"Permission to leave Sir"

CJB wrote:

I believe I was also from the class of '04. Back then I thought DAD was the nadir of the franchise... oh, the naïveté of youth.

I would have to check my earliest rankings. I doubt they will have changed all that much. Possibly some of the Brosnan movies might have been higher than I would rank them right now, but I think my opinion of the various eras and movies has remained fairly consistent throughout.

CJB wrote:

I believe I was also from the class of '04. Back then I thought DAD was the nadir of the franchise... oh, the naïveté of youth.

Right about the time you received your driver's license, I dare say. Or perhaps about the time you touched your first set of real tits. Oh, the revelations of youth.

Salomé wrote:

I would have to check my earliest rankings. I doubt they will have changed all that much. Possibly some of the Brosnan movies might have been higher than I would rank them right now, but I think my opinion of the various eras and movies has remained fairly consistent throughout.

I probably did my fair share of Broz-bashing back then but now that the Age of Craig has come and gone I have a newfound appreciation for PB.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Right about the time you received your driver's license, I dare say. Or perhaps about the time you touched your first set of real tits. Oh, the revelations of youth.

Both happened on the same day actually.

"Those aren't airbags..."

"Erm...sorry. Hand slipped off the bludging turn signal..."

We had driver's ed one semester sophomore year, and sex ed the other semester. Guess you got the two-for-one!

Due to technical difficulties I'll be MIA for maybe a week. Keep the old girl warm for me in my absence.

Apologies for the extended absence. Turns out it was a toxic combination of being incredibly busy and NTTD killing the passion for Bond, as SP did. But there’s been a turnaround since, which you’ll discover in upcoming posts.

Hope you’ve all been well. Been missing CJB’s wit, Trev’s, PK’s and HGTB’s observations and BI keeping me in line.

Now, onto those messages in my inbox offering Sophia’s services and the best cocaine around.

Good to see you back, mate.

Now about Sophia, well the thing is, it was Blunty's turn to feed her last month and err...

He was too busy posting photos of her in Blades, it seems.

CJB wrote:

Good to see you back, mate.

Now about Sophia, well the thing is, it was Blunty's turn to feed her last month and err...

Oh buggeration. So THAT'S what that smell is ... although granted, the growing swarm of flies probably should've tipped me off sooner.

She never was much for hygiene. My rash is just clearing up.

Billy Connolly's routine about catching a dose of 'crabs' and looking down to see 'the wee bastards using my pubes like a fucking playpark' springs to mind.

Hello chaps, once again sorry for what seems to have been an age. Mixture of finishing essays, looking for work and starting work as well as plodding on a dissertation (ie novel).

Anyway. I'll do my best to stick my snout in more often.

Off to Liverpool tomorrow for a little break, back on Wednesday.

Will be doing some Beatles-related things, but not wearing earmuffsh whilst doing so.

"Will be doing some Beatles-related things"

I took the Beatles bus tour, which takes you round significant Beatles-related places in Liverpool - here I am by a certain street sign, for example -



The tee has a Goldfinger backprint, BTW - thought it appropriate garb due to Seanery's aforementioned line about the band. Also visited the Beatles Museum - 3 floors absolutely stuffed with memorabilia, outfits, instruments etc.

I call you short bus and you take off on The Magical Mystery tour
...all I feel is jealousy now

total jelly

did you get more pictures?

I did, will post if you'd like?

that would be cool

Your wish is my command, m' lady.

Pub that featured on the cover of Ringo Starr's first solo album (he also lived in the street on the right) -



Penny Lane sign on the opposite side of street to previous pic -



Our appropriately-liveried tourbus -





George Harrison's childhood home. Not so much as a commemorative plaque on it, which seems wrong IMO -



The gates of Strawberry Field -





John Lennon and Paul McCartney's childhood homes -

the bus, the childhood homes all of it

this is the coolest thing I have ever seen and no idea it existed
just awesome sauce all around

Happy to have brought it all to your attention .

Didn't really intend on disappearing for nearly a month but I ought to be around more in the near future at least. Summer's been swinging between being extreme busy and totally unplugged, and the busy has receded for the time being.

Good to see you, S.