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We asked for a sample of their thoughts in blog form. And this is what they sent us...

BLOG ENTRY BY: Take That*
CREATED: 09/05/2006

(tape starts)

Gary & Mark Gary: Are we all here? Is everyone sitting comfortably? Mark? Do you need a cushion? Mark? That's it, bring that roller-chair over here and sit in between Jason and Howa...HOWARD! Stop picking at that. It'll come off in your hand, and THEN where will we be? Right, that's us all settled. Welcome to th..

Jason: Is it me? Do I say this bit? Hang on...(coughs)...right, welcome to...

Howard: WELCOME TO THE THING WHERE TAKING THAT ARE TALKING TO THE COMPUTERER ON THE SCREEN PAGE

Gary: Oh! That's just marvellous, Howard! How clever you are! (To Jason) I've never heard him say 'computer' before, have you? To think he used to think it was a television and a typewriter stuck together. Oh! I shall have to write this in the 'Take That Family Book'. Where's my ink pen? Mark? Have you seen my ink pen?

Mark: (huffily) Oh GOD! WHY do you ALWAYS assume that I know the whereabouts of anything you can't find? Why would I know, eh? It's not FAIR!

Gary: Now, now, Mark. I didn't suggest that you'd taken it, I just wanted to know if you had seen where I might have put it. It's my good ink pen. The one I wrote 'Back For Good' with...

Jason: You told me you wrote 'Back For Good' using that retractable pencil you pinched from Robbie's pencil case...

Gary: SHUSH UP! SHH! I told you that was a secret! Ha ha! Ignore Jason, Mark, you know how he gets when he hasn't done his press-ups for a while...

Howard: I LIKE PRESS-UPS I DO. I LIKE 'EM. I CAN DO...35...

Gary: Well yes, you like them too, don't you my little precious? And you can do almost as many as Jason can, can't you? You're getting to be such a great big strong boy these days!

Howard:LOTS OF PRESS-UPS...

Jason Jason: HA! No way can he do as many press-ups as me. I've got a certificate from the owner of Gym'll Fix It. That's practically a world record, right there...

Mark: (muttering) Oh for GOD'S SAKE! Can we just get started on this blog thing? I'm going out in a bit!

Gary: Oh yes? Going out, are we? And who are you going out with? Do I know these people? It's not Robbie, is it?

Mark: (guiltily) No. I haven't seen him. I haven't. Not for ages, anyway...honest...

Gary: I KNEW it! You've been sneaking around behind my back, seeing Robbie and trying to get the band together without me, haven't you? After all I do for you! Cooking your meals, cleaning your clothes, washing your smalls...

Howard: HUR! HUR! YOU SAID SMALLS...

Gary: Not NOW, Howard. And this is the thanks I get, is it? You creep around, sneaking off to see that...that...tattooed friend of yours without so much as a backward glance!

Mark: He's been better to me than YOU'VE ever been! And he's rich! He's got a red pool table! I asked if we could have a pool table and you asked if I thought we were made of money! Robbie understands me! He says I'm SPECIAL!

Jason: Hey! No-one talks to Gary like that. You say sorry to him RIGHT NOW!

Mark: NO! I will NOT! He's always trying to RUN MY LIFE! And I WON'T PUT UP WITH IT ANY MORE! (Runs off, crying. Muffled sound of 'Beautiful' by Christina Aguilera.)

Gary: Well! I don't know what brought all of THAT on. Ever since he turned 35 he's been impossible to talk to, try as I might...

Jason: Oh, just leave him. He'll come back when it's dinner time. He always does.

HowardHoward: DINNER TIME! I WANT DINNER! DINNER! WHAT'S FOR DINNER? DINNER!

Gary: Oh, damn. And I was just about to start telling all the boys and girls about our comeback tour. Oh well, I suppose it's time I put the tea on. Do you want mash with your sausages?

Jason: Yeah, go on then. Can we have onion gravy again?

Gary: Course we can, Jase. Be an angel and go and set the table for me, will you?

(tape ends)

_

*IT NOT REALLY HOWARD. IT NOT GARY, JASON OR MARK NEITHER. DON'T SHOUT. WE SORRY.

 

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