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not how sure i pulled it off as was struggling to keep myself from laughing.
Still when they rang back was good job the manager said he was calling becuse the lad hung up had to think on my feet but seemed to have worked.
But seems it will work
Reply #4941. Aug 01 12, 7:04 AM
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| lesley153
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| Looks like we have a thespian struggling to get out! |
Reply #4942. Aug 01 12, 7:07 AM
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Jazmee27
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Lesley’s 4936 – Shame some people actually fall for that [the whole thing screams “scam” and “crackpot”]
Kind of reminds me of that weird call I received oh… I forget how many weeks ago.
Summary: Heavily-accented man calls. We exchange pleasantries for a second before I get weirded out and hang up on him. Man calls right back. No sooner do I verify it’s him than I slam down phone. Repeat three or four more times. (Had he called again, I’d have informed him I was calling the poliece, as harassment is a crime. [I may wait a while before resorting to such measures, perhaps longer than most would consider appropriate, but once I make up my mind to do it there’s no stopping me—fortunately for both of us, he *finally got the hint and stopped calling])
"Murder scene"
Brilliant :)
Reply #4943. Aug 01 12, 7:16 PM
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| lesley153
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Why was he phoning? That's unusual because, once they've been knocked back, they go away and stay away.
This afternoon I got a "sorry to disturb you and how are you?" phone call. I ignored the pleasantries.
What are you selling?
"I'm not selling anything, madam. Blah blah green blah blah government... "
What is it, lagging? insulation?
"No, solar panels."
Oh them. I can't have them.
"OK. Why can't you?"
I can't have them ... actually I don't need to explain why.
He said thank you before he put the phone down. I was impressed!
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I've gone back to the beginning of this thread, when I was ill and clutching at straws, Jonathan was worried, and twenty or thirty different people were contributing.
I've got to the bit where asthma? or coeliac disease? turn out to be heart failure, and I'm home after three weeks in a geriatric ward, which was the only place there was room for me. Happy days. |
Reply #4944. Aug 01 12, 7:52 PM
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Professer
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Well least you are healthy Lesley and things sorted for you which makes me so happy, am about to get myself moving for my trip, will speak on my return
Reply #4945. Aug 01 12, 11:29 PM
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| lesley153
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| That's got here quickly! Have fun. :) |
Reply #4946. Aug 02 12, 5:51 AM
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| lesley153
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I got married 38 years ago today, and the Queen Mother would have been 112. Not sure which is scarier.
Just watched the rather surprising combination of Igudesman and Joo with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=2gBoth3f3VI
and learnt that the song appears in George Carlin's top ten embarrassing songs.
1. I gotta Be Me
2. My Way
3. I Write the Songs
4. That's Life
5. Let me Entertain You
6. Hey Look Me Over
7. You're Gonna Hear From Me
8. Impossible Dream
9. I Will Survive
10 If They Could See Me Now |
Reply #4947. Aug 04 12, 9:43 AM
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| lesley153
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The Olympic closing ceremony will include a concert, for which "top talent" will be paid £1. They were going to perform for nothing, but needed to be paid, so they would have a contract with the organiser.
By startling contrast, the well-known wrung-out wrinkly Paul McCartney will pocket £1m. Any ideas what he'll do with the money? Feed his starving children, is my guess. |
Reply #4948. Aug 07 12, 4:19 AM
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postcards2go
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Wouldn't be a bad idea to donate it back to the British olympics committee (sorry, don't know its name, but every country has one) or to underpriviledged athletes who can't afford training.
Reply #4949. Aug 07 12, 7:06 AM
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bloodandsand
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Why does he get £1 million, Lesley?
Reply #4950. Aug 07 12, 9:07 AM
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baldricksmum
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I read his fee was £1.
Reply #4951. Aug 07 12, 11:35 AM
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| lesley153
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I believe that his fee for the opening ceremony was £1.
Why £1m for the closing ceremony? Search me! And now of course I can't find any mentions of his fee for the gig.
