Free Association Thread 5

[MagicaPractica]

I hope they all survive.

Originally Posted by SamScribble
Roll Out The Barrel!

You mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SfyObUd5e8

Roll out the red carpet.

 

[JKendallDane]

Roll out the red carpet.

Flying carpet

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[MagicaPractica]

Flying carpet

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"A whole new world . . . "

 

[Emmeline]

"A whole new world . . . "

Magic Carpet Ride

 

[SamScribble]

Magic Carpet Ride

1968? I remember it being earlier than that. Perhaps I was ahead of my time - as opposed to some of my friends who were heads of their time.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

1968? I remember it being earlier than that. Perhaps I was ahead of my time - as opposed to some of my friends who were heads of their time.

Sunny Goodge Street

(I was there a few months ago...I think it may not have changed much, particularly as I dined in a Hawaiian themed burger shack on the street)

 

[Handley_Page]

1968? I remember it being earlier than that. Perhaps I was ahead of my time - as opposed to some of my friends who were heads of their time.

Ah, a time of civil unrest (particularly in Paris).
I was in the Air Force in Foreign Parts, and we were taking it real serious
(Double the guard, and so on) . It was not an especially happy time.

Sunny Goodge Street
(I was there a few months ago...I think it may not have changed much, particularly as I dined in a Hawaiian themed burger shack on the street)

I'd never heard of it!

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Ah, a time of civil unrest (particularly in Paris).
I was in the Air Force in Foreign Parts, and we were taking it real serious
(Double the guard, and so on) . It was not an especially happy time.




I'd never heard of it!

Goodge Street is just around the corner from Goodge Street Station on Tottenham Court Road below Euston Road. The "Sunny" is a descriptor, not part of the name.



Ladies and gents, you are here assembled
To hear why earth and heaven trembled
Because of the black and sinister arts
Of an Irish writer in foreign parts.

(from Joyce's 1912 offering, "Gas from a Burner)

 

[Handley_Page]

Goodge Street is just around the corner from Goodge Street Station on Tottenham Court Road below Euston Road. The "Sunny" is a descriptor, not part of the name.



Ladies and gents, you are here assembled
To hear why earth and heaven trembled
Because of the black and sinister arts
Of an Irish writer in foreign parts.

(from Joyce's 1912 offering, "Gas from a Burner)

Thanks, Tio.
At at time we were sweating that some fool would authorise the loading of a real bucket of sunshine. And we'd all be doomed.

 

[SamScribble]

Thanks, Tio.
At at time we were sweating that some fool would authorise the loading of a real bucket of sunshine. And we'd all be doomed.

Avro Vulcan B.2

 

[JKendallDane]

Avro Vulcan B.2

Wonderful memories of grade school just after the Cuban Missle Crisis. Duck and Cover drills.

https://yaelpolitis.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/duck-and-cover.jpg

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[Handley_Page]

Avro Vulcan B.2

not for us, but close enough.
the Canberras were next door.

It was a while before we in the UK heard of "Duck & Cover".
It made us laugh in good style (well we reckoned if we got 4 minutes warning of impending doom, we'd consider ourselves lucky).

 

[JKendallDane]

not for us, but close enough.
the Canberras were next door.

It was a while before we in the UK heard of "Duck & Cover".
It made us laugh in good style (well we reckoned if we got 4 minutes warning of impending doom, we'd consider ourselves lucky).

I think we all finally decided that there must be some kind of special protection from the radioactive fallout due to all the gum stuck to the bottom of our desks.

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[MagicaPractica]

I think we all finally decided that there must be some kind of special protection from the radioactive fallout due to all the gum stuck to the bottom of our desks.

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"Doodlebugs"

 

[SamScribble]

"Doodlebugs"

'Gravity's Rainbow'

 

[Handley_Page]

'Gravity's Rainbow'

I didn't know there was a connection between Gravity and a Rainbow.
Something like R cubed, perhaps ?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I didn't know there was a connection between Gravity and a Rainbow.
Something like R cubed, perhaps ?

"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, 1973

 

[Handley_Page]

"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, 1973

Never heard of it. Sorry.

I can do E=MC^2 on a good day.

 

[SamScribble]

Never heard of it. Sorry.

I can do E=MC^2 on a good day.

I seem to recall that gravity's rainbow was a reference to the parabolic trajectory of a V-2 rocket after the motor cut out, HP. It has been a while since I read it.

 

[JKendallDane]

I seem to recall that gravity's rainbow was a reference to the parabolic trajectory of a V-2 rocket after the motor cut out, HP. It has been a while since I read it.

Rocket Man

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[SamScribble]

Rocket Man

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‘As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind: every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. – John Glenn

 

[Handley_Page]

‘As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind: every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. – John Glenn

Didn't one of the "Moon men" say something similar ?

 

[MagicaPractica]

Didn't one of the "Moon men" say something similar ?

"...there is no man, Gilly. Only that moon." - Practical Magic

 

[Emmeline]

"...there is no man, Gilly. Only that moon." - Practical Magic

"Amuck, amuck, amuck" - Hocus Pocus

 

[MagicaPractica]

"Amuck, amuck, amuck" - Hocus Pocus

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble"
Macbeth