Geek Test

Seen as though everyone thinks im a geek I decided to take a test. I got 52% which makes me a super geek. Try it for your self, there's alot of questions but if your a geek you'll like that


http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html

It Used to About the Booze... Sheffield Style

Gentlemen,

Thought I'd put a message on for once.

I'm going to the Scunny match with Rich and Rob, therefore why don't I park down there and us three and Turkey leave our junk in my car and scoot off once the match finishes? I'm cereal.

I've arranged that we'd meet some peeps from work in The Common Room on Division St. at 5pm ish. Thus enabling us to play pool, drink our own weight in beer and fall into a stupor by 8pm...

Then, we can frequent some of Sheffield City centre's finest (and not so finest) hostelries, until we head on down to the Leadmill.

Excelsior!

I'll see thee.

Sheffield- The Plan. Update......

Ok it looks like some want to go to watch Scunny play and the others to watch Liverpool in the queensway.

Me Steve and Tom are going to drive so it seems like a good plan to meet in the Queensway between 2 and half 2 (1400 hours Ric), when were all there we'll scoot over to Sheffield and get booked in, get changed and head on out and commence drinking. Our hotels only down the road from yours so there's not going to be any problems (I hope). I look forward to engaging in the art of the booze with you gentlemen

The Mekon says BOOOOZE

Fondest Thoughts

Burls

Unlucky Lads.................HA HA.

Well well well.

A third defeat on the bounce not looking to good this season eh boys? Was that grandad still playing? you know the one that 'skined' Shorty a few years back after he claimed he fell down a rabbit hole?. A bad mix up in the defence lead to their goal, I'm I to assume that this was Jacks 'bad mix up'? Well I'm going to anyway. How crule the game can be "after once again playing well enough to gain at least a point" Jacks incompitance and lack of ability throws it all away. An 87th minute heartbreaker for the no doubt hungover (proberbly still pissed) Trinity. Can you hear that? thats right it's divison 6 and it's calling your name!
Better luck next week lads! (You need it)

Div 5 Duffs Dynamos - 1 v Trinity FC (2nds) - 0
Venue: Luddington Other details: Trinity suffered their 3rd consecutive defeat in the League after once again playing well enough to gain at least a point. Both teams created and missed several openings and both managed to hit the woodwork. The deciding goal, when a 0-0 draw looked certain, came in the 87th minute following a bad mix up in the Trinity defence presenting Duffs all three points.
Date: 24-9-06 Time: 3.00

Maybe it's time to bring Dave 'better than Peter Crouch' Holloway out of retirement? Remember he did hit the bar from the halfway line once!

Jack now you can put your comments like "well at leased I bother to turn up" "You can't even get in the team" "Remember your 45minute debut, you missed a sitter" and all your old favourites.
z z z z z z z z z z z z z z.
Yawn.
Beat you to it Rat Mctaggart (Jack)

SHEFFIELD

Right ive heard a few things mentioned,plans etc for this saturday.
A few people are going to watch the Scunny V donny game, while the rest are going to meet in queensway pub to watch liverpool.
I think were either then going to meet the rest in Tescos, and then head for sheffield.

So is that all agreed or have people made other plans?

Adios

Question

Get the tickets for the match Dave.

Hotel Bristol

Hotel is booked 2 twins and 1 tripple (non smoking sory rick) £55 a room + £10 for the tripple room. check in from half 2 (14:30 rick) and check out 12 noon (12:00. whoever wants the futton its just ten quid for them.

The Greatest Episode of south Park Ever?

Im not sure how this will work but im embedding a south park episode from you tube. Seen as though me and jack are the only people who know how to do it (although we are schooling Dave in the ways of the master art) this video is best seen in full screen so I would ask you all too humbly to type "south park+weapons" into the you tube search engine and click on the full screen tab at the bottom left of the video. Warning and Disclaimer This is a full episode of 21:45 watch when your at home or have nothing better to do at work

Lets all get in on the act

As it know seems mandatory that every post has to include plans for birthday bashes I thought I'd get in on the act. Mines on the 22nd of November (which is a Wednesday) and I'm going to do nothing special on that weekend. You lot can feel free to plan something and argue about it or what ever you want. But I'm not doing anything except going for a banana milkshake which your all invited to come along

Ricks night on the tiles!

I dunno whats worse the fact hes had his pic taken with a gaylord or the 2 women that escaped from ward18 that are pictured with him!

Thats old school time for yer!

My birthday!!!

Has your all aware my birthday is coming up and i thought of 2 places to visit...Lincoln and Newcastle!!!

The best thing to come out of newcastle is the geordie dancer and if we saw this guy i think all my birthdays would have come at once!

