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K Hi H! What's a liloes?????

Snaged post 42.

*emerges from the pool*


Whew! That was a *long* swim!

23 hours without stopping!

Thanks so much!

*dabs delicately at her wet self, then wraps up in the *

Not at all

Twenty-three hours is very impressive - have you thought about taking it up professionally?

I don't normally swim quite that long, but I sorta lost track of time... you know how it goes sometimes.

Professionally? You mean I could be *paid* to do this?

Why, certainly - the Olympics are coming up: long-distance endurance races, make a big splash, endorsements, sponsors ... the possibilities are endless

I may be able to swim a long time, but I doubt they'd be interested in using my image, since they really do like to have beautiful people for those things...

*Cocks an eyebrow at Lady Scott's modesty - would twiddle the end of his moustache but he doesn't have one*

Well, what about something warm after all that swimming? ? ? Or a hot ?

I was wondering what a "liloes" was too but was too to ask. Congrats IV, on catching 42.

Oh well. CANNONBALL!!

Er...Hilary. Come here, would you?

*Places Hilary between himself and imminent cannonball*

Thanks Now I shall join you CANNONBALL!

*wals onto the poolside with a lilo and shocks everyone*

I'll put some suntan cream on before I'll dive bomb in the pool, dambuster style!!!

Like I said. Whats a liloes/lilo??????

Inflatable matresses?

Like this:

http://www3.mistral.co.uk/latrobe/pictures/cheapnew.jpg

Googling "lilo" gave me Linux loader and something not for a family website.

(Mind you, googling pretty much anything will eventually give you something unsuitable for a family website )

Lilos themselves, on the other hand, are entirely suitable for family entertainment. You can lie on them. You can float on them. You can sleep on them when you've run out of beds or aren't content with couch or floor.

What you shouldn't do is float too far out to sea on them. It is the bane of a lifeguard's ... life, having to go and retrieve people who have got careless whilst paddling their lilos.

Does this pool have a lifeguard, by the way?

So it really is an inflatable mattress thing. Well there are probably some that are unsuitable...

I don't know if there is a lifeguard. I've never seen one here. Perhaps the Herms and Honditions should include that pool users should be able to swim properly or at least float. Or that all guests should be trained in resussitation. Didn't you resussitate Hilary once?

Well, the minotaur did - big lungs that bear.

(And I seem to remember a certain someone raised the alarm in very timely fashion, without which the big-lunged bear might not be here at all )

Maybe Footbacon could advertise the post though. Maybe...maybe...

Maybe we could get David Hasselhof!