Cambridge - Fancy A Punt?

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And a pint, obviously.

I'm thinking Saturday, either the 24th or the 31st July, or the weekend just before. What do you all say?

I can do any weekend except the weekend of the 10th, and there is a very big annual ILX event that will be taking place in July/August as well, but I don't think a date has been set for that yet so hopefully they won't clash.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in! I'm probably going to Spiritualized on the 1st August, (if I remember to buy tickets) so if there were a choice between the two weekends, I'd pick the 24th.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Carumba -- Cambridge Film Festival. Even I might be there.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

24th is good for me.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

24th probably a good idea, as it's likely that SOMETHING ELSE may be happening in central london on the 31st.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

SATURDAY 24TH IT IS.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark -- prepare for the worst coach journey EVAH.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I did Oxford to Stansted on Friday and Stansted to Oxford yesterday. I am prepared.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You do get to see Milton Keynes though. Yet the three hour bus has NO BLINKIN TOILETS!!!

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

When we pulled into High Wycombe yesterday it was the cue for a slip of the tongue from the driver: "We're stopping here for ten minutes to give you a chance to spread your legs".

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Well yes. I haven't taken the Cambridge-Stansted-Oxford one in many years, have kept it X5 for some reason, but the airport one is a smoother journey, fewer roundabouts. If flush, you can't beat the train (Cambridge-KC=45 fuggin' minutes peeps -- why live in Lindon at all?).

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

only a little unhappy that the three people that had been organising this had already agreed the 31st last week...

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I *said* to start the thread last week!

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, can pink actually do the 24th?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have preferred the 31st, but I am assuming Trig Brother is occuring that w/e.
perfect x-post!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

:-( that's about the only weekend i can't do, as i'm in durham. no chance of august?! or indeed the 31st?

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

toby, the 31st is RESERVED ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

17th then?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh duh ok. you will all have to miss out on my amazing punt skillz then.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

why Hmm, Pink?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually this *isn't* during the Film Fest. Gah.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it would be better towards the end of the month, just cos of cash situ is all. What about the first w/e in august then. Toby, you & anna gotta come, you just gotta!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

That first weekend of August is impossible for me, I think.

Does anyone have a massive problem with the 17th of JULY?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

can't trig brother happen in august? or is there a rule about that or something?

i can't do the 17th, and i'd prefer not to do the 24th. i'd really like a weekend of not having to rush around for the first time in a month (my parents visiting is stressfull enough), plus pp's valid comment about running out of money in glasto month and actually being able to afford the bus on the 31st.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

no sam smiths tho people, where we having a pint then - the cow

― james (james), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think its best to assume the Trig Brother day is fixed, as it will almost certainly attract a much bigger group than this Cambridge event, and its sensible not to be trying to set two dates at once.

14th August alright?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, if we have it that late, at least its more likely to be sunny...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i can do any weekend in august...

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't do any later in august as we are moving house.
x-post yeah terrible weather at the moment innit?! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So you can't do the 14th August then?

Essentially, there is no weekend available that everyone who wants to go will be able to make. So its probably best to pick the least worst option for most people, which is either the first weekend in August (I don't really mind not going), or the 24th.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

24th of July, that is.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a bit harsh if I can't even make it to a Cambridge fap don't you think?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pink we are working this around you above all...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant from the pov that I can't really do any later than the first w/e in august.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don't do the 7th Aug, as it's my birthday and there will be a fap in london (sorry if this causes inconvenience)

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What can you & chris do vicky?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I give up, you lot fight amongst yourselves for it.

(Although when a date is arranged get a mod to put it in the thread title as this would all be k-confusing otherwise)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

we'll be going to the thing on the 31st, but I'm not sure what we've got planned. We're pretty busy this summer, got lots of weekends to plan away, but we haven't finalised the dates on any yet.

We're not going to find a date that suits everyone, so Pink I think you should plump for the one that suits you best.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I would just rather opt for the date that most ppl can do tbh.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You can make some of the people happy all of the time, and make all of the people happy some of the time. But you can't make all of the people happy all of the time!

Please let me know which date it is, and I will be there! I promise!

Now my reports have finished running so I have to get offline and go do something with them.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

since this thread has started, my august 14th has filled up. a big birthday party weekend.

PP, any thoughts? will you be so poor on the 24th that you can't come?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

if the 24th is the best time when the most amount of ppl can come, then that's the date we go for definitely!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the 24th will be cool sar - we will scrap together a meager amount and drink water or lime soda's - its cool (the liklihood is my pay will be in then anyway BACS permitting)

― james (james), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Well if you've been paid hun, let's party! 24th then anyone?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 June 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Just wanted to bump this so that ppl can put the date in their diary! Stevem, can u put it in the fap calender? So who can make this now then?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go, to Cambridge!

When?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

24th July

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, I might now be able to make this as I am taking some days off in July and was planning to see friends in Cambridge at some point - so could COMBINE the two maybe! But will not be any more committal than that at the mo I'm afraid :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh archel that would be great!! yay!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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Hahaha!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was Archel I was telling about the time I nearly got a cigarette stuck through my retina for the deathly crime of "giggling" somewhere down Mill Road.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd be impressed if they actually managed to stick a cigarette through someone's retina.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Mill Road for you!
The drunks aren't allowed to hang out on mill road anymore which means you have a lesser chance of getting stabbed now!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

But the downside of that is you aren't going to have "Eye of the tiger" sang tou you when you pass the public toilets

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

don't you guys wish that you'd had me to walk you to the train station? (after my demonstration of how i can turn into a mean thug in the blink of an eye outside that pub/cinema earlier)

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I must have missed this whilst on a loo break!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

me too - do tell!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i couldn't come this weekend but i would've liked to. hello to liz and rob and ken! hope you had a good time punting etc. hello also to pinkpanther and to james. my name is matt (boyf of archel and person in my own right) and i also know the roo. rachel gave him the note today. i will see him tomorrow and will give him the address for ken's photos.
hope to see you all soon in brighton...
matt.

