last night we had arranged to go to the dartmouth arms pub quiz
with jackie's niece rosanna and her boyfriend mike.
we hadn't been since january...
i thought long and hard about which gloria gaynors would be best suited to
wear to a pub quiz. nothing too flash, nothing uncomfortable, no, it
had to be a pair of kicks i felt at home with. it had to be trainers to
help my brain cope with anagrams and football trivia.
in a flash of inspiration i pulled these out from a far away alcove
in the furthest corner of whitfield towers...
silver nike vandals.
i bought these about 5 or 6 years ago and i wore them to death but i probably
haven't worn them for 2 or 3 years now.
they are made out of a silver satin material. hi-tops with a velcro strap.
damn they are comfortable.
so off we went to the dartmouth arms.
the quiz sheet arrived and we had to choose one of the rounds as
our specialist round ( for double points )
look what we chose...
i have been tutored in the language of cockney rhyming slang by the
master himself... gooner jeff, for many years now.
though i'm deeply welsh and also have spanish in me, i've been
living in london for a long time. i've also been out with danny and jeff
on numerous occasions when as the night has worn on, they
almost stop speaking english and speak pure cockney.
i have even been tutored in an offshoot of rhyming slang...
pure cockney that doesn't rhyme.
( for instance one night gooner jeff came out to a gig i was
photographing and greeted me with the words... "blimey it cost me
a carpet to get in 'ere" )
the quizmeister did throw a curve ball in here with
"hit and miss" a phrase which most of the locals didn't know but i had actually
used just a few minutes earlier !
to cut a long story short we came joint first in the quiz.
it came to a tiebreaker question and we won !
check out our prize...
like a boss !
I used to have those gloria gayners but I sold them on because I couldn't handle the heat. I sold them for £15 more than I bought them for, despite them having a red wine stain on the left toe.
ReplyDeletecharlie that's almost as good as your ebay / scarf story.
ReplyDeletefair play to you for accepting that they were generating too much heat for you to handle.
also i take my hat off to you for spilling red wine on them, then still having the walnuts to sell them for fifteen sheets more than you paid for them. that charlie, is the touch of a genius.
good work.