- footle
- Pilgrim
- From: London, England
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Re: Tour question...
Yes, I've heard that as you drive north past Watford you find that people start struggling with numbers greater than 5.
"The classic Mail headline which begins 'Is this the Most Evil/Depraved/Shocking...?' can almost always be answered 'actually, no'." - Andrew Marr
- Jaime
- Pilgrim
- From: Wilmington, NC
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 11441
Re: Tour question...
Miiru wrote:800 miles... And swinging up to get Jaime first adds almost 300.
370 miles here, 700 miles there.
And back.
But you can crash on my cushy futon with furry critters who love you, and we can sing at the top of our lungs all the way there and back!
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
-- Heinlein
- Jendaiya
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 21821
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Re: Tour question...
Is someone gonna come pick me up, or shall I hitchhike? ;)
Beauty will save the world.
~Prince Myshkin,
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
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Re: Tour question...
Hitchhike, Jen! Then write a book! :D
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Calesta
- Pilgrim
- From: Calgary
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 13321
Re: Tour question...
...and sell it to your new customers in the bookstore :)
- Bonefish
- Pilgrim
- From: East Lansing, MI
- Registered: 2004-08-29
- Posts: 5
Re: Tour question...
Tad,
Is Michigan an option?
bonefish
- Jendaiya
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 21821
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Re: Tour question...
Miiru wrote:Hitchhike, Jen! Then write a book! :D
And I'll call it 'The Hitchhikers Guide to Getting Lost Between Here and There and Back Again.'
Beauty will save the world.
~Prince Myshkin,
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- wiked
- Pilgrim
- From: the land of ice and snow
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 7490
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Re: Tour question...
or just call On the Road that goes ever on, a Travilog
Slave of the lizard king
Master of the esoteric arts
He's exciting in a "here come the Magyrs" kinda way
- Stuart
- Pilgrim
- From: Yorkshire
- Registered: 2002-07-08
- Posts: 3736
Re: Tour question...
footle wrote:Yes, I've heard that as you drive north past Watford you find that people start struggling with numbers greater than 5.
It is apparent that both semantics and sarcasm are wasted on some people. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than passing that line on my way home each week, assuming you are referring to the more traditional "north south divide" Watford, with the gap, over the generally better known one!
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- MoP
- Pilgrim
- From: Brisbane, Australia
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 6019
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Re: Tour question...
Tad, you wouldn't want to do a special signing would you? Say sometime between October 12 and October 17...as an added bonus I'll be in SF during those dates so you wouldn't have to travel at all!
BTW I'm just joking ;-)
I'm hungry
- lloer
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham
- Registered: 2001-10-08
- Posts: 805
Re: Tour question...
If the British tour's not until 2005 then it's probable that I will be in France by then :(
Rennes is a nice place though...
(nearest big city to where I hope to be in 2005)
Lloer
Free the West Memphis Three -www.wm3.org Y Lloeren - my blog
- Venkelos
- Pilgrim
- From: In England but my heart is in
- Registered: 2001-06-10
- Posts: 14873
Re: Tour question...
footle wrote:Yes, I've heard that as you drive north past Watford you find that people start struggling with numbers greater than 5.
Nyah, it`s when they pass ten where they get into trouble. That`s when they get arrested for indecent exposure ;)
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- Stuart
- Pilgrim
- From: Yorkshire
- Registered: 2002-07-08
- Posts: 3736
Re: Tour question...
For taking your socks off?
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- Venkelos
- Pilgrim
- From: In England but my heart is in
- Registered: 2001-06-10
- Posts: 14873
Re: Tour question...
You guys wear socks? Hmmm that explains my brother`s insistence the figure was twenty one ;)
WILD MAGIC LADY FORUMSend a Cow"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw - "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -
- Stuart
- Pilgrim
- From: Yorkshire
- Registered: 2002-07-08
- Posts: 3736
Re: Tour question...
