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vivaldirules · 11-18-2009, 04:38 PM

Well, this is absolutely all I could get from the sports news out of France. Cause for celebration??

"France are in their traditional blue kit while the visiting Irish are in white shirts with green shorts."

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Well, this is absolutely all I could get from the sports news out of France. Cause for celebration??

"France are in their traditional blue kit while the visiting Irish are in white shirts with green shorts."

for some people, that probably is sufficient, yes.

pshrynk · 11-18-2009, 04:49 PM

France is the epicenter of the fashion universe, after all.

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

France is the epicenter of the fashion universe, after all.

exactly. because football is all about the... ah... fashion...

Crowl · 11-18-2009, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

well all right then. thanks for the info. i could have sworn those things were only every 4 years, but i really seems like there was one not that long ago. i must be confused.

The world cup is every 4 years, but 2 years after each one of them are the european championships.

Not much longer now and its all finished until next summer as far as the internationals are concerned.

pilotbob · 11-18-2009, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

if there was no sport on television tonight, i should probably be worried, because the only other explanation i could think of for that much noise is mass rioting.

They're celebrating the Coup d'état.

BOb

Crowl · 11-18-2009, 05:45 PM

After such blatant cheating hopefully the sounds you are hearing are irish fans going on a rampage.

kindlekitten · 11-18-2009, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

exactly. because football is all about the... ah... fashion...

go ahead and laugh! I was at a Search and Rescue Academy in the 90s in Montana. typically I would show up for training in fatigue pants, a denim sort of shirt, kneepads, hiking boots.... yada yada. the director of the seminar was always dressed to impress and totally did not look like she was suited for a day in the woods. someone made a remark about it once and her very loud response was; "there is no reason we cannot make a fashion statement". morale tanked after that!

DMcCunney · 11-18-2009, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

go ahead and laugh! I was at a Search and Rescue Academy in the 90s in Montana. typically I would show up for training in fatigue pants, a denim sort of shirt, kneepads, hiking boots.... yada yada. the director of the seminar was always dressed to impress and totally did not look like she was suited for a day in the woods. someone made a remark about it once and her very loud response was; "there is no reason we cannot make a fashion statement". morale tanked after that!

And had she ever in fact been on a Search andd Rescue mission, let alone led one?

I get a strong sense of "unfit to hold her position", with various snarky suggestions about how she got it waiting in the wings...
______
Dennis

kindlekitten · 11-18-2009, 08:35 PM

there were a LOT of problems with that training, that was the tip of the iceberg

nomesque · 11-18-2009, 08:59 PM

BAHAHAHA...

My 'Red Riding Hood' short story is the top result given if I google "werewolf on bike with red riding hood"

(geez, the things people search on! And the things I google just out of curiousity to try to work out what someone might actually have been looking for...)

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Fine. But no trousers, Patricia.

pfff. as if the chief of police would dare take on patricia. trousers or no trousers.

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

You made the right choice Patricia. Our party is going to be much more fun anyway

definitely.

zelda_pinwheel · 11-18-2009, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by nomesque

BAHAHAHA...

My 'Red Riding Hood' short story is the top result given if I google "werewolf on bike with red riding hood"

(geez, the things people search on! And the things I google just out of curiousity to try to work out what someone might actually have been looking for...)

a blog i used to read would list the most outrageous search requests that would link to it. after he'd done that for a while he started a contest where people had to try to *invent* the most outrageous search result which would link to it. it was one of the best things on the blog.

montsnmags · 11-19-2009, 03:26 AM

Right now I am lying on my hotel bed, window open, listening to the city intersection six floors below (with amusement when it peakhour gridlocks, and everyone breaks out their mighty car-horns to solve it). I can hear traffic, people, the buzz of pedestrian lights, ans muffled music from either the pool hall across the road, the cafe-bar on the opposite corner, or the other bar around the corner (or maybe it's from one of the many other places and eateries around - it's hard to tell).

The city is noisy! I'd forgotten. The window closed would block it out but... it has its pleasant aspects, at least while I'm not watching crap on telly.

Today I bought a kilo of CDmusic (or thereabouts). Remembering that I am not one to give a flying fark about what people might think of my own taste in music, nor those who consider such taste as defining me as a person (I reach stratospheric realms of don't-give-a-farkery rarely reached by those with a pulse), I present to you the contents of my purchase:

Rufus Wainwright - Want One
Spice Girls - Greatest Hits (don't go there, girlfriend!)
Kate Miller Heidke - Little Eve
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Soundtrack - Across The Universe
Rufus Wainwright - Milwaukee At Last!!! (with bonus DVD)

About half of these were a direct result of posts by some of you folk (who knew Zelda was such a massive Spice Girls fan, hey?).

