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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:54:30 -0400
Organization: Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose
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Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Paul Heslop 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.
> >
> > It is interesting that people enjoy intentionally
> > frightening/disorienting themselves. I suppose it makes up for
> > sedentary an mundane lifestyles which rarely get the blood and
> > adrenaline flowing. Most people, of course, prefer "risks" which are
> > actually tightly controlled.
> >
> > Then there are guys like these:
> >
> > http://www.risktaking.co.uk/intro.htm
>
> Heh, nutters! :O) I think my ultimate scare would be that ride which
> they built on top of a skyscraper. Not the one where it's a spike, but
> an actual rollercoaster type. I caught it on the discovery channel or
> something yonks ago but I'm damned if I know where it is...
I'm not sure which one that might be. I saw one at the Stratosphere
Tower in Vegas, which has a big observation deck on top, about a
thousand feet above the Las Vegas skyline. Running
around the top of the observation area there is a tiny coaster called
the High Roller. I didn't ride it though.
I did ride one at "New York, New York" which was interesting in that it
travels "inside" the casino and "outside" the kitschy recreation of the
skyline. This isn't the sort of thing I'd normally go for but I was in
Vegas for a convention so I figured I may as well experience it to the fullest.
> but it comprises two great fears, the rollercoaster itself and the skyscraper's
> height! EEK!
I take it then that skydiving is out?
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