Free Association Thread 5

[MagicaPractica]

From on up the coast at Ramsgate...46-year-old memories of the wildest "carnival ride" of my lifetime. Taking this new fangled thing called a hovercraft across a very choppy channel.

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Hoverlloyd/Swift_2-01.jpg


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Wow. I confess I've always been a bit nervous of water travel, far more so than flying. A canoe or kayak on the lake, and near to shore is more my speed.

 

[loquere]

Wow. I confess I've always been a bit nervous of water travel, far more so than flying. A canoe or kayak on the lake, and near to shore is more my speed.

Yes, I concur, I'll most likely never be a boat owner. I'd like to instead spend my excess income on a cherry orchard!

 

[MagicaPractica]

Yes, I concur, I'll most likely never be a boat owner. I'd like to instead spend my excess income on a cherry orchard!

Hrm... so many different ways to go with that. I'll get ya a little hatchet and you can emulate Washington.

 

[Mister_Song]

Hrm... so many different ways to go with that. I'll get ya a little hatchet and you can emulate Washington.

Cherry trees are a very hard wood.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Cherry trees are a very hard wood.

I actually know of someone who makes hand turned wooden *ahem* but I have no idea what wood she uses, never thought to ask.

 

[JKendallDane]

Wow. I confess I've always been a bit nervous of water travel, far more so than flying. A canoe or kayak on the lake, and near to shore is more my speed.

The hovercrafts are basically a combination of both boat and aircraft since they float above the water surface on a cushion of air.

I actually know of someone who makes hand turned wooden *ahem* but I have no idea what wood she uses, never thought to ask.

Is that an "ahem" or an "ahhh" ???

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[Handley_Page]

The hovercrafts are basically a combination of both boat and aircraft since they float above the water surface on a cushion of air.

Is that an "ahem" or an "ahhh" ???
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I suspect that the "Aahhh" is issued after the use of the hand-turned wooden 'Ahem'.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I suspect that the "Aahhh" is issued after the use of the hand-turned wooden 'Ahem'.

*giggles* I do adore sound effects. Radio shows are still fun though Prairie Home Companