Bickering for bickering's sake

Post by **spot** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:23 pm

Accountable;1397389 wrote: Wow. First me, now Betty. Anybody else you want to accuse of lying, snot?

I'll do it again if you like. You're a damnable liar.

Now stop chasing me. I have no idea who you are, Acc, other than a royal pain in the backside who's been rattling my cage for far too long to be reasonable from behind the usual Internet anonymity. I, on the other hand, have had my name, address and phone number on my profile for the last five years. If you're going to push this nonsense any further at least do it more honorably.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:06 pm

spot;1397391 wrote: I'll do it again if you like. You're a damnable liar.

Quote the post, you son of a b!tch.

Post by **spot** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:10 pm

Accountable;1397393 wrote: Quote the post, you son of a b!tch.

It's called lying by omission, Acc. Go back to the thread and deal with your own mess. I've left you a hook.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:18 pm

spot;1397394 wrote: It's called lying by omission, Acc. Go back to the thread and deal with your own mess. I've left you a hook.A weasel and a coward, then.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:59 am

spot;1397391 wrote: I'll do it again if you like. You're a damnable liar.

Now stop chasing me. I have no idea who you are, Acc, other than a royal pain in the backside who's been rattling my cage for far too long to be reasonable from behind the usual Internet anonymity. I, on the other hand, have had my name, address and phone number on my profile for the last five years. If you're going to push this nonsense any further at least do it more honorably.

Totally unnecessary. Get a grip.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:39 am

I must apologize at this point unreservedly and without hesitation for my shocking use of the word liar. It was inappropriate, uncalled for, undignified and untrue. I have no excuse to offer in mitigation.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:58 am

spot;1397439 wrote: I must apologize at this point unreservedly and without hesitation for my shocking use of the word liar. It was inappropriate, uncalled for, undignified and untrue. I have no excuse to offer in mitigation.

To whom is the apology addressed??

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:13 am

Oh my Gawd..................what did I miss this time ?

Pull yourself together man, it's a bloody forum.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:13 am

Betty Boop;1397444 wrote: To whom is the apology addressed??

I must apologize, firstly to Accountable and then to the membership as a whole, unreservedly and without hesitation for my shocking use of the word liar last night. It was inappropriate, uncalled for, undignified and untrue. I have no excuse to offer in mitigation.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 6:36 am

spot;1397455 wrote: I must apologize, firstly to Accountable and then to the membership as a whole, unreservedly and without hesitation for my shocking use of the word liar last night. It was inappropriate, uncalled for, undignified and untrue. I have no excuse to offer in mitigation.

Accepted.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:38 am

De javu all over again.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:56 am

Wallah!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:48 am

SnoozeAgain;1397505 wrote: Wallah!

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:49 am

YZGI;1397502 wrote: De javu all over again.
You can say that again.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:15 am

oscar;1397522 wrote: You can say that again.

De javu all over again..

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:16 am

YZGI;1397527 wrote: De javu all over again..Der der der der

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:18 am

Accountable;1397521 wrote:

Peter O'Toole?

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:27 am

Accountable;1397521 wrote:

Did I peek your curiosity?

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:35 am

SnoozeAgain;1397534 wrote: Did I peek your curiosity?

Pique. No, the photo did.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:36 am

Oh for god's sake, talk about ruining the joke.

"bickerings" should have an apostrophe.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:41 am

SnoozeAgain;1397538 wrote: Oh for god's sake, talk about ruining the joke.

"bickerings" should have an apostrophe.

There you go, it's got one. Should have gone back and modified the bleeding thing this morning shouldn't I :wah:

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:41 am

So it ought.

I may be odd but I've not seen the joke yet, all I did was ask whether the photo was of Peter O'Toole.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:54 am

spot;1397541 wrote: So it ought.

I may be odd but I've not seen the joke yet, all I did was ask whether the photo was of Peter O'Toole.

I was making fun of YZGI's spelling of deja vu with 'wallah!" aka voila!, Acc posted the guy face palming, I wrote "peek" instead of pique and you nearly hurt yourself correcting my misspelling. Sucka!

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:02 am

SnoozeAgain;1397544 wrote: I was making fun of YZGI's spelling of deja vu with 'wallah!" aka voila!, Acc posted the guy face palming, I wrote "peek" instead of pique and you nearly hurt yourself correcting my misspelling. Sucka!

It stems from my thinking incorrectly that you were writing Worker in transliterated Hindi. I had no idea why you were writing it, mind.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:13 am

spot;1397547 wrote: It stems from my thinking incorrectly that you were writing Worker in transliterated Hindi. I had no idea why you were writing it, mind.

Yes, that would make so much more sense.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:54 am

SnoozeAgain;1397544 wrote: I was making fun of YZGI's spelling of deja vu with 'wallah!" aka voila!, Acc posted the guy face palming, I wrote "peek" instead of pique and you nearly hurt yourself correcting my misspelling. Sucka!

No fair making fun of my spelling. I may or may not have hurt feelings over it.

STELLA!!!!![

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:03 pm

SnoozeAgain;1397549 wrote: Yes, that would make so much more sense.

It made as much as anything else did at the time. The idea it might have been a mis-spelled word from French never crossed my mind. At least as transliterated Hindi it was accurate - dobi-wallah, chai-wallah, auto-wallah. Maybe it's more current in countries where novels on the Indian Empire remain popular.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:04 pm

... though I doubt whether the trade of punkawallah still exists even there.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:28 pm

You must be a lot of fun at parties.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:57 pm

It must be twenty years since I last went to a party.

Except one a couple of years ago in a village hall with a bouncy castle for a two year old which was hell on earth and reminded me why I don't go to parties if asked.

