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• Hello!

As we normally do when a couple of new people turn up, lets play the who are you game.

Name: Dan Sullivan (nick is self explanitory after learning this fact)
Age: 20
Gender: I'm just a poor boy
Occupation: IT support for Sainsburys
Location: Swanscombe, Kent. Just outside of London
Funny Story: Last Sunday I was awoken to the sound of my house phone ringing. I decided to ignore it as it was only 11AM. But after the ringing ceased it started again. Fearing this may continue I decided to answer the call before I was too awake to go back to sleep until the eastenders omnibus starts. I was greeted by the sound of my friend Tasha fretting that she had lost her purse and had she left it at mine the previous night. I had a quick scout around with no luck and informed her of my lack of findings. She reluctently hung up and let me get back to bed. 10 minutes later I was yet again awoken by Tasha. She told me that she was about to cancel all her cards and could I have a look around the car park for it quickly. I looked - no purse, I announced this to her with a tone that I thought sounded like "Now don't bother me again!". Now fully woken by my venture into the car park I decided to take full advantage of my parents trip to Paris and raid their fridge. So I spent the next few hours sitting in my parents house, living like a king off their food. At 7 o'clock I give Tasha a call to see if she had any luck with her purse. She hadnt and had apparently been crying and having a mare about it all day (it was one of those rediculously expensive purses, Louis Vitton is it?). Anyways I went back home planning to have a quick bath and then pop to the pub. When lifting an old copy of FHM off a chair that tasha was using as a makeshift table I noticed there was a tiny purse under it. I didnt think that when she said purse she meant a purse, I thought she meant the miny handbag she was carrying with her. Well anyway I phoned her and was received as half-hero half-tosser. This sounded much more funny when I told it to other people. Maybe I should've typed the story of the mad Canadian I met at Union Station in Toronto. Or mad Frenchman. Oh well, other peoples go.

Name: cal henderson (i.am.cal, gettit)
Age: 21 (22 on friday)
Gender: yes please
Occupation: programmer / developer
Location: work in islington (london, uk), live in bedford
Some facts about me: i have just finished writing my second state-based parser of this week. this scares me. i have just finished reading "big spender" by john mccabe. it is very good. i'm actually scared of capital letters. i am not wearing shoes. i have just remembered that i have a milky way in my bag. *yum*

Name: Olivia *unpronouncable/unspellable* (its Polish)
Location: St Albans
Occupation: Student
Playlist (music i like/own): Ben Folds Five, the White Stripes, The Strokes (good looking boys), all this new fangled garage rock, Tori Amos, Air
Would like: to live in New York (please)

edit: thanks cal

Name : Dan Orton (if said with surname, you have to say "Daniel", I'm weird like that, I like the duh-duh duh-duh syllable formation)
Age : 22
Gender : Blerk
Occupation : Graphic designer / Web designer / photographer / Video producer / DVD making, all that stuff.
Location : At the moment, sunny, sunny Didcot, Oxfordshire. More specifically, the old brothel in Didcot
Funny Story : Too many, where do I start? Sod it, ask Jess or something, she might think of one. Or not.

you do bold by typing this:
<b>Name:</b> Cal Henderson

and you can edit your own messages by clicking on "[edit]" just after the date

i didn't realise angel mouse was a laydee - we're becoming overrun ;)

EVERY DAY IS A SCHOOL DAY ON IAMCAL.COM!

sorry about the capitals.

Name : Alastair Graham
Age : 21
Gender : MALE
Occupation : IT Network Technician
Location : Gateshead College, Online Centre, Office
Facts about me : I'm getting married in August to the girl some of you know as Bangabongo (real name is Sarah), we live in Chester-le-street and we have two budgies. I have recently got into web coding and am currently tying my hand at (and failing) ASP. I like DVD's. Sarah and I now have a collection of 210...

We are looking to buy a house in Chester-le-street and hopefully should have put an offer in for one today (did you remember sarah?!!?)

I collect Bizzare Magazine (very good for those who have never read it before!) and Playboy.

Bah, my evil plan foiled.

I used to breed budgies (not breeding *with* them though, sickos!)

Ours keep fighting...

Why does this discussion sound like a AA meeting?

