On Thursdays I am a man of my word

[venta]

Spot question for the day:

Without googling, does the following phrase mean anything to anybody ?

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

The V&A definitely have casts of the whole thing, so I'm pretty sure you've seen it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Indeed - the whole thing is an amazing monument to the Victorian vicotry of determination over sensibleness :)

Although the Victorian outlook did have some strange and terrible results overseas, there is also something rather splendid about a mindset that just can't grasp that there may be things it can't achieve.

My favourite example of this is the White Horse (http://www.mikekipling.com/yorkshire_moors/ky4033.htm) at Kilburn (that's N Yorks, not N London!) To celebrate Victoria's jubilee, someone decided to cut a white horse into the hillside.

Some impertinent local pointed out that, er, it wasn't actually, er, a chalk area, and so, er, a white horse wasn't possible.

They cut the white horse anyway, and it (still) gets whitewashed every year :)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

They were definitely people with high ideals, that's for sure.

The white horse story is great, although if I didn't know from you that it was real, I'd be yelling 'Photoshop' on seeing the particular picture you linked to.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er, it does look a bit fake, doesn't it ? So does this one (http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/images/html/aerials_UK_historical_sites/hill_figures/pages/AWDS_hill_figure028.htm) :(

It is real, though, honest, I've walked round it! And, if you accept teeny-tiny-white-blob-on-hills-over-there you can see if from trains running on the East coast mainline (look East about 15 minutes south of Darlington).