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This is Sherlock Manatee
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/sherlock.jpg
He was eb's great-grandfather!

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

oooh, underwater pipe smoking, now that is clever.

He could smoke underwater and he could also float around on dry ground, meaning he wouldn't have to always use his underwater smoking skills! What a great manatee.

surely his hat would just float to the surface

Sorry to interupt your very important topic but is it really windy everywhere or just in sparcells?
I think my house is about to blow away and it just woke up my son who is now in my bed!

it is also windy here in old town, my bathroom door is creaking because my bathroom is single glazed.

Yeah it is here. I had to shut my window so it didn't blow away again. My room is going to smell of smoke.

If only Sherlock Manatee was still here, he'd be able to solve the mystery of the very windy night.

the power of suction.

Which means my bloke is drunk cos he said there is no wind there. Bugger.
I dont like the wind.
Back to the sea cow... why is he so special?

Well, he's the original manatee detective. That's pretty special.

i love eb <3

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/manatee.gif
eb loves you to sonic.

it's time for some interactive drinking - should i open the Campo Lagaza 2005 Tempranillo or the E&J Gallo Sycamore Canyon 2005 Cab Sauv ?

tough choice.

have both at once, cocktail styleee

Open the Tempranillo.

Cant you go with a plain old lager?
I drank my first bottle of wine a couple of months back... Mateus rose? It was beautiful and a totally different drunk feeling! Then i tried another rose and it was gross. So i didnt do it again.

all rose is terrible - especially that portuguese matteus stuff.

tempranillo is nice.

i drink lager too, just not all that often.

I remember Sherlock Manatee, that was all that was happening in England at the time, people would commit naughty crimes and Sherlock would solve them. At around the same time across the pond Manatee the Kid was causing a bit of a stir in Lincoln County.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/frankenheld/mantee.jpg

God I'm bored

:D  :D

this is brilliant

just noticed you posted something without the m word in, suggest you edit it.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/sherlock.jpg

eb used to here stories about manatee the kid when he a young manatee. They aren't related though.

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/im-in-ur-football-club-findin-da-clues.jpg

eb doesn't mind.

eb's amazing, he always seems to have the right facial expression whatever is going on. He looks well determined there sonic.

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/eb-official-mascot-of-thetownendcom.jpg

i may put this on the frontpage

just for even-ness - the lesser-stubbled ginger manatee makes an appearance:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/axs0/gingermanatee.jpg

it's spelt "eb"

and pronounced "eb"

Just in case anyone is confused.

as in rhymes with ed?

no, it's spelt raymond luxury-yacht but it's pronounced throat-wobbler mangrove.

It's a shame about the lesser-stubbled ginger manatees, the manatees tried to save their lesser brothers; but couldn't stop them dying from their own stupidity.

RIP The Lesser-Stubbled Ginger Manatees... Rest In Peace.

look what you've done ben

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/eb-say-fb-no-likey-manatee-eb-sad-manatee.jpg

That's not eb! That's an imposter.

watch out, it's eb's arch nemesis - the diamanatee!

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/axs0/diamanatee.jpg

he came to me for comfort because you cruelly rejected his sexual advances

where's flo?

Lies! I would never reject eb's sexual advances.

It's a shame we can't do what Watford did a few years back and have a manatee as our chairman. Here he is with manatee furnish.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/frankenheld/eltonmanateee.jpg

that picture makes manatee elton look like he has a pair of bollocks by his eyebrows.

and thats not a phrase i use lightly.

 or often.

i should spend more evenings like this, eating brie and crackers drinking wine and drawing ginger hair on sea mammals.

this might be the greatest music video ever...

http://www.omahabitch.com/

This is turning into manatee madness

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/manatee.gif

eb approves.

Don't worry I use that phrase lightly and ALL the time.

I don't know what you mean though, I can't see any bollocks. Unless your bollocks are star-shaped?  :o

If you use "wrath of the manatee" in the title you must prepare your self for manatee madness.

If that means eating giant green spiders whole then so be it.

http://www.jeffsweather.com/archives/Manatee.jpg

hahah, just seen the pair of bollocks! hahah a gay must've designed those glasses.

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/axs0/eltonmanateee.jpg

Ben just sent me this



http://hornymanatee.com/1.jpg

is that his dogging 'branch-out' suit?

8)  Yeah, good spot!

They suit Elton

http://www.savethemanatee.org/adoptpag.htm

we should adopt one and call it eb - the real life TEF mascot.

the ginger manatee lives!! (5th one down!)

http://www.savethemanatee.org/adopt_tampa_bay.htm

That's Lord Manatee III

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/madness.jpg

His is a sad tale, of lonely manatee madness.

