Mrs J and I are making the yearly pilgrimage to Brisbane in January. Binos and I have decided we're going to meet up sometime in the second week (haven't really decided on a date or venue yet).

Here's your invite...............

G'day Jerricho,

At the moment im looking to go down to Australia/Brisbane also in January for 3 weeks but before that i will be making a pit stop at SYD, will be flying with Virgin, i can't give you a specific date yet, but ill be there for 3 weeks so im sure i will be able to attend the mini bash, will report more info when i have it, but count me in :ok:

Sounds good Airway.

I've posted this in Jet Blast, but I'll put it here as well.

NOW HEAR THIS

Date: Saturday, January 14 2006

Location: The Pineapple Hotel, 706 Main St, Kangaroo Point, 4169 Phone: (07) 3393 1111 - You don't like it, tough. I haven't been there for ages.

Time: 1230ish

Head upstairs to the balcony off Joe's Bar. You're looking for the table with the Australian and Canadian flags (and 2 of the least tanned people there. Fricken winter in the Northern Hemisphere)

Stick it in your diary, write it on your wall. This is not open to negoiation ;)

(I have also mentioned any references to my MIL in front of my wife will lead to the offender being thrown off the balcony)

Don't think that I can make that event Jerricho. I'm hoping to be in Oz for my annual Christmas/New Year break, but expect to be back at work before 14 January. I expect, however, that GoGirl will be there, so will ensure that she has possession of the Bash Register for the occasion! :ok:

Sweet!

Thanks Oz :ok: Sorry to hear you can't make it.

The mini bash sounds like a great idea. :D

Mr. & Mrs Flynverted should be able to attend so at last Binos we will be able to meet face to face :cool:

Back to the top...........don't want people to forget now ;)

Mrs STL and self are planning to be down in Brisbane on Jan 14.

I guess if I start pleading and brown-nosing now, I just might be lucky enough . . . . . . .


STL

I'll write up a permission slip for ya!!!!!

Yeah.

See the sign next to the door "Please Push"......................it's bullsh*t.

(That's not pink Kapt you plonker, it's mushroom :p)

Not I Kaptin, I'll just ring up my daughter to come and pick me up. :8

Funny, that door doesn't look familiar. There was certainly nothing pink, watermelon, puce, or mushroom about the place when I used to visit. Navy blue singlets, perhaps. I suspect that wearing a pink shirt in those days would have taken considerably more bravery than I possessed. I only walked in there with my long blonde hair* (!!) because everybody else in my group had long hair too.

* (If anybody wants to PM me the way to post a jpg here I'll prove it to you!)

I'm working on producing a VERY distinctive polo shirt especially for the day. Nobody should be in any doubt about my identity. :E

p.s. Have you notified the proprietors

Are you fricken mad??? You think they would knowingly let us in?

Seriously though, did you speak to the man Kapt.

I've got the photo, Kap, and followed instructions, but it came out too big. Still working on it. I'll get there.

It was actually just after they invented colour photos, btw. :8

:confused: :confused: :confused:

How did you get my photo?

Come on Binos, ain't no way that's you.

When's the last time you had a tie on?

I walked 47 miles of barbed wire,
Used a cobra snake for a neck tie.
Got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made out of rattlesnake hide.

:ooh:

Nicely done by Quicksilver Messenger Service, but done best by George Thorogood.

Jeez, thread drift is easy, isn't it?

:uhoh:

OK,OK, by popular demand.......:rolleyes:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b300/ferret53/Youngbinos.jpg


Any resemblance between this callow youth and the suave sophisticated urbane gentleman of today is purely coincidental. :}

I've still got some photos kicking around from the 2002 Ozbash and was contemplating some blackmail on Binos. :E But I decided that it'd be so much more fun just to post the URL anyway! :D The link you need is here! (http://www.fototime.com/inv/929BBE43FC85837)

Enjoy! :eek: :}

You know, it's funny; I just had this strange feeling those may appear. Thanks a lot Oz! :8

Wow, I sure killed this thread! :E

Sorry mate.

It's just every time I see that picture I piss my self laughing. :} Where's the beard??

Hey, it was 1973...I couldn't have grown one if I'd tried!

