My New Topic

[MintTrav]

Bee numbers are in decline and my company hasn"t helped. It employs bees to pollinate tomatoes, but as tomatoes have no nectar, the bees have to be fed. Unfortunately, no-one took the lid off the feed and the bees all died. A bit embarrassing. Tomatoes have been slow this year, due to poor light levels and dead bees.

[MintTrav]

Played on Full Tilt last night for the first time. I joined up to have a go at the FTOPS Razz and ended up finishing 22nd. I found myself in 3rd place when there were 47 left and started having delusions of winning thousands, but then I lost two big hands and ended up with much less, but enough to cover shots at the Stud Hi and Hi/Lo.

I was expecting the FTOPS to be similar to the SCOOP but it wasn"t at all. Losing one big hand put me in serious trouble early on, whereas in SCOOP you can weather losses more easily. It was a bit fast for my liking, though it turned out not too bad in the end.

So now I have another site to play in addition to the 476 others I already had. It seems pretty weird compared to any other I"ve been on before - not sure if I like it.

[MintTrav]

I played a Win-The-Button tournament for the first time at Gunwharf Grosvenor last night. Interesting format. I learned a few things, one being that if you fold your BB to a min raise from the Button, you have to put in another BB anyway, so making the call becomes more attractive.

[MintTrav]

Incredible question at work yesterday:

"How did people communicate before there was email? Dd you use the phone all the time?"

This wasn"t from a 20-year-old with little life experience, but a 30-year-old accountant.

Obviously, I told her that we had a big bottle of ink and a quill, but WTF!

[MintTrav]

I just got knocked out of a tournament. AA busted by 77. Whatever. Will I rebuy? Yeah, think I will........just need to click the button........Oh look, that"s Annette_15 on my left...........Where did she appear from?.............Maybe it"s not actually her - people sometimes use variations of well-known names............No, it"s not Annette-15 or something like that, Annette_15 is definitely the right format...........I"ll just hover over the name and see the location............Norway - that"s her all right............Right I"m definitely rebuying...........just click the button.............oh, too late.

[Swinebag]

I just got knocked out of a tournament. AA busted by 77. Whatever. Will I rebuy? Yeah, think I will........just need to click the button........Oh look, that"s Annette_15 on my left...........Where did she appear from?.............Maybe it"s not actually her - people sometimes use variations of well-known names............No, it"s not Annette-15 or something like that, Annette_15 is definitely the right format...........I"ll just hover over the name and see the location............Norway - that"s her all right............Right I"m definitely rebuying...........just click the button.............oh, too late.

John Murray in "tanking" shocker  

[MintTrav]

I had an apple bakewell cake today, a combination I had never come across before. It was very nice.

[MintTrav]

Update on Gay Games X.

You may recall that I was surprised earlier in the year to learn that Limerick was mixing it with some of the world"s great cities in the competition to host the 2018 Gay Games.

The contenders were:

Amsterdam
Limerick
London
Orlando
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo

It was announced last week that Paris has won. But the amazing thing is that Limerick made the shortlist. Somehow, it saw off most of the others and was in the final three-way run-off along with London and Paris. Of course, that was a two-horse race, but how did Limerick get that far? It is a small, unattractive, scruffy, dangerous, crime-ridden pit, nicknamed Stab City, though that is misleading, as gun crime is rampant in the gang wars there. I can"t believe it had the temerity to enter the contest at all, suggesting it has any place among the cities on that list, but I am gobsmacked that whatever nutters were judging this ranked it in the top three. I would rather hold an event in Kabul than consider holding it in Limerick.

[AMRN]

Through the forum a beared man came
Who decided to achieve his aim
His name was John Murray
And he was in a hurry
To get to Limerick"s "18 Gay Games

[MintTrav]

Thank you for your limerick, Steve. You have inspired me so much that I feel like having a limerick competition with myself. Anyone else who feels unfulfilled enough to join in is welcome to do so. Here is my first offering:

There once was a man lived at ChezGer
Who drank all he could for a wager
The young bucks were confused
They thought he would lose
But they couldn't outdrink the old stager

[duke3016]

 

[pables]

I once sat opposite John Murray
At a table in Luton, not Surrey
He asked after my health
Then stifled my wealth
By calling my bluff in a hurry

sigh

[Quasar]

ooooh I like this thread, so I"ll join in  


There once was a nice man called Leigh
Who had an accounting degree
He loved to play poker
His results weren"t mediocre
He"s such a good player you see

[MintTrav]

Ingenious rhyming of poker and mediocre, Deb.

[MintTrav]

There was a young fellow called Duffy
Whose forum was terribly scruffy
He called in TC
Who approached it with glee
But found it a hell of a toughie

Don Roberts, a good friend of ours
Believed that he had superpowers
He took on more than he oughter
Tried to walk on the water
And found a new way to have showers

There was a young fellow called Waz
Whose name should be rhymed with Nicoise
People pronounced it Wazz
Woss, Waws, Woz, Wax and Wass
So Waz became Roz, just because.