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« Reply #1125 on: May 10, 2011, 09:34:51 am » |
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How the hell do you fit 2 pith helmets, a top hat and a ball gown and a clockwork rifle into a small two seat sports car.
That's smaller than a couple of elephant's, surely? |
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« Reply #1126 on: May 10, 2011, 02:05:44 pm » |
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I don't see a problem here at all....unless You intend to also drive said sportscar?
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"...it was here just a minute ago!" Motto of the lovely Lady Guinevere Meander
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« Reply #1127 on: May 11, 2011, 09:42:48 pm » |
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How the hell do you fit 2 pith helmets, a top hat and a ball gown and a clockwork rifle into a small two seat sports car.
By using afore mentioned rifle to turn the small two seat sports car into a convertible. |
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DAG-NABBIT...I cut it and cut it and cut it... an it's STILL TOO SHORT!
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« Reply #1128 on: May 12, 2011, 03:38:50 pm » |
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Rob you need a trailer.
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There is nothing that cannot be made a little worse and sold a little cheaper
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« Reply #1129 on: May 12, 2011, 04:01:36 pm » |
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Rob you need a trailer.
With a tail gunner's seat. |
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« Reply #1130 on: May 12, 2011, 07:02:59 pm » |
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Rob you need a trailer.
With a tail gunner's seat. Someone NEEDS to do this! It would certainly help deal with tailgaters |
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If tha knows about a better 'ole then tha can get thi sen in it!
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« Reply #1131 on: June 19, 2011, 11:04:13 pm » |
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Unbeknownst to you, your spouse uses your hair- curling apparatus to make a mind-transfer machine.
In a related vein - you're never quite sure what your darling husband (in my case Clym Angus - Lord of Misrule) has in mind when he says he's building a new garden shed. You're also never quite sure what he intends to do inside said garden shed. Your four-year-old daughter: a) keeps telling her friends that her mummy and daddy like to play with trains b) gets equally excited about a pair of lace-up 'stompy boots' and a pair of Dora the Explorer trainers c) insists that whenever you make her a new dress, that you also make one for her dolly |
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« Reply #1132 on: June 20, 2011, 12:46:32 am » |
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ahh - the old "car is not big enough" problem
I found if you roll as many of the clothes as you can they take up less space than if you fold them (of course you don't want to do that to the ball gown)
socks and undies fit IN the hats and if you forget about suitcases and just pack into soft sacks you can squish more in....
(from the SCA Pennsic packer....)
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« Reply #1133 on: June 20, 2011, 09:34:36 am » |
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ahh - the old "car is not big enough" problem
I found if you roll as many of the clothes as you can they take up less space than if you fold them (of course you don't want to do that to the ball gown)
socks and undies fit IN the hats and if you forget about suitcases and just pack into soft sacks you can squish more in....
(from the SCA Pennsic packer....)
It's amazing how many people you can fit into a Peugeot 205! I had four plus plus outfits for a small portion of the journey back from the Asylum last year. Golly that was fun! This year I have a slightly bigger car, but I suspect it will still be a tight squeeze because inevitably we will all take more with us!!!!! |
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« Reply #1134 on: June 26, 2011, 03:12:24 pm » |
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oh I forgot a good tip
if you have clothes that are ready for the bin - take these on the trip for traveling and such
you don't have to repack them to take home - just bin them where you are.
leaves room to bring neat stuff home.
(think of the room undies, jeans and shirts take up...)
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« Reply #1135 on: June 27, 2011, 12:43:41 pm » |
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Getting into WWIII sized blowouts with your significant other because you put your latest "yet to be stuffed" taxidermy subject in the freezer.
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"Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That all is not gold that glitters, and two and two make four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more."~Kipling; 1919
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« Reply #1136 on: June 27, 2011, 03:02:15 pm » |
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Getting into WWIII sized blowouts with your significant other because you put your latest "yet to be stuffed" taxidermy subject in the freezer.
My mum got annoyed at me when I used one of her brand new plastic tubs to freeze a Kingfisher that had broken it's neck on our window....But the man on the phone said get it in the freezer immediatly and I think she would have complained more if I'd just popped it next to the ice cream.  |
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« Reply #1137 on: June 27, 2011, 03:06:41 pm » |
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things in my freezer: film rolls, linen table cloth,shoes, filled with water bags for reshaping.....NM
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« Reply #1138 on: June 27, 2011, 04:59:26 pm » |
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Rob you need a trailer.
With a tail gunner's seat. Someone NEEDS to do this! It would certainly help deal with tailgaters And Alligators. |
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What do we want? Decapitations!
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« Reply #1139 on: June 29, 2011, 10:55:03 pm » |
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Thank you! I had been working on a design for a sort-of-balcony, something like the observation platform on the rear of a Pullman train car, to put on the back of The Beast (aka the Frumious Bandersnatch, or Captain Lyerly's Shooting Brake) in order to make it more comfortable and useful. This idea - the tailgunner's position - would give it the... a sort of... well, as the French say, a certain " I don't know what". I don't think it would be legal to drive on a road with someone in that position - Darn, I guess I will have to go off-road!  Thanks again Chas. |
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« Reply #1140 on: June 30, 2011, 12:31:42 am » |
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things in my freezer: film rolls, linen table cloth,shoes, filled with water bags for reshaping.....NM
smug Guin
Wait, shoes filled with water bags for reshaping? Did I read that right? How does that work? I actually have a pair of shoes that are a little to small on me... |
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« Reply #1141 on: June 30, 2011, 03:06:02 am » |
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I've got an earworm stuck in my head.
