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Freamon replied

8 January 2013, 20:25
Originally posted by Old Hack View Post

So, who here best fits this description?
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Old Hack replied

8 January 2013, 16:44
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Both 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?

Oh dear, pressed your buttons there didn't we MF...

Too funny.

little fish caught first cast.
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MarillionFan replied

8 January 2013, 15:46
Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post

Quentin Crisp??

Close. Think of someone a little less butch.
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shaunbhoy replied

8 January 2013, 15:43
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Both 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?

Quentin Crisp??
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stek replied

8 January 2013, 15:40
Walter Mitty - Closest match

Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Both 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?

Terence Trent Darby
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MarillionFan replied

8 January 2013, 15:34
Originally posted by eek View Post

Are you sure you're not talking about MF.

Both 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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amcdonald replied

8 January 2013, 13:41
Where's Threaded ?, failing that MF/Klinger
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eek replied

8 January 2013, 12:37
Originally posted by Old Hack View Post

Just read some of the posts. Wow.

Nice jugs though...

Did he have a make believe job in San Diego?

Are you sure you're not talking about MF.
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Old Hack replied

8 January 2013, 12:29
Originally posted by Bunk View Post

Bingo!

Just read some of the posts. Wow.

Nice jugs though...

Did he have a make believe job in San Diego?
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DimPrawn replied

8 January 2013, 12:27
Sasguru. Not me. Not me at all.
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NickFitz replied

8 January 2013, 11:28
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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Bunk replied

8 January 2013, 11:28
Originally posted by Pondlife View Post

You mean apart from the poster who got nicked for these types of activities?

Chasing the Aurora/Menelaus

Bingo!
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Pondlife replied

8 January 2013, 11:27
You mean apart from the poster who got nicked for these types of activities?

Chasing the Aurora/Menelaus
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Bunk replied

8 January 2013, 11:26
Originally posted by Old Hack View Post

So, who here best fits this description?

There can only be one winner here, but he hasn't posted for a couple of years.
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Old Hack started a topic Walter Mitty - Closest match

8 January 2013, 11:22
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".

So, who here best fits this description?
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