So here we are at 11:30am the morning after and not a single picture in sight. Not a speck of cleavage or a glimpse of nylon clad thigh, WITHIH?

Omark I contacted ATCBabe during the festivities to see if the merrymakers would be making their traditional visit to PPRuNe Chat to gloat at those lurking in there. It was only around 2300hrs and if her response that they were all too drunk to bother is anything to go by, I fear you will be waiting quite some time for the participants to have recovered suficiently to even remember their own names let alone be capable of posting photos in here :\
I better get back to the PPRuNe Recovery Ward to see how they are all getting on and dole out a few more analgesics and fluids :ugh: Looks like I could be busy for some time to come :uhoh: :E

You just had to be there............the cleavages...................the legs.............:D :D :D

The women were looking stunning too

C2H5OH

:bored: :ooh: :yuk:

Huggy dear, do go back to bed and lie down for a bit longer. Here are some more analgesics and a nice big glass of H20 You might still need your eyeshades too.:uhoh: :\ You aren't quite ready to be discharged yet.

I believe there's a plum shot running around. :E

Go on, post it. :}

I vote for the plum shot too!!!!!;) ;)

Dx mmmm.... sorry about that reply but really the bar was just too tempting ......mmmmmm... whats my name? ...... where am I?.....is it time to go home yet???? ........:confused: :confused: :confused:

For whatever it's worth, it took almost 24 hours to get the Brisbash piccies up... but it was worth the wait! :E

My head hurts and I'm tired.

But it was great fun, and Now I am back home in the states

Can't wait to do it again.

Cheers
Wino

REDDO ...MAAAAATE


a plum shot eeehhhhhh???

waddya bin upta over there???

Merry chrissie to you ...

The head is feeling better today after a lousy night of sleep, or lack of it. All the excitement, food and not a little booze I expect.

First off. My thanks to all of you who attended. I very much hope you enjoyed yourself. Eric Brown certainly still looks good and sounded even better. If you had been around at the time he was doing his stuff I wonder how many would have thought he would be writing history? A great man indeed.

My heartfelt thanks also go to those who helped Jan on the check-in table, especially G-SXTY. To those who bought with them some raffle prizes to help push up the ticket sales by our ever persistent and determined raffle mistress - Aerbabe - who I could not do without. I have not yet worked out how much we made on the raffle but I think it will be in excess of £350, which is good going. I'll let you know.

Add £470 from the auction of 2 FLYER subs. Courtesy of Wholigan 2 bottles of Arun single malt (beautiful stuff!). A disc Mik made of John Farley's lecture last year. And, forgive me, two other items I can't remember = total £470 Brilliant, thank you so much.

Now! I am sorry if you had hassle with reception. I am not best pleased with their performance at all and a sour e-mail went off to them last night to say so.

Please check your account too. The cost of the room should have been £50 single and £60 double. Some were charged £55 for a single room but I had that changed when it was bought to my attention. If you have had that charge call the hotel and get a refund. Any problems please let me know.

Wino. Noted you got home OK and hope you and your charming wife had a good time. Thanks for coming over. That was pretty impressive. Best wishes to you both for Christmas and the New Year.

To all of you, please accept our best wishes for a Happy Christmas and a good New Year

See you at the next Super Christmas Bash on 4th December 2004.


IFR

A big thank you to IFR for organisating such a super evening - and so very nice to meet Mrs IFR and everyone else!

My hat is off to AerBabe who's unerring ability to detect shrapnel ensured my pockets never became overladen! :ok:

I left at O4 something or other and somehow found my way to Three Bridges station and got straight on a train. By happy coincidence it happened to be going in the correct direction; unhappily I was expected to purchase a ticket, the unexpired portion of my ticket apparently didn't count despite my protestations that it was still dark... just...

Regards and the very best of Seasons Greetings to you all.

Don,
I too am feeling MUCH better now.

Spectacular time was had by both myself and Midnight Special.
Thanks for doing such a great job.

I hadn't brought my camera figuring that there would be DOZENS of pics on the forum by now. Well, I am waiting, but I don't see em yet... At this point I would like to point out that I had NY bash pics in the thread by the first night and complete coverage the second night.

Of course I didn't have the same kind of quality pics of commjam that are available to pprune dispatcher...

Cheers
Wino

CommJam,

thank you for helping to answer the time honored question:

What do Scotsmen wear under their kilts?

What a party! Glad I made the trek across the pond.

MS

ps where are the pictures?

There isn't a Gatbash goes by without someone sticking a camera up my kilt! :)

At least I always wear the thing properly and for the first time was the ONLY guy in the room in a kilt (deeply disappointed in 10W and Squidy, although his more of a skirt :) )

Top night as usual, nice to see everyone again, thanks Don and all for doing a great job again.

