Ok. This is my truly bizarre story.....As you all must know, my `other` hobby is dog showing, my breed being Shih-Tzu. I particularly like the American lines, so, whenever I can, I go to the bredd Specialty show in the States. The first one I went to was in Minneapolis. It was also the first time I`d ever been to the States, and the first time I had ever travelled abroad alone. I was quite nervous, ut determined to to, and all went well. I loed the place, and felt very comfortable there.

Second trip was a three and a half week holiday with my husband. Two and a half weeks in San Fransisco at the St. Francis, then a week at the ShihTzu Specialty in Los Angeles. Again, no problems, bt I did feel a bit less relaxed in Los Angeles.

The year before last it was in New York, in New Jersey in fact. I was going to this one alone, and despite it`s improved reputation, I was quite anxious about going there. The night before the flight I sat and watched the film Escape from LosAngeles`, you know the one with Kurt Russell, and joked with my busband that I was glad that it wasn`t the original `Escape from New York`! Nevertheless, that night I had a nightmare.

Now I have two recurring dreams (one of which somebody else on this bbs has too, I can`t remember who, but it involves all my teeth crumbling and falling out). Well it wasn`t that one, it was the full-blown, super-scary nightmare, the one where I think I`ve woken myself up, only to find that in fact I havent, and the monstrous person who is after me is still there, standing at the foot of my bed! It is truly a powerful dream, a fact to which my family will testify!

I started having this dream in my early twenties, but it wasn`t until years later that the monster became clearer to me. He was, in fact, the bloke on the poster for the film `The Hills have Eyes`, made in the `70`s. The poster alone scared me so much, that I never plucked up the courage to see the actual film. The poster showed a hideous looking bloke with this huge deformed bald head, holding a vicious looking hunting knife. It`s only recently that I have discovered that this was a rather nasty, low budget, early Wes Craven film.....

Anyway, I digress, back to the story.....Shall I continue, or is this getting too long and boring?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Answers

Oops! Full of typos - must slow down!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Keep it coming honey, I for one am reading :))

I have had a similar dream about waking up with someone in the room carrying a knife....was SERIOUSLY realistic....so I know what you mean about that particular one....the relief I felt when I finally woke up was incredible!!

You ever thought that bloke from the Hills Have Eyes looks like that Italian ref (caglina or something?)....

Anyway...back to the story...

Gav

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

" a hideous looking bloke with this huge deformed bald head"

So you've met Screacher then!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I'm on the edge of my seat..don't stop there. I hope it's not a shaggy Shih-Tzu story though...

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Ah-ha, so you know the film, and yes he does look like that ref!

Ok. needless to say, the nightmare did nothing to improve my nerves about flying to New jersey on my own. Unable to sleep during the flight, and following a disrupted night`s sleep anyway, I arrived tired and tense. Immigration was a nightmare which I had never encountered before....and handn`t been expecting. The hall, about the size of a football pitch had a queue winding up and down its length, which I am sure could have been mentioned in the Guiness Book of Records! Two and a half hours of dragging my luggage around (containing, I might add, two very heavy bronze sculptures), sandwiched between two Arab families with breath like tear gas! What a marathon. My nicotine levels were depleted, and my resistance low! You`d think that after queuing for that length of time, the immigration officer might have managed to scrape up a welcoming smile for me, but no, he was a right surly bugger, and even refused to stamp my teddy`s passport. Misery guts!

Having had the customary nicotine bath in the smoking area of the airport, I finally found the `courtesy` (and that`s a contradiction if ever there was one) bus to the hotel. Dusk was falling, the views from the bus were desolate, and the driver was not a happy chappie! I endured forty minutes of being driven at death defying speeds by a very angry looking driver wh insisted on turning round and holding long and very onesided conversations with me in a completely unintelligible language, and with an alarming lack of concern for the five lane queues of traffic, which were regularly grinding to a standstill, leaving us surrounded by forty foot long wrecks of cars filled with black men! Do not get me wrong, I am NOT a racist. But my frame of mind by then was fragile, and I was having one of those silly tennis match type conversations in my own head....you know the sort of thing I mean......`if you had to choose, would you rather die in a car wreck, or have your head blown off in a drive-by shooting?`!

Another thing that struck me as very strange, is the fact that no-one walks anywhere over there. I didn`t see a single living soul outside of a vehicle on that journey.