Name: Ian Beveridge
Age: 26
Gender: Firm.
Occupation: programmer / developer
Location: Glasgow. Working and living.
Some facts about me: Once worked on a Tweenies computer game (Career highlight). Drives a Polo. Eats two chocolate bars per day - one is always a chunky kit-kat, the other may or may not be a bag of revels. Last concert - Tori Amos last week. Howie Day was very good (support). Owns a dog. A whippet. Fast, very fast. Current task - painting kitchen. Can't be arsed. Very busy.

Name: Chris Kirkman
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Occupation: Design Engineer
Location: Stockwell/Putney/Vauxhall (depending on time of day
Facts: I invented the either or game :)
Ninjas
Pizza
Stella
Regal Kingsize (disturbing lack of these in London)
My online football team went out of the cup last night. Curiously, at the same time my actual team (Bolton Wanderers) also went out of the cup to the less than mighty Sunderland.

Never, ever in my life have i been to a music concert.
(unless you count Robbing Williams and the Stereophonies one drunken night in Barnstable)

Last concert: breeders at the astoria. they fucking rock. hopefully seeing the counting crows (again) in a couple of weeks.

Name - Matt Squirrell
Sex - Male
Age - 24
Location - Bedford, UK
Job - Assistant Director of Software Testing
Other Job - DJ
Other Other Job - Car Stereo Installation Guy
Drives - A Rover 827 Vitesse with a 2.7litre V6 and 205bhp =]
Likes - Stripe + Lime, Music, Women, Concerts, Night Clubs, My Girlie, Lambrini, Underword, Chemical Brothers, Orbital (in fact I like all industrial house bands), Counter Strike, War Craft III, the Aliens and all related books, comics and merchendise, my car, PHP and my 'other' jobs.
Dislikes - My 'job' job, women that are too thin, reality TV (except for big brother which canes ass), that damn song that goes 'Danger! High voltage!' that is never off radio one, the fact that because of the new radio station garage is now called 'Black' music, Lager without lime in, expensive wine.

Story - Well, my girlfriend, bless her heart, has Cystic Fybrosis (and is very, very ill at the moment). This means (laymans terms) that she gets fluid on her lungs, and coughs a lot.
Last year she got really bad and was coughing up a lot of mank (eww). I borrowed her car to pick up some disco equipment and was a touch hung over, so I brought some Lucozade and jammed it in my door pocket. My girlfriend also likes Lucozade, and had had some a few days previously. She had used the empty bottle to store the, ahem, grey manky phlegm that she coughed up.
Now, you know what coming, don't you?
Stopped in traffic, picked up the wrong bottle, didn't look, gulp gulp gulp (realization) boom - head out of window, and you can guess the rest.
It wasn't very nice =]
Fact - I just copied and pasted this from the last thread and made changes for modernisation.
Fact - I know everything about the Alien films.

Last Concert - Chemical Brothers in London.
Best Concert - The Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert, years ago. I touched Lisa Minelli! Respect!

Name:: Desirae Monts
Age: 28
Gender: female
Occupation: research associate
Location: Centreville, Virginia (USA)
Some facts about me: I enjoy reading, IAMCAL, and a bunch of other stuff. I have an online journal.

Name: Jessica Love
Age: 21
Gender: Laydeee
Location: Leicester - uni & Harpenden - home
Facts about me:I wear stupidly big trousers and complain about how wet they get in the rain, I spend a ridiculous amount of my life online procrastinating (I'm doing it now, i have 8 weeks worth of work to do in a day!!), I hate lending things to people because they never take good care of them..
Last gig: Royksopp, was pretty good, kinda brief though.. but i got to hug poor leno afterwards!
Best gig: Radiohead, south park, oxford, with Beck, Sigur ros and Supergrass supporting... (pictures here)

I'll update then:

Facts: I have an addiction to Stella.
I wrote to Interbrew claiming that I wanted to call my unborn and also totally fictional daughter Stella Artois Sullivan.
People are always shocked that I am into origami.
I have an obsession with asking out every barmaid that works in the Charles Dickens, SE1 London.
I am still certain that one of the said barmaids stalked me for a short period of time.
I created the strangley successful www.iamnotcal.com
I have much funnier stories than the one posted above
Last Gig: Alice Cooper and Monsters of Rock at Wembely this year.
Best Gig: Madness in Dec 1999 (i think)
Likes: Lager, Gin, Punk music, Magnum PI.
Dislikes: My job and clowns.
MasterMind subject: Childrens television programmes from 1979 - 1992ish
Ideal Job: Screenwriter

Oh another fact: Today I attempted to post a single tiny sachet of sugar to a friend with her address on it, a first class stamp and the writing on the back "Sweets for my sweet, Sugar for my honey". I hope it goes through.

