Llamasoft Jolly / RV5.25 Oxford - 21/10/06 PIX

Dungeon-Dave · Post by **Dungeon-Dave** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:46 pm 0

ladybird wrote: sure the boys will stick the fullsize ones up

(well, somebody HAD to.)

Non-strangers I met again are:

Dee!
Markie (jolly green giant)
Bog (enough said)
Merman
Betamax
Mayhem
LaptopLover+Zath
Skweek!
Leekfiend (minus massive 'fro)
Randomdude
PostAmySpringyLadyThingy
Two beardie blokes wot keep showing up at every meet

New faces meeted and greeted that I can remember:

Spooongod (with magnetic nipples. Everyone seem drawn to them)
Spoongoddess (Francesca, but answers to "Liz")
Ladybird
Gribbles (I think. I'd had a few by then. Drinks, that is)
Illlogickill (Rimmer3. Ace.)
Bane-ETC (slow down, man - your energy knackers me!)
Pete West (XXXL+1)
pyroxian (Steve, I think.)

(arse, me memory is crap this weekend. And with good cause.)

Memorable points of the weekend:
- meeting new faces as well as catching up with older ones.
- good beer, good venue, surperb service: landlady did her place proud
- Resident Evil requires TWO buttons to shoot. It took me 4 disks to work out that maybe the "A" key *isn't* fucked.
- think one, think twice, think bike. I felt like an extra off "Paperboy" when walking back to the hotel.
- Odd hotel: The owner looking like full-time Sucidal Syd, miserable tosser. Dank room with mildew in the shower, rising damp on the walls concealed by extra wallpaper. Marble-effect walls repaired with polyfilla. Tetris carparking. Class.
- Amy licking my face clean and Bog tongue-bathing my ears, which was convenient since I didn't use the shower.
- Being an etch-a-sketch for a night.
- Markie getting green and funky. NOW it's an RV!
- Winning a raffle prize! But it wasn't Blitz Basic.
- Magical sunday roast for a chilled afternoon. Mmmm.....

Hats off to Markie - was a cracking weekend, well enjoyable.

Dungeon-Dave · Post by **Dungeon-Dave** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:04 pm 0

ladybird wrote:here is a bigger minirvminimoovie

I get jerky playback on that - as if it's hopping forwards to the next scene and then waiting for the stream to catch up - but the backing track doesn't lag or reflect any interruptions. Anyone else get that, or is it just my player?

There's also a closeup of Mayhem too. Horrors!

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:22 pm 0

Little Dragon wrote:
piku wrote:Google Maps is mental. It's sent me on a bizarre route down the M1, then over onto the M40 at Leicester and down that to Oxford. Total time 4 hours.

The AA's version is to send me down the M1 until Northampton then across the A43 to the M40 and into Oxford. Total time 3 hours.

Err... hmm... guess which map I'll be using

Being someone who frequently travels from Oxford north (my parents are in Sheffield) I would recommend leaving the M1 at Leicester and following the M69/A45/A46 route to the M40. It is actually quicker than going all the way down to the A43 at Northampton and much fewer roundabouts. Not sure why the time is so much longer.

Akhh! what is it with you Southerners and roundabouts? Whenever two roads join, there's a bloody roundabout. Don't you like junctions or something? "ooh look, a service station, let's whack in a roundabout to jam the traffic up a tad"

The M1 was horrible. So much spray and utter knobheads who don't turn their lights on or drive two inches behind you. The A43 suffers from boy-racer syndrome a bit, doesn't it.

Retrovision was excellent

The Nanford a most strange place, complete with a game of Sokoban to get our cars out in the morning.

It was good seeing everyone again, and staring confusedly at all the new people

I shall write more when I've had a read of this thread and downloaded my pictures.

piku · Post by **piku** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:32 pm 0

PVB wrote:
psychorob wrote:Pictures will arrive here shortly they are uploading overnight enjoy: http://psychorob.smugmug.com/gallery/2033400

Cheers
Rob
at Piku and you with the face drawings.

Oh god

No idea what the Nanford runs through its taps, but it dissolves marker pen.

What I found funny was that once my name had been written across my chin random people would look and go "ahh! now I know you!"

Maybe she should have decorated all of us to help recognition

Amy I presume?

Yes. Beware the black marker of doom

PinkFearie · Post by **PinkFearie** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:36 pm 0

am uploadingnmy pics to my photobucket in a min then shall crash. met pantsman, pyroxian, gribbles, weeblz(?)

fuck im knackered and off to sleep.

did anyone grab randomdudes laptop and bag perchance?

by mistake?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 6:52 pm 0

Top weekend, most enjoyable, good to see everyone again.

. Lunch on the Sunday is a damn good idea too, fortifies one nicely for the trip back. What with the weather being so horrible and not fancying the stress and potential delays driving up the M4 on the way back we took a non-motorway route home which proved rather pretty, much less stressful, and involved the acquisition of a bonus giraffe en route too!

Just back now, got a lovely NCoT to hand along with 2 bourbon biccies, am just rolling a nice welcome-home recreational cigarette, and I can feel a good, solid enthronement coming on.

Job's a good'un

.

pyroxian · Post by **pyroxian** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:01 pm 0

Wow, I had a top time

Thanks Markie for organising it, and thanks to everyone else for turning up, bringing tech, and being a good bunch of people to spend a weekend in the pub with

Nice to put faces to names too. Now to catch up with all the internet that's happened while I've been away.

Steve

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:13 pm 0

gribbles wrote:, Skweek (you owe me an album)

One last thing - where's the video of Skweek swinging his balls around...?

Yes I do.

And I think leekfiend has the video.

Had a top weekend, knackered now, going to have a bath and go to bed. I'll put my pics up later.

psychorob · Post by **psychorob** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:15 pm 0

PVB wrote:
psychorob wrote:Pictures will arrive here shortly they are uploading overnight enjoy: http://psychorob.smugmug.com/gallery/2033400

Cheers
Rob
at Piku and you with the face drawings.

Amy I presume?

Good to see her enjoying herself.

Oh yes, I asked for mine thou, yarrrr

I uploaded some more photos for some reason it missed out 1 picture after every 5 it uploaded so there might be some in there that you haven't seen. I have also uploaded Sunday Lunch photos.

Cheers
Rob

dom · Post by **dom** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:17 pm 0

Top weekend, thanks to everyone for making it fantastic

My fullsized pics are here:(well, most of them

...) http://hobbes.dyndns.org/gallery/main.p ... ord_jolly/

cheers

Dom

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:25 pm 0

My poo is black

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PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:37 pm 0

Yak wrote:My poo is black .

PinkFearie · Post by **PinkFearie** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:37 pm 0

Yak wrote:My poo is black .

guiness?

oh yeah and i gained a decent marker pen!!!

illlogickill · Post by **illlogickill** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:44 pm 0

PinkFearie wrote:
Yak wrote:My poo is black .
guiness?

oh yeah and i gained a decent marker pen!!!

We know.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:45 pm 0

PinkFearie wrote:
Yak wrote:My poo is black .
guiness?

Indeed. Got the drinking profile absolutely spot on this time, a graceful trajectory of pints of Guinness throughout the day, transitioning nicely into JD and cokes towards the end of the night, maintaining a cheery level of inebriation throughout whilst never tending to excess, and yielding zero hangover in the morning. Spot on

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