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Band Service Reunion 2007***STOP PRESS***News just in from the Corps Bandmaster: It has now been confirmed that the RM Band Service Reunion/Memorial weekend will be 13-14th October 2007. Further details will be published here and on the main website as they are confirmed. We look forward to seeing a lot more faces than in previous years. Please support YOUR reunion and Memorial Service... |
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| bootybandy |
Just lifted this from Dicky Valentines Website.........
A VANISHED FRIEND Around the corner I have a friend. In this great city that has no end; Yet days go by and weeks rush on, And before I know it, a year has gone. I never see my old friends face, For life is a swift and terrible race. He knows I like him just as well, As in the days when I rang his bell, And he rang mine. We were younger then, And now we are busy, tired men. Tired of playing a foolish game, Tired of trying to make a name. Tomorrow I say, I will call on him, Just to show that I think of him. But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes, And the distance between us grows and grows. Around the corner, yet miles away, Heres a telegram; He died today. And thats what we get, and deserve in the end, Around the corner – a vanished friend. Make sure this doesn't happen to you! |
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Wel done Twink I think it is very appropriate, and well done to Bill Hartland for sending it to Richards site in the first place. I will give you ten out ten for trying to drum up support for the Reunion, but you still havent answered my question WILL YOU BE THERE????? | ||||||
| bootybandy |
I refer my colleague to the question I answered earlier on Dickys website....YES !!! | ||||||
| RAB |
 ..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..Next he'll be telling us Johnny Bush wasn't at the Reunion this year......AGAIN..!!!!!...
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| townsergeant |
Are you sure you're going?
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
YES I AM AGAIN, PROBABLY FOR THE(WELL) UMPTEENTH TIME, GET YER BUTS INTO GEAR AND BE THERE, YOU WILL ENJOY AND AS SOMEONE ELSE SAID YOU MAY EVEN RETURN ANOTHER YEAR, BUT TO RETURN YOU HAVE TO HAVE DONE IT AT LEAST ONCE. SO COME ON CHAPS IT WAS YOUR BAND SERVICE AS WELL. | ||||||
| Hornblower |
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| RAB |
Ditto.... |
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| bootybandy |
I thought it was only me!!!!! |
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| RAB |
Nope.. Me too...  ..Must be the San McGel.
Whaddayathink Stuey...????? |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Too muchy sunny makey brainy go runny......... 
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| Hornblower |
Well - it keeps us active I suppose!!
(I don't mean the beer - I mean the baiting of me ol' mucker Mick. He's not biting though is he?) C'mon Mick try to wind us up a bit more? Maybe you're saving it for next years reunion? (That's if you're going of course. Dirty stayaway shoot-through b'stard) |
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| RAB |
..Waaaaaaaaaaah..Check "at the bar" Stu... 
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| FFoglamp |
He has to come over for every reunion, just to get a break away from that chemical shite they call San Miguel !!!!!!!!!!!! 
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
No I come becuase I like the company and I like it at the bar when young lads buy me a G&T thats in the RMA but then when it gets round to my turn at Sunday Wethers you are not there, I always said that you youngsters could not stand the pace. And as for San Miguel it beats the $hit out of Tetley's and John Smiths smooth flow, can't be doing with top preasure beers, give me a pint of Bass, or Gales Hsb or Greene King Abbot and then you are talking real ale not crap.Partial to a drop of Adnams as well, I suppose all real ales will do. | ||||||
| RAB |
..Crikey Mick, I see you still do your "breathing from the diaphram" excercises. You hardly came up for a breath there... 
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| lesbryan |
It may beat the sh5te uot of tetleys and john smiths out there .But it certainly does not up here in its homeland ||| 
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
I agree , but then again I would not drink smooth flow even in Yorkshire, I would take a drop of Tetleys from the hand pump as I did many, many years ago when I frequented ale houses in the Sheffield area, but is was many, many years ago. | ||||||
| Hornblower |
How many, many? | ||||||
| lesbryan |
I like john smiths rough as we call it up here(hand pump).but tetleys as gone of the boil up here realy (it is not brewed in leeds now||.There are one or two places you can get a good pint of tets but not many left now.In days gone by melbourne bitter was the drink it beat tetleys.One from one side of the aire and one from tuther 
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Many Many my Ickle til. Long before you were hatched probably,I will give you a clue the first RMB American tour year was 19?????, and I was supping in the area before that year. | ||||||
| 2nd Clarinet |
Stu I think he's lost the plot......
Lift doesn't go to the top floor......
Sandwich short of a picnic.....
A light is on but no one's in...... 
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| Hornblower |
Hey Bob!
Don't be so cruel to old Mick!!!
