The Rose & Crown
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8 November 2013 at 22:34 #20302
@miapatrick Many congrats from me too. That is a simply superb result. You must be so pleased.
8 November 2013 at 23:19 #20305@miapatrick Congrats! Well done and very impressive ๐
9 November 2013 at 20:55 #20440@JimTheFish- I did. They were however banana-toffee dodgers, which part of me finds deeply wrong- yet tasty.
@PhaseShift- again, I did. A couple is like a score, isn’t it? ๐
@Craig- thank you, I am. And since @bluesqueakpip ‘s feedback was so useful, some of the credit also goes to you for creating this site.
@Timeloop- thank you. I have a bit of a smug face at the moment ๐ it will pass…
9 November 2013 at 21:00 #20442@miapatrick – re missing the pub meetupย – no worries – I believe it’s become “the annual pub meet-up” (in best DW Xmas special tradition ๐ ) Btw email as big a file of your avatar as you can to Craig if you want to send it to the pub in your absence! (It will be transmuted in a wibbly wobbly timey wimey way to a physical presence in the pub; I don’t guarantee it will work quite as well as Amy’s ganger though ๐ย )
9 November 2013 at 21:11 #20445@miapatrick It shouldn’t! Try to keep it as long as possible ;D
9 November 2013 at 21:24 #20448Well done, @miapatrick – Have a Lemon Sherbet.
11 November 2013 at 09:18 #20520A couple of little bits for Armistice Day:
The Known Soldier (how many had your name?)
The Parapet (would you?)
11 November 2013 at 09:30 #20521Anonymous @Those were lovely @pedant.ย Thanks for sharing them with us.
Would I?ย Stick my head over the parapet again?ย That’s the ultimate question about Life, isn’t it?ย We’ve all been hit painfully when exposing our inner selves.ย Yet, we continue to do it – hope trumping experience, over and over.
This reminds me of something I posted before but fits so well with your ‘The Parapet’ story that it’s worth dusting it off again.ย From the New York Times, I Know What You Think of Me.ย Well worth reading all the way through, but the last sentence is key:
if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.
11 November 2013 at 10:02 #20524Anonymous @does she [Rose] look as bonkers as a forum of Who theorists, you mean?
Ahh, now you’ve got me thinking of collective nouns. What is a group of Who enthusiasts?
A ‘bonkersness’ of Who enthusiasts?
A ‘bonkrocity’ of Who enthusiasts?
A ‘bonkritude’ of Who enthusiasts?
An ‘insanity’ of Who enthusiasts?ย (why not?ย see ‘murder of crows‘)ย (and, ya gotta love a website with the name ‘crow.biz’ ๐ )
11 November 2013 at 10:50 #20525@Shazzbot I believe the Sherlock fandom lays claim to the highest levels of drooling insanity. Emphasis on the drooling (over Messers Cumberbatch and Freeman).
So I think we’re just a ‘craziness of Who enthusiasts’. ๐
11 November 2013 at 10:59 #20526Oh a related note to my earlier post, it is surprising how a simple tweak to the lyric changes a mildly bombastic patriotic hymn into a lovely poem to homeland:
11 November 2013 at 13:12 #20528Anonymous @@bluesqueakpip — Sherlockians are the original obsessive nutjobs, let’s face it. Whovians are often relative amateurs and newcomers compared to them, although they do share a lot in common. (And rather embarrassingly I seem to have to count myself as a member of both…)
11 November 2013 at 22:28 #20548@jimthefish – I hasten to add that the claim to the highest levels of insanity was made to me by a Sherlockian…
12 November 2013 at 01:37 #20551@Shazzbot
Should be The Asylum of the Whovians surely?
12 November 2013 at 01:40 #20552@Shazzbot
Having a bit of trouble with my avatar to send to you (?) / @craig to replace me – in absentia – at the celebrations. It goes all pixely when I try and increase the size…I may have to redraw it myself but goodnss knows what it will look like.
12 November 2013 at 03:15 #20554Congrat @miapatrick. That is an excellent result.
I will send my avatar. It is on my “to do list”.
Cheers
Janette
12 November 2013 at 04:25 #20556@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb @whohar @wolfweed @jimthefish @phaseshift
And @ everyone who wants to send their Avatar to the London pub meeting on 22nd, to represent them in their absence –
I’ve been experimenting with the avatars/photoshop and delighted to say life’s got a bit simpler.ย I can work with the ones on here OK – no need to send higher res pics to @craig (unless you want to). You won’t be life size(!), but even the lowest res ones go up to at least 6 x 6cm OK.
Just let me, Craig or @Shazzbot know if you want to be represented this way. Deadline to be included – midnight – Tues 19 Nov (GMT)
Blenkinsop, JanetteB and Whohar – you are on the list, so no need to do anything else for now.
The Asylum of the Whovians
Haha, nice one
How about a Raving of Whovians… or with certain fans it could be a Ravening of Whovians!
