A Conversation for The Great Birmingham Beetroot

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Post 1

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

For a great afternoon and a great quiz. (Next time, Phil, NEXT Time!!)

Hope everyone ejoyed there curries. smiley - drool (smiley - cry)

And apologies I had to dash off the good news is I caught my train, the bad news was there was only one servicable toilet on the whole blasted thing and all the internal doors were malfuncnting so you could only access it when parked at a platform.
smiley - grr

Anyways I'm off to bed thanks once again.

smiley - cheers <---cranberry juice smiley - winkeye


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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Good to hear you got back safely; for some reason my train today from Birmingham to Cambridge appeared to tbe the only one that was either
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a] running full stop
b] not replaced by a coach
c] not delayed smiley - wow We actually got back to Cambridge about ten mins early smiley - wowsmiley - magicsmiley - cool even though they didn't have any* food on the troley on the tran, they did have beer smiley - alesmiley - coolsmiley - boingsmiley - drunk and I had a fantastic breckfast in teh hotel; even through they refused my credit card for some reason for paying for the room, which I can't understand at all as I know I've got a long way to go before i'm approching the limit on it smiley - huhsmiley - weird think he must hav estuck the numbers in incorrectly.
Card number 42424242424242424242
Expirely date 4th of the 42nd smiley - huhsmiley - laugh <biggrin. Curry was great BTW, pity you missed out on it smiley - drool


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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

ay, 'twas a good curry and good company too


smiley - cheers


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Post 4

dasilva

Good to meet all of you I hadn't already met, good to see you again all those of you I had smiley - cheers


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Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

well I enjoyed myself very much, it was nice meeting people, especially someone who knows my uni and someone who knows the area-and discussing life in halls. At least I can put some names to faces. NOW CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE PHOTOS glass of smiley - redwine is starting to take effect.


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dasilva

I'm not wholely without knowledge of Kenilworth University smiley - winkeye


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Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

Kenilworth Uni, KENILWORTH UNI?!?! University of Warwick, I'll have you know-and you should have joined the convo @ the pub smiley - ale if you knew the place!


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Post 8

dasilva

I know a few folk from Kenilworth and was going to online parties in the airport lounge bar since before HooToo was born I'll have you know smiley - biggrinsmiley - winkeye.

I wasn't able to stay unfortunately otherwise I would have smiley - cheers

There's a heritage of warwick alumni here you know smiley - winkeye

Though personally it's one of the few universities I didn't attend academically (smiley - erm it's a long story)


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Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

I think I'm the only current student online though, and it's no longer the airport lounge, I gather that some people think that it's even worse, and it certainly is abit lacking in the ambience department, hence I prefer the graduate smiley - cheers


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Post 10

dasilva

Ah, the days of Telnet, how I miss thee

I'm sure if you put the word about... Warwick was a hotbed of ealry internet communities in the UK back in my student days smiley - winkeye


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Post 11

Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

I've just advance searched hootoo for the Uni and there's no-one who's posted this term, though I've left a message in the convo centre of the most recent poster.


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Post 12

Z

AHh but the term is young yet..


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Post 13

Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

Young? we're already into week 5!


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Post 14

Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

and they'll have had plenty of time to sort out the net


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Post 15

dasilva

Warwick does have it's share of techie type studnets (sic) I seem to recall smiley - winkeye


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Post 16

Rosemary {[(2+2+2)^2]+4+2=42}

DC++ as used by a couple of people in my kitchen, and now blogs


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Post 17

dasilva

Oooh! smiley - bigeyes

I used to be smiley - geeky but I'm an smiley - artist now smiley - winkeye


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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I'd just like to say, that I'm very very very drunk at the mone; I just woke up.... foudn myself sitting/slumped on the sofa, a glass of 1997 Rioja in my hand... oh dear what an awful situeation to be in smiley - drunk *chescks watch again smiley - laughsmiley - rofl oh dear, all this talk of university, takes me back some *grupmy old git voice>
smiley - laughsmiley - biggrin we'l have to do another Birmingham meet sometime; the beer is just so cheap up that way smiley - bigeyes I think I shoudl go to bed now smiley - drunksmiley - sillysmiley - redwine


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Post 19

Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences

Glad everyone had a good time. smiley - ok

smiley - ale


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Post 20

Odo

smiley - cheers Z

And yes it was a good curry.


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