From: Grimly Curmudgeon on
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Thomas <keensurf(a)gmail.com> saying
something like:

>> I'm wondering how many European countries it would be possible to visit
>> and stay with UKRM'ers
>>
>> I can think of at least 10.
>
>So, umm, how many of said UKRM'ers have eligible daughters?

I dunno, but you can have an eiderdown.
From: Scraggy on
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:42:10 +0100, doetnietcomputeren
<doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On 2010-02-28 09:44:52 +0100, Scraggy <scraggy(a)abuseisgoodforyou.org.be> said:
>
>>>> No Baltics, proper Eastern Europeans, Scandiwegians or Portugese
>>>> Italians?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think we had a Croat for a while. He's not posted in ages.
>>>
>>> and I've just remembered we have an ex-pat in Turkey
>>>
>>> Israel is in the Eurovision so should count...
>>
>> We intermittantly have John B in Norway and a Swede in the form of Mrs
>> Beav(1)
>>
>> (1)When she's not being thrown down the road from the pillion natch.
>
>But she, presumably lives somewhere near Beav, who, AFAICT lives in the UK?
>
>If we were counting nationalities represented, real and imaginary, by
>UKRM and spouses, the list would probably go on for quite some time.

Well, of course, but let's not worry about it, it was merely a vehicle
for casting aspertions while I was pondering the thorny Scanderwegian
problem.
--

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as
members. Groucho Marx
From: Leslie on
On Feb 27, 7:45 pm, doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcomp...(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
[...]
> UK = 5 (6 if you include Gibraltar as a country)
> NL, BE, FR, ES, DE, CH = 6
> There's that part time poster in Poland.

Right, if anybody needs to stay for a few nights in Poznan or Warsaw,
the email is not munged. :-)

--
Leslie
NTV 650
From: Champ on
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:13:46 -0800 (PST), turby <keensurf(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>You have at least 2 months to prepare. Stick an ale in the fridge,
>hide the babes, oil and sand the roads if you must. A Yank is on his
>way.
>Yesterday I spent a ridiculous amount of money on a motorcycle halfway
>round the world, sight unseen. It's a '08 BMW R1200GS (I know, hack,
>ptooie, a BMW) stored in Heidelberg. I'll fly over around May Day to
>pick it up and take a little cruise around the Continent. I figure to
>hit the Isles by the time the sun comes out. (I'm practicing my
>boorish behavior, just for you guys.) And don't be surprised to see a
>bike on the right side of the road, OK?

Cool.

And welcome.

Will you be in the UK in time for the BoSM [1] on 17th April?

[1] Beginning of Summer[2] Meet
[2] an aspiration, rather than a meteorological certainty
--
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From: Mark Olson on
Champ wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:13:46 -0800 (PST), turby <keensurf(a)hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You have at least 2 months to prepare. Stick an ale in the fridge,
>> hide the babes, oil and sand the roads if you must. A Yank is on his
>> way.
>> Yesterday I spent a ridiculous amount of money on a motorcycle halfway
>> round the world, sight unseen. It's a '08 BMW R1200GS (I know, hack,
>> ptooie, a BMW) stored in Heidelberg. I'll fly over around May Day to
>> pick it up and take a little cruise around the Continent. I figure to
>> hit the Isles by the time the sun comes out. (I'm practicing my
>> boorish behavior, just for you guys.) And don't be surprised to see a
>> bike on the right side of the road, OK?
>
> Cool.
>
> And welcome.
>
> Will you be in the UK in time for the BoSM [1] on 17th April?

"I'll fly over around May Day"

Bang on the head, etc.