See you next year

Now where is that plum shot..................?

Thanks, Don, for organising yet another superb GatBash!

I didn't get many photos, was too busy drinking and dancing, but there are a few..... if you're brave enough, click here (http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/deandashwood/album?.dir=/GatBash+-+Xmas+2003&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.photos.yahoo.com/deandashwood/) to see them!

Merry Christmas everyone, and let's hope for many more equally good bashes!

FFF
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PS - If there's a photo of you on my website which you'd rather wasn't there, please e-mail (deandashwood@<hidden>) or PM me, and I'll remove the photo as soon as I can.

[Edit to correct the link - thanks McD! Hope it works now, but my firewall at work won't let me view my own pictures, so I can't test it until I get home tonight.]

Link doesn't work right now...
I get a page with the following response

RESULT=49 - TCookie invalid
VERSION=1.1



please try again...

Cheers
Wino

The PPRuNe Recovery Ward for Casualties of the Gatbash has now been closed again:ok: IFR has been returned to the safekeeping of Mrs IFR, Huggy has been returned to Mrs Huggy and ATCB has been issued with a nice big label with her name and address printed on it in large, clear, easy-to-read letters, escorted to the airport and handed over to the Meet and Assist staff of the airline with whom she is returning to EDI. They have promised to have her handed over to the proper authorities when she reaches EDI. :E
The ward is now closed for its annual refurbishment which is always necessary after this event. :\ I shall now concentrate on building up my strength to cope with next years influx. :D

I see no pix!

FFF's site gives me an error message.

Obviously a brilliant time was had by all. Some of us have to work :(

I'm going to try this and see how it works (for FFF's piccys)

Try this link (http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/deandashwood/album?.dir=/GatBash+-+Xmas+2003&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.photos.yahoo.com/deandashwood/)

Y'all let me know, please, if it works for you, and I'll edit FFF's post with this link.

Yeah that worked,

Cheers
Wino

Hey Voice maaaaaaaaaaaate,
Nah I didn't take the pic. I just felt his (mighty fine) arse.
I was running on bourbon at that stage. Remember, I don't drink much. :E

many thanks to don and jan for another splendid bash!!!!!
was lovely to catch up with folk again and meet some new folk too
splendid effort mr and mrs wino - popping over to london for dinner!!!!!!!!!

i felt outrageously well the next morning - which is more than can be said for some!!!!! if it wasn for the fact i had the car at the other end of my journey i'd've been up for another bash!!!!

yaffs

Another great bash, thank you Don and Jan for all your hard work. It was lovely to catch up with old friends again and meet new PPRuNers ... even CumuloNimbus who seemed determined to buy a kiss in aid of the PPRuNe Fund. :uhoh: It was a pleasure to meet our special guest, Capt Eric Brown, who certainly had some interesting stories to tell.

PW and I managed to persuade the hard core of bashers to join us for a pub lunch, to keep Cleo company while she waited for her flight home.

Bring on the photos! (But, PPRuNe Dispatcher... could you run 'those ones' past me first? :O )


Yaffs - do you have exclamitis? ;)

Ooer according to aerbabe I'm hardcore :cool:

It was so lovely catching up with everyone but most especially my fellow Chatters, who have been the most wonderful friends to me this last year. It would not have been Christmas to me if I hadn't seen them :O

Yet again I did far to well In the raffle, I suppose my luck must change there at some time.
Thanks to Don and Jan for arranging it and for inviting the most amazing guest in Captain Brown, his achievements are superb.

Happy Christmas everyone and heres to a successful New Year.

Flower xxxx

I didn't say you were hardcore Flower, I said those we 'persuaded' were. Those who invited themselves... well... :rolleyes: :p

I would just like to add my thanks for the chance to meet ,dine and dance with old friends (well only of a few months)and new friends .
I have posted the full account of my adventure to the GAT BASH and back ,on my very own PINK HEADSETS THREAD. .

Look forwad to repeating it all again next year.

see you
THE PINK.AVIATOR
THE PINKSTER

If Celtic Emerald aka Coconuts gets upset at the sight of cleavage shots, she's going to have a stroke at the sight of ComJam's plums. :E

There's no way "Celtic Coconut's" gonna have any kind of stroke regarding my plums! :D

Well Rob and I had a great time, it was good to meet everyone again. Aerbabe did a good job with the raffle as always. Don of course got the whole thing arranged with the usual sucess, he even sorted a few hotel related problems out. Not sure what the scotsmen's excuses were for not wearing their kilts but that did not matter too much and hopefully they gave more to the raffle because of it.

