I say that she's the owner of the pub Brian frequents and slips him a few free pints. Obviously a friendship that endure forever as long as the beer keeps flowing. Sue* ----- Original Message ----- > The guesses are probably better than the real answer. > > Had me in giggles this. > > Just pop over when the going gets tough luv, you know you're always welcome. > > Angela --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/25/2002

I guess that you, Jan and I will have to be content to just visit each other since we are the ones with this nasty habit. Sue* ----- Original Message ----- > another guilty one here ! > > Angela --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/25/2002

Just a wild guess, is your friend a mirror or your web cam? Sue S --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/24/2002

This is my guess. I think Brian has been to a dating agency and an old dolly has sent him her dolly bird photograph, taken in 1950, to match the one he sent of himself as a young blood in 1950. I am going to close down now and go to bed, heavily sedated, as I have a bad cold because of the rotten weather here. Angela - do you want a lodger? Gnite all Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

A blonde bombshell or is it just a bombshell ? Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamela Cotton" <pam@grocott-hall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian's friend > I want to hear some replies before I put you all out of your misery. I will > wait for some more guesses. So come on everyone, let's hear from you all. > It is so easy. Just give some thought to all the previous guesses and the > replies you got from myself and Brian. > > Pam.

What is? Smoking or agreeing with me? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 6:02 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Smokers and other things > I am afraid I must agree with Brian , Terrible ain't it. > > Jim Sharpe > Shaw, Oldham, UK --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

George ,my husband stopped smoking 3 months ago ,I stopped for 6 weeks and started again ,will be trying to stop again soon but with my Dads health problems it is difficult. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Elting" <justgeo1@attbi.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:33 PM Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] smokers > Being allergic to cigarette smoke does make it easier to enforce that rule, > but I'm also an ex-smoker... Quit in 1969 after smoking 3 packs a day... > Went cold turkey and haven't had one since... :) > > > Just another soggy Seattle Sysop.

I am afraid I must agree with Brian , Terrible ain't it. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: jan <janis.burns@ntlworld.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Smokers and other things > Thats good ! about you not preaching ,I just cant stop !!!!!!!! > > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian" <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 6:38 PM > Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Smokers and other things > > > > I used to smoke but never in the house and they always say there's no-one > > worse than a reformed smoker but I really do hate it. I think that is why > I > > found it SO EASY to pack it in, but I'm not preaching. > > > > I'm off to watch my favourite film now, Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews > > and Robert Preston. > > > > Brian > > Staffordshire, UK > > List Admin > > ARBLASTER-L@rootsweb.com > > BAGOT-L@rootsweb.com > > BRAMHALL-L@rootsweb.com > > KINNERSLEY-L@rootsweb.com > > GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com > > www.lordbramhall.co.uk > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "jan" <janis.burns@ntlworld.com> > > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 6:25 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] smokers > > > > > > > Gee Thanks Brian !!!!!! I am unfortunately a smoker , > > > I don't smoke in my own home so I wouldn't inflict my habit on anyone > else > > > in their home . > > > Jan > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Double your drive space - delete Windows! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I really don't believe you asked that, Jim. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! > Who was the dolly bird Brian. > > Jim Sharpe > Shaw, Oldham, UK --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

Who was the dolly bird Brian. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! > Brian has sent you a digital photo! > > You may pick it up at the following address: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2069-8060-49853 > > Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or > copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. > ____________________________________________________________ > > Brian writes: > NO MORE CLUES! > ____________________________________________________________ > > (Your photo will be available until Wednesday, June 05, 2002) > There is no charge for this service! > ************************************************************ > > SPECIAL COUPON OFFER (offer expires Sunday, May 26, 2002) > Save $3.00 on PhotoParade E-Mailer! Just $9.99... click below: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/coupon.asp?code=EZ-EMAIL2 > > PhotoParade E-Mailer makes mailing digital photos easy. > * Send photos without messy e-mail attachments! > * Automatically resizes photos to fit on your screen. > * Photos can be seen in any web browser > > For more information about PhotoParade, visit us at > http://www.PhotoParade.com/ > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > When there's a will, I want to be in it. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

How to win friends and influence people eh Brian. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:53 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] My neighbour > My neighbour has fallen out with me. He returned the screwdriver he > borrowed and [not smoking] walked in as though he was a friend rather than a > detested weirdo. "What are you doing", he asked. I replied, "Whatever it > is it is no concern of yours and please don't think that because you > borrowed a screwdriver that makes us friends. Now, if you will excuse me, I > am busy and need to get on". > > This is the neighbour with wardrobes full of women's dresses, etc. > > Makes me shudder. > > Pam knows my feelings about these perverts. > > Where are you, Pam? Still asleep? > > Brian > Staffordshire, UK > List Admin > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather, not > screaming, terrified, like his passengers. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

