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Advanced planning for what has now become established as the Northern Waters Alternative to Cherbourg Meet - "Ra Chentleman's Cruise" has begun.

I have communicated with a number of fellow falorumites who have expressed their intention to be counted for the 2006 event.

One of our number is experiencing some difficulty in that he has yet to broach the matter with his charming and lovely bride and it appears that last year he may possibly have got leave to attend on the understanding that this was a one-off event and the lads were stuck so, much as he didn't really want to go, on the grounds of SOLAS etc he felt obliged to attend.

Now those of us who have experienced time shackled in the sweet chains of marital bondage are well used to this and similar ploys and indeed finding the right way and time to broach a subject can be ranked in marriage terms alongside the most visionary strategic planning activities of the world of Global Business Management and indeed Government. A good example of this was that fine man Pope MacHurley who bided his time for several lunar cycles before broaching the subject of the non-waterproof mobile phone to the Lovely but not always quick to forgive, Mrs Mac.

The subject of this post is a man of considerable physical stature - and a man you'd want on your side when an ale-house scuffle was breaking out. I feel we owe it to him to help by offering suggestions which may see a way through this dilemma
Over.
 
I presume the aged demi-centurian could always dress in Lincoln Green and tell the missus he wiz aff tae a Friar Tuck conference?
 
Friar Tuck conference

Excellent idea. I always wondered how jimi was able to go off on sailing weekends with nary a murmur from 'er indoors and wondered if perhaps she wasn't that keen on sailing. But it's obviously due to his own never-ending stream of brilliant ideas such as "I have to go to a Friar Tuck conference".

Answer me this - How on earth would a weekend orgainsed by the esteemed Claymore EVER be mistaken for a Friar Tuck conference? (Assuming that he kept his wooly hat on and didn't wear a monk's habit or sandals, i mean)
 
Pass the cheese please.

This is purely hypothetical of course, but consider this; you could have a situation where one's well-mannered good lady, who really doesn't approve of excessive drinking and general high jinks, is normally quite happy to allow few days' leave as she assumes that it's just a lot of rowdy middle-aged drunken men getting mair pished than they should.

However, she later learns that last year's events were not exclusively male, and, worse than that, she's subsequently met two Scuttlebutters, HH MacHurley and Superstrath, who can pass themselves off as sober citizens, intelligent, considerate, and well-spoken. Both very presentable in polite society.

Being unaware of the trousers incident in the inappropriately named Tigh na Truish, it could be she's wrongly assumed that the rest of the SB chentlemen are similarly worthy citizens.

So the hypothetical problem is not so much how does our good-looking friend attend the cruise, but rather
<ul type="square"> how to attend unaccompanied, or,
how attend accompanied while being able to protect his good lady from the terrible truth of the lowlife company so beloved by her companion in life. [/list]

I think this is a fair summary of an interesting hypothetical dilemma. Now where's that cheese?
 
Re: Friar Tuck conference

They have those kind of weekends in Blackpool quite a lot. I think they shuffle some of the letters round so it reads Trierfuck weekends - which translates to Hens and Stags
 
Re: Pass the cheese please.

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Superstrath, who can pass themselves off as sober citizens, intelligent, considerate, and well-spoken. Both very presentable in polite society.

[/ QUOTE ]

I have a doppelganger?

Is this Chentlemen's Cruise still intending to traverse the Crinan Canal?
 
Re: Pass the cheese please.

Open minded about the Crinan - the main concern is the Pope - the Crinan is filled with fresh water so the salt content is lower which means that he'd probably not float as well if he fell in.
 
Re: Friar Tuck conference (and national courtesy day)

Thanks for this. I imagine that loads of people ignore the mis-spelling and turn up expecting lute recitals and archery lessons because they weren't so well advised beforehand. Thank you again.
 
Lude Recitals

Now the Friers name was Tuck
and he didn't give a damn.
He wouldn't ever
help them in a fight.
And he wouldn't help them hunt
that lazy rotten frier,
He just sat around and stuffed himself all night

Fred Wedlock
 
Re: Friar Tuck conference

Hens and stags could surely be mistaken for tons of shags............ /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
My personal justifcation for frequent away-trips is, "But you went to the Bahamas for three weeks, and I'm only going sailing/racing/drinking for a week."
Works a treat.
Okay, it's wearing a litle thin, since the Bahamas trip was in 1988, but I'm still using t.
 
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