To my complete and utter amazement we did arrive unscathed, and I stepped out of the bus and into........Hell!!!!!!

There`s more.......

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

The dream about all your teeth falling out is supposed to be about worrying that your sexual powers are waning or so Freud would have you believe.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Hey Bake.....Clement and his bloodhound knew bugger all about problems like that........

Come on Galaxy, I'm on the edge of my seat and go home in less than an hour......keeop it coming......stepped off the bus and into hell..........yes

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Glad I didn't own up to having the same dream then!

No probs with them powers mind and I aint worried about it so methinks Freud was wrong.

Get the rest of this novel out Galaxy!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

When I have that dream my teeth don't crumble, they simply wear through a bit like the middle of a Tunes cough sweet when the middle dissolves first. I'm left with just the edges of my teeth.

No doubt Siggy would tell me that it is fear that all my copious sexual activity has brought about erosion...or a forearm like Arnie Schwarzennegger anyway ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

No this really isn`t a shaggy dog story......

You must, by now, have guessed that I was beginning to feel a little strung out! Imagine, if you will, the entrance to the hotel surrounded by throngs of real weirdos! And I mean WEIRD! The crowd must have been forty deep of people dressed in sort of a mixture of hells angels, come gothic, come bondage gear..Totally weird, and at that point, no less than I had primed myself to expect anyway! I just wanted to go home, but at the very least that would require a phone call to the airline, so I had to get into the hotel. I don`t know how I did it, but I raised myself to my full five foot two, adjusted my twin-set and pearls, and forced my way through the throng at what felt like waist height. I`m not kidding, they were all several feet taller than me - at least that`s how it felt at the time!

It was so weird, like stepping through a gateway to another dimension. The lobby was just the same, and when I finally reached the Reception Desk, the staff were rude and harassed! No chance of a bellboy to help with the luggage, I had my key thrust at me and that was that! What are the odds on you getting room 666 on the 13th floor? Pretty long I would imagine, but I did! When I booked the hotel I had asked for a smoking room with a view of the New York Skyline. I didn`t expect the room to be still smoking when I got there! Opening the door I was greeted by an avalanche of yellow cigarette smoke and beer fumes, and no view of the celebrated skyline....at that point I just crumpled!!!!

I tried ringing home, for a bit of moral support, and couldn`t get through, I knew that none of my doggy friends would be there until at least the following afternoon, as I had arrived a day early, and anyway, I was convinced that I must have booked the wrong hotel. So I did what anyone in my position would have done - I sat on the bed for twenty minutes and cried! I felt marginally better after that, and slightly more rational. I was also beginning to feel more than a little angry - always helpful whilst trying to stiffen ones resolve! I decided to take my courage in both hands and go down and get my room changed, as there was no way I was going to sleep in the room I had been given. My resolve, however, wasn`t actually all that strong, `cos as soon as I stepped out of the room, and the door closed behind me, I got that horrible jelly-like feeling in the backs of my legs! (and don`t anyone say cellulite) There`s something about high rise hotels, it doesn`t seem to matter how busy they are down in the lobby, the floors where the bedrooms are feel very isolated and lonely, and I always get the urge to look behind me in case there`s anyone there! And there`s always a sort of cubby hole type place where the ice machines are - perfect hiding places for serial killers etc!!...........

Got to feed the dogs, back in a min!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

This is class... :))

Come on stop teasing and get on with it!!

Feed the dogs tomorrow ;)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

.........so, nerves jangling, and more than a little shaky, I walk the length of the corridor to the lift. I press for the lift and stand there for what seems like ages waiting, the hair on my neck standing on end, and my insides tied in knots. All the while I am praying, `please God, don`t let there be a powercut`, because if there had been, I swear that I would have had a heart attack and died, I was so stressed! At last the lift arrives, and I step in breathing a small sigh of relief. The lift descends one floor, and stops in that highspeed lift bungee fashion, which lift manufacturers obviously find so amusing. My already traumatised insides perform further contortions, and the door opens................

