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Well, Tim and I met up with the lads at 7.15am at our local greasy spoon and the day started. With a fry-up and cans of Strongbow and Carling...
We all got to the airport around 9, checked in and hit the bar. At this point, Greg introduced us to the drinking games for the next few days:
Peggy Su - someone will secretly place a peg on your person. They will then shout "Peggy Su" and count to 5. The peg has to be found before the count is up otherwise the "Pegged" has to down their drink. If they do find the peg, then the "Peggee" has to down theirs.
Spoon - if you find a spoon in your drink, you have to down it.
Card check - Greg can at any point shout out "Card Check". If you dont have your cards, you get a forfeit. If everyone has their cards, a random card from another deck is chosen and whoever has the matching card gets a forfeit.
We also played Spoof quite a lot...
I have no idea how much I drank (apart from when we found a bar where the pints were 60p each and we stayed for 4 hours, had 5 pints and ate for �6 incl. the tip!) or mostly where I went, but one of the strip clubs we went to was amazing, the other was a shithole.
At the good stripjoint, we paid for Brendan to have a stage show and my god, I'm surprised I didn't pee myself. He got stripped to his boxers and walked around on a leash. Brendan being Brendan of course, he cocked his leg against one of the poles and humped the strippers leg. Su-fucking-perb!
I did have an interesting experience with a lap dancer in the shithole one, but we'll leave that for another time when embarassing stories are being told.
On the Sunday, we went to see Prague's Premier Hockey League team "HC Slavia Praha" at their local arena and that was the best sporting experience I think I've ever had. Truly awesome. A brilliant atmosphere and the game itself was full on with no shortage of thrills and spills. Brendan has always wanted to see live Ice Hockey and he was well chuffed.
I have been on several stag weekends/do's but this one stood out as the one where I drank more, did more and laughed more than ever before. I've even lost my voice which is kinda fun :)
- Stottie getting spooned 3 times on the trot (as new beers were being put on the table) when he had already complained of feeling crap, was hilarious.
- Mils spending more than 3000Kc on a dancing girl cos she said she loved him.
- Ben challenging me to a drinking contest and everyone in the group pissing themselves laughing at him for doing something so stupid.
- Taking over "Coyotes" bar nr. the old square, dancing on the bar, Steve hogging the mic, Adie dancing on the bar with the girls...
- Being offered a midget sex show, then a Monkey shagging a Midget... I drew the line about being offered Gay Monkey Midget sex though - thats just wrong!
If I could convince Brendan to get married again so we could do it all over - I would.
I've also made some new friends - Lynn (Brendans older brother) and Adie which was cool. The three of us and Marcus spent hours chatting about SciFi, Horror, Manga, books, films, time travel and all sorts of crap while drinking our cheap beer. Good times...
Now for something a little more boring and a little technical...
Converting UIF disk images under Linux
I download a cd image this weekend and it was in UIF format, which is a proprietary format of MagicISO.
When I have had one of these files before, I used the freeware linux version of PowerISO to convert it but this time it wouldnt work.
So after a little research using google, I tracked down a little program called uif2iso from here.
This program (once compiled) converted the uif file to an iso then I extracted the contents using poweriso.
Result.
The code is also available for Win32 and Amiga (on Aminet)
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