Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3F110ADD.32E9C68E@blueyonder.co.uk>...
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sore feet?
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In greater London ten miles would be pretty good,
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems to be about 10 miles from Kew Gardens to St. Paul's...
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > but here, ten miles is the nearest big city :O)
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Which is?
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Newcastle.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I should have surmised that... I've always liked using that old saw
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > about the relative plentitude of coal...
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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...
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > :O) Of course there are hardly any coal mines left here, so it's more
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 'bringing call centers to Newcastle" now
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Not a surprising turn, I guess. As long as the brown ales hold out no
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > one will miss all that coal.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > Not sure they'd miss the broon ale either, they're all lager drinkers
> > > > > > > > > > > > > now.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > Blasphemy.
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> > > > > > > > > > > :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.
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> > > > > :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:
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> > > > 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.
> >
> Both sound brilliant and totally not on! :O)
>
> > > but it comprises two great fears, the rollercoaster itself and the skyscraper's
> > > height! EEK!
> >
> > I take it then that skydiving is out?
>
> Heh, we were just discussing this the other day. I worked in a mill as a
> teenager and we used to pile cardboard boxes in one of the delivery bays
> and dives from the top floor (about five stories up!) onto the boxes. I
> guess the fear made it an extra buzz for me, or my stupidity was greater
> than my fear, cos it still scared the heck out of me even as I did it.
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