chrisp65

What's the fastest car in the world? Courtesy car. When I was still living at home with moms n pops my dad bought one of those first boxy Astras. It had something or other wrong with it so they gave him a long term Astra GTE courtesy car. He was so utterly cheesed off with the dealer that he let me borrow it to take a young lady out. As he handed me the keys he mentioned it could do 80mph in second gear. So with this knowledge, I went on my date, announced around 9:30 / 10:00pm I was tired and would take her back home. Then straight around to gather up some of the chaps and we spent the next few hours basically doing stunts in that car. No doubt a month later it had a valet clean as was sold to somebody as one of the staff's pool cars.

yeah, I think if I had a time machine I'd go back to schooltime me and say 'don't fret, ok you're leaving school with art and english, but you are going to meet a wonderful woman that will inspire you' In fact, schooltime me, you've got time to go to college for 2 years as a holding exercise rather than get a proper job or go into sixth form. You won't learn much more, yet, but it'll be a bloody good laugh. It'll all come once you decide it's time. Oh, and buy shares in apple apple and microsoft, and when they are worth 10p, buy a tenner worth of bitcoin.

The thing with cars is that you're supposed to sit inside of them. yeah, I've got that now and it's meant I can look after a nicer car and not trash it I also sort of fell / jumped and jogged off my mates beetle when we drove it down the road without the bodyshell on it. Just a floor pan, driver's seat and an engine with me stood behind the driver with a can of petrol with a hose in it to feed the engine. He took a corner too fast and momentum left me jogging down a street holding a can of petroll with him chug chug chugging to a halt a few yards up ahead. Guy in the car behind lost all sense of perspective.

like some sort of private hell, I'm currently in a hotel where I appear to be the only guest not on a Christmas Party

had a Beetle for years 1300 brakes 1600 engine immense fun fell out of a mate's convertible beetle whilst I was driving it across a field, less fun fell off the roof of a mate's beetle whilst he was driving it across another field, less fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyFpyaAXCI

ugly mo fo

Good riddance. Oi! outside...

Slightly off topic, I went into Aldi a couple of days ago and they had sets of Bongos that looked quite decent for £15, I walked past. In the music shop on Saturday I went in to get a set and they were £45 Back to Aldi to find they'd gone, and when they're gone, they're gone. bugger

Anytime I'm in the office and accidentally mention a band or an album in conversation that hasn't been in the Tesco Top Ten I have to qualify it by saying all music is good music and I am not the taste police. Same goes for books, if it ain't on the 2 for 3 deal, apparently you're a ghey intellectual. In fact, I actually am the ghey intellectual taste police, and one day, one day, they are all getting a proper old fashioned police kicking. Poor me.

is it a surprise for the lady, sir? If it's not, best course of action is to get yourself to a drum shop and get her to sit at a couple of sets, our local (Drum Depot, Cardiff) have a couple of classrooms come try out rooms and they've got all the time in the world for people with any level of ability. I'm sure most drum shops are the same. If it's a surprise, Yamaha set mentions you can upgrade individual pieces as and when you get the urge.

VW Brazil will cease production of the Kombi Camper on 20th December this year.

I've got a bad feeling about 2014. The office is relocating to within walking distance of an actual record shop. Financial disaster looms.

ooooh, I knew I'd forgotten one, Chatma, by Tamikrest it's a little bit 'more of the same' but when the same is excellent, that don't matter those funky Tuareg choons

sent in the obligatory 'sorry, can't come' e-mail today made up some bollocks about going to my kids christmas concert (it was a week ago in reality)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA6djLsDgs anybody that could stand outside a small community church, see the golden glow of low lighting and hear the rag tag local singers having a humble, gentle heartfelt go at this and not feel moved to gives thanks to the Lord for having a warm home to go, is a word removed

To be fair, if Johnny Cash had recorded Fairy Tale of New York, but included the Ring Of Fire chorus, it would be right up there.

You like ELO, but you don't like The Beatles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQ8AhiRcNE I might get slaughtered for this, but I'd have said ELO are after The Beach Boys, rather than after The Beatles. If you set out to make a Beach Boys type vibe and it falls a little short, you often get ELO - itself no mean achievement, and worthy of a congratulatory nod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlP9F1FEDM

It's been a good year, like Dave above I need a propoer think but stand outs off the top of mu head: Alabama 3 - Men from womble Mountain of Love - Mountain of Love The Earth - Off / On

Flying there tonight! A bit late, but it's been in the planning for a while. Can't wait. when you get off the plane, burst into the airport and shout 'I'm Ian Duncan Smith! Did I miss it? It was somebody else's fault!"

A Field In England it was the only film that I saw that did anything remotely different whilst at the same time showing everyone that you can get out there and do your own thing, make your own film, you don't need a billion dollars

How much work do teachers do during their 24 weeks paid holiday ? I'd be careful if I was you, Stef's got 3 clear weeks to think of a witty comeback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

Think you're forgetting about this little ditty! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7HzeX9tu7A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubI87ZIF26I