Sheesh, everybody had to look like something! :sad:

Yer welcome Binos! :D I couldn't help noticing that you didn't have a beard in 2002... what's the explanation for that? :p

Umm, considering I've had whiskers since 1977, OzEx, it seems likely that the reason you think I didn't have them in 2002 was cos you were pissed. :}

Hey, it was 1973.

Really? Is now a good time to mention that was the year I was born :p

What? WHAT? Speak up, sonny, I can't hear you.

bloody whippersnappers :mad:

(I notice the women have stopped posting..... I still have the same effect on them now :} )

I notice the women have stopped posting

Kapt M is still posting, the biach :E :E

Im lost in time... :confused:

1973.

Wasn't even born..... :ok: :} :E

I wasn't born......................


I was created.

You're right of course Binos. Getting pished is the whole purpose at a bash, isn't it? :D

I notice the women have stopped posting HA! found you sneaky bluddy male types ... think you can wander off and organise a party withOUT me??!!

Crikey Bino's .. a fair difference between 197whatever and 2002!!

It was only pure ass that I came in to this here area .. perhaps a msg on D&G (whats left of it!! :{ ) pointing the minions this way may be in order ...

We weren't trying to be sneaky about anything mistress ;)

Probably not a bad idea to post something in D&G a bit closer to the time.

I'm still hoping to come, though the likelihood slipped a little when I decided to change jobs. I'll have to wait till closer to see if it's feasible. Actually I'm between jobs right now. I finished the last one on Friday and start the new one on Monday. I'm having an unemployed weekend!!

Brissie, summer, much liquid consumption and a fair smattering of ppruners - sounds fantastic to me....

Jeez KM, there's some who might look at the gestures in that photo and say that ya haven't changed at all! :D Not that I'd be so crass to a mate, of course! :}

But it grew back, just in time for our Norman Hotel Bash last year, eh mate? :D

ah yes .. The Norman .. :ok: Oh Kappy M - you haven't changed much have you .. I can't see where you your 2 strapping, handsome lads get it from :D - my darling has just announced we may be heading off to the land of the long white cloud on or about the day of this little soire .. but I've told him, "Nup, noway - I wanna drink with the big kids" :E

Must be an exceptional brand of snake oil then KM! How does that old song put it... "most efficacious in every case"! :p

"Kaptin M,
had a terrible problem.
He always used to reek.
So they gave him medicinal compound,
Now he cleans himself once a week"

Hmm....interesting photos OzExpat...nice to put some faces to the names on here.

ta,
gg

See what you've done, OzEx? No way guccigal will bother turning up now. :8

Yeah Binos, my fault entirely mate! I'm sure that guccigal will be really disappointed that I won't be there! :p

:}

I'm sure she will be there, the older generation (im going to be killed now) just need to make an effort on the day :ok: :E :O

An effort? An effort????

Check list for January:
Arrange leave for Aus Open...tick

Book flight to MEL for Aus Open .... tick

Arrange accommodation in MEL for Aus Open.... tick

Book seats for Aus Open... under control as we speak

Pissup announced in Brisbane ...whoops!

Call in favours from airline checkin staff to change flight to leave four days earlier and stop off in Brisbane.....tick.

Don't worry about the older generation, young fella. Kaptin M and I will be there with bells on, it's up to you young whippersnappers to follow Jerricho's lead and
1. Be there as promised
2. Last more than an hour before you get a text from someone and have to leave for a cafe latte.

Effort indeed! :}

just for a bit of fun maybe a few of you fellas could wear a nsw jersey into that pub

Last more than an hour before you get a text from someone and have to leave for a cafe latte.

And you wonder why I chose that pub rather than the Paddo or something.

Don't worry, I'm still coming!

Last more than an hour before you get a text from someone and have to leave for a cafe latte.


But, if you old guys can't keep up, well, I can't guarantee I won't get a text from someone and have to head to the Regatta....

One more thing...just wondering, is there going to be anyone there under the age of 30????

Gucci x

Yes guccigal, there's sure to be someone in the pub who's in the sub-30 category. But not part of THIS group! :D

Looks like you won't be there after all eh? :}

ummm if you old guys can't keep up uhoh, that may possibly be construed as a challenge .. :ugh: and so soon after the seasonal festivities .. ;)

:hmm:

:ugh:

:bored:



GG




oh yeah I forgot

:mad: :mad:

Gucci, I can be any age you want ;) :E

(Really good at acting like a 10 year old at time :p )

Especially after a few scoops eh mate? :p

Really good at acting like a 10 year old TEN year old???? :confused: I have never seen you behaving like anything other than a two year old spoilt brat. :mad:
OzExpat Especially after a few scoops eh mate? So you are the one who has been encouraging his bad behaviour :mad: Kindly desist immediately. :}

Not at all Oz.

