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The Bystander Magazine

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Did I Say That?
Simple statements, called Bystanders, recorded as uttered!
 

*’N**l L*nd*
When I sleep I read and drink.

Chr*s D*r*n
He storms into the lead, in joint first.

Ch*rl** Str*n*t*
Sorry, I’m on a completely different earth.

T*m Ph*ll*ps
I’d hate to sit at the top there. I don’t see how people can stand it.

Fr*nk C*ld*ch
It’s a huge century.

T*m N*wm*n-S*nd*rs
I was walking to school on the bus.

S*m Ph*ll*ps
How many are coming? I’ve no idea - about 80.

*ndr*w Th*mps*n
It will stop when the sun stops growing.

Cl*ff C*bb
In the afternoon next week there will be a Finnish evening.

S*m Ph*ll*ps
I have a mistake to make.

Ch*rl** Str*n*t*
Are all the six games in the semi-finals?

S*m Ph*ll*ps
Mix it with water - that’s how they make milk.

Ch*ps P
Someone planted an iceberg over there.

Chr*s C
They still haven’t taken away the army’s right to kill people.

Chr*s D
People would fall over backwards to teach First Aid.

J*v**r P
He drinks tea like a camel.

*d*m K
13? So how many does that now make?

M*rt*n T
It’s anonymous, and you can’t tell who it’s from.

J*HN C
My brother likes to be alone with his friends.

CH*D* O
Even if your head is chopped off you can still talk.

F*rg*l D
I’m not lost; I just don’t know where I am.

F*rg*l D
You can cook something without heating it.

Ch*ps P
The only other memorable matches involving Newcastle were the 4-3 thrillers with Liverpool, in which they both lost.

T*m P
There’s a hole in my tennis racquet.

Chr*s D*r*n
He could talk the legs of a hind donkey.

D*n**l C*rr*ll
He’s standing there like a sitting duck.

S*m*n D
There he was, making a living eating out of dustbins.

P*t K
He was a complete stranger he didn’t even know.

Ch*ps P
It was a building with glass windows.

Chr*s C
There are these hotplates for keeping things cool.

P*t N
I nearly drowned my fish.

Tr*st*n S
I’ve never broken a body in my bone.

M*tt W
I didn’t do the high ropes since I get claustrophobic.

N**l P
Let me put you in the background over this.

M**r* S
Do you eat cornflakes on your breakfast?

P*t K
I was nearly stopped by the police for carrying a pedestrian.

Cl*ff C
At Kelston we have been building up a library of books.

Chr*s C
Army boots
: you polish them until you can comb your hair in them.

*d*m F
The first ever football game for computer was Super Kick-off 2.

St*f*n H
The Big Bang has been around since I was at school.

M*rk F
I often write on my hand when I don’t have a pen.

R*ry L*st*n
He gave me a strange look with his teeth.

*l*v*r P*rn*ll
There was a forest fire on the beach.

P*t F
It should be written down for future prosperity.

Cl*ff C
He’s the second richest man in England, after the Queen.

Tr*st*n S
No-one’s ever heard of him, but he’s really famous.

C*l*m Mc*ndr*w
I am a master of all trades and a jack of none.

F*my *r*s*ny*
I know - he is coming to give a talk on the iron block.

J*v**r P
They were laughing each other’s heads off.

M*k* M
We could do an American film; you know...G’day, Bruce.

*d*m P
I think we scored most of our goals.

Cl*ff C
The tea lady goes round with a coffee machine.

J*s*ph M*rt*n*z
Then the clock struck 5.40.

D*m S
Is she the one who plays two pianos with one hand?

*d*m F
I had a dream ten minutes before I went to sleep.

M*k* M
Parents should be able to decide the age of their children.

D*nch* A
He works two evenings a day.

T*ny C
If I were going to Africa, I’d have my whole head shaved off.

F*l*x M
How often is Business Week published?

R*ch*rd T
The weather here is a bit intermittent.

N*ck K
Why not empty the tank to fit more of the cheaper petrol in?

N*ck M
Have you been in the loft? The one downstairs.

S*m*n D
There’ll be whole generations where there’s no one alive.

CH*PS P
It was £18 for a standing seat.

L*K* D
The pint glasses in Germany are huge!

J** M
It shows the right time; it’s just that it‘s one hour ahead.

M*ch**l M*ll*ngt*n
I have driven my dad’s steering wheel down the road.

J*m*s *pt*n
We should have brought some portable teabags to Spain.

