Dr Gloom

i've yet to see a best man speech that hasn't used at least one gag ripped from the internet. you need an ice breaker to warm up the crowd before you get into the embarrasing stories. the trick is picking one that hasn't been over used.

anyone got a login for one of those best man speech sites? there was one posted in one of those old threads but it's expired now...

i think i'll steer clear of that kind of thing

...is a bit like being asked to make love to the queen. it's a great honour .... but no one wants to do it. i've just been asked to be a best man. it's the second time i've had the honour but the first time i've been asked to do it alone. last time there were three best men. it was quite cool actually as it took the pressure off a bit. anyway, .i've been to about 30 weddings over the last few years and when it comes to the speech, you hear loads of the same ice breakers, that people blatantly rip off the internet, again and again. i've lost count of the last time i heard the old classic "it's been an emotional day .... even the cake's in tiers". without wanting to use an old chestnut liek that, i'm quite up for ripping some decent one liners before i get into the main stories in the speech. what's the best ice breakers you've heard? any good gags out there to use at the top of the speech that haven't been done to death? thanks in advance.

You seem to be getting more Geordie in your advancing years Noelie. Id have thought getting squashed down the front with the lasses might not be a bad thing going on what you posted recently.

New cross is a bit rough but it's got the Amersham Arms - quality boozer

Completely agree. Anyone that doesn't share this view isn't a real supporter IMO.

I'm feeling surprisingly chipper for a Sunday night. Usually have the fear about work creeping at this stage. Nice weekend, good mix of seeing family, doing chores at new house and having a few drinks seeing mates on Saturday night.

Fit as a lop and even wearing joggers, trainers etc for work so looking the part as well The guy who is overseeing our program has u's down for 5 exercise sessions a week. That can be 3 gym visits, a long walk, a bike ride or 30 minutes using our home equipment etc. Definitely going to try and stick to the five sessions during the course. I was that hyped yesterday I wanted to go back to the Gym! All good stuff so far. nice one. it definitely gets the endorphins going doesn't it.

how you feeling today CT? keep it up! try to do another session no more than 48 hours after your last one if you can

it's friday, which is good. though tomorrow, i have to clean thick dust from my new house and paint walls.....not good.

so-called accountant tbh

aye, that's exactly when i went off them. when they started getting big in america and headlining festivals. they just went a bit too rocky for me. snob tastic tbh

beyond that period, calibre, marky, high contrast, zinc and marcus intalex were among my favourite djs. i got into what the chinstrokers call the more liquid sound after about 2000 when the mainstream turned into a weird blend of nu school jump up cheese. i think they call it clownstep these days ....total garbage and kind of coincided with me stopping buying tunes, playing out, getting older basically. of the new generation, d-bridge does some really interesting stuff these days - he used to be part of bad company. it's sort of half time dnb. hard to explain. not quite dubstep or dnb...somewhere inbetween but well worth checking out. technical beats and proper basslines.

yeah. it's got some belters on it. i loved that era. wind to 1.37 in on this one for that reese bassline. OMG Love that tune, G-Man.Two of my favourite jungle compilations are these two: http://www.discogs.c.../release/191884 & http://www.discogs.c.../release/195248 Who were your favourite DJs from back then? I'd have to go with those two above plus Ray Keith, Mickey Finn, Nicky Blackmarket, DJ SS, DJ Ron and (the also gorgeous) DJ Rap. of the classic party tune jump up djs, probably micky finn. i think andy c or dj hype were probably the best of that lot technically. andy c was quite young then but he blew up the scene pretty quick. his later sets turned to pure cheese but when he started out in the mid 90s he stood out because his mixing was just ridiculous, never dropped a beat, and double drops all over the shop. skibadee back then was just a stupidly good mc then as well, saw the two of them play together a fair bit over the years. skibba turned totally crap after a while too. i actually knew nicky blackmarket quite well funnily enough. i spent most of my early years in london hanging around blackmarket records. if you did your best to make friends with him (kiss his arse basically), he'd sort you out with all the latest white labels.

without a doubt. that's the album that turned my head away from indy guitar stuff. the rest is history. although the prodigy went on to bigger things, i don't think any of their following albums matched that hardcore sound of experience. not one bad track on it tbh

essential hardcore was one of the first cds i ever bought

love all that stuff mate. got them all on vinyl.

and for the jump up crew, here are some of my other old school faves. you need good bass on your speakers for these three http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PK36ZmJno

yeah. it's got some belters on it. i loved that era. wind to 1.37 in on this one for that reese bassline. OMG

ah, i love it. deserves to be on the list for metropolis alone. one of my favourite ever tunes. ....

Cheers mate. Can you put them in order? I know it's hard but needed for my puroses. Nice to see Goldie and 8o8 state in there. **Thought the roni size was over-hyped at the time. in order of preference. not sure i can. they all cover differnet periods of life. i think the ed rush and optical - wormhole - period was my favourite (around 1997) because i was at uni getting off my tits most weekends and discovering raving to dnb. there wasn't much of a dnb scene up in the north east when i was a bairn, my raving education was mainly at the shindig at the riverside or megadog nights at the unversity. moving to sheffield for uni and discovering dnb raves was something else - the energy levels, the darkness, the mcs - everything about them was different and exciting. it's been my favourite form of dance music ever since.

it's friday and i'm feeling darkside. grrrrrrrrr

for parky: my top 20 electronic albums, roughly in chronological order of me discovering them prodigy - experience the orb - adventures beyond the underworld ltk bukem (and crew) - logical progression guy called gerald - black secret technology orbital - the brown album 808 state: pacific state leftfield - leftism goldie - timeless st germain - boulevard roni size reprazent - new forms adam f - colours coldcut - journeys by dj massive attack - mezzanine ed rush and optical - wormhole mr scruff - keep it unreal 4 hero - two pages nightmares on wax - smokers delight high contrast - tough guys don't dance calibre - second sun chase and status - more than a lot i wanted to throw in entroducing by dj shadow too (a classic post club chill out album) but probably falls more under hip hop...

i don't think bukem was over rated. i used to love the good looking crew. when conrad starts spitting over the western it still sends shivers up the back of my spine, almost 20 years later. obvioulsy the production has moved on massively when you look at the calibre stuff i posted. the main thing that strikes me is how much faster new dnb is