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Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:52:20 +0000, fred wrote:

In article , Bill Wright
writes
Years later the young man is to look back and cringe at his earlier
behaviour. He now knows that before you start to make a name for yourself in
any sort of group you must first sit quietly at the back for as long as it
takes to learn something about the people in the group. Otherwise you risk
looking like a total arse.

Marky P has come a long way hasn't he . . .

I'm just pleased you remember me. My brother forgot my birthday this
year. He won't forget the next one.

Not your twin brother one hopes - else that really would be bad! ;-)

--
Cheers,

John.

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John Rumm wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:52:20 +0000, fred wrote:

In article , Bill Wright
writes
Years later the young man is to look back and cringe at his earlier
behaviour. He now knows that before you start to make a name for yourself in
any sort of group you must first sit quietly at the back for as long as it
takes to learn something about the people in the group. Otherwise you risk
looking like a total arse.

Marky P has come a long way hasn't he . . .

I'm just pleased you remember me. My brother forgot my birthday this
year. He won't forget the next one.

Not your twin brother one hopes - else that really would be bad! ;-)

They could be like my brother and I. Same birthday but a year apart.
Some time in our teens we made a pact to not send each other cards and
pressies.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

I'm just pleased you remember me. My brother forgot my birthday this
year.

Is that what he said?

Bill

"Phil Cook" wrote in message
...
They could be like my brother and I. Same birthday but a year apart.
Some time in our teens we made a pact to not send each other cards and
pressies.

Really we should say 'bithday anniversary'. You only have one birthday, and
since you spend most of it covered in mucus you don't usually have much of a
party.

Bill

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:00:16 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:52:20 +0000, fred wrote:

In article , Bill Wright
writes
Years later the young man is to look back and cringe at his earlier
behaviour. He now knows that before you start to make a name for yourself in
any sort of group you must first sit quietly at the back for as long as it
takes to learn something about the people in the group. Otherwise you risk
looking like a total arse.

Marky P has come a long way hasn't he . . .

I'm just pleased you remember me. My brother forgot my birthday this
year. He won't forget the next one.

Not your twin brother one hopes - else that really would be bad! ;-)

Not a twin, no. If he was, then I forgot his birthday too :-)


Marky P.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:58:37 -0000, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


I'm just pleased you remember me. My brother forgot my birthday this
year.

Is that what he said?

Bill

I said to him, "It was my birthday yesterday". To which he replied,
"Oh ****! I forgot!". At this point he went to his kitchen he bought
back a large bar of chocolate and gave it to me as a birthday pressie.
I was very pleased with the chocolate but I know for a fact that it
wasn't intended as a pressie for me.

And he still hasn't taken me to Teneriffe, as he promised when I was
7. He is 14 years older than me BTW.

Marky P.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:59:17 -0000, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


"Phil Cook" wrote in message
.. .
Bill Wright wrote:
Getting my A levels on natural ability
I failed mine on natural drinking ability.

then running into a hard degree
course at a college of the University of London where I actually had
to work and not being used to it I fluffed it :-(
But you stayed in London?


Since then I have had a long distance relationship with the good parts
of the country but have some great friends down here and this seems to
be where the work is.
It was ever thus. I have London friends who went to the capital for 'a year'
in the 1970s.

I think a factor is that the friends you make in your early 20s are often
friends that last for ever, because by then your personality and theirs are
formed.

Bill

What about if you're in your early 20's and your friends are younger?
When I was 20 I met my best mate who was only 14. My friends of my
age at the time took the **** out of me hanging around with kids. I
don't see those friends anymore, but I've still got my best mate, who
is now 31 and getting married next year.

Marky P.

"Marky P" wrote in message
...
What about if you're in your early 20's and your friends are younger?
When I was 20 I met my best mate who was only 14. My friends of my
age at the time took the **** out of me hanging around with kids. I
don't see those friends anymore, but I've still got my best mate, who
is now 31 and getting married next year.

You just have to have the friends that seem OK to you. When I was teenage I
had two good friends who happened to be girls. It was good, like having
sisters, and I learnt a bit about the female mind. The friendship was
platonic and caused some confusion and annoyance to their boyfriends and my
girlfriends. All these people are history, but I still chat to the girls by
email.

Never forget the time when the Norwegian boy dropped her so she and I got
very drunk, and played Grieg, then Leonard Cohen. Or when the other one took
up with a very sexy lad who was only 15 at the time. A lot of our mates took
the **** unmercifully (they were jealous) but I said nowt for or against as
she cried with rage. After a long time (after uni for both) they married and
now he is a 'leader of British industry', and more important they are very
happy.

Bill

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:45:42 +0000, Marky P wrote:

And he still hasn't taken me to Teneriffe, as he promised when I was
7. He is 14 years older than me BTW.

Give him back the chocolate and insist on Tenerife.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
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