Its still early days in the planning but let me no..over and out!
Jack

Steve's Phobia

Think i've found the reason why steve dosnt like roller coasters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwPeSDCCAs


(sory about the quality)

Ha ha hahahah he hehehehe

oh yeah sorry jack had to take your game off was messing with the blog. If you can find it anywhere else that would be cool. How hard is that game! I don't remeber it being that hard Ahh brings back memories does Donkey Kong

Joint Birthday- The Plan

God I feel like crap. Either the curry kicked in a week late or I'm paying for not cleaning the kitchen for a week. Either way, 3, yes 3 toilet rolls in a day. That's a personal best. Anyways thought I would mention that as well as:

THE PLAN:

After talking to Andy and Steve we have decided that we would like to go to Sheffield for a night out. No gay limousines or owt just a piss up and a hotel for the night. Looking at the 30th of this month. Prob get there for 2-3 o'clock check in and all that then get pissed

Dave suggests this hotel

http://www.hotel-bristol.co.uk/tariff.php . Your looking at£55 for that

I checked theMarriottt Tom and its fully booked.However there is also:

http://www.hilton.co.uk/sheffield. Says £90 odd on the website but £68 on lastminute.com

Also

http://www.premiertravelinn.com/pti/checkHotelAvailability.do;jsessionid=CE6897B26CA3B4B46208370398E60ACB

for your bog standard. We all know what their like and come in a pound cheaper than the Bristol at £54

There's plenty of small bed and breakfast that charge less, But I aint stopping in one of those so If anyone wants too they can take a look for themselves

Cheers
Burls

Do you know the what the worst thing about working nights is you can't have a nice relaxing beer.

What I'm I doing???????? I'm still on nights and I'm about to crack. Does anybody fancy a pint Saturday afternoon?(I could do with one) Should be back in Scunny at 12:45 in the p.m. If you fancy a drink give me a bell as i'm so terribley bored.




The Army dig in.
The Navy sail in.
The Air Force check in.

It Used to be About the Booze greatest hits

Tell you what if your ever board try looking at some of the archived posts on here. Some of them are hilarious. My personal favorite has to be Jacks post "Which super hero are you" from june 2006. The post it self is shit but the comments are comedy gold.

And so it begins.......

another long night shift with nothing to do but look to the stars and see if theres any aircraft up there that need 'controlling' (Thats how we do it you know, those RADAR screens you see in the movies are just made up by hollywood to stop you all going nuts when you go on your holidays. We do it all with the naked eye and bits of string and don't get me started with the 'moon' landings).......anyway back to the point??? I just thought I'd canvers public opinon on where will we be watching the football on Sunday. Queensway asusual?!?!?! For those of you with an apetite for the physical Chris 'captain marvel' Short, Jack 'My Mum Could Of Done Better' Haughey and not forgetting Graham 'Av in some, bite your legs, chopper' Dixon are in action for Trinity on Sunday afternoon. I know that under normal circumstances Liverpool V's Chelsea & Man Utd V's Arsenal would take presidance but the sheer factor of Jacks comedy hair getting bigger as he gets more shagged out is hard to miss! I may go along to watch this game and cheer the lads on to victory and laugh at Jack when he makes some kind of inevitable hideous defensive error leading to a goal or he scores an own goal or he falls over or he falls over scoring an own goal whilst getting sent off. All of which he is almost certain to do. Anyway seriously is anybody going to watch the football and/or the comedy show at Fred Goth?

Bye for now sports fans!

Tripple Birthday Do for the Old Gits

Me steve and andy have our birthdays all round the same time so we was thinking of doing something on the 29th\30th september. Afew ideas have been banded about already but I would like to get things finalised in case Ihave to book anything

Let me know your thoughts

Cheers

Burls

Burleys deli belly

1 Year Old- So many memories, all blurred by beer

From its humble beginings at 8.12pm on Sunday the 11th September 2005 the "About the Booze blog has taken on a life of its own. Indeed, it seems to have developed its own ideology which means, and I quote "the unifying system of beliefs, attitudes, and values expressed in the superstructure of a culture. The body of thought and ideas that guides a society and perpetuates the status quo of the bourgeoisie". How quality is that definition and I think it applies to what's happened in many ways to us lot and the blog, sorry to get deep on you but its all quite fascinating really

I guess at the time I was bored (and more than likely slighty pissed) and fustrated at our seemingly ineffectual attempts to plan any sort of event or day out. Im happy to report the "About the Booze" website has done nothing to help with this at all and has at times made things worse. But hey, at least we get to see funny photo's while were at it

One of the other reasons for me (and where the name of the blog came from) was the fact that were all getting older, moving about more, and getting into serious relationships (for some of you at least). For anyone who dosen't know, "it used to be about the booze" is a play on "it used to be about the music" a reference of what the Beatles may, or may not, have said to John Lennon when he got with Yoko Ono. Thanks to our resident comedian Ric for that one. However, as I can't even play a triangle and I would guess the rest of you are just as musically gifted, we have to stick with what we know, which is booze.

