The Beginning
I suppose it all started with cars. If anyone was going to get that call from the garage, forewarning that the simple, routine service had just turned into something horribly expensive, it was going to be me. Friends then noticed a pattern of events and so the name Unlucky Alf was born.
I say born. Plagiarised would be more honest. The name, of course, is taken from a character in the BBC comedy sketch show "The Fast Show" and it just seemed rather appropriate to them.
We're not talking about major tragedies or serious calamaties - there is an underlying sense of proportion in this blog - just a series of low level minor irritations. So after some prompting from this same group of friends I've decided, perhaps rather rashly, to commit them to a more permanent form. As various mishaps befall me I shall share them here for your entertainment and my ritual humiliation. I'll no doubt add other inconsequential ramblings as the mood takes me.
A small group of friends have been a party to most of these minor and irrelevant incidents. They may even appear in posts from time to time. Having originally all worked together we retain an email Forum communicating on a regular basis and where the latest Alfisms are disseminated. I know I can count on them to remind me of the embarrassing details I somehow forgot.
Time to access the archives, I suppose, and dig out the latest happenings in Alf World.
I say born. Plagiarised would be more honest. The name, of course, is taken from a character in the BBC comedy sketch show "The Fast Show" and it just seemed rather appropriate to them.
We're not talking about major tragedies or serious calamaties - there is an underlying sense of proportion in this blog - just a series of low level minor irritations. So after some prompting from this same group of friends I've decided, perhaps rather rashly, to commit them to a more permanent form. As various mishaps befall me I shall share them here for your entertainment and my ritual humiliation. I'll no doubt add other inconsequential ramblings as the mood takes me.
A small group of friends have been a party to most of these minor and irrelevant incidents. They may even appear in posts from time to time. Having originally all worked together we retain an email Forum communicating on a regular basis and where the latest Alfisms are disseminated. I know I can count on them to remind me of the embarrassing details I somehow forgot.
Time to access the archives, I suppose, and dig out the latest happenings in Alf World.
posted by Alf the Unlucky at 10:31 pm
13 Comments:
Can I post a comment yet?
Oh.
Unlucky my @rse, you bring it on yourself mate; take for instance this very first entry, the one along the lines of "if anyone was going to receive a call from the garage it would be me". That could of course apply anyone daft enough to buy a Rover.
Anyway skip that and get onto the "Girl with a One Track Mind" style ruminations, you know you want to ...
Actually you had better hurry up, I reckon the comments will quickly outweigh the blog, especially once "The Bushmeister" starts his dissertation on economics and indeed his wiki on how to install ChumbaWumba Linux on a fridge magnet.
Dr. Zep (whoever he may be) makes a good point.
I give it two weeks before we hear about tuppence licking and two days before we hear something about mudchannel mechanics.
By the way, this comment thing doesn't have a spell checker. I will make you pay for that.
You've got to tell 'em the one about the Lotus and "renting" it to some dodgy scousers. That one cracks me up every time. Actually, the subtitle of your blog should be "what could possibly go wrong..?"
I daresay I can take requests for the most humiliating Alfisms not yet published.
And the washing machine. That was class.
How about the one where you drove your car into a deceptively deep puddle and knackered the engine?
Buying a house which turned out to be sited on top of a subsiding swamp of excrement was pretty funny too.
The Great Escape will be next. I suppose the many woes of the Rover 220 will have to figure soon. You are making up the bit about the house.
I'd like to hear all those ones about the dog 5h1tt1ng, p1551ng and sicking all over the house.
...or even just the one about how you found an expensive solution to dealing with the dog 5h1t in the garden.
Of course, there are numerous computer related Alfisms. Go for it.
Alf Greatest Hits, just in time for Chrimbo, you could be onto a winner. So many to choose from though; The Great Escape is up there in the festive Top 10, gotta be.
Actually, re-reading the original blog, he's got that wrong as well; it all beginning with cars that is, unless he means clockwork ones (like the train).
No, the first Alfism I know of is the rabbit episode.
Have you told "Careful" about this blog BTW?
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