo saved and every coloured pin placed in a map my grand 'TMO Stalk' project edges closer towrds completion, so thank you!
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One memory of you that always makes me smile comes from the meat at Cafe Kick last year. There were four of us standing in a group and one of the four had a complete strangle-hold monopoly over the conversation. Two of us smiled and nodded along to the monologue but you didn't care for such banal social etiquette, oh no! Instead, you sighed loudly (as loud as a person can sigh, anyway), rolled your eyes and announced "I've had enough - I'm going for some chips" and promptly left the bar. I couldn't help but laugh.
Also, happy birthday to Modge. I have only been in the same building as you once (Cafe Kick, again) but we didn't interact. I smiled across at you when someone pointed you out to me and explained who you were but I don't think you noticed. Sadly therefore, I haven't any amusing recollections to offer up.
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Carved TMO on her clit just to make you feel bad
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Happy Birthday to VP and to Modge. I quite like you both. I quite like VP because she was fucking comedy mint gold in the Cathouse in Glasgow and also because she forgot Thorn's message for me, which was rude and might have made me hate Thorn. I quite like Modge because she summarised once, in a single succint and amsuing post, my thoughts about Bride magazine.
oops! Accidental lack of 'l' temporarily deified VP....
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: it was because a celebrity called Rachel Stevens was sitting behind us.
Coincidentally I was humming along to the infuriating Some Girls this morning at the gym, and was still humming it when I got into the office. After two people complained that it was now in their heads, I considered my work for the day was done.
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Happy birthday Vope! In my mind you are swooshing around a deserted ice rink, doing that backwards skating thing, with a muff. And lots of boys are standing all cold and suffering at the side, all hoping you'll choose their flask of hot chocolate when you come off the ice, having stopped with a satisfying sccccccrrrrroop noise. One of them has a pony by the reins. Who needs that, though, when you have thorn - tmo's most anticipated poster - as your 'best friend'. Aahhhhh.
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It seems like I don't talk to people enough at meats, or least not the nice people what post on birthday threads. Will try to do better in future.
Best presents: My mother sent me a fluffy white dressing gown which I think I might be overly-pleased with. kovacs bought me some chocolate coloured boots and some shoes that are actually made out of chocolate.
Worst presents: the parcel that the postman tried to deliver when I was out that I now can't get until tomorrow.
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Herbs were you at the Brit Awards the other night? Only, in the coverage yesterday evening there was a swift cutaway shot of a couple of audience members and one of them looked uncannily like you?
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I'd love to say yes, and that I was hangin wit da cru, or something 'with it' like that. Sadly I was probably doing something domestic-based and rather dull. O! In fact I was out, eating. But not at the Brits. In Carluccio's, in Islington, asitappens. Top tip: don't have two courses comprising 95% olive oil, and a bicerin if you don't want to be awake all night.
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My fortune cookie's empty... That's also the title of my autobiography.
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Happy Birthday VP, Modge and Psychic!
I would like to put a funny birthday piccie but everytime I try images it never works
so please screw ya eyes up really tight and imagine the best pic ya could ever wish for and dont slap me if nothing appears immediately! you have to concentrate... :winkywanky:
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