And we still have the standard of bonkersness definition – Bonkers as a bathful of fishes
12 November 2013 at 12:33 #2056212 November 2013 at 12:55 #2056412 November 2013 at 16:04 #20571Anonymous @@chickenelly @thommck @osakahatter @timeloop @fatmaninabox
and @ others as per @scaryb‘s post 20556 above –
Anyone who wants to be represented in absentia by their Avatar at the pub gathering (Fri 22nd), please confirm to me this week if you can, but no later than Monday 18 November mid-day GMT.ย You can PM me or @ mention me in this thread.
We can work with the avatar images you’ve uploaded to this forum, but if you want a super di dooper hi res version please get it to @scaryb (via @craig‘s email on the Home Page) by midnight (GMT) Tues 19 Nov.
Final confirmation of attendees-in-person and attendees-by-avatar, along with a repeat of the pub details, will be announced next Monday.
Oooh … the excitement is building … it’s going to be a great night so anyone who can attend in person who hasn’t already confirmed to me, please do so ASAP!
12 November 2013 at 16:20 #20572@shazzbot. Just responding to your RSVP. Quite content to be represented by a less than super dooper low res version of my avatar. I think the warm and fuzzy look of the low res version will capture the mood of blenkinsop in his cups.
12 November 2013 at 16:31 #20573Anonymous @I think the warm and fuzzy look of the low res version will capture the mood of blenkinsop in his cups.
I think the amount of alcohol planned on being consumed that night, means everyone’s avatar will look slightly low-res!ย (tee hee hee)ย But thanks for confirming, and @scaryb – FYI .
12 November 2013 at 16:51 #20574Thanks @shazzbot, sounds like it is going to be one heck of a night.
I’ve sent my avatar to @craig as I unfortunately can’t make it to the pub. You can print it out and use it to represent my paper-thin theory logic ๐12 November 2013 at 17:25 #20575@Shazzbot- would defiantly like to be there in avatar.
Mine is actually taken from a picture and went a bit weird (they look a little creepy, don’t they?) when I tried to upload it. So if @scaryb just uses that, that would be fine. It’s a lovely idea, and takes a little bit of the sting of not being able to attend in person away. ๐
12 November 2013 at 18:15 #20577Avatars
@blenkinsopthebrave – I am in complete agreement with you. Not to mention that you get to a stage in life where a degree of fuzziness in a photo is a definite plus, haha (which is where avatars are indispensible)
@miapatrick I have to admit your avatar has always had me stumped, beyond it looking like a slightly weird yorkie. (I love it, but it’s weird)
The avatars will look like they do on here, just bigger.
12 November 2013 at 19:04 #20580@scaryb It was a weird yorkie! here is a better picture http://www.toms-travels.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/22-08-10-024.jpg
I think the picture used for here was very like the one for my Guardian avatar, but it went a bit funny. I’ve learned to love it, and it is, at least, unique!
12 November 2013 at 19:05 #20581Anonymous @@scaryb – I always thought @miapatrick‘s avatar was more like a very furry bat, with a monkey face, hanging upside down, with a rightside-up Stan Laurel in bowler hat in its beard.ย But that’s just me … ๐
12 November 2013 at 19:17 #20582@Shazzbot- a theory even more insane than what was actually happening! You win, at least, this corner of the internet! ๐
12 November 2013 at 19:31 #20583@Shazzbot – cheers. Would love to be there in spirit via my avatar. Actually, would love to be there in spirits, but not to be!
my low res version will perfectly represent my low res observational ability so please use the one you have ๐
12 November 2013 at 19:37 #20584and @scaryb – thanks for sorting the avatars, much appreciated!
12 November 2013 at 20:09 #20585@Shazzbot @scaryb and others,
As I can’t attend the annual 50th anniversary Doctor Who booze-up, I have forwarded a higher res. image of my avatar to @craig for forwarding onwards. I hope that it doesn’t put anyone off their beer etc.
Have a good do.
Steve
BTW Is the collective noun for bonkers theories a FishPond?
12 November 2013 at 20:52 #20587@osakahatter, @thommck @magnetite @steve-thorp – all avatars received safe and sound, thnx
@whohar you are completely unpixilated now ๐
@miapatrick I’ve no idea what you did when you were uploading, but it’s great. (And agree with you re bonkersness award for @Shazzbot ๐ )
@Shazzbot – we could invent a new drinking game – and have a drink (could work our way round @phaseshift‘s specially concocted Doctor cocktails)ย for each of our absent friends…! ::hic:: Xp
12 November 2013 at 20:53 #20588Spoilers @miapatrick! I always thought it was a hairy Slitheen falling backwards into a bottomless pit. Oh well, a Yorkie is probably scarier than a Slitheen anyway
12 November 2013 at 21:10 #20589Anonymous @@scaryb –
we could invent a new drinking game โ and have a drink for each of our absent friends…!
