Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Playing cards in a Travelodge bar

Lee can I just say something and promise you won't be offended?

Please do say something but I probably will be offended.

Have you seen the film Alien?

Of course. It was on TV the day of the 1982 World Cup Final between-

Well I just think that you look like the character Ash.

Who was he again?

He was the android, and it's just like his facial features, and gestures- 

Yeah like when he malfunctioned.

Linda chirps in - I've googled him. Ian Holm. He's dead now. But he was from Goodmayes!

Reminds me of you. In a good way. What's a good maze?

Linda - Goodmayes is next to Ilford, where I'm from. No one's from there! He died aged 88. He was quite handsome. In an old man kind of way.

I'll take that as a compliment, I suppose. Didn't his head come off?

Yes he was an undercover robot, I mean android -

They call them clankers now...

And he attacked Sigourney Weaver and then they had to bash him up, and electrocute him, and then his head came off yeah. 

Linda - He had three wives and five children. And he was in The Hobbit. Goodmayes!

And I imagine his decapitated android head was very handsome even at 88. Is that what you're telling me?

Shut up. I'm just saying you remind me of him. A little bit. When he went wonky.



Ash, in Alien


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