Tourney: Easter tourney in Rouen - 12.04.09

hehe typical

been MAAAAAD busy with work lately and only just getting round to this little story :-)

So on the Saturday night, a group of us went for dinner after the awesome day of throw-ins.
Myself, Emilie, Hassan, Dave H, Dale and Andy Lebowski found a really nice Italian place just behind where Joan Of Arc was burned to a crisp.
We eat, we drink and and as we do we notice somebody working in the restaurant… when he's noticed, we all kind of look at each other.
"It must be?" asks someone, "It totally is!" pipes up somebody else.
"We have to get a picture!" I pull out my phone and, for the next 10 minutes or so, try in vain to capture the person in question on film (so to speak). Everytime he comes within distance I snap, but everytime, the picture is blurred. Maybe I'm too far away? He starts moving chairs behind our table so Emilie takes my phone and tries but to no avail. A mystical blurred figure is all that's visible on the screen. Hassan grabs it and tries to do a kind of reverse snap as the guy walks past our table - nothing.

"He's like a fucking ninja!" I cry
"He's well trained in Lesson One of the Samurai 101." I add "Photo Avoidance!"
I call in the help of my Canon, surely we've got to be able to get evidence now?
I stand up, and with camera in hand face my companions. As by magic the 'ninja' appears beside me, he gestures for me to go over to the group and he'll take a picture. Brilliant! we can get him in the pic too. We all try to persuade him to stand with us, he's not having any of it.

After taking a picture, he's off again. Foiled!

It comes for us to pay the bill, this is our last chance. He comes over and we faff about with lots of Euros and change etc. and just as he's in the right position Emilie takes my camera, he fakes taking a picture of me and presses the shutter down. He looks at screen and smiles.

It was a really dark picture but with a little bit of potatoshop magic and he's there for all to see…

Yorgo Fucking Senior!

Just look at the resemblance! Same eyebrows and everyting!

I realise this is probably funnier for the people that were there (we were literally cracking up in the restaurant!) but thought it'd be fun to share.
Good times.

That's actually Yorgo. See, you all don't know but he's like 90yrs old! I guess he left his Yves Saint Laurent youth serum of longevity in London or somethin...
Thankfully he found some before the tourney though! (not that it helped the games any...)

Awesome write up slamm.
Like a fucking ninja.

Hahaha, still very funny for those of us who weren't there !

Top class.

hah! i'd forgotten about this, fucking brilliant!

Brilliant!

oh la la

no photo, no photo. for that reason it is not yorgo!

ah ah clearly his misguided choice of glasses and the amateurish trim of his moustache eliminate all possibilities of any genetical link.

more pic

http://www.le404blog.com/index.php/post/2009/04/24/Tournoi-hardcourt-bike-polo-de-Rouen

Todd and i didn't want to go anyway!

Ha!

for those who didn't went, Rouen was AMAZING, had you see the pics????

no dont think we have...can you please post some.....be great to feel we were there...

(thread page 26..yawn!)

for those who didn't went, Rouen was AMAZING, had you see the pics????

lots of good pics - courtesy of Chris NYC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31682976@N05/sets/72157618072042434/

http://vimeo.com/6910606

Happy Wheels '10?

Can't wait...

bout frickin' time all that filming came to fruition!
for those of you that weren't there, you missed an absolutely amazing weekend!

[insert sticky out tongue emoticon here]

I like Guthrie's bouts of anger.. missed these on the day

wtf - it starts with gabes going brendans got the camera?

i don't think so brndn, doesn't sound like it. god knows.

Yeah it does, and then Em says "brendans got the actual camera"

Did you film any of that Brendan?

yeah, you're right, i wasn't listening that far in. I have no idea when that was. Something to do with me carrying brndn's camera in the car?

i know that weird, woodz must have been recording you guys as you arrived did he? And you were saying that i had the camera in my courier bag but you had the camera bag ... (nah i didnt film anything of that edit)