What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[outlaw118]

Not wishing to appear like a massive bender....but she is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!

[eddyramrod]

Isn't she just!

 

Warren, does this mean you'll be an accidental extra in whatever they were filming?

[warren t claim]

Isn't she just!

 

Warren, does this mean you'll be an accidental extra in whatever they were filming?

 

I hope not! If so I want Equity rates!

[outlaw118]

My bro was in the Russell Crowe Robin Hood film, playing a stable hand or coachman or something. Actually filmed about 10 minutes of to-ing and fro-ing, but most of it (9.8 minutes) ended up on the cutting room floor. Have to find a photo....

 

Edit....found one, he's the fat one, second right, or third left depending on your point of view....

[eddyramrod]

Yeah, that's where most of my day's work ended up too. They went to a lot of trouble to film three of us standing in front of a door, blocking the exit, I was the middle one doing my best nightclub-bouncer pose; not a sign of it in the film. I've seen it several times now, but tonight was the first time I seriously used the pause/frame-advance feature, and finally found myself!

 

Warren, I got 80 notes for Sherlock, so don't expect much!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This little bundle of fluff called Chiana , 12 weeks old and so loving

 

 

Adorable!

 

My cat is trying to be adorable but is just pressing my buttons.

[Guest]

I'm watching Sherlock Holmes on DVD, the Guy Ritchie movie. I was an extra on that, in the House of Lords scenes (Manchester, October 2008). Finally, I've spotted myself in the crowd! At last!

 

I was on Blue Peter when I was eight. I also did a voice over for a youtube cartoon in the states that may or may not be online and a couple of IVRs for companies down South.

[morris_ital_lover]

My bro was in the Russell Crowe Robin Hood film, playing a stable hand or coachman or something. Actually filmed about 10 minutes of to-ing and fro-ing, but most of it (9.8 minutes) ended up on the cutting room floor. Have to find a photo....

 

Edit....found one, he's the fat one, second right, or third left depending on your point of view....

 

Out of interest what scene were you in, someone I knew from school was in the scene where he returns on a boat to some castle...

[TimothyClaypole]

Paid for the rest of my van today, picking it up Thursday.

[M'coli]

I was an extra in BBC Scotland's adaption of Ian Banks' The Crow Road, in 2 different scenes. I've wearing a grey suit with my back to the camera in this funeral scene at 3:30 in:

I'm also in the comedy club scene, too.

 

PS, at 10:40 and 12:20-odd, there's mis-matched panel Dyane lovelyness, along with a 240 estate and an Aston Martin at 05:00.

[dollywobbler]

I was on Blue Peter when I was eight.

 

Ah yes. Was that the one where a kid kicked off about the stickiness of a piece of sticky back plastic , kicked one of the presenters in the nuts and threw an empty washing up bottle at the dog before starting an hour long rant about the state of children's entertainment these days? They had to move the Six O' Clock news IIRC.

[trigger]

[cobblers]

I've been proper skint for months (even while working) and it wasn't looking like there was any work on the horizon for a while, not even helping mates out for £30 a day work. It was going to be a shit christmas. I'd got a couple of days work at a mates work helping round the warehouse and maybe a bit of driving this week, but not enough to make a dent.

 

I get a call from my uncle about 8pm yesterday - "Hi Dave, we've got some more work in etc, can you to do this work blah blah." It's working from home doing general tech research stuff. Not the best work, but its something. I did it last year til it dried up.

 

Anyway, he's got as much work as I can manage, and will pay me 1.5x my old hourly rate. Oh, and he's bought me a new PC because the one I've got is shite, and to top it off he wants to pay me for two months in advance (End of tax year in the USA where he's based or something).

 

I feel like things are back on track now, for a while anyway. It also means I can get back on with doing the bodywork on my van and get closer to finishing it.

 

I'm going to buy three bottles of beer now (Cos they are on offer and I found a fiver in an old coat pocket)

[ashmicro]

Excellent news Cobblerz.

[eddyramrod]

+1, good score there. Can I have some of the same luck please? I seriously need it, like yesterday!

[warren t claim]

I was on Blue Peter when I was eight.

