Bristol gamer...

Styvy · Post by **Styvy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:27 pm

...new(ish) to FOG and currently building an Early Successor army. Would like to contact any FOG players in the Bristol (UK) for possible future games.

stenic · Post by **stenic** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:11 am

How flexible are you ??

We play in Slimbridge just off the A38 and have a regular Monday meet. FOG is hot with the group at the moment. Not too far from Bistol if you are really keen. I'm away next Monday but if you contact Alan Millicheap I'm sure he'll let you now if it is on and arrange for you to join in.

http://www.millicheap.freeserve.co.uk/bvwc.htm

Steve P

WhiteKnight · Post by **WhiteKnight** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:40 pm

Hi...about an hour to/from Bristol down here in Yeovil but happy to travel up occasionally for a game. You are more than welcome to come down here, too, where a group of FOG enthusiasts meet twice monthly, with extra games at each others houses in between!

Martin

Styvy · Post by **Styvy** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:50 pm

Thank you for replying guys, I will answer as quickly as I can

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:50 pm

WhiteKnight wrote:Hi...about an hour to/from Bristol down here in Yeovil but happy to travel up occasionally for a game. You are more than welcome to come down here, too, where a group of FOG enthusiasts meet twice monthly, with extra games at each others houses in between!

Martin

I went to look, out of curiosity, and for being so small your town has a huge listing on Wikipedia.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:37 am

I'm sure Bristol is a city, it even has a football team called Bristol City.

being so small your town

bertiebeemer · Post by **bertiebeemer** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:20 am

philqw78 wrote:I'm sure Bristol is a city, it even has a football team called Bristol City.

being so small your town

I guess the clue was in the link (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<b>Yeovil</b>) ...

Yeovil is indeed lovely. Not quite so keen on Bristol. Sheffield on the other hand (from where I am). See The Full Monty. And Sheffield Wednesday.

San Diego though - wow, the best climate that I've ever been in. What a wonderful place. Great coastline too.

Oops, strayed off toy soldiers. I'll get my coat...

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:55 pm

LOL@Phil

Yeovil, silly, not Bristol.

We all know what bristols are, err, I mean, where Bristol is.

Bit of a long drive from San Diego (and then a long swim?), especially for warm beer

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:04 pm

Bertiebeemer, you want to be careful about admissions like that, most of the moderators are from West of the Pennines...

WhiteKnight · Post by **WhiteKnight** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:18 pm

No warm beer in Yeovil my luvvers, just plenty of cider...does ee right well over a game or two!

Martin

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:11 pm

White Knight, Somerset Cider is a favourite of mine but plenty of cider and wargaming... I think not. I hope no one asks me to work out a complex evade after 2 pints of Somerset's best.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:39 pm

Goodness, that must be some potent stuff. What's the alcohol content?

I've made hard cider before, but it wasn't that formidable...

And about the warm beer thing...

In 1977, when I was working in London, I made some disparaging comment about warm beer in front of my old boss Dennis Packe, (may he rest in peace), and he replied tartly, "Don't be a fool. Warm beer is no good to anyone. We like our beer cold, it's just that you Americans prefer yours iced."

He did have a point; most American beers suggest on the label serving at a temp of 35-40F, and given that 32F is freezing...

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:47 pm

Possum, The stuff I had was 8% ABV, US 16 proof. btw your haike (sp), I am impressed but I thought they had to be 17 syllables.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:58 pm

timmy1 wrote:Possum, The stuff I had was 8% ABV, US 16 proof. btw your haike (sp), I am impressed but I thought they had to be 17 syllables.

It is 17, bro. It's a perfect 5-7-5 syllables, although I would point out that the Japanese standard is in on which are not directly equivalent to syllables, since the Japanese count morae. An English poem with 17 syllables comes out a bit longer.

It also contains the kigo, or season word, in the first line, although strictly speaking the exact season is not fixed until the second line when the blossoms of the cherry tree are mentioned.

And because English does not have kireji, or cutting words, the references to fire at the end of the first two lines symbolically serve that purpose. Many writers attempt to do this with gratuitous punctuation marks, but this way seems cleaner to me. Again, this varies from the traditional in that there really should only be one kireji.

Oh, and I did not write this. It was written by a teenage pyromaniac named Franklin Robinson, who was for a time a distant member of my extended family, and first appeared as a post on the Fire Hazard BBS back in the mid-90's. I honestly have no idea whether he knew exactly what he was doing, or just imitated the style of haiku he'd seen and got lucky. Jewels from the mouths of babes, as the old saying goes.

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:07 pm

You are correct, somehow I counted 5-6-5. Your knowledge of the form is greater than mine.

donm · Post by **donm** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:26 pm

Steve,

Sorry for late reply, don't look on here very often

There is a club at Clevedon (just South of Bristol) that meets every Friday night between 7.30 and 11.00.

We have been playing FoG for sometimes, as a few of us were play testers.

If you would like more details please email me donaldmchugh@ukonline.co.uk

Don

pikey · Post by **pikey** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:22 pm

If you don't mind travelling over the bridge, I'm located just outside USK.
Damian

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:30 pm

pikey wrote:If you don't mind travelling over the bridge, I'm located just outside USK.
Damian

As am I.