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Post by Brian Beuken on Mar 7, 2005 13:18:40 GMT -5
I promise I won't mention either Icon Design or Rastan Saga Brian... or hum the theme tune to Moonlighting. I have 6 original Ocean mugs... Outrageous offers will be considered. Icon ...Arrrghh Rastan...AAARGGHHHH I still have nightmares moonlighting??? nope if it was something really bad my mind has blocked it out
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Post by judasEZT on Mar 7, 2005 15:40:59 GMT -5
And who is TomLanigan??
Brian , maybe you can help to update some credits for WorldOfSpectrum site.
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Post by Brian Beuken on Mar 7, 2005 16:01:21 GMT -5
Tom Lanagan (can't remember the spelling) worked at Icon with me, he did the speccy version of rastan, I did tha amstrad. dunno what happend to him he dissapeared when Icon went tits.
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Post by judasEZT on Mar 7, 2005 16:10:45 GMT -5
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Post by Paulie on Mar 7, 2005 16:30:00 GMT -5
Howdy doody Brian - Ahhh Mr Stokes - that tale about you and him was as legendary as my tete-a-tete with the "jolly nice man"* that was Colin.
Wasn't the debarcle to do with calling Stokesy "bwana" (sp?) or something.
- Paulie. * this is a lie.
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Post by Gary on Mar 7, 2005 17:09:04 GMT -5
Welcome aboard, Brian.
Yes, Paul I think you're right. Mr S asked (told?) Brian to do something and he responded with a somewhat sarcastic 'Yes, Bwana'. Cue screams, rants, etc. Lo and behold....pshhhhft!... Mr Beuken has disappeared!
This was years before David Copperfield, too!
What's happened to the avatars, Bill?
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Post by Mark Jones Junior on Mar 7, 2005 17:33:05 GMT -5
Gary, Its the "iupload" site not this website. Mine seem to have disapeared too, hopefully, temporarily!
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Post by Brian Beuken on Mar 8, 2005 10:07:24 GMT -5
Welcome aboard, Brian. Yes, Paul I think you're right. Mr S asked (told?) Brian to do something and he responded with a somewhat sarcastic 'Yes, Bwana'. Cue screams, rants, etc. Lo and behold....pshhhhft!... Mr Beuken has disappeared! This was years before David Copperfield, too! Finally, after all these years I have closure on that...I never really understood why I got fired, I missed the part where Colin was ranting, must have left the room by then. Yup, I did call him "bwana", not so much sarcastcally, but in a casual passing remark sort of way as I went on to do what he'd asked. never though anything of it at the time. I remember being dead chuffed when my project was all done a few weeks(??) later and being called to see Colin (and you if I remember Gary) expecting to be thanked for all my efforts, told how much my work was appreciated and what my next project was!! Only to be told I'd not shown him enough respect, and mentioned the bwana remark..then I was out, dazed and confused....Bill Barna, Mike Webb, and I think Paul Owens, Col Gresty, Joffa and maybe a few others then took me out to get pissed..and it dawned on me I'd been fired...it was all very surreal, as Colin had made a big thing about bringing me down from Scotland to work there and was my bezzie mate...lol. I thought. It was all very surreal, I went home still in a daze, and even called you up a few months later to see if there was a job for me...lol you politley said no..remember? ...So it took me about 2 months to figure out my career at Ocean was over....then I went to Icon...doh!!!!
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Post by Simon Butler on Mar 8, 2005 10:35:46 GMT -5
Well as you obviously already know from personal experience Brian...and as I have mentioned elsewhere on this site...Mr Stokes was by far one of the most useless dwarves this industry has ever suffered...
But what goes around comes around as they say...and again, something I've mentioned elsewhere...rumour has it (God...let it be true) that the diminuative dimwit is now shelf stacking in some supermarket on the Wirral.
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Post by Brian Beuken on Mar 8, 2005 10:57:03 GMT -5
lol harsh as always simes Last I heard Col was woking as a sales manager or similar at a company in Bolton that sold some kind of advertising software..that was about 2 years ago now.
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2005 11:02:48 GMT -5
Actually, I can genuinely hold my hands up to this one - Yie Ar happened before I joined Ocean. If I was in Colin's office when he did the deed, it was purely as an observer - I imagine Mr S wanted a witness to his firing. It must have happened literally within days of me joining the company as I only had a very vague recollection of being there at the same time as you. In fact I recall Colin Gresty was only there a very short time while I was also. Bear in mind that I joined as a manager and therefore was reporting in to Colin in those early days, as he was a Director. If I had to refuse to have you back, then I was doing what I was told, I guess! Sorry, Brian!
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Post by Ringostarr on Mar 8, 2005 11:20:19 GMT -5
Wow all the remorse in the air prompts a thread.. Any more true-life Ocean confessions out there? Who would you like to apologise to 18 years or so later?
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Post by Gary on Mar 8, 2005 11:28:27 GMT -5
Funnily enough, I was thinking about this the other day, Lorraine.
I feel I owe an apology to Mick West.
Mick - I apologise for giving you 'Darkman' to do. A supreme waste of your talents and something I regretted for a long time.
Not that he'll ever read this, I suppose. But wanted to get it off my chest.
As for everything else - no apologies as je ne regrette rien!!!
Right, who's next???
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Post by Ringostarr on Mar 8, 2005 11:43:36 GMT -5
I guess I should apologise to Jon Woods for going to the casino one lunch time with two accomplices from upstairs, who shall remain nameless, and getting through a fair amount of petty cash! This was after persuading perpetrator number 2 that we were really good at it and would double the money.. then promptly lost it all on about two blackjack hands.
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Post by Brian Beuken on Mar 8, 2005 12:04:05 GMT -5
Actually, I can genuinely hold my hands up to this one - Yie Ar happened before I joined Ocean. If I was in Colin's office when he did the deed, it was purely as an observer - I imagine Mr S wanted a witness to his firing. It must have happened literally within days of me joining the company as I only had a very vague recollection of being there at the same time as you. In fact I recall Colin Gresty was only there a very short time while I was also. Bear in mind that I joined as a manager and therefore was reporting in to Colin in those early days, as he was a Director. If I had to refuse to have you back, then I was doing what I was told, I guess! Sorry, Brian! Yeah you were all shiny an new back then Gary, I remember you well all hair and grins you'd only jsut joined and were getting used to the team, who were getting used to the idea of a manager.....unknown then. Can't remember if Col Gresty got the boot before or after me, its very hazy,.....that piss up afterwards blurred a lot of my memory of the day. Its ok I totally understand...now...at the time it was just a bit odd, I'd done a good job and got fired...bit hard for a country bumpkin to make sense of. Looking back it was a bit daft making sarky remarks to the boss, but I never understood the danger or pissing him off when he was in a moody so I guess I got what was coming to me. At least I came back and settled down here, never looked back after that.
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