Re: Crumbs!


[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Previous # Next ] [ Start New Thread ] [ TarBoard ]

Posted by John Nichols on July 04, 2006 at 17:29:42 from 24.250.149.61 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Crumbs! posted by Mike Dennis on July 04, 2006 at 15:15:30:

Sorry Joe if my post seemed like a put-down, that was never the intention.
Like many who post here AR's books are something we grew up with, they are an important part of our childhoods. For many of us they have an importance that perhaps others wouldn't understand, and for me it was the freedom the characters seemed to have. Even as a child I realised that things could never be exactly as AR depicted them, but I made my own attempts but never found anyone who shared my interest at the time - sad as it may seem the characters were my friends too.
What the books mean to each of us, and our view of the characters lives cannot, to me anyway, be recreated; you have to discover them for yourself.

Dear Joe:

There are of course several explanations for everything. And on this board you will find all of them, at one time or another.


  1. meaning of life - sailing or fishing, which ever takes your fancy
  2. but you see, to someone on this listserv, as soon as you say AR and fishing then there are worlds of previous posts to draw on in your memory, do you think of AR and MI5, or AR and his stories
  3. pipe smoking
  4. Do you think of AR and the war stories or Captain Flint.

    Walking into the middle of a long running and mostly pleasant conversation can be a surprise sometimes, because what some see as argument is really well meaning and vigorous debate. Also you may post just before someone gets on who has just had 12 hours of a screaming child and their humour is non existant, and suddenly, like manna from heaven, a chance comes along to use what you have not been able to use all day - your intellect. I mean as I tell Jock, over a beer every Friday night down at the Fox and Hounds, I might be battling with half wits, but at least it is a battle of sorts - there is no winning with a 16 month old, as they can not communicate well, and beating is not a good idea.

    Of course I am not calling anyone a half-wit merely an idiomatic concept.

    So pull up a chair,
    these people grow on you either like WTP or TOTH (another great English character who preferred cars.),
    and set (the American for sit down and rest a whiles) a while
    you might learn something or you may learn nothing, but at least you will be out of the rain.

    As AR said of fishing - only being in the shop is being out of the rain.

    I would warn you to watch out for the two Peter's, even I have been know to sink a few tinnies after reading one or two of their posts, and I wasn't drinking for health reasons, I was seeking the calming effect of a good dose of alcohol as it depressed the central nervous system, but everyone needs a reason to sink a tinnie and what better reason than a Limey.

    Welcome to the flock, we may not be the Fockers but we are darn close.

    JMN




    Follow Ups:



    Post a Followup

    Name:
    Eel-Mail:

    Existing subject (please edit appropriately) :

    or is it time to start a New Thread?

    Comments:

    Optional Link URL:
    Link Title:
    Optional Image URL:

    post direct to TarBoard test post first

    Before posting it is necessary to be a registered user.


    [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ TarBoard ]

    Courtesy of Environmental Science, Lancaster

    space