Another point is that although we don't all post or comment, everyone looks at it. We get the usually suspects but its good to know that it looked at by us all. I think this is one of the main reason we've managed to last this long. And too be fiar its quite an acheivement. This is from a recent report:

"Perseus claimed that the average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days, with some 132,000 blogs being abandoned after a year or more. The oldest abandoned blog surveyed had been maintained for 923 days. "

So the average blog is 126 days old. 365 aint bad
Also this

"Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers feel no commitment to continuing the blog they initiate. In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders"

I wonder what the year would have been like without the blog? who knows it may even have been better but I for one have enjoyed reading it

Some statistics from our blog

365 Days old- Yey!!!!
6664 Visitors
335 Posts
First Comment- "u geek burly"
1983 unique hits- (not us)
11 Members
Alot of piss ups

Anyway this was quite along post but Im proud to be fair


Here's to us lot and "it used to be about the booze"

See you all around

Cheers

Burls

Rick and Turkey as bouncers!

i AM BOARD SHITLESS

All I've done today is vandalize Jacks myspace. Its quite good fun. Get on there and read his made up profile, what he really thinks of Scunthorpe (some gobbledygook about a volcano?????), look at his friends (this is the best part of his 'space') and leave him a message with those fridge magnets!

Hours of fun for all the family!

Football Saturday! Hangover Sunday!

As it seems Oldham is a no go, is anybody interested in watching the footy in Queensway? Everton V's Liverpool K.O 1245pm then Manchester United V's Tottenham Hotspurs K.O 1715pm.
I could do with a good ol' fastioned booze up as my job is so terrible boring at the moment. Obviously Dave, Turkey & Shorty will need to get permission from their WAGS.
Let me know of your plans!!







***** STARS = The Navey navigate by them, the Army sleep under them and the Air Force chose their hotels by them *****

Email Addresses Please

Some of the email addresses you've got registered on your profiles are wrong. Could you please up date them when you get chance.

By the way is that your Dads email address Andy? If you want your own ill invite you to join googlemail if you want. Let me know

There's a hole in my bucket

Burls

Pub Tonight?

Any1 fancy watching England game 2night in a pub?

Pub Tonight?

Any1 fancy watching England game 2night in a pub?

ENGLAND vs MACEDONIA

Anyone intrested in going to watch England Vs Macedonia, Saturday October 7th 2006 at Old Trafford, Manchester

Tickets start at £23(including admin and booking fees) for the cheapest seats, but i can also get other seats at £33 depending what everyone fancied, having said that are seats were £23 and the view was pretty good for what we paid.

Let me know asap, and id need the money in full...asap

If we can get 8 people we could get a mini-bus straight there and avoid the shitty train journey, which going there was fine it was just coming back...tram broke down,then a train that stopped at every village in the north...and they didnt sell any beer..grrrr

So let me know names and numbers quickly and il see what i can do

Jack

It Used to be About the Booze

Just a quicky. Any body fancie Oldham away on Saturday?

Death of a Legend

Steve Irwin is dead! Apparently a sting ray did it by sticking him through the chest with its barbed tail

A moment of silence please for this great, yet slightly crazy man

Steve your with us in spirit if not in body

All quite on the Eastern front

Slow work day today


Test for Dementia


Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer
them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them
immediately. OK?


Let's find out just how clever you really are....



Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)












First Question:

You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What
position are you in?



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Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are
absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his
place,
you are second!

Try not to screw up next time.
Now answer the second question,
but don't take as much time as you took for the first question, OK?

Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
(scroll down)



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Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong
again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?


You're not very good at this, are you?






Third Question:
Very tricky arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.



Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30.
Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total?


Scroll down for answer.....









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Did you get 5000?

The correct answer is actually 4100.



If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!
Today is definitely not your day, is it?
Maybe you'll get the last question right....
....Maybe.



Fourth Question:

Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini,
4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?







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Did you Answer Nunu?
NO! Of course it isn't.
Her name is Mary. Read the question again!



Okay, now the bonus round:

A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By
imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully
expresses himself to the shopkeeper and! the purchase is
done.
Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of
sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?



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He just has to open his mouth and ask...
It's really very simple.... Like you!





PASS THIS ON TO FRUSTRATE THE
SMART PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE!

JE SUIS LE TAXI

Jacks own Blog?

Jack or "Fizz" as he's known to some may have his own blog that he's been keeping from us!
Check out the pixture on the guys profile on the right of the blog. same hair cut and everything, although the nose is alot smaller but it is a drawing so he may have used some artistic descrection and to be honest with a conk that big you would wouldn't you

http://angryginger.blogspot.com/

I look forward to Jack's usual inane replies. I yawn in advance

England 1966....the video says it all

Ghandi's Revenge

Any one for a curry?
We was talking last night and we should get a curry night sorted out. Go for a few beers and have a curry about half nine or something. Was thinking next Saturday night or something. Let me know what you think

Upna Khyal Rakhna
Burls