Good site that is. Good value for money and some great camera angles

chaps.

we need to spread the manatee.

let eb roam free.

across the land of thetownend......................................

we also need an eb avatar for us all to use. i shall get to work

we should probably have a song or a rival forum.

jesus, did you all go to bed or are you all photoshopping manatees?

eb approves of your plan of attack sonic. I will also work on an avatar.

the avatars are in place.

oi!! why am i number 3? i feel very far down the food chain, unless there's a number 4, in which case i don't mind.

it goes ben, me, you, karlsruhe red, si pie.

ok, i'm happy with that.

i can be a stroppy manatee at times.

hahaha the avatar is quality!

eb is ace

shit, i just inhaled some wine, i just coughed up a kidney or two.

hey. i want one

you need to prove yourself to be a true fan of eb

and i get final say.

you mods have too much power.

i know ebs great grand father, what people dont know is he caused the destruction of hiroshima

http://digitalretrograde.com/Photos/manatee26js_small.jpg

seems worthy of a number 6.

that's plenty good. eb's making manatee noises in agreement.

yer in son

he was a bit of a piss head tho so who knows

the man is indeed worthy.

Yes, eb's great grandfather was quite the trouble maker. I remember the infamous photograph taken in Moscow in 1912 of him scaring the living shit out of the human population of the City by strolling down the high street in broad daylight!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/frankenheld/1912man.jpg

ace...

Here is darth manatee, he shall plan our attack

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/jedimanatee.gif

what are we attacking, just out of curiosity? i don't really mind, i'm fairly indiscriminate.

eb's gone off in a strop, so i can't ask him.

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/u-has-no-sea-grass-eb-sad-manatee.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/jedimanatee.gif

"We shall invade the new shiny thisisstfc forum!"

i've got some pacific reggae reggae sauce?

that'll do, but make it quick.

sadly the new adver forum doesn't allow pictures or even urls.

i take it you just tried then, eb fan #2?

eb told me.

that's my excuse for everything ever now.

'why did you do that'

'eb told me to.'

'who's eb?'

'King of the Manatees'

apparently eb told hitler to kill the jews. he's got a mischievous streak that manatee, but he's so cute

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/jedimanatee.gif

"The new thisis forum is worthless, let's just chill for a bit"

a jew stole my pipe and hat. end of.

verdammte Juden!

Heard that before somewhere  :|

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/fuk-u-lookin-at-diked-git-ya-rat-oot.jpg

turns out you were almost right, apart from the 'at once' thing.

more like 'simultaneously in a row'

watch out, bristolian manatees are about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNi8dzj0S8

that is ace

my nose still fucking hurts.

That is some of the coolest 'cruising' I've ever seen. Must've just seen the Still D.R.E. video and the coolness rubbed off on him.

That saddens me  :cry:

alas, perfect near-vision is not one of the manatees strong points, unlike plotting the downfall of all who betray him.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/jedimanatee.gif

"Let's invade the trust forum, nobody reads it, it shall take 5 mins"

MANATEES, DEPLOY!

i'm not registered!!! come back you cunts!

can I be eb fan #7? What do I have to do to prove my manatee-worthiness?

FB, you've only made 2 posts on that site, and they were bith pics of eb.

that's a 100% record.

you have to do some research into manatee history or culture and give photographic evidence. Or just praise eb over a couple of threads. eb has appointed Sonic as a manatee disciple. He'll decide.

you have to post a pro-manatee picture. and buy sonic a lemonade.

you are not yet worthy hans.

Join in then! Or are you questioning your own manatee beliefs?

http://www.manateelovesociety.com/art/manatee_logo-purple.jpg

i'm not registered on the forum, even though i'm a trust member, it seems a little used forum. i can view it but not post.

ok, that'll, do. sonic, do the honours with his avatar.

woot

it's not official until eb says so.

Do you they have to accept you to get on?

i assume there's a social ritual of some sort

Sonic's done a runner, leaving me to post on the trust forum alone. What a loser.

Do I not get to be an eb fan all because Sonic's gone to bed? Boo.

i second the manatee stadium, it would be ace.

where are we spreading the manatee love?

you could just photoshop our avatars to a number 7 and change yours to the picture.

but that would be cheating, and just a bit gay

generally over female manatees, but whatever takes your fancy.

I'll take whatever I can get to be honest

thats what i heard. spacey told me.

sorry i was reading someething on another forum about some mental woman who told everyone her husband was shot.

try again hans

there's another forum? Wish someone had told me before I wasted all my time posting on here!

http://img132.exs.cx/img132/2908/manatee.jpg

Could've been worse, could've been going around telling everyone a manatee had been shot

\ :D /

That's excellent. What's it all about though? I like the way you've included the manatee's favourite coffee break drink, the power steering fluid.

We've been spreading the manatee to the trust forums, apparently I'm the only one who can get in. I think Sonic can but he's being lame.

I've thrown a couple of manatees in the mix on there. Never registered before.

To be honest, I just searched for Manatee on Google Images and that's one that came up. I'll have a go creating a Phil The Power Taylor Manatee. Cos that'd be ace

our work is done.

perhaps we should find a non-stfc related site to decimate with our manatee powers?

actually, manatees are peaceful herbivores. shouldn't we just be crusing around  making odd noises, not destroying things?

i saw that, good efforts.