I found the latest Peter Fox CD but, being a "special import" they wanted AUS$52 for it. Bugger that - I'll have to check out some European (German perhaps?) websites and hope they have an "English" button.

The horn section down below has started up again. Amusing.

I do miss the blue-green, warm peace of home, but if I'm going to be away, then I don't want a poor facsimile - this roaring orchestra of angry-light-and-sound cityscape is a satisfactory alternative. By tomorrow night I'll be craving Loved company, the calming swell of clear sea, the gentle chatter of birdlife, and the green-under-bluest-blue of a Noosa life.

Time for 2-minute noodles and some telly. Obligation-free rest & relexation, with a chance of reading to round it out.

Tomorrow...photography (iphonography most likely).

Cheers,
Marc

montsnmags · 11-19-2009, 03:30 AM

...oh, and I hear the occasional whrrrr of the monorail. Just thought I should mention that, for The Simpsons fans.

11-18-2009, 04:38 PM	#9676
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Well, this is absolutely all I could get from the sports news out of France. Cause for celebration?? "France are in their traditional blue kit while the visiting Irish are in white shirts with green shorts."

11-18-2009, 04:49 PM	#9678
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	France is the epicenter of the fashion universe, after all.

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Crowl Wizard Posts: 1,340 Karma: 1160346 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Southport, GB Device: Kindle Voyage, PW Signature edition	After such blatant cheating hopefully the sounds you are hearing are irish fans going on a rampage.

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	there were a LOT of problems with that training, that was the tip of the iceberg

11-18-2009, 08:59 PM	#9686
nomesque Snooty Bestselling Author Posts: 1,485 Karma: 1000000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Ipswich, QLD, Australia Device: PRS-650	BAHAHAHA... My 'Red Riding Hood' short story is the top result given if I google "werewolf on bike with red riding hood" (geez, the things people search on! And the things I google just out of curiousity to try to work out what someone might actually have been looking for...)

11-19-2009, 03:26 AM	#9689
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Right now I am lying on my hotel bed, window open, listening to the city intersection six floors below (with amusement when it peakhour gridlocks, and everyone breaks out their mighty car-horns to solve it). I can hear traffic, people, the buzz of pedestrian lights, ans muffled music from either the pool hall across the road, the cafe-bar on the opposite corner, or the other bar around the corner (or maybe it's from one of the many other places and eateries around - it's hard to tell). The city is noisy! I'd forgotten. The window closed would block it out but... it has its pleasant aspects, at least while I'm not watching crap on telly. Today I bought a kilo of CDmusic (or thereabouts). Remembering that I am not one to give a flying fark about what people might think of my own taste in music, nor those who consider such taste as defining me as a person (I reach stratospheric realms of don't-give-a-farkery rarely reached by those with a pulse), I present to you the contents of my purchase: Rufus Wainwright - Want One Spice Girls - Greatest Hits (don't go there, girlfriend!) Kate Miller Heidke - Little Eve Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate Soundtrack - Across The Universe Rufus Wainwright - Milwaukee At Last!!! (with bonus DVD) About half of these were a direct result of posts by some of you folk (who knew Zelda was such a massive Spice Girls fan, hey?). I found the latest Peter Fox CD but, being a "special import" they wanted AUS$52 for it. Bugger that - I'll have to check out some European (German perhaps?) websites and hope they have an "English" button. The horn section down below has started up again. Amusing. I do miss the blue-green, warm peace of home, but if I'm going to be away, then I don't want a poor facsimile - this roaring orchestra of angry-light-and-sound cityscape is a satisfactory alternative. By tomorrow night I'll be craving Loved company, the calming swell of clear sea, the gentle chatter of birdlife, and the green-under-bluest-blue of a Noosa life. Time for 2-minute noodles and some telly. Obligation-free rest & relexation, with a chance of reading to round it out. Tomorrow...photography (iphonography most likely). Cheers, Marc

11-19-2009, 03:30 AM	#9690
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	...oh, and I hear the occasional whrrrr of the monorail. Just thought I should mention that, for The Simpsons fans.