funny/strange tales

[Robstar]

some one at work ask me the other day what type of people play ping pong and i reeled off a few tales to their astonishment. mind u they concerned Mr Salter and Mr Robertson in fact i could write a book about those 2 chaps

So i got to thinking about some more I had encountered or knew about

Jimmy Scope was once an extra in Byker Grove and his part was to lie in an ambulance the back doors were getting closed and open in the shoot then he was drove away to Walkergate hospital unbeknown to him the shoot had finished and he lay there till somebody came to clean out the ambulance from the hospital this story actually made the sunday papers

Jimmy myself and a girl called janice ( from washington ) went to pick up Tony Mcqueen on the way to a Yorkshire tournament he appeared with 2 large bags put them in the boot and the suspension was put to the test
it was his training weights he bunked in the hotel slept on somebodys floor and got up at 7 doing curls etc it didn't impress the guy whose room he shared but the guy said nowt

The Northumberland sqad travelled to stranraer for the ferry to play
in the ulster open in belfast because someone didn't turn up and had to get a replacement we missed the ferry had to get the tea time ferry we were due to start the team event at 16-00 but didnot arrive to 19-30 the officials allowed us to play the team won the event with the final stating at 12-30 at night on 2 tables we didn't get to our hotel until about 02-30 a few sherbets and had an hours kip then up again to play at 08-30 Peter and eddie were the 2 men noy sure if the lady was claire or caron 2 guesses who never turned up

[DaveR]

The infamous Robertson.........better get my thinking hat on, so many strange tales over the years !

[Hovis Bread Eater]

i remember at Kings Lynn, some one from the North EAst getting locked out of his hotel room and he climbed a lamp post to shout at his mate in the room.

[Mr Wilko]

i remember at Kings Lynn, some one from the North EAst getting locked out of his hotel room and he climbed a lamp post to shout at his mate in the room.


ha ha thats a story and a half mind Ed went clubbing with some boiler and i went back to hotel to be woken at around 330am to someone knocking on door (as i thought) i checked and no one was there went back to bed, 2 minutes later they were knocking again so i got up and answered it again, no one again, so back to bed this happened about another 4 times until when i was at the door i heard it again so went to check at window and there squashed up against the window clinging onto the lamp post 2 floors up was eddy smith !!!!!!

another good story was when playing in spain in the european league with ed, hilton and venner, we were flying from newcastle to heathrow then to Madrid then getting train to place for matches, me and ed were delayed from newcastle. Keith wilson and venner were already on plane at heathrow with hilton waiting at check in desk (with him coming from manchester trying to delay them) me, ed and hilton checked in and as going onto plane steward came running down shouting of Mr Hilton saying you cannot go on plane as your bags need collecting. we got on plane while hilton had to collect bags missed plane ended up getting on another plane which took him to wrong place, trains had finished for night so had to stop over (in a brothel) get another train next morning arriving 30 minutes before match and playing eloi good prep for a difficult game!!!!

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[Hovis Bread Eater]

i was in a car driving to folkestone to catch a ferry to the europeans in gothenberg, when we were getting closer, the driver asked to find out where we had to park at the ferry terminal, co pilot said harwich. we had driven to the wrong port.

missed the ferry by 20 mins. the driver (mick vessey) went to the booking desk and asked when the next ferry was, the day was a wednesday.
he got told the next ferry was friday, which would have been no bloody good.

Had to catch the denmark ferry, go length of denmakr on the bus and a ferry to gothenburg. got there 6 hours later than we should have, did not miss any table tennis.

[Mr Wilko]

another one was going to Essex with Ed for british league, he was driving for a change (in his NOVA). we had been on road for about 2 hrs when we heard a noise which ed though he was driving along on the cats eyes but i stated it was a flat tyre.
we pulled over to change it and git spare wheel out and i asked him were jack was kept to which he said "i took it out, it was taking up to much room" so we called AA.
and arrived 2 hrs late for match.
On way home up A1 (with no hard shoulder) the Nova kept on cutting out, on 1 occasion doing around 80mph which drastically dropped to around 20mph in the space of seconds also his lights went off and we had a Eddie Stoddart lorry hurtling up behind us obviously unable to see us when as quick as it had started going wrong the Nova came back to life and possibly saved ours!!!!

needless to say our next away game i took my car !!!!!! ha ha :shok: :shok:

[The Windmill]

When I went to the Vets Worlds in Bremen with Belafonte our party was seven people. So we had to hire 2 cars to drive from Berlin to Bremen. I organised one and he organised the other. I picked up our car, but there was confusion around Belafonte's......There are 2 airports in Berlin and he had ordered his car from the wrong airport. His company did not actually hire from the airport we were at. He had to get a taxi to go pick it up.....Donkey

[Moggy]

Whilst you're talking about cars......
Back in the early 80's I used to drive a 1300E Mk1 Escort. One winter I had to travel about 15 miles to the venue, and due to the amount of snow on the road and subsequent traffic snarl up, decided to take to the back roads.
With about 2 miles to go the road turned into a single carriage way track which had just had a tractor through. This was ok for the first 100m following the tractors tramlines, until the snow got deeper and the car grounded.
Sitting in the car, the back wheels just spun and I was going nowhere. Getting out and pushing also didn't work. For some reason I decided to stick the car into 1st gear and jump out of the car to push. (luckly the car could happily spin the wheels without any extra throttle). Once I'd got the car moving, I then had to chase after the car through the snow, open the door and jump in. Thinking back I can still imagine slipping over and watching the car disappear into the distance....

[Robstar]

went to lausanne with harry thorpey the tin man and a guy from ipswich who was a bit of a shoplifter we booked into these wooden chalets on the lake nobody told us we had to supply on own linen fist nite was no problem as it was roasting 2 people slept outside on their towels til about 5 in the morning when sheet lighting and storms made them dash back to the chalet next nite it was cold some it was a case putting on xtra cloths and using towels as blankets after that we decided we needed sleeping bags which we aquired harry and i paid 4 ours but a certain member of the party went to the toilet put his in his holdall and legged it out of the departmental store

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

ah memories of eddie smiths bean tin coffee pot and splishy splashy with two stunning chinese lasses, violinists on tour ,climbing danny boy the world famous mountain from that war film,eating the best food and drinking the best ale from around the world.

come on croatia 2009 hoorah.:rocker:

[Hovis Bread Eater]

Cheesy how could you do all that with both hands in your pockets.

[FantasyCheeseBasin]

less a tha lip lad,get them thier boooootss cleanin for satdie match gainst pudsey Uuuuuunited:thtease:

[Hovis Bread Eater]

its boits and coits,

[Chopfloat]

Robstar:surprised that you haven't mentioned your tryst with Irmentrude Doll the Dutch girl you brought back from Amsterdam

[Neil MC]

was that the famous doubles pairing of B.Dodds and I.Doll

[Llooppyy]

try the high flats -view immaculate -can see greggs a bakers for a steak bake - keeps yeh goin as we march 2 europe - booooommmiinnn and baaaaackkk- more players breaking more molds than molds for a buckie bouleyspecial -moan naw-lets hear it???