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  • Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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  1. wingpig
    Member

    Arellcat, torpedoing east into the mess at Haymarket.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  2. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I spotted you at the last moment, wingpig, but didn't have enough split-seconds to reply to your greeting. Haymarket took ages. Tram looked good, though.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  3. Pedro
    Member

    Anyone out on a recumbent coming up Marine Drive at around 13:30? Flag pole had a wee Saltire on it... :)

    Posted 10 years ago #
  4. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 10 years ago #
  5. amir
    Member

    Endura team skoda car on a720. Not maintaing appropriate braking distance. Police ignored all this (5m is not enough at high speed)

    Posted 10 years ago #
  6. SRD
    Moderator

    I'm told no one 'got' my spotted joke upthread.

    I 'spotted' hankchief in a children's picture book, which has a character called hankchief. 'Our' hankchief does not have a bushy red beard (at least not at present).

    Posted 10 years ago #
  7. wingpig
    Member

    I am familiar with Mr Chief, Ms Polkadot and the troll who gets sick of fish.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  8. SRD
    Moderator

    Thank you wingpig. I knew we had a well- read audience out there.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  9. HankChief
    Member

    Now you know what I was reading when I had to come up with a username.

    The alternative was BabyBrains, but I didn't think that conveyed the right aura.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    Pirates have an enduring appeal. Trying to dredge up the one we read to our kids, My Aunty the pirate? (trouble with auntie)

    Easy one Q4 What was Edward Teach better known as?

    Me hearties

    Posted 10 years ago #
  11. steveo
    Member

    We're on Trelawney P Craddock and his Haddock being stolen by a crew of Pirate Cats, at least once often several times each night...

    Posted 10 years ago #
  12. SRD
    Moderator

    The Night Pirates rule : "Rough, tough little girl pirates" !

    Posted 10 years ago #
  13. gembo
    Member

    Quite long history of female pirates, UK, Sweden and China. Some passing as men Anne Bonny being the Most famous. (You imagine everyone else drinking rum for breakfast as a way of assisting the gender swap?).

    The pirate name generator I used had a random option, an option to generate from my own name and a gender option.

    I went for own name and male. This gave me

    Samson 'long legged' Gilly and claims me as The angriest pirate sailing the seven seas but probably says that about all the pirates?

    Posted 10 years ago #
  14. Greenroofer
    Member

    @SRD, @steveo don't forget the author who is tryingto cover all bases with the books about Finn and the pirate dinosaurs.

    Finn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is reasonably popular at Greenroofer Towers, but it would be even more popular with micro-Greenroofer if it was Finn and the Pirate Dinosaur Emergency Rescue Knights.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  15. Darkerside
    Member

    *gets out pen and paper and opens large sack for the inevitable cash influx after publication...*

    Posted 10 years ago #
  16. SRD
    Moderator

    "Finn and the Pirate Dinosaur Dragon Emergency Rescue Knights" = Zog?

    Posted 10 years ago #
  17. steveo
    Member

    Finn and the Pirate Dinosaurs

    ...ordered...

    Posted 10 years ago #
  18. Greenroofer
    Member

    @SRD - that had never occurred to me, but yes, like Zog. I always read Princess Pearl with a voice like the Queen (although younger, to start with, obviously)

    Posted 10 years ago #
  19. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I followed a cyclist along Myreside Road earlier today, a bit after 5pm I think. Actually, since the cyclist was beyond the arched footbridge when I negotiated the lunar landscape of the junction with Colinton Road, I set off in hot pursuit and was almost set to overtake by the time I turned left at Balcarres St Craighouse Gardens. We exchanged cheery waves. I'm currently quite bad at remembering faces, so if it was you Greenroofer, hello!

    Posted 10 years ago #
  20. Arellcat
    Moderator

    The pirate name generator I used had a random option, an option to generate from my own name and a gender option.

    You can call me Liza 'Grog Swiller' Veal, the Cutlass of Black Magic Harbour. Arr! Is it September 19th yet?

    Posted 10 years ago #
  21. gembo
    Member

    Was looking out my attic toilet window just there 8.20pm and pino or similar recumbent upright tandem speed machine stopped at lights outside my house. Looked like roibeard in recumbent stoker and to be honest roibeard clone as steerer. Both very happy looking roibeards. Gave them a shout. Hopefully they were heading to Carnwath to sample the delicacies of the apple pie bakery.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  22. gembo
    Member

    Did the play about Marco Pantani (il pirata) ever come to much?

    Posted 10 years ago #
  23. LaidBack
    Member

    Coming to the Festival of Cycling.

    A dramatic rehearsed reading of the play “Marco Pantani – The Pirate” by Stuart Hepburn.
    http://www.edfoc.org.uk/events/event/marco-pantani-the-pirate/

    Posted 10 years ago #
  24. Greenroofer
    Member

    @Arellcat. Nope, not me that time. I was on a Brompton on Friday, following the incident with the puncture which meant that I didn't want to take the big bike to work and have another one.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  25. Kim
    Member

    The play about Marco Pantani (il pirata) was staged in Glasgow to rave reviews and as LaidBack said above it will be read as part of the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling http://www.edfoc.org.uk/events/event/marco-pantani-the-pirate/ with Stuart Hepburn reading the part of the grandfather. Hope you will all come to see it... ;-)

    Posted 10 years ago #
  26. Roibeard
    Member

    @gembo - I heard a shout at some lights, but couldn't see a shouter, which makes sense given the window in question!

    The CCE neighbourhood watch is highly efficient!

    The day was marred with multiple punctures, and no apple pie, but happy indeed - it was "training" for the Bethany Sportive.

    Robert

    Posted 10 years ago #
  27. gembo
    Member

    It is officially puncture season

    Posted 10 years ago #
  28. DaveC
    Member

    Wingpig on George St just after turning os St Andrew Sq at 9am this morning, heading past the Natwest. I'd just stepped of a bus.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  29. DaveC
    Member

    Dave on the NEPN as he flew past me waving hello.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  30. SRD
    Moderator

    a late-running kaputnik on Gilmore place? Could see yellow cap and beard, but sun in my eyes precluded actual eye contact or definite recognition.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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