Ace

Our continuing mission: to boldly drivel where no running publication has drivelled before.

Contents

• In this issue:
  • Latest News
  • Christmas Competition Revisited (Humbug!)
  • Readers’ Letters
• The previous online Ace.
• The one before that.
• The one before the one before that.
• The first online Ace.

Any articles on disk will be gratefully received.

Everything Cancelled

Liz Hurley, as confused as we are.

Pretty much everything is cancelled as a result of the Foot and Mouth thing.

Out here in the Ace Block, we don’t pretend to understand this; we just report the facts.

London Calling

When Pinto and Mouaziz set out to lower the course record, Ace will set out to lower the tone.

A swift update on events.

Rowed to London

Jeff Aston, as regulars will recall, ran and walked his slowest London in 2000. His preparation this year is much better. Jeff ran his 100th Gwent League, although he’s running his lowest mileage ever.

The new factor in his training is the rowing machine at the Village Gym. In aid of Comic Relief he pulled on a rope for 26.2 virtual miles: giving him his most accurately timed marathon ever in 3:15:05.1.

All swill that ends swill.

I’m sorry, this race is off.

Basil Fawlty always had his problems with hygiene regulations, but we didn’t expect the health inspectors to close us down.

Still and all, it happened, and every race in Wales is off. Andy Cleves can’t train in the Brecon Beacons, but football matches are still on. I’m sure this makes sense to someone.

Writing this feels like petulance, and I suppose it is. We’ve been grounded by forces beyond our control, where the response feels arbitrary and already out of date.

What do you mean there’s no red meat?

Victories in the Gwents

On the other hand, the premature end to the season means that our standings after Bridgend are the legacy of the 2000/2001 season.

Phil Cook won the Senior Men, and Wendy Edwards came 4th in the Senior Ladies.

Blather on that 40 mile track race thingy.

London Not Cancelled

London is definitely on. I could rant a little about one rule for rugby and small races, and another for football and big ones. But Sue Mott does it so much better. It’s near the end of the article.

Christmas Competition

No one bothered to enter our second compy either, so I give up.

All you had to do was give definitions for these terms in Kevin’s unique argot.

• Big horse (= woman)
• Gaps (= food: ’fills a gap’)
• Shape (also = woman)
• Yards (= ah, exercise)

In the unlikely event of anyone entering, and the unlikelier event of a tie, there was a tie-breaker: using your skill and cunning, you were asked to write a sentence of 20 words or fewer using at least three of the above words as Kevin would use them.

I felt the best solution was ’If that big horse was as fond of her yards as her gaps she’d be half a shape’ but no one tested this.

A selection of your letters

A real one, from Ramiro Anzola can be found here. NB Ramiro’s address and other details have changed, and are now as follows:

Ramiro Anzola
Av. San Bernabe 392, Casa 5
Col. San Jeronimo Lidice
CP 10200
Mexico, D.F.
Tel. +52 5 668 4331
Fax +52 5 681 1834

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