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The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul…
Posted on March 7th, 2010 No comments
It’s not quite 4pm yet, but I have firmly entered what Douglas Adam’s coined “The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul”. The part of a Sunday afternoon when:
that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2.55, when you know that you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
Being stuck in Vientiane – possibly the most laid back capital on the planet – on a Sunday with nothing to do as there is nothing open has brought me closer to the “long dark…” than I have ever experienced before, and I have had some awful Sundays.
Seriously kill me now.
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Hell is…
Posted on January 26th, 2010 No commentsSo, its been said by someone, somewhere, much wiser than me, that “Hell is other people”, they obviously had never transited airports on long haul flights; its made me change “Hell is..”, to Hell is other people when found en mass in airports.
Seems people have an inability to walk in straight lines, follow obvious – REALLY OBVIOUS sign-age, not understand they can pay with nearly any currency at the checkouts in airport stores, and the really big one of mine: FAIL TO listen to simple instructions when it comes to boarding procedures.
Now it could be argued that they have been on the go for too many hours, have been dealing with their raucous and unruly offspring, have not travelled before or are just generally worn out by the never-ending amount of security BS airline travellers seem to have to put up with these days, however if I, the most impatient person in the world can get through it with a modicum of common-sense and without turning into a gibbering mess that does all the above, then why cannot the rest of travelling humanity? Or are we doomed?
People in airports really are Hell. Milton & Bosch just fluffed it.
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I am this old school…
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 No comments… Love it or hate it, you are old school if you heard this way back when:
A bloody HUGE tune back in my younger days, and even now it evokes such powerful, yet GOOD memories in my that I smile for hours after hearing it.
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Are you old school?
Posted on May 14th, 2009 No commentsWhile it has an American bent to it, I read this through and as it turns out, I am pretty old school!
You are Old School if………………………………….
U remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain , and Two Stupid Dogs.
You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!
You just cant resist finishing this… “Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born and raised…”
You remember TGIF on ABC. Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.
You remember when, 2Pac and Selena died.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading “Goosebumps”
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence…Not…
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record “Your FAVORITE song of ALL time”
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You remember when super nintendo’s and Sega Genisis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos… but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3……..and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”
You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.
You remember when Yomega Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where’s Waldo books..
You remember the special effects on Mortal Kombat and thought they were the coolest thing ever!
U remember eating Warheads.(those sour candys)
You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.
U remember Ring Pops.
U remember drinkin’ Fruitopia and Surge.
if you memeber when every thing was “da BOMB”
when they made the new lunchables so that you could make tacos and pizza!!
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
Writing M.A.S.H. notes. (and the twenty different versions of that)
Making those little paper fortune cookie things.. and then predicting your life with them.
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell”
You played and/or collected “Pogs”
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers,and Ninja Turtles.
You had a favorite New Kid on the block, and you knew all of there names
Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and talking Elmo were always sold out.
You collected those Beanie Babies.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls
You owned a portable tape player.
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
You know the Macarena by heart.
You remember “American Gladiators” and watched it like a religion.
“Talk to the hand” … enough said
You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”
You know the significance of the number 23.
You went to McD’s to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds…at the play ground.
When we were younger:
Before the MySpace frenzy…
Before the Internet & text messaging…
Before Sidekicks & iPods…
Before MIKE JONES…
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX…
Before Sponge Bob
…Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs .
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.
When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.
When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
Way back.
when it was all about N64.
WHEN MAKING OUT WAS HAVING SEX
WHEN YOU TRADED POKEMON CARDS FOR A LIVING
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear
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Explore. Dream. Discover.
Posted on May 4th, 2009 No commentsTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark TwainWhat an amazing quote, really strikes a chord with me this evening while I plan flight options and mull over adding in a month in India to my trip too!
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Not my words…
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 No commentsBut I really love these by Shakespeare. They really hit home today.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England



