42 minutes ago, Biffen said:

I don't buy their wine.Or their whine.

But I noticed their wine is cheap as over there anyway. Not so much here though. And they do reds, never knew that. 

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/nine-network-buys-st-kildas-infamous-gatwick-hotel-20170315-guyp79.html

Apparently the purchaser of the Gat is the Nine Network, who'll likely be using it for The Block.

Possibility for Biff to somehow return to his former nest as a contestant?

I'd watch if you were on @Biffen, then I'd tell everyone who'd listen that I knew you before you were famous in an effort to milk some reflected glory.

You could use your knowledge of the Gat's darker corners to outfox the other contestants. They'll never know why their tools are always going missing. You could even help them identify the contents of the syringes they find!

The more I think about this the more I think it's a good idea. Who wouldn't watch Biff, draped in a blue singlet, tattered shorts and boots, taking a sledgehammer to a GAT toilet?

I think I might need some of @Wrecker45's tissues...

4 hours ago, Choke said:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/nine-network-buys-st-kildas-infamous-gatwick-hotel-20170315-guyp79.html

Apparently the purchaser of the Gat is the Nine Network, who'll likely be using it for The Block.

Possibility for Biff to somehow return to his former nest as a contestant?

I'd watch if you were on @Biffen, then I'd tell everyone who'd listen that I knew you before you were famous in an effort to milk some reflected glory.

You could use your knowledge of the Gat's darker corners to outfox the other contestants. They'll never know why their tools are always going missing. You could even help them identify the contents of the syringes they find!

The more I think about this the more I think it's a good idea. Who wouldn't watch Biff, draped in a blue singlet, tattered shorts and boots, taking a sledgehammer to a GAT toilet?

I think I might need some of @Wrecker45's tissues...

Wreckers tissues are well and truly soiled Choke. No go zone. 

Not sure Biffen could lift a sledgehammer these days. He looks as thin and unwell as Plugger did on the news tonight. But he's a crafty competitor. Likely to pawn off others tools and steal their utes then laugh it off at the POW.

The penthouse at the Gat will be renovated tastefully as my important status here would dictate.

You are all welcome to attend the clean out downstairs .

i will be moving back in as soon as the job is complete as ministers special advisor to social housing housing.

I have signed the deal with nine and the govt.

Some incriminating photos I had helped sweeten the pot .

Thank you all for your  concern as to my lodgings but I assure you all I will not need to ask Special Robert for bridge space just yet.

Though I must admit,the life of a troll is has its own rewards.

23 hours ago, Biffen said:

The penthouse at the Gat will be renovated tastefully as my important status here would dictate.

You are all welcome to attend the clean out downstairs .

i will be moving back in as soon as the job is complete as ministers special advisor to social housing housing.

I have signed the deal with nine and the govt.

Some incriminating photos I had helped sweeten the pot .

Thank you all for your  concern as to my lodgings but I assure you all I will not need to ask Special Robert for bridge space just yet.

Though I must admit,the life of a troll is has its own rewards.

Thank you for the invite Biff, but it is a bit like an invitation to the Manor from your step brother Uncle Bitters.

You are both great characters, however, I prefer to keep you both as figments of my imagination.

1 hour ago, hemingway said:

Thank you for the invite Biff, but it is a bit like an invitation to the Manor from your step brother Uncle Bitters.

You are both great characters, however, I prefer to keep you both as figments of my imagination.

That's fairly offensive considering you are actually deceased.

Though I admit Uncle Bitters is fundamentally uncouth and lacking in refinement .Not to mention malodorous .

11 hours ago, hemingway said:

Thank you for the invite Biff, but it is a bit like an invitation to the Manor from your step brother Uncle Bitters.

You are both great characters, however, I prefer to keep you both as figments of my imagination.

Invite to the Manor!!! FMD!! Ernie you dead bastard, you are even further down the invite list than picket. He's only brain dead.

Think I will be more excited ( in a sporting sense ),  this time next week.

On 3/17/2017 at 8:14 PM, Bitter but optimistic said:

Invite to the Manor!!! FMD!! Ernie you dead bastard, you are even further down the invite list than picket. He's only brain dead.

Kind of sounds like the start of a joke you would tell at the pub:
A 300 pound cross dresser, a dead author and a moron went down to Romsey one day...

On 3/19/2017 at 0:38 PM, Colin B. Flaubert said:

Kind of sounds like the start of a joke you would tell at the pub:
A 300 pound cross dresser, a dead author and a moron went down to Romsey one day...

yeah good one Colin........I was trying to shoplift some expensive runners the other day in David Jones and the attendant sussed me....so I sat down for a fitting. Then I'll be buggered if she doesn't start quizzing me about me politics....something about ...."are you super nation or pro nation'.......so I said..  no, one nation and cleared off.

On 3/12/2017 at 6:52 PM, Biffen said:

Special Robert,

 If you gave more attention to your trade and less to the Moomba parade we would all be wealthier .Well I would most likely.Get back to work.Stop gallivanting and start cleaning windscreens .Know your limits!