Great GREAT Night! Thank you very much Don and Jan! It was a real pleasure meeting pprune legends (hallo Wino ;) ) and all the other friends.
Too bad for those who missed the sight of Aerbabe in black :E Already complained to Pprune Radar for showing up without the proper attire...he promised to set things straight in 2004:ok:

PS
Reddo, any news?????

FFF,

Some nice pictures there - but what in the world did you and your harem do to Whirly on the dance floor? She doesn't look at all well :eek:

And who is this saad *astard anyway and why is he disguised? :O

Great fun, thanks Don, see you all again. :ok:

SD

Flyblue,
No not yet. Application *still* on the boss's desk. My colleague has heard and he's a happy guy.
Maybe today?? :uhoh:

Well, it was great to see so many of you again at the Gatbash and sorry not to see those who were removed by the dreaded flu, etc. Apologies for taking so long to get round to this, but I drew the short straw for the Christmas roster and have only just got home today. Thanks to FFF for putting up the first pics. I'm sure we all eagerly await Wholigan's traditional "angle" on the Bash!

Anyway it was indeed another super Bash and many thanks to Don for all his hard work. A fantastic effort by Wino and MidnightSpecial to come and join us from the States, and a pleasure to meet you both. As always there are too many missing from my collection as a result of my enjoying the event so much - can't believe I missed Hugmonster :( Hopefully more pics will show up when we've all recovered.

I have put my pics on a couple of web pages this time, to save clogging up the PPRuNe server ;) Click on any pic for a full-screen view or download - and here's one I made earlier of some PPRuNe celebs!

http://ourworld.compuserve.co.uk/DrSynHst/P032/Pa20.JPG
IFR, Reddo, flyblue and Wino . . . still standing

Click here (http://ourworld.compuserve.co.uk/drsynhst/GatB1.html) to see the lot . . . .and a Happy New Year to all PPRuNers.

Wow, Flyblue! Nice photo, nice er...dress.

Who won the competition regarding the job as figurehead on the bow of the QE3 then? You or Reddo?

Hmm........must try harder to get along to one of the Bashes this year..... ;)

great photos!! looks like it is getting dressier and dressier each year ..

crikey Reddo .. your hairs getting long girl .. nice one .. it suits you!

Hey Voice,
It was longer than that a few months ago. Had it cut. It was driving me nuts. I was pretty amazed I stayed awake for as long as I did. I had only 2.5 hours sleep prior to arrival.
Went into freight dog aka parcel pup mode. Ie wake up, it's dark!! :E

Great pics :D

'Mouth a Minute' eh I mean't Reddo, I was about to say 'you're looking as pretty as a picture' till I saw your post, now I don't know quite what to say. You do want you know who to come to the next bash now don't you cause we'se are kinda in agreement about this issue??? :p

Looks like it's high time for another name change.

P.S. To be honest I don't know what 'plums' means but I dare say I could hazard a guess, I'll probably find out soon enough anyway whether I'm right or not. :confused:

2.5 hours of sleep? I could only dream of having that much sleep! I got 4 hours after we left the bar in morning, and that was IT from Friday morning to sunday evening untill I got on the airplane for the ride home (I only slept 2 or 3 hours on the airplane, I wanted to watch the terminator movie)...

But if you want to be a "Knight of the Freight Dogs, order of the sleepless nights," you have to learn that sort of thing. <G>

I flew the mail for 3 years. However, I don't remember the fatigue to be quite as crushing as it was when I got home from the UK this time... Of course there were no 14 hour sessions in the pub in the middle of a duty period either, so maybe that is why I was in such agony when I got home...

IFR, even in retirement, I admire your stamina. And YES I learned quite a bit. Having already achieved my life goal of being an airline captain on the ole scarebus, you have provided excellent training on my next goal in life. To become a dirty old man :ok: ....

I must admit though, While I was quite impressed with all your little hugs, Danny's rock star status was an order of magnitude greater... I want women to throw themselves at me when I enter a room like a certain French knockout greeted Danny on arrival...

Oh, and GREAT pictures DrSyn...

Cheers,
WIno

Hey Nuts,
I didn't have to say a thing. Every one in Chat had guessed your identity long time ago. You can change your nick, but, you can't change your style. That screams volumes.

Nice pictures Doc !

