Only seven years to wait for a bus pass!!

[Pete T]

Happy Birthday. (You know who you are!!)

[Michael Heatley]

 

[Dave Bardsley]

Really?  Do you have to wait to be that old round your way? 

[Nick Nation]

...then three pass at once, boom boom.

......ummmm......something you wish to share with us, Michael? 

[Michael Heatley]

There may not be buses where Pete's going. That's my only (age) concern! 

(There are precious few round here...)

[Pete T]

There may not be buses where Pete's going.

Several a day, from Inverness to Cape Wrath, and back, even fitted with trailers to carry bicycles..

[Rob the Organ]

(There are precious few round here...)

Don't worry - you'll be getting Eco-buses that run on potato peelings and apple cores come Bordon's Eco-Town crowning.

Fruitmasters!!!!!

[Nick Nation]

Fruitmasters!!!!!

Nice one, Rob! We've done Man 'Fish' jokes, AC/DC meat jokes, now we have a rare piece of environmentally aware vintage public transport related word play.

So I'll see your Fruitmaster and raise you an RT choke.

 

[Michael Heatley]

You wait till you see the cover of Rob's forthcoming CD! 

[Rob the Organ]

Fruitmasters!!!!!

Nice one, Rob! We've done Man 'Fish' jokes, AC/DC meat jokes, now we have a rare piece of environmentally aware vintage public transport related word play.

So I'll see your Fruitmaster and raise you an RT choke.

It's a shame this isn't the Eric Clapton thread - I could have replied with "AEC was here"!

You wait till you see the cover of Rob's forthcoming CD! 

Nowt wrong with that - I've just written a cheque to send to the chap that took the Worcester Park pic in 1952. AND..I've even paid full price for the license to use the Griffin font. Mind you, the band line up has changed since this mock up!!!

[Dave Bardsley]

Rob.  Is that the Kingston to Sutton Bus route that linked Feenstra's old venues at the Grey Horse, the Worcester Park Club and Sutton's Boom Boom Club?  Presumably then, its the Beetroot.   

[Nick Nation]

All Right! Can We Do It? Can We Do It One More Time? 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Owwwwwwwwwwwww!

Our Father, Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Iver
Crouch End

Ahh, the awe and mystery of the Man Band.
 

[Rob the Organ]

Rob.  Is that the Kingston to Sutton Bus route that linked Feenstra's old venues at the Grey Horse, the Worcester Park Club and Sutton's Boom Boom Club?  Presumably then, its the Beetroot.   

Pretty much, yes - despite Beetroot not normally being something that suffers "club root"!!!

Let's raise a glass to the old Worcester Park club - a venue I frequented err.. frequently both as player and punter. The pub is still there (vastly improved from the old days despite the lack of club) and in fact Mrs Rob the Organ and I will be off there for a Sunday evening constitutional very shortly....

No venue, then, but Worcester Park does have one useful feature - a second hand vinyl shop that you have to walk past when you are being dragged into Waitrose. If that isn't genius planning, I don't know what is (cue for the smart ass that knows of a guitar strings shop that is open on Sundays until just before an evening gig and staffed by Nordic blondes handing out complementary drugs while the credit card terminal authorises...).

[Andrew P]

Nick - I'll see your Bus Driver's Prayer and raise you a Transport Of Delight (courtesy of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann):

     
Some people like a motorbike, some say, "A tram for me!", 
Or for bonny army lorry, they'd lay them down and dee. 
Such means of locomotion seem rather dull to us, 
The driver and conductor of a London omnibus! 
     
Hold very tight please, ting ting. 
Hold very tight please, ting ting. 
     
When you are lost in London, and you don't know where you are, 
You'll hear my voice a-calling, "Move further down the car!". 
And very soon you'll find yourself inside the terminus, 
In a London transport, diesel engine, ninety-seven horsepower omnibus. 
     
Along the Queen's great highway, I drive my merry load, 
At twenty miles per hour in the middle of the road. 
We like to drive in conveys, we're most gregarious, 
The big six-wheeler, scarlet painted, London transport, diesel engine, ninety-seven horsepower omnibus. 
     
Earth has not anything to show more fair, 
Mind the stairs, please, 
Mind the stairs... 
Mind the stairs... 
Earth has not anything to show more fair, 
Any more fares? 
Any more fares, any more fares? 
     
When cabbies try to pass me before they overtakes, 
I sticks me flippin' hand out and I jams on all me brakes. 
Those jackal taxi drivers can only swear and cuss, 
Behind that monarch of the road, 
Observer of the highway code, 
That big six-wheeler, 
Scarlet painted, 
London transport, 
Diesel engine, 
Ninety-seven horsepower omnibus. 
     
I stops when I'm requested, although it spoils the ride, 
So we can shout, 
"Get out of it! We're full right up inside". 
     
We don't ask much for wages, we only want fair shares, 
So cut down all the stages, and stick up all the fares. 
If tickets cost a pound apiece, why should you make a fuss? 
It's worth it just to ride inside, 
That thirty-foot long by ten-foot wide, 
Inside that monarch of the road, 
Observer of the highway code, 
The big six-wheeler, 
London transport, 
Diesel engine, 
Ninety-seven horsepower, 
Ninety-seven horsepower omnibus! 
     
Hold very tight, please! 
Ting ting! 
 

[Nick Nation]

Nick - I'll see your Bus Driver's Prayer and raise you a Transport Of Delight (courtesy of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann)
    

Yes indeed, Andrew...when melody was king! For extra relevance (?) it even starts like 'The Joker' by Steve Miller!

Seriously, I would have thought that the entire Manband would now be oh so grateful that their fans have been regularly coming up with so many good ideas.

(Room goes a bit quiet, band members glance at each other....)

In fact, I've got an even better idea!

(Band members now visibly wincing in anticipation....)

....what's needed is a Melodekka solo. It's great.

(cue Augustus Pablo looking very upset, etc)