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Wednesday 30th July its National Foreplay Day !

Thursday 31st July its National Orgasm Day !

Everyone celebrate!

I don't suggest that your sources are other than impeccable, but: Who says?

Ah.... the Daily Record - where else can I find so much information ranging from the medical world to politics to what day it is!

Wednesday 30th July its National Foreplay Day !
Thursday 31st July its National Orgasm Day !

Okay, mandatory follow-ups...

Orgasm right after foreplay? Geez, I thought Brits could go a little longer than that!

Do you really need an entire day for foreplay? Wouldn't "National Foreplay Period of Three or Four Minutes" be just as good?

So if July 30 is Foreplay Day, and July 31 is Orgasm Day, shall we open up nominations for August 1? How about...
... National "Was it Good For You?" Day
... National "I Hope We Didn't Wake The Kids" Day
... National "Oh No, My Husband is Home!" Day
... National "Don't Move, Let Me Get You a Towel" Day
... National "ZzZzzZZzzzZzZZzzZZzZzzzzZzZzz" Day

I wondered all those things as well Thanks for being the one to say it

Mainly, I'm suprised that they'd cut out the fun stuff. Then I'm amazed that they can have day-long orgasms. That would be pretty cool. Do you have to know yoga for that?

Sting knows all about it!

National "yes, I'll take the handcuffs back - I didn't expect them to break THAT easily" day

Or "Have you startedv yet?" Day!

Yeah, that "Tantric Yoghurt" thing.

30th: 30 seconds before midnight
31st: 25 seconds after midnight

Not everything is as it seems.

Sting knows nothing about anything, except how to end with a stack!

Sting rules!

MIDGES HAVE MURDERED MY HUBBY'S WEDDING TACKLE*

I quote from your source of information this morning, the Daily Record, no mention of foreplay, nor orgasms.
I wish you would copy the whole quote: "Sting rules pretentious mediocre sub-pop music, was the quote that you were after!

Shouldn't these days rreally have coincided with the Glastonbury (aka Lustonbury) Festival???

Nothing like a mudbath to heighten the senses, although I understand that it was disapointingly dry this year!

Tell us how you really feel about Sting, Mr. B. Stop holding back.

I just don't understand what people see in his music, such as it is.
No, I remember now, I'm just jealous of his fortune.
No, now I think about it, I think that the Police and U2 are the most overated groups of all time.

I think that the Police and U2 are the most overated groups of all time

truth

Hang on, now. Now you're treading on my U2.

I'm starting to come around to your thinking on the Police, though. The more I listen, the less I like them, except for a few things here and there. Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers were (are?) remarkable musicians, though.

I'm actually not a big fan of the Police (I like a few of their songs), but I think the stuff Sting has done since has been brilliant, both musically and lyrically. However, it does seem that musicians I like tend to get branded as "pretentious" (Neil Peart? Never!) so I don't know what that says about me.

You're correct. Sting and U2 are crap, give me manufactured boybands any day!

Its all about personal taste. You say overrated, others would disagree with you.

I didn't geta chance to listen to the Police the first time around, but I like them now. Stings solo stuff is actually pretty good - maybe not his last album, Brand New Day, but the previous albums have all been innovative and original.

Its all about personal taste

Let's not forget that - it's the key point!

I am idly curious who you do like. I don't think I've heard you talk about anything but talk radio and audio books.

Its on page 20 - with a big picture of Jordan covering her breasts with L plates! Can't believe you missed it. Actually, maybe I can - she's a turn off IMHO.

Yeah, she's kinda scary

Such wise words from her

"Sex without foreplay is like toast without butter"

What... like dry and crunchy? I don't understand, Jordan. Explain!

Sex without foreplay is like a fish without a bicycle.

Philip, can I request something?

Could you just add your avatar to the board already?

Yes, its been annoying me too! I'll find something appropriate soon! I promise!

Bummer. I'll have to wait till the 2nd to celebrate. Looks like I scheduled my wedding a couple days too late. I'll celebrate it on the "day of" next year though Then again, does that mean I'd have to celebrate Guy Fawkes day too? Maybe they'll come up with an orgasm day for USians.

I'll celebrate it on the "day of" next year though

Hey, look at it this way: now you have a whole year to practice!

Maybe they'll come up with an orgasm day for USians.

I thought that was any day of the year we wanted to. I would hate to have to wait once a year to have a big "O" like the Brits do

Do you really need an entire day for foreplay? Wouldn't "National Foreplay Period of Three or Four Minutes" be just as good?

