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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostBoth I and the wife are top notch contractors earning a mint. When I retired from playing semi professional cricket I bought a rundown house in Somerset with 20 acres. I bought another in France and live in a camper van and was toying with opening a child play centre/creche/cafe/canoe business (delete as required).I am familiar with Bridgewater and quarries in the North of England and think I'm an Internet warrior. Did I also mention I had a house in France. I'm 'ard me, but not 'ard enough for the army.
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Too funny.
little fish caught first cast.
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostQuentin Crisp??
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostBoth I and the wife are top notch contractors earning a mint. When I retired from playing semi professional cricket I bought a rundown house in Somerset with 20 acres. I bought another in France and live in a camper van and was toying with opening a child play centre/creche/cafe/canoe business (delete as required).I am familiar with Bridgewater and quarries in the North of England and think I'm an Internet warrior. Did I also mention I had a house in France. I'm 'ard me, but not 'ard enough for the army.
Who am I?
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Walter Mitty - Closest match
Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostBoth I and the wife are top notch contractors earning a mint. When I retired from playing semi professional cricket I bought a rundown house in Somerset with 20 acres. I bought another in France and live in a camper van and was toying with opening a child play centre/creche/cafe/canoe business (delete as required).I am familiar with Bridgewater and quarries in the North of England and think I'm an Internet warrior. Did I also mention I had a house in France. I'm 'ard me, but not 'ard enough for the army.
Who am I?
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Originally posted by eek View PostAre you sure you're not talking about MF.
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Here's the full story - it only takes a few minutes to read.
Originally posted by James Thurber"I was thinking," said Walter Mitty. "Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?" She looked at him. "I'm going to take your temperature when I get you home," she said.
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You mean apart from the poster who got nicked for these types of activities?
Chasing the Aurora/Menelaus
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Walter Mitty - Closest match
Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World and Welcome to It in 1942. Thurber loosely based the character on his friend, Walter Mithoff. It was made into a film in 1947, with a remake starring Ben Stiller scheduled for release in 2013.
Mitty is a meek, mild man with a vivid fantasy life: in a few dozen paragraphs he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer. The character's name has come into more general use to refer to an ineffectual dreamer, appearing in several dictionaries. The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Walter Mitty as "an ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs". The most famous of Thurber's inept male protagonists, the character is considered "the archetype for dreamy, hapless, Thurber Man".Tags: None
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