"Competition" - Where's Brian?

On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:52:11 +0200, "theo" <[email hidden]>

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Don't count on it. It's a shame my english isn't good
enough to join in.

Er, you must have something very specific in mind Theo, and
are being too critical of yourself, because your English is,
well it certainly passes for that of an Englishman!

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Simon Caldwell said:

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So, for a bit of a fun competition, who can name where
I am?

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Can't be bothered reading all the replies so it's
probably been got by now,

What makes you think the thread is about the above
question Simon? We went off on a tangent very early on in
this thread.

Simon must have been gottn by the dwarf early on....

Chris Gilbert said:

There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an axe
at you....

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can go up,
down, north, south, east and west. You are carrying two Aldi
trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Chris Gilbert said:

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

You lose 5 hit points.

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Don't count on it. It's a shame my english isn't good
enough to join in.

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Er, you must have something very specific in mind Theo,
and are being too critical of yourself, because your
English is, well it certainly passes for that of an
Englishman!

Yeah, it's well good innit?

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Simon Caldwell said:

> So, for a bit of a fun competition, who can name where
> I am?

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Can't be bothered reading all the replies so it's
probably been got

by

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now,

What makes you think the thread is about the above
question Simon?

We

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went off on a tangent very early on in this thread.

Simon must have been gottn by the dwarf early on....

Perhaps it was his mint cake.

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theo said:

Don't count on it. It's a shame my english isn't good
enough to join in.

Er, you must have something very specific in mind Theo,
and are being too critical of yourself, because your
English is, well it certainly passes for that of an
Englishman!

Doesn't it irk you when foreigners (usually Dutch!)
apologise for their poor english, when writing perfect
colloquial english - usually better english than many of our
natives ;^}

Regards: Jim Ford

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Chris Gilbert said:

There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an axe
at you....

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
different.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can go
up, down, north, south, east and west. You are carrying
two Aldi trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

he is trying to steal your trekking poles and tent

Judith said:

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Critical hit. Your rucksack is destroyed and you lose
another 14 hit points.

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Don't count on it. It's a shame my english isn't good
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in.

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Er, you must have something very specific in mind Theo,
and are being too critical of yourself, because your
English is, well it certainly passes for that of an
Englishman!

Yeah, it's well good innit?

Thanks for the compliments guys but I think that being
humoristic/ironic and to the point is of a different level
of English. Reading and understanding isn't a problem most
off the time.( I remember my answer on Paul 'Broon' Saunders
first reaction on my Lord's Rake question, I didn't
understand his smiley ). I'm improving though. P'haps I'll
meet some a'ya guys one day ! (any good ?)

Theo

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theo said:

Don't count on it. It's a shame my english isn't good
enough to join

in.

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Er, you must have something very specific in mind Theo,
and are being too critical of yourself, because your
English is, well it certainly passes for that of an
Englishman!

Doesn't it irk you when foreigners (usually Dutch!)
apologise for their

poor

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english, when writing perfect colloquial english - usually
better english than many of our natives ;^}

Regards: Jim Ford

Oke oke, I apologise for apologising. Our greatest advantage
in Holland is that foreign tv-programmes are subtitled. That
way you can hear a foreign language and see the translation.
BTW, the BBC showed the German movie 'Das Boot' tonight with
English subtitles. My favorite act is to speak English with
different foreign accents. French, Italian, German, Indian
(Dave Allen). Again BTW, don't ever watch 'allo, allo' on
German television. They ruin the whole show because
everybody speaks German, even se bwitisj ai-men, if jee nu
what I moon.

Theo

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Chris Gilbert said:

There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an axe
at you....

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
different.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can go
up, down, north, south, east and west. You are carrying
two Aldi trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

he is trying to steal your trekking poles and tent

Give Mint Cake to Dwarf

(eeee, this takes me back)

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Chris Gilbert said:

There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an axe
at you....

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
different.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can go
up, down, north, south, east and west. You are carrying
two Aldi trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

he is trying to steal your trekking poles and tent

dwarf steals poles, lightening strikes poles, dwarf dead,
game over! +

theo said:

Thanks for the compliments guys but I think that being
humoristic/ironic and to the point is of a different level
of English. Reading and understanding isn't a problem most
off the time.( I remember my answer on Paul 'Broon'
Saunders first reaction on my Lord's Rake question, I
didn't understand his smiley ). I'm improving though.
P'haps I'll meet some a'ya guys one day ! (any good ?)

Yes, very good. But as you say, it's probably the humour
that you have difficulty understanding. Or maybe it's the
references to early computer adventure games? Did you ever
play any of those?

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P'haps I'll meet some a'ya guys one day ! (any good ?)

I look forward to it, Theo. I consider one of the pluses of
camping in Scotland is that you get to meet Dutch folk!

Regards: Jim Ford

theo wrote on Sun, 23 May 2004 10:49:13 +0200....

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P'haps I'll meet some a'ya guys one day ! (any good ?)

Too American :-)

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On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:01:41 +0100, "Chris Gilbert"
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> There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an
> axe at you....
>
>You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
>different.
>
>The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can
go up, down, north, south, east and west. You are
carrying two Aldi trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

he is trying to steal your trekking poles and tent

Give Mint Cake to Dwarf

dwarf spits out mint cake because its decomposed (see
previous thread), and throws axe at you - still trying to
steal poles and tent

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On Thu, 20 May 2004 21:01:41 +0100, "Chris Gilbert"
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> There is a small bird singing. The dwarf throws an
> axe at you....
>
>You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all
>different.
>
>The dwarf throws an axe at you.

Youe are in a twisty maze of little passages. You can
go up, down, north, south, east and west. You are
carrying two Aldi trekking poles and an Argos tent.

The dwarf throws an axe at you.

he is trying to steal your trekking poles and tent

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Give Mint Cake to Dwarf

Dwarf eats Mint Cake and licks his lips before throwing his
other axe at you.

Next?
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theo said:

Thanks for the compliments guys but I think that being
humoristic/ironic and to the point is of a different
level of English. Reading and understanding isn't a
problem most off the time.( I remember my answer on Paul
'Broon' Saunders first reaction on my Lord's Rake
question, I didn't understand his smiley ). I'm
improving though. P'haps I'll meet some a'ya guys one
day ! (any good ?)

Yes, very good. But as you say, it's probably the humour
that you have difficulty understanding. Or maybe it's the
references to early computer adventure games? Did you ever
play any of those?

Paul

It's not difficult to understand the humor, Paul (reminds me
off the endless oneliners we did on highschool) but what
makes it difficult is that I don't know enough English words
to reply as if I was a stand-up comedian. Par Example : I
don't know the meaning of the word 'tangent' in your next
reply. I think it means 'change of direction' or 'corner',
like in mathematics the word 'tangus', but I would never
have been able to use the word myself. I think you have to
live several years in a foreign country to join these kind
of wordgames. In Dutch one single word could have several
meanings depending on the rest of the words in a sentence
and the way it is pronounced. I can 'understand' your
pictures but I can't make them myself.

BTW: I thought you were referring to a computergame starring
Gimli in Lord of the Rings. Don't play them myself, no time
and not interested.

Theo

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P'haps I'll meet some a'ya guys one day ! (any good ?)

I look forward to it, Theo. I consider one of the pluses
of camping in Scotland is that you get to meet Dutch folk!

Regards: Jim Ford

I'll let you know when I'm coming to Scotland again.

Theo