The No T$ No B$ Thread

[daisycutter 29,303]

'ology been off the air for at least 2 days. anyone know what's going on?

[old dee 23,486]

18 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

'ology been off the air for at least 2 days. anyone know what's going on?

Just checked DC on right now!

[Moonshadow 17,471]

2 hours ago, bjDee said:

Has anyone noticed if traffic in this thread increases around the time of a full moon?

[daisycutter 29,303]

52 minutes ago, old dee said:

Just checked DC on right now!

i still get this 

[daisycutter 29,303]

ok just got past that

[What 18,810]

Jeremy Howes doing really well at the Pies in his 'defined role' with their 'great young list'

12 possies a game, 4 marks a game

3 goas, 1 behind total

84% time spent on ground

 

Absolute gun he is

Edited May 4, 2016 by Petraccattack

[old dee 23,486]

Just now, Petraccattack said:

Jeremy Howes doing really well at the Pies in his 'defined role' with their 'great young list'

12 possies a game, 4 marks a game

3 goas, 1 behind total

84% time spent on ground

Games results suggest he is having a big influence !

[Redleg 40,059]

56 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Jeremy Howes doing really well at the Pies in his 'defined role' with their 'great young list'

12 possies a game, 4 marks a game

3 goas, 1 behind total

84% time spent on ground

 

Absolute gun he is

Don't think we should worry about those players that have left us, we have enough to worry about with those that have stayed.

[Maple Demon 449]

8 hours ago, beelzebub said:

We aren't looked upon as 'seconds' here, just eccentric 

I prefer the term 'unique individual'.

[beelzebub 23,197]

33 minutes ago, Maple Demon said:

I prefer the term 'unique individual'.

Most eccentrics do 

[Red and Bluebeard 2,075]

6 hours ago, bjDee said:

Has anyone noticed if traffic in this thread increases around the time of a full moon?

I think it is more likely to decrease, as we all off howling at the moon and indulging in other 'eccentric' practices ...  

Was it a full moon last Saturday, visible from the Docklands from around 1.45pm?

[Moonshadow 17,471]

1 hour ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

Was it a full moon last Saturday, visible from the Docklands from around 1.45pm?

I was, in full glory.

[Earl Hood 6,057]

On 3 May 2016 at 10:33 PM, hemingway said:

An end of season trip ? My experience of tour groups has not been a positive one picket, mainly because of different interests and expectations. I suspect Biff and Bitters and even your good self may have some differences that would make group travel a little testing.  Also, I like to rise early in the morning so that in itself may be a problem in stirring the others from their beds or bordellos. Bitters specific peccadilloes would worry me a little. Spanish jails are not places I would recommend. Perhaps Earl may be interested in putting together a tour itinerary using his contacts to get the best deals. There are some wonderful old castles with dungeons that may appeal to some members of the party. Earl may also be useful in acquiring cheap  licquor. I am happy to act as a forward scout and that way l may be able to leave names and addresses of the more sociable senoritas and indeed those who would be sufficiently robust in the clinches for Bitters and Biff. As a forward scout it may be difficult for me to actually meet up with the touring party but that may be an advantage when the Senoritas discover that i have moved on. This would then allow members of the group to fill the void left by my rapid departure. Anyway, it's an interesting proposition as a cultural experience. Let's see what Earl and other members of the tour party think. One has to be careful not to upset other Demonlanders who may also want a guernsey. 

What a coincidence Ernest! I am currently putting together the itinerary to recreate the 30th anniversary of my epic overland backpacking journey from Cairo to Istanbul of 1987! DLanders are more than welcome to join me. 

Ahh the memories, dysentery in Cairo, climbing Mount Sinai, then the rickety boat to Aqaba, getting bogged in sand in Wadi Rum in a rented 4 wheel drive that turned out to be a 2 wheel drive, no drive shaft to the front wheels, just a minor oversight I know. Then on to the Hotel Karnak in Amman, Jordan, no heating even though it is snowing, leaky toilet systems but luminous light switches so you could see them in the dark which was important because there was never any power available at night anyway but the staff were very polite. Off to Petra and asking the owner of the Musa Springs hostel to fix the leaky water pipe outside only to be told it is Moses' Spring where he tapped the rock twice to provide water to the tribes. Then it is off to Syria the land of stale flat bread and dry homus for breakfast, lunch and tea with a side visit to Palmyra, well what's left of it, then on to Damascus and Alleppo and then a welcome Adani kebab in Turkey. Come on who isn't up for this? 