Facts: I love cats,I am looking for a new job, I sent some iamcal memebers postcards today.

Last Gig: Garth Brooks
Best Gig: Sinead O'Connor
Likes: reading, post cards, hanging, chatting with my friends, BEER, and music of all kinds
Dislikes: dishonest people,my job, my ex, dishes in the sink
Ideal Job: Model

"MasterMind subject: Childrens television programmes from 1979 - 1992ish"

I'm pretty hot on that too.

Hell, I'm just pretty hot generally.

Facts: Nov hasn't mastered the bold tag yet.

is everyone still at work??

sul, my friend put a stamp and wrote an address on a potato.. just a plain potato, and posted it... it got there, albeit slightly battered ;)let us know if it makes it!

Name Sarah Atkinson
Age 31
Gender Female
Location North East (Chester Le Street)
Funny Story I was sick in my bin in halls of residence after a particularly good night out. It was bad enough, but it was a wicker bin....hoho. I was popular with the cleaning ladies the next day, I can tell you! Model of decorum obviously.
Likes Star Wars, Star Wars and more Star Wars! Drinking, clubbing, acting like an arse...Chocolate (how girly)
Dislikes Rude people, farts in lifts, Lawrence Llewellyen Bowen
Last Gig Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (awesome!)
Best Gig Pulp - saw them a year or so ago and they were brilliant. Jarvis is the man!!

earthworm: I like DVD's and sarah and I have a collection of 210 now...

so, you like DVD's, and you like Sarah.

so do you have a collection of 210 Sarahs, or 210 DVDs, or 210 Sarah and DVDs combined? :o]

I have 4 Sarahs. They live in my kitchen. Not one of them clean or cook! I'm unsure why they live there.

This is all a lie.

ffs

Could no-one else manage that?

Er... Why did the bold tag not work?

Um...

because nov has mistakenly put her closing tags as <b/>

I'm sure Cal will sort it if Nov doesnt first

edit: I'll get it right this time shall I?

damn it.

Nov: Edit your 21:23 message and change all the closing tags to </b>. That should sort it.

yeah I added loads of closing tags to my post but it didn't work

Name: The Emperor (online and offline)
Age: 31 (and don't I feel old looking at everyone's ages)
Gender: Male
Location: Liverpool
Occupation: teaching/web design
Facts about me: Freakishly large head, urm... baptised in the Diocese of Jerusalem (as was written.....) oh and long hair (I've just ahd 6 inches cut off so it is now abve my belt for the first time in a while.
Last gig: Joe Strummer RIP
Best gig: Damn. Possibly Rage Aginst the Machine in 1993 or the Pixies in 1990 (and another year I forget). Oh Pop Will Eat Itself are up there too.

And as soon as I hit post I'll remember the proper answers to this (I'm not sure about the age thing - still doing sums).

You saw r.a.t.m. & the pixies?

*big envy*


has anyone else noticed that alastair lists sarah under things he likes, but she doesn't mention him...looks like the wedding's off.

Cal: Yeah RATM supported by Tool - great gig.

I also saw the Pixies at Reading in something like 1990.

Glastonbury in 1992 (I think - all dates are a bit vague excpet where I'm checking the tickets I still have) was good - Curve, Orb, the Prodigy and Primal Scream stands out as a good night.

Cypress Hill in 1994 was a brutal one with shots being fired off and gangs trying to break into the venue.

Name: Adam Reitsma
Born: 28.3.82
Gender: mail.
Occupation: If i sign this contract under my nose, i will be an "E-business Software Developer, Information Systems".
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Facts: I used to live in a school. Now i live with one of my schoolmates, in a cool 2 bedroom unit that's only 15 minutes walk from work. My flatmate rocks, as he has 4 computers, so i don't need to buy one. He's also going to host my website when i get one.
Last Gig: Ummm... must have been George.
Best Gig: Ohhhh... toughy. Probably ben harper. However, i'll be seeing george again on the 25th of this month with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and that may be the new best gig.
Playlist: ben harper, george, gomez, tori amos, massive attack, cruel sea, powderfinger, brad, moloko, jurassic 5... i like lots of music. :o)
Relationship Status: I have been going out with my lovely girlfriend since the august 3, 2001.

