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From: Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 21:19:34 GMT
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elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sore feet?
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and the brain thing. This has helped me spread my wings, this camera...
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > but still I'm battling with the urge to run off home at any second.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah... it helps to put things in perspective. I walk 5 miles to get to
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the Guggenheim Museum and that's still in Manhattan. Ten miles is
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > surely no great distance w/in greater London. Spin the globe a few
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > times and 10 miles seems like a walk around the block.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > In greater London ten miles would be pretty good,
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems to be about 10 miles from Kew Gardens to St. Paul's...
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > but here, ten miles is the nearest big city :O)
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Which is?
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > Newcastle.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > I should have surmised that... I've always liked using that old saw
> > > > > > > > > > > about the relative plentitude of coal...
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > From: elag (elag@concentric.net)
> > > > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Get VIAGRA Online
> > > > > > > > > > > Newsgroups: alt.bored
> > > > > > > > > > > Date: 1998/10/08
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > An idea: buy the stuff and sell it to high school students. Bringing
> > > > > > > > > > > coals to
> > > > > > > > > > > Newcastle, you say?... These kids buy Nike hats... Hootie and the Blowfish
> > > > > > > > > > > CD's and Mountain Dew... with the proper marketing they'll buy ANYTHING!
> > > > > > > > > > > s-so-o sleepy...
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > :O) Of course there are hardly any coal mines left here, so it's more
> > > > > > > > > > 'bringing call centers to Newcastle" now
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Not a surprising turn, I guess. As long as the brown ales hold out no
> > > > > > > > > one will miss all that coal.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Not sure they'd miss the broon ale either, they're all lager drinkers
> > > > > > > > now.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Blasphemy.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > :O) I ws a lager drinker too
> > > > >
> > > > > I hope the lager was at least "warm".
> > > >
> > > > Usually with lime too! (or for really swinging bad heads and the most
> > > > disgusting vomit covered taxi seats try lager and black currant!)
> > >
> > > That does sound bad. In Berlin there is a funny drink called Berliner
> > > Weisse, a wheat beer which is often drunk with a dash of syrup, which
> > > makes it bright green (woodruff) or red (raspberry). It is an
> > > interesting if cloying flavor, certainly very festive... I still have a
> > > bottle of the woodruff syrup in the fridge... perhaps its time for me to
> > > revisit Berlin in the form of beer.
> >
> > sounds...erm, delicious. Of course you could just go for snakebites...
> > half cider and half lager. I was a little silly as a drinker. I hated
> > beer so much I switched to spirits, which I hated almost as much, so I
> > started flavouring them (before alcopops were invented) and became
> > addicted to Pernod and orange. The real problem with this stuff is I
> > could drink a heck of a lot of it while still inside a building, but
> > cold air would have the effect of rendering me insane and blind within
> > seconds. I could leave a pub stone cold sober and be found singing songs
> > to the white lines in the middle of the road outside.
>
> At least you didn't try to snort them. Anyway, everyone knows the
> really cool people don't need alcohol to have fun. They just spin
> around a few times then lie down and watch the stars rotate.
:O) I think you just hit on why i could never stand alcohol. When my
eldest was old enough she begged me to take her on a ride at the
funfair. I hadn't been on one since my teens. When it stopped it was ME
who was trying to bring up my lunch on the grass while she stood
giggling at me.
--
Paul. (and all you men are slime)
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