I become very suave and sophisticated after a beer or two ;)

very suave and sophisticated after a beer or two :bored: oh .. think I might be sick that day .. I've seen suave and sophisticated after a cuppla drinks .. thought I was over that .. :E

oh hell, what's the point of not being able to my past experience to good use :8

Ah ha, good Lady Voice, you've never seen my suave and sophisticated. :E :E

Some good and bad news, the bad news for me is that i wont be able to attend the January bash, the good news is im off to Australia next month instead of January:} :} :} :E :ok: Had to change my ticket dates.

well, don't be shy .. doesn't matter which part of the year your travelling in, most aussies can organise a drink somewhere sometime, somehow!

yes, I'll attest to what The Voice mentioned by adding that a common phrase heard in these parts is......
'it's 5 o'clock in the world somewhere'
Followed by the familiar sound of
'crack' then 'fizzz'

:E
:E

:}

Good Stuff, by the way i'll be staying a week in Toowong and then Brookfield, from the end of November up until the second week of December, so if anyone would like to meet up for a drink (i'll pay) just send me a PM.

:ok:

Mmmm.....so finally i've found the upside to visiting Pprune....:D I didn't think i needed another excuse to drink more...but what the hell. From those photos looks like my sort of party. i.e. drink lots and be obnoxious.....maybe a little slim on the looser moraled women in skimpy clothing tho...lol.....and where is the mud pit for the wrestling???
oh oh...and does everyone who comes get to wear a necklace too??? I've always wanted one of those.

A serious question for our mate Kapt M.

You gonna be hugging trees or are you gracing us with your presence?

well he could do both here .. we got trees here too!! :E

be nice to say gidday and share a celebratory fizzy drink or two ... :D

Jeeze, its getting to be a dry argument!

I will be in BNE over the week-end so I might have a small solo rehearsal, just to ensure the balcony is a fit and proper place for the downing of the odd golden throat charmer or two. Think of it as an audit. Promise I won't mention any names.

STL

I'm coming to Melbourne early in January and if I can get away i will come up to Brisbane, can I just turn up or do I need an invitation??
Also what is the easiest way to Kangaroo point from the airport? I've looked on wotif.com.au and their seems to be plenty of places to stay. How many days does a bash last and how long does it take the average bloke to recover? just thinking how long to stay..

1DC... If you read back over the last couple of pages, you'll find that this is likely to be a pretty snoozy bash. Doubt that you'd even need to stay overnight, but I suppose that depends on how you react after about 2 beers? :}

There, that ought to bring Jerricho out with all guns blazing! :p

Sorry, 1DC, don't often visit here because it's a fait accompli. It's just a pissup. If you're a Ppruner you're welcome, simple as that. Kangaroo Point is probably a $25 taxi fare from the airport, and you're right, heaps of accommodation available around the area.

All the details you need to find us are written earlier in the thread. Jerricho and Kaptin M and I will be there having a few ales. Might even be a few others too; we don't care really! Love to see a foreign visitor if you can make it, but we won't hold you to it. If we have a good enough time, a recovery session will probably be organised for the Sunday.

(I'll just ignore OzEggsplat since he isn't even brave enough to turn up.) :8

Thanks for that Binos, I will try and make it.....

Sorry 1DC but you'll havta forgive me mate Binos for his occasional mental lapses... he's not the one who's been living in the Third World for most of the last 21 years. :p

I'd have loved to attend this dozey bash, to renew friendship with the said Binos and especially to meet this Jerricho bloke! :ok: I already know Kaptin M and, if he actually gets there, you better believe that he'll out-drink everyone else (with the possible exception of me humble self, of course! :E ).

Oz .. you are just going to have to lift your game old son!! absolutely NO excuse for not being there.

Bino's .. you canNOT have me believing this is going to be a quiet drink at the corner pub, what happened to all the buff and bluster from a couple of pages ago? hmmm?

Kappy M .. you never did answer Jerrykoos question about hugging trees or something?