 

Ah yes. Was that the one where a kid kicked off about the stickiness of a piece of sticky back plastic , kicked one of the presenters in the nuts and threw an empty washing up bottle at the dog before starting an hour long rant about the state of children's entertainment these days? They had to move the Six O' Clock news IIRC.

 

I've been on Blue Peter as well....

 

And here's some work I've done being featured...

[trigger]

MGB Roadster Advert 1973 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[TimothyClaypole]

A clown is feeling a bit depressed so he climbs onto the roof of an office block to jump off.

 

Passer's by and then the Police and Fire Brigade turnup and gather round.

 

The clown's wife arrives and turns to one of the Policemen:

 

"I hope he doesn't do anything silly".

[scooters]

One of the best thingas the high mileage chodmiester can invest in IMHO is an account with audible.co.uk who have a brilliant stock of audiobooks, most are unabridged and are G9 4 STAYN AWAEK on long boring motorway drives.

 

I've been a site member for about 4 years now and have a pretty large collection. When choosing audiobopoks it is important to get a really good reader rather which makes all the difference. I can very much recommend:

Le Caree books read by Michael Jayson -

Patrick O Brian books read by Stephen Thorne

Cadfael books read by Stephen Thorne

 

NB you won't get the POB books on audible anymore but the 10 books of the Aubery Maturin series he does narrate arevery worth seeking out as he is in a different league to anyone else.

[autofive]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... ead=118558

 

its the rules, everyone must abide.

[scaryoldcortina]

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=whinge&thread=118558

 

its the rules, everyone must abide.

 

I like how he woke up this morning and promptly winge-binned his own thread. Shows the rules really are for everyone

[morris_ital_lover]

If the site wasn't full of so much bland barry crap I suspect people would make an effort.... as it is every other "epic" car posted on the general forum is post 2000. Which is a shame because there are thousands of good reasons to browse RR and casually observe some of the build threads.

 

As this is the grin thread.... I'll second his whinge binning his own thread and then add in the Hairymel epic build, the frankenhealy Green Goddess of Austin Healey transportation build and throw in a bit of xbol tat blog. They generally seem to mkae me grin.

[Cavcraft]

NOT a complaint as such but not a lot on R-R catches the eye recently. I used to love the 'general' page as there was always shit loads of colass stuff to read about.

I did lol at the nominations thread though as no matter where you look there's a picture of K-f-W, he must be the most travelled RR member ever!

[Craig the Princess]

Would Autoshite awards work, or would it not go well?

[Cavcraft]

It'd work but Wuvvum would need to build an extension for all the trophies!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I ladled EXCITEMENT juices over the turkey of today's Christmas shopping.

 

MICRON

I set off with the fuel gauge a micron above empty and no mobile phone. Even MORE EXHILARATION came from using the Mini's discharged 038 battery which BARELY started the car!

 

FAN MOTOR

When I'd finished shopping I was ASTOUNDED to see that it was raining and dark! My simultaneous use of the lights, wipers, fan motor and radio had turned this mundane shopping trip into a BATTERY ENDURANCE DEATH RALLY... and that was before I noticed the fuel needle was RESTING ON THE STOP.

 

BORING POST

But I got home anyway because the shops are only about two miles away. It started to splutter while I was revering onto the drive. But what a boring post I'd make!

[TimothyClaypole]

Received a letter from the bank today, Dear Mr Claypole, we are sorry and will be sending you £xxxx.xx to your account within the next 40 days.

 

About time I had a bit of luck moneywise, should be able to wander into 2012 with a few bills sorted and get some new tax slapped on this I picked up today:

 

 

[DSdriver]

Here we have a supposedly random photo of Logan airport carpark in East Boston taken in the 1970s (as posted on Hemmings Blog in the good old US of A)

 

What's that right in the middle? A Citroen ID/DS Safari. Now what are the chances of that not being the photographers car? about several million to one based on the ratio of these cars to the rest over there.

[dollywobbler]

That's about the only time I've looked at a DS Safari and thought "hmmm, that's quite small!"

[The Moog]

Off to cambodia tomorrow for 2 weeks to work in an orphanage and with health visitors. Means avoid all the usual christmas bollocks and do something different.

 

All excited about it especially as it is 33 degrees out there!