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Post by Liz on Jul 6, 2009 17:52:39 GMT
I'm gonna be totally self-indulgent here, and put Rubens Barrichello on the pedestal for sending me three tweets in two weeks... that almost makes us best mates! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2009 18:11:44 GMT
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Post by Liz on Jul 6, 2009 19:22:19 GMT
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Post by maureen on Jul 12, 2009 6:23:51 GMT
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Post by Shazzybabes on Jul 20, 2009 20:40:43 GMT
The lovely ladies on this board, this is a great place to be when your feeling down, and they make you warm and happy, and i can discuss my Love for Mr May for ages, and no one batters an eye lid, i love this place, end of. Its a great place to be  |
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Post by tui on Jul 23, 2009 19:27:32 GMT
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Post by crumbs on Jul 27, 2009 17:35:54 GMT
Joanna Lumley - big respect
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Post by Vixen on Jul 27, 2009 18:20:52 GMT
Vix, Amy, MD & Shazzy just for being there. Means more than you'll ever know. Thank you  Oh bless you, hun. We're all here whenever you need us |
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Post by lonesome aesthetic on Jul 28, 2009 15:41:07 GMT
Jeeves & Wooster on DVD, oh and series 4 of Waking the Dead, and if it ever arrives series 5 of Inspector Lynley ;D
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Post by Korri on Aug 15, 2009 19:57:32 GMT
TOH for making a really nice dinner, and taking me out earlier this week, and helping me find an excuse to stop someone inviting themselves to my house! What would I do without him??  |
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Post by maureen on Aug 26, 2009 8:37:02 GMT
Two things have made me very happy: 1. Amazon, for having everything I wanted to order and shipping them all for me at once. 2. The postal service, for making sure all of my DVDs arrived safely. YAY!!!!! *bounces*  |
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Post by Liz on Jan 6, 2010 17:32:58 GMT
I'm putting Tesco's in here for giving me £10 off my next order as compensation, because they were unable to deliver yesterday due to the weather |
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Post by Wyvern on Jan 20, 2010 19:34:31 GMT
Whoever it was at uni who found my phone and handed it in to security. Thank you. Thank you SO much!
And the lovely security guard who phoned my mum to get hold of me and managed not to scare her when she got a strange foreign gentleman calling on my number. Thank you that man x
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Post by From Afar on Jan 20, 2010 19:41:29 GMT
Whoever it was at uni who found my phone and handed it in to security. Thank you. Thank you SO much! And the lovely security guard who phoned my mum to get hold of me and managed not to scare her when she got a strange foreign gentleman calling on my number. Thank you that man x ;D Oh Wyvern I am SO glad for you that you got your phone back ;D |
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Post by Wyvern on Feb 15, 2010 21:56:06 GMT
My friend Birdie can go on the pedestal. I saw a pair of trousers I really liked on the GAP website, but they don't ship here. Birdie got them for me and sent them over, and put a little surprise in the parcel with them too! She's lovely |
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Post by xjsarah on Feb 15, 2010 22:02:38 GMT
Aww, that's really nice. She sounds like a very good friend indeed. |
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Post by Wyvern on Apr 3, 2010 19:51:24 GMT
Mayfayre's going on the Pedestal - she rescued my shopping when Gerald broke down, brought me some ciggies (I'd only nipped to Sainsbury's so I hadn't taken them with me) then went home and fetched the servo kit I was going to ask the mechanic to fit, and my lighter and then coming out to rescue me from the mechanic's after the recovery truck had dropped me off.