― what what what (what?), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Matt, we'll have to organise another meet up soon so that you can come along too! (either that or we might finally get to Brighton!) I can't believe you two know roo, it's so funny! Not sure if you have this week off too, but hope you both have a lovely week! please pass my hugs onto Archel!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh hello Matt. Have we lured you into our web of mentalism or is this a one-off?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

were pink and dl asking for details of me turning into a thug, or something else?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup! we wanted to know what happened to mild mannered colette to turn you into a thug?!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes please, tell us your tales of loutism.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it was only a demonstration, actually. apparently, you picked a pub notorious for evening brawls, according to gizmo. i pointed out that simply by the fact of being american, we can seem much scarier and aggressive to people here. and pretended like i was mad at liz by saying some nonsense that was remarkably similar to 'you got a fucking problem? well back the fuck up! i'm serious!' which nearly made her cry.

maybe it's just because i'm tall?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you are just a big meanie! *runs away scared*

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, say that again and i'll kick your ass!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey, I forgot about that C. Maybe I do have a problem - that pisshead on Mill Road certainly thought so.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, colette was relishing her agro side just a bit too much. the hidden gang-banger is her is yearning to come out. its only a matter of time before she starts pimpin hos and gacking people.

― gizmo (gizmo), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

*cries*

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

nah, it's just me picking up my old superhero alterego of 'the feminist avenger'...i thought i explained this, but can't remember-- i only get that way when i'm dealing with slimy guys that touch me or my friends. and only after repeated warnings. i think slimy men deserve to be taught a lesson, and i think i do an ok job at it!

excuse me, i need to go pimp my ride now.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

right you are. I'm just blantantly mangling the truth for fun and profit.

― gizmo (gizmo), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen both Pimp Colette and Feminist Avenger Colette in action, and neither the insane old guy from the Chapel Bar nor the random American girl from the One Tun have been seen since...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

aw the insane old guy = my bf!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just blantantly mangling the truth for fun and profit.

doesn't this make you a bit of a pimp, yourself?

i wonder if ken's bf will be there thursday, and if he'll try to touch me again! wow, such excitement awaits...

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Touch my bum, don't be shy!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

aw was he touching you last time colette? i was wondering why he's gone all cold on me last month :(

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, he touched my (bare) shoulder several times. first i just said 'don't touch me' and then 'seriously, don't touch me' and then 'get the fuck off me, old man, or i'll take you outside and kick your ass!' he left me alone, and the bartender gave me props for it (and said if i had problems again that he would chuck k'sbf at any time)

so, yeah, i think you may have lost him to the other side, ken :)

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Also we may have wrong-footed the sly old dog by moving Club FT from Wednesday to Thursday. Thursday is his crochet and knitwear evening class at Islington College.

Although on Tuesdays the Chapel runs a night called 'Ethnic Grind' which might be right up his alley.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

right up his alley
So to speak!! ;-)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethnic Grind

wtf? this is ENGLAND! ENGLISH PEOPLE CAN'T GRIND! it's been proven by science!

i guess they added the 'ethnic' bit because it was only foreigners?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, DL there is an advert on the radio (Star fm) that has the same music as the Koi Company!! Argh!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

welcome to the rest of the day in heck. is it not for the koi company? i wonder if i can get that music on soulseek so I can play it all the time really loud in people's ears.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, it's for a chinese restaurant!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

der, der, der, der ,der, der, der, der!! nnooooo!!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dotphoto.com/Go.asp?l=a2lette&P=&AID=1682251&GID=690311&T=1

not a lot, but there's some pictures from cambridge in my july folder. clearly, i'm getting a lot of work done today!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Der der der dih derderder der deeeeerrrrrrr! Oh bollocks, that's my afternoon ruined!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.dotphoto.com/GuestViewImage.asp?AID=1682251&IID=52751237

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i think dotphoto doesn't let people link to the pics, sorry...

but if you tell me which one you like, i can post it somewhere else!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Curses. It was the 'Don't Try It' sticker. I would weep with laughter if I wasn't so knackered.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Errrrr... am I dancing, or am I demonstrating the correct way to dispose of a wasp to Ken?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a haircut.

― robster (robster), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't convinced by the wasp catching technique by the looks of it on that pic.

erm xpost YOU need a haircut! haha.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realised that I am actually applying sunscreen.

Even though I look stupid, I'm just pleased because you can tell how much weight I've lost between that photo and the one a few weeks earlier at Lauren FAP.

(Please! Someone else confirm that I look like I've lost weight!)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

nice naked lady picture on the wall of holly's cananside flat!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not really hers, it's her parents', but it was nice to pretend.

liz, i've posted the sticker pics on my other photo thread, so more people can see them and giggle!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 30 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I exist!

― Davel (Davel), Friday, 30 July 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I didn't get to go last year and would very much like to have a punt this summer. Anyone else interested? Possibly on the first weekend of September?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

The Riotous Rise Of The Cambridge (UK) Multi-FAP: A Summer Spectacular

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

There's another thread for this somewhere... and it can't be the first weekend in September as I have a gig! (Plus, argh, we are trying to line up other boating for another weekend, argh.)

x-post

― Masonic Boom (kate), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

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