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MooseMan

The legend that is Sandman

Going to STiA and meeting up with so many of my on-line pals was fantastic....but one deserves a special mention:

I'd only met Sandy in person once before.....just imagine walking through the door to be hailed by an unmistakable voice, and this Scottish guy comes bounding up to you and greets you not like a mate, but like a long-lost brother.....

.....this is the legend that is the Sandman!
Roly Williams

Re: The legend that is Sandman

MooseMan wrote:
Going to STiA and meeting up with so many of my on-line pals was fantastic....but one deserves a special mention:

I'd only met Sandy in person once before.....just imagine walking through the door to be hailed by an unmistakable voice, and this Scottish guy comes bounding up to you and greets you not like a mate, but like a long-lost brother.....

.....this is the legend that is the Sandman!


Hear hear
MTA

Hear hear! A top notch bloke, who welcomes you ,as you say Moose, like a long lost brother.
Atticman

Hear hear, he seemed to be everywhere as well, is there an identical twin  
Lewis

Great bloke and personality  

i really enjoying looking after and looking at your engines mate  

and ill have that lighter for you again next year  
Steve_S

Sandy did seem to be everywhere, from the moment that the gate opened until the very end, as I'm sure the DVD will prove!
James

Hear hear!!!
Sandman

Right back at ya guys.        
James

Like a game of tennis this is!

Right back at ya!
johnreid

Sandy seems like such a nice guy, I loved his narration on the 2007 STIA DVD.

Three Cheers for Sandy!

Hip Hip
Minor1PJG

Hip Hip

HOORAY

Top man Sandy.  A pleaseure to make your acquaintance
Mamodman123

Sandy is a LEGEND!

Come to think about it, he was the only one who didn't take the mick out of the Fiesta

So he's in my good books  
Atticman

Mamodman123 wrote:
Sandy is a LEGEND!

Come to think about it, he was the only one who didn't take the mick out of the Fiesta

So he's in my good books  


I missed it MM, gather the bumper looks good    
Mamodman123

Atticman wrote:
Mamodman123 wrote:
Sandy is a LEGEND!

Come to think about it, he was the only one who didn't take the mick out of the Fiesta

So he's in my good books  


I missed it MM, gather the bumper looks good    


Yeah aint bad colour match , but apparently to the car experts it wouldn't start...

Cue the engine firing on the button first time no problem
syrtismajor

I totally agree, there from beginning to end and stalking everyone from the Forum. A character that's larger than life with a greeting that makes you think that he was there when you bought your first engine.
Truely a tremendous bloke!
James

LMAO!

Sandy came up with the best one liners... had me in stitches!
Mamodman123

James wrote:
LMAO!

Sandy came up with the best one liners... had me in stitches!


Aye lad

Maybe one day he'll grow up and be as tall as me
James

LMAO!

You mardy bugger!
Mamodman123

James wrote:
LMAO!

You mardy bugger!


can't help it, the air is thin up here    
James

You just stood there like  

LMFAO!
Mamodman123

James wrote:
You just stood there like  

LMFAO!


Bugger off did I
James

LMFAO!

I said "go get me the Hobbies" like 50 times, and you were like in a bit

Off to bed! Speak tomorrow!
Mamodman123

James wrote:
LMFAO!

I said "go get me the Hobbies" like 50 times, and you were like in a bit

Off to bed! Speak tomorrow!


I had stuff to sort lad
Reid

They say the sandman stands for sleep.
Well, Scotland sent one, sans the sheep.

You count away and stay refreshed
When Sandy treats you as his guest.

Oww, rhyming couplets tend to bore
And must run trite forevermore,

So I should crash this meter, right,
And hope to meet Sandman some night.

Oh my goodness, oh my bad:
I cannot quit these couplets, lad.

Once begun they will not cease,
Though that does not grant a free lease.

Someone, smash me on my head
(to let our Sandman go to bed).
johnreid

And he is still mentioned in Wikipedia, truly a Legend.
Nick

He is very friendly to deal with for the dvd too.
Manxman

Great bloke and so busy all afternoon. I think this years DVD is going to be even better than last years. In fairness, last years DVD almost came about a bit by accident and wasn't as well planned as this years.

At the point when I left Sandy, he was off to say hello to Steve Malins (Grandson of Geoffery and son of Eric) who is resonsible for lots of the Mamod line of products, including for me, his crowning glory, the Roadster. At that time in the mid 1970's, what an idea.
John Chapman

Re: The legend that is Sandman

MooseMan wrote:
.....just imagine walking through the door to be hailed by an unmistakable voice, and this Scottish guy comes bounding up to you and greets you not like a mate, but like a long-lost brother.....

.....this is the legend that is the Sandman!


Absolutely Odilon.  
Sandy it was great to meet up with you face to face at last  
Atticman

James wrote:
LMAO!

You mardy bugger!


LOLL, never heard of mardy before, so when Mrs Attic, a Northern lass, got a bit funny yest, I said, hey you mardy bugger.

She had to laugh, cos she hasnt heard anyone say it to her in Glos.  

I then had to ask her what it meant    
MTA

You do here it occasionally around here (the South), but only when I'm saying it
Atticman

MTA wrote:
You do here it occasionally around here (the South), but only when I'm saying it


Jameses influence gets around    

Theyll be saying it in Indiana next
James

Really?

I thought everyone said Mardy?

Like "sneck" means look

If I said to you:

"Gu av a sneck o'er yonder"

What would that mean?  
Atticman

James wrote:
Really?

I thought everyone said Mardy?

Like "sneck" means look

If I said to you:

"Gu av a sneck o'er yonder"

What would that mean?  


errrr, Someone left a snicker bar over there.........
James

LMFAO!

You need the book "Nobbut a yellerbelly!!"
johnreid

Indiana is in the North you know.
You Mardy  bugger you.
Atticman

johnreid wrote:
Indiana is in the North you know.
You Mardy  bugger you.


LOLL,

what North America John  
Sandman

I would just like to thank everyone for their good wishes.

It means so much to me that my efforts are appreciated in this way.

It got right home to me at the STIA just how many real friends I've made on this forum.

Once again a hearty thank you guys.
johnreid

I guess that this is time for a history Lesson, in the mid 1800s there was a Civil War in the US. There is an imaginary Line that divides the US into the North and The South, this line is called the Mason Dixon Line.
Indiana, was in the Union, or the NORTH. Alabama was in the South.
So, in the US there is a North and a South.
Atticman

johnreid wrote:
I guess that this is time for a history Lesson, in the mid 1800s there was a Civil War in the US. There is an imaginary Line that divides the US into the North and The South, this line is called the Mason Dixon Line.
Indiana, was in the Union, or the NORTH. Alabama was in the South.
So, in the US there is a North and a South.


Sorry Sandy, not meaning to hijack you    

Thanks John, didnt realise, course heard of the deep south , but history/ Geography teaching in the UK was bad, its even worse now, more like propoganda than teaching .

Something potentially sinister in the Government controlling education and Health- what we learn and when we die.........

Right am now seriously    
James

Yeah we are doing about civil rights and all that bollocks in history  

Sorry for the off topicness!  

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