<bitch>
Three or four whole minutes? Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
</bitch>

Three or four whole minutes?

You'll be pleased to know that in the Northwest this is all celebrated informally as National Foreplay Week

Heavens man, where have you been, have you read none of this erudite stuff, everything from dog training, trams, trains and sexual protestations - I'm surprised that I haven't been approached to make a book of my better quotes.

Music, I've got around 900cd's and 2000 cassettes and LP's that I'm currently transferring to MP3's, I don't know what my favourites are, I'm a bluesman, but I've collected loads of other stuff over the years.
Most memorable albums of the top of my head: 1st Paul Butterfield, Ist James Brown at the Apollo, Albert Lee(Why is he not more popular), North Mississippi All Stars, Otis Blue, Jackson Brown (funnily enough), I may post more as I think of them.
I side stepped the Sting question by criticising Police: Sting, I think that he's indulged and indulgent. If he did a concept album on the life cycle of the pond newt, his record company would put it out, he's made it and can do anything he likes.
I thought after I had posted the criticism that I had only heard tracks on the radio, and that to be fair, I should get some of the stuff and listen to it, but Leeds Public Library, that fount of all knowledge, had none in stock!

Can't make that link work, but it's only my list of posts.

<bitch>
Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
<bitch>

<misogynist asshole>
I dunno, I never bothered to ask them!
<misogynist asshole>

August 1st: National Sit Back And Have A Smoke Day.

August 2, Explain the facts of life to the kids day, after they heard noises in the night!

They didn't have Jordan and her hell plates on the Record website, just the midges make an unusual contraceptive bit.

I don't think I've heard you talk about anything but talk radio and audio books.

Heavens man, where have you been, have you read none of this erudite stuff, everything from dog training, trams, trains and sexual protestations - I'm surprised that I haven't been approached to make a book of my better quotes.

Uhh, oops. That came out wrong. I meant to say that I hadn't heard you mention any music you enjoyed, as all the audio-related stuff you mention has centered around audio books and the radio. IIRC. Which I may not.

Santana's good, but I don't care much for Eric Clapton.

Anyway, it was time for a change, I might do a new Avatar at the weekend:

Bastard!

Only kidding, back to normal!
Always cared a lot for Tom Rush - let's be honest, I'm just living in the past!

The senior citizen - he only knows about talk radio and audio books, you know.

Ha!!!

Bitt, I wasn't going to presume by jumping in and trying to list Boxer's musical interests, but.....

....yeah, he is mired in the blues (so many of us old folks are!) but I just want to say that -- among the many, many pleasures of an Amersfoort pilgrimage (and there were many) -- I have to say that spending a while with a rib-addled Godfrey (as he recounts the many Claptons and Korners he has met or played with -- and who he may now love or not love) ranks way, way up there on the pleasure scale. Completely worth the price of admission all by itself. I was spurred to post this as Butterfield's "One More Heartache" just came up on the shuffle rotation and I remembered that the only way I could hold my spare rib (and head) up in Boxer's presence was by noting that I managed to see Butterfield *twice* before the bloom was off, so to speak.

Anyhow, I am hoping to keep enough United miles alive to manage a trip back next year so I can hear some more stories -- and get a look at that DUKW!

<bitch>
Gee, there must be plenty of satisfied women in your past.
<bitch>

<misogynist [censored]>
I dunno, I never bothered to ask them!
<misogynist [censored]>

<polite Canadian>
I hope you at least dropped them back off at their corner...
</polite Canadian>

<polite Canadian>
I hope you at least dropped them back off at their corner...
</polite Canadian>

They probably never needed to leave their corner

Uh... DUKW? Where???

Uh... DUKW? Where???

The not-quite Julf-sized DUKW in question is referred to here

(Those odd "Ducks" have always had a special place in my heart. They were always the high point of local Memorial Day and July 4th parades....in the 50s a Grossman's lumber yard in Braintree south of Boston had a few surplus DUKWs and Sherman tanks for sale -- you could see them from Route 3 -- and a seminal high school moment of mine revolved around an unsuccessful attempt to steal a DUKW from a barn. Now DUKWs are everywhere....as tourist vehicles...on the streets of Seattle, and Dublin, I see)

Well, I even saw one swimming past on the canal in the centre of Amsterdam on a Queen's Day a few years ago. Right now my friend is trying to get me to buy a Stolly.

