http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 03:01:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3198 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:31:47 +0000 brownpaperreporter 3198@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ronseal - serves you right for playing to the College of Bishops! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3163 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:54:21 +0000 John Square 3163@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I once had to go on a date with a five-foot man for a feature I was writing.</blockquote></p> <p>There's a whole bunch of questions posed by that statement. Being stupidly lofty, I find short men funny- am I correct in thinking that your feature is evidence that women find them mirthsome? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3160 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:43:23 +0000 PluckyMunky 3160@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>mary, that emma bunton is a notorious cheese stealer. do be careful. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3157 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:34:49 +0000 Mary Evans 3157@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>1) I was on Blue Peter when I was 11 because my school choir was singing to the Pope - and I have the Blue Peter Badge to prove it (fat lot of fecking use it has been - tried to use it once to get into Chessington World of Adventures and they wouldn't accept it).<br /> 2) Emma Bunton once stole some cheese from my husband.<br /> 3) I once had to go on a date with a five-foot man for a feature I was writing. When we hugged farewell at the end of the night, he head-butted my boobs. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3152 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:07:52 +0000 The All New Jeni B 3152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've always said that when I win the lottery, I'm going to buy one of the Georgian Terraced houses in the New Town, having stayed at Tigerlily in George Street a few times. I love Dundee, and am proud of where I live, but the variety of everything in Edinburgh is fantastic. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3150 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:44:39 +0000 virtuallywill 3150@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><center><br /> This space has been left blank deliberately, this is part of ongoing work to improve the NewBiscuit experience.</center> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3149 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:43:40 +0000 virtuallywill 3149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I do love Edinburgh, though I live in far of Devon now, as a lad I wanted to be a Royal Mile tour guide when I grow up, I will have to see what happens when I do. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3148 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:30 +0000 The All New Jeni B 3148@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yay!! V.Will, another one of us! (East Coaster I mean). Was through in your native City last week for a wee game of rugby. Still my most favourite city in the world. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3145 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:14 +0000 virtuallywill 3145@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I went to the same primary school as Sean Connery, and John Leslie, and the same secondary school as not one, but two Bay City Rollers.<br /> I can understand you admiring the Rubettes LP Mr Hack "Sugar Baby love" will always be my second favourite single. Both are FACT </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3142 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:19:33 +0000 John Square 3142@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's excellent, ronseal. You should have had a round of applause just for the audacity.</p> <p>To reinforce the factiness of this thread:</p> <p>I was almost swallowed by a whale shark last year. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3135 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:04:49 +0000 ronseal 3135@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I tried to break the mold of stand up comedy intros by asking the audience "has anyone here been shagged up the arse by a catholic priest?"</p> <p>Sadly, the punch line "No one here from my old school then" was drowned out by booing.</p> <p>And some bloke furiously clanging a gong </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3132 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:58:17 +0000 Scroat 3132@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My God, next thing you know people will be saying Bob Dylan's voice is going. Honestly. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3131 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:50:12 +0000 jp1885 3131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once scratched my balls in front of the Indian minister for science and technology [FACT] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3122 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:22:05 +0000 PluckyMunky 3122@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rikkor, love, how are you? haven't seen you for a few days. hope you and the dog are well.xxx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3119 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:18 +0000 rikkor 3119@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Why would anyone whitewash a Space Invaders machine (whatever that is)? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3098 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:17:15 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 3098@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nope, I don't like the Beatles and neither does Mrs MrChigleysAunt - and she's Liverpudlian. Don't tell anyone, or I'll probably find her up on bricks in the car park tomorrow morning. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3047 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:22 +0000 wallster 3047@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Edward, parachuting was a 'gift' from Mrs Wallster for my 40th. A day's training then I could throw myself out of a plane and land on my arse in a corn field. Great fun. Did it 3 times before my training expired. I'd recommend it to anyone with strong knees. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3045 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:24:20 +0000 brownpaperreporter 3045@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like the idea of an 18th Century invaders game. The moveable gun would have been a muzzle loaded cannon - we stood no chance! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3044 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:20:42 +0000 fun and games 3044@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When I was a child I used to play on a Space Invaders machine at Michael Ashcroft's house. This was before he sold it to Billy Connolly, who proceeded to whitewash the 18th century wooden beams. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3040 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:11:03 +0000 edward hack 3040@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wallster - how did the parachuting go? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3037 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:06:28 +0000 The All New Jeni B 3037@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>MrChigley'sAunt, I salute your honesty and bravery. I feel I can now stand tall and say, actually, they don't do anything for me either.<br /> If I had to choose, I'd be a Stones gal every time. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164&page=2#post-3036 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:04:43 +0000 brownpaperreporter 3036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Im with the venerable Ms Aunt on this, I can count on the fingers of one hand the songs that I like </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3034 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:00:30 +0000 Scroat 3034@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh come on Chiggers. Their stuff varies so much, you can't dislike it all, surely? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3033 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:58:37 +0000 allmyownstunts 3033@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My dad nearly got shot by Robert Mugabe's henchmen (FACT)<br /> We were at my sister's graduation in Edinburgh on the infamous occasion they were giving the old bastard an honorary degree (Mugabe, not dad, who is SO not an old bastard and who got his degree all by himself). Dad made the near-fatal mistake of deploying his Kodak Ektra camera from his pocket to his sights a little fast for Mugabe's thugs' liking, and the earth-slowing moment when they whipped round and their hands shot to the insides of their jackets will haunt me forever. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3028 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:02 +0000 wallster 3028@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once shared a hotel room with the producer of Led Zeppelin's Coda album. [FACT]<br /> I once went shopping with Pippa the Postwoman from Wizardora. [FACT]<br /> I'm married to the first cousin once removed of ex Squeeze drummer, Gilson Lavis. [FACT]<br /> I've made 3 solo parachute jumps from 3500 feet. [FACT]<br /> I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea. [Blatant lie] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3027 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:59:24 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 3027@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I really, genuinely, don't like the Beatles. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3022 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:39:04 +0000 edward hack 3022@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>virtuallywill is edging it for me so far - class<br /> Plucky - it involved a rubber glove and a finger. I thought you lived in Cardiff?<br /> I was much younger - only young people can smuggle things analy. Too late now. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3021 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:37:52 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 3021@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>From the window at my dentist's surgery I watched the Challenger Space shuttle explode. My dentist and his hygenist, both Merkins, turned to me and asked: "What happened?"</p> <p>I described for them what they had just seen. They didn't believe me. I knew we were all in for a rough ride, and quite soon. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3017 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:07:14 +0000 malgor 3017@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Them/_/Baby+Please+Don't+Go?autostart"><strong><em>Them</em>: Baby, Please Don't Go</strong></a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1164#post-3011 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:14:48 +0000 Quaz 3011@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I once made the winners' laurel garlands for a British Grand Prix.<br /> I turned down the chance to interview Noel Gallagher of Oasis on their first UK tour.<br /> I've watched a Space Shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral. </p>