RE: Are there any survivors ?......

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

> > Pics now on-line here...
> > http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/glasgow/
> >
> > M.

Bugger! Once again I forgot to turn off the "UGLY" filter on the
camera
before someone took my picture...

> We were a fairly quiet affair.... to start with the
> restaurant decided to lose our booking, but had
> enough space to give us a table.

Obviously I looked like I needed feeding...

...or maybe they saw the size of me and thought they were onto a loser on
the buffet deal!

> Within seconds Phil had manged to lower the tone of
> the conversation, and managed to keep it there for
> the majority of the night.

I resent that insinuation ... I was far too busy ogling that tall skinny
bird in the black trousers and red blouse to get involved in lowering the
tone of the UKHA conversations...

> But the best part of the night has to be finding out
> that we are, in fact, not the saddest b@$tards on the
> planet after all! There was some sort of convention
> of mathematicians behind us who are, by far, much,
> much worse than us! We had to listen to their speaches
> which were tedious at best, but worse than that, the
> highlight was the "Good Luck Mr Gorsky" story (for
> those that dont know ...
> http://www.pncl.co.uk/~dienes/neila.htm
)
> but the speaker would not fill in the "rood" word.
> So Phil did it for him ... loudly ;-)

Ah yes ... and without a drop of alcohol passing my lips either!

> Then the staff at the restaurant kindly reminded us
> that they were closed. And politely threw us out.

Only seconds after I'd filled in the end of the sados story if I remember
correctly...

Phil