Cue music from the shower scene in Psycho!!!!!!!! Into the lift steps non other than the monster from my recurring nightmare!!!!!!! There he is, seven feet tall, dressed from the top of his grossly deformed head to his toes in black leather!!! IT IS HIM!!! Not someone dressed up as him, IT IS HIM!!!!! The grossly deformed head is not fak, the wild staring eyes are real!!!!!!!!!!!! All that is missing is the hunting knife! It is not an exaggeration to say that I am rigid with shock, I physically couldn`t have moved if the place had been on fire!!! Had I not been rigid with shock I would have most definately collapsed in a heap when the lift plummeted to the lobby!!!! By the time the lift stops, my brain is 90 er cent mush, and the other ten per cent is screaming!!!!!!!

Are you still with me, or are you bored yet?.........

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Yes, Yes, were all still here. C'mon. OOt with it, you tease.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Damn this girl is good....

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Sounds like an average weekend at the NJ Meadowlands Hilton. ;-)

Looking forward to the next installment!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I've already made up the end bit......I hope it is not an anti-climax

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Well she didn't die cos she wouldn't be posting......

Woo hoo... I thought of that all by myself....

A worm indeed!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

The doors open, I stand there incapable of thought, movement, speech, hands clamped to the rail around the lift in a death grip! The monster is turning to me, he`s opening his mouth - oh Lord, he`s going to rip my windpipe out with his bare teeth.......!!!!!!........ but he doesn`t...instead, he hold his hand out, and says.....`after you ma`m`! And I eventually gather what is left of my wits about me, step out into the lobby, and my mind has been totally blown!!!

The rest of that night is a blur. I know I changed my room to a clean one, made my way back to it, had my luggage transfered to the new room, drank the three large whiskeys in the mini-bar, and slept for eight solid hours.

Th following morning, still feeling pretty much shell-shocked, I wake up to a beautiful sunny day! Venturing down for breakfast, I find the lobby clean, bright, airy, full of beautiful flower arrangements, smiling `normal` people, uniformed bellboys, and the first contingent of the American Shih-Tzu Club arriving with their happy, yappy little dogs! The whole thing is surreal! Even the desk clerks are pleasant! I make tentative enquiries with them along the lines of `did anyone notice anything...err, odd yesterday?` Which are greeted with a matter of fact `Odd? Well we have had a Vampire and Horror Film Convention all week, last night was their farewell bash.`

In comparison, the rest of the week was pretty mu7ndane! I had a wonderful time. But I will never cease to be amazed that fate contrived for me to meet my `monster` face to face, after twenty odd years of torment! It is very spooky!!!!!!!!

By the way, everything in this story is true, except that I don`t really wear twin sets and pearls. And, would you believe that I have never had that recurring nightmare since! (still have the one about the teeth though!)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Oh what a let down........my ending had you waking up and the man at the bottom of your bed was Peter Reid and the hell you had got off at was the Stade de Merde and your roon was one of their 'executive' boxes.

Doh......that will teach me not to race ahead!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Excellent story, masterfully told!!

I don't even know what a twin set is and I'm not going to ask....it's probably something rude and I'd only get into more trouble...

That chap has been in loads of other films as well as the Hills Have Eyes...

Didn't he have a bit part in Wierd Science? I can't think of any of the others off the top of my head but I'm on the case :)))

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Now this is truly spooky! I`ve just read Ciara`s posting - talk about ESP - the hotel I stayed in was the New Jersey Meadowlands Hilton!!!! Do.do...do..do (cue X files music!)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Perhaps next time you need to book a hotel with a dentists convention going on.
Great story though, and seriously well told..now why do I get the impression that it's been told before the odd time?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

No Windy - only told my immediate family. Never had such a captive audience though! Still think that posting from Ciara is really weird though!(:o)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

ITK - liked your ending better! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Excellent little extra bit getting room 666 on the 13th floor...

I'm NOT KIDDING, I would've left the hotel there and then...f**k it! no questions asked I would've just gone....kipped on the street or something :))

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Great story! I figured it had to be the Meadowlands Hilton by your description of the drive. I can picture it all vividly, having livedin the area for years. Also the Meadowlands hosts tons of conventions. I both attended and set up a few there over the years I lived in the area. And yes, that whole section from Newark and up and down the NJ turnpike is about the worst introduction to NJ and the US imaginable. And what gives the state it's reputation for being the toilet of the country. Or at least of the east coast. Though if you ever get away from that area there are some incredibly beautiful places in NJ. Really. I've seen them! ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Ciara,

That's your excuse for knowing the place and you're sticking to it eh? well me and Galaxy both know better!!

It's cos Galaxy got away and you've been sent to track her down for old baldie isn't it? come on, out with it....the truth this time or else!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I have no idea what you're talking about.

