Adventure Island, Southend.
Amongst the roller coasters and the crazy golf and the like, Adventure Island still has one of the old fashioned Arcades. The type with Crane Toys and Fruit Machines and those things where you drop a 2p piece onto a moving ledge and if you are very lucky you get a pocket full of more 2p pieces back to weigh you down for the rest of the day. And at the back of that arcade, they still have one of those sea front bingo things, where you all sit in a line marking off numbers in the hope of winning that dusty and immovable Cathode Ray Tube TV that has been there since 1976. So after a day of riding rides and eating at the 'eats' stand, I decided I'd have a few games of the old bingo, just to see what it is like in reality. I sat down and looked at the person next to me. Unbelievably, it was Hugh Laurie.

Ironically, he never won a game.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 20:22, 12 replies)

Why is that ironic?

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 20:51, closed)

...waiting...

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 20:54, closed)

Bingo!

No?
(jono_h, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 22:27, closed)

House
or not
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 22:32, closed)

bingo

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 10 Jun 2011, 23:44, closed)

oooh
Can I pick something from the top shelf please?
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 0:33, closed)

House.....Oh that's clever!
Hugh Laurie playing bingo sounds about as unlikely as his pal Stephen Fry having a pint in a working men's club doesn't it?
(Mackeson_drinker, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 7:14, closed)

I dunno
From what I hear Mr. Fry is quite a fan of working men's clubs.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 8:18, closed)

I know it's clever
that's why I wrote the whole thing in the first place...gah...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 8:35, closed)

nooo
I mean what insomniac-surfer said "House"
(Mackeson_drinker, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:49, closed)

but THAT WAS MY JOKE
Once again I have surprised myself for being too subtle for B3ta.

FFS, I even put in 'unbelievably' as a nod to the fact that it wasn't true...
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 11:20, closed)

I am unreasonably annoyed
by the fact you didn't get that.

I am leaning to the thought that this is my problem, not yours.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 11:23, closed)