This I Would Have Liked To Have Seen...

[jillymoo]

Just been looking again at his biog on the main site,and the thought of Himself doing 'a short stint as a bodyguard to visiting Arabs' made me chuckle again, despite having read and wondered at it before!

No offence intended but....I'm not surprised it was a 'short stint'...and was there a dire shortage of security staff at the time? ;D ;D ;D

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[Deleted]

lol if you read his book semi-detached theres a bit about it in there
i was quite suprised when i found ut out too haha
he didnt really have to do alot, just sit on a chair with some other bloke, they played a gambling game to pass the time lol can't remember what it was called though..

[jillymoo]

Haha....I'm off to the library this morning,and Semi-Detached is on my list

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[Polina]

Didn't he do this with Douglas Adams, who was about nineteen feet tall? That must have looked very entertaining.

[Fanny Bones]

Nov 8, 2008 21:36:46 GMT -1 Polina said:

Didn't he do this with Douglas Adams, who was about nineteen feet tall? That must have looked very entertaining.

I don't know if they ever were on watch together, but I vaguely remember an interview with Douglas Adams where he mentioned sitting at night in a hotel corridor and watching the occasional empty lift stopping at his floor.

This situation inspired him to write about the lifts in "The Hitchhiker's Guide..." that were so bored by the up-and-down scenario that they ended up going sideways as well...

If GRJ and DNA actually built a team that would have been entertaining on many levels, I reckon.

[jillymoo]

'Bored by the up-and-down scenario'?......sounds pretty much like my marriage....but I've never considered sideways as an option! ;D

Anyhoos,enough of this filth The thought of Himself 'On Watch' in the corridor of some swish Park Lane hotel,no doubt muttering at intervals,is hilarious!

And I'm on the waiting list for SD at the library,so there are others of discerning taste too it seems

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[Fanny Bones]

Nov 8, 2008 22:05:58 GMT -1 jillymoo said:

'Bored by the up-and-down scenario'?......sounds pretty much like my marriage....but I've never considered sideways as an option! ;D

I'm a child of the sixties, so lovin' spoonful comes to mind.

Nov 8, 2008 22:05:58 GMT -1 jillymoo said:

And I'm on the waiting list for SD at the library,so there are others of discerning taste too it seems

At a library?! The world is full of surprises, eh?

[jillymoo]

Indeed it is FB! ;D

Actually,is it still in print? If there are lovely piccies to pore over,I might just buy it ,and laugh in the face of the library waiting list

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[Polina]

Yes, it is still in print - but sadly no lovely piccies! I think that's a real shame actually - I can totally understand not putting family ones in but it would have been lovely to have some.... particularly from Cambridge days! It's out in paperback now as well if that's any help!

I can always lend you mine....

[jillymoo]

Aah,'tis a pity there are no piccies,but I'm dying to read it!

Thanks for the offer Polina,but think I might get a copy anyway to keep

Probably oreder through Amazon tomorrow.

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[Fanny Bones]

I don't know about pictures in the book, but thanks to your question I may find out in the near future!

I just found out that the price for that book dropped into an affordable region. Usually UK books are expensive like hell around here...

If you want to buy it, you'll find it in here somewhere, e.g.

[jillymoo]

Thank you!

I have one or two online purchases to make tomorrow,so I shall be on the case.

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[Deleted]

yeah go to amazon i got mine for a penny off there! ;D well £1.51 plus p&p haha

[Polina]

Don't forget that you can get books through the Amazon link on the site.....