*whistles innocently*

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Ciara - you describe it perfectly - and at least you can tell people that I am not joking! I just lurrvvvv America, and I did manage to see lots of lovely places when I stayed there. But you are right, it is an unfortunate introduction to New York. Perhaps JFK would have been better, I don`t know? Certainly didn`t spoil the hols, and definately would stop me going back! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Well, I'm glad you got to see the better sides of the country before descending into the armpit of NJ. Still, if you were staying in NJ anyhow, Newark is the most convenient. IMO, JFK is even more of a pit, and would easily take you 2+ hours to get to NJ, with only slightly better scenery. Kinda. At least you aren't surrounded by swamps and factories. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Galaxy, I'm a popular american writer of horror fiction. I've been involved in a serious accident and need some help completing my contract of 3 years with my publisher. Are you available? You too Ciara, I feel the force in you as well.

Excellent story. Traveling alone can be an adventure, I've had a few but never in the swamps of the Meadowlands with the italian ref!

PeteT

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Hmm!? Tempting....and I have been told that I could double for Cath Bates! Let me kick this idea around the ballpark with Ciara...maybe we can do lunch..... (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Galaxy,

While we're on the subject, I've been dying to talk about "The Matrix", just watched it for the first time last night. Have you seen it?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Haven`t seen it yet Pete. Yelli hasn`t either, but says it is supposed to be brilliant. Is it worth a look?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

The Matrix is worth a look or two, maybe more. You need one look to try to figure out the plot and at least 2 more to fully appreciate the special effects.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Brills Galaxy, fancy hardy Gav not knowing about twin set and pearls, professes to be a ladies man too, get back Dingle, space for the auld wrinklies, Roz both me and wor lass suffer from the crumbling teeth syndrome, anything to do with school dinners!!

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Ah Mr King...have you thought about publishing on the web? Have your people call my people and I see Galaxy has arranged lunch. Brill, dahlink. :-)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Pete - I shall make a point of seeing it.

Buff - just the thought of school rhubarb and custard makes my teeth ache! (:o)

Ciara! Daarrling! Mmmwah! Mmmwah! (air kissing) It will be simply divine working with you....... can we schedule a breakfast meeting at Harvey Nick`s next time you`re in town? Soooper" (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

I saw the Hills have Eyes with my 1st wife many years ago - it was the standard stuff - park in the middle of a Nuclear testing ground - pitch black so what do they do when they've a nice warm caravan to wait in - yep - you've guessed it - walked off into the dark - they deserved to get eaten.

Nice story - one of the girls I work with once got into a lft with Eddy Murphy plus hangers on - doors shut - he says hit the ground - she did - he meant press G not lie on the floor - Red face or what.

He laughed and paid for something for her - can't remember what.

Josh

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Ah - how I love a shaggy dog story. Shame it always involves the likes of Geordie tho. Mind, hardly surprising, give the words shag and dog>.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Great story Galaxy. I love that you don't get the dream anymore since you met your nemesis in the flesh. "After you ma'am". Excellent !

I hardly ever remember my dreams, though there is this one recurring nightmare. It begins with this team I support (you've probably never heard of 'em) playing at this place called Wembley Stadium and unfailingly ends with everyone laughing at me as we lose (yet again). Just as well real life's never that cruel eh ?

Enjoy The Matrix. And when you've watched it you must pay a trip to Sydney so I can show you around all the places where the movie was shot. For example, I walk past the 'Heart o' the City' hotel - shown at the beginning and end of the movie - every morning on the way to work. It's actually called the Hollywood Hotel (fittingly), looks almost as much of a dive as in the movie and hosts the weirdest crowd of old timers, goths and clubbers that you can imagine. Very un-Sydney actually.

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2000

Josh - Love the Eddy Murphy one! (:o)

Screacher - Pleased you enjoyed it! It`s amazing what you can do to ease the boredom after a week of solid rain! (:o)

Loony Toon - will discuss the Matrix with you and Pete when I`ve seen it! Never thought I`d want to go to Australia, but the more I hear about it, the more it sounds like a fun place - especially Sidney! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Galaxy,

The Matrix is a top film...I can't even count the amount of times I've seen it, get it out for yersel and Yelli as soon as you can...