As I have said before OzE.........I have a very long memory. And I'm very vindictive.

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing06.gif

Yer absolutely right TV, no excuse at all. More like a simple fact of physics... I can't physically be in 2 different places at the same time... :sad:

We'll meet up somewhere. sometime Jerricho. Then we can sort out our differences man to man... shooters at 2 paces! :ok: :E

Is this open to old Pprune buddies only or are interlopers allowed to gate crash?

The fact that you're on here asking means you're welcome. Only non-drinkers will be regarded suspiciously.

Only non-drinkers will be regarded suspiciously.

TOTFL! :D
Not a problem for me then...the 14th will be the end of the first week at work in my new job at the local uni, so I'll be in need of a drink!!! ;)

Areya actually cummin all the way from the Yoo-Kay for this one harpie? :o

Geez, now KM will be really pissed at ya! :} :ok: I'm sure there'll be some sorta prize for the Prooner who travels the furthest to get to this bash! :E

Brisbash last December:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Woomera/Brisbash.jpg

Seem to recall that was OzExpat and Disco Stu!!!

Whats this about January 2006???? I thought it was next weekend at the Brekkie Creek??????

Woomera

ah HA!! A sprung Woomera(i)(ai)(ii) !!

Yes the annual Brizzy chrissy bash is on next weekend at the Brekky Creek establishment.

NOT to be confused with .....

Bino's and a couple of other reprobates somehow have organised a quiet drink at one corner of the Pineapple Hotel bar for a date in January ..

A sedate affair, apparently, if you believe what you read!! :E

So, be there if you can .. at either or both if you dare!! :8

(I thought the photo as more representative of the W's after an afternoons moderating on D & G.) :ugh:

Oi!!

Who you calling a reprobate????

(anyone caught with a camera will be set on fire and thrown over the balcony)

(anyone caught with a camera will be set on fire and thrown over the balcony)


well then.....I'll just have to wear me wings ;)


Oi Kappy you piker :p

Dare I say you shall pay when you do indeed make your next visit :E

Cheers
GG

wonder if they're sold in pairs ? .. wingz that is!

and, as for reprobates .. they're my kinda poeple. :ok:

KM damn .. was looking forward to seeing your boys again :E

Something i passed by the other day :}

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/v1rotate/xxxx.jpg

I think I'm gonna cry.............

One month to go :ok:

Don't cry for me Australia, the truth is i never left you....

I'll have a beer for you at the Truck in Narita (Tokyo) on the same night. For those who haven't been there it is a bar that is made from 2 shipping containers - a bar at one end and a karaoke microphone at the other. The noises made at both ends are about the same!
Enjoy

Not long now................

*Sigh*

Razor maaate! Been too long since our last meeting in CNS! If you remember that occasion, you'll probably also remember the skipper too. I had a few drinks with him last night, at the same venue as before and I believe he'll be at the Truck tonight.

If you're likely to be overnighting CNS in the next week, lemme know! :ok:

Could we please have a quick re-cap of the calender of events?

After having followed this thread for a while, I cannot remember if/when/where the plans have been changed :)

Cheers
GG

Nothing has changed from this............


NOW HEAR THIS
Date: Saturday, January 14 2006
Location: The Pineapple Hotel, 706 Main St, Kangaroo Point, 4169 Phone: (07) 3393 1111 - You don't like it, tough. I haven't been there for ages.
Time: 1230ish
Head upstairs to the balcony off Joe's Bar. You're looking for the table with the Australian and Canadian flags (and 2 of the least tanned people there. Fricken winter in the Northern Hemisphere)
Stick it in your diary, write it on your wall. This is not open to negoiation ;)
(I have also mentioned any references to my MIL in front of my wife will lead to the offender being thrown off the balcony)

So it'd be safe to mention your MIL behind your wife? :}

How well do you fly without yer plane Oz??:ouch:

I'm afraid I can't make it cos i have another do arranged in Melbourne by daughter.Only arrived this week from the UK so I'm toeing the line at the moment. Look forward to reading the comments about the occasion.

I'll take that as a "no"" :ooh:

We don't require notes from Mum. Jerricho and I are having a drink next Saturday. GG, it would be great to catch up with with you and tipsy (haven't worked out the smilies yet!)