THANK YOU MAYFAYRE! ;D
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Post by Mayfayre on Apr 3, 2010 19:56:38 GMT
I couldn't have you getting home all grumpy 'cause you'd not had a fag in forever, with frozen off bits, could I now?  |
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Post by Wyvern on Apr 25, 2010 20:51:35 GMT
And tonight's spot on the Pedestal goes to a chap called Matthieu Deru. I've never met him, he's a French-Canadian, and I know nothing about him, but he has managed to explain in one short tutorial how to do something rather complex with a computer algorithm that I will need for my exams. I couldn't make sense of it no matter how hard I tried, and as it was one of Stavros the Incomprehensible's lectures, I didn't get on very well asking for advice. So I emailed him to say thank you... and I've just got a really lovely email back! I didn't expect that, but it made my day |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 31, 2010 10:48:23 GMT
I'm dusting off the pedestal in order to put Charlie Higson up here. I was discussing his 2000 remake of Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) with friends on Twitter yesterday. I logged in this morning and he'd read the discussion and sent me a couple of really lovely, completely unsolicited, Tweets about how he assembled such a brilliant supporting cast and who the 'one that got away' was. Pretty much made my day, because I love his comedy work but I also love his books. *flails around in throes of geekgasm*
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Post by xjsarah on Sept 6, 2010 0:33:29 GMT
During my wanderings around the West End yesterday I went in a few bookshops, and in one of them I saw something that amused me greatly. Accordingly, I would like to place on the Pedestal whichever bright spark it was who saw fit to put a copy of Tony Blair's new book in the 'Hardback Fiction' section. ;D Well, at least someone tried to classify it correctly! |
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Post by jacqui on Sept 6, 2010 9:02:46 GMT
During my wanderings around the West End yesterday I went in a few bookshops, and in one of them I saw something that amused me greatly. Accordingly, I would like to place on the Pedestal whichever bright spark it was who saw fit to put a copy of Tony Blair's new book in the 'Hardback Fiction' section. ;D Well, at least someone tried to classify it correctly! Brilliant ;D |
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Post by Mayfayre on Oct 6, 2010 18:27:35 GMT
I'm putting Gerald the Herald on the pedestal today.
For the first time in almost 6 years of owning it, my Mondeo let me down this morning. There's a problem with the starter motor and it just wasn't going to start. We were already running late for work, the bus or train would have taken ages and the only other option was going in 2 up on my little Honda 250, that hasn't been started since the end of June, I've not carried a pillion passenger in years and it was raining. So we decided to go to work in Gerald. He started after just a few turns of the engine (once I'd remembered which knob was the choke) and, despite being horribly detuned and feeling like there's all sorts of muck in the fuel, he valiantly drove us through the rain to work, arriving only a few minutes later than we would have done on my car. What's more, he drove us all the way home again!
Well done Gerald!
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Post by Hops on Oct 6, 2010 18:33:30 GMT
Yay for Gerald the Herald!
"once I'd remembered which knob was the choke" * snort * ;D
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Post by xjsarah on Oct 6, 2010 20:38:56 GMT
Good old Gerald! ;D
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Post by eshalda on Oct 6, 2010 20:58:19 GMT
Well done Gerald. In the 'olden days' I had my choke down to a fine art, I knew by feel just what was the right amoubt to put on.
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Post by xjsarah on Oct 13, 2010 22:24:55 GMT
I would like to put on the pedestal everyone involved in the rescue of the miners in Chile. Also the miners themselves, and their families, for what they have endured over the past couple of months. It's truly amazing what humans can accomplish when they work together instead of fighting each other. |
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Post by brycegold on Oct 14, 2010 10:32:05 GMT
Seconded XJS. I spent most of yesterday glued to the news as I counted up the number of miners rescued. I was worried that it might all go wrong towards the end and leave 2 or 3 trapped but thankfully this morning I was relieved to hear that all have been rescued.
BRAVO Chile and all involved in the rescue.
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Post by dit on Oct 14, 2010 10:37:26 GMT
I stayed up till 2am to watch the last of the miners come up safely and it was so moving. Everyone was just so brave, and grateful, and proud of what had been achieved. When they all sang their national anthem with huge gusto I'm not afraid to admit that I filled up.
Edit: Sky News has just run the whole sequence of each of them meeting their wives and sweethearts the moment they got to the surface. I've filled up again!
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Post by xjsarah on Oct 14, 2010 12:37:08 GMT
I stayed up until the last rescue worker had been brought to the surface. The underground lights and camera were turned off not long after that. It turned out that the last man out had also been the first one to go down there. Kudos to him. |
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