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Post by blueshift on Nov 11, 2010 17:39:12 GMT
Wow it is expensive! Checking The Train Line website, it's like £100 each way. I've got no right to moan about the £14 return I just paid for I suppose. Yes! All must buy Martin and I drinks! It is cheaper if you buy far in advance but then you are restricted to trains at odd times, and the ones that take the long route, at least the ones I could find. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 11, 2010 18:21:30 GMT
It is random. I booked tickets for the Moonbase 2 meet in Brum earlier this year from Edinburger and tickets were around £12 either way.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 11, 2010 18:24:02 GMT
It is random. I booked tickets for the Moonbase 2 meet in Brum earlier this year from Edinburger and tickets were around �12 either way. -Ralph Good grief!I didn't want to know that!  Anyway, I have my stuff! I have: COMICS! DVDS! RALPH'S PRESENT! Anything else I need? |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 11, 2010 18:30:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 11, 2010 18:57:46 GMT
This time, on THE YOMTOV FACTOR, the world's most deeply unfair colouring competition:
FIVE ROUNDS....OF FEAR!
FEATURING EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK BY THE GAVIN SPENCE![/b][/color]
ALSO OFFICIAL TF ANIMATED TAT PICTURES!
ELIMINATION ROUND...OF DEATH![/color]
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A GENUINELY SHIT RUNNERS-UP PRIZE!
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YOUR CHANCE TO WIN...A SLIGHTLY FABULOUS PRIZE![/b]
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CONTINUAL UNFAIR BADGERING AND HARRASSMENT FROM THE YOMTOV MASTER![/b][/color]
NO TOILET BREAKS!
PLUS...THE JUDGEMENT OF PRIME!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 11, 2010 21:57:07 GMT
Addendum:- Martin, the hostelry I was thinking of repairing to is called McGowans and it is at a place called Fountainpark which if memory serves is on Dundee Street. (I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I err). The Interweb suggests that perhaps you might mean McCowans. Yep, that sounds like it is probably the one. I got close with the name.... (not really my strong point names and erm...whatchamacallums. In other news, the Kwizz of Mild Peril is prepared, and the almost adequate prizes have been assembled. Now all that is required is vic#€¡contestants. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 12, 2010 1:02:46 GMT
My mobile is unchanged. I shall be at Haymarket at about three thirty so I can meet up with folks when they get there.
I have the booby prize of all booby prizes for one of the quizzes.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 12, 2010 8:32:02 GMT
Lo! I set forth!
(Steps out of door, trips over shoelaces, falls flat on face. Pretends to be examining haggis tracks.)
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 12, 2010 8:56:11 GMT
For anyone looking for live updates there will be two main sources of information.
My twitter stream at @andrewdturnbull - and should one of the team become comedy drunk Uncle Phil will be notified as is traditional now!
Andy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 16:51:49 GMT
Those prices on the National Express trains website that Ralph linked to seem kind of reasonable and if I'd have known about that sooner I might have joined you lot this weekend. Never mind, maybe I'll see about going to next years Scotcon.
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Post by Gav on Nov 12, 2010 17:00:15 GMT
Yomtov images printed and ready for transit. SQUEEEEE!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 12, 2010 20:31:05 GMT
For anyone looking for live updates there will be two main sources of information. My twitter stream at @andrewdturnbull - and should one of the team become comedy drunk Uncle Phil will be notified as is traditional now! Andy This is quite likely because Andy has refused to stop Ralph mixing his drinks. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2010 21:01:54 GMT
BATTLE REPORT!
Mr McV and Mr Marshall safely made it to the pub. Mr Marshall foolishly decided to pace his drinks at the same speed as Mr Turnbull. We suspect he may be very tender in the morning. We made him eat something though, despite his protests. I suspect he may have to be carried to the house of Mr Thurgood very, very soon.
I have left the pub due to general work tiredness and need an early night to get over minor cold. I have been sober thus far.
Excitingly, glow-in-the-dark ENERGON BANGLES were being handed out in the pub. Some drinks promo thing.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 12, 2010 23:00:20 GMT
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Post by KoshNaranek on Nov 13, 2010 2:24:56 GMT
Bummed that I can't make it this year. It's mainly due to some personal issues that have arisen but there's also a general lack of funds at the moment. All being well, I hope to join in the jolly japes again next year and hopefully have Marc in tow. Hope everyone in attendance has a fun weekend.
