Author Topic: "I saw this...and thought of you" (Read 233833 times)

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #225 on:** 03 April, 2012, 05:56:13 pm »

Today, at München Ost railway station:

clarion · « **Reply #226 on:** 04 April, 2012, 11:30:41 am »

Is it Poing, Laim or Riem you are reminded of?

Peter · « **Reply #227 on:** 04 April, 2012, 11:34:43 am »

The Old Nerd at the top'll do for me! Danke, Tante!

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #228 on:** 04 April, 2012, 01:08:13 pm »

I would love to live somewhere called Poing.

Mind you, just down the road from here in Austria is somewhere called Pfaffing.

And near where we lived in Kent is Pootings.

clarion · « **Reply #229 on:** 04 April, 2012, 03:05:55 pm »

Poing is French for fist, isn't it?

Peter · « **Reply #230 on:** 04 April, 2012, 08:19:58 pm »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 04 April, 2012, 01:08:13 pm

I would love to live somewhere called Poing.

Mind you, just down the road from here in Austria is somewhere called Pfaffing.

And near where we lived in Kent is Pootings.

And I seem to remember Bad Egg? Which would Po(i)ng, I would imagine

Clarion, you I right. My knowledge comes from O-level French. Yours?

clarion · « **Reply #231 on:** 04 April, 2012, 09:59:31 pm »

My knowledge comes from:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kP4FR2_KL4w&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kP4FR2_KL4w&rel=1</a>

80s French punk metal.

Doesn't everyone's?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #232 on:** 07 April, 2012, 09:05:18 pm »

I saw this and thought of several of you, in various different ways.

Biggsy · « **Reply #233 on:** 10 April, 2012, 05:27:50 pm »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/rGvr3MiPVa4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/rGvr3MiPVa4&rel=1</a>

clarion · « **Reply #234 on:** 10 April, 2012, 10:29:21 pm »

Glad to hear it!

Charlotte · « **Reply #235 on:** 10 April, 2012, 10:37:10 pm »

My cohab has just seen that on my laptop screen as she was getting ready for bed and did topless jazz hands in delight

clarion · « **Reply #236 on:** 10 April, 2012, 10:40:15 pm »

I hope she will repeat that next time I see her

clarion · « **Reply #237 on:** 15 April, 2012, 09:50:15 pm »

Just to even things up, here's one that reminded me of you, Charlotte:

clarion · « **Reply #238 on:** 15 April, 2012, 09:50:48 pm »

And someone else:

Kim · « **Reply #239 on:** 15 April, 2012, 10:21:26 pm »

Ah good. My "Basil's Corner" didn't come out. And I unwittingly attracted too much attention from the bar staff while taking the photo to requisition the sign for the Country Girl.

Hang on a sec, is that Comic Sans?

clarion · « **Reply #240 on:** 16 April, 2012, 10:45:57 am »

I suppose it could also remind us of Eck(e)

clarion · « **Reply #241 on:** 16 April, 2012, 10:46:38 am »

Well, I think Tim is Top!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #242 on:** 19 April, 2012, 08:26:09 am »

Untitled by The Pingus, on Flickr

lou boutin · « **Reply #243 on:** 19 April, 2012, 02:12:12 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 21 March, 2012, 10:26:13 am

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #244 on:** 20 April, 2012, 12:18:41 am »

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #245 on:** 20 April, 2012, 12:23:17 am »

The text that goes with that is quite, sort of, interesting, too.

Quote

So a couple of summers ago, I was at Glade festival. It was fantastic, a nice friendly place with biassed cross-section of society. There were lots of people in outlandish getups, and there were stalls where you could costume yourself similarly. It was at this point that an increasing number of chubby girls started walking past wearing those tiny, glittery, fluffy fairy wings.

"Gah! You, you're not aerodynamic! If you were a REAL fairy you wouldn't be able to fly with those pissy little bloody wings!!! I'm gonna make a REAL pair of wings that I'd be able to fly with!!?!"

I then collapsed from a punctuation overdose. The idea was lodged though. I would make fairy wings to scale, or at least as near to scale as I could. And so I did - of course they weren't actually to scale, the wire wings would've collapsed under their own weight and I wouldn't have been able to move anywhere, but they had roughly a six foot wingspan and I was satisfied. They also flapped nicely if I wiggled my shoulders back and forth.

Here I am in a cafe with them on. Spot the aubergine.

LindaG · « **Reply #246 on:** 24 April, 2012, 07:56:15 pm »

This made me and Crusty think of Marj

jogler · « **Reply #247 on:** 24 April, 2012, 08:07:54 pm »

Having read about your day riding on Arran I need to find a sign that says "killincrusty"

AAMOF I used to have an avatar that was photographed by Marj of me standing by a Welsh sign saying
Dim Allen

Marj · « **Reply #248 on:** 24 April, 2012, 08:13:16 pm »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 24 April, 2012, 07:56:15 pm

This made me and Crusty think of Marj

Well only sometimes

LindaG · « **Reply #249 on:** 24 April, 2012, 08:17:08 pm »

Quote from: Marj on 24 April, 2012, 08:13:16 pm

Well only sometimes

Quote from: jogler on 24 April, 2012, 08:07:54 pm

Having read about your day riding on Arran I need to find a sign that says "killincrusty"

AAMOF I used to have an avatar that was photographed by Marj of me standing by a Welsh sign saying
Dim Allen

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