Hey Wino, remember this?
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/n9qu_5196992.jpg

But have you already forgot this! :{ :
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/824h_5196994.jpg

And this!:E
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/4mfl_5196978.jpg

Now the group pic:Hugmonster Pprune Radar, flyblue,Danny Pprune Dispatcher and Wino!
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/knpm_5196980.jpg

That one was around 4am, and 2 flights later!
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/so4y_5196976.jpg

2/3 of the JB Mod Squad (Wholi and flyblue :{ oh how we missed Flapsforty!) and Mrs IFR, pretty in blue
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/ajmh_5205101.jpg

The Boss, flyblue, cumulonimbus
http://www3.monphotoservice.com/VOLUME008/355tqp/95ghhazuef3vs32/image/04kh_5196977.jpg

Is that "it" for the pix, then? I missed the Bash (working) and still haven't seen Aerbabe in black...

Does she look anything like me in black?

Coconuts, Reddo etc.

You can change your nick in Chat room as often as you like, (just so long as you dont nick someone elses nick). However, its an anonymous forum. Any room users who wish to vilify another pprune member risks being denied access. I'd suggest finding another site with more liberal views towards this sort of bullying and slug it out in there.

Hawk I am saying this openly so all concerned can see it. You seem to be somewhat unaware of the facts here.
It is Coconuts who is being rather rude to Reddo, not the other way round. Coconuts is wrong in her assumption that Reddo told everyone her previous user name and I have told her so personally in chat. Nobody told anyone else who she was, everyone worked it out for themselves. Reddo has stated the truth. Perhaps Coconuts might like to correct the situation by amending her post?
No doubt you will wish to shoot me down in flames but I hate to see people maligned for no reason.

What's this about me in black? :confused:

I'm sure this stuff about Coconuts is all very interesting :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

But, can we get the piccies.....anyone?

Wassup CJ,
You want the pic of your plums to show your loved ones or something? :E

Hey it's New Year! No more slagging please. This is a jolly forum and a jolly thread, it took a lot of hard work, so swords and daggers are banned as of - now!

Happy New Year to one and all.

PPP

Oui, c'est bien Nooyere, mais ou sont les piccies? I'm still waiting to see AerBabe in her cassock.

Hey jeez

I hadn't clicked in here in ages so I didn't realise this was going on.

It's just that I got a bit of a shock when I saw Reddo's post, its one thing people knowing my identity in chat & another thing having plastered on the forum against my wishes. What I said was made in jest, it certainly wasn't intended to cause hurt, (if it did I'm sorry) or cause a full scale on line riot.

Infact Reddo didn't initially guess my identity, I revealed to her in private where I was from & then she guessed, I think I asked her to be quiet about it, but I can't be sure. Sure it became obvious eventually, I expected it to once I attended or atleast tried to attend the bash & met atleast one PPRuNer from behind the facade of the forums so I wasn't too bothered about being forthright or people guessing.

I wouldn't worry too much cause I'm not intending on using chat too much now, I need to knuckle down to my studies & I'm back to sodding work tomorrow. I prefer anyway to PM my mates anyway rather than wait hours for them to come into a chatroom still the break was nice & enjoyed everyones company while in there, yours included Wombat :D.

Corr you guys wouldn't want to live in Ireland, the way we slag & take the mick out of each other, usually a sign we like & are relaxed with each other rather than the other way around. Now lets just forget about it eh & let bygones be bygones.

Now would someone please explain to me what plums are.... :confused:

Coconuts Now would someone please explain to me what plums are.... - normally fruit from trees of the genus Prunus:ok: But as ComJam comes from Scotland he may have a different explanation - they do things differently up there you know ;) :E

A belated thanks to IFR and his good lady for the excellent hospitality which we have all come to expect and love so much.

As a Bash it was certainly a lot smaller by recent standards but just as enjoyable. The usual suspects up to their usual tricks, some new friends from many corners of the globe, and of course another superb star guest who gave us some great tales of his pioneering test flying career.

I have certainly noticed the disappointment of some that I was not properly dressed for the occasion and will not let that happen again. :ok: The disappointment was matched on my side by only getting to talk to flyblue for a mere fraction of the evening. Mea culpa !!!!

So I also need to liaise a bit better with IFR on the seating plan for my next Bash .... I have a special request for who will be my tables guest of honour next time :O and of course flaps40 needs to be accomodated to join us if she makes it too :E

Regrettably I was having such a great time that I totally forgot my camera was also in attendance and ended up taking NO photos :{ Further bad news seems to be that Wholigan has suffered some calamity downloading his shots from his camera and they are now lost to the world :{

So PPRuNe Dispatcher .... our salvation is in your hands .... let's see your pics !!!

Quiet in here, innit!

At last - I'm back online!

A car took out a telegraph pole on the road before christmas and it took British Telecom weeks to fix it.... being off the internet for so long was :mad:

I'll be uploading a select few at some point... and if the owner of the meat and two veg would like to contact me, I'll email him the photograph of the said article...

Mik

And more pictures there were (still!) None!:(