I can lend it to you if you can't be arsed to rent it :)

Neo

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Okay - so many recommendations for this film - we will watch it this weekend! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Galaxy,

Cool....I'll come round and watch it with you both, Shall I bring the pop and crisps?

Hahaha you've got to give me credit for being a trier...surely?!?! ;))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Galaxy,
Talk about The Outer Limits. That has everything kiddo.

Only been to the States once, did a bus tour on the west coast a few years ago, a bit tiring but very enjoyable. Didn't fly-drive cos I hate driving. San Francisco is one of my favourite cities. In fact, take away about forty years and I'd go there to live.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Gav, did you say `trier` or `trying`! (:o)

Sure you can come round! But don`t forget to bring some beer for Hubby/Daddy!!!!! He`ll make you very welcome, you know, take the tops of you bottles with his teeth etc. Just don`t stare at him when he`s eating - it`s worth mentioning, sometimes takes people by suprise when they see that he always has his meat raw. Still, we all have our quirky little ways, he doesn`t really mean to scare people!

Errr?! There`s not a full moon this weekend is there? (:o)

Gotta go shop! Bank Holiday weekend and all that! Thought I`d go and see what`s on offer at the abattoir!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Pit Bull - you are a man after my own heart! I adored San Fransisco! I agree, I could live there no trouble at all. We also did lots of bus trips (had a real touristy holiday). I was very mean and wouldn`t let Pete hire a car - didn`t think my nerves would stand it! But seriously though Pete would miss out on some of the sightseeing if he was driving - I certainly would because I would be navigating! The bus tours are just such a hoot - talk about timed to the minute! Three minutes here, ten minutes there! Mind you, we did manage to pack a load of sights in that we probably would have missed if they hadn`t organised us so well! Some of the drivers were absolute tyrants though. One of ours even drove off without one of the passengers who was a minute or so late back from the Japanese Tea Rooms! Left him in the park, and drove off with his jacket, passport the lot! (:o) Loved the drive down the coast to Monterey, Carmel etc. totally splendid! I think we were even allowed a full half hour to have lunch and visit the Aquarium!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Galaxy,

Oh....bless :)) you're trying to scare me off.....that's really sweet :))

Surely you've guessed by now that I'm terminally stupid?! as the song says....

We're Geordies, We're mental, We're off our f*****g heads!

Definitely applies to me with spades baby :))

Anyone wanna vouch for me?

I promise I'll be good....some beer for daddy, some chocolates for mama and a nice little teddy for baby bear ;)

Your husband doesn't look like that Italian ref by any chance does he? just checking a theory I've got ;)))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Agreed about the Matrix... class film. I bought it to test out my new DVD player..... awesome! I'll be watching it again tonight.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Geordie,

I liked it so much I bought the company....

I bought it region1, region2 and on video so there! and no I'm not kidding....I've just got more money than sense....bout 10p at the last count :))

What DVD did you go for? multi-region? you hack it yourself or get it chipped?

Another favourite film of mine at the moment is Cruel Intentions.....anyone else seen that? Galaxy?

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Wouldn`t dream of trying to scare you off Gav! Anyway, it doesn`t work - been trying it on Yelli for years - and she`s still here!

Does he look like the Italian Ref? - well yes, I guess you could say so - but bigger - and balder! (though that doesn`t notice so much now that he`s had the life size portrait of a rottweiler tattooed on the back of his head)!

Right I really seriously must leave this bbs alone for the rest of the day - please can someone else post like mad all day, and knock me off the top of the postings list - my family think I sit on here all day - as if!!!!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Galaxy,

Hahaha you bbs addict you!! I once you used to be on the old bbs a lot....I've calmed down a lot now :))

Ahh those were the days....I miss Swift :))

I must do some work....this year at some point....

Have a wonderful day shopping won't you and be certain to buy some Haagen Daaz for Saturday night won't you....I do like that :))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Gav, I originally went for Tesco's Wharfedale-750. It's a terrific machine and multi-region at only #180. However, I sent it back as the drive mechanism is too damn noisy. My TV has open shelves beneath it and the noise from the Wharfedale was annoying during quiet parts of films.

