Wow, the french...

neoliminal · Post by **neoliminal** » Tue May 27, 2003 4:06 am

Last time I was in france I proposed marriage. If I ever go again, I promise not to do that.

Seriously, I'd really like to visit france again. I enjoyed Paris and city was beautiful. Ironically the woman I proposed to was named Tombeau.

Should have known.

Next time I bring my undead team.

John -

Mestari · Post by **Mestari** » Tue May 27, 2003 6:43 am

neoliminal wrote: Ironically the woman I proposed to was named Tombeau.

Should have known.

So, at what point you did find out that she was a he?

l_dauguet · Post by **l_dauguet** » Tue May 27, 2003 10:33 am

Neoliminal wrote:

Ironically the woman I proposed to was named Tombeau.....Next time I bring my undead team.

Did she look pale in the morning? (Tombeau means grave in french)

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:30 pm

Longshot wrote:subbuteo was a really cool game!
but it s quite dead now, i dont know anybody still playing it

All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit- Half Man Half Biscuit

"There was one in the gang who had a Scalextrix
And because of that he thought he was better than you
Everyday after school you'd go round to his house..
Hoping to compete in some kind of championship
But it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work..
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again
A dodgy transformer..that cost 3 pounds ten.

So he'd send his doting mother up the stairs with the stepladder
To get the Subbuteo out of the loft
He had all the accessories required for that big match atmosphere-
The crowds, the dugouts and the floodlights too-
And you'd always get palmed off with a headless centre forward
And a goalkeeper with no arms and a face like his..
He'd managed to get hold of a Dukla Prague away kit
'Cos his uncle owned a sports shop and he kept it to one side.
And after only 5 minutes, you'd be down to 10 men..
(..cos he'd sent off your right back for taking the base out from under his left winger!)
Come to half time and you'd be losing 4-0-
-Each and every goal a hotly disputed penalty.
So you'd smash up the floodlights and the match was abandoned
And the dog would bark and you'd be banned from his house..
And your travelling army of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you and thrown in the bin
And now he's working in a job with a future (he hands me my giro, every 2 weeks)..
And me?
I'm on the look out for a proper transformer..."

I still have a set. Maybe it would be a laugh to dig it out when you guys are over for Spiky...

Post by **Thadrin** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:35 pm

I too own a fairly extensive Subbuteo set that I will NOT let my mum chuck out (even though its justgathering dust in herloft).
It includes somewhere in the region of six different versions of Watford.

Would love a game.

l_dauguet · Post by **l_dauguet** » Tue May 27, 2003 1:13 pm

Deathwing wrote:

I still have a set. Maybe it would be a laugh to dig it out when you guys are over for Spiky...

Yeah!

lawquoter · Post by **lawquoter** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:56 pm

I actually own a set myself. Managed to pick it up one year as a kid when the Sears mail order catalogue came out about christmas time and they were selling it. So I got the basic set, with the red and the blue team. I managed to pick up Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, Celtic, Manchester United, Leeds Utd, AC Milan, Aston Villa (of course) and Crystal Palace. Unfortunately, I was the only one who had it, and well, couldn't get anybody else interested. It's kinda hard to play solitaire.

That, and I have the pitch that you have to iron every time you pull it out. Never got around to grabbing the astroturf pitch.

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:06 pm

Lol...the old ball rolling along the creases problem...
What you need to do is stick/pin it onto a piece of board.
Hey...draw some squares out on it...dual purpose!

lawquoter · Post by **lawquoter** » Tue May 27, 2003 8:13 pm

That, and when you try to play solitaire, the goals that came with the game never really held their position. I'd flick around by myself a bit as a kid, wonder if anybody could really get the ball airborn like in some of the picks seem to show, or put swerve on it around a wall. I couldn't do much but fire a straight on ball. I sort of miss the ol' game.

Always wanted to put a stadium together, like the back of the box.

Dual purpose pitch? Well, I guess, but then I don't know how'd I explain the football markings? It'd look like some of our MLS fields, where the pitch markings are over our american football markings and look like crap

.

Longshot · Post by **Longshot** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:29 pm

subbuteo games during our spiky travel will be really nice!!!!

what is this song??!!

Longshot · Post by **Longshot** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:30 pm

neoliminal wrote:Last time I was in france I proposed marriage. If I ever go again, I promise not to do that.

Seriously, I'd really like to visit france again. I enjoyed Paris and city was beautiful. Ironically the woman I proposed to was named Tombeau.

Should have known.

Next time I bring my undead team.

John -

feel sorry for ya...

hope you will visit us if you come back to France someday

l_dauguet · Post by **l_dauguet** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:51 pm

Yeah! Come back! we have a fresh stock of women!

lawquoter · Post by **lawquoter** » Wed May 28, 2003 12:53 pm

Enough to go around?

Hmm...may have to move France higher on the must visit list.

l_dauguet · Post by **l_dauguet** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:39 pm

France or french girls?

lawquoter · Post by **lawquoter** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:02 pm

girls...