Free association thread 2

[miloumilou]

Yellowstone National Park ... and Yogi and Booboo. Oh wait, that was Jellystone National Park.

NCP (National Car Parks).

 

[NaokoSmith]

NCP (National Car Parks).

Topo Gigios!

Gosh, this thread is still stretched after Ogg's naughty pictures! Well, something's stretched for me.

 

[SamScribble]

Topo Gigios!

Gosh, this thread is still stretched after Ogg's naughty pictures! Well, something's stretched for me.

Hi, Honey

A blast from the past!

 

[NaokoSmith]

Hi, Honey

A blast from the past!

'Lo Sugar

The future of wind energy!

(I used to get the waiters excited by ordering a steak tartare. I assume it was the steak tartare that got them going )

 

[Handley_Page]

'Lo Sugar

The future of wind energy!

(I used to get the waiters excited by ordering a steak tartare. I assume it was the steak tartare that got them going )

More likely the lovely Suzanne

 

[SamScribble]

More likely the lovely Suzanne

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river ...

 

[MichaelinChina]

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river ...

Ohhhh Susannah...with a banjo (is that a euphemism?) on my knee.

 

[SamScribble]

Ohhhh Susannah...with a banjo (is that a euphemism?) on my knee.

Banjo Paterson

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away ...

 

[MichaelinChina]

Banjo Paterson

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away ...

Oscar Petersen

 

[SamScribble]

Oscar Petersen

Night Train

 

[MichaelinChina]

Night Train

The Night Ride - Kenneth Slessor

Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;
Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare,
Pull up the blind, blink out - all sounds are drugged;
the slow blowing of passengers asleep;
engines yawning; water in heavy drips;
Black, sinister travellers, lumbering up the station,
one moment in the window, hooked over bags;
hurrying, unknown faces - boxes with strange labels -
all groping clumsily to mysterious ends,
out of the gaslight, dragged by private Fates,
their echoes die. The dark train shakes and plunges;
bells cry out, the night-ride starts again.
Soon I shall look out into nothing but blackness,
pale, windy fields, the old roar and knock of the rails
melts in dull fury. Pull down the blind. Sleep. Sleep
Nothing but grey, rushing rivers of bush outside.
Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else.

 

[SamScribble]

The Night Ride - Kenneth Slessor

Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;
Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare,
Pull up the blind, blink out - all sounds are drugged;
the slow blowing of passengers asleep;
engines yawning; water in heavy drips;
Black, sinister travellers, lumbering up the station,
one moment in the window, hooked over bags;
hurrying, unknown faces - boxes with strange labels -
all groping clumsily to mysterious ends,
out of the gaslight, dragged by private Fates,
their echoes die. The dark train shakes and plunges;
bells cry out, the night-ride starts again.
Soon I shall look out into nothing but blackness,
pale, windy fields, the old roar and knock of the rails
melts in dull fury. Pull down the blind. Sleep. Sleep
Nothing but grey, rushing rivers of bush outside.
Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else.

Train à Grande Vitesse - TGV

 

[NaokoSmith]

Train à Grande Vitesse - TGV

NME (New Musical Express)

Do you have a famous blue raincoat?

 

[SamScribble]

NME (New Musical Express)

Do you have a famous blue raincoat?

I do have Michael Nyman's MGV - Musique à Grande Vitesse. Does that count? (It's very good played really loud. )

 

[NaokoSmith]

I do have Michael Nyman's MGV - Musique à Grande Vitesse. Does that count? (It's very good played really loud. )

That sounds like great fun!

It makes me associate to fast cars - chauffeured by nubile women wearing only a chauffeuse cap, perhaps .

MG B (with the chrome wheel hubs!)

I have been listening to Walton lately, mostly from Henry V. I have some piece of string music in my head so I'm slowly looking around for it. 20th century, I'm pretty sure. I listen to Walton and Britten and Elgar while searching for it. (It's not either of those famous Adagios.)

 

[Handley_Page]

That sounds like great fun!

It makes me associate to fast cars - chauffeured by nubile women wearing only a chauffeuse cap, perhaps .

MG B (with the chrome wheel hubs!)

And Boots, perhaps?

MG TC

 

[NaokoSmith]

And Boots, perhaps?

MG TC

Of course! It's hard to drive in bare feet.

Something like this, but driving not dreaming.

http://favim.com/orig/201105/07/Favim.com-36496.jpg

MG Midget!

 

[MichaelinChina]

Of course! It's hard to drive in bare feet.

Something like this, but driving not dreaming.

http://favim.com/orig/201105/07/Favim.com-36496.jpg

MG Midget!

Midget Farrelly - famous Aussie surfer

 

[NaokoSmith]

Midget Farrelly - famous Aussie surfer

South Wales beaches! great surf

 

[MichaelinChina]

South Wales beaches! great surf

Bette Midler

 

[NaokoSmith]

Bette Midler

Beaches is my best Aussie friend's favourite film, LOL. (Yah, he is gay.)

Mae West

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Bette Midler

The Rose

 

[NaokoSmith]

The Rose

You skipped me, honey, you will have to give me a kiss

Picardy

 

[Tio_Narratore]

You skipped me, honey, you will have to give me a kiss

Picardy

Of course, dear...

Patrick Stewart

 

[NaokoSmith]

Of course, dear...

Patrick Stewart

Thank you, dahlink.

Patrick Moore

(Or Partick, which my students all wrote as 'Patrick' in their recent essay - some other strange suburb of Glasgow no doubt )