This is the link, George > > > > You may pick it up at the following address: > > > > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2069-8060-49853 > > > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I think he has been to a dating agency and this is his new bit of stuff, taken in about 1950 Marj > > > You may pick it up at the following address: > > > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2069-8060-49853 > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

HERE IT IS AGAIN > > > > Brian has sent you a digital photo! > > > > You may pick it up at the following address: > > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2069-8060-49853 > > > > Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or > > copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I want to hear some replies before I put you all out of your misery. I will wait for some more guesses. So come on everyone, let's hear from you all. It is so easy. Just give some thought to all the previous guesses and the replies you got from myself and Brian. Pam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian's friend Picture has been posted but a deathly silence has ensued. Come on guys, whaddya think? Come on Pam, spill the beans! Marj ----- Original Message ----- > > Marj will shortly post a picture for you all to look at and, if you go back > over all MY postings, you will have all the necessary clues. > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/2002

Sent it by the usual route - Brian has sent you a picture Marj > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

Picture has been posted but a deathly silence has ensued. Come on guys, whaddya think? Come on Pam, spill the beans! Marj ----- Original Message ----- > > Marj will shortly post a picture for you all to look at and, if you go back > over all MY postings, you will have all the necessary clues. > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

By 'eck. I like you, George! Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Elting" <justgeo1@attbi.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 7:18 PM Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] smokers > I've always had a rule that no one smokes in my house, ever. There is plenty > of space outdoors to do that and if you don't like standing in the cold, > don't smoke! > > > Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

We are now in the final stage of identifying my friend and the competition is open to all except Pam who has known the answer from the start and has been bursting her gusset wanting to tell. Marj will shortly post a picture for you all to look at and, if you go back over all MY postings, you will have all the necessary clues. For being such a good sport I will give the honours of divulging the final identity final to OWER PAM for being such a good sport. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

27 MAY Thought for the day : " When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one. " Spring Bank Holiday (UK) Memorial Day (USA) 1626: William II, Prince of Orange born. 1679: The Habeas Corpus Act, which demands that the prisoner must be brought before the courts, not unlawfully detained, was passed in Britain. 1703: Tsar Peter the Great proclaimed St Petersburg the new Russian capital. 1815: Birth of Sir Henry Parkes, Australian statesman, in England. He emigrated in 1839 and became a leading Sydney journalist and a member of the colonial parliament in 1884 before becoming Prime Minister from 1872, an office he held a number of times. 1818: Amelia (Jenks) Bloomer was born. This US woman’s rights campaigner designed, in 1849, the knee-length skirt and trousers called ‘bloomers’, as part of her attempts at dress reform. 1819: Julia Ward Howe was born, US suffragette who is best known for ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ (1861) sung to the tune of ‘John Brown’s Body’. 1833: Liverpool's Zoological Gardens opened at West Derby, thousands queued to see the gorilla. 1837: James Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickock, US frontiersman, sharpshooter and scout during the Civil War for the Union army. He became a US marshal and is credited with the deaths of a number of outlaws. 1851: The first Chess International Masters tournament was held in London and was won by Adolf Anderssen of Germany. 1878: ‘Demon bowler’ Frederick Spofforth of Australia took 11 wickets for 20 runs against the MCC. 1895: British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector. 1900: Belgium became the first country to elect a government by proportional representation. 1903: The Bishop of Sydney Australia, unveiled Memorial window of St Mary's, Birkenhead. 1905: Japan’s Admiral Togo led his fleet to a victory at Tsushima Straits, destroying 32 Russian vessels. Only three escaped. 1919: The first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic from New York to Lisbon arrived after 44 hours and several stops. 1921: After 84 years of British control, Afghánistán achieves sovereignty. 1923: Birth of Dr Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, in Germany. He emigrated to the US in 1938. He set up the visits of Nixon to both Russia and China and shared the Nobel Peace prize in 1973 with Le Duc Tho for helping to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War. 1930: Richard Drew invents masking tape. 1931: Auguste Piccard and Charles Kipfer reached the stratosphere (52,462 feet) in a special aluminium gondola before landing safely on an Austrian glacier. 1936: The first open prison in Britain was opened at New Hall, Yorkshire. 1936: The Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton via Cherbourg to New York. 1937: The world’s longest suspension bridge, the 4,200 ft Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, was opened. 1938 Bradman scores his 1000th cricket run of England season, earliest to do so. 1940 British & French continue evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo). 1941: The German battleship, Bismarck, was sunk by aircraft from the Ark Royal, and HMS Rodney, Prince of Wales and King George V. 1942: Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered. 1943: Born today, Cilla Black Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World) 1963: Jomo Kenyatta was elected Kenya’s first Prime Minister, and in 1974, Jacques Chirac became Premier of France. 1981: Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris France. 1985: Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. 1997: 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole. 1988: In Canada, a man was acquitted of murdering his mother after he said he had been sleepwalking when he drove 14 miles to her home, hit her with an iron bar and then stabbed her. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02