Name: Chris Griffiths (yes I can pronounce it - don't believe Cal, my boss can't though)
Born: 18/03/82
Gender: Yes
Job: I make pizza, WITH pineapple on it - i do other things like supervise and count money and stuff too, but making pizza just rocks!
Location: Sharnbrook, Bed as we speak.
Stuff: I have a big scar forming on my hand
I struggle with left and right
I know where cal lives
I really like ice cream
Nickelback suck live
I like mashed potato
i CAN say my surname - CAN CAN CAN CAN CAL HENDERSON!!!!!!! :P

chris can not pronounce his name - it changes every time he says it.

Name: Peter Sanderson
Age: 23
Job: Environmental Engineering Consultant
Stuff: I like pirates and rats. I think I'm turning into an Uber Geek as I recently aquired a rollplaying game. I look like Jeff Goldblum (according to my girlfriend). I like baked potatoes with cheese and beans but hate beef. I too am looking for a new job and struggle daily to write fiction, which is what I want to do.
Last Gig Foo Fighters and Green Day at T in Park. Kicked ass too.
Best Gig Either the Beastie Boys a few years back of Reef at a small 400 person venue. Both were awesome.
Next Gig Red Hot Chili Peppers in Paris 4 weeks today!!!!!

Reitsma you date of birth is palendromic. as is mine 2. 8. 82

Anyone else?

Grim...,
Fact - I know everything about the Alien films.

I find fault with this statement!

The sugar got through! Playing with post is soooo fun!

cal, I was sitting next to her on our living room floor last night when she was writing her contribution... (I hope the wedding is still on!)

I find fault with this statement!

Hah! Don't make us play the mastermind game again!

Monkeyarmada/plindoe/chris and myself bitched you all over the place in the mastermind game, you just kept changing the rules cos cal was away :)

which statement?

The statement just above where it says 'I find fault with this statement'

Actually Chris, if you remember, he did worm his way out of it... sort of. It was the Tombstone question that done it, which will certainly stir up another frenzy of, "it has nothing to do with my original subject".

www.iamcal.com/topic.php?id=1345

Name: Kevin Feely
Age: 30 (and feeling it)
Job: I work in Recruitment, please forgive me
Gender:Originally bairn, then boy, now man
Location:First Glasgow, then London, now Edinburgh
Facts:I got to the final of the UK Pacman Championships when I was about 12/13. I told the Tory Kenneth Clarke he was a "fuck*ng c*nt" to his face when he was eating a pub lunch and told his bodyguard to sit down and say nothing (which he did, truly amazing!). I have spent a night drinking Guinness watching Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman's arses dancing about 4 foot from my face, and locked Chris Moyles in the toilet, ahh the memories. I met Jeff Stelling (Gillette Soccer Saturday) at 1am, pissed out face, and got him to say "there's forty minutes gone and Celtic have scored another, that's Celtic 5 Rangers 0, looks like that will be a thumping, what do you think Rodney". I stayed at the same b&b as Phil Taylor when he won the World Matchplay last August and had a few pints with him and Ricky Hatton.
First Gig: INXS, 1988
Last Gig: Turin Brakes, Edinburgh, 2002
Best Gigs: Public Enemy 1989, Oasis at Irvine Beach 1995 (I think), Ride 1992, Bad Manners 1991, Wonders Stuff 1994 and 2001
Playlist: To many to mention
Likes: Many things
Dislikes: Politicians, they are all thieving, dishonest basta*ds. Rangers. The Tube systems in London.
Addictions: All forms of strong continental lager, vodka, zambuca, absynthe. The internet. Watching the simpsons and Family Guy. Adriana Lima (brazilian supermodel).

Hey that was a good topic!

Oh,and before I am asked, Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman like the occasional Guinness at the "The Toucan" pub just off Soho Square in London. It serves the best Guinness I have drank in London.

Ian McAskill the weatherman also likes to drink Guinness in there as well.

Message for Cal!

Nah, the wedding is still on!! I really am engaged to Earthworm and he is luv-er-ley!! Everyone say 'awww'!!

awwww

ewwww

Last Gig: Not sure on dates, but it was one of these: The Coral, The Libertines, or DJ Shadow. I wanted to see Arthur Lee this week but nobody else was interested :( Instead, I'm going to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Will go to Glasto if Prince plays (me fanboy, veh sad)

Best Gig : Probably SFA, since I blagged it backstage by speaking entirely in Welsh, and hung out with 'em whilst being given generous amounts of Stella and maryjane for free. rock.