I've replaced it with a Hitachi DVP250E. This is a really nice bit of kit. You multi-region it by reloading the software from dvd's so it's not physically "chipped". It may be just region 1 and 2 but that's all I'l buy anyway. It's got neat disc navigation system. I paid #290 for it already multi-regioned and the warranty is still valid. I could have got it for #250 but the discs to wipe/re-install the software are about #25 for botleg copies (if you can get them) so I took the shop's deal.
Just got Pink Floyd's The Wall which gives a good test to the digital audio!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Geordie,

I went for the Samsung 709...cost me 219 I think :) really easy permanent region hack using one of those all in one remote controls (which I purchased from Argos and then took back once I'd used it!).

I've got about 30-40 DVD's at the minute...I get most of my region 1's from www.play247.com, it's a site based in Jersey and they deliver in 3 days....not the cheapest on the net, www.reel.com does some good deals if you can be bothered with the crappy site and finding the vouchers....

Fave films on DVD have to be:- The Matrix Cruel Intentions Austin Powers 2 South Park the movie...

Austin Powers 2 is the best for all the cut scenes and extra's though....I can't believe some of the hilarious stuff that got cut out of that film....

For those in the know "I LOVE shaking hands!".....for those that don't know...sorry ;))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Gav,

The Hitachi is silver which was a major factor in getting the misus to approve the purchase!!

Keep an eye out on www.dvdplus.co.uk. They have special offers under "What's New". I got The Matrix for #9.99 which includes VAT and delivery! Came in 2 days. That offer is over now but they will have others.

Also.... www.dvdstreet.infront.co.uk/egg get's you 20% discount. It's for egg customers but I still got the discount! Again prices include VAT and delivery. Ordered the latest Bond for #11.99 (it's for my lad, honest!)

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

to continue boring everyone to death....
http://www.dvdboxoffice.com/ is a US R1 seller. priced in dollars but FREE world-wide delivery! eg. Enter the Dragon $18.59 (#16.99 at play247!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

What about delivery time from the states though? that's the beauty of Play247 for me....they've always been spot on time :)

I'll check em out at some point :))

There's a load of stuff out/coming soon that I'm after :))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

delivery is about a week. You should also pay VAT but single dvds in a smallish envelope don't get checked!

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

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Divvent blame wor - it's Gav's piccie.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Cheers Scratchy!!

See if that scares her :))

Actually it does look remarkably like Screacher doesn't it :))

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Jaap Stam on a good day.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Or Gary Neville without his wig on.....

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Scratchy - I know I`m slow (it`s this Bank Holiday thing, thrown me right out!) but I`ve just noticed that you`ve put up a picture of my `pin up`! Well, sorry to disappoint you, but he simply holds no fear for me now. Had you posted a copy of our next telephone bill, now that probably would have had me turning white! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

Galaxy,

Scratchy posted it at my request :)) I was wondering if it looked at all like your hubby?...you know, the one you were trying to scare me with :))))

YOU of ALL people should know that Geordies aren't easily scared ;))

Hope you had a great birthday!!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

No Gav, it would be just too cruel to say that he has even a passing resemblence to my nearest and dearest. Yep, had a fine birthday, but I don`t think I will acknowledging any more birthdays now. Think that I will just bury my head and pretend that I`m caught in a time warp from now on! Much less painful! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

Galaxy,

But sweetheart you're only 21!!!......errr does that make my interest in your 3 year old daughter very unhealthy? ;)

I never acknowledge my birthdays anymore until after they've passed :))

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

It's all gone quiet on here....

God the weather is beautiful over here....apparently it was 27degrees here on Saturday....makes me wonder why I bothered going back to England for the weekend!!

Anyway to more postings and I'm above Ciara....so this counts as one...

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

And this counts as the other ;)

Now just Softie and Galaxy in my sights.....Softie's catchable but Galaxy is just too addicted!!!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

Sorry about the earlier spelling mistake, I meant two more postings instead of to more postings ;))

MUHAHAHAHA ;))

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

Ahh...but I now have 2 listings on the stats page....so you've got to add the 2 together to see just how sad I am! Errrmm...

anyway. Maybe I should go to Europe...it's bleedin SNOWING in Boston today! And they're predictin a Noreaster for Saturday...the next REvs game. Great. Too bad I can't bottle this stuff and save it for July when I'll be falling over from the heat and humidity. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

You'll never catch me Gav, the Corinthian League will keep ticking away even whilst you sleep, chipping away at your peace of mind and driving you insane.

Resistance is USELESS!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

Damn,

Didn't realise you both had two entries....I'll just have to try harder :)))

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000