- Tony
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 13, 2010 10:21:06 GMT
This just in: Mr Marshall is described as "delicate". I hope he does not chuck up on the train back to Edinburger.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2010 16:31:13 GMT
Mr Turnbull's Facebook tells us: that was a traumatic quiz. From zero points in round 1 to mid table respectability at the end. Masterpiece grimlock is cool. A must have purchase! Fire alarm goes off. Entire pub looks on unimpressed and goes back to drinking. Gentlemen in the toilet spending far too much time in latrine spitting. Obviously not a fan of the taste.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2010 18:35:55 GMT
Ralph describes Karl's quiz as "Evil"
Nick won the Yomtov Factor and as a result now own PCC Crankcase and the Destructicons. Matt came 2nd - no update on the previous "delicate" - and now owns a Poundland robot.
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Post by Gav on Nov 14, 2010 14:23:41 GMT
Just back home. A poltergeist in Ralph's house broke my glasses, so I am about to venture to Specsavers for hopeful repair.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2010 17:31:00 GMT
Item: Jack Straw spotted in Tescos!
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Post by blueshift on Nov 14, 2010 20:07:30 GMT
Good grief, we are NEVER going to Pizza Hut EVER again. I was (stone-cold sober mind you, not drunken since Friday) spending most of my 4 hour train journey on the loo, culminating in a rather epic vomitting session |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2010 20:58:52 GMT
Oh dear. That's not good.
I have not long bid farewell to the last of the gang and completed essential domestic tasks so I can now vegetate before my brain crashes. Good weekend.
Karl needs to put his quiz online. It was beyone evil.
Shocking news though is that Martin taunts goats!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Nov 14, 2010 21:44:20 GMT
I had a fantastic time, it was a real treat to see all you guys again! Ralph, it seems that your inability to eat all of your pizza was not a mark of shame, instead a canny foresight that the pizza was in fact, POISONED!  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2010 22:11:01 GMT
My last visit to Pizza Hut was not a good one either.
Hence my use of Bottelinos - the fine restraunt in Swindon I took you all too - and Pizza Express.
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Post by Gav on Nov 15, 2010 10:10:34 GMT
Glasses fixed!
A lovely day all in all. Great to see everyone who attended. Many thanks to Ralph for allowing me to stay at his lovely flat. I think that next year the quiz should pertain to RiD and Animated. THEN WE WILL SEE WHO IS THE VICTOR.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 15, 2010 13:53:51 GMT
Just back at Turnbull Towers. Epic weekend And looking forward to a lazy day. There are two one page stories written and drawn by the gang that will be uploaded either tonight or tomorrow.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 15, 2010 16:19:44 GMT
Shocking news though is that Martin taunts goats! I do indeed. My secret is out. Though in his defence, Martin also feeds ducks and strokes goats, cows, sheep and cats. Back safe and sound. A fine weekend, despite the pub's chicken tikka massala requiring oral expulsion on the Saturday night. Anyone wanting to stay near Edinburgh Haymarket station, I would recommend the St Valery Guest House for friendliness. Weekend highlights included accounts of Nick's exploits, Karl's superior quiz (superior on account of being skewed towards stuff I knew), the city farm with its aforementioned animals, getting to meet the legendary Blot and Fierce Cow Monster, and watching Ralph's Mr Men DVDs. My commiserations, Gav, but nowt wrong with Pizza Hut from where I sit. After a night of throwing up pub curry, the jalapenos on that 'Diavolo' pizza seemed just the job for settling my stomach. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 15, 2010 18:27:12 GMT
PS More Mr Men songs on same channel. Some of them feature Arthur Lowe.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2010 18:43:47 GMT
Healthwise, this was the 1st Scotcon where I was not bockled and/or terribly ill the next day. Huzzah!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 15, 2010 19:14:46 GMT
For those that did not attend you missed an entirely new dimension of terror in The Yomtov Factor. A horrific and traumatic experience that could destroy mortals. Sadly previous one time winners Gavin Soence and myself were unable to take a second victory as Nick narrowly pipped Matt, thanks to Matt's flawed colouring philosophy that equated erotic with the colours of yellow and brown.
Karl's quiz eclipsed anything Nick previously brought to bear with a soul crushing first round.
Once again Ralph was vanquished at Connect Four by myself.
Matt was treated to the wonderful sounds of a thirty something woman revelling in pride at having urinated on the platform at Haymarket.
The ducks at the city farm still see me as an enemy and act accordingly, however tbe goat has now decided I am a good egg. The cow who is next to him is still sinister and I also believe carnivorous. A lick at Martin some wrote off as friendly but i saw as the cow simply sampling the goods.
Ralph's frog army were in hiding, sadly.
Andy
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