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Hiya you guys my name is Jolly/Nae-Nae!!! im a little crazy and luv jasper/bella ,jared/bella, and paul/bella !! im 15 and i speak english and spanish!
things about me:
i absolutly luv boys. i am a bit bitchy and can be rude,even though i dont mean to. im in highschool and have my best friend on this site. she may write anime but i love her anyways. right now im toad working on a book. and im gonna try to post it as soon as possible. i bailed on my last story and am sorry for that. luv for all the ppl who favorited me thx!!! Love jasperella kinda wish their were more stories bout them two. If you love jasper and bella plz continue if not im sorry cuz thatz all i have. i dont have any stories but im working on it :)
Got a funny Story:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some marijuana. Jack got high and dropped his fly and said, "Do you wanna?" Jill said yes and dropped her dress, they had lots of fun. But Jill forgot to take her pill, So now they have a son.
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I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw a cashier hand this little boy some money back.
The boy couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old.
The cashier said, "I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll."
Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: ''Granny, are you sure I don't have enough money?''
The old lady replied: ''You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.''
Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look a round. She left quickly.
The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.
Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.
"It's the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her."
I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her afterall, and not to worry.
But he replied to me sadly. "No, Santa Claus can't bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there."
His eyes were so sad while saying this. "My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.''
My heart nearly stopped.
The little boy looked up at me and said: "I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall."
Then he showed me a very nice photo of him where he was laughing. He then told me "I want mommy to take my picture with her so she won't
forget me. I love my mommy and I wish she doesn't have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister."
Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.
I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. "Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll?''
"OK," he said, "I hope I do have enough." I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for
the doll and even some spare money.
The little boy said: "Thank you God for giving me enough money!"
Then he looked at me and added, "I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that
mommy could give it to my sister. He heard me!''
"I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mommy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose.''
"My mommy loves white roses."
A few minutes later, the old lady returned and I left with my basket.
I finished my shopping in a totally different state from when I started. I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind.
Then I remembered a local newspaper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl.
The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to pull the plug on the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma. Was this the family of the little boy?
Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young woman had passed away.
I couldn't stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was exposed for people to see and make last wishes before her burial.
She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.
I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed forever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister
is still, to this day, hard to imagine. And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.
Now you have 2 choices:
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2) Ignore it as if it never touched your heart
Hush, little sister
I can see your arms
I know you scream
I can see the way
I know that people
Hey, little sister
You see, little sister
He screamed at me
You know, little sister
But hush, little sister
I'm sorry little sister
Uh oh little sister
Hush little sister
Argue With A Woman'
I went to a party, Mom
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Smart-ass Comebacks to those Corny Pick-up Lines:
Instant message convo that's wicked creepy (not)
It said:
SatanStalker: So how do u like my
XxLoVemExX: What??
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SatanStalker: Well, you should know;
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The girl and her friend were really
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They went upstairs and were having a pillow fight.
All of a sudden the girls friend said she had to go to the bathroom. The girl said ok.
Ten minutes later the girl noticed that her friend was
She goes and knocks but no one said
She opens it and finds her friend there on
Her neck sliced with blood all over the ground. with her head nailed to the wall. Just her head.
If you do not repost this in the next two
One in your room, and one killing your parents at that
Tonight at 1:30am. Well what are you waiting for?Repost or you are going to die. Creepy, huh?
1. Get 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they aren't looking.
2. Set all the alarm clocks in Electronics to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone,
5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.
8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask,
9. Look right into the security camera & use it as a mirror, and pick your nose.
10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti - depressants are.
11. Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.
12. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using different size funnels.
13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through,
14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the fetal position and scream..
15. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a while and then yell, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!
16. Get several bouncy balls and throw them down an aisle shouting "pikachu, I choose you!"
17. Throw skittles at people and yell, "Taste the rainbow!'
18. Go the toy section, get a light-saber and start challaging people to a jedi match.
19. Follow a random person and if they turn and ask why are you following me yell, "No I won't have sex with you!"
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This is a true story. A girl died in 1933. A man buried her when she was still alive. The murderer chanted, "Toma Sota balcu," as he buried her. Now that you have read this chant, you will meet this little girl. In the middle of the night she will be on your ceiling. She will suffocate you like she was suffocated. If you post this on your profile, she will not bother you. Your kindness will be rewarded.