Let me know so I can book us all in for a 2017 journey of a lifetime! 

[Moonshadow 17,471]

11 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

What a coincidence Ernest! I am currently putting together the itinerary to recreate the 30th anniversary of my epic overland backpacking journey from Cairo to Istanbul of 1987! DLanders are more than welcome to join me. 

Ahh the memories, dysentery in Cairo, climbing Mount Sinai, then the rickety boat to Aqaba, getting bogged in sand in Wadi Rum in a rented 4 wheel drive that turned out to be a 2 wheel drive, no drive shaft to the front wheels, just a minor oversight I know. Then on to the Hotel Karnak in Amman, Jordan, no heating even though it is snowing, leaky toilet systems but luminous light switches so you could see them in the dark which was important because there was never any power available at night anyway but the staff were very polite. Off to Petra and asking the owner of the Musa Springs hostel to fix the leaky water pipe outside only to be told it is Moses' Spring where he tapped the rock twice to provide water to the tribes. Then it is off to Syria the land of stale flat bread and dry homus for breakfast, lunch and tea with a side visit to Palmyra, well what's left of it, then on to Damascus and Alleppo and then a welcome Adani kebab in Turkey. Come on who isn't up for this? 

Let me know so I can book us all in for a 2017 journey of a lifetime! 

What an itinerary Earl! Shame I'm incarcerated for the next 25 years and unable to participate. Marriage will do that to you.

[Biffen 12,807]

6 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

What a coincidence Ernest! I am currently putting together the itinerary to recreate the 30th anniversary of my epic overland backpacking journey from Cairo to Istanbul of 1987! DLanders are more than welcome to join me. 

Ahh the memories, dysentery in Cairo, climbing Mount Sinai, then the rickety boat to Aqaba, getting bogged in sand in Wadi Rum in a rented 4 wheel drive that turned out to be a 2 wheel drive, no drive shaft to the front wheels, just a minor oversight I know. Then on to the Hotel Karnak in Amman, Jordan, no heating even though it is snowing, leaky toilet systems but luminous light switches so you could see them in the dark which was important because there was never any power available at night anyway but the staff were very polite. Off to Petra and asking the owner of the Musa Springs hostel to fix the leaky water pipe outside only to be told it is Moses' Spring where he tapped the rock twice to provide water to the tribes. Then it is off to Syria the land of stale flat bread and dry homus for breakfast, lunch and tea with a side visit to Palmyra, well what's left of it, then on to Damascus and Alleppo and then a welcome Adani kebab in Turkey. Come on who isn't up for this? 

Let me know so I can book us all in for a 2017 journey of a lifetime! 

Sounds wonderful Earl. 

Next time I start to think" I want to travel through a war zone filled wit h psychotic teenage boys looking for  Western hostages" I shall remember to call you. 

I like to stay within the European zone( which excludes Turkey and anywhere mentioned in the Old Testament .  

Homos in the morning is something white men  normally do in Marrakech.

 

[hemingway 7,615]