They stop our clogs giving us blisters, it's also quite cold in our only professions, either on a fishing boat or on the streets.
If we're so thick oop north how come I keep having to come down south and doing your jobs for you?
*makes good sparks in a lowry stylee*
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- Captain Roberto Fruitbat
- Pilgrim
- From: Berlin
- Registered: 2001-06-08
- Posts: 1314
Re: Tour question...
insects are not always
going to be bullied
by humanity
some day they will revolt
i am already organizing
a revolutionary society to be
known as the worms turnverein
- Stuart
- Pilgrim
- From: Yorkshire
- Registered: 2002-07-08
- Posts: 3736
Re: Tour question...
ten toes, ten fingers, and five penises! My underpants fit like a glove, the old ones are the oldest!!
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- footle
- Pilgrim
- From: London, England
- Registered: 2001-06-12
- Posts: 3164
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Re: Tour question...
Stuart wrote:It is apparent that both semantics and sarcasm are wasted on some people. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than passing that line on my way home each week, assuming you are referring to the more traditional "north south divide" Watford, with the gap, over the generally better known one!
It's a tricky one to pinpoint, to get your sarcasm *just* right...
I've never really understood why we have the two Watfords.
"The classic Mail headline which begins 'Is this the Most Evil/Depraved/Shocking...?' can almost always be answered 'actually, no'." - Andrew Marr
- Ad1tu
- Pilgrim
- From: Buffalo
- Registered: 2004-02-22
- Posts: 2489
Re: Tour question...
footle wrote:I've never really understood why we have the two Watfords.
The same reason Ohio has a Paris, I s'pose.
If you should do what makes you happy, and no one can tell you what makes you happy, then that means no one can tell you what to do!
- Firsfron of Ronchester
- Mantis
- From: Ronchester
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 9187
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Re: Tour question...
Then why does Ohio have two New Havens? And two Londonderrys? And two Waterfords? And two Williamsports? And two White Oaks? Etc, etc. The list of duplicate town names in Ohio is nearly endless.
It seems to me the town founders of Ohio were quite unimaginative.
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
- Posts: 14675
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Re: Tour question...
It's Ohio. Not intending to offend anyone, I promise, but there is REALLY not a lot there to spark the imagination. *g*
New York just stole most of its town names from the local natives. Half the municipalities in that state are virtually unpronounceable.
I do miss it. :D
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Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Ad1tu
- Pilgrim
- From: Buffalo
- Registered: 2004-02-22
- Posts: 2489
Re: Tour question...
Miiru wrote:It's Ohio. Not intending to offend anyone, I promise, but there is REALLY not a lot there to spark the imagination. *g*
New York just stole most of its town names from the local natives. Half the municipalities in that state are virtually unpronounceable.
I do miss it. :D
Yeah, well, we have the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame! So ha! That just makes up for lack of unimaginitive names. We were busy concentrating on who was better at playing music :P
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If you should do what makes you happy, and no one can tell you what makes you happy, then that means no one can tell you what to do!
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
- Posts: 14675
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Re: Tour question...
Rotten woman, you've immortalised my distracted lapse into html. *wg*
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Ad1tu
- Pilgrim
- From: Buffalo
- Registered: 2004-02-22
- Posts: 2489
Re: Tour question...
I fixed it :P 'Course I coulda been mean and *not* fix it.. but I'm just nice like that :D
If you should do what makes you happy, and no one can tell you what makes you happy, then that means no one can tell you what to do!
- Firsfron of Ronchester
- Mantis
- From: Ronchester
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 9187
- Website
Re: Tour question...
Miiru wrote:It's Ohio. Not intending to offend anyone, I promise, but there is REALLY not a lot there to spark the imagination. *g*
That can't be the answer. Not entirely, at least: Nevada has no towns with duplicate names. I've driven thru both Nevada and Ohio. Believe me: aside from the casinos (in two Nevada cities), Ohio's 100 times more exciting.
At the very least.
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