Not that I ever am.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:58 pm

YZGI;1397557 wrote:

STELLA!!!!![Thank you! At least somebody got it.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:00 pm

Accountable;1397570 wrote: Thank you! At least somebody got it.

So I guess that wasn't Peter O'Toole after all.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:01 pm

I suspect if I went to a party people would find me boring company. Though I do have an interesting trick of changing the records so people get odd stuff to dance to.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:02 pm

spot;1397572 wrote: I suspect if I went to a party people would find me boring company. Though I do have an interesting trick of changing the records so people get odd stuff to dance to.

Do people even play records anymore?

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:08 pm

SnoozeAgain;1397574 wrote: Do people even play records anymore?

At parties? They did last time I went to one.

My record player and amplifier still work, I play stuff on it that I can't replace. Stefan Bednarczyk, for instance. I've not seen his album on CD yet.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:30 pm

SnoozeAgain;1397574 wrote: Do people even play records anymore?
I do. I didn't upgrade my favorites to cassetts or cds. The originals I listen to the original way.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:31 pm

PS--album art was great back then, original liner notes, etc.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:43 pm

AnneBoleyn;1397579 wrote: PS--album art was great back then, original liner notes, etc.

Though some things have improved - I'd hate to have typed this in, for example, but OCR grabs it in seconds. These are the sleeve notes to "Live At The Morgue" and since the thread mentioned the album, I'd quite like to post details because I know damn well someone out there wants to know what they say and it's not on the Internet at the moment.

Stefan Bednarczyk - "Live At The Morgue", 1983.

Tracklist

A1 Pusillanimity

A2 Sunny View Rest Home Commercial

A3 Taboo

A4 NW3

A5 Golden Days Of Youth

A6 Seance Humorsque

A7 Visual Aids

B1 Dinosaur Can-Can

B2 The Champagne Aria

B3 With A Charm That Is All Their Own

B4 Valentines Song

B5 Twelve Days Of Warning

B6 Young Executives Square Dance

B7 Children's Action Workshop "When Santa Kissed The Fairy On The Christmas Tree"

The clipped diction, glittering lines, and lilting melodies seem hauntingly familiar.

Anyone who had the good fortune to hear Noel Coward in cabaret at the old Café de

Paris will greet the debut of Stefan Bednarczyk with slightly incredulous delight: it’s not

every day that a new young star is born with such insistent echoes of a great and, we

had all thought, inimitable talent. Stefan, in short, sounds like the young Noel Coward;-

and don’t just take my word for it: Sheridan Morley has called him the most talented

singer-songwriter of his generation.

[...] It was the Edinburgh Festival that first drew him to the attention of the outside world.

BBC Scotland asked him to do one of the songs from the Oxford Revue of 1982; the

Daily Mail heard it and interviewed him; BBC TV read the interview and asked him to

come on Festival Newsnight. The head of Granada TV saw him and signed him to do

eight musical promotions for a new series of plays. The New End Theatre in Hampstead

asked him to come and do a week of late night cabaret there which drew plaudits from

the critics which are balm to a performer at any time: but especially at 22. Since then

he’s been much in demand around the country at music festivals and is a regular

entertainer on Radio 4‘s Midweek programme. So it was high time for this delicious

young talent to be enshrined in a first LP. Here it is.

Live at the Morgue was recorded at the New End Theatre, Hampstead (originally the

Mortuary of the New End Hospital), where Stefan had enjoyed his first major London

success. Apart from one or two obvious parodies in which the shades of Offenbach and

Mozart are invoked, all the music and words have been specially written for the record.

Stefan works with three talented young lyricists, all Oxford friends: Jack Latimer, Simon

Shackleton, Tom Cheesman; and his words often mingle with theirs. The music,

though, is pure Stefan; and it is a delight.

The themes are mordant and modern. With A Charm That Is All Their Own is a

savage comment on the nuclear arms race: "Let’s drink the water at Winscale, Let‘s take

a dip at Dounreay". The Twelve Days Of Warning is a brilliant and sustained satire on

the tobacco industry ("on the fifth day of warning the government said to me INHALE

LESS"). The follies and foibles of the bourgeois intelligentsia are mercilessly caught in

NW3 and the hilarious Children’s Action Theatre Workshop Group From Pimlico.

In Sunny View Rest Home Commercial the indifference of our society to its old is

mercilessly pilloried, while in Young Executives Square Dance the gritty imperatives

of the capitalist rat race are swingingly celebrated. Sometimes the young writers invade

Monty Python territory, as in the faintly surrealist Dinosaur Can-Can, and sometimes

they are preoccupied with the nitty gritty of everyday survival, as in Visual Alds ("time

to put my contact lenses in"). Throughout, the pace never falters and the points pour

over us in a sparkling cascade.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:46 pm

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:56 pm

SnoozeAgain;1397582 wrote: :-2

I can even snap the shelves if you want to browse. There's some recognisable albums there, surely.

eta: blow the image to full size if you want to read the titles.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:00 pm

SnoozeAgain;1397571 wrote: So I guess that wasn't Peter O'Toole after all.

It's Brando! Geez.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:04 pm

My word. So it might have been. I enjoyed some of his early work.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:11 pm

Accountable;1397585 wrote: It's Brando! Geez.

:yh_rotfl People are taking me WAY too seriously today.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:31 pm

Now that we are all friends again:

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:34 pm

Impressive collection spot. What is left of mine is only half of what is seen in your photo. Some were swiped along the way, many I foolishly gave away (I must have an attachment to stuff). How I lost them & who I lost them to are stories in themselves.

Post by **spot** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:45 pm

They've had a lot of use. Just in the last decade they've spent four years at university with a couple of my children. Philip even came back with one more than he took, the Gil Scott-Heron is his. They took good care of the playing bits too, I was quite pleased with them.