S*M P
It was the same recipe but with different ingredients.

D*NCH* A
My brother read Lord of the Rings in 50 hours over 2 days.

D*M B
I was wearing bare feet.

St*ph*n T*msky
If you hadn’t taken away my plate I would have been able to eat it.

Chr*s D*r*n
Observe the noise of the birds.

D*m B
I didn’t listen to the questions; I just wrote down the answers...

M*rt*n T
The last time we won Euro 96 was...er...oops!

*ndr*w M
Which middle table?

Ch*rl** Str*n*t*
I was talking in the fourth person. Ch*ps Ph*ll*ps - Which tense is that?

Ch*ps Ph*ll*ps
The Superbowl was in Florida last year. D*m S*gn*r - No it wasn’t; it was in Miami.

Cl*ff C*bb
And there was a man with a blind dog.

J*nny P*rr*n*
You’re stereotyping typical music.

S*m Ph*ll*ps
’You’re looking pensive’. - No;I’m just thinking.

R*ry Wh*t*
Most things are inaudible when you hear them for the first time.

G**rg* T*lly
Would you ever admit to someone that you had committed suicide?

Cl*ff C*bb
He couln’t get a train because there were road works.

Fr*nk C*ld*ch
Have you read the wardrobe, the witch and the lion?

P**l D**p*r
MPs can’t speak until they’ve made their maiden speech..

Ch*rl** Str*n*t*
I can’t believe I’m hearing my ears.

J*n D*sbr*sl**s
Beethoven was deaf for the third half of his life.

***n M
In the Spanish Civil War they fought against France, didn’t they?

T*m P
I’ve got 50p made up of twenties.

J*hn C
Every time I go to sleep I always wake up.

D*r*gh M*lv*y
We had better go separately in pairs.

Chri*s D*r*n
He was a naval officer in the German army.

P*t*r D*m**n-Gr*nt
There is no direct connection between computer games and computers.

*l*x *h F*ng
My feelings are mutual.

J*r*my T*wn
Now it’s time for my one and only two tunes on the piano.

D*ll*s W*nds*r
I’m not giving any signed autographs.

M*ch**l G**rg*
It wasn’t me. It was him as well.

Ch*ps P
The top two in the league go down.

M*rk C
The Liberal Democrats have no experience of being a political party.

J*hn M
I pulled my socks all the way up to my ankles.

M*rc*s H*v*rk*mp
I found a can of empty lager.

M*ch**l G*bn*y
I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.

Ch*ps P
The top two in the league go down.

J*hn M
My brother bought his wife an engagement bracelet.

S*m P
You elbowed me with your shoulder.

S*m P
I don’t know if I broke my leg; I wasn’t there...

Cl*ff C
The little things still need to be in place - for instance, the walls...

*d*m F
In German pubs they sell beer.

D*m*n M**r*
But I was playing as a team!

*l*v*r P*rn*ll
He disappeared from nowhere!

Cl*ff C
I never realised the front wheel went all the way round.

P*t K
I am an ancestor of a king of Ireland.

L*k* D
I’ve done it. But it still needs to be thought up and typed.

P**l Sm*th
The pilot is always the last to abandon ship.

F*m* *r*s*ny*
Come on lads, there’s washing on going up.

T*m G
I just feel like a goldfish in a cage.

M*rk C
My brother and sister have mobile phones on a contract which costs £15 a month and gives you 50 hours of free calls each evening.

J** M
He’s just left ages ago.

Cl*ff C*bb
The written word is more influential than the visual word.

*d N*wm*n-S*nd*rs
When you are asleep you are a bit dozy.

D*r*gh M*lv*y
I keep laughing with my mouth open.

Cl*r*nc* T*m
He fell out of his parachute.

P*t*r D*m**n-Gr*nt
All you have said has been a packet of lies.

St*v*n G*np*tr*v
It’s illegible unless you read it in the right accent.

*ndr*w C
They offer you free meals - but you have to pay for the food.

W*ll**m M
I can cook toast and cereal.

S*m P
Is this a birth mark? I got it a few months ago.

M*ch**l D*c*st*
Reading is not difficult. You just add two and two together.

Cl*ff C*bb
I reached another landmine in my life today.

G*r*ld Q
What size feet do you take?

J*t* O
It is very cold here - even the sun is cold.

P**l B
It was all the colours of the alphabet.

T*m G
Nowadays most telegraph poles are underground.

