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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: What do you do? |
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I've started this thread for two reasons :-
1. Cos I'm nosey, and I would like to know what you all do.
2. To dispel the rumour that I work for the BBC!
I'll start off by posting two pictures; the first one being what I do at work, the second one , what I do, when I'm not at work. You don't have to post pictures but they do paint a thousand words:--
So this is what I do at work:-
[/img] http://blueangelrachel-online.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/Managment_Training.jpg [img]
and on my days off:-
[/img] http://blueangelrachel-online.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/hard+at+work [img]
Do you have two pictures or two thousand words, to sum up :- what you do in and out of work?
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Have you got the photos the wrong way round Rachel?
Those machines look a bit looooooow tech, eh?
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Two stepper
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 134 Location: Propped beside the jukebox
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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You're a stuntwoman in your day job and drive a space rocket on the weekends ? |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi John,
no the photos are the right way around.. the first one was a Management Training Day - out of the office; apparently;- abseiling blindfolded, helps to hone your management skills..
the second picture was taken when I was on honeymoon in Cornwall earlier this year.. visiting the Geevor Tin Mine...........
I didn't say it was going to be easy If I posted a picture of my office .. the huge corporate logo behind me would kind of, give it away... |
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Two stepper
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 134 Location: Propped beside the jukebox
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: |
I didn't say it was going to be easy If I posted a picture of my office .. the huge corporate logo behind me would kind of, give it away... |
NASA ? |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Well I suppose I should do a show 'n tell :
At work :
and at play :
John W |
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Captain Pugwash
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Rachel,
Can't help but notice that sign next to you in the second picture. It says victory shaft, does that mean you were first prize in a raffle? |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Captain Pugwash wrote: | Rachel,
Can't help but notice that sign next to you in the second picture. It says victory shaft, does that mean you were first prize in a raffle? |
Cap'n,
You owe me a new keyboard..... I've just pebble-dashed this one with tea!
Cherskiy _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Captain Pugwash
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry Cherskiy,
I'll e-mail one straight over |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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Victory shaft
Nice one Cap'n (have to admit it, eh Rache?)
Soz mine are boring but didn't want other folks in them.
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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My turn, then - hope everyone's monitors don't crack....!
Can't show you pictures of me at work - if I did, I'd have to kill you.... OSA and all that.
At play is a different matter, tho': first, harking back to 1992 so excuse the dress sense. This was me at an old polar ice-station supply base in North-Eastern Siberia during July 1992 (which is why there is no snow!):
We were trying to arrange a flight in it - it was used for iceberg spotting in the Arctic Ocean about fifty miles away. (Brownie points for anyone who can name the type of aircraft I'm standing infront of - Lord Evan Elpuss?)
A little more up-to-date - a few years ago on a hillside in central Scotland, waiting for low-level jets to photograph (if anyone can name the mountain behind me and to the left I'll be very impressed), carrying 'the small lens'. This is where I caught the top-side shot of the Tornado GR.4 I posted on one of threads in the 'Views' section. I also look rather haggard since I was wild-camping in the glen..... I like my creature comforts nowadays so find a B&B!
Will never win any competitions for my looks but who cares?
Cherskiy _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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dottie-may
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 56
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, aircraft - not absolutely sure but could it be an Ilyushin IL 14 by any chance? _________________ "I'm a firm believer in not having to play the hand you're dealt." |
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Scott Nelson Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Is that really you, John?!! |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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I daren't post a picture, it'll scare the horses. |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Scott Nelson wrote: | Is that really you, John?!! |
Yep. I'm improving with age eh?
In the work photo that's the computer I'm on right now, I'm self-employed now. When that photo was taken I recall I was looking at a government website about the Buncefield incident as we have some interest in what caused it.
The play photo, behind me is part of my vinyl collection, the 'classical section'. Those sleeves with the yellow bit are Deutsche Grammophon, under that is the HMV. I'm holding a boxed set of the Magic Flute, features Elisabeth Schwartzkof around 1964 I think.
Not as exciting as Rachel of Cherskiy
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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John,
For some reason I imagined you had a beard!! |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I did have short-trimmed beard circa. 1988-1992 |
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woodysdad
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Nr Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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JohnW. You can open a photobucket account in the board's name, where people can upload their pics, then download them to here, using Img and /Img
WD
Like so
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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woodysdad,
I know that statue. It's of Alexander Selkirk, the 'real' Robinson Crusoe, on a wee hoose in Lower Largo, Fife
John W
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Cherskiy wrote: | My turn, then - hope everyone's monitors don't crack....!