Wow Earl I am figuratively blown away. However, I think I may be literally blown away if I joined this tour. I suspect that travel insurance may be a problem unless you have already sown this up with some shady character in the back streets of Cairo or Damascus. However, if I was to perish from an incendiary device along the way, I would like to think that my first three wives would receive some meager pay out for putting up with me over the years, Also, part of my reason for suggesting Spain was that it seemed to satisfy the the indulgent and sense gratifying appetites of Demonlanders that inhabit this thread. Lets face it Earl, end of season footy trips are really about "wine, women, and song,"  And to live long enough to be able to talk about the scandals and the appalling behaviour on the trip with your mates when you return home.  Those that would want to join an end of season tour of any country are not going in order to write their memoirs or to finalize their last will and testament. I also don't think that Australian Embassy staff or Foreign Affairs would be impressed if we had to try and negotiate a release for Bitters, Biff or Picket from the hands of a terrorist or even a Midnight Express type jail in Turkey. In the middle east at the moment, the sense gratifying appetites of the people I have grown to love and hate on this thread may be difficult to satisfy. Bootlegged liquor, ISIS and hijabs don't have quite the same appeal as Sangria, Tio Pepe, Tempranillo, bull fights, tapas, flamenco and lithe dark haired olive skinned senoritas who love white skinned over weight middle age men from the New World.  I think that 2016 is not 1987 and that your suggested tour is best left in your memory. I do want to enjoy the remaining years of my life Earl, and this means indulging in a little bit of sense gratification, some quiet reflection and writing on life's hidden meanings. One of which is living long enough to see my old Demons (an integral part of my DNA and soul) rise like Lazurus up the broken and crooked ladder known as the AFL.  Earl, you are a man of great ideas, enterprise and generosity, however, I respectively suggest that your latest suggestion is not one of your better ideas. I am sure that like Milo Minderbinder you can come up with something that better satisfies the appetites of Demonlanders (Bitters appetites excluded).

[daisycutter 29,303]

1 minute ago, hemingway said:

Wow Earl I am figuratively blown away. However, I think I may be literally blown away if I joined this tour. I suspect that travel insurance may be a problem unless you have already sown this up with some shady character in the back streets of Cairo or Damascus. However, if I was to perish from an incendiary device along the way, I would like to think that my first three wives would receive some meager pay out for putting up with me over the years, Also, part of my reason for suggesting Spain was that it seemed to satisfy the the indulgent and sense gratifying appetites of Demonlanders that inhabit this thread. Lets face it Earl, end of season footy trips are really about "wine, women, and song,"  And to live long enough to be able to talk about the scandals and the appalling behaviour on the trip with your mates when you return home.  Those that would want to join an end of season tour of any country are not going in order to write their memoirs or to finalize their last will and testament. I also don't think that Australian Embassy staff or Foreign Affairs would be impressed if we had to try and negotiate a release for Bitters, Biff or Picket from the hands of a terrorist or even a Midnight Express type jail in Turkey. In the middle east at the moment, the sense gratifying appetites of the people I have grown to love and hate on this thread may be difficult to satisfy. Bootlegged liquor, ISIS and hijabs don't have quite the same appeal as Sangria, Tio Pepe, Tempranillo, bull fights, tapas, flamenco and lithe dark haired olive skinned senoritas who love white skinned over weight middle age men from the New World.  I think that 2016 is not 1987 and that your suggested tour is best left in your memory. I do want to enjoy the remaining years of my life Earl, and this means indulging in a little bit of sense gratification, some quiet reflection and writing on life's hidden meanings. One of which is living long enough to see my old Demons (an integral part of my DNA and soul) rise like Lazurus up the broken and crooked ladder known as the AFL.  Earl, you are a man of great ideas, enterprise and generosity, however, I respectively suggest that your latest suggestion is not one of your better ideas. I am sure that like Milo Minderbinder you can come up with something that better satisfies the appetites of Demonlanders (Bitters appetites excluded).

so ernest, does that mean you're signing up? 

[Bossdog 2,002]

A few years ago I went to LA and decided to take a day trip to Tijuana Mexico, after doing the tourist thing I decided to explore the back streets and was promptly arrested, handcuffed thrown against a wall and searched.   All my belonging were strewn across the footpath by some of the local constabulary and I thought "What are my rights in Mexico?   I don't think I had any.

After it was decided that I was not a drug lord I was released and promptly went to a small bar to calm down.    I then got on the bus for the return trip

By the time I got to the US boarder I was in urgent need to relieve myself, after going through customs cross legged I found the 25 cents to use the McDonald mens room.

