Stroke Experience Day 2

[Steve S]

I'd consider diving with you Garf, but I suspect your psychic defences couldn't cope with my level of strokery yet keep reaching for the rainbow though and who knows what may happen

Safe diving,
Steve

[BJ]

Remember, many aspects of DIR was in existance long before George's epiphany on the road to WKPP. Like Mohammed he simply gathered together what he thought was the best combination of factors and put it together to form a new religion. For example I gave up smoking in 1967. GUE doesn't have proprietorship rights to any particular detail.

[Lou]

Nice to see that the good ship BJ Queen (we saw a ship of that name moored at Falmouth the other week and wished we had a camera for a new avatar for John) hasn't left his little pot of irony in the wardrobe this morning.

[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by BJ

Remember, many aspects of DIR was in existance long before George's epiphany on the road to WKPP. Like Mohammed he simply gathered together what he thought was the best combination of factors and put it together to form a new religion. For example I gave up smoking in 1967. GUE doesn't have proprietorship rights to any particular detail.

You're a professional writer, yeah? Mwahahahaha

Ok...joking apart, John....I recall reading that George was fully aware of that, but the point he made was that no-one had thought ot bring those aspects together before and that was what made it different.....not the constituents .... but the blend.

A bit like Mr. Kipling didn't invent flour or eggs but he does make exceedingly good cakes.

Mal

[Lou]

Mal -don't bite. Besides, I'm sure that Georgey Porgy doesn't actually need you being his knight in shining...erm...drysuit!

[BJ]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

You're a professional writer, yeah? Mwahahahaha

Ok...joking apart, John....I recall reading that George was fully aware of that, but the point he made was that no-one had thought ot bring those aspects together before and that was what made it different.....not the constituents .... but the blend.

A bit like Mr. Kipling didn't invent flour or eggs but he does make exceedingly good cakes.

Mal

I normally have a sub-editor to correct my mishtakes!

As for George, I clearly remember a conversation I had with him in the bar of the Best Western in Fort Lauderdale where he and I both agreed that considering the state of a lot of American divers he was quite right to lay down some strict rules for his WKKP project. That didn't stop him using a conventional BC and a single 80 tank for a dive at Stuart Coves's South Ocean - but where would Brownie's Third Lung be today without the marketing skills of GUE?

[Miss Roxy Chablis]

"BJ....hasn't left his little pot of irony in the wardrobe this morning"

Walk in wardrobe in the East Wing?

*Sitting next to all the cashmere sweaters for draping nonchalently across ones shoulders you'll find a particularly gharish pair of mustard coloured plaid trousers. Lotty Hass gave me those trousers as a joke present (Germans - no taste) when I was at Brett Gilliam's fourth wedding way back when. Rob Palmer told me I looked like a cad from one of those Ealing films and I've loved them ever since..........*

I love BJ - he's like Terry Thomas with fins (split fins obv)

Why does YD hate BJ so much - he's my hero - when I'm 146 - I want to be swanning round the world having fun diving with someone else picking up the tab, wearing Paco Rabanne and having a slightly overly manicured moustache.

BJ rocks leave him alone!

[BJ]

Originally Posted by Howard Payne

"BJ....hasn't left his little pot of irony in the wardrobe this morning"

Walk in wardrobe in the East Wing?

*Sitting next to all the cashmere sweaters for draping nonchalently across ones shoulders you'll find a particularly gharish pair of mustard coloured plaid trousers. Lotty Hass gave me those trousers as a joke present (Germans - no taste) when I was at Brett Gilliam's fourth wedding way back when. Rob Palmer told me I looked like a cad from one of those Ealing films and I've loved them ever since..........*

I love BJ - he's like Terry Thomas with fins (split fins obv)

Why does YD hate BJ so much - he's my hero - when I'm 146 - I want to be swanning round the world having fun diving with someone else picking up the tab, wearing Paco Rabanne and having a slightly overly manicured moustache.

BJ rocks leave him alone!

Don't worry about me. I spend my time in the company of good and talented divers. It is an honour to be unloved by the Sisters of Hecate and as you rightly point out, I laugh all the way to the airport! (As an aside, I was diving with Bret only last month in PNG.) As my own role model, Stan Waterman, would say "Good for You!"

[Miss Roxy Chablis]

I was tying my reply while you were typing yours. That's "too funny" as Gorgeous George would say

[Lou]

Do you know what, when Lizzy and I were having a quick G + T in the Nags Head the other week I told her that it was probably a bad call to honour old Larry D in her birthday gongs given her extended family's unfortunate histories with rugby players in general but England captains in particular. She did give a little nod before chomping down on her melon slice. Didn't bloomin' well stop her though. *sigh*