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« Reply #750 on: October 31, 2009, 02:39:38 am » |
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i mentioned this in another topic, but here it is;
it taking more time to remove your cool light fixtures, take them apart, change the bulb and put them back together, then re-hang them... than it does to drive to the store and buy new bulbs to begin with...
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« Reply #751 on: October 31, 2009, 06:36:29 am » |
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People telling you that "But Zeppelin!" is not a valid excuse for anything.
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« Reply #752 on: November 02, 2009, 02:09:02 am » |
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Getting odd looks from the family when I collect clock movements and bones for "projects". haven't got round to any yet. bah.
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« Reply #753 on: November 02, 2009, 02:16:25 pm » |
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Explaining to a young woman who spends the afternoon that, no, just because I am in possession of a nice china tea set and use it whilst entertaining guests does NOT mean I'm a homosexual, the same goes for my tea collection, my scarf, my aftershave lotions, and the battle axe that's leaning against the closet door not ten feet from where you're sitting.
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« Reply #754 on: November 02, 2009, 02:22:19 pm » |
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Explaining to a young woman who spends the afternoon that, no, just because I am in possession of a nice china tea set and use it whilst entertaining guests does NOT mean I'm a homosexual, the same goes for my tea collection, my scarf, my aftershave lotions, and the battle axe that's leaning against the closet door not ten feet from where you're sitting.
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C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
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« Reply #755 on: November 02, 2009, 02:52:45 pm » |
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Explaining to a young woman who spends the afternoon that, no, just because I am in possession of a nice china tea set and use it whilst entertaining guests does NOT mean I'm a homosexual, the same goes for my tea collection, my scarf, my aftershave lotions, and the battle axe that's leaning against the closet door not ten feet from where you're sitting.
I think a nice China tea set is a must when entertaining guests, and of course you'd need a good selection of tea to go with it.  |
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"She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their hearts.
They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds.
Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest." ~Phouka
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« Reply #756 on: November 02, 2009, 03:24:57 pm » |
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As do I, though apparently modern convention works against us...
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« Reply #757 on: November 02, 2009, 05:33:06 pm » |
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i own a tea set, but i rarely use it... hm, i should steampunk my coffee pot...
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« Reply #758 on: November 02, 2009, 06:58:47 pm » |
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Only a Steampunk would enquire as to the possibility of having 'a bit of that old cast iron pipe' when they notice that Victorian water mains are being replaced. As is happening in West London right now.
The 'problem' subsequently experienced lies with the odd looks and difficult questions such a request usually generates amongst the work gang and the foreman aimed at said Steampunk.
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #760 on: November 04, 2009, 07:46:56 pm » |
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Ironically, the thread currently sitting immediately beneath this one is entitled: How do I get brass stains out of a white shirt?  Which sounds pretty much like a problem only steampunks have! |
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #761 on: November 05, 2009, 08:16:47 pm » |
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Your chatelaine getting tangled with the birdcage you're using as a handbag.
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« Reply #762 on: November 06, 2009, 03:50:54 am » |
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Dear Steamblast Mary,
Wondering what on earth to do with a ducks behind qualifies as a problem that possibly only steampunks have...
Vienna
(If anyone is curious, the answers to that dilemma are in an appropriately titled thread in Anatomical).
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« Reply #763 on: November 06, 2009, 07:47:54 am » |
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I gave up on that thread as soon as the puns went from bad to worse.
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« Reply #764 on: November 06, 2009, 09:40:02 am » |
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Only a Steampunk would enquire as to the possibility of having 'a bit of that old cast iron pipe' when they notice that Victorian water mains are being replaced. As is happening in West London right now.
The 'problem' subsequently experienced lies with the odd looks and difficult questions such a request usually generates amongst the work gang and the foreman aimed at said Steampunk.
Ah been there, got the pipe and destroyed the wire brush trying to scrub the "bitumen" lining. Only it wasn't bitumen, but it was a lining of sorts. The lesson is to ask what kind of pipe has been dug up. |
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« Reply #765 on: November 06, 2009, 10:42:31 am » |
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Wondering whether to wear the kinky boots, the Victorian wooden soled boots, or the piratical collar top boots to an event this weekend. Decisions, decisions
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There is nothing that cannot be made a little worse and sold a little cheaper
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« Reply #766 on: November 08, 2009, 01:56:45 pm » |
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I'm sure its not a solely steampunk issue, but I cannot find any floor length dresses or skirts ANYWHERE, let alone in a colour, fabric or size I want. I would love a floor length black satin circle skirt that I can wear a puffy tulle petticoat underneath, but nooooo.....
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« Reply #767 on: November 08, 2009, 03:12:04 pm » |
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Explaining to the staff at the local RC hobby shop that the multiple model airplane engines you're looking for are not for several individual airplanes or a bomber model, but for an actual gas-cell model airship, and having to tell them where to get the helium, knowing full well that they will tell all of their friends and so on, and that come tim eto fill your cells, the source you were going to use has become swamped with back-orders for cylinders for party balloons...
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Walk softly and carry a big banjo...
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« Reply #768 on: November 08, 2009, 08:24:32 pm » |
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Your Significant Other, who is normally so supportive of my hobbies, nearly has a heart attack when he finds a dead fox in the back garden (good thing it didn't fit in the freezer after all, I suppose.)
Ah, is this the "problems only steampunks have" thread? Sorry, I was looking for the "problems only mad people have" thread.
Edit: I have been informed that badgers, even dead ones, are protected, thus it is actually a FOX I'm working on.
What do they protect dead badgers FROM, anyway?
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
Governor
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Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #769 on: November 08, 2009, 08:54:44 pm » |
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My ladyfriend's sister has a dead badger, and the aforementioned ladyfriend has a spectacular interest in the preservation of wildlife.
Preferably in formaldehyde.
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« Reply #770 on: November 09, 2009, 12:22:35 am » |
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"Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!!"( Sorry- it was just hanging there....  ) ~T |
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Yet well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide, with that innate, untaught philosophy,Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, is gall and wormwood to an enemy.
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« Reply #771 on: November 09, 2009, 06:39:22 pm » |
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All of those pesky Countries with their interfering laws and their separatist Governmental policies protecting their ‘Individuality’ by constantly standing in your way for Global Domination!
Hmm, must develop mind-control gas.
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"You, sir, are getting my dander up!"
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« Reply #772 on: November 09, 2009, 07:53:26 pm » |
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Having an uncoordinated moment and tripping over your cane/umbrella.
Also: Finding somewhere convenient to prop your cane/umbrella when sitting down to a meal (or anything else).
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"Won't you come back again? I miss the sound of footsteps as we danced amidst the stars and the light of a dawn approaching too quickly reflected in our eyes."
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« Reply #773 on: November 09, 2009, 08:49:19 pm » |
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When being too unskilled and lacking resources to make your own, being unable to find suitably baggy trousers that are A) Black/Brown and B) have enough pockets on them that allow the mass collection of loose odds and ends the "Normal Folk" don't use
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« Reply #774 on: November 09, 2009, 11:38:22 pm » |
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No hat racks in pubs anymore
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