Just found out some bastard from the olden times was a bit like Manatee the Kid, he went by the name of Billy the Kid. Bastard humans always copying manatees.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e389/frankenheld/mantee.jpghttp://www.nndb.com/people/113/000108786/billy-the-kid-1-sized.jpg

Manatees like to be peaceful, however, they don't mind letting their appearance be known to others.

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v74/163/110/598781533/n598781533_161819_8681.jpg

good point ben. eb would approve of this peaceful approach.

anyway, we've posted more manatee stuff on the trust forum than there has been normal posts on there in a week, so let us leave it.

i suggest we call it a night and focus our efforts on tomorrow or the next mission; i shall scout some forums which are in desperate need of manatee

the reach spreads far, comrades.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5126631#post5126631

that's ace

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/jedimanatee.gif

Darth manatee agrees, the Loud and Gay forums are always available to be manateed. I'll try and work out how to get on.

What's the picture? I can't see unless I'm logged in?

guess

which manatee is it? is it eb?

I reckon it might be a manatee. Just wondered if it was an even more special type of the already extremely special species that is the manatee

time for rest comrades.

when we are succesful on a global scale we shall use swim free in the blood of the infidels.

of course, these other manatees are just mere subjects of HRM eb.

i wish i was eb, he's amazing, an inspiration to us all.

And now ends tonight's manatee action. eb says goodnight.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/manatee.gif

goodnight eb, rest well my liege.

night eb! We'll continue to spread the manatee-based love in your absence

nah, I reckon it's game over on that manatee madness till tomorrow, you don't want to end up like Lord Manatee III

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/madness.jpg

what with all the reggae reggae spiders and all.

true. Off to bed now then. More Manatee related shenanighans tomorrow

aye, night all.

as I said, the story of Lord Manatee III is a sad one.

you're both going to bed? what the fuck am I going to do?

Guten Nacht Armee

I thought tonight was officially over? As a manatee-underling, I was going to bed as told.

tonight is over for the manatees. They have to sleep you know.

eb is allowing non-manatee related topics to continue in the general discussion section, but nowhere else.

better start talking about something else then. Went to our work "summer party" today. Pissed it down, so we had to stay inside. Then at 8 they announced they were closing the bar and we all had to go to a "marquee" (tent) over the other side. Then to cap things off they had some shit band on doing crap music and trying to make people do country dancing. Oh dear oh dear. Thank the Lord for alcohol

Sounds like a great night.

I've done fuck all today. Got work tomorrow so it's sort of the end of my weekend. Which sucks a bit. Still going to try and get Saturday off so I can pub it with the rest of the tef bad boys.

I've got work tomorrow, but planning on doing fuck all as it's the day after the summer do and everyone will be hung over. Got to organize the work darts tournament at some point but that's about it

I don't start until 6pm tomorrow so it's easy days.

Well until 6pm anyway, won't finish until mignight and then I'll go to the vic for a few hours. I might have to work out some automated townend message at around 11pm, to make sure the manatee peaceful invasion restarts.

We're on "flexitime" so I don't have to be in until about 10. Might still struggle given I'm still here and watching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Smooth as ice, cold to the touch....

What did you think of the Man to Man with Dean Learner show?

I reckoned it was ace on and off, when he did that apprentice style show called "The Learner" I laughed, lots.

I didn't see much of that. Is it on UKNova or similar?

probably, you can look for yourself though. I'm lazy. You know that thanks to bwb, there's a townend login for uknova? If you don't have one and it's closed for new membership again.

I know that logon. I was being lazy too. I'll have a look now.

Nowt. Although there is apparently a mega box-set coming out soon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garth-Marenghi-Man-Dean-Learner/dp/B000S398O8/ref=sr_1_2/202-7018655-9324635?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1183689900&sr=1-2

are you in diehard 4.0 hans?

don't know - I've not seen it yet.

This manatee shit is fucking crazy  :D

Don't you mean this manatee craziness is fucking shit?

That's what I meant to say but it came out all wrong

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0720661320100107?type=marketsNews (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0720661320100107?type=marketsNews)

Don't ask how or why I stumbled across this, please...

How or why did you stumble across that TT?

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that article would be a million times better with a picture

Here you go:

[url width=400 height=262]http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2010/01/11/45M1444-01-florida-manatee.jpg[/url]

There was a thing on the radio the other day about iguanas hibernating in trees in Florida. Apparently when the temperature dips below a certain level, they automatically hibernate. But not being very used to it, they aren't very good at it, so they just fall asleep where they are. Which is usually in a tree. Which they promptly fall out of. Apparently there has been a spate of people being hurt by hibernating iguanas falling out of trees onto them. It made oi larrff

Apparently the buggers can be up to five feet long!

Story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6947254/Kamikaze-iguanas-fall-from-Floridas-frozen-trees.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6947254/Kamikaze-iguanas-fall-from-Floridas-frozen-trees.html)

I like this bit: "I knew of a gentleman who was collecting them off the street and throwing them in the back of his station wagon, and all of a sudden these things are coming alive, crawling on his back and almost causing a wreck."

And a pretty picture of an iguana for R4E:

[url width=460 height=288]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01555/iguanas_1555070c.jpg[/url]