Hi Everyone

Long time no speak. Apologies but I've been pretty tied up with work and Uni assignments which have to be in shortly. I've been out of the loop and am missing the numerous cryptic references to "Custard."

I did threaten that if no one explained it to me then I'd start a new thread and everyone seems rather reluctant to explain.......so, sorry to post this but I'm DESPERATE to know what it's all about!!!!

Good Luck to the People's Panel tomorrow, you'll have a ball!!!

Now will someone Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease put me out of my misery?????

Ok, I'll explain but can you change the name to "Custard Tactics" - pwetty please? Then I'll explain

call up linoleic, I think she said this evening that she had started all the references

the Lady Boz

Long after the bewitching hour in a thread far, far away...

The delectable Becksaroo coined the term when I was very suspicious about the intentions of one Ms Happyfeet where a certain Mr Cole, the back seat of an ambulance and custard were concerned

I'm still none the wiser!!!! Does no one on this forum speak plain English???? If it's rude then please feel free to send me a Private Message!!!!!

Ok *takes deep breath*

Last week, when Claudia was interviewing Bill, she wanted to ask him about his foot but he made her promise not to. She said something along the lines of "How can I not talk about it, it's like there's an elephant eating custard in the room and we're supposed to ignore it while it just sits there eating custard"... anyway this tickled certain members of this forum enormously. I believe it was Bohochick that mentioned it on here first.

Anyway, moving on, one late night I was typing randomness in the Anton thread (as is my way) and started talking about our resident custard-eating Indian elephant (you can tell between the African and Indian ones, as only the Indian ones have spicy custard.

It escalated when the "Nobody Should Leave" virtual protest thread was started and I rocked up with a stolen ambulance and an Indian spicy custard eating elephant called Tiny.

Next stage involved a nasty incident (on the Nobody Should Leave thread where Brendan allegedly got me into the back of the ambulance under the pretence of sewing a 10,000 sequin waistcoat for Tiny and eating spicy custard... later Becksaroo teased me on the "Brendan Cole" thread that I had used "custard tactics" to lure Brendan towards me... something I still vehemently deny.

Aaaanyway, this was a GENIUS phrase and so, one bewitching hour (that time of night when the hardcore random silly posters come onto the forum - I love them all sooo much) after a late night discussion, I made the vow to include the phrase: custard tactics, in every single post I made for the next 24 hours. It was very hard at times but since there is no fixed definition for custard tactics, it's is fairly easy to shoehorn in!

Somehow doing this ignited the interest of lots of my fellow forum posters, who's interest in custard was sparked... and hence we arrive at the custard-soaked state of play. If you search this forum for 'custard', 'elephants', 'Tiny', 'spicy custard' or 'custard tactics', you'll find an alarmingly large number of posts.

*takes another deep breath*

See why I was reluctant to answer? I think I've now bored everyone to tears - and now provided written evidence for the men in white coats to section me.

Any comments are very very gratefully received!!

(oooh and there was a 5 minute discussion of custard on QI tonight, I was soo thrilled )

The orignal custard theme came about, when Bill was on ITT with his gammy foot. He told Claudia he didn't want to talk about it and she said words to the effect of...'but how can we not talk about it? It's there! (He had his slipper on). It's like walking in a room and seeing an elephant eating custard and pretending you don't see it!'

So that is where it originated from...and then it all escalated to huge extent on the 'Nobody to leave' thread, where the elephant now has a name (Tiny) and we all chat about custard.

Hope that helps!

Oooh Happy..you beat me too it.

Yeah...what they said.

Thank You Happyfeet, Superfan's a Happy Bunny now (or should I say Elephant)?????

Love the bit about the difference between and African and an Indian Elephant!!! Haven't stopped chuckling yet!!

The thought of Brendan, 10,000 sequins and a huge bowl of Spicy Custard is something else!!! God what FUN!!

Ah who am I kidding... I loved writing that last post For proof, or to follow the evolution of the custard story - go see the the threads I named

I should start a tour! And Superfan the only reason peeps are beign vague is that noone really get's what the custard thing is about, I don't even think I do - it's just taken on a meaning of it's own and represents silliness and randomness and childhood and Britishness and that's what SCD is for me
Let me know if this helped...

Yay lots of bewitchers have arrived to back up the story... I'm glad I'm not alone in the madness...

Long live custard tactics - yaaaay!

Helped enormously Happyfeet!!!

My minds working overtime now!!!

As you may have noticed custard tactics can also be used to cool down a 'heated' thread. People get so confused they forget about fighting.

So in a way, usin custard tactics, by writing 'custard tactics' on a thread is quite productive - of custard.

*has confused herself*

Becks

Becks - what a fab place to see you back. Hope Paeds when fabbo, and are you all partied out now eh?? Lots has been happening!

Yay! Custard tactics rock!

Happyfeet told me to post this random pic that i made here so here it goes!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...bulancepic.jpg

Just when I was beginning to get all too anal about the cleaning and having panic attacks about what people might think about my house etc etc etc, silly girlie insecurity, I clicked on your random picture.......

Thank you for reminding me what this is all about, fun and laughs, and oh what a lot of them, top chick!!

I think it is safe to say that the Judge and Jury is out on the verdict that Custard Tactics are free to run amuck and should never, ever get a life imprisionment.

Lord!, Just think about it if it was locked away in a vault; never again to be heard of...Where is the justice in that?! In short: Custard Tactics are very important.

what are you talking about???

what did you think of the impressions bruno did of craig and arlene???

LMAO!! Randomness!!! Wouldn't it be fabulous if Claudia read this and knew what she'd started?!

Ha, I hope she doesn't - I think the researchers just glance over the boards and get the jist of public feeling as opposed to indulge in the random abstract references.

Welcome alexia Nice to 'see' lots of new faces - if you read back on this thread, Custard Tactics are explained... sort of!

Hi Everyone. This is my very first post on ANY Forum and I only have the one question...............

............................Is it compulsory to be totally mad tp post on here?

I was only joking!

No, but it helps sometimes, as is so often the case in real life

Loving your screen name! Welcome to the boards and happy posting love

Just a little bump at happyfeet's request, for reasons that will (apparently) soon become evident...

Thanks for the explaination
I now realise I have been using custard tactics since I joined

Georgi
As mad as the rest of you and loving it.

Just reading this thread again makes me cry with laughter:=) Fleckerl - great name, and, welcome to our just ever so slightly bonkers world.