We are booked

[riggers]

Don't worry Jill, i'll be in the Nut anyway ...

[Mick and Jill]

Hi Riggers

Problem is we don't know what you look like ha ha.  You will probably take 1 look at the motley crew and decide to stay anonoymous ha ha

Jill

[justlynn]

Ha ha Jill, he has no chance trying that one with me around!!! 

lynn xx

[riggers]

HA HA no chance at all. I have met Tony and Glenda, also Lynn and Colin. 

Will be seeing you all there. 

[justphil]

He's easy to recognise Jill - he's the one with a beer in each hand....

lol
Phil

[justlynn]

And an ouzo in the other!! 

[riggers]

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[riggers]

Hi Jill.

Looking forward to meeting you and Mick. You will deffo recognise me, (Glenda did) never met her b4 and she came up behind me and said "are you riggers"    is it obvious     

yammas to all.....

[justphil]

Jill luvver, you will recognise him like you did me and Jen. Wish we could be there to join in....

Apparently now he's the man with three lifters full of glasses and no leaners. Well said our Lynne!

(translation - 3 arms lifting drinks, and no arm to lean on the bar. Anyone remember lifters and leaners?)

Phil

[riggers]

Lol Phil...  i don't remember them.

[justlynn]

Thanks Phil, but no sorry, I don't remember them either! 

[riggers]

LIFTERS AND LEANERS

There are just two kinds of people on earth today,
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man's wealth
You must first know the state of his conscience and health.
Not the humble and proud, for, in life's little span,
Who puts on airs is not counted a man.
Not the happy and sad, for the swift counting years
Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.
No, the two kinds of people on earth I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
Wherever you go you will find the world's masses
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And oddly enough you will find, too, I ween,
There's only one lifter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? Are you easing the load
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner who lets others bear
Your portion of labour and worry and care?

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -

[riggers]

just found it.....

[justphil]

Absolutely beautiful riggers. Thanks for posting it. Mine was a bit more basic, a beer advert about lifters and leaners. I vaguely remember it from the sixties I think. But your post says it all. I have picked out one line of the poem but agree with it all.

Who puts on airs is not counted a man

Well us Arilliacs drunks never cast the first stone - we're too p****d to see the stone in the first place! Airs and graces are non-existent to us, We just get on with what life is really about. And I don't want to be counted anyway.

I just tried to sleep after a totally enjoyable chatroom with Lynn and Colin. I hope I was enough to handle them both. Back up again, after about ten minutes in bed. I will be posting on the insomniacs thread soon.

Phil

[Mick and Jill]

Riggers bet I make a fool of myself and introduce myself to lots of tourists thinking its you but hey good way to meet people ha ha