Well......Squirrel reckons I should hang out for a better offer.

Squirrel, who used to be a history professor (before he had his nervous breakdown,) reckons the homeless were treated better in London in 1600 than we are here today. He reckons a bloke called sir Ambrose Nichols, even then,  accommodated poor and aged people in alms houses rent free. ....and that....'having each of them seven pence the week , and once a year each of them five sackes of charcoales, and one quarter of a hundreth of faggots, of his gift forever.'

This seems like an excellent deal and I could really use the charcoales............ but I'm not sure about the quarter of a hundreth of faggots.

Well, people. This is the lucky numbered page of this thread for our Chinese friends ( no. 888 ).  We can expect a rash of posts from Chinese demonlanders who want their pearls of wisdom to appear here. Apropos of rashes and China, it reminds me of one I picked up in Hong Kong a few years ago...... but that's a story for another time.

On 3/17/2017 at 9:44 PM, Bitter but optimistic said:

Invite to the Manor!!! FMD!! Ernie you dead bastard, you are even further down the invite list than picket. He's only brain dead.

"Dead bastard".  Well it comes to all of us Bitters, and given your proclivities, you will not have to queue.

I suspect that posterity will remember the name Hemingway, long after the name Bitter but optimistic.

Unless, you have a literary masterpiece that you are working on between floggings.   Perhaps you could get some tips from my old friend, Elliot Perlman. His latest novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a beauty. Perhaps your novel could be in braille and be called the Seven Types of Ambiguous Floggings.

Further down the invite list than Picket, well that's a relief. But don't worry, I realize that this is all just amusing imaginings as the reality of the Manor is very different, How is life in the new housing estate.

The Manor Estate ?  

 

1 minute ago, hemingway said:

"Dead bastard".  Well it comes to all of us Bitters, and given your proclivities, you will not have to queue.

I suspect that posterity will remember the name Hemingway, long after the name Bitter but optimistic.

Unless, you have a literary masterpiece that you are working on between floggings.   Perhaps you could get some tips from my old friend, Elliot Perlman. His latest novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a beauty. Perhaps your novel could be in braille and be called the Seven Types of Ambiguous Floggings.

Further down the invite list than Picket, well that's a relief. But don't worry, I realize that this is all just amusing imaginings as the reality of the Manor is very different, How is life in the new housing estate.

The Manor Estate ?  

 

doesn't demonland count as a publishing house, ernie. and isn't the internet here for eternity. things have changed you know old boy

2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

doesn't demonland count as a publishing house, ernie. and isn't the internet here for eternity. things have changed you know old boy

Thanks Daisy, always on the ball.

You are right, its been a long time and my spirit soul sometimes misses the things that my material body once experienced and enjoyed. 

1 hour ago, pineapple dee said:

Well, people. This is the lucky numbered page of this thread for our Chinese friends ( no. 888 ).  We can expect a rash of posts from Chinese demonlanders who want their pearls of wisdom to appear here. Apropos of rashes and China, it reminds me of one I picked up in Hong Kong a few years ago...... but that's a story for another time.

Too much pineapple can cause a rash.

3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Too much pineapple can cause a rash.

especially if taken concurrently with bananas

7 hours ago, special robert said:

yeah good one Colin........I was trying to shoplift some expensive runners the other day in David Jones and the attendant sussed me....so I sat down for a fitting. Then I'll be buggered if she doesn't start quizzing me about me politics....something about ...."are you super nation or pro nation'.......so I said..  no, one nation and cleared off.

 

6 hours ago, special robert said:

Well......Squirrel reckons I should hang out for a better offer.

Squirrel, who used to be a history professor (before he had his nervous breakdown,) reckons the homeless were treated better in London in 1600 than we are here today. He reckons a bloke called sir Ambrose Nichols, even then,  accommodated poor and aged people in alms houses rent free. ....and that....'having each of them seven pence the week , and once a year each of them five sackes of charcoales, and one quarter of a hundreth of faggots, of his gift forever.'

This seems like an excellent deal and I could really use the charcoales............ but I'm not sure about the quarter of a hundreth of faggots.

Squirrel isn't an Egyptologist is he, Special? Professor William McElroy perhaps. Don't hit him on the head as he seems fairly harmless at the moment but he can change. 

2 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Squirrel isn't an Egyptologist is he, Special? Professor William McElroy perhaps. Don't hit him on the head as he seems fairly harmless at the moment but he can change. 

don't think the egyptians had alm houses and pence, earl, but i may be wrong. they did have charcoales and faggots though

Did Hemingway off himself said the world was too farked to live in

Looking forward to hearing the words "inundated"and "deluge" in the news. Been too long.

 

30 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Looking forward to hearing the words "inundated"and "deluge" in the news. Been too long.

 

Or when they are said quickly, "delegated"?

And it starts tomorrow.

11 hours ago, Redleg said:

And it starts tomorrow.

What?