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ventaPottered down to London tonight, to meet an old school friend for dinner. Owing to train problems, I had to go via Waterloo, which meant catching the stopping train. One other commuter suggested that maybe the Winnersh Triangle (where it stops) is where all the missing/late trains go. I like this idea.
Occasionally I've seen people expressing the theory that ghosts are created when people die with a lot of negative energy/though directed against them. For example, someone dies with someone hating them particularly vehemently.
I reckon the fastest way to achieve this is to throw yourself in front of a train. OK, so maybe it doesn't have the intensity of one person really hating you, but just think of the low-level loathing you generate as you infuriate thousands of commuters.
RIP, whoever you were, in Slough this evening.
Having been diverted, because Slough was closed, I ended up catching the Northern line up from Waterloo. Someone had printed up small stickers, black on white, which fitted exactly on to the tube map and could be used to add breaks ("Mind the Gap"), dead ends, and loop-the-loops to the map showing the route of the Northern line. Now, these stickers had been carefully affixed so's not to obscure the station names; they didn't intefere with one's reading of the map. They were utterly harmless (unless you were seriously worried by the map indicating potential alien abduction in the Moorgate region). And they made me giggle after a very pestilent journey. That's my kind of graffiti.
And nearly 6 pounds for two pints?
Occasionally I've seen people expressing the theory that ghosts are created when people die with a lot of negative energy/though directed against them. For example, someone dies with someone hating them particularly vehemently.
I reckon the fastest way to achieve this is to throw yourself in front of a train. OK, so maybe it doesn't have the intensity of one person really hating you, but just think of the low-level loathing you generate as you infuriate thousands of commuters.
RIP, whoever you were, in Slough this evening.
Having been diverted, because Slough was closed, I ended up catching the Northern line up from Waterloo. Someone had printed up small stickers, black on white, which fitted exactly on to the tube map and could be used to add breaks ("Mind the Gap"), dead ends, and loop-the-loops to the map showing the route of the Northern line. Now, these stickers had been carefully affixed so's not to obscure the station names; they didn't intefere with one's reading of the map. They were utterly harmless (unless you were seriously worried by the map indicating potential alien abduction in the Moorgate region). And they made me giggle after a very pestilent journey. That's my kind of graffiti.
And nearly 6 pounds for two pints?
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In a sense, don't we all loop the loop at Clapham South?
Date: 2002-12-11 07:03 pm (UTC)If you do this Google and search the cache for the first result, then you will at least see the text of the web page, but the pictures don't work. However, if you go directly to the locations of the images, then they can still be found:
http://www.8letters.co.uk/images/blog/mindthegap.jpg
http://www.8letters.co.uk/images/blog/looptheloop.jpg
http://www.8letters.co.uk/images/blog/abduction.jpg
http://www.8letters.co.uk/images/blog/invaders.jpg
...and I am going to grab some local copies of said pix lest they disappear with the rest of the site. Have at ye, Iain Croll, for giving me some ethical questions about whether when someone takes a site down they have the right to take their particularly funny pictures with them or not.
Humph
Date: 2002-12-21 04:36 pm (UTC)Poot :(
Re: Humph
Date: 2002-12-21 07:17 pm (UTC)Anyway, you've got mail! I wouldn't normally go round spraying binaries willy-nilly without warning, but these are little and jolly. Poot ye not.
See also http://www.myrtle.co.uk/art/untergrund.gif which may amuse. ( Source: http://www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue46/ )
Re: Humph
Date: 2002-12-22 02:56 am (UTC)While I agree that it'd be absolutely no defence in a law court, I consider it acceptable to nick the images since I'm not going to *do* anything with them. If I were going to print up my own stickers, I'd agree it would be most dubious.
However, I've emailed the nice Mr Croll to ask him. Hey, he can only sue me :)
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Date: 2002-12-12 02:05 am (UTC)It's an iconic image, that map.