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Posted: **22:37 Fri 21 Sep 2007**

Jdaw1,

where are you???

Has he fallen of the face of the Earth? I must say I'm missing his quirky ways, and grammatical corrections!

Please notify any suspected sightings to the Department of Missing Odd Buggers.

Alan

Posted: **23:56 Fri 21 Sep 2007**

Jdaw is back in the building

Posted: **00:19 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

I was near Boston, on holiday with some ﬁne folk from the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club.

Posted: **00:27 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Did it include my only other great tiddlywink playing buddy, Simon?

That doesn't come up much in my conversations...
How many of your friends play top flight iddlywinks?...

Posted: **00:30 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

OK, help out an unedumicated American....what the heck is tiddlywinks?

Posted: **00:32 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Are you kidding Andy?

You honestly dont know what Tiddlywinks is?

No, your winding me up.

Posted: **00:34 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Andy,

I'll explain and even give a demonstration when we meet next weekend (Oh? did I mention I'm going to VNG and the Douro next week?

)

Derek

Posted: **00:35 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Heck no, I live in L.A. I can tell you how to make methamphetamine, speak ebonics, ride a skateboard and surfboard, and I even know some spanish...but I aint got any idea what tiddlywinks is, LOL!

Posted: **00:36 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Derek T. wrote:Andy,

I'll explain and even give a demonstration when we meet next weekend (Oh? did I mention I'm going to VNG and the Douro next week? )

Derek

now your scaring me

ohh shoot, the natives are getting restless, got get back to the beat

Posted: **00:40 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Andy,

Don't worry, it's perfectly innocent, even though it is only played seriously by Cambridge, Oxford and Eton Graduates

All you need is some small plastic counters or coins, a cup and some lubrication.

Derek

Posted: **00:44 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Some helpful sites:

Derek T. wrote:Don't worry, it's perfectly innocent, even though it is only played seriously by Cambridge, Oxford and Eton Graduates

Not so much Eton as MIT.

Posted: **03:22 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Eton Graduates

Wow!, I'm starting to feel like Royalty already

Some helpful sites:

Thanks, now I am even more confused when under the "rules" section they said there are too many to list

I'm just a donut eater, Derek will have to demonstrate next week for my feeble mind to understand. But I will beat him, don't ya'all worry about that

Posted: **06:18 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

ADV wrote: Heck no, I live in L.A. I can tell you how to make methamphetamine, speak ebonics, ride a skateboard and surfboard, and I even know some spanish...but I aint got any idea what tiddlywinks is, LOL!

Andy, you surprise me! Surfing? Need I remind you I live 20 miutes from Mavericks....seems like reason enough to visit the bay area mid winter to me!

Jay

Posted: **12:01 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

The rules.

Posted: **13:20 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Jay P wrote: Andy, you surprise me! Surfing? Need I remind you I live 20 miutes from Mavericks....seems like reason enough to visit the bay area mid winter to me!

Jay

Jay I hope to be up near the bay area in November to visit a friend who works at winery a little bit south of you. When I do, I'll let you know, so hopefully we can meet up and share a few glasses.

The rules.

Thanks J.

Posted: **21:18 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Is It any wonder that a game that has terms ; potted out , squidge out and tiddles has never found Its way to the Americas .

Posted: **21:32 Sat 22 Sep 2007**

Luc wrote:Is It any wonder that … game … has never found Its way to the Americas

jdaw1 wrote:
The North American Tiddlywinks Association.

Posted: **14:32 Mon 24 Sep 2007**

Julian , I stand corrected . . .
I should have spoke to what I know better ; nous les Québécois .

Posted: **22:29 Mon 24 Sep 2007**

All,

It seems appropriate at this juncture to inform you of the Cambridge University Tiddlywinks Club anthem, which those at the last offline were lucky JDAW and I did not sing later in the evening (not least because the former's singing voice is flatter than the Maldives). To the tune of 'The Red Flag' (I don't know its proper name), it begins, and I quote:

The Winks Club mats are soaked in port (*)
And so are all who play the sport.

I never drunk port before going to university, but there was a great tradition of port and pizza (fetched by the first years) after a night's drinking, and THAT'S WHERE IT ALL STARTED for me.

As I'm on the subject, I would also like to refer you to Article 32.1 of the Club Constitution (http://www.fluppet.demon.co.uk/CUTwC/of ... const.html):

"Any Committee member has the right to amigos his Mother Superior by means of whipped cream (5% by weight chopped walnuts and 5% honey) and take his place, should he have tenuous grounds to suspect that his Mother Superior has become incapable or unsuitable to perform his role as a Committee member."

Now that's a sensible basis for democratic government, if ever I heard one.

(*) We note also in passing that one former member reserved the website http://www.soakedinport.com († ), and used it to detail big pub crawls, notably of the Circle Line and Monopoly Board (London and Brussels). If you ever fancied trying one of those, it is still a useful starting reference point.

(† ) Our mutual friend Ed was very happy with the re-parsed version.

Posted: **22:42 Mon 24 Sep 2007**

The [url=http://www.fluppet.demon.co.uk/CUTwC/songs.html]old CUTwC website[/url] wrote:Sung to the tune of Tannenbaum

The 'winks club's mats are soaked in port,
And so are all who play the sport.
Tomato juice and such-like drinks,
Aren't good enough for tiddlywinks.
And when our team's just won the cup,
It takes us weeks to sober up.
As long as they serve real ale here,
We'll keep the winks club drinking beer. [(N.F.J.Inglis)]

Now Andy may well rant and rave,
But CUTwC men are true and brave.
Although we may get drunk at lunch,
We'll still be ready for the crunch.
'Cos when our men their feet have found
We'll pot out in the final round.
Though OUTS may feel they've got a hope
Traditionally we're bound to cope. (S.R. Gandy)

Posted: **23:56 Mon 24 Sep 2007**

What a pair of Dipsticks!!!!

But I suppose they're OUR Dipsticks!

Alan

Posted: **14:09 Tue 25 Sep 2007**

A dipstick is O.K. by me , as long as he wets his whistle with that liquid made in Portugal .

Posted: **05:55 Wed 26 Sep 2007**

ADV wrote:
Jay P wrote: Andy, you surprise me! Surfing? Need I remind you I live 20 miutes from Mavericks....seems like reason enough to visit the bay area mid winter to me!

Jay
Jay I hope to be up near the bay area in November to visit a friend who works at winery a little bit south of you. When I do, I'll let you know, so hopefully we can meet up and share a few glasses.

The rules.
Thanks J.

Andy

Lets get together then. If your talking the SC mountains, I could pop down there to meet up, providing it's a weekend. I will not bring my tiddlywinks.

Jay

Posted: **12:01 Wed 26 Sep 2007**

Jay,

I'll let you know the next time I plan on heading up that way. BTW, the water is mightly cold up in your parts. I went camping in the fall up near you a couple years ago. I hoped into the water to do a surfing and then snorkling around the rocks and froze my little tiddlywinks off

Posted: **06:19 Thu 27 Sep 2007**

It's all in how manly you are!

Jay

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