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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 30 Dec 2006 3:00 pm

I told you Louise would know!

Could you go to a fancy dress party as yourself, but wearing a pair of marigolds along with your ordinary clothes. When people ask "what have you come as?" The answer could be "somebody who does the washing up".

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Postby jayuk » Sat 30 Dec 2006 3:02 pm

in which case she should go as the Dish Washer?
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Postby Louise Pembroke » Sat 30 Dec 2006 3:43 pm

Or, wear Marigolds and go as Shake n Vac woman!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlGQvOxDwI
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Postby Louise Pembroke » Sat 30 Dec 2006 6:23 pm

20 yrs ago when I was doing training in operating theatres I went to a fancy dress party in full theatre scrubs with fake blood down me, kitchen utensils tied around my waist, a name badge with 'Dr I. Killmore', then a little jar labelled 'My Brain' with all sorts of stuff in it in water [still have that].

Another time I went as a vampy Dracula and as a kid I did St Trinians as I SO wanted to go to that school!
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Sat 30 Dec 2006 6:32 pm

When I was at New College (Edinburgh U) the tutor who did public speaking, diction and elocution with us was a woman called Eva Balfour-Brown. Her immediate predecessor had been Alastair Sim of St Trinians fame. There is a whole generation of ministers in the Church of Scotland who were taught to speak by the star of St Trinians!

sometimes I regret having been born 10 years too late. But then I reflect that if I had been born 10 years earlier I'd be 67 now, and my youth seems far less of a burden.

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Postby Louise Pembroke » Sat 30 Dec 2006 6:41 pm

Wow Alistair Sim, I'm so impressed! He was a fine actor.

I've never taken elocution classes but someone once told me that I speak with near perfect diction. Could come from conference speaking I guess
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Postby GarethB » Sun 31 Dec 2006 10:46 am

It's obeveous form Jayuk comments he has never done any housework in his life!

I bet he is like the bloke in the advert on TV at the moment; asks his wife if she needs a hand in the kitchen to which she replies Yes.

He pauses for a gap in the footie on TV and leans forwards and shouts to his mum who is washing his van "when youve finished that mum, you need to lend a hand in the kitchen!"

Now you know why Jayuk has done so many miles the past year, he is the KC White Van Man :lol:
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