It's "With Cat-Like Tread" from Pirates of Penzance.
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« Reply #1142 on: June 30, 2011, 11:39:23 am » |
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I've got an earworm stuck in my head.
It's "With Cat-Like Tread" from Pirates of Penzance.
Ah "to supplement our Piracy with a spot of burglary" |
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« Reply #1143 on: June 30, 2011, 04:05:18 pm » |
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things in my freezer: film rolls, linen table cloth,shoes, filled with water bags for reshaping.....NM
smug Guin
Wait, shoes filled with water bags for reshaping? Did I read that right? How does that work? I actually have a pair of shoes that are a little to small on me... THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED: first urinate in your shoes and wear them for 5-10 min to brake in the fit . Then rinse with hot water and don't forget to wash your feet, too  . pat shoes dry, mold a bit more/stretch etc and insert very tightly seamed plastic bags, fill those with water to the rim of the shoes and tie shut, so only a wee bit air is on top. Shape and mold shoes again and put on a tray in the freezer...put a decent weight on top, but not to press down on shoes, just the water bags. do this, when the tray is already in the freezer, so you can maneuver better....the water expand slightly and widen the shoes. Not for Gucci and the likes, try on an older pair first, till You get the hang of it. The tip under the spoiler is for softening the leather and came from my Dad, a WWII vet...hthey used thst technique in Russia when they had to "re-fit" some-one elses boots almost overnight.....You can also use warmed up vodka, if the spoiler creeps You out! (just way more expensive and a real waste, right?) unconventionel Guin |
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« Reply #1144 on: July 01, 2011, 02:29:38 am » |
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things in my freezer: film rolls, linen table cloth,shoes, filled with water bags for reshaping.....NM
smug Guin
Wait, shoes filled with water bags for reshaping? Did I read that right? How does that work? I actually have a pair of shoes that are a little to small on me... THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED: first urinate in your shoes and wear them for 5-10 min to brake in the fit . Then rinse with hot water and don't forget to wash your feet, too . pat shoes dry, mold a bit more/stretch etc and insert very tightly seamed plastic bags, fill those with water to the rim of the shoes and tie shut, so only a wee bit air is on top. Shape and mold shoes again and put on a tray in the freezer...put a decent weight on top, but not to press down on shoes, just the water bags. do this, when the tray is already in the freezer, so you can maneuver better....the water expand slightly and widen the shoes. Not for Gucci and the likes, try on an older pair first, till You get the hang of it. The tip under the spoiler is for softening the leather and came from my Dad, a WWII vet...hthey used thst technique in Russia when they had to "re-fit" some-one elses boots almost overnight.....You can also use warmed up vodka, if the spoiler creeps You out! (just way more expensive and a real waste, right?) unconventionel Guin Everyone to Guin's house for ice cream! |
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« Reply #1145 on: July 01, 2011, 02:50:21 am » |
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things in my freezer: film rolls, linen table cloth,shoes, filled with water bags for reshaping.....NM
smug Guin
Wait, shoes filled with water bags for reshaping? Did I read that right? How does that work? I actually have a pair of shoes that are a little to small on me... THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED: first urinate in your shoes and wear them for 5-10 min to brake in the fit . Then rinse with hot water and don't forget to wash your feet, too . pat shoes dry, mold a bit more/stretch etc and insert very tightly seamed plastic bags, fill those with water to the rim of the shoes and tie shut, so only a wee bit air is on top. Shape and mold shoes again and put on a tray in the freezer...put a decent weight on top, but not to press down on shoes, just the water bags. do this, when the tray is already in the freezer, so you can maneuver better....the water expand slightly and widen the shoes. Not for Gucci and the likes, try on an older pair first, till You get the hang of it. The tip under the spoiler is for softening the leather and came from my Dad, a WWII vet...hthey used thst technique in Russia when they had to "re-fit" some-one elses boots almost overnight.....You can also use warmed up vodka, if the spoiler creeps You out! (just way more expensive and a real waste, right?) unconventionel Guin Everyone to Guin's house for ice cream! Rocky Road flavor, right? |
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Several modern detectives now claim that “Jack the Ripper” was actually named Carl.
“Carl the Ripper” just doesn’t have the same ring.
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« Reply #1146 on: July 01, 2011, 08:50:35 am » |
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Saturday: Sunny, Temp 18 -20.
Day Trip to Brigton......to Corset or not to Corset? That is the (literally) steamy question
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« Reply #1147 on: July 01, 2011, 02:27:40 pm » |
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Don't blame me...Polaris asked for it! And that would be mint-chocolate chip BTB brainfreeze....Guin |
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« Reply #1148 on: July 01, 2011, 03:27:31 pm » |
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Trying to get the flashing LED's to stay in place inside the exposed brain section.
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« Reply #1149 on: July 01, 2011, 03:31:41 pm » |
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My most recent problem was trying to get into my truck before removing my tophat... There just isn't room for the two of us!
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