Free Association Thread 4

[NaokoSmith]

And then we have from Winnie the Pooh fame: Hundred Acre Wood

Everybody them some Pooh bear.

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When I was small I thought it was called the Hundred Acorn wood.

(Actually I think that would have been a better name for it!)

Apparently the word 'forest' means 'place with deer in it'. The point of a Royal Forest is that all the deer on there belong to the King (or Queen). Nobody gave a stuff about trees in those days. There were some forests that didn't even have trees.

 

[Handley_Page]

When I was small I thought it was called the Hundred Acorn wood.

Nobody gave a stuff about trees in those days. There were some forests that didn't even have trees.

Au contraire, Duchess.
The forest gave income and sustenance for lots of people, from Farmers with the rights to let pigs forage for acorns, The woodsman who did things like
Coppicing, the Charcoal burner, the collection of firewood and that's just on the ground. We've not mentioned livestock, such as Ponies and so on.

 

[JKendallDane]

Au contraire, Duchess.
The forest gave income and sustenance for lots of people, from Farmers with the rights to let pigs forage for acorns, The woodsman who did things like
Coppicing, the Charcoal burner, the collection of firewood and that's just on the ground. We've not mentioned livestock, such as Ponies and so on.

Clydesdales

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[loquere]

Clydesdales

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Budweiser

 

[CeriseBuss]

Budweiser

You've said it all!

 

[loquere]

You've said it all!

In that case, mission accomplished. From 'Imagination Land' I wish you a good night.

 

[JKendallDane]

In that case, mission accomplished. From 'Imagination Land' I wish you a good night.

Mission Control ~ Houston, Texas

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[SamScribble]

Mission Control ~ Houston, Texas

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One of my favourite press conferences:

A NASA engineer was being asked why something - I can't recall what - was a problem. 'Do you not have the technology?' the journo asked.

'Oh, we have the technology,' the engineer said. 'We just can't make the damn stuff work.'

 

[NaokoSmith]

One of my favourite press conferences:

A NASA engineer was being asked why something - I can't recall what - was a problem. 'Do you not have the technology?' the journo asked.

'Oh, we have the technology,' the engineer said. 'We just can't make the damn stuff work.'

That reminds me of going out to dinner with the client for a high design architectural project I was involved in, partly in an attempt to persuade them to take on more fabulous design features. We went to a restaurant which had had the interior designed by another famous architect, and which featured a series of hanging bowls down which a fountain fell - or was supposed to. I asked the Maitre d' why it wasn't switched on and he said: "Oh, you know these architects. They make a nice design but it doesn't necessarily work properly."

 

[Handley_Page]

That reminds me of going out to dinner with the client for a high design architectural project I was involved in, partly in an attempt to persuade them to take on more fabulous design features. We went to a restaurant which had had the interior designed by another famous architect, and which featured a series of hanging bowls down which a fountain fell - or was supposed to. I asked the Maitre d' why it wasn't switched on and he said: "Oh, you know these architects. They make a nice design but it doesn't necessarily work properly."

It takes an Engineer to do that right!

 

[loquere]

It takes an Engineer to do that right!

There's a saying architects make it look pretty and the engineer makes it work.

 

[JKendallDane]

There's a saying architects makes it look pretty and the engineer makes it work.

When I owned my real estate company, one of my clients was a prominent architect in the area. His favorite saying was, "If engineers would go back to just dealing with trains the world would be a much better place."

Course, being a Realtor and having to deal with attorneys at every turn, my favorite line quickly became, "Shakespeare was right. We need to kill all the lawyers."

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[Handley_Page]

When I owned my real estate company, one of my clients was a prominent architect in the area. His favorite saying was, "If engineers would go back to just dealing with trains the world would be a much better place."

Course, being a Realtor and having to deal with attorneys at every turn, my favorite line quickly became, "Shakespeare was right. We need to kill all the lawyers."

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Now that's the problem, ain't it.
To an Architect an Engineer means a Train. No thought of a Bridge, a Motor Car,
or the structure of the roof.