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They live on a private estate by the Thames, next door to Parky and Wogan.They dine on a five-star menu, listen to Radio 2 all day and even have their own firework displays. It's a great life being a £100 turkey. Shame it's almost Christmas . . .
Their neighbours include celebrities and some of Europe's richest men. But these residents are more neurotic than the pickiest celebrity diva.
They don't like cars, sudden noise, people, aircraft - or, indeed, anything else that flies. And, I dare say, they probably don't like Christmas much either.
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In a few days' time, this gang of gossiping fusspots will be quietly removed from these luxurious surroundings, slaughtered and then slowly prepared for Britain's most extravagant Christmas lunches.
I don't suppose it will come as much comfort to these boys and girls (actually, they're almost all girls) but they have the distinction of being Britain's first £100 turkeys.
It sounds like an astonishing sum for a single roast.
Instead of attempting to cook one of these, you could save yourself the bother of turning on the oven, take the whole family out for lunch and still have change left over.
And they are by no means jumbo specimens to feed an army.
Weighing between 12lb and 15lb, they are big but not that big.
What you are paying for is quality and an easy conscience.
It is a combination of rising feed costs and a desire for all things freerange, fluffy and organic that has placed a three-figure price tag around the necks of these birds. And there is no shortage of takers.
As I drive down the neat Berkshire lanes to Copas Turkeys, I reflect that there are probably quite a few people round here who would spend £100 on a turkey.
Spread across a little valley between Cookham and Marlow, these creatures are gobbling away on some of Europe's most expensive real estate.
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Last summer, I was just down the road from here looking at a pile called Park Place which had become Britain's most expensive country house - price: £42 million.
The week before that was sold, billionaire financier Urs Schwarzenbach snapped up Culham Court, a pretty red-brick house next to the Thames, for £38million.
From the boat house at the end of his lawn, it's just a few strokes of the oars along the river to Copas Turkeys.
A mile or so in the opposite direction, near Cookham, is the house where former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson famously left his shoes outside the bedroom door as he discussed tactics with Ulrika Jonsson.
After all, this stretch of the Thames Valley is the Light Entertainment Riviera - Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan, Paul Daniels and Rolf Harris all live in the vicinity.
Even the local MP on the opposite bank of the river qualifies as a bona fide celebrity - Henley's Boris Johnson.
These seriously pampered turkeys are certainly in good company, then. And they are as well-protected as any paranoid VIP. As I drive up to meet some of them, farmer Tom Copas warns me not to touch anything.
The thick metal fence all round this field is electrified. So is the handle to the gate.
"It's not to keep the turkeys in. It keeps the foxes out," explains Tom, 70.
"The real menace is mink because they find it easier to get through the mesh. We've lost 16 to mink this year, but the foxes haven't had one as far as I know."
This is very much a family business, notable for the fact that Tom runs it with his three daughters, Tanya, 36, Fenella, 33, and Sarah, 29.
Of their 50,000 birds, most are free-range. Only 2,500 will be in the most expensive organic bracket, eating a strictly monitored organic corn diet and living on certified organic soil.
But the rest are all enjoying the avian equivalent of the Ritz.
The "restaurant" serves top-of-the-range corn (which has doubled in price over the last year) and they all have acres of indoor and outdoor space.
The priority, though, is to keep them calm.
"Turkeys are very prone to panic. If they get agitated, they start climbing on top of each other, and when adult birds do that, they can do real damage to each other," explains Tom.
So he gets them used to every sound they are likely to hear in their short lives.
From the moment that they arrive as chicks in May to the winter moment when they are delivered up to the Great Gobbler in the sky, they are treated like delicate flowers.
Tom has even learned to speak turkey. He makes a sound half way between an owl and an Apache war cry, and all the turkeys say something similar in return.
"We play them the radio to get them used to human voices and background noise," he explains.
The turkeys, it turns out, have similar tastes to the local celebrities.
"We play them musicals and jazz - because that's what I like - and a lot of Radio 2," says Tom.
I suppose he could always ask Terry Wogan to pop over and address the turkeys in person.
