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Post by alanseago on Jan 31, 2012 16:39:43 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Jan 31, 2012 17:26:49 GMT
A very quiet, grey afternoon Same in mid-Wales, and very cold as well. I'll see your leopard, giraffe, and cheetah, and raise you a jaguar.
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Post by alanseago on Jan 31, 2012 22:05:26 GMT
See you! In the garage. Attachments:
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Post by Patrick on Jan 31, 2012 23:36:48 GMT
Watch out! That blokes going to nick that car!!!! ;D
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Post by aubrey on Feb 2, 2012 8:57:48 GMT
Tiger beer doesn't look owt like a tiger, either.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 2, 2012 9:37:21 GMT
Tiger beer doesn't look owt like a tiger, either. Tastes pretty good. Dunno how close to reality tiger nuts are . . .
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Post by jean on Feb 2, 2012 16:51:13 GMT
They're not that big, for a start!
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Feb 2, 2012 17:15:58 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Feb 2, 2012 18:30:40 GMT
They're not that big, for a start! I just knew you would know, Jean. Yet another first for SC!
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Post by Weyland on Feb 3, 2012 7:59:25 GMT
Speaking of big cats..... ... They are wrong of course...this footage was filmed in Lincolnshire last summer.. ... In the Great Rift region of Lincolnshire, apparently. Shurely shome mishtake?
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Feb 3, 2012 11:29:08 GMT
Perhaps the elephants were a bit of a giveaway...however...in 1972 a local man here in the Gainsborough area went to fetch fish and chips for him and his missus. On the way home from the chippie he was mauled to death by a lion outside a working men's club...TRUE...the lion had escaped from a circus which was in town at the time.
The man's name was Jackson Parr...it made international news headlines at the time, but there is no reference to the incident now online....so most people still don't believe me.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 3, 2012 11:37:28 GMT
Perhaps the elephants were a bit of a giveaway...however...in 1972 a local man here in the Gainsborough area went to fetch fish and chips for him and his missus. On the way home from the chippie he was mauled to death by a lion outside a working men's club...TRUE...the lion had escaped from a circus which was in town at the time. The man's name was Jackson Parr...it made international news headlines at the time, but there is no reference to the incident now online....so most people still don't believe me. Chris: Try googling gainsborough escaped lion
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Feb 3, 2012 11:48:29 GMT
Perhaps the elephants were a bit of a giveaway...however...in 1972 a local man here in the Gainsborough area went to fetch fish and chips for him and his missus. On the way home from the chippie he was mauled to death by a lion outside a working men's club...TRUE...the lion had escaped from a circus which was in town at the time. The man's name was Jackson Parr...it made international news headlines at the time, but there is no reference to the incident now online....so most people still don't believe me. Chris: Try googling gainsborough escaped lioncheers Weyland!
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Post by aubrey on Feb 3, 2012 18:09:45 GMT
It's true, but he was a boy in my version of the story. We used to live on the estate that backs onto the ground where that fair was - not Fairways, the other one, next to Morton Terrace.
There was once a story in the Gainsborough News about a Kangaroo having been seen in Gainsborough. It was a Great Dane, sat on his haunches (I spoke with the man who lived with the beast).
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Post by chris & the giant peach on Feb 3, 2012 19:16:59 GMT
It's true, but he was a boy in my version of the story. We used to live on the estate that backs onto the ground where that fair was - not Fairways, the other one, next to Morton Terrace. There was once a story in the Gainsborough News about a Kangaroo having been seen in Gainsborough. It was a Great Dane, sat on his haunches (I spoke with the man who lived with the beast). Oh, I remember that. The Phantom Kangaroo...there was a story of it bouncing through the village of West Stockwith punching the locals.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 3, 2012 20:27:32 GMT
I once wanted to do a novel based on small town stories like this: but more the kind of thing that doesn't really get recorded in the papers, but which everyone knows (or a lot of people know): like the tunnels that I have just discovered are under the town, going down to the river, or the story of the bloke who did all those small local scene watercolours that you find in Solicitor's offices and the like: got up to some stuff, he did, I've been told: and my friend's grandmother wouldn't have his pictures in her house on account of the things that she'd heard. Or the Traveller, who, in a fight at the Yarborough at Trent Bridge (gone now, I think), finished it by ramming a steering column down the other bloke's throat.
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 3, 2012 20:46:46 GMT
That's a sweet idea for a novel Aubrey. But it might end up being terribly dull.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 3, 2012 22:20:38 GMT
I had a main story as well, which I wrote 20+ years ago without all the extra stuff. It had to be set around now, so back then I had to make it into a near future SF story.
The background stories - which were mainly to give the town a past of its own (S King does something of the same in Salem's Lot) - would have replaced the sf bits.
Not going to do it now. It was a ghost story, though. The kind of thing that Gene Wolfe could make into something great.
(A bloke realising that the girl he played with throughout his childhood didn't actually exist, or existed only for him. He learns this when going to clean up after his father's death).
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