 

[JKendallDane]

Now that's the problem, ain't it.
To an Architect an Engineer means a Train. No thought of a Bridge, a Motor Car,
or the structure of the roof.

No phone, no lights no motor cars,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primative as can be.

Name that tune!

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[Handley_Page]

No phone, no lights no motor cars,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primative as can be.

Name that tune!

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I had to look it up (I've never seen that programme).


https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A9mSs2UNP51WGjEAFVBLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMWk2OWNtBGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--?qid=20070716203854AApZEk7&p=No%20phone%2C%20no%20lights%20no%20motor%20cars%2C%20Not%20a%20single%20luxury%2C%20Like%20Robinson%20Crusoe%2C%20As%20primative%20as%20can%20be.

 

[SamScribble]

I had to look it up (I've never seen that programme).

Don't think it made it to our side of the pond, HP. Lucky, don't you think?

 

[NaokoSmith]

Don't think it made it to our side of the pond, HP. Lucky, don't you think?

'Lo Sugar

On Golden Pond.

 

[Handley_Page]

Don't think it made it to our side of the pond, HP. Lucky, don't you think?

I suspect you are quite right, Sam.

'Lo Sugar

On Golden Pond.

Now THATS a damned good film: AND it's on 'youtube'.

 

[SamScribble]

I suspect you are quite right, Sam.

On Golden Pond: Now THATS a damned good film: AND it's on 'youtube'.

Do you realise that that film is now 35 years old? Where did the years go?

 

[JKendallDane]

Do you realise that that film is now 35 years old? Where did the years go?

The first time I saw On Golden Pond was about a year after it was released, Just a few weeks earlier, I had found out my Dad's cancer was terminal and he had less than a year.

Needless to say, that movie really hit home.

 

[NaokoSmith]

The first time I saw On Golden Pond was about a year after it was released, Just a few weeks earlier, I had found out my Dad's cancer was terminal and he had less than a year.

Needless to say, that movie really hit home.

Aww *hug*s. Sorry for your loss.


(I must give Outlaw Dad a call and see how he's doing.)

 

[loquere]

When I owned my real estate company, one of my clients was a prominent architect in the area. His favorite saying was, "If engineers would go back to just dealing with trains the world would be a much better place."

Course, being a Realtor and having to deal with attorneys at every turn, my favorite line quickly became, "Shakespeare was right. We need to kill all the lawyers."

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Attorneys are as essential to national stability as engineers are.

 

[loquere]

The first time I saw On Golden Pond was about a year after it was released, Just a few weeks earlier, I had found out my Dad's cancer was terminal and he had less than a year.

Needless to say, that movie really hit home.

That's awful, especially having a sad memory attached to a film that can play over and over again.

May your father rest in peace.

 

[JKendallDane]

Aww *hug*s. Sorry for your loss.


(I must give Outlaw Dad a call and see how he's doing.)

Make those calls every chance you can. Even if they are just, "Hey. Hi. How are you? Great. Love you. Bye," you'll never regret them.

That's awful, especially having a sad memory attached to a film that can play over and over again.

May your father rest in peace.

Actually, it isn't a sad memory when I watch OGP again now. The movie reminds me how I got six or so months of putting all the typical "College boy vs Dad" bullshit to the side and let us reconnect like we hadn't for five or six years previous.

He got almost 22 years to "rest up" before Mom joined him in 2004. I figure since then, she's been dragging him from one cloud to another with the goal being to see every single square inch of heaven. She always was the one the travel bug bit in the family...Dad just had to work out the details and drive the motorhome.

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[MichaelinChina]

Make those calls every chance you can. Even if they are just, "Hey. Hi. How are you? Great. Love you. Bye," you'll never regret them.



Actually, it isn't a sad memory when I watch OGP again now. The movie reminds me how I got six or so months of putting all the typical "College boy vs Dad" bullshit to the side and let us reconnect like we hadn't for five or six years previous.

He got almost 22 years to "rest up" before Mom joined him in 2004. I figure since then, she's been dragging him from one cloud to another with the goal being to see every single square inch of heaven. She always was the one the travel bug bit in the family...Dad just had to work out the details and drive the motorhome.

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I called my Dad today.