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Allan

Allan Report 12 Apr 2018 21:43

I don't honestly know how this thread surfaced again!

I did send a link via pm to another member but only so that member could read it, together with another thread which I completed a couple of years even earlier regarding a holiday saga :-D :-D.

Apart from Bob's post 'Woops' there is no indication of who released it from captivity :-D

Bob was certainly not the member I sent the link to, but he certainly contributed to the thread originally :-D :-D

GeordiePride

GeordiePride Report 12 Apr 2018 19:27

This was a great thread when it was first posted in 2014. :-) :-) :-) ;-)



GP

 Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 12 Apr 2018 16:55

Blisters is going to use the axe so watch your fingers..... :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 12 Apr 2018 15:02

:-D :-D You have to know that I need to check the date on these threads. I was halfway through before I realised that it was an oldie, but it still made me laugh especially the wrinkled elephant!!!

Caroline

Caroline Report 12 Apr 2018 15:01

:-S :-S

Allan

Allan Report 12 Apr 2018 14:55

Possibly, and we are all supposed to be fine upstanding citizens :-|

All I can say at the moment is don't let near an axe!!

Caroline

Caroline Report 12 Apr 2018 14:50

Oh that's right it's backwards aprons time isn't it

Allan

Allan Report 12 Apr 2018 14:36

I shall not roll up anything, even myself at the venue :-|

Caroline

Caroline Report 12 Apr 2018 14:17

Will you roll up the wrong trouser leg in protest??

Allan

Allan Report 12 Apr 2018 13:52

It's OK, I've saved it :-D

But speaking od Secret Societies, I'm livid!

I agreed to do a job for one of the local lodges and arranged to do a rehearsal this evening. I arrived early and the place was in darkness. So I waited until the normal time of opening..still no one, so I came home.

Not only had I wasted a couple of hours, I suspect that they may have gone to another Lodge who meet this evening. I also have my suspicions that said lodge may be doing the very job that I have been asked to do :-|

There will be ructions at the formal meeting next week!

Caroline

Caroline Report 12 Apr 2018 13:40

Tempting them little itchy fingers again......

Allan

Allan Report 12 Apr 2018 13:24

Well, four years on. Let's see if it survives :-D

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 12 Apr 2018 11:40

woops!

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 22 Jul 2014 09:48

:-D :-D :-D :-D

WELL DONE ALLAN!!!!

A VERY ENTERTAINING STORY- THANKS! :-) :-) :-)

Allan

Allan Report 22 Jul 2014 07:35

The following morning in another part of town, two women were sharing a coffee

Not literally sharing one cup with two straws, but sharing a coffee drinking experience.

"Ee, Madge, you're looking a bit flustered,"

"Oh, I am," replied Madge, "I found out last week that my Bert's a Blister!"

Madge's friend, Reeny, gave this some thought. "Not one of them secret society thingies?"

"Aye!" replied Madge. "Not only a blister, but a big blister. I were looking through his laptop case when I found some certificates."

"Which society?" asked Reeny

"'Ow, the bl**dy hell would I know? It's secret"

"But," she continued, "it explains where he goes most Wednesday nights, with 'is coat collar turned up and that furtive look"

Reeny chuckled, "And you thought 'e were sharing his dongle with 'er at number forty"

Madge gave her friend a quizzical look.

"No, I thought it were that floozy at number thirty five, but thanks for the tip!"

Both friends lapsed into amiable silence.

Eventually, Madge said "Whether it's women or some funny club, I don't care, just as long as I can 'ave me Wednesday nights to meself. These days e's all 'ands and 'alitosis."

"Just like my Norm" responded Reeny.

"Identical' said Madge, without thinking

It was Reeny's turn to give her friend a quizzical look.

There are some paths down which it is dangerous to wander (or even wonder) so, by unspoken mutual agreement, they diverted back to more safer roads

"Perhaps he just likes dressing up?" answered Reeny.

"Well, all he had to do was ask," responded Madge, "I've got plenty of old clothes 'e can 'ave"

Both women giggled.

"No, it's not really that," said Madge, "But as you know I do a bit of family history, and belong to a place called Genes Reunited, as does our Sharron. We often talk to each other on the site, usually on a Wednesday, when 'is Nibs' is either sharing a dongle, or a secret 'and shake"

Reeny nodded.

"Well, last Wednesday," continued Madge, "I 'ad a message from Sharron, saying that Shaun, 'er youngest, who's just started Kindy, was asked to describe an animal. 'E wanted to describe an elephant but didn't know what to say.

"So I sent a message saying, describe it as an old, fat, wrinkled, grey thing. I may have also mentioned the size of its trunk

"Well, I'll be blowed if the post wasn't reported!"

"What!" shrieked Reeny, full of righteous indignation on behalf of her friend.

"I know, I know, sad ain't it?. Stranger still, post were re-instated. But blow me down if last Wednesday night it wasn't reported again"

"No!" exclaimed Reeny

"Yeh," said Madge, so today I decided to go to the zoo and photograph the elephant and send an email to our Sharron with the description that I'd given on GR.

Well the strangest thing was, you know 'ow 'ot it was yesterday?"

Her friend nodded.

"When I got home, I saw this old, fat, wrinkled, grey thing in the garden

"At first, I thought that an elephant had escaped, and beaten me 'ome!

"Then I realised it was only my Bert, the big blister."

"'Ow could you tell?" queried Madge's friend.

Madge winked, and said, "the size of the trunk, Reeny, the size of the trunk! No comparison!"

And both women dissolved into paroxysms of hysterical laughter.


QED.

Allan

Allan Report 21 Jul 2014 09:17

So do, do, do

What you've done, done, done

Before.

Which I did do, and it wasn't reported :-S

I'm going to report myself on the grounds of inconsistency ;-) :-D :-D

I was about to complete the story when a marriage certificate I had sent off for arrived, and I've trying to make sense of it ever since :-|

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 21 Jul 2014 08:14

:-D :-D :-D @ Perse!!!!

Persephone

Persephone Report 21 Jul 2014 01:56

Is the Big Blister sitting in Mr Stephen's chair.. he is the only one allowed a big chair?

The cost of a new mat was ten pounds and to re varnish the floor 250 pounds... they had to strip the whole floor back and have a re do...

a re do is a bit like when a post is reported disappears and then comes back.. that is called a re do. It is not one you have done your self that is a do do.

do dos are not allowed because they will get reported again.

So the moral is do what you do do well.

Allan

Allan Report 20 Jul 2014 23:59

The Blisters shall burst forth on an unsuspecting world, spewing venom (and lymph) everywhere.

The tale is rapidly drawing to a conclusion

A bit like the Army recruit undergoing parachute training.

He asked the instructor what would happen if the 'chute failed to open who replied that that was jumping to a conclusion ;-) :-D

GeordiePride

GeordiePride Report 20 Jul 2014 23:34

Sanity has prevailed at last and all the blisters attending stand to attention to honour Big Blister by placing their left hand on their forehead and proclaiming he is the chosen one to lead us forward to into a world where RRr's are not allowed to menace or question our leader in any way ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D :-D :-D

GP