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Nick Collis Bird

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Posture
« on: October 14, 2014, 06:47:44 PM »
 I know I'm getting old, but today I played my Lilliput for the first time since my operations.
I was learning Delilah. Just for fun .(don't start Pikey or Alan Mead)
   I noticed that I was so bent over the tip of my hat was very close to the ground, having bent .with concentration.
Dear Marge am I alone in this?
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Re: Posture
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2014, 06:49:40 PM »
Dear Nick,

Get a smaller hat.  Or face downhill.
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2014, 06:53:24 PM »
Sometimes I wish there was a 'Like' button on here.

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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2014, 07:09:19 PM »
Dear Nick,
You are obviously wilting in the heat and suffering dehydration.
Solution - drink more.  :|glug
Marge.
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2014, 07:11:50 PM »
Dear Nick
Lighter goggles may provide the solution, thus reducing the combined weight of hat and head.  Alternatively , if the curved body shape is desired, the use of a deckchair may solve the problem.
Hope this helps.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2014, 07:25:55 PM »
 ;D :D ;D all of you!
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Re: Posture
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2014, 07:40:47 PM »
Quote from: Oysterboy on October 14, 2014, 07:11:50 PM
...the use of a deckchair may solve the problem...

Plenty of those on Swanage seafront Nick, perhaps you should get down there with the Albrecht?  >:E
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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2014, 07:50:47 PM »
a ''  here's  me 'ead me arse is coming''  stance  does not bode well!

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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2014, 08:36:36 PM »
CB, maybe you should try playing standing up, instead of lying face down on the bed?

Delilah does have that effect sometimes..........
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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2014, 12:48:55 AM »
Just what Chanson's* were made for, wear a couple of dozen on your back as a counterbalance  ;D

More seriously, delighted to hear you able to manage a box again  Nick ;)

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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2014, 06:08:35 AM »
Have just noticed I have posted this in the wrong section. Doh!  :|bl
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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2014, 07:00:51 AM »
Or are you trying to pick up with your teeth the ladies underwear that has been thrown at you as you played Delilah ?  >:E


Good to see you back on form!  :D


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Re: Posture
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2014, 01:17:37 PM »
For good posture, one requires Alderneys.  >:E
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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2014, 04:37:59 PM »
Quote from: Ebor_fiddler on October 15, 2014, 01:17:37 PM
For good posture, one requires Alderneys.  >:E

And der arms and der legs.
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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2014, 07:36:57 PM »
There once was a player called Nick
Whose neck did develop a crick.
His head got so lower
when playing Delilah
that it made him feel awfully sick.


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Re: Posture
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2014, 08:48:33 PM »
THIS IS NOT A LIMERICK.

Now here's a retort to friend Pikey
Who seems to be taking the mikey
I'll tell you my friend, you just have to bend
T. Jones tunes with Di cod* are Spikey.

* Dihydrocodeine
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Re: Posture
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2014, 09:19:24 PM »
Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on October 15, 2014, 06:08:35 AM
Have just noticed I have posted this in the wrong section. Doh!  :|bl

Shall I move this to the sandbox?
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« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2014, 10:19:27 PM »
Please, please no,  I'll shut up now  (:)
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Re: Posture
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2014, 02:47:50 PM »
Quote from: Theo on October 15, 2014, 09:19:24 PM
Quote from: Nick Collis Bird on October 15, 2014, 06:08:35 AM
Have just noticed I have posted this in the wrong section. Doh!  :|bl

Shall I move this to the sandbox?

I think it knows it's place! Theo. So away it goes and not even a Limer....aaaaargh.
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