Anyone excited about seeing the Spice Girls in the closing ceremony? Just checking. |
Reply #4952. Aug 07 12, 3:35 PM
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| lesley153
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| He and his then wife Heather gave £1m to help tsunami relief in 2005. Perhaps he helps causes quietly and perhaps he'll give the fee to something useful other than his bank account. I wonder how much the donation would have been if he hadn't been married to heather. |
Reply #4953. Aug 07 12, 3:45 PM
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| lesley153
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If you were/are a man, would you text a woman you professed an interest in with a joke about self-pleasuring while watching the Olympics women's beach volleyball team?
Feel free to guess who it came from. Shouldn't take long. |
Reply #4954. Aug 08 12, 7:21 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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EWWW! Pretty sure I can guess, but THAT has to take the cake! Sounds like a true pervert...:(
Reply #4955. Aug 08 12, 8:09 AM
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| lesley153
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I'm perfectly sure you can guess! I didn't think so much perverted as utterly devoid of a sense of appropriateness. I managed to stop him rolling up on my doorstep and telling smutty jokes. I've also managed to stop him making personal remarks.
He started texting the jokes instead. I've told him I've deleted them and they're not generally appreciated!
So he's stopped doing all that, and has now started being presumptuously suggestive instead. You'd think after more than ten years he'd have got the hint, unless it's just a game now. I hadn't heard from him for a pleasantly peaceful fortnight, and then this. I've deleted it (my inbox was bursting!) and haven't replied because I've run out of words that don't include "off." |
Reply #4956. Aug 08 12, 11:24 AM
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| lesley153
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Oh - nearly forgot - he tells me I should be grateful he still finds me bonkable. Shouldn't I!
I'm so bowled over by the charm of his vocabulary that I completely forget my manners. And will continue to forget them, of course, while I still have enough brain cells to know what does deserve my gratitude. |
Reply #4957. Aug 08 12, 12:03 PM
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bloodandsand
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It's a pity the Advice to Bachelors thread has been closed. You could have posted this on there with a view to advising members of the male population how NOT to communicate with members of the female population.
Think you may have to do a "Bobbitt", Lesley, because talking to him is not doing any good :))
Reply #4958. Aug 08 12, 12:26 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I like the "Bobbitt" idea! "Bonkable" is too funny! The man has a problem...just not sure what it is. Be careful. ;)
Reply #4959. Aug 08 12, 2:44 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks for the idea, Bev! It wouldn't be exactly a Bobbitt because that would involve either physical contact (ugh) or a certain amount of planning - tongs, rubber gloves... a vice on a workbench, perhaps...
He called on a particularly cold evening a few years ago, when I was in the kitchen and sprog was on his computer. Sprog let him in and immediately bounded back upstairs. He may have bullied his way in by leaning on the doorbell, but nobody said I needed to entertain him too. I carried on doing things with food.
He stood in the hall like a spare part, banging on about how cold it was outside and how cold his hands were. "Feel this - it's like ice." I had no desire to leave my cooking, certainly not to feel his hands, because I'd have to fumigate mine before I touched any more food.
"No, it's all right, thank you, I know what cold feels like."
After about half an hour, he got his way. He grabbed my wrist, clasped my warm clean hands with his blocks of ice, and then moved the tip of his finger round my palm. EEEUUURRRGGGHHH! I was furious and I shouted quite a lot. He blanched and headed for the door - walking backwards, no eye contact, no sudden movements. Jonathan was alarmed enough to run downstairs when he heard the shouting - he thought the house was falling down.
Thank goodness most of the male population do a passable job of communicating with the female population. I think he's a fairly striking exception. And he found my door. *sob*
He first got over the doorstep about twelve years ago by making me feel sorry for him *kicks self* and I haven't been able to shake him off since.
His problem? I think he's got a schoolboy's head in a man's body. |
Reply #4960. Aug 08 12, 4:11 PM
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