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100 KP: I mean you see two or three you think look at them they look hard them
101 three over there (0.5) wouldn't mess with them=
102 RP: =Yeah=
103 KP: The enti:: re pub, there wasn't one normal person in there=
104 EP: =Bloody [Hell
105 KP: [I mean I use the word normal to mean me[self
106 RP: [Fuckin'hell:: =
107 KP: =there wasn't one normal pe:: rson
Whereas 'Cookie's Partywas organised around some commonly
experienced sociable event, the talk here specifically centres around an event
uniquely experienced by KP&LP, namely, that of visiting a pub by the name of
'Tommy Fields'. RP and KP are brothers, with EP and LIP being their
respective wives (see appendix A). Although the two couples do see each
other with some regularity on similar sociable occasions, each has
considerable access to uniqueness of experience (places seen, events
witnessed, activities engaged in) during their respective daily rounds.
Normatively, as is the case with much English sociable conversation, such
experiences come to provide a routinely exploited experiential resource for
sociable conversation where they may be recalled and reported to fellow
participants. 'Tommy Fields' provides a clear example of such sociable talk. In
the talk immediately preceding 'Tommy Fields', RP&EP have been accorded
considerable conversational floor space to relay a detailed account of having
visited the 'Reeperbahn'- Hamburg's infamous red light strip. As with
'Tommy Fields', this was an experience unique to one set of the participants
in the sociable gathering. At the point at which we enter the talk, RP&EP have
concluded their narrative by giving an account of a particularly 'rough' pub
which they had visited during their night on the Reeperbahn. At this juncture,
KP&LP reciprocate by initiating and developing their own experiences of a
rough pub, not the same pub visited by RP&EP, nor any pub on the
Reeperbahn, but one in Oldham, a provincial town approximately 20 km from
the site of this particular sociable gathering. Over the ensuing talk, 'Tommy
Fields' proves to provide a ripe conversational resource for the relaying of a
similarly unique event and experience and allows for the invocation of a
unique set of conversational selves, both as conversational players able to
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