Towel Day 2005 - Log
Created | Updated May 8, 2005
The following events took place around Edinburgh City Centre on Saturday 7 May 2005:
12.25: | EV and fords (swigging cough syrup straight from the bottle) first to arrive at the Standing Order. |
13.25: | Bored of each other's company, they start to play the What Time Will DD and FC Turn Up? game. |
13.35: | Crazyhorse arrives. |
13.40: | My Favourite Prescription Drugs. |
13.50: | Jamie arrives. |
14.09: | EV sets off to the airport to pick up Mina, the token foreigner. |
14.16: | That old lady over there has two straws in her wine bottle! |
14.36: | Spiking fruit for children with vodka. Jamie: "What a waste!" |
14.57: | Everyone buggers off and leaves fords on her own |
15.42: | Coming back from the bar, fords is consoled by Mina, EV, Crazyhorse and Jamie. |
15.53: | DD and FC turn up! fords wins. Mina said she voted on 5 past 4 but it wasn't put in the log |
16.12: | Mina wants more shagging. |
16.15: | Politics breaks out. Yes indeed! |
17.05: | Mina: "Everyone sounds Scottish up here!" |
17.00: | I know! Let's go and see the Hitchhiker film! |
19.20: | The researchers have seen it. It's rubbish. |
19.21: | Resistance is futile! |
19.39: | The intrepid researchers find a table beside two vehy, vehy drunk old men. |
19.42: | Mina takes a video of "Waldorf and Statler". |
19.45: | DD has met Lord Sutch. fords: "What was he like?" DD: "Oh, about so tall..." |
20.04: | The little bit of politics has turned into quite a bit of politics. |
20.10: | Jimmy Saville, Vyvyan from the Young Ones and a Smurf walk into the pub. Attempt to find a punchline begins. |
20.11: | DD tells the worst joke ever. Again. |
20.15: | Doesn't Waldorf realise Statler is at the bar and isn't sitting in front of him answering his questions? |
20.16: | Mort arrives. |
20.21: | Mort kisses cats. |
20.40: | DD still talking politics. |
20.55: | Mort and fords discuss annoying lesbian neighbours. DD and FC have a fight - of course, politics is at the bottom of it! |
20.58: | Conversation takes an unexpectd early '90s turn. |
21.00: | Statler finally buggers off. Waldorf still sitting at other end of the table trying to pretend we're not here. |
21.03: | Waldorf eventually leaves table but strange eggy smell remains. Ew! |
21.07: | The UK's top fat Mark Moxon tribute act enters the pub. |
21.15: | Snatch of conversation overheard: "They do poos you can play football with." |
21.25: | Politics breaks out again. Discussion of one-eyed PMs ensues. |
21.30: | Why is everything on Living TV about dead people? |
21.35: | Superman walks in. |
21.35: | Mina decides Scotland is full of weirdos. |
21.35: | Mina needs more s. |
21.36: | DD speaking Irish with a Scottish accent. Mina is confused. |
21.41: | DD and Mina both go to the toilet. |
21.45: | DD seen squeezing past Superman. |
21.46: | Mort declines EV's offer of a hug as she is too hot. |
21.50: | fords thinks EV's nose smells funny. |
21.52: | Martin Bell lookalike thinks we're a theatre company. Mina tells him she thought he was Martin Bell. |
22.00: | Mina, FC and Mort discuss bras and boob sizes and nipple piercing. |
22.01: | Mort doesn't mind where she gets pierced. |
22.15: | The girls put h2g2 to rights. So does DD. |
22.25: | Mort's got a Message in a Toilet. |
22.50: | EV, DD and Jamie lose interest in the conversation and start talking about spoons. |
22.55: | Mina: "I eat pigs and I don't care". |
23.00: | "Sooner or later it all comes back to poo". |
23.03: | DD found to be singing the hits of Chas 'n' Dave. |
23.05: | DD and FC leave to go to the cash machine - they say they'll be back...The What Time Will DD and FC Come Back? game starts. |
23.20: | DD and FC come back. Mort wins - "Wow! I won!" |
23.34: | Talk turns to tummies and fords, FC and Mort tell Mina to shut up when she complains about her body. |
23.41: | DD and FC head off for some intimate ?**?! |
23.42: | Mort finally gives EV a hug. He squezes her boob, which is not a good idea since she has PMT. |
23.55: | Mort: "If we feel like it, we'll have a shag." |
00.02: | Porn! |
00.10: | More porn! EV and Jamie feel inadequate while listening avidly. |
00.20: | The bar finally devoid of alcoholic beverages, the troops head home. |