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Re: hello folks at world...

"Phil Ditupp" <nospam@all4me.com> wrote in message
news:H0Gmk.531$Z24.25@newsfe19.ams2...
>> > Thanks for the reply, I expect Roger the Saurus will fill in
>> > contemporary
>> > details of just
>> > how miserable it has become in recent years.
>>
>> Well, it's not miserable but there is no reference anywhere in the pub to
>> the Goons. It is your bog standard (I used them so I know) London city
>> centre small pub complete with foreign bar staff, 3 real ales, piped
>> music
>> and a menu including one vegetarian option.
>>
>> The story goes like this - as I had a day in London, Mad Dan and myself
>> agreed to meet for the first time ever and thought the old Grafton Arms
>> would be an auspicious, not to say appropriate, venue. Alas Mad Dan
>> cannot
>> walk very far and the city of Westminster does not allow parking unless
>> you
>> are a foreign diplomat or are related to Boris Johnson. So I sat in the
>> Strutton Arms as it is now called and waited as an increasingly
>> frustrated
>> Mad Dan attempted to find a parking spot south of Watford. After an hour
>> we
>> gave up, I left the pub and walked to where Mad Dan was waiting in his
>> Knight Rider special. So we adjourned to the Prince Regent in Brockwell
>> Park
>> which has the same connection to the Goons as Mother Teresa has to pole
>> dancing. It does however have a parking spot just outside.
>>
>> The two of us talked and drank and drank and talked for over four hours
>> before the money ran out and I realised I'd have to brave the rush hour
>> in
>> order to get to a train at St. Pancras. It was a most agreeable time as
>> we
>> discussed the Goons, humour, politics, music, families, the perfidy of
>> women
>> and the Warsaw Concerto. We parted, agreeing to do it again at the
>> earliest
>> possible convenience and also to meet again if we could manage it.
>>
>> I'd like to think we can start a fashion for meetings between various
>> members of alt.fan.goons wherever possible.I recommend it. It really was
>> excellent and
>
>
>> I now know what Mad Dan keeps in his trousers.
>
>
>
> You swine sir, you swore you'd never tell!  The ferrets are very well,
> btw.
>
> On the up side, I now know less about the Warsaw Concerto than I did
> before.  It was a
> shame the pub didn't have anything to do with the goons other than the
> price of the beer,
> which was completely mad, but the vegetarian food was edible and the
> company was edible
> too.
>
> As an aside, I phoned West of Minster council Parking muppets and asked
> them if I could
> park in a bay I had found.  She said no, but there were bays in some other
> roads.  Not
> knowing the area other than superficially, this was as much use as a
> coffee mug made of
> icing sugar.  I even asked a policeman, whom also had no idea.  What is a
> chap to do?  So
> I avoided the ruthless £120 parking fine by inviting Roger to an
> alternative location in
> deepest Brixton.  We didn't see one single murder, it was a slow day,
> though we did see
> the external wall of the Brockwell Park Lido, which more than made up for
> everything.
>
> I concur with the notion there should be more interaction between members
> of the group and
> Ophelia, if I ever get to meet you, I promise I won't harass you, scouts
> honour.

Ophelia, if I ever get to meet you, I promise I will harass you.

Looking forward to it already
--
Roger the Saurus
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