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The Late Shift 3/8- The Quest for Perfect Toast

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Saint Keggers

00:34 / 12.04.04

Whoooho! We won! 3-2! Yay!

(pantomime?)

Bed Head

00:37 / 12.04.04

I was making a rubbish unfunny joke earlier about hooligans, which led me to dig out The Naked Civil Servant - glorious book! - and then halfway around the net for a little more on the Crispian use of the word ‘hooligan’. Because I don't think Quentin was a big football fan, somehow: he's using it to mean something else, but what, precisely? Anyway, all the online definitions I could find were of the fat-bellied, piggy-eyed, violent meathead variety. Alas, poor word. So I rather feel like reclaiming it for the Crispy misfits of the world.

Saint Keggers

00:43 / 12.04.04

Your explanation is quite wordy. Verbose even. I find many things in it to which I cant relate. Shall we talk about candy?

I like gummy bears

Bed Head

00:44 / 12.04.04

Gah

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:51 / 12.04.04

woo keg. 3-2 is a good score. it's what we won by last week!!

er, sorry.

can't i be a 'hooligan' *and* a 'crispy misfit'?

did you mean this kind of thing, bh?

or this:

In Soho-the hooligan district of London-there lived a woman known to her fellow hooligans as the Countess.

Saint Keggers

00:56 / 12.04.04

Odd. Very odd. I will have to learn more.

Bed Head

01:12 / 12.04.04

Yeah. “Soho - the hooligan district of London”. That’s the stuff. There’s a whole load more such references in the book, but no proper definition that I can find. It's set in the 1930s, and I'm thinking it's Hooligan as a kind of bohemian, except that bohemians have a profession, ie art, and the hooligans don’t, not really. Oh, I wish Haus was here, I’m sure he’d be able to explain to us what the original Greek cognate word meant, and therefore what a horrific aberration yer modern football hoolies are.

BiP, Keggers: if you’ve never read The Naked Civil Servant, it really is the bee’s knees.

Tryphena Absent

01:13 / 12.04.04

with Robbie.

Fuck I just watched Terminator 3- fucking marvellous, have had a brief discussion about super string theory. Must now look for a thread in Film forum... fuck.

Saint Keggers

01:28 / 12.04.04

I hated T3. It just didnt cut it for me. It looked like a canadian made for tv movie with a bigger budget.

Mazarine

01:30 / 12.04.04

I also hated T3. If you lick a gummy bear and stick it to the wall and leave it for a couple days, then yank it off, you'll take away a hefty chunk of plaster. These two statements are unrelated.

Saint Keggers

01:32 / 12.04.04

oddly enough, after watching T3 I felt like a gummybear that had been licked and left on the wall for three days only to be removed and found myself holding naught but a large piece of plaster. But thats just me.

Mazarine

01:33 / 12.04.04

What color gummybear?

Saint Keggers

01:35 / 12.04.04

Red. (and not a happy red either)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:45 / 12.04.04

Not seen it. But I'm guessing it doesn't get the Keggers thumbs-up?

Saint Keggers

01:49 / 12.04.04

No. Nothing on Keggers was remotly up in regards to that movie.