the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.
Also Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie novels.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2003 2:40:30 pm PST #2369 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:44:00 pm PST #2370 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod, Betsy. Which, mad props to them, but that was like "their" England, not necessarily the one Fay gets up in now. But they did increase my curiosity about places I hadn't been to, which is good for teenagers, I think.
Fay - Feb 28, 2003 4:11:57 pm PST #2371 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I got the impression that the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.
Bwah!
John H - Feb 28, 2003 9:51:14 pm PST #2372 of 9843
Well exactly.
But that has actually reminded me of Steve Earle's song "Johnny Come Lately" which I love.
When I first got to London it was pourin' down rain
Met a little girl in the field canteen
Painted her name on the nose of my plane
Six more missions I'm gone
[...] Well they can ship me all over this great big world
But I'll never find nothing like my North End girl
I'm taking you home with me one day, Shirl
Soon as we win this war
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 9:55:07 pm PST #2373 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
(John, yr current tag is
ThereÕs no such thing as a soul! ItÕs just something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogie Man or Michael Jackson.
with those third-drawer apostrophes.)
John H - Feb 28, 2003 9:57:23 pm PST #2374 of 9843
Sorry! I'm fixing it as we speak. And, ha!, with the third-drawer thing.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 9:59:10 pm PST #2375 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
And, ha!, with the third-drawer thing.
Stealing other people's lines. It's what I do.
John H - Feb 28, 2003 10:03:37 pm PST #2376 of 9843
Got to go, back later, and/or talk tomorrow, I hope.
DavidS - Mar 01, 2003 9:18:41 pm PST #2377 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They have a wonderful playground in the middle of downtown San Francisco. It's all foamy, don't-hurt-if-you-fall-on-it & it has fun, windy slides and sand for making messes. We took the niece and nephew there & had a ball.
Children's Playground in Golden Gate Park (10 minutes from my house) is the oldest public playground in the country. They've got see-saws and the merry-go-round things (as well as an actual Carousel). Emmett and I frequent something like six different playgrounds all walkable from my house.
Also, playground culture is alive and kicking at Emmett's school and aftercare. He plays a variation on the above mentioned Peg called Slaughterhouse.
Four-square was the big game when I was growing up. I once held serve against a line of 23 girls, which was considered an important moral victory in 3rd grade.
Fay, I surely hope you got Conversations With Dead People on tape. It's definitely a season highlight.
Jon B. - Mar 01, 2003 9:25:10 pm PST #2378 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Children's Playground in Golden Gate Park (10 minutes from my house) is the oldest public playground in the country.
Is that the one we went to, Hec?