Birthday Happies Kathy A and Raq!!
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2009 5:40:52 am PDT #11856 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2009 5:45:42 am PDT #11857 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Pub evacuated after Monty Python prop mistaken for grenade
Water company engineers spotted the object when they lifted up a fire hydrant cover during work on a street in Shoreditch, east London.
The road was cordoned off and a nearby pub was evacuated amid fears that the "grenade" could explode.
But after nearly an hour of analysis bomb experts realised that the cause of the scare was in fact a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used by Eric Idle to slaughter a killer rabbit in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
The fictional weapon looks more like a golden ornament than a hand grenade; it was based on the Sovereign's Orb used at royal coronations.
The prop has become a popular in-joke among Python fans and replicas can be bought on eBay for as little as £14.
An spokeswoman for Islington police confirmed that the device was a toy and that had been no danger to the public
Local businesses criticised the police for taking so long to realise there was no threat.
Alberto Romanelli, owner of the Windmill put that was evacuated, said: "I lost a good hour's worth of business."
It took them an hour to figure out what it was?
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Trudy Booth - Mar 23, 2009 5:46:15 am PDT #11858 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It took them an hour to figure out what it was?
I don't think you just start hacking at the thing to find out if it explodes.
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2009 5:48:18 am PDT #11859 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But surely someone in the bomb disposal squad must have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 5:50:44 am PDT #11860 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Happy Birthday Kathy!
Happy Birthday Raq!
tommyrot - Mar 23, 2009 6:05:01 am PDT #11861 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mary's Monday Metazoan: more slugs!
Those are some weird-ass slugs. Also, this might be a picture of hot slug-on-slug action, but I'm not sure....
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 6:07:51 am PDT #11862 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
The kids had their first soccer games Saturday.
They both had a really good time.
Sobering thought, that girl playing soccer looked like this when I first joined the Buffistas back in the Table Talk days.
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Jesse - Mar 23, 2009 6:08:33 am PDT #11863 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
TCBITW!!
Gudanov - Mar 23, 2009 6:13:56 am PDT #11864 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
TCBITW!!
I think that is the exact same picture I used from way back then.
Theodosia - Mar 23, 2009 6:21:17 am PDT #11865 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Remember the new consignment shop that I emailed hoping they'd trade a piece of costume jewelry for an extensive and professional-level web page redesign?
They're not interested.
- It currently looks sort of like this:
- My tentative redesign looked like this:
At least I got some practice in, but geeze Louise.