Can't show you pictures of me at work - if I did, I'd have to kill you.... OSA and all that.
At play is a different matter, tho': first, harking back to 1992 so excuse the dress sense. This was me at an old polar ice-station supply base in North-Eastern Siberia during July 1992 (which is why there is no snow!):
We were trying to arrange a flight in it - it was used for iceberg spotting in the Arctic Ocean about fifty miles away. (Brownie points for anyone who can name the type of aircraft I'm standing infront of - Lord Evan Elpuss?)
Cherskiy |
Well it looks like Dottie-may has already guessed it! IL-14 would be my guess too. Are we right Cherskiy? |
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Ella Sailyour
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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Does the text on the upper fuselage say "Dan Air"?
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ella Sailyour wrote: | Does the text on the upper fuselage say "Dan Air"?
Ella |
No, it's 'Aeroflot' spelt out in Russian characters. |
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Firefly
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Ampthill, Bedfordshire
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:40 am Post subject: |
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John W wrote: | Well I suppose I should do a show 'n tell :
At work :
and at play :
John W |
Wow !! John,
Come to mama you pretty baby!
Of course you know I have a thing for DJs;) |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Firefly wrote: | Technically I do 'nothing' but in reality I'm on call 24 hours a day.
Yep, you guessed it Stay At Home Mum
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Hey Rachel .... <cool name BTW>
A stay at home mum is the most difficult, least paid and the best job ever! |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: |
Wow !! John,
Come to mama you pretty baby!
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Yikes, last lady to say that to me was very drunk
and you wrote: >>Hey Rachel .... <cool name BTW>
writing to yourself???
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I'm not drunk John... and I'm being very careful not flirt
No I'm not writing to myself ... Firefly's name is Rachel too:) |
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John W
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Rachel wrote: | ... Firefly's name is Rachel too:) |
I'm just not paying attention |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Captain Pugwash wrote: | Rachel,
Can't help but notice that sign next to you in the second picture. It says victory shaft, does that mean you were first prize in a raffle? |
Gosh! Captain P!
I've not been raffled in the past but I was sold for a few rounds of beer by my co-workers when we did a job overseas many years ago... it got quite heated after all the beer had been drank and my "new owners" realised that I wasn't going to be peeling any potatoes for them. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: |
Well it looks like Dottie-may has already guessed it! IL-14 would be my guess too. Are we right Cherskiy? |
Brownie points duly awarded!
Dan-Dare.... looks like one of the crates they used to fly, doesn't it?
Cherskiy _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Dirty Sanchez
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 13 Location: West Country
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm an entertainer in my spare time
The outfit was hand-made by myself.
Any comments? _________________ Life after R2 has got to be better here |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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I like it.......
You must have gone to Elton John's car boot sale..... |
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Dirty Sanchez
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 13 Location: West Country
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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I wish I had. It would have saved me a lot of hard work _________________ Life after R2 has got to be better here |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I'll come clean.
I work for the great satan - The power generator that provides 7% of the country's electricity. . It also make the ash for termalite blocks, Gypsum for wallboards, and ash as an additive for cement. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Dirty Sanchez wrote: | I'm an entertainer in my spare time
Any comments? |
So what do you wear when you're entertaining?
(Like it, BTW...)
Cherskiy _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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Dirty Sanchez
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 13 Location: West Country
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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I don't wear anywhere near as much as that
....AND NO ONE GETS TO SEE THE PHOTOS EITHER
DS _________________ Life after R2 has got to be better here |
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Shaky Fan
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Firefly wrote: | Technically I do 'nothing' but in reality I'm on call 24 hours a day.
Yep, you guessed it Stay At Home Mum
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..or a Civil Servant! |
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AndyAndy2 RAJARed Member
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 548 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Cool photo's everyone - Sadly I don't really have any that I can put on ....yet!!!
Anyway, judging from what people tell me, I either look like Steve martin, Richard Gere (not joking here, quite nice, that one), David Essex or Will Ferrell!!
"Sky Rockets in flight, afternoon delight...." _________________ Some say he once threw a microwave oven at a tramp and that all his potted plants are called 'Steve'.....all we know is, he's called 'The Stig!'. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:51 am Post subject: |
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AndyAndy2 wrote: | Cool photo's everyone - Sadly I don't really have any that I can put on ....yet!!!
Anyway, judging from what people tell me, I either look like Steve martin, Richard Gere (not joking here, quite nice, that one), David Essex or Will Ferrell!!
"Sky Rockets in flight, afternoon delight...." |
If we ever meet Andy, would you do your best Steve Martin |
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