Dean
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Post by Dean on Feb 6, 2005 5:34:53 GMT -5
I remember during the development of the Snes stuff we were doing we'd usually do one or two all nighters each week. This usually consisted of the same group of people at work. The evening would start off with a quick pint or three at the Pig and Porcupine, then off for some scran at Pizza Hut or the Dutch Pancake house, then off to the Odeon if there was owt decent playing, a quick dive into the arcade next to McDonalds and then back to work for some sessions playing Bombliss or Puyo Puyo. Ah, fond memories indeed
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Post by John Lomax on Feb 6, 2005 10:53:58 GMT -5
Dean,
We remember your all nighters, we didnt have to ask if you done one as the place still smelt of your feet the next day ;D
- John
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Dean
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Post by Dean on Feb 6, 2005 11:02:52 GMT -5
Nah,
That foul smell your remembering is the stench of Don McDermott's cycle shorts placed over the fan wafting across your room.
I remember walking in one day to find the other 8 people who worked in that room refusing to go in because Don was drying his sweat soaked kecks after his bike ride into work.
Nasty !
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Post by John Lomax on Feb 6, 2005 11:09:43 GMT -5
Haha, Id forgotten about that. I remember pete burrows when he used to take a shit, filling the bog up with toilet paper so his log didnt go underwater (it maximised the smell apparently) and then constantly turning the hand drier on so the toliet was like a sauna of shit. Hed wait by the door until someone went in. Poor colin, it nearly knocked him out. - John
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Post by Allan Shortt on Feb 10, 2005 6:02:05 GMT -5
Done loads of these, the main ones I can think of is when at No.1 central street across from the main building and above a Fag club, that thumpin muzic Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 10, 2005 6:49:12 GMT -5
LMFAO ;D
Worst was definitely in Quaker basement. Hearing creaking noises from the crypt in the wee small hours. Not to mention waking up on the floor covered in ants!
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Post by Gary on Feb 10, 2005 7:04:22 GMT -5
Luxury!!!!
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Post by Paulie on Feb 10, 2005 8:05:20 GMT -5
...but those Quakers were so understanding - especially about us using their bogs at 3am - didn't they brick up the fire door that led to the bogs one day (or did I dream it?)
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 10, 2005 8:08:35 GMT -5
I went to the downstairs toilets there and on the way found myself in the middle of an AA meeting.
Hi, my name is Bill and I'm - going for a pish!
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Post by Gary on Feb 10, 2005 8:32:44 GMT -5
I went to the downstairs toilets there and on the way found myself in the middle of an AA meeting. That's where I did most of the recruiting!!! (The AA meeting, I mean.. not the toilets!)
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Post by johnnyboy on Feb 10, 2005 9:09:55 GMT -5
If memory serves me correctly, the Quakers took exception to two of our very drunken staff taking two floozies through to their place of worship and contemplation. Mutterings of debauchery were much exaggerated - the mundane reality was that was the only place they could take a leak.
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Post by Paulie on Feb 10, 2005 10:49:05 GMT -5
Oh yes I remember "the incident"! C'mon - own up - one of ya is on here! ;D
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Brian
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Post by Brian on Feb 10, 2005 13:41:08 GMT -5
i believe this "incident" ended up preventing us from using the shower in the new offices accross the road from number 1 , for fear of us bringing skanks back to the office... nothing like doing an all nighter and having to go to the midland hotel just to get a shower even though there was one right there.....
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Post by JamesHiggins on Feb 10, 2005 16:42:06 GMT -5
It's all a little hazy now, but said incident might have been me... If I recall correctly the first time was when me and Andy Deakin brought some young ladies (mine was cute - andy's kinda skanky ) back to the office late at night; they did indeed stumble into some Quakers gathering and the inebriated state led them to frolic and cavort (more likely stagger and stumble) through the meeting before leaving. The exaggerated version (that I so wish was true) was that we were caught doin' it in the church. Gary gave me a bollockin' and made mutterings of firing etc... I'm not sure if that was the incident that led to the loss of access to the crypt toilets though... Because a year or so later I was caught again (this time with the introduction of that key-swipe thing) back at the office with Tim Welch and this time a real pair of skanks (Tim's was cuter - but only just). Apparently the Janitor heard a lot of noise. He then proceeded to tie-up the door so we couldn't get out... After much pushing and pulling (I'm talking about the door) we finally escaped; drunkenly oblivious to the damn key logger... Anway - Monday Gary called us in - me first I think - and gave me some looks of disapproval and next time go to a hotel. I think Tim was given a bit of a scare. This episode actually got much worse - and personally embarrassing, but that's enough of my murky past for now...
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Post by Bill Harbison on Feb 10, 2005 16:49:00 GMT -5
I don't want to bring up any potentially painfull memories but I seem to remember a young 'lady' coming to the building shouting outside the gates to see a member of staff because she was pregnant.
Probably wasn't though.
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