When I came out my bus had taken off without me.   As with all times of stress I proceeded to light up a dart and was tapped on the shoulder by the biggest Afro-American policeman I have ever seen and it was pointed out to me all the no smoking signs about the place.

My bus then came back for me and proceed to take me to my hotel which was reminded me of the Bates Motel.   I went in double locked the door, ignored the screams a few doors down and drank myself to sleep.   

So I'm up for the trip Earl.

[Emerald 1,744]

7 hours ago, hemingway said:

I suspect that travel insurance may be a problem unless you have already sown this up with some shady character in the back streets of Cairo

I have my contacts in Cairo,I can hook any Demonlanders up with what you want,drugs,hookers,you can even climb a small pyramid for the right price,USD prefered.

 

[picket fence 16,644]

Hnmm Cairo.... Climbing Pyramids and maybe just the odd softly softly softly!!

As potential Mayor Goldy Wilson would say

Hnmm  Mayor..Like the sound of that!

[picket fence 16,644]

9 hours ago, hemingway said:

Wow Earl I am figuratively blown away. However, I think I may be literally blown away if I joined this tour. I suspect that travel insurance may be a problem unless you have already sown this up with some shady character in the back streets of Cairo or Damascus. However, if I was to perish from an incendiary device along the way, I would like to think that my first three wives would receive some meager pay out for putting up with me over the years, Also, part of my reason for suggesting Spain was that it seemed to satisfy the the indulgent and sense gratifying appetites of Demonlanders that inhabit this thread. Lets face it Earl, end of season footy trips are really about "wine, women, and song,"  And to live long enough to be able to talk about the scandals and the appalling behaviour on the trip with your mates when you return home.  Those that would want to join an end of season tour of any country are not going in order to write their memoirs or to finalize their last will and testament. I also don't think that Australian Embassy staff or Foreign Affairs would be impressed if we had to try and negotiate a release for Bitters, Biff or Picket from the hands of a terrorist or even a Midnight Express type jail in Turkey. In the middle east at the moment, the sense gratifying appetites of the people I have grown to love and hate on this thread may be difficult to satisfy. Bootlegged liquor, ISIS and hijabs don't have quite the same appeal as Sangria, Tio Pepe, Tempranillo, bull fights, tapas, flamenco and lithe dark haired olive skinned senoritas who love white skinned over weight middle age men from the New World.  I think that 2016 is not 1987 and that your suggested tour is best left in your memory. I do want to enjoy the remaining years of my life Earl, and this means indulging in a little bit of sense gratification, some quiet reflection and writing on life's hidden meanings. One of which is living long enough to see my old Demons (an integral part of my DNA and soul) rise like Lazurus up the broken and crooked ladder known as the AFL.  Earl, you are a man of great ideas, enterprise and generosity, however, I respectively suggest that your latest suggestion is not one of your better ideas. I am sure that like Milo Minderbinder you can come up with something that better satisfies the appetites of Demonlanders (Bitters appetites excluded).

Luuurve ya work Hemingway!!

[hemingway 7,615]

On 3 May 2016 at 10:03 PM, hemingway said:

An end of season trip ? My experience of tour groups has not been a positive one picket, mainly because of different interests and expectations. I suspect Biff and Bitters and even your good self may have some differences that would make group travel a little testing.  Also, I like to rise early in the morning so that in itself may be a problem in stirring the others from their beds or bordellos. Bitters specific peccadilloes would worry me a little. Spanish jails are not places I would recommend. Perhaps Earl may be interested in putting together a tour itinerary using his contacts to get the best deals. There are some wonderful old castles with dungeons that may appeal to some members of the party. Earl may also be useful in acquiring cheap  licquor. I am happy to act as a forward scout and that way l may be able to leave names and addresses of the more sociable senoritas and indeed those who would be sufficiently robust in the clinches for Bitters and Biff. As a forward scout it may be difficult for me to actually meet up with the touring party but that may be an advantage when the Senoritas discover that i have moved on. This would then allow members of the group to fill the void left by my rapid departure. Anyway, it's an interesting proposition as a cultural experience. Let's see what Earl and other members of the tour party think. One has to be careful not to upset other Demonlanders who may also want a guernsey. 

