Hello

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:20

Greetings Portobello People

I stumbled across this website while looking for interesting community-type things to do in Porty for me and my family ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ the usual kind of thing: tennis lessons, bee-keeping, wife-swapping, cookery classesÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â¦

But I didn't expect such a brilliant forum, on which I have been lurking quite regularly of late. By crikey, it's even better than the Hartlepool United supporters' forum!

So: hello to you all, and I hope you don't mind me joining in for the occasional ramble.

JP.

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:27

Bah - meant to post in the newbies thread. Apologies...

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:29

Jackson Priest wrote:Bah - meant to post in the newbies thread. Apologies...

You can still come along on the 23rd though..............if you dare!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:32

Hello Jackson - love the beard! Please tell me it's a photo shop job.

As for the wife-swapping, perhaps a thread over on Pbay?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:32

Poppy wrote: You can still come along on the 23rd though..............if you dare!!

As long as he leaves the face furniture at home.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:45

Hi Jackson and welcome to POL

I thought maybe the beard and bee-keeping were one and the same. Very handy being able to take your hobby everywhere with you

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:50

Hello Poppy and ECM

I might just do that. I am back from my holidays by the 23rd I believe. (And I have no friends.)

Unfortunately I cannot lay claim to that beard being my own.

Or the head either for that matter.

Although I do own a moderate amount of face furniture, I don't think it will ever achieve such lustrousness.

Oh well.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 30 Aug 2005, 18:53

Jackson Priest wrote: I might just do that. I am back from my holidays by the 23rd I believe. (And I have no friends.)

Excellent. Poppy was worrying that the men would be out-numbered.

Look forward to meeting you if you do make it along. Are you off somewhere nice on your hols?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 30 Aug 2005, 19:11

Welcome indeed. Hail fellow, and well met.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 30 Aug 2005, 19:25

Hello Jackson. A Hartlepool United supporter? That's almost enough to be barred.

CUFC OK!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 30 Aug 2005, 19:29

Bob Jefferson wrote: CUFC OK!

For a moment there Bob, I read that as a very poor attempt at circumventing the profanity filter.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 30 Aug 2005, 19:35

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

MrsMc · Post by **MrsMc** » 30 Aug 2005, 20:16

Bob Jefferson wrote:I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Love it!! Now - to plagerise it.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 30 Aug 2005, 21:17

Hello and welcome Jackson - fellow Marlborough St resident

(psst, Sandra...any idea who this might be........

)

Marlborough St seems to be one of the most fertile breeding grounds for POLers, quite a few present and ex-residents from this neck of the woods.

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 30 Aug 2005, 22:08

Hello Jackson. I thought your name sounded familiar then I realised I was thinking of Judas Priest.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 31 Aug 2005, 13:32

Bob Jefferson wrote:waht I was rdgnieg.

Is that a deliberate mistake?

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 31 Aug 2005, 13:33

Welcome, JP! I too thought of Judas Priest...
Might see you in September...

Bellybabe

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 31 Aug 2005, 14:32

Hello everybody and thank you very much for the warm welcome.

Having just spent half an hour trying to work out how to put quotes in and failing miserably, (I am stupid), I'll just have to answer in a random way...

ECM - yes, thank you for asking, I am going for a week in a caravan with wife and 6 mth old daughter and in-laws (it's quite a big caravan) in Brittany, followed by a wedding in Paris. I am extremely posh, as you will be able to tell by this. (All people from Hartlepool are posh).

BOB - I take it you mean Carlisle and not Colchester or Cambridge United?! (Can't think of any others.) I have watched quite a few dire matches between the 2 of us. We will probably meet again next season if our early season rubbishness is anything to go by.

BEARCUB - hello fellow Marlborough Street-er. You may or may not have seen me, balding, sweaty, rotund and hairily faced (painting a nice picture here), walking towards the tiddly-om-pom-pom, pushchair (not my own) in front of me.

By the way - in the interests of open-ness (is that a word?) Jackson Priest is not my real name, it's just a pseudonym designed to make me sound more interesting, and of course hide my true identity, which i will never reveal.

So long,

Patrick (gah! blown it!)
aka J.P.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 31 Aug 2005, 14:40

JP,
May I suggest you take a look here?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 31 Aug 2005, 14:43

Jackson Priest wrote: You may have seen me, balding, sweaty, rotund and hairily faced

*falls madly in love*

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 31 Aug 2005, 16:09

Bellybabe said

JP,
May I suggest you take a look here?

Aaah! Thank you.

sicker · Post by **sicker** » 31 Aug 2005, 17:09

Hi from me too Jackson

John

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 31 Aug 2005, 19:21

Jackson Priest wrote:By the way - in the interests of open-ness (is that a word?) Jackson Priest is not my real name, it's just a pseudonym designed to make me sound more interesting, and of course hide my true identity, which i will never reveal.

Funnily enough, my real name isn't Epykat

And we've all made the above vow at some point

It'll never last. Hopefully see you on the 23rd for you to be officially and unceremoniously outed, spladooshed and bagged

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 31 Aug 2005, 19:38

Hello and welcome from me too Mr J Priest

Are you a fan of Judas Priest and Jackson Browne by any chance?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 31 Aug 2005, 21:34

Welcome JP and I hope you enjoy.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 31 Aug 2005, 21:57

Good evening Mr Preist and welcome, I'm fairly new myself after much lurking!!!

MrsMc · Post by **MrsMc** » 01 Sep 2005, 17:07

Jackson Priest wrote:Bah - meant to post in the newbies thread. Apologies...

Hello JP,

I wish I had been as clever as you and posted my introduction in this section!

MrsM

Jackson Priest · Post by **Jackson Priest** » 03 Sep 2005, 11:15

This is a quick note to say hello and thank you to the other people who posted after my last post. You certainly are a heck of a friendly bunch.

Just one thing i need to clarify:

Marya wrote:

Are you a fan of Judas Priest and Jackson Browne by any chance?

Judas Priest: no! Jackson Browne: Not really! (Have one album by him though)

Bit embarassed as this should all be in the newbies section, so I'd better write about budgerigars quickly, so this isn't at the top of the list.

JP

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 03 Sep 2005, 17:13

Don't worry about going slightly off topic on a post - we, em, do it quite a lot........

Now, what's everybody having for their tea?