17-07-2013, 11:37 AM
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More of my uncle Vivian's adventures.
NOT sure if this is the right place for this thread MOds, please advise.Uncle Vivian thought he was well adjusted and independent of the great mass of people existing in his day. Inwardly he was a reserved & shy man.
That said, the world wouldn’t let him in peace & he generally had to interact with all the common and vulgar masses who hung on his every word. He tired of al the inane & predictable reporters when it slipped out that he had an IQ of 226. As is commonplace with papers such as the GRAUNIAD, the reported IQ should have read 126 & not 226, they got it wrong.
His happiest period was between the wars at which time he ran an exotic animal & bird import business & at the same time an IRISH pub in the evenings, sometimes aunt Phythian helped but was often too busy with their 17 children. Not to mention the good ladies long haired Peruvian guinea pigs and angora rabbits.
Then in a flash of good fortune their niece Ida Snyder arrived to help out, this was after her 16th birthday. She had helped with the animal import business by training Chimpanzees for Brooke Bond Tea. Her constant companion was a rescued Woolly monkey named Brian, and a hamster called Harry which she kept in her pantaloons. Uncle Vivian was a bit confused, telling Aunt Phythian “That’s never a hamster” after he witnessed Ida Snyder doing cartwheels in her sheer untrammeled exuberance.
17-07-2013, 03:19 PM
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Re: More of my uncle Vivian's adventures.
Uncle Vivian reminds me of me when I was a young man, reserved and shy but can let himself go in the evenings, I can hear the shouts ringing in my ears as he rolls up his trouser legs to give the lads a reel in the pub, "Go on Viv me boyo, give it a lash!"
18-07-2013, 02:14 PM
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Re: More of my uncle Vivian's adventures.
We never had a hamster when we were kids, Momma dont allow, so I know little of the nature of the creatures, personally I'm not sorry we never had one, dont like the looks of them, like Basil Fawlty assumed, they resemble rats a bit too much, without wanting to offend the hamster club or whatever it's called, I never quite saw the appeal of the hamster, a hamster to me is just a 'Lucky Rat', who is allowed into the human home, whilst his unfortunate cousin will be demonised and hounded for all eternity, talk about racism.
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