Good lord, the list is at 11 already and the deadline isn’t until next week.ย We’re not going to need cabs home, we’re going to need ambulances.ย ๐
12 November 2013 at 21:12 #20590@Shazzbot
11 absentees, 11 drinks – that works – @phaseshift‘s got 11 cocktails so far and is working on a couple of others for spoilers and for the TARDIS. Perfect!
Er… you did say the pub was B&B didn’t you? ๐
12 November 2013 at 21:35 #20593@Shazzbot I’d like for my avatar to be there as well. Might wanna take an aspirin before you go to bed ;D
I think River deserves a cocktail as well. Something with champagne since she conjured it “disgracefully”.12 November 2013 at 21:37 #20594Anonymous @@scaryb – I’ve been trying to send a high-res version of my avatar to Craig but YahooMail just keeps hanging, a problem that’s been happening for a couple of weeks which, so far, I’ve been unable to fix ๐ฟ
Do I remember correctly that you’re on Twitter? There is a ‘ScaryB’ but I don’t want to tweetย my picย if it’s not you ๐
@shazzbot – how many are physically attending? I’ll have a drink for each one of you ๐
12 November 2013 at 21:40 #20595Anonymous @@scaryb – with @timeloop, we’re up to 12 –
Timeloop, think of something good to add to the champagne that would make it a ‘Louche Libation’ and you can add it to PhaseShift’s blog …
12 November 2013 at 21:43 #20596Anonymous @@fatmaninabox – so far, there’s 13 of us attending in person (plus 2 Airedale Terriers).ย Please don’t have 13 alcoholic drinks in a row (and please don’t drink your water from a bowl all nightย ๐ย ).
@scaryb – all right then, 13 avatars.ย I think we need to book another table …ย ๐
12 November 2013 at 22:13 #20602@timeloop – sorry, meant to say, I saw your request earlier.ย Got your avatar OK.
And yes, definitely need a cocktail for River –ย champers is spot on. But agree with @Shazzbot it should have something else with it for a little extra glam, and some intrigue.
@fatmaninabox – no worries – the one on here is fineย (You’re bigger than many ๐ย )ย And not all ScaryBs are me – there’s a few of us out there haha, so best not tweet it – might give them a bit of a shock!ย ๐
PS @phaseshift – How’s the Patented Hangover Cure recipe coming along??
12 November 2013 at 22:25 #20605Anonymous @@Shazzbot
(and please donโt drink your water from a bowl all night ๐ ).
Damn it! Sprayed my coffee everywhere. My monitor now resembles a Jackson Pollock painting ๐
Yeah, 13 drinks is a bit excessive, even by my standards, so I’ll just have 2 bottles of Hoegaarden in honour of the Airedales (not from a bowl though).
12 November 2013 at 23:07 #20617OI! Back onto the sofa you lot! This is supposed to be the off-topic forum!
12 November 2013 at 23:08 #20619Hi @scaryb
I don’t know when you’ll need the images for, but I could get you a higher res one at the weekend. If not a low res will represent me well. I look blurry in real life too. Many thanks for doing that.
12 November 2013 at 23:29 #20625Anonymous @Oi!ย @pedant!ย We’re talking about a pub gathering … in the forum’s pub.ย Seemed appropriate, somehow.ย ๐
PS:ย you tryin’ to take my Topic Dalek crown?ย You can prise it from my cold, dead … erm, plunger.ย ๐
13 November 2013 at 01:26 #20629Thanks for my new unpixelated av. and very happy to be present in some form at least.
Of course I do expect the av. to be presented in a gold-leaf regency frame on a velvet backing.
As the evening wears on, Can I also suggest the hi-res version is replaced with the pixelated one, to represent the effects of alcohol. You can also add some drool much later on and then some Zzzzz’s.
13 November 2013 at 02:36 #20635And for those of us who are only attending in 2d, can there please, please be some pics so we can picture the event that we are attending in spirit.
Cheers
Janette
13 November 2013 at 08:03 #20638Anonymous @Hi @janetteb – re pictures of the pub event –
You know, I hope, that @phaseshift has more-than-kindly volunteered to be a single point of reception of everyone’s goings-on over the 50th weekend (a week and a half away!ย Oh my!).ย @craig is going to create / has created an email address to which everyone can send details in text and in image of their own celebrations, and Phase will post them on his 50th blog.
We’ll have to sort picture-taking at the pub carefully, though.ย Some people may not want their RL mug posted on the forum at all.ย Others might be OK with it as long as not being directly captioned.ย Others might be happy to have both mug and username displayed.ย So, group photographs are going to need to be discussed before sending on to Phase for posting.
We may end up with 25 shots of The Airedales …ย They love publicity.ย ย ๐
13 November 2013 at 11:26 #20642@shazzbot
What about pics of those attending but hidden behind their avatars? Would put one over on The Usual Suspects but you may get some strange looks in the pub.
13 November 2013 at 11:31 #20643@whohar – frankly, I think we might get strange looks in the pub anyway… especially when we haul out the flipchart and the coloured markers. ๐
13 November 2013 at 11:37 #20644๐ Now that’s a picture I’d like to see.
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