On the Balgreen path approaching the tram stop, a chap with a full gingery beard riding a blue Genesis: Uberuce?
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Heading into two at about 1030-1100? Yeps, that was me.
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I was walking two collies - I held the more mental one back as you passed. You said "thanks", I smiled, it was all terribly civilised.
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Kim on Exchange Crescent.
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Aye, definitely me, Stickman; I remember the pooches. I always make a point of thanking people who control their dogs when I'm passing.
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@IWRATS I did see Half Man Half Biscuit once at the venue above sauchiehall st shops. Buchanan st end. Was the heavily veiled reference any of the following
Everyone's doing the Len ganley stance
All I want for Xmas is a dukla Prague away kit
And of course Time Flies by when you're the driver of a train
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The Fort of Wilmington's Kinnaird.
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@gembo
Had you been wearing the correct top I'd have mentioned two Scotch eggs and a jar of Marmite, but as it was I had to content myself with s**t arm, bad tattoo;
http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/achtung-bono-2005/s**t-arm-bad-tattoo/
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Ah, thanks for clarification
Took ten years in an open necked shirt out of the poetry library today most of the JCC hits were in that first volume.
The effing weed was effing turf
The effing speed was effing surfEvidently chicken town.
Also biography and volume by forgotten Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, quite a racy character in his day, taught himself ancient Persian which perplexed the teheranis but some other tribes understood him. Was a spy, liked teenage girls. Lived til 85 Hugh macdiarmid thought he was good.
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Also spotted twq in cowgate last night but too much traffic to shout.
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So I let fully four square cyclists by on the aqueduct today. Deep inspection of this packet revealed;
1) 2Kool4Skool 'Cheers pal.'
2) Dark Talker 'Thanks mate.'
3) Lilac Helmet Lady 'Inaudible over my greeting'
4) Messenger Guy 'Silence.'Just over the other side, Upside Down Riser Bar Guy was hurrying to catch up with the other cast members of this season's Fringe hit farce 'IWRATS Takes a Dip'. He allowed me a gnomic gnod.
Oh, and the non-stop dancer had, last night, moved to bridge eight and adopted a Northern Soul all-nighter type dance.
I love the canal.
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IWRATS you should start a fanzine for and by the canal users beyond the aqueduct. It is better natured and quieter and there is a chance of banter.
The title I suggest is
What have the Romans ever done for us?
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@gembo - I need to be shouted at. My eyesight isn't bad, but I can't recognise faces at a distance!
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@IWRATS, I'm actually considering taking a detour via the aqueduct on my commute to see if I can recognise these characters!
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@Slug
Do that and you become one of the characters.
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@IWRATS, Ha! This should be interesting... I'm in!
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@IWRATS I was running a little late this morning (either that or everyone else was even later...) and encountered a distinct lack of regulars. However, I did see non-stop dancer under the bridge on Monday, and last night he had vibrated as far as the Wester Hailes container depot and ornamental garden area when I passed by at half six-ish.
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@jdanielp
Oddly, we were all early this morning. LHL is generally to be found at 09h00 in Wester Hailes, but crossed the 'duct today at 08h35 in the company of all the others on the same time slot.
I'm pretty sure that the Non-Stop Dancer has big plans.
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@IWRATS I did spot LHL at 08:40 yesterday morning amongst a similarly sized cycle train on the less glamorous of the Slateford aquaducts, which might suggest that she's running to a revised schedule?
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@IWRATS Perhaps a 'not safe for work' warning next time?! ;-)
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@jdanielp
You have a stern employer if 16th century courtly poetry is forbidden, but I note your concern.
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That cat could write a sonnet
Many based on originals by Petrarch but with major alterations
Check out Whoso List To Hunt
Which is not really about hunting deer and is about trying to catch the wind in a net or sleeping with Anne boleyn
Noli me tangere
As Jesus said to Mary Magdalene
Touch me not
Or
Touch me not come back tomorrow as Tim Buckley said in Song to the Siren
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Also meant to reiterate that wyatt has used the word newfangleness in the sixteenth century
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And you wonder why this might be called the middle class cycle forum?
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Good one Sally. I know I am now middle class. I never used to be but the process started when I moved from the school of hard knocks in johnstone and moved up a gear on going to university. Have I mentioned before we had to put 50p pieces into my granny's telly to make it work? As a nipper my mother used to drag me round the streets whilst she campaigned for the Labour Party. So I am acutely aware of the change in my status when I have been out in wester hailes and oxgangs canvassing. Always had a bike as a constant in my move from working to middle class.
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Shuggiet hailed in Wester Hailes after his parp! parp! rubber dinosaur horn alerted me to his presence. As a result I now have this stuck in my head;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpYgpF1bqQ
In other news Lilac Helmet Lady spotted at Dalton Scrap. Judging by the big cheeser in response to my standard 'good morning' she has now connected my cycling and running avatars, something that shuggiet has also done, due to being hailed by CCE name by a random fat jogger.
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IWRATS
Parp park reminds me very much of circuses and clowns so here goes
what did the cannibal say to his wife when they were eating the clown? does this taste funny to you?
Also at Peter's yard I was trying to prove tom CH that I am trying to be nice by telling the following tale
I was cycling past the hunter welly ex factory up to the leamington lift bridge. Two be studded young women came out of the circus site. I thought maybe fire eaters? Who can tell? Anyway just up ahead was a young man in a very sharp suit, Ben Sherman esque mod number. He also had some very sharp shoes, wincklepickers. However he had gone for the extra long ones. The question popped into my head Are you with the circus too? But I said nothing.
CH said if I was really trying I would have said Nice suit.
Thirdly
In the series Early Doors, 12 episodes in total about a Manchester pub at 5.30pm opening, written by Craig Cash (a bit like if coronation street never went out of the rovers return but with some gentle piss take of the police thrown in) one of the slightly differently abled regulars asks each of the other customers in turn. Do you like circuses? IWRATS, do you like circuses etc.
This is now a row defusernin our household. If Teenage daughter getting a bit crab bit and winding up her brother I will say, I have one question to ask you Teenage Daughter, she will say yes( though she knows what is coming) I will then say Do you like circuses. Row over for at least a minute. Result
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@gembo
Circuses? Being middle class I prefer artisanal sourdough bread.
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I used to know an artisan he was a very good joiner. Could make architects plans work. Much in demand by the middle classes, often clamouring over him at art openings as he was pals with a quite famous artist. His prices were low and his stories were good. He drove from Stirling in a Cadillac convertible to see Neil young at the Apollo when he did the On the beach material that the heart of gold fans hated. Also saw pink Floyd at their famous Stirling uni gig in 1969. Also was in a band I heard on the David Kid Jensen show - So You think You're A Cowboy as funnily enough I was a cow punk in 1983. This was before his artisan days.
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