Last Gig: Supergrass/The Libertines
Next Gig: Counting Crows @ Newcastle (YIPEE!)

BEST GIG: The Scratch Perverts @ Newcastle(although ORBITAL were pretty good...

chandler: i know. :) i was born at 9:19 am as well. how cool is that.

edit:hmm this post shouldnt be here. its half the of the same post that below it.how did that happen? ah well. probably me!

Name:Rob
Age:22
Gender: male
Occupation:Broadcast engineer
Current location:Great Portland Street, London
More common location:St Albans
(ctrl-c, ctrl-v...)
Last gig: Royksopp, was pretty good, kinda brief though.. but i got to hug poor leno afterwards! (edit; yeah ok i didnt hug leno)
Best gig: Radiohead, south park, oxford, with Beck, Sigur ros and Supergrass supporting...
or maybe radiohead victoria park the year before.. cos it was the first time i managed to see them, and we got to the front section! woo! (and did that again for oxford!)
Funny Story:ummm errr ummmm... i got in a lift with supergrass yesterday... that was nice. if a bit of a squash.

Worst gig Rocket Science at Northumbria STudents Union - they were supporting Supergrass. Pile of ****. Sorry any fans out there!

Worst gig: Bananarama at Ebbw Vale, 1992. THEY BLOODY MIMED!!! arghh!!

reitsma if your name was Bob or anna then you would be in some sort of record book

NAME: Miss Rosemary Jane Slark
Age: 23
OCCUPATION: Sales Exec.
LOCATION: Staines, Middlesex.
OTHER STUFF: The TV proggramme "Shooting Stars" makes me laugh so hard that I get gut ache. I could eat fruit cocktail trifle all day, everyday. I haven't had my hair cut for about 3 years now. I went to Glastonbury a few years ago and it was the best thing ever.
:-)

Name: Simon
Age:24
Reason to wake up in the morning:New Media Developer
Location:Warwick, Midlands
Info:Just got some nice new snowboard boots. Yay.

Latest Purchase Two Chicken and Stuffing sandwiches and a bottle of FANTA (nice...)

Name: Euan
Age: 29 (Just)
Occupation: *Yawn* Provisioning Manager (Telecoms)
Location: Sunny Glasgow
Playlist: God, far too many to mention but at the moment Richie Havens.
Info: I am turning 30 1 week today! :o(
Gigs: Again, far too many to mention
Best Gig: BRMC at T in the park. Tremendous.
Worse Gig: going to see Bryan Ferry with my g/f and her parents. Painful!
Interesting Fact: My hushpuppies are really hurting my big toe on my right foot.

Sul, 10:23 16 January 2003:

Actually Chris, if you remember, he did worm his way out of it... sort of. It was the Tombstone question that done it, which will certainly stir up another frenzy of, "it has nothing to do with my original subject".

www.iamcal.com/topic.php?id=1345

Well, it didn't =]
And it still has to be said that I fucking owned at that game - Cal is pretty hot (or used to be) on the Aliens questions, too.

Cal! What make of android was Ash?

I would be happy if you were to change this comment:

Fact - I know everything about the Alien films.

to this:

Fact - I know a lot about the Alien films.

Pfft - I know everything.

rob, you didnt hug poor leno... i had to hug the scary man in the bear suit and i gave YOU the sticker .. pfff

hey, wobbie's a Sn'Albaner too.

earthworm: crows = good taste in music. i thinm i've seen them 4 times live now.

yeah, 4:
wolverhaption wolfrun, london forum, wembley arena and brixton acadamy

ah yeah i meant to remove the bit about hugging leno! ..ill go edit it now :(

yes im a Sn'Albaner

i'm an honarary snalbaner, seeing as how theres feck all to do in harpenden...

Name: Bain McLeod
Age: 19
Gender: Mael
Occupation: Student
Location: Norwich
Funny story: Last year, while I was in the uni halls of residence, I managed to smash my head open by launching myself from a chair straight upwards into a doorframe. There was lots of blood, and I screamed like a girl.
Facts about me: I am cal's brother.
Last gig: Supergrass, UEA Norwich, 2002. Before the gig me and one of the twats I lived with last year played Gaz and the drummer at table football. We lost.
Best gig: Stereophonics, Brum NEC, 1999
Playlist: Symphony X and Nightwish. Also been listening to Ben Folds quite a bit recently.
Likes: Chocolate. Sleeping. Stretching. Glomping.
Dislikes: Webhosts. Work of any sort.