Yes, t'would be nice .. I'm just wondering which is the best way to go, up at dark o'clock with a finish late morning so that I then could fall asleep at the corner of the bar, face first into my beer :ugh: - OR - a quick soda water then race to work :{ to allow my counterpart to head home to his Mrs.

decisions, decisions .. :sad:

My decision is already made... back in Port Morbid already! :(

Voice,I will be deeply and darkly disappointed, distraught, depressed, devastated, decimated, and dudded should you choose Option 2.

There is just something inescapably attractive about a woman falling asleep face first in her beer, as I'm sure my male colleagues will agree.

Do the right thing!

Yes I agree with Binos and I'm sure that TV wants to do it! :D This is no time to try changing yer character hon! :p

Gee. Thanks. (I think) Oz ... :bored:

Gives the term "beer goggles" a whole new meaning!!!!

I just have to get out of something on Saturday and I will be there with bells on...luck be on my side!

Cheers
GG

Ring them bells GG .. ring them bells!! I still haven't a darn clue what's happening other than the proverbial $hitload of flying over this weekend! (just for something different!)

[on a side note .. I just love the new way you can do things now on this new board .. highlight what you want to do something to, then select what you want to do, then do it!!] :)

Go Girl, you go, girl! Will be wonderful to catch up with you and Stu again. Only three more sleeps, I'm getting excited! Jerricho is very quiet so I assume he's in transit. See you all there!

well then, that's settled .. beer goggles it is for me!

Certainly in transit there Binos.

See ya tomorrow.

Spare a thought for poor old OzEx, who'll be in Honiara... :eek: :E

Sure thing Oz.

A pint of Shandy will be lifted in your honour. :}

Did a reconnaissance mission yesterday with B1. A little yuppie for my taste, but the beer is cold and reasonably priced. What else matters?

And on that note, it's into the shower, grab the Pprune Bash Register, phone, camera etc, and off to the Pineapple.

I will make my first task a beer for each of those missing in action. Could be a long day. :uhoh:

Fark........I don't remember eating that.

Oh yes,

I wonder if Gucci showed up or not :O

Anyway i expect a De-briefing ASAP :} :ok:

Alas, I must admit, GG I think kinda explained to Bino's my feeble excuse for non attendance .. :( pity it wasn't today or tomorrow or anytime time within the next 14 days ... ) I love my job .. I love my job .. I love my job .. perhaps if I say it often enough, I'll convince myself it is worthy of having it, despite the rest of my life! :sad:

For the sake of clarity, Gucci Girl & I are NOT the same person.


I'm an old married tart :p



:E

GG

If nobody turns up, what do you expect photos of? :} On the bright side Kaptin, all those who turned up stayed to the end. I would have been very lonely without Jerricho's extended family but after all, that's all it was meant to be, right?

Can't post the photo/s until I get home to my lappy. Struggling by on limited poota access and off to Melbourne tomorrow (today) for the tennis.

Jerricho, delighted to meet you at last, and most of your family. We'll do it again sometime, and next time we won't bother asking anyone to join us! :ok:

I spent that entire weekend driving all around Brissie looking for a place to bloody rent, so I'd like to see the evidence (devastation?) to consol my poor sober heart!:D

Got that picture yet Binos?

Hope you enjoyed the tennis mate :ok:

Well, a small logistical problem here. A complete unpack when I got home failed to turn up my camera, so I am in the process of trying to track it down and have it delivered. Stay tuned.
(Relax, Go Girl, the Bash Register is in safe hands, even if the overall intelligence level wasn't added to at the Pineapple!) ;) I'm proud to be the temporary holder of such a historical document; just let me know where it's to be passed on next. :ok:

G'day Binos. I might be wrong but I can't think of any commitments for it until July/August/September with me, in the UK. For now, just send it back to GG as she's been delegated responsibility for it while it's in Oz. :eek: ;)

Well, it's official. Tragically, the four photos taken at the Pineapple have disappeared, together with the camera in which they waited patiently to be displayed. As I am a trusting soul I prefer to think that my humble 2MP Fuji digital did not present such a massively attractive target as to inspire QF baggage snatchers to, err, snatch it. :uhoh: I prefer to think that being digital, it followed the well worn path of emails, files and address books by simply disappearing into the ether. Bugger.

Back to ebay for an el-cheapo replacement. :{

Awwww crap.

I call conspiracy!!!


;)