A point of explanation on hijabs. I love them and see them as important from a religious and most importantly cultural viewpoint. However, one has to be a little careful in ones behaviour. As a young man, I was almost shot in Turkey when I made a pass at a woman only to realise that I had mistaken the mother for the daughter. Neither mother or daughter were impressed, even less so the angry Turk that happened to be the husband and father.

[Earl Hood 6,057]

8 hours ago, Bossdog said:

A few years ago I went to LA and decided to take a day trip to Tijuana Mexico, after doing the tourist thing I decided to explore the back streets and was promptly arrested, handcuffed thrown against a wall and searched.   All my belonging were strewn across the footpath by some of the local constabulary and I thought "What are my rights in Mexico?   I don't think I had any.

After it was decided that I was not a drug lord I was released and promptly went to a small bar to calm down.    I then got on the bus for the return trip

By the time I got to the US boarder I was in urgent need to relieve myself, after going through customs cross legged I found the 25 cents to use the McDonald mens room.

When I came out my bus had taken off without me.   As with all times of stress I proceeded to light up a dart and was tapped on the shoulder by the biggest Afro-American policeman I have ever seen and it was pointed out to me all the no smoking signs about the place.

My bus then came back for me and proceed to take me to my hotel which was reminded me of the Bates Motel.   I went in double locked the door, ignored the screams a few doors down and drank myself to sleep.   

So I'm up for the trip Earl.

Welcome aboard Bossdog for our big adventure, unfortunately I am sensing some reticence from other DLanders. I am surprised at the lack of risk takers amongst us all. 

This might mean we will struggle for numbers. I need a minimum tour group to cover the cost of the conversion of the armoured personnel carrier that will carry up to 12 Dlanders in comfort and safety across the Middle East and then there is the added costs of the armoured tank and support convoy. And I have negotiated the absolute lowest bargain prices for air cover from the Russian airforce to ensure our safety across the Syrian leg of our epic journey. I will be in touch.

[hemingway 7,615]

3 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Welcome aboard Bossdog for our big adventure, unfortunately I am sensing some reticence from other DLanders. I am surprised at the lack of risk takers amongst us all. 

This might mean we will struggle for numbers. I need a minimum tour group to cover the cost of the conversion of the armoured personnel carrier that will carry up to 12 Dlanders in comfort and safety across the Middle East and then there is the added costs of the armoured tank and support convoy. And I have negotiated the absolute lowest bargain prices for air cover from the Russian airforce to ensure our safety across the Syrian leg of our epic journey. I will be in touch.

Earl, given the logistical, political, and terrorist problems, let alone the lack of replenishment and entertainment along the way, I fear that even your resourcefulness will be fully tested. I assume that you have contacts on all sides including friends amongst the hill and desert tribes. My main concern is that there are potential enemies on all sides including coalition forces. I assume that our own intelligence forces are monitoring this thread and will have tipped off  other agencies including the CIA. I strongly recommend that your default position is a tour of Spain. I am sure that you will have no trouble filling spots on a tour of libidiness Spain. Of course no wives or girlfriends allowed which unfortunately might mean that Old Dee will miss given the strict rule of Mrs OD. 

[old dee 23,486]

4 minutes ago, hemingway said:

Earl, given the logistical, political, and terrorist problems, let alone the lack of replenishment and entertainment along the way, I fear that even your resourcefulness will be fully tested. I assume that you have contacts on all sides including friends amongst the hill and desert tribes. My main concern is that there are potential enemies on all sides including coalition forces. I assume that our own intelligence forces are monitoring this thread and will have tipped off  other agencies including the CIA. I strongly recommend that your default position is a tour of Spain. I am sure that you will have no trouble filling spots on a tour of libidiness Spain. Of course no wives or girlfriends allowed which unfortunately might mean that Old Dee will miss given the strict rule of Mrs OD. 

Ernest I have always considered you to a man of vision and wisdom and I see nothing in the above to change that opinion.

so who wins Saturday?