Re: Mind's Eye The sound of devolution

Wow, I think I am beginning to understand Gabby he he is our dear lady of perfection. :-)

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From: archytas <nwterry@gmail.com>
To: minds-eye@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Mind's Eye The sound of devolution

I could never find anything rough in you dear lady of perfection.  When lost we can always embrace the nearest paradox or ask a police officer. Ferries from Aberdeen are time machines taking one back to such points as Orkney.  I plan to get lost on my next trip to Northern Ireland by taking the ferry from Ullapool to Stornoway.  I will be happy after my first pint of heavy and ask if your credit points are valid there and gift them to the planned road tunnel to the mainland.  It's hard to confuse cemeteries and railway stations on Lewis.   A light railway was proposed in 1898 but never built owing to local fears of wandering, unlost Germans not looking for anything in particular getting confused.  The town itself was founded by lost Norwegians, though probably earlier than the two you mislaid, unless they went via Orkney and the Shetlands and are about to arrive in the 9th century.  Perhaps I should stop watching those re-runs of Babylon 5?

 
On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 11:01:34 UTC, Gabby wrote:

Boah, Neil. I case you haven't noticed yet, I tend to talk in rough drafts rather than in picturesque, baroque style, hyper real, super imagery. Yes, most likely I did not walk to the ferry that took me over to the next island, but some train or coach served as a reliable means of transport. Well done, here you have your credit points. I checked now existing Google maps, and yes, The Necropolis is not far from the central station in Glasgow, it could have been there, and if I managed to get lost at that short a distance - which doesn't really count as lost, if don't have anything particular on your mind that you want to see, I find - then it was a very wise decision of mine to not have walked all the way to Stranrear. And yes, I can imagine that Edinburgh is doing much better in the tourist industry. Are you happy now?

Am Samstag, 8. März 2014 00:04:55 UTC+1 schrieb archytas:

You might just have been lost before the cemetery if you were after a ferry from Glasgow to Northern Ireland Gabbs, though I suppose the Queen might have parked-up Britannia there waiting for you.   I expect you may have mistaken the cemetery for Central Station and the train to Stranraer (a sort of chilled version of the worst bits of Casablanca). Broadly, I would have stayed in Edinburgh, though you and I might have different understandings on Norwegian women.  I always liked the Grass Market and a little French bistro there.  My German-speaking Belgian friend likes it there too.  By the time we have had enough wine to dare speak German, most think we are Norwegian or Glaswegian.  She is always disappointed there is no grass.  I explain German porridge-makers came over and stole it all 3000 years' back.  We haven't ventured on the Glasgow cemetery tour yet.

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 12:00:44 UTC, Gabby wrote:

True, I have very fond memories of Glasgow. Taking a rest on a cemetery hill, sitting leaned against a Celtic stone cross,  the greenness of the grass in bright warm springtime sunlight really got me once. The English had chased us European students out of our campus rooms for the Easter vacations, only the Koreans were allowed to keep their rooms, if I remember correctly. Two Norwegian girls and I did not like to be exiled home so we decided to go on a trip through England up north to Scotland, which we did. There we rented a car and drove around visiting different places. In Edinburgh we split up, because  I had planned to visit a friend in Northern Ireland, which is why I went to Glasgow, spent a day and a night there, to then catch the morning ferry over to Ireland. And in between I got lost on the cemetery in Glasgow, yes. And in the pub they all sounded as if they spoke German, only that I didn't get the meaning. Yeah, I sorta felt kind of home.

2014-02-27 0:36 GMT+01:00 archytas <nwt...@gmail.com>:

Sooner or later one must crash into a wall.  The dance is popular in Glasgow Gabby.  The lads and lassies do it on the way home after ritual inebriation.  Soon, we Scots will line up and sing the devolution dance as we push England into collision with France.  I am trying to dissuade my countryfolk on the grounds the sea runs uphill in that direction.  And federate directly with Germany in the 3000 year old tradition of grass porridge eating, rather than face having to re-apply for EU membership.  Interestingly, most Scots fancy being an independent country in Greater Germany (EU) and most English want free of the Deutschmark (as they see the Euro).  Of course, no one is to be allowed to vote for what they want.  The sound of devolution in Scotland is the noise made by oil revenues travelling south.

"Glasgow Gabby" - my Lord.  Do you still do have gun will travel Allan?

On Monday, 17 February 2014 20:00:07 UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:

What else can you expect for people who worship the golden calf aka the stock market bull,,  I see what seems after years of progress in computer programming that it is downgrading into the programs being presented..

the  dance is now confused,,  one step forward to three steps back..

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Gabby <gabb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Two steps forward and one step back. I see we are in the one step back phase now. I've never understood what this dance was good for, but it seems not everyone is into techno. The internet is broken, I hear them saying. I want my national laws, says the next. Male privilege big sound. While the money makers are laughing their heads off. Carnival times for Gods.

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