Another annual hazard is Bonfire Night. So, in the weeks running up to November 5, the turkeys all get a series of fireworks displays, starting with a few non-threatening Roman candles and gradually building up to some proper whizz-bangs.
Every day, the staff are encouraged to shout at each other above the din of turkey-talk.
"They're pretty fluent in Polish by now," says Tom, who employs a large force of migrant workers at this bumper time of year.
He gets his staff to drive vehicles around the fields and a large generator produces beams of artificial light on a regular basis.
"It's all so that when the time comes to bring them in, they are not startled by anything."
When that time does come, it's not the staff who bring the birds in to the sterile barn where they will be screened off and stunned prior to the chop.
All the rounding up is done by the two resident "turkey dogs", Pip and Jess. Both border collies, they are sheepdogs who have traded wool for feathers. Today, they are trotting among the flock with barely a murmur from the birds.
I notice that this field is full of maize which looks as if it should have been harvested months ago.
"Turkeys love to have cover. They are woodland creatures and love to hide if a plane comes over," explains Tom.
"We only grow the maize for them."
The neighbouring field is full of cherry trees which the birds adore.
At night, Pip and Jess herd some of the birds in to their barns to keep them away from the foxes. In the fields with electric fences, they wander inside of their own accord.
Home is one of several huge hangars full of straw - and occasional blasts of Radio 2.
The Copas family have been in these parts for generations.
For a century, they ran the local pub, The Chequers, before switching to farming in 1921. They sit on 800 valuable acres, including much of the Henley Royal Regatta course. Most of their land is dedicated to the turkeys.
So what is Christmas like in the Copas home? Tom's wife, Brenda, it turns out is in charge.
"Mum is the expert in the kitchen and the rest of us can be a nightmare sitting around discussing the density of the meat," says Tom's eldest daughter Tanya, who works with her sisters in the main office.
All are married to men who have had to get used to eating turkey more than once a year.
"I usually have some in the freezer - but only our own birds," says Tanya, who has helped build sales of the family's own-brand chutney, stuffing and cranberry sauce.
While they are all turkey devotees, the Copas clan enjoy hearty disagreements about the merits of different bits of the bird.
Nor can they agree on the best time to eat it.
Tom, for example, favours brown meat on December 26: "We have the traditional Christmas lunch, but I think cold turkey thigh on Boxing Day is the best."
There could be even more arguments if Tom's 21-year- old son (another Tom) decides to join the business when he leaves university.
Interestingly, Tom Snr won't actually be eating one of his £100 birds this Christmas.
While he is happy to cater for the organic market, he is just as happy eating an ordinary free-range bird from his regular range.
"If people want organic, that's fine but I can't afford it," he jokes.
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The laborious plucking, hanging and evisceration process, he explains, is all done by humans, not machines, over several weeks and accounts for the high price.
Mass-produced supermarket birds will be processed industrially and the results are self-evident in the meat.
As I leave, the sound of 50,000 nattering birds fills the air. It will be an eerie moment, in a few days, when there is silence.
So does Tom get attached to his birds? It turns out he has a healthy respect for any that manage to dodge the system.
"Every now and then you get one which escapes the round-up and you find her later in a hedge or under some straw," he says.
"If that happens, she becomes a pet."
Surely, that must be the turkey equivalent of a Lottery win?
"Not necessarily," says Tom.
"The last one was Henrietta. We took her home and the fox got her."
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Chapter 5Mature
I stare at the list of files on my computer monitor, despairing. I dread this conversation. I dread it so much that the animal part of me wants to fight or flight.
I've buzzed him in, and he's on his way up. These videos are going to make him hysterical. They'll injure him so badly that he'll hate anything his hate can reach. I'll be closest.
I can handle it, but I'd rather do anything except.
"So the fact they accepted your forgery means they're his videos, right?" He rushes into the room, all business.
"Yeah. The account was in his name, and all the recordings were scheduled from his phone."
"And what is it he's doing in these videos?"
"Copulating." I want to hesitate, but I don't.
Troy, however, does.
"What?" The word is a dare, suggesting harm should I repeat myself.
I don't respond, I simply cue up the first video and jump to a specific portion.
