Bizarre meeting with Palace fans

[Al From Bromley]

Ok, I'm not sure it's the right place on the BBS, and we may have done it before, but I like these sort of stories so much I'm starting it up.

We were on holiday in Ireland about 3 years ago - County Kerry - Valentia Island - pretty much the western most point of Ireland.

One day we decided to take a boat trip out to some rocks in the Atlantic called the Skelligs. It's about 9 miles out and takes about an hour and a half by boat.

The weather turned really bad and we all got a good soaking. People were sliding off their seats on this little boat and falling into the middle. Everyone was laughing nervously (I personally thought I was going to drown for a long time). Anyway, to try and take our minds off our impending doom we started talking to the couple opposite us. 8 people remember, in the middle of the Atlantic in the lashing rain - like a scene from the movie the Curel Sea but with a boat a hundred times smaller. Lo and behold, the bloke opposite turns out to be a Holmesdale season ticket holder from Penge. Block G or H I think. He literally sat/still sits maybe 30 yards away from me at Selhurst.

As Harry Hill would say "What are the chances of that happening - eh?"

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[Les Butler]

My wife and I went to Toronto to the CN Tower and we decided to climb the stairs all the way to the top.Half way up I saw this bloke who reminded me of Ken Dodd,then I Looked again and thought "nahh. 3/4,s of the way up I said to the wife "This is fun," You bet said my wife,Danielle.Lets climb higher."no,"I said,I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Danielle insisted. I said we didn't, and Danielle said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story or true.

[James]

Am I alone in thinking that Les Butler's inconsequential nonsense is worth the BBS admission price on its own? Wonderful idiocy.

James

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[Mat ov CPFC]

Les, thank you for proving that there is something funny in Canada.

My own tale fall's far short but here goes.

Several years ago I made the terrible mistake of taking my holiday in the UK and so we hired a 10 berth boat/elongated canoe ( between four of us ! ) for two weeks of fishing and drinking on the Norfolk broads.

Basically the holdiay was OK except for one evening when in the middle of deepest, darkest Norfolk we stumbled into a little pub expecting to find nothing other than lousy beer and even more proof that allowing Cousins to marry is not a good idea. Instead we where greeted with a bar, bedecked in Palace flags, pictures etc. Obviously we introduced ourselves to the Landlord as fellow Eagle'd and an excellent night ensued. ( so good in fact that I cannot remember the name of the pub ). His story was that he had been bought up in Norwood and had a successful business. All was going fine until he had the (mis)fortune to fall in love with a lady. Problem was she was married to a Shotgun wealding maniac and hence the need to schlep of to Carrot Cruncher land !

Ah well, it amused me ! http://cpfc.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Trust the Trust

[PalaceFan in Alabama]

Many years ago, I was waiting in New York (JFK) to board a flight to London and I walked to the window to look at the aircraft we were about to board and lo and be hold the aircraft was named "CRYSTAL PALACE" (PAN AM 747). There was a family standing next to me from Mitcham (the Father and Son where Palace supporters) we all had photos taken with the 747 in the background, but nobody took a photo showing the name of the fcuking aircraft. They sent me a photo of me standing in front of the fore mentioned aircraft, it could have been any aircraft and nobody I showed the photo to would believe me! That is my story, anyway who would make up such a stupid fcuking story?
I never saw that aircraft again, mind you PAN AM went belly up not long after!
There was the time I was on holiday in Koh Samui (Thailand). One of the local bars had Asian Sky TV and the Palace were on, so I go to see the game thinking I bet they will be surprised when I turn up in my Palace Top, think again; crest fallen I enter the bar to see several Palace shirts. What a great night was had by one and all, for the life of me I can't remember the result or who we played. One of the guys was from Purley, one from Brighton and the other one was from East Grinstead.
Crap not another "what a small world we live in", sometimes it is to fcuking small; no place to hide.

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[This message has been edited by PalaceFan in Alabama (edited 08 January 2000).]

[Martin Searle]

Last year I was standing in the Magic Kingdom in Disneyworld Florida (yes, I know lots of Brits go there) wearing a Palace cap, waiting for my family to emerge from the toilets, when a lady came up to me asking when I had bought the cap, as it hadn't been available at the last home game they had been to. Small world, as has been said.

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[tomario]

Many years ago, when I was on a sailing holiday of the west coast of Scotland, we stopped off on the island of Mull at its main town called Tobermorey. As it was 4pm in the a butchers around the town, naturally wearing my Palace top to impress the locals. To my surprise a local 10 year old local he approached me in a Palace top. I asked him why he was a Palace fan all the way up there, and he said he liked the name and supported Palace ever since.

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[Teaser]

I saw 2 Palace supporters on Holiday in October when I was in Australia - one in Sydney, and then the other while I was climbing Ayers Rock - see there are a few of us about !!



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[Chocky]

I met a proper Man U fan once. He came from Manchester and went home, away, reserve games and everything!!!!!!

Still a c*nt though.

[ammiller]

James,

You are not alone in delighting at the various Butlerisms posted. I for one..

1) When I see one of Les's posts, I have to make sure I have plenty of spare time to read it so as not to spoil the occasion and fully take in everything.

2) Am disapointed when I read a Butler post and find it is a normal, valid, sensible comment. The paranoia in me makes me read it over again several times in case I am wrong and have missed a message from a more surreal dimension.

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[northernsouler]

Re Les Butler and the frenchies in Quebec

How do we know that the Quebecois aren't seeking Independance from him.

Vive les rost-bifs

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[Chris K]

If I was to write how I met one of the fellow BBS members we'd probably get nicked, but it was certainly a surprise!

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And Ron Noades Mother is a Whore

[Les Butler]

So you know about the Quebecois and there history northensouler ?

A lot of people think that history is boring subject. Boring ? Is it " boring" that Gen Wolfe who beat the French in 1759 on the plains of Abraham (Not from Star Trek) once got stung on the nose by a bee and at first it did not seem like a big deal but it swelled up and got worse and worse so he went to the doctor's and the secretary told him to wait.

So he sat down and waited and waited,and then at last he finally got to see the doctor and the doctor said 'that's a big bee sting and Wolfe (I said not from Star Trek !) said 'yes it is and it hurts as well so the doctor put some ointment on his nose which kinda looked funny but he was Gen Wolfe so no one would dare take the piss !
You call that boring ?
Oh and he Wolfe was a Palace fan and he met with another one (Palace) there..Bonjour

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[TAK]

Thank you for that, Les.

Anyway sitting in a bar called the Heart of Darkness, (probably the best and most outrageous drinking establishment I have ever had the pleasure to enter) considerably worse for wear at about 2am. I can just about hear that the two people at the bar next me are talking football. Then comes the line " So come on, when have you ever seen Man U play apart from on Sky? " At this point I felt compelled to join in. To my joy it turned out that the other bloke was from Sydenham and was a Palace fan, sadly I can't remember his name due what followed in the rest of the evening. Oh and the Heart of Darkness is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.


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Stawb - That's OK

[Clapham Grand]

I was on holiday in the great USA last September, when I went into a small AMEX shop to get some dollars in Cambridge, Massachussets (spelt incorrectly?), home of Harvard.

Noticing I was an Englishman, the local giving me the currency enquired about my football loyalties, and I was amazed to hear that he had heard of Palace and knew of their plight!

Bad news does travel fast!

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