WTF is Mael?
I assume it's the opposite of Femael?

Mael is the surname of the "one of us looks like Hitler" brotherly highpitched 70's pop group Sparks.

Or maybe it just rats.

Remember consequences that was great fun that was.

Is that still at www.iamcal.com/misc/cons ?

I made that, I did =]
Then Cal re-made it =/
Then it worked =D

It's still there!
Jeff got some 'action'!

Ah just one honk of these little hooters an i'm done..

Name: Emma Dawes
Age: 24
Gender: bird/wimmin/chick
Occupation: I was a till tart and now I am not
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire
Likes: ebaying, postcard-xing, Cocteau Twins, afro ken, san x and sanrio stationary, psp 7, rollercoaster tycoon, Depeche Mode, piercings, consequences
Dislikes: Leslie Ash's lips, 2 bit celebrities making lame workout videos, stupid part week magazines that come out at the New Year (Teapot World and Catherine Cookson Fortnightly), chick lit, homophobia rah rah rah

"Teapot Monthly (not available in West Country or Grampion)"

"Real Life Crimes Monthly (Not Available in Tyne Tees)"

"Angelina Balarina (TM) Monthly"

"Model Boat Monthly" Build a boat over about 5 years bit by little bit

First issue "only £2.99" (regular price £6.99)

Agghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

oooh you are making me mad with your part week talk

:D

horrible history. "lets make the slave trade sound like fun and sell it to influencial kids"

influencial kids?

yeah, I reckon kids are gonna be dressing up in togas and selling their mates after reading that. May seem like a good business idea.

Oh easily influenced kids? that's not the same as influential kids. Influential kids HAVE influence on others. surely.

i train higglepugs.yes.

Yeah, sorry Chay, I'm stupid.

well admitting your problem is the first step to recovery :D

Actually Horrible Histories looks fun! I was well into history as a child *sigh*

But then you put it all behind you?

Where is everyone on this fine Monday morning?

i was shopping

working.

Werking as well, still am at 4:13.

me 2

talking of working, Mr Baynham should be coming in to the office again on Wednesday. Hoorah.

Working.

on holiday

nope I still like history

Name Uncle Moc
Age Twenty One
Gender Boy
Location ST. ALBANS!
Funny Story When I was in middle school, I had a group of friends. We all dressed up in sunglasses and listened to Duran Duran. There were six of us it didn't add up you see. Everyone had a Duran Duran boyfriend but me. I wasn't dating Nick Rhodes, I wasn't dating Andy Taylor, I wasn't dating John Taylor, I wasn't dating Bill Taylor, I wasn't dating Simon Le Bon! I was sitting on the couch with my collar up, a tear in my eye and an aching in my heart. And my converse on; glow in the dark with big fat laces, zebra striped converse on!
Likes tea, cake, coffee, disco, early 90's grunge rock, tool, woodcraft folk, fishes, fire, politicks
Dislikes cauliflour, computers, meat
Last Gig Teen Spirit - Nirvana Tribute Band!
Best Gig Not sure.. Pulp? Smashing Pumpkins? Rage Against the Machine? Pearl Jam? Pixies? Rammstein? Mudhoney?
Other Am compulsive liar. Live in Brighton. Get up too early. Smoke too much. Drink too much tea.

Um...

Oi Cal! If you're on holiday, why aren't I in charge =[

Cos you made such a hash of it last time? or was it someone else in charge last time. I forget

quoting moldy peaches lyrics (d2 boyfriend) might seem like a good idea, but it's not that funny

Now I'm really confused...

Name: Chris Elwood
Age: 23
Gender: Not female
Occupation: IT Manager for a web company
Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Funny Story: Once I worked on an ISP helpdesk and I told an elderly customer that the reason she couldn't get online was that the Internet was broken today:) She bought it!
I was mean then and hungover.

that makes the Sn'Albaners:
Robbie
Jess (hon.)
Uncle Moc
Me

so St Albans (and district) is the most densley populated area of Iamcal posters, wouldn't you agree?