J*v**r P
I wasn’t thinking - only talking.

 

Auntie Caroline

Former Kelstonians have paid for the renovation of the grave of Auntie Caroline in Morden Cemetery. Our fondly-remembered neighbour died on March 13th, 1986 at the age of 94. She did much for Kelston and was a good friend of St Josemaria. 

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THE EDITOR
The eBystander Magazine
 Dominic B

WELCOME TO
THE eBYSTANDER!

The eBystander is being produced by Kelston Club under the leadership of Dominic B, the editor (me). It is an online magazine, available on the Kelston web site. The Bystander magazine has been through quite a few issues now and had always been published and sold as a magazine. However, with the birth of the Kelston web site, a too tantalising opportunity presented itself to us. How about making the magazine online? The main idea behind this project was to substitute the original status of the Bystander magazine into an online format where the producers could constantly update new articles for the world’s surfers to enjoy. In doing this, we hope not to take too much away from what made the original Bystander issues so good.

Yours to enjoy, Dominic (Dome), Editor of the eBystander

Things You Wouldn't Know Without Movies

It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.

A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.

No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.

Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

If you are in the vicinity of a fire, there won't be an explosion until you start moving away.

When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.

An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

Youth Marketing
The Financial Times
Hard-nosed, easily bored, eager to be entertained, enthusiastic about brands but not the companies behind them. This is the face of a new breed of young European consumer dubbed The Reality Generation by research launched today.

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SIGNS

Toilet out of order:PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW

In a Laundrette:
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT

In a London department store:

BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS

In an office:

WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN

In an office:

AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD

Outside a secondhand shop:

WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?

Notice in health food shop window:

CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS

Spotted in a safari park:

ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR

Seen during a conference:

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR

Notice in a farmer's field:

THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.

On a repair shop door:

WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
 

Saturn -taken from the Kelston garden using Kelston’s Melchior telescope.

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SNAIL TALE

There were three snails and they all slid into a cafe. The father snail asked the waiter for three chocolate milkshakes. Before they were given the milkshakes the waiter gave them the bill.

The father snail went to take his wallet out when he discovered that he had left it at home. He told the baby snail to go home and fetch his wallet. So baby set out on his journey.

Two days later the father and mother snail were still waiting in the cafe for the baby snail to come back.

Finally, father snail said to mother snail, “Do you think we ought to drink baby snail’s milkshake before it goes off?” Then a little voice cried out nearby, “Hey, that’s not fair! I haven’t even got to the door yet!”
 

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Classified Ads
by Michael B & Jonathan P

FOR SALE
Pot Noodle. Only used once. £1 ono. Phone T. Esco 010342 879 467

FOR SALE
Unique collection of road signs: Brighton 25m; Brighton 15m; Brighton 10m; Brighton 5m; Welcome to Brighton. Phone Trevor 010256 348 567


WANTED
Experienced cat-burglar. Non-smoker preferred. Must have own car and alibi. Also must have good social skills. Meet Tristan in the Old Ship, Bethnal Green.


FOR SALE
1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Battersea Power Station. Phone Phoebe 069087 654 321

WANTED
Friend.


WANTED
Des O’Connor. Phone Marge 07076 678 3874


FOR SALE
1 small schoolboy. House-trained. Proficient in piano-tuning and origami. Speaks four languages (not English). Tel. 02007 678 5673


WANTED
Can anyone contribute to my collection of Pokemon cards? Missing Onix and Geodude (someone mugged me and stole them). Ring Tony at No 10.

WANTED
We are looking for out-going, ambitious and extrovert employees for a new and exciting venture. Contact Derek at Peckham Needlework Guild.


LOST
Invisibility Cloak


 

So How Clever Are You?

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them
instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?
Let's find out just how clever you really are.
Ready? GO! (scroll down)

First Question:
You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

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Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second! Try not to screw up in the next question.

To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question.

Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are........?

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Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?


You're not very good at this! Are you?

Third Question:
Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only.

Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.


Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another
1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?

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Did you get 5000?

The correct answer is actually 4100.


Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question right?

Fourth Question:
Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono.
What is the name of the fifth daughter?
Answer: Nunu?

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NO! Of course not.
Her name is Mary. Read the question again.


Okay, now the bonus round:

There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the
action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the
shopkeeper and the purchase is done.

Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how
should he express himself?

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He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple.
 

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Teenagers

Adolescence is the time in our lives when parents become most difficult.

