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Maybe I'm just daft and I've missed something, but what date is it?

Any ideas what we are doing?

E

Looks like it's 5th April

I know exactly what we're doing. We're sitting around here discussing what we're going to do, in the full knowledge that we'll end up spending all day in the pub.

Are we all agreed on Edinburgh on April 5th then? If so I'll get a guide entry together and alert the proper authorities.

fords, d'you haev room for a Swedish bloke somewhere under a table or something in your flat? Wouldn't want to have to leave the party at half nine to get home...

Boooo! Still can't come. Oh well...next time....

5th if April! Woo-hoo!

so. we are not going to sit in a pub all day... we are not going to sit in a pub all day... we are not going to sit in a pub all day...

How many times do you have to repeat something before you start believing in it? 28???

We are NOT going to sit in a pub all day, we are NOT going to sit in a pub all day, We ARE going to sit in a pub all day, we will NOt sit in a pub all day. WE're going to get totally pissed off our skulls as usual and have a jolly good time..

How about the Edinburgh Experience??? Id not heard of it. Has anyone been?

http://www.concierge.com/edinburgh/attractions/detail/index.ssf?args=/base/wc_att-35/1003346731223935465.xml

Sounds weird enough...

*waits for Wumbie to arrive and suggest what "The Embra Experience" might include*

if its a nice day we could get ratted in the gardens THEN a pub??? no? ok

E

actually.... I really fancy trying a pub crawl down Rose Street! I've always thought that would be a great evening. Might be a tad of a logistical nightmare though!

I think I prefer your second suggestion FC.

Logistical nightmare? "We're in some pub in Rose Street. Follow the pavement pizza". What could be simpler?

There's a 50:50 chance latecomers'll be heading in the right direction which is better than usual of making contact.

There's only one small word troubling me tho, "evening".

I tried to count the number of pubs on Rose Street once. I gave up fairly quickly!

Eggy - nice idea, but that's pretty much what we did last time.

He's young, give him time!

I have tried Rose Street numerous times, but never quite managed its entirety!

Lost - no problem at all.

A Rose Street pub crawl isn't all that great - I've done it. There was this pub, Scott's Bar I think, where we went and discovered that they water down the drinks. So we all stood outside and told anyone not to come in because the pub was sh**e and the barman was a fat b*****d...no offence to larger researchers, but this guy really was

As for something to do and for somewhere to drink, there's this tour that takes you round the pubs that writers frequent...

Well, of course, if you strip away the outer layers of a fat b*****d, you'll probably find a.... thin b*****d.

I saw "The Edinburgh Experience" about 5 years ago. It may have changed a bit in that time tho.

Don't be put off by the cardboard glasses bit. Instead of a red bit of gelatin over one eye and a green one over the other (with a picture of Superman coming out of the page of your comic pursued by a dinosaur) they have two projectors with colour slides of Edinburgh's sights and the specs have polarised glass in them.

The projectors are also polarised so that one eye sees a horizontally polarised pic and the other a vertically polarised one. The brain copes with this as 3D. It was extremely impressive and I wondered what had happened to it as it looked like a student demonstration got up for the Science Festival. It deserved better than a quick demo.