The death, dying and dead thread Page 4

Quote: Loopey @ July 22 2008, 7:22 PM BST

Which instrument do you play roscoff? What else is on your list?

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I play trumpet and cornet. I also did a gig with a trad jazz band and a big band which was different and cool Oh yes, and on a different note(!) I was at the Millennium Stadium when Wales won the Grand Slam!

At the end of the year I'm going to stop playing regularly (except I have promised to go to Ireland and play at a friends wedding) so I'm going to travel a little. Always wanted to go to Shetland Islands and see the Aurora Borealis and I love train journeys so I'm going to get myself a eurorail card and get to some unknown part of Europe just to say I've been there. I'm also determined to have a real big go at this writing lark. I've seen the likes of Sooty's output and I'm just an amateur compared to him.

Quote: roscoff @ July 22 2008, 7:34 PM BST

I play trumpet and cornet. I also did a gig with a trad jazz band and a big band which was different and cool Oh yes, and on a different note(!) I was at the Millennium Stadium when Wales won the Grand Slam!

At the end of the year I'm going to stop playing regularly (except I have promised to go to Ireland and play at a friends wedding) so I'm going to travel a little. Always wanted to go to Shetland Islands and see the Aurora Borealis and I love train journeys so I'm going to get myself a eurorail card and get to some unknown part of Europe just to say I've been there. I'm also determined to have a real big go at this writing lark. I've seen the likes of Sooty's output and I'm just an amateur compared to him.

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Nice. You've written some pretty good stuff I seem to remember reading in the critique forums.

Or maybe I'm getting confused - have you posted in there?

Quote: roscoff @ July 22 2008, 7:34 PM BST

I play trumpet and cornet. I also did a gig with a trad jazz band and a big band which was different and cool Oh yes, and on a different note(!) I was at the Millennium Stadium when Wales won the Grand Slam!

At the end of the year I'm going to stop playing regularly (except I have promised to go to Ireland and play at a friends wedding) so I'm going to travel a little. Always wanted to go to Shetland Islands and see the Aurora Borealis and I love train journeys so I'm going to get myself a eurorail card and get to some unknown part of Europe just to say I've been there. I'm also determined to have a real big go at this writing lark. I've seen the likes of Sooty's output and I'm just an amateur compared to him.

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Good for you. I have crossed a few things off my to do list but had put it on the back burner - think I will get it out again.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 22 2008, 7:47 PM BST

Nice. You've written some pretty good stuff I seem to remember reading in the critique forums.

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That's very nice of you to say but I haven't posted in there for ages and would like to have a lot more success with Newsrevue and Treason show and build from there really. If it fails at least I can say I gave it a proper go.

Quote: Loopey @ July 22 2008, 7:49 PM BST

Good for you. I have crossed a few things off my to do list but had put it on the back burner - think I will get it out again.

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Excellent. So come on,enough about me, what's number one?

I can't believe the rate of sooty's output. It's superb.

Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 22 2008, 7:53 PM BST

I can't believe the rate of sooty's output. It's superb.

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I bloody know. He knows how to play the game though. I send the odd thing off and now and again I hit. Sooty really buries himself into it so that he ups his percentage chance of getting something in by covering a lot of bases. It's the right way to do it if you're serious about writing. He'll tell you himself he's amazed at some of the stuff of his that gets performed, but who cares? It's money for doing something he clearly loves.

Yep and the only way to get better really is to write every day. *feels guilty and opens half finished sitcom*

I think I should write a list.

1) F**k Tennant
2) Be f**ked by Tennant

...Along those lines, right?

Yes.

To do lists are good but only have one or two to start with. Otherwise you fry your brain trying to get round them all. I've been fortunate that a number of mine have fallen in to my lap. Unless your dying of course. Then you'd better get your arse shifted.

Quote: roscoff @ July 22 2008, 7:52 PM BST

That's very nice of you to say but I haven't posted in there for ages and would like to have a lot more success with Newsrevue and Treason show and build from there really. If it fails at least I can say I gave it a proper go.

Excellent. So come on,enough about me, what's number one?

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My number one is - write a number one single

A colleague told me today about a funeral he'd attended where the pallbearers lifted up the coffin following the church service only to leave the body behind. The wife of the deceased was screaming and he described the scene as 'hysterical'.

I'm not sure which part of that story is the most disturbing - the coffin part or the person thinking it was funny.

Quote: Tuumble @ November 5 2009, 4:40 PM GMT

A colleague told me today about a funeral he'd attended where the pallbearers lifted up the coffin following the church service only to leave the body behind. The wife of the deceased was screaming and he described the scene as 'hysterical'.

I'm not sure which part of that story is the most disturbing - the coffin part or the person thinking it was funny.

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Laughter's often a defence mechanism.

I was told by a gypsy once that I will die on a motorbike so I imagine my last thought would be 'who would ahve guessed the gypsy was right?'