Talking of queen's day, I've just survived Queer Day - the Gay Pride parade on the canals. Unbelievable how much speakers/amps they can pack on a boat, I had my front door rattling in time to the bass a couple of times (my house is facing the canal).

Thinking of retaliating - I can get 3 x 25 A at 230 V, so should be able to put out something like 10 kilowatts of power. Now I just need a big bunch of high-efficiency horn speakers...

"One More Heartache"

Ah, the resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, a great album, but two things have vexed me this last quarter of a century:

1. A gave a guy a lift years ago who, on hearing "One More Heartache", said: Oh, that's a cover of that motown record by xxxxxxx. Who did originally record it, I've looked in passing at Motown compilations in stores, but never found it? - maybe it wasn't a motown record at all. Anyone know?

2. Who was Pigboy Crabshaw, and why did he need resurrecting?

Small things like this vex me more than the meaning of life, the universe etc.!!!

The model is roughly a metre long and can either be assembled front wheel drive, or if you really want a winter's work, full six wheel drive. I'm going for the latter, and hoping that it's within my modelmaking abilities.
I think that I said to Jim at the meet, I could kick myself, years ago I was offered a perfectly good one for £3,000 - I understand that a mint one commands £20-30k, these days. I haven't seen it lately, but there used to be one knocking around locally with a caravan body mounted on it - all purpose motor home!
A British Company is bringing out a top end of the range amphibian, shortly - 100mph, on the road, rather better than the Amphicar of old.
What's this thread about, foreplay and orgasms?

Marvin Gaye?
One more heartache
Written by: Smokey Robinson/Ronnie White/Pete Moore/Bobby Rogers/Marv Tarplin
Performed by: Marvin Gaye

http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?muzenbr=185870&myptr=mhsresearch

Apparently Pigboy was Elvin Bishop's stage persona. Elvin sometimes poked fun at his own roots by calling himself "Pigboy Crabshaw." In those days, dress was casual and Elvin frequently would perform onstage wearing his country-boy overhauls and plaid flannel shirt.

Why he needed resurrecting, it doesn't say.

Elvin Bishop

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/bishopelvin-thats.html

Thanks for that, I shall rest more easy in my bed, until I wake perspiring at 4am with an immediate need to hear what the Marvin Gaye original sounds like! - off to the store this lunchtime, more un warranted expense!

Ahh but why wait when you have the instant gratification machine called the internet.

http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?muzenbr=185870&myptr=mhsresearch

Good Point, I'll have to wait until I get home - I have to set an example in the office!

Hmm... A modern amphicar? Any pointers?

If you mean what's an Amphicar,this should cover. If you want to know what the new thing's like, it's just a whisper, I don't think any more information is currently available.

I have been desiring an amphicar for a long time - so I'll just have to wait for news then

Ah... SWMBO's parents had one of those (except it was powder blue, not orange) when she was (much) younger.

Cheers

You'll need to keep your eyes on this site, in the meantime there's the Dutton, which is fibreglass, based on Fiesta parts, but they don't seem to have a website.

Found another one here!

SWMBO's parents had one of those

Were they professional rust collectors, or just playing at it?

Cool! Will keep my eyes open for that one! Thanks!

New amphibian to be launched in the UK this wednesday: 100mph on land, 30mph on water - I can't do knots! - £60,000, according to the BBC. I'll post more if I see more.

100mph on land, 30mph on water - I can't do knots

1 mile is 1609 meters
1 nautical mile is 1852 meters

So 1 mph is 1609/1852 knots and 1 knot is 1852/1609 mph

30mph ~ 26 knots

/Michael

Cool! Looking forward to more info!

Powder Blue, you say? I ran into this one a few weeks ago... I knew I'd heard talk of them recently, couldn't remember where.

The rest of the pictures from that outing are available here.

Matthew

It's here, Retractable wheels by the look of the video - but no doors, which is a retrograde step from the Amphicar.

The one with the door at the front is a Heinkel, the red car you show is a Volvo P1800, similar to the one used in the television series: "The Saint".

I hope that you're all set up with the DAB receiver, ready for the Sting concert, next saturday night Radio 2, any problems I can oblige!

Four posts on the same thread in 20 minutes, I'll be "FAQ Master" in no time - but what an ugly avatar, must do better!

Oops, even the BBC can get it wrong: £150,000 - I don't know who is going to shell out that in a hurry.