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DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 10:45 AM
coming to you live from across the street from the british museum biatches. man my phone is fucking awesome!!

uh yeah and the museum is huge and incredible
SirFozzie
03-23-2006, 10:46 AM
you're getting me cricket games while you're over there, right? :)
cartman
03-23-2006, 10:48 AM
So, are you in Trafalgar Square?
flere-imsaho
03-23-2006, 10:49 AM
Across the street from the British Museum is (assuming the front entrance) a relatively decent pub, if I remember correctly. ;)
cartman
03-23-2006, 10:55 AM
Across the street from the British Museum is (assuming the front entrance) a relatively decent pub, if I remember correctly. ;)

Right around the corner (towards Buckingham Palace) is the Texas Embassy! :)
ice4277
03-23-2006, 10:59 AM
uh yeah and the museum is huge and incredible

I think I could have spent about a week in there. Have fun!
AlexB
03-23-2006, 11:08 AM
coming to you live from across the street from the british museum biatches. man my phone is fucking awesome!!...

:rolleyes: Typical tourist - more impressed that his phone can send e-mails across the Atlantic than the huge amount of history and culture before his eyes :D ;) :p
Qwikshot
03-23-2006, 11:10 AM
Been there, done that

Have fun dude...least the pubs are open later.
cartman
03-23-2006, 11:10 AM
pub called The Plough? all red? looking right at it. may check it out in a bit

You can't go anywhere in London without tripping over a pub. I thought there was only one close to our office at Hyde Park corner, but it turns out there were 10 within a half mile!
AlexB
03-23-2006, 11:11 AM
Dola,

DT - in case you don't see it on your phone, there are lots of smilies after my previous post - hope you enjoy our hospitality! Even though it's still damn cold, it is unbeleivably 4-5 degrees warmer today than recently
DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 11:11 AM
pub called The Plough? all red? looking right at it. may check it out in a bit
GreenMonster
03-23-2006, 11:13 AM
pub called The Plough? all red? looking right at it. may check it out in a bit


Daddy the Slingbox beta mediaplayer was released for our phone today.. Now you can not only post from London on FOFC, but watch your cable TV anywhere you want.. You could be cranking up the NCAA tourney in a while..
DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 11:15 AM
:rolleyes: Typical tourist - more impressed that his phone can send e-mails across the Atlantic than the huge amount of history and culture before his eyes :D ;) :p
lol. nope.just find it useful. needed a museum break. 6 hours of amphorya and friezes kinda all blends together
DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 11:17 AM
oh I saw it jari. so far so hospitable. not been hit by a car yet either. and it is just like good new england weather.
DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 11:19 AM
did someone say ncaa tourney??

GO BC!!!
3ric
03-23-2006, 12:22 PM
So, are you in Trafalgar Square?

Um, it's the National Gallery which is on Trafalgar...
rkmsuf
03-23-2006, 12:24 PM
Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament.
cartman
03-23-2006, 12:29 PM
Um, it's the National Gallery which is on Trafalgar...

Well, he mentioned just a generic, lower-caps "british museum", so I made a guess and thought he was referring to the National Gallery.
3ric
03-23-2006, 12:31 PM
Sorry, thought it was obvious he meant "the" British Museum.
rkmsuf
03-23-2006, 12:33 PM
Order a champagne American.

although you'd have to be in France to do that
cartman
03-23-2006, 12:38 PM
Sorry, thought it was obvious he meant "the" British Museum.

What would have been great is if he answered, "No, the place I'm in has a giant pole in the middle surrounded by a bunch of fountains."

