Meet Andy's Bestest Friends

Firstly, I realise that 'Bestest' is not a real word. Secondly, I'm not honestly too sure how good a friend someone needs to be to get on here, but let's just say that all these people are cool with me... In case you care, this is in chronological order...

Duncan Clarke

Dunk, or Dunc, depending on his mood, is a computer science student at York University. We met about...*counts years on his hands* oh, eight and a half years ago...we were at Oakham School together, which I *hated*, and I don't think he enjoyed it much either...He is a party animal, who on occasion sends me e-mails like, "Hi. Am in the computer room in my dressing gown completely (drunk). Will write more when I'm sober. Love Dunc". He is a big comics fan (just like me) and has more Spiderman comics than me, though I have every Uncanny X-Men from the past nine years...8P We go comic shopping together on occasion, though I don't see much of him these days...time flies, and all that...Why not e-mail him and tell him that he really should make an effort to write to me occasionally ;)

Andrew Clarke

Dunc's twin brother Andrew is taking this year off...as it were. He had applied to universities, but then did far better in his mock A-levels than expected, so he had to skip a year and reapply somewhere better this time...We met at the same time I met Duncan...Andy's the quiet one, whereas Dunc is a bit more...er, excitable...I really have no idea what he's up to right now...we haven't talked for a while...I expect he's probably working somewhere, while I laze around at the taxpayers' expense ; )

Nathan Smith

Nathan is another computer science student, this time at Aston University... which has waaay better computers than here...he's another one who likes to drink a lot, and was my best friend during the two great years I spent at school in Loughborough...His car (a VW Beetle) is a very cool colour...his Dad worked painting aircraft, which made him enough money to retire to Florida at 43... Nathan gets to sun himself there over the holidays and tell me how cheap everything is over there...Grrr...anyway, he's a nice guy. As are all my friends...Why not

Victor Brown

Victor, or "BIG VIC" as his e-mail preferences would have it, is a true freak of nature. At 6'5" and 16 1/2 stone, he's built like a tank. For some reason I got into a shoot fistfight with him on the last day of last term...hardly fair, since he can put so much weight behind his punches... *folds arms and pouts* Anyway, I don't think I embarrassed myself... He is an agricultural engineer, which I think has something to do with tractors ;) He also plays chess with me...he's ever so good ;) Mail him and ask him to explain his tricky Ulster accent...As an example of what Northern Irish people find funny, consider this 'joke': "What do Buckingham Palace and Gerry Adams have in common? They're both on British soil"... Vic thinks that that's hilarious...Hmmm...

James Kalyn

James the Canadian is a complicated fellow. For an insight into his madness, try visiting his page He's finally figured out FTP!!! My counter has fast overtaken his, which has done wonders for my ego ;) James is the only person in the English-speaking world who gets more e-mail than I do...the reason? He's an arts student, so he has nothing better to do! 8P Write to him and tell him to change his description of me, since it's out-of-date...*tuts, rolls eyes*

James was on Geocities first, but call me a lemming and be dragon-suplexed into oblivion...or a Benoit top-rope suicide powerbomb through a table... Anyway, he's also frighteningly clever and witty, so much so that I cringe in embarrassment when I read his glorious prose and see that my humble page is linked on there! And the cow jumped over the moon. Seriously, check his page out sometime...And tell him Andy sent ya! *D
BTW, he's also sent me a *very* interesting idea for a film! Ask James nicely and I'm sure he'd be delighted to tell you all about it *grin with evil glint in eye* HLA all the way! *LOL*

Samantha Mallard

Sam is a fellow Zoologist and therefore, like me, has no future ;) She has been good enough to let me copy her notes, whenever I, er, don't make it to my lectures...She's a vegetarian, and spends about eight hours a day exercising...except she now has a problem with her elbow...I warned her not to train so hard, but she just wouldn't be told...I know about these things :) And she lives relatively near me... mail her and tell her that you're not at all impressed by how many e-mails her boyfriend sends her when he could far more easily just say it all to her face...*grin*

Sam also has this cool card with a magnetic strip that she uses to get into her home from home...kinda cool...I hope to get in there next year... Sam has been there for me just now when I've needed her, and I'm very grateful.

Dean 'The King' Ayass

Dean ("Huh huh huh, he said do it") is a history student (I think) at Royal Holloway...his wit can be sampled by visiting the rec.sport.pro-wrestling newsgroup...he is the ring announcer for Hammerlock Wrestling, and has worked with Sabu (Terry Brunk), a complete madman who is basically a walking mass of scar tissue at this point, having worked barbed-wire matches for noted Japanese "psycho-unit" FMW, as well as long stints in bloodthirsty ECW... Dean says that there is no-one crazier in the business than Sabu... Dean also has the dubious pleasure of being beaten up by the Hammerlock guys on occasion, and just can't understand why the crowd cheer it, especially when nobody was kind enough to tell him what would happen...If they get Sabu to work for them, as I understand is a possibility, then I just may go all the way down there to see him live...not every wrestler can springboard off a chair propped against the ropes and somersault through a press table in the third row...Sabu can. Dean likes drinking Jolt Cola to stay up through WWF PPVs...I prefer to go to sleep then be woken up about 11:30, but to each their own...As to why he's called 'The King', I have no idea...you'd better ask him yourself...

Dean has come up with some hilarious quotes in his time, and one of the best was when he was discussing which wrestler sold the other guy's moves best... "Rick Steamboat. Sold every move like he'd just been castrated." As I write this, I'm holding back tears of laughter...Now *that's* comedy...

Sarah Griffiths

A frequent visitor to these pages, Sarah is practically ancient (21 already ;) ), and fancies the Undertaker. I don't see it myself, but to each their own, etc. I'll be going to stay with her soon, to watch King of the Ring...which should be good, considering last year's debacle...and she's going to teach me to knit, as well. I can't wait. Really.

Enough best friends for now!

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