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• Uncle Jamie
• 12 Feb 2007 09:00

Do you want to pester Jamie? You can do so by leaving him a comment, and he'll get back to you right here in Waterfront. Any worries, problems or awkward questions, Jamie knows all and will tell all.

I know this might be a long shot and you may not be the person I am looking for (an old friend) but you do look a bit like him but older obviously, did you used to live in Fleetwood?
He has the same name as you: he used to have long straight dark hair like a rocker and those John Lennon type round glasses.
He was a nice guy and back then I was a bad girl. He was in love with me for years and watched my relationships screw up every time.
Anyway he was always there but I never gave him the time of day.
Eventually he got pissed off with seeing me with other people and I never saw him again.
I now find myself happy with a good boy, someone just like him which is so ironic. I have often wondered what he was up to: if he found love and all that stuff. It would be nice to see him again. Are you him?

No, but maybe we could start a campaign! "Are you Dear Jamie from Fleetwood? Get in touch your long lost bad girl needs you!"

But having said that I am known for being rather forgetful. Could it have been me?

Was I ever in Fleetwood for an extended period of time? Maybe it was me!

I tell you what, I will go home and check with my parents what the details of my life thus far have been and I will let you know the exact probability of me being your one time admirer.

Actually let's just hook up and go for a drink anyway.

With the Jedi ideology now recognised as a religion, what would you do if a fan of yours decided to form a religion (or maybe cult is the better word) in your honour?
And what ideals would you want to underpin the ideas which construct this religion?

A cult? In my honour? I'd be...er...honoured!
Everyone would have to like Star Trek... you could say that would be my prime directive!

Oh, and I'd get rid of double-meanings. It's not like I've memorised all of them, so how am I meant to avoid all of them?

For example, 'banging' is what you do to a drum - should that take your fancy - or a succession of loud noises.

When friends of mine didn't hear the loudspeakers going wrong in Diva's (now DV8) - because they went to the toilet - on their return I should have been able to let them know they'd "missed all the banging" without them choking on their drinks!

I mean really some people are bloody filthy aren't they?!

If you wrote one, what would your personal ad say?

FOR SALE. One Jamie unit. Common sense upgrade available, but never installed.
May go from silent mode to random babble without warning.
Failed Turning test. RSOH (Random Sense Of Humour).
Free to anyone up to the challenge. Accompanying laptop comes as standard.

What would you say to those in society who judge students, calling them dossers, spongers and a waste of time and energy?

Students are certainly not any of these things! It's really difficult for us to find time for a job, as most of our time is taken up with studying, but some superhuman students manage it!

There's nothing wrong with having a social life either, but I'm sure most students on campus would agree with me, two nights out a year is more than enough.

Is it physically possible to go out more often than this? If it is, I'll be genuinely shocked.

I did hear one of the guys in the office say that he had been out four nights consecutively and consumed extremely large quantities of alcoholic beverages on each evening.

But of course rather than considering him a 'dosser' I felt compelled to inform him of my everlasting respect for him.

I mean how many people can summon up the drive to study hard and play hard? I know I can't.

Would you describe yourself as a geek?

I'll use the dictionary to help me here.

- depreciative. any unsociable person obsessively devoted to a particular pursuit
I can't be unsociable, I don't talk to anyone. Also, I'm not obsessively devoted to any particular pursuit, because I'm obsessive about many things (plural) - sci-fi, computers, chess clubs, IQ puzzles, technogadgets - and they can't all be geekish, surely.

- A person, a fellow, esp. one who is regarded as foolish, offensive, worthless, etc.
Oi! Us geeks aren't foolish! Not that I'm a geek...or...anything...we've...er I mean they've just decided that brain is more important than brawn.

- geek, n. U.S. slang. A performer at a carnival or circus whose show consists of bizarre or grotesque acts, such as biting the head off a live animal

So I guess the answer is no! There we have it; conclusive proof that I'm not a geek! Live long and may you all prosper.

Until next time, keep on trekking!
Love Jamie x

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