Bedford has:
me
grim
bain
luke
chris
paulus
henry
lexi
warren
x-files
bex

maybe we should go for claiming 2nd most densley populated?

damnit
maybe we should.
i just thought that maybe we were special.
at least we're second most special.

awww... everybodys special in some way or another *group hug* ;)

but this is Cals site.. and he lives in Bedford... so Bedfords just gonna beat us on that point.

...but we all know st albans is a far cooler place :) ... dont we?

weve even got people who want to be part of it i.e jess(hon.) !

Name: Luke Whitworth
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Location: Bedford (oh joy)
Occupation: PC Technician
Facts: I am looking for a new job.
I am single and therefore looking for a nice girl.
I am currently sitting in my bedroom.
I am bored.
Likes: Music, films and pubs.
Dislikes: Work.
Last Gig: Hundred Reasons at Brixton Academy
Next Gigs: Stone Sour at the Astoria in Feb, and then Finch in March.
Best Gig: Erm, Ill Nino were really good, Foo Fighters, Feeder, Offspring and Prodigy at Reading last year.
Playlist: Slipknot, Rancid, Murderdolls, Ill Nino, Audioslave, American Head Charge and Finch.
Interesting Fact: I broke my own hand once.

That should just about cover it

how did you break your hand?

I was in a very bad mood over a lot of things that had happened and was out with the usual people and Catlow (remember him!) suggested I should release my anger on something. Well as we were at a fair ground and they had the punch ball test your strength things I gave it a good clout and put all my weight behind it.

Ended up in plaster for five weeks!!!

Not my most shining of moments really :)

not too clever.

you still see catlow then - anyone else? and is he married to that girl yet? (rachel?)

Nope not really that clever of me :)

I still see Catlow. He isn't married to Rachel yet but it won't be much longer before they do (which is gonna be fun seeing as I am best man!!).

Erm, who else do I see: Tim, Jonny, Ali, Cherry, Steve, James Owen, Stu Tweedale, Fletcher, Colin Steiner. Haven't seen Joyce or Leach in months though!

i don't really see anyone from our year any more. haven't spoken to joyce or leach in literally years. any news from you/that lot?

Not a lot. If you remember Chris Mizon then he is getting married in April (at least I think it's April). That's about it really, everything else is pretty much the same as it has always been!!!

i didn't miss much then

No, that's true. I should work on a much higher level of humour. It's just not funny when people can spot what songs you're singing.

I guess I'd better start making jokes about PHP instead, or something...

Name: Neil Matheson
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Location, Location, Location: Nr. Falkirk, Scotland
Occupation: Translator, for a German software company (I translate stuff written in German into English; this either forms part of the interface for the software, or documentation/training material/marketing stuff about said software)
Where You Might Vaguely Recognise My Name From: (I have no funny stories, sadly, so provide this instead) I mailed Cal in response to a discussion about the use of mobiles in cars - see www.iamcal.com/topic.php?id=1526#post150... - I've been a reader, on and off, since a little before that, but never got around to posting until now. Hello to you all.


[Added Later]
Last gig: McAlmont & Butler, Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
Best gig: Three-way tie between the Manics at a small club in Lund, Sweden in 1998; Del Amitri, at Barrowlands in Glasgow in May 2002; and World Party in Edinburgh in 1993/4. I realise this suggests terrible things about my taste in music, and they're probably all true - but I do also like a lot of stuff that others that post here seem to like (Radiohead, Counting Crows, Portishead, ....).
Next Gig: Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man at Barrowlands on 27th Feb, unless I have too much work to do...

No relation to Simon Matheson?

oooh - i'd like to see miss gibbons live. that would rock

As far as I know, I have no relations called Simon, no.

She's playing down your way, too, Cal: Shepherd's Bush Empire on March 1 (no idea if there are still tickets, though, I'm afraid).

one of the best articles Ive ever read. Prossy penguins. rocks. pffffft.

Name: Alfie
Occupayshen :information retrieval
Past-times : b3ta, pictures, fillums, skateboarding, working on skate videos,drinking boooze, watching buffy and firefly (boohoo, no more firefly for me) comics, living with girlie, skateboarding, skateboarding, and a little more, skateboarding.
Gender : Im all man baby, just coz a guy reads comic books doesnt mean he cant start some shit!
Location : Londinium.

I have funny stories. but I am not telling you.

Information retrieval, Are you a librarian?

no, but I am a Terry Gilliam fan :)

coool.