dirty derek

this is a story from 15 years ago... the "pogues story"

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OMG How do I do That? "It's easy" he said "just go and buy some candles, a bottle of Gin and a bottle of Vodka. Maybe some lemonade."

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Gabby was a legend. hard to understand, but such a warm and hospitable guy. Eventually I worked out he was asking me to OPEN UP THE PUB.

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It was Gabby, the manager, pissed out of his mind.

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Well one day, after a few weeks of acclimatisation, the phone rang in the kitchen upstairs. A kitchen that had no rats, mice or roaches.

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... Where was I?
Molly Malones was run by N. Irishmen. Guinness was everything. To open you'd hit the offy for vodka, gin and candles.

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Before I had the chance to complain about the 11pm closing every single person in the pub pulled out a block of Johnny Cash and got busy.

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So I was sat down to a monster skinful of Guinness. It was assumed I was cool as I was a friend of doink and browny.

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for newcomers to my twitting- I am telling a story about meeting the pogues in 1994. One line at a time. .. anyway,back to mollys

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and off we went to Molly Malone's pub in Newington Green to meet Gabby, the Irishman manager who was in love with 'Doink'.

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there were two girls I knew from melbourne living in a little room above the pub, so they hatched a plan to find me a bed for the night.....

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My ex met me at Gatwick and took me back to the pub she was living above."the stick and weasel"

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when I found out what the church was I hated her with hindsight and never trusted stunners again.

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so the 9.5 swede (between snores) thoroughly recommends a bar called "the church"

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11) the plane went into a holding pattern. awaiting 20 followers I guess

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10)..I wasn't prepared for the hotness transcending hatred that comes with having to clamber over someone for a pee or a smoke (yep, smoke)

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9) the next leg (abudabi-london) uplifted my spirits somewhat as i was seated next to my first Swede... and about 9.9 on the Bo-De Scale

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8) lesson learned - alws ask a stranger 41. BTW is it fuddy duddy to be extremely irritated by Wicked campers and their silly 'comments'?

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7) she said "I met 'd' on the plane from Bali and spent half the flight trying to pluck up the courage to ask him for a shag in the toilets"

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" you'll never guess what kushla (hot kiwi) said to me tonight......"

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7) this part was funny a year later when my irish housemate in London late one night said to me....."