He was never a bad egg and I enjoy giving him a gentle ribbing. At least we know who we're 'dissing'!!!!!! Mick - keep the ramblings coming M8. I enjoy knowing that there are people out there in forum land that are older than me. (Many Many years older than me!)
You keep my mind active trying to fathom exactly what you're on about  
BTW are you going to the reunion this year? I'm thinking about it...
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| RAB |
..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah..Pant pishing post....
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| joe90 |
Was that with your old mate George Washington? |
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
And I always thought that George Fenlon was my older mate. | ||||||
| 2nd Clarinet |
'ONLY' mate |
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| Hornblower |
OUCH!!!! | ||||||
| 2nd Clarinet |
But deserved.......... |
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| Hornblower |
Harsh... | ||||||
| 2nd Clarinet |
But true........... | ||||||
| RAB |
..Another change of pants...
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| Hornblower |
You don't half get thru 'em Rab mate!
(Sorry!) 
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| 2nd Clarinet |
How long do you reckon, before San Miguel comes on-line and has a go? 
I say 25th at 16.00 GMT........
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| MrJpig |
1600 S M T surely
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| 2nd Clarinet |
As Basil Brush would say "Boom Boom!" Come on.....How about a prediction?
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| townsergeant |
It's probably siesta time at the mo for MBT, so I'll hazard a guess at 2130 tonight?
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| MrJpig |
1900 hrs tonight if he wants a beer at Pompey Wetherspoons from me this year !!  unless he is just ..... 
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| 2nd Clarinet |
What underhand goings on are taking place here?
Bribery, me thinks! 
Still, MBT :smt028 being an aged ex-pat whose brain has been cooked by the spanish sun and as MBT always states that he is drinking mucho of the local hops , he is probably in too much of a befuddled state to realise or take note of any of this.
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| MrJpig |
Well if any evidence was needed to prove my innocence....he didn`t show!!
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Probably sleeping it off. In these 'Costa' Retirement Communities, the staff sit the oldies (MBT) in the sun on the veranda. It's good for them you know!
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Well Mr 2nd Clarinet  you have certainly nailed your colours to the mast, I know who to buy  wets for and who not to and one must remember that at sometime the empire strikes back.As I have been absent from place of duty for the last week with Royal British Legion, I hope those of you that may have placed bets on me Aving a go and as to how quickly I would reply to Mr 2nd Clarinet have'nt lost to many beer tokens, you may well need them in October whilst on that subject briefly I have my ticket have you got yours????
Adios Mi Amigos.
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| MrJpig |
Flights booked etc
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| Hornblower |
Aha - you ARE going this year then Mick? |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
WHERE?
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| RAB |
At the bar of course...where else..?????
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| 2nd Clarinet |
You were too quick there Rab......
I was expecting another 'bite'
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| RAB |
Haven't eaten for the last 20mins matey...Just had to have a bite..
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| MrJpig |
Where oh where would we all be
If we turned up at Pompey, for our reunion tea and at the bar there was no MBT would it be due to SM intoxity? or could he have been bitten by a Spanish flea? Oh no there he is .....coming back from the lavatory!!! GET `EM IN MICK
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| 2nd Clarinet |
What?????All that Haggis ..Gone? No Tatties and Neeps left in the fridge? Rabbi Burns would be pleased |
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| Hornblower |
Jewish was he? | ||||||
| MrJpig |
EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW 4 haggis skins!!
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Same fiscal mentality...... |
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| 2nd Clarinet |
They'll want Independance' next.
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Well I think might be, yep you are correct Andy my boy all booked, the earlier you book the more beeer tokens you have for the weekend, if you get my drift. | ||||||
| MrJpig |
No but I got some Pampers and a BMW !!
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| Hornblower |
Yeah, like he'll know what you're talkin' about!!!
(Boot's on the other foot now!! )
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| MrJpig |
He`ll know...in fact he`s probably in here as we speak...
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| Mr Bass Trombone |
Pampers no, Pampering at my age yes, Black Mans Wheels not for me, you must almost be at the age now Andy where you need to slow down, not that you ever were that fast at getting to the bar at anytime.
Adios. |
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| MrJpig |
OOOOOH WELL I NEVER!!! there was me being nice as well
for your info Mick... http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1996472,00.html |
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| RAB |
..No Point..No Room... ..
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| 2nd Clarinet |
Hey Jpig...dDo you know what I think?
Something erroneous happens to our emails when it crosses over the international border of Spain and goes into 'El Internet Español', or comes the other way. I say this because I've yet to see Mick keep on the same thread as everyone else.
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| MrJpig |
EL WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH   
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| bootybandy |
El nochance muchos amigos. | ||||||
| RAB |
..The word "Planet" also springs to mind here...
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