:D
Marc Vaughan
03-23-2006, 02:56 PM
:rolleyes: Typical tourist - more impressed that his phone can send e-mails across the Atlantic than the huge amount of history and culture before his eyes :D ;) :p
Unlike us locals who live here our entire lives and have yet to see half of the 'culture' ... ;)
Marc Vaughan
03-23-2006, 02:59 PM
You can't go anywhere in London without tripping over a pub. I thought there was only one close to our office at Hyde Park corner, but it turns out there were 10 within a half mile!
We do pubs well in England* - Norwich (city in Norfolk) was very proud a few years back that it had a pub for every day of the year (leap years covered ;) ) .... probably has more than that now :D

*Although most of them are slowly turning into glorified restaurants - which doesn't bother me too much personally, just so long as they still televise the soccer matches when they're on ;)
cartman
03-23-2006, 03:11 PM
*Although most of them are slowly turning into glorified restaurants - which doesn't bother me too much personally, just so long as they still televise the soccer matches when they're on ;)

The Grenadier was basically right behind our office. I don't see that one turning into a glorified restaurant any time soon... :D
AlexB
03-23-2006, 03:17 PM
Sometimes I'm still not sure whether things I post have come out as I intended - my 'typical tourist' post was taken as a joke, right?

(Not saying it was actually funny btw, just that it wasn't serious)
moriarty
03-23-2006, 03:23 PM
Sometimes I'm still not sure whether things I post have come out as I intended - my 'typical tourist' post was taken as a joke, right?

(Not saying it was actually funny btw, just that it wasn't serious)

I thought it was funny if that helps. :)
Karlifornia
03-23-2006, 03:35 PM
Sometimes I'm still not sure whether things I post have come out as I intended - my 'typical tourist' post was taken as a joke, right?

(Not saying it was actually funny btw, just that it wasn't serious)


Quit worrying, shorts! Everyone knows you were actually slamming Torgo's touristy behavior. I mean, if you were joking, you would have put at least 30 more smileys after it. :)
WSUCougar
03-23-2006, 04:07 PM
Have you seen H.M.S. Victory?
DanGarion
03-23-2006, 04:07 PM
Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament.
What's this have to do with a football player and a 70's funk band???
DaddyTorgo
03-23-2006, 04:10 PM
well I totally gotit if that helps. and marc too bad none of you guys will be in london...I'd buy you a drink or two
Abe Sargent
03-23-2006, 04:20 PM
well I totally gotit if that helps. and marc too bad none of you guys will be in london...I'd buy you a drink or two


Marc will be in London shortly....


-Anxiety
BYU 14
03-23-2006, 05:12 PM
well I totally gotit if that helps. and marc too bad none of you guys will be in london...I'd buy you a drink or two

Hmm watching your typing deteriorate you seem to have a head start :p

Can you get me a Tottenham Kit while you are there?
ice4277
03-23-2006, 07:36 PM
Can you get me a Tottenham Kit while you are there?

I think the exchange rate has gotten a bit more favorable, but when I was in Europe about 16 months ago, it was cheaper to just order anything like that I wanted online than to buy it there. I thought that was kinda crazy.
tanglewood
03-23-2006, 07:58 PM
Have you seen H.M.S. Victory?

That's in Portsmouth not London.

Edit: You may be thinking of H.M.S. Belfast, a WW2 battlecruiser, which is permenantly moored on the Thames.
DaddyTorgo
03-24-2006, 01:57 PM
saw the belfast didn't go on it though. actually saw it from the tower of london...good times that was.
AlexB
03-24-2006, 02:00 PM
Make sure you leave the ravens where they are dude ;)
rkmsuf
03-24-2006, 02:03 PM
Look kids. Big Ben, Parliament.
gstelmack
03-24-2006, 02:09 PM
Look kids. Big Ben, Parliament.

:D
DaddyTorgo
03-24-2006, 02:14 PM
Make sure you leave the ravens where they are dude ;)
actually the ravens are in quarentine due to the bird flu scare. guess the empire is falling then...oh no wait it already has ;-)
DaddyTorgo
03-24-2006, 02:18 PM
dola

big ben and parliament are sunday guys!! geez!! :-)
3ric
03-24-2006, 03:15 PM
well I totally gotit if that helps. and marc too bad none of you guys will be in london...I'd buy you a drink or two

Hey, take the Tube up to Islington and knock on Marc V's door - here's the adress:

Sports Interactive
Suite 6
313-314 Upper Street
London
N1 2XQ

Buy him a pint from the guys at FOFC!
DaddyTorgo
03-25-2006, 04:13 PM
fuck fuck I totally wanted to but I guess silly me saw that marc's location said royston and I assumed that is where the offices were. and now I am like out of time. damm damm