Quoted from MIL:Hey Dave and family . Hope you guys are safe and well over there with the recent events that have occurred .
All fine here in London Scotty. It's a disgrace that people do that shit. Just insane stuff. The British people are incredibly resilient, and they really do "keep calm and carry on".
In AOD news ...
Quoted from fosaisu:What, no pedometer shot?
Just for you. 
I reckon we have done 20km plus today as well. The phone has been off half the day. Yesterday I had it on flight mode for a while too.
Out of interest, once I mapped a route and worked out the KM travelled and found the iphone to be about 10% less than actual distance. That's using the standard "Health" app, I don't know if that uses GPS or steps or what.
rd
Quoted from PaulCoff:Dude... wtf? No pics of kebabs, yardie taxies, or English pubs?
Yardie Taxis would be the dodgiest bunch of dudes I've dealt with lol
Last time I was here, I went north two hours on the train to Stoke on Trent to see my soccer team Tottenham Hotspur play Stoke City.
The game was at 5pm Saturday night, so we thought we would get up there early, so we could have a look around the town. When we got there about midday, every shop was closed with roller doors pulled down over the store fronts.
We walked around for ages, looking for somewhere to eat. And everything was closed up tight. Eventually we found this tiny pub on a corner, and went in. There were about 10 rough dudes in there, and a dense cloud of stale smoke. I go up to the counter, and ask "can I order some food please"
"Not on a match day..."
"Ummm ... huh?"
"No food on a match day"
"Ahhh ... is there anywhere in the town we can get some food?"
"Not on a match day"
Total confusion kicks in ... "Ummm .. whys that?"
"All the opposition fans come to town and smash everything up. That's why everything is shuttered up"
F**king crazy!
He tells us to try this other pub around the corner, so we go there (this is me, Fiona and Danni who's about 9 at the time) and order some drinks. Can we see the food menu please?
"Never on a match day"
Haha!
So we sat there for a few hours, drinking and eating potato crisps which was the only food source in the whole town!
Then we had to get a taxi to get to the ground (it's a way out of town)
So we see a taxi sitting in a yard. I go up to the guy "can you take us to the football please?"
Gruff voice "you gotta see the gaffer...."
"Oh, where's the gaffer?"
"In the shed"
So we saunter like 10 feet over to this tiny portacom building, walk in the door ... and behind this desk is the splitting image of Danny Devito's character in Taxi. The tiny room is completely full of cigarette smoke, like a bad nightclub in the 80s.
"Ahhhh ... can we go to the football please?"
Danny picks up his microphone, and says click click "blah mutter mutter blah" click click "number 5"
We look at him through the dense haze, and say "oh, car number 5?"
"Number 5"
"Ahhhh ... ok..."
So we turn around, miraculously find the door handle through the smoke, and walk back outside. The exact same car was still sitting there, 10 feet away, and the same guy goes "football?"
Classic.
As far as pub photos, we have been to a few but AOD had to stay at home because I forgot it's ID. But it made it to the Comedy Store tonight.
rd
Dude , I love this stupid thread (positive)
Would love to see it in Amsterdam
Red light district !!
Take it into the Banana bar.
Quoted from rvdv:Dude , I love this stupid thread (positive)
Would love to see it in Amsterdam
Red light district !!
Take it into the Banana bar.
I'll give the AOD to you in LA next trip Robert, you can take it over there. 
rd
Going in August for 3 wk Europe trip, I be honored to continue to torch , I mean apron
Send it to me before
Banana bar , here we cum !!
Quoted from rotordave:Last time I was here, I went north two hours on the train to Stoke on Trent to see my soccer team Tottenham Hotspur play Stoke City.
Did you ever get to see a match at White Heart Lane?
Been following the Premiere League for a number of years now and I love the history of it all. There are teams there that have been in existence before certain states here in the US were even founded. Always been more of an underdog kind of guy and last year started following Bournemouth after they won promotion to the PL for the first time in their 120+ year history. Over the course of a few short years, they climbed up from League Two all the way to the PL. I watched a great documentary on that rise and was hooked. Got the kit and everything. The Cherries came in 9th this year! Absolutely outstanding! My next big trip I'm planning is to go see a home match this coming season. Already applying for my passport and looking at flights.
Quoted from Miguel351:Did you ever get to see a match at White Heart Lane?
No. Only been to England twice, first time I missed the White Hart Lane game so we went up to Stoke.
This time, we are only here for 5 nights and I missed out again.
Last weekend was the last ever game at White Hart Lane, they are building a new stadium next year.
rd
Quoted from rotordave:Last weekend was the last ever game at White Hart Lane, they are building a new stadium next year.
I know, that's why I was hoping you were able to go see it. At least you got to see the Spurs in person!
Today was the Retro Arcade Open in Copenhagen.
It was held at the Retro Arcade which also has huge slot car racing tracks.
The owner is a Pinsider, CigaretteMan. He owns about 95 pins from classic SS Ballys through to new Sterns, plus a heap of driving games, slot cars and other assorted goodies.
Here he is signing the AOD!!
PS I made it to the semi finals today, I beat the French #2 player, the Japanese #1 player, but got knocked out by Finland #2 player. Dooooh.
PPS The website for Retro Arcade is http://retroarkaden.dk/indexgb.html
rd
IMG_6113 (resized).JPG
IMG_6112 (resized).JPG
IMG_6104 (resized).JPG
IMG_6109 (resized).JPG
Then, it went to Bakken, the worlds oldest amusement park. It opened in the 1500s!! Suck that, Disneyland!
Alas, it was so wet, AOD had to stay in the car ... but it felt the vibes.
Bakken had an arcade with a good line up of pins including a new BM66 and a BIB.
rd
Quoted from bangerjay:Any finger that ends up in any of your holes is a shock if uninvited
Indeed.
rd
Quoted from rotordave:First, it visited the Little Mermaid, the symbol of Copenhagen. Made famous in a Hans Christian Anderson story.
What's up with mermaids and Europe? Doesn't Warsaw, Poland have a famous mermaid too?
Quoted from PaulCoff:What's up with mermaids and Europe? Doesn't Warsaw, Poland have a famous mermaid too?
We have Mermaids in Auckland too!!
But it's a strip club. 
The original building had a huge tank in it and the ladies would swim around in it. True!
rd
Quoted from labnip:any updates?
The AOD has made it safely back to New Zealand ... its exhausted from the trip so it needs a little rest for a while before it does its next exciting odyssey...
rd
Where is the Apron of Destiny going today?
First correct answer gets a beer.
Hint: it is currently in Auckland. It will not be in New Zealand tonight....
rd
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/apron-of-destiny-v20/page/2 and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.
Northern California, CA
INK
Leduc, AB