His father opens the door of the familiar room, allowing a pretty young woman in a business suit to enter. Though their words aren't legible, the tone of their conversation is friendly and casual as the boy's father unties his shoes and the woman unbuttons her blouse.
Once it's clear they're not going to stop undressing, my client concedes.
"Alright, I'm sorry, I get it. You weren't lying. There has to be more to this, Glenda, surely you haven't had time to watch all of these?"
"Nah, I'm not comfortable watching a majority of this footage. I have, however, watched everything I'm willing to. There is more you should know, Troy, but it's not going to be easy."
"Show me, don't tell me." He pauses then lowers his voice. "That way, I can't make it your fault."
I acquiesce by starting the final video from the beginning.
Orson Sr. sits on the foot of the bed, right heel restlessly tapping the carpet. After several seconds, he stands up, places his phone on the dresser, and walks out of frame towards the bathroom. He promptly returns, carefully positioning himself where he's certain the camera will see him, and displays a sealed plastic bag of white powder.
He unzips the pouch and methodically empties the contents onto the dresser. His actions are animated to ensure the viewer can't misinterpret them as he divides the pile into lines and uses a straw to snort one.
"Dad," the son sounds more sad than surprised.
After bagging the remainder, the father begins pacing the walkway between the bed and the dresser. For several minutes this is all that happens.
Abruptly, he rushes to the chair he's draped his coat over and pulls a pistol from a pocket inside the breast.
He looks into the camera, gun to his head, and maybe because his lips are visible, his words are legible.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sor-"
"Stop the video!" His son cries, averting his eyes and covering his ears.
I manage to do so before he pulls the trigger.
His breathing is labored and tremulous, and it's the only sound for half a minute.
"Don't think you have us figured out!" He turns on me. "Don't start pitying me, or him, don't you look down on us, and don't you dare think that you know the first thing about him."
"I know he's done something terrible. For your own sake, you can't deny that."
"Are you so perfect?!" He demanded. "Is there nothing in your life that's comparable? No dark secrets, nothing that you wake up screaming over because you think someone else knows?!"
"Nothing even close to this." I say it because it's true.
I'm being coy, but I can't be anything else, if he's to recover. Otherwise, he'll just keep looking the wrong way down this tunnel. I can't make him see the light at its end until he lets me explain how he's not watching the exit.
"Oh, what, he's so horrible because he wasn't faithful to Mom? Who decided people should be monogamous anyway? All our closest ape relatives have multiple mates, why did we all buy some despot's load of bullshit about promiscuity affronting his imaginary god?!"
"No, I agree." I'm not lying, not entirely. I don't understand romantic love, much less with multiple partners, but so long as deception isn't involved, I don't see how it harms. It was wrong for his father to deceive his mother, but it was also wrong for society to make his honesty so expensive. "The judgment most people would make would be unfair."
"Then what, the drugs? I know they've ruined people's lives, but my dad was still on top of his shit. He employs thousands, he's made dreams come true, seen to it that the loyal and hard-working are rewarded. If he managed to achieve so much with such a habit, is it really such a bad thing?"
"I wasn't talking about that, either.?"
"What terrible thing has he done? What makes you so much better than him, then?"
"Makes me better than him?" I repeated, disqualifying the notion. "This isn't about judgment, certainly not from me. All I'm saying is I witnessed a true crime. He made a mistake: he believed that stuff you mentioned to be worse than it really was. He accepted the judgments he thought the public would make about him. In the end, those judgments were never more than imaginary. I saw him exaggerate the menial sex and drug use into a reason to murder his son's precious daddy. Your father was a good man, but he let himself believe otherwise, and in that belief, he robbed you of his worth."
It's always fascinating to see how the right words at the right time will affect a person.
Troy collapses to his knees, his body gone limp as though his spine were severed at the neck. His face is pointed skyward, and tears spill up from his eyes like over the lip of an overfilled glass.
"What," he managed, his words barely legible. "What is this?"
It feels so awkward that I consider not doing it, but I walk over and embrace his head, face pressed into my abdomen.
"I looked into the vault where you hide stuff you thought nobody wanted to see. I held one of those things in front of you and told you it was beautiful. It's okay for you to defend him from what people would say about these videos, and at the same time, it's okay for you to be mad at him. These tears are what happens when the truth wins, when you let the truth be okay."
