That is so unfair Shyboy!!! I abstain from the vote, and withdraw my name from the competition, for the following reasons.
If this Forum goes down on Friday - and the PT haven't promised that it won't, only said that it will 'probably' stay - what will I take away as a memory of the last few months on here?
Initially, it was like wandering into a friendly pub where you're not known and don't know anyone. You stand at the bar and listen to the banter going on, and then you chip in with a comment to see whether everyone's friendly - and largely, this was (and I hope will remain post 30.9) one hell of a friendly pub!
I'll go away NEVER being able to look at a squirrel again without seeing a picture of what looked like a p*ssed up Lewes sat on his sofa - and we never did work out who was sat beside him!
I'll remember lengthy and often deliberately provactive discussions with Gravy et al on the subject of discrimination. And political correctitude.
I'll never be able to think about liquid nitrogen again without wondering what new uses Diddod is finding for it.
Shoe shops will always bring up a memory of LML dressed as a ... wizard, was it? And that makes me think of Jay in a frock and big wig (ugh!) (nothing to do with the photo he posted, that's what he turned up in when he came to stay).
Meeting Jay at all (yeah, okay guys, you can vomit now) and, as he says, our collab play and the forthcoming effort on Dramatic Success.
NVAJD, Dead Men's Feet (thanks for starting it Playfull), the smell of burning tyres around various people's shoulders, 'Hello Sailor', virtual bars, small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts ... isn't it?
Too many memories, and too many good lines and shared gags, good and bad, to think of. So I won't do it.
Every single one of you is a Personality Of The Year in my book.
NVAJD? Adman, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were writing in a high school yearbook. Endearingly valedictory. How Silverback.
Swann - NVAJD = New Variant Adman Joke Disease. For some reason I've never fathomed, whenever anyone tells a really rubbish joke it gets put down to some virus started by me. I think it's irony (that's like silvery or bronzy). Oooops, NVAJD.
BTW - what's with the Silverback comment? I shave my knuckles every morning you know!
Not me! I managed to knock out a 10 min short last night - based on a rather bizzare conversation we had in the office that morning... Boy, my Muse is on overdrive at the moment!
Oh... And I like the vote. Not the number of votes, but the fact that we're stroking each others' egos - and given the playwright's solo working nature, a quick ego stroke between friends is always welcome!