You start to ask the questions you think no-one else has ever asked. You think you’re near the end, but as you turn the corner you see there’s such a long way to go.

When you’re a teenager, to most you’re just a child. But on the Internet you are judged on what you say and it is there that your true personality comes through.

I love being a teenager. You are trusted exactly the right amount, while protected from the harsh realities of responsibility.

My feelings and actions haven’t changed, only how I interpret them. As a child it was enough to just live, now I like to control my life.

The truth is that most of us are not miniature Eminems, who have a lust for rebellion and an attitude of not caring for anything but ourselves – most of us are pretty good guys.

Under that black hood and spots is actually a real person, with opinions, feelings and a life. This is the fulcrum where it is up to us to define who we are for the rest of our lives. Do we work hard and prepare for the future? Or do we live for the moment and not worry about what tomorrow brings?

Teenage years are the time when we realise that we are neither a beautiful and unique snowflake, nor just a small insignificant cog in the huge machine that is the earth. We are one among many but we have our own contribution to make.

Being a teenager is about finding our place in life, finding out who we are, what’s right and wrong. It’s all a learning curve. It’s just some of us get lost on the way.

Each and every one of us wants to be accepted for who we are, even if we are not sure of who we are yet.

Just remember that all teenagers want independence but it is the parents’ job to limit the amount they give us.

Although you are often underestimated in your intelligence, and over-estimated in your maturity, you see yourself as an adult, and strive to gain access to films you are not allowed to see.

In my view, all teenagers need is a purpose, something to fight against, and then we’re happy.

Teenagers have to strive to find a balance between acceptance and individuality, which takes much courage and sacrifice.

The Lesson of a Car Thief
John C & Andrew M

John was a car thief with a difference.

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I know he looks kinda respectable, but...

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Beneath the serious exterior...

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...there’s a real nutter!

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‘Look! No hands...’

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...’No Feet!’

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‘No hands nor feet!’

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John’s nutty approach to car theft usually involved him signing his name on the bonnet, while travelling at 60 mph! But this time something goes seriously wrong...

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‘Aaaargh!

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‘I’m nevva gonna nick anuvva car again, your ‘onour - ‘onest!’

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Generations
How can you still be here if...

Your baby cot was covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked?

You had no childproof lids on medicine?

When you rode your bike without a helmet?

When you rode in packs of 7 and wore your coats by the hood only?

You rode in cars with no seat belts or air bags?

You drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same?

You drank fizzy pop drink with sugar in it, but were never overweight because you were always outside playing with friends?

You would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out you forgot to make any brakes? After running into stinging nettles a few times you learned to solve the problem.

You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as you were back before it got dark? No one was able to reach you all day and no one minded.

You did not have Playstations or X-Boxes; no video games at all?

No 99 channels on TV, no videotape films, no surround sound, no mobile  phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms?

In fact...

You had friends - you went outside and found more of them.

You played conkers and sometimes that really hurt. But you went on with it.

You fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. You learnt not to do the same thing again.

You walked to friends’ homes. You also walked to school, and didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive you.

You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although you were told it would happen, you did not gouge many eyes out nor did the live stuff live inside you forever.

You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility; and learned how to deal with it all.
 

GAME REVIEW
Timespitters III - Future Perfect
Eamonn B

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TimeSplitters Future Perfect is the third in the series and, even though I have never played the other two, I would rate this one an excellent game. It has many details which you wouldn’t really think about in a war game, but they make the game that extra bit special; such as when you shoot water, the water splashes up. My brother said to me before we played the game that he heard from his friends that multiplayer was the best. But I thought after I had played quite a bit that one-player was better. timespittersfilmYou can do so many things on one-player, such as: Leagues, Mapmaker, Story, Playing a normal game (multiplayer but with no other people and some bots instead). Also, in one-player you can unlock a load of characters in the challenge mode. There are altogether 150 characters, although at the beginning you only have around about 30.

timespittersfilm6Every game has its glitches and this game is no exception, although there aren’t many (no where near as many as there are in Halo 2). The worst thing about the game, I think, is Co-operative (two-player). It has the most number of glitches compared to all the other modes. Overall the game has a great amount of weapons and you can also unlock cheats, which can be used for multiplayer. timespittersfilm (1)It looks like they haven’t spent too long on the cheats – though there are a few which are good to play with, such as slow-mo deaths. If you turn this cheat on then whenever you kill someone they have a really slow death, which means you can then kill them really stylishly, maki