He was trying too hard to play the adult. He's been conditioned to control the wrong kind of damage before dealing with the real wreckage.
He wraps his arms around my legs, just above the knee, and squeezes. It's all I can do to keep from falling over backward, but I'm not about to interrupt him. He's resisting the escaping whimpers with everything he has, and I shouldn't help him win that fight. He needs this trance.
We value dignity too much. It can be such an obstacle.
That was my real role in this. He asked me to try and salvage his father's reputation, but it isn't always right to do what I'm asked.
Life in the public eye had warped his priorities. He'd come to believe his image's needs came before his, his family's before theirs. This would have gone untended until he died. He'd have lived outwardly proclaiming Orson Sr. a saint while hating him within. It would have been what eventually killed him.
We're still for several minutes before he returns to reality.
"Sorry," he mumbles, pulling away. The abrupt unlocking of his arms nearly causes me to lose my balance. "Sorry. I don't really understand what just happened."
"Don't think about it too much. You felt what you needed to, and so long as you don't forget the lesson from it, you don't need to dwell on how the knowledge came about."
"You e-mailed me the account information, right?"
"I did."
"Delete that e-mail from your 'sent' box, please. I'm going to purge the account when I get home tonight."
"Consider it done. You need to get yourself back to work, right? I imagine lunch has gone long."
"I'm the boss now, they'll just have to deal." He sighed. "Glenda, I know I came to you convinced that you and I were going to expose the truth, but I absolutely cannot have that happen now."
"From where I stand, it looks like the people who need to know already do. 'Cept maybe the rest of your family, how are you going to break it to them?"
"I don't think I'm going to. Aside from my new belief that it really was suicide, I mean. It's not about protecting his legacy anymore, it's about learning how to forgive him. I'm not going to allow my mother to know those videos existed. She can't see those things, because she wouldn't be able to stop watching before it really hurts her. I can't lose her too, Glenda."
"After I deal with the e-mail and the browser history, I'll have nothing left to even prove you ever came to me."
"Well, besides the invoice. You will be sending an invoice, right? Be much more generous to yourself than I first insisted, 'kay?"
"I don't do invoices, Troy. If you insist, the only funds I accept come from Paypal donations."
"Count on it. Goodbye, Ms. Dalton."
"Best of fortunes, Mr. Orson."
It's understood that options increase in direct proportion to power. The more we can understand, the more we can control, the more paths we can take to reach our goals.
For example, a surgeon in strong position can save life and limb in situations where weaker surgeons might have to amputate. There might even be more than one method to save both. There appear to be many options.
The reality is different. A surgeon presented with a dying warlord might know that saving the despot means ruining other lives. Perhaps he'd be too vulnerable to rule with only one leg? Live or dead, might the vacuum of this patient's authority give rise to a worse tyrant? If the new ruler is more reckless, might it provoke long-overdue intervention from benevolent neighbors?
The more powerful the surgeon, the more of these questions they are able to answer. The more they understand how each stroke would affect the world, the more strokes they understand to be taboo. Once they are powerful enough, they recognize one choice will always be the undisputed best.
Such deities abandon their goals, because separate goals are revealed to be mutually exclusive. To pursue both would bring them into inevitable conflict, and to abandon one in favor of the other reveals the selected goal to be meaningless. These beings are constrained by their own power; they come to understand the best option to be abstinence from self-interested action.
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How wrong she was: such was his stand-up performance at Edinburgh this year that Kay leapfrogged the newcomers' list to be nominated for the main Perrier Award. Not bad for someone who a year ago was checking ticket stubs at his local cinema.
In just two years (he kept the part-time ushering job for a while because he's a film fan), Kay has gone from spots in working men's clubs to devising and performing his own segment on BBC's live madcap Sunday Show, and Channel 4 has just signed him up to write a series on the strength of his send- up of fly-on-the-wall TV, The Services, which opens its series showcasing new comedy talent, Comedy Lab, tomorrow.
His manager, Lisa White, recalls discovering him nearly two years ago in a Manchester showcase. "I was blown away. For somebody so young, who had been doing comedy for only a few months, he was amazing. He has a worldliness and a knowingness way beyond his years."
Kay's rapid success, White thinks, may be attributable to his broad fame of reference. "Because so much is television-based, that means all audiences have a point of connection with him. I mean, he knows all about programmes I can barely remember."
A mark of that breadth of appeal is that Kay appeared earlier this month at the gay and lesbian Stonewall Equality Show - where he stormed them - and later in the month appears before the real Queen at the Royal Variety show. He doesn't yet know whether he will perform the same material.
But Kay, 25, of the cherubic looks and broad Bolton accent, puts his success down to luck, and says that he's still surprised by the speed of his ascent. "It's that Catholic guilt thing - I keep thinking it's going to end any day now."
He disarmingly says of his stage act, with its references to TV programmes, advertising jingles and dancing aunties: "I often think my act is really shallow. I look at other comedians and think, `Ooh, that's good. That's well thought out'."
Kay - who admits to an anorak tendency, evinced by his private collection of opening credits from TV programmes - has a televisual memory. Even his parents' break-up, when he was a teenager, is sourced through popular culture: "Half-way through an episode of Mork and Mindy, me Dad said, `I'm going.'"
Kay rejects the cliche of an entertainer who masks pain through comedy - "It wasn't that bad, really"- but admits that he learnt to protect himself from bullies by making them laugh. "They'd say I was fat, and I'd say, `I am, aren't I?' and then do jokes about it. It was my fault - I shouldn't have eaten so much."
He believes he is a born entertainer. He has report cards from infants' school which ask rhetorically why Peter insists on being the class clown. "I had discovered something I was good at," he says.
Unlike many comedians, Kay believes the art is not entirely instinctive. He must be one of the few comics to have studied telling jokes at university; his media performance studies at Salford included a module on stand-up. "I think you can learn stagecraft and timing, but you have to have something about you. My accent and the way I look help a lot. An American once said to me, `I have no idea what you were talking about, but you really made me laugh.'"
But even if Kay never planned his career - "I don't have a five-year plan or anything" - he appears to have long been a comedian in training; his pre-usher jobs included packing toilet rolls, and spells at Netto, Spar, a bingo hall and a cash and carry. All, he says, will turn up somewhere or other in the new Channel 4 series.
Kay has been described as a young Les Dawson - because "I'm fat and Northern" - but his childhood heroes were Julie Walters, Eric Morecambe and Ronnie Barker. Like Barker and Dawson, Kay is not averse to a bit of cross-dressing. In The Services, set in a Lancashire motorway service station, he plays all the characters, including its manageress and celebrity manque, Pearl. She, like all the participants, is savagely observed; like so many "ordinary" people followed by TV cameras, she has learnt how to play up to them while speaking in fatuous cliches. It is hilarious, one of the best pieces of comedy writing on TV all year.
Kay's empathy with women (he comes from a matriarchal Irish family) is evident. "I've always been able to write female characters - I find women funnier than men, and I love the rhythm of women's speech. I go to Slimmers' World, where it's mostly women, and I get so much material - they have no taboos about what they'll discuss."
Kay readily plunders colleagues' lives, too. "At the cinema I worked with two women called Marie and Pamela, and I would listen to them and just make notes. It was so good you couldn't make it up. One day Pamela was on the box office while Marie was changing the roller towel in the loo, so she said to a customer, `I'll tear your ticket here because Marie's upstairs changing her towel.' The chap looked disgusted and said, `That's more information than I needed, thank you.'"
Assiduous in his notetaking he may be, but it's not as though Kay has to go looking for material. "My mam went to the library the other day and the librarian said to her, `Your Peter's doing very well for himself, all that performing on stage and everything. Mind you, he's very quiet when he's in here.' I mean, I couldn't make that up, could I?" he says, laughing.
His ear for the details of everyday Northern dialogue led to one critic describing Kay as the next Alan Bennett, and brought him coachloads of pensioners at his next few gigs. "It's like we raided Age Concern."
Kay cites the North's rich linguistic and comedic seam as the reason why he will be buying a house in Bolton with his girlfriend next year, rather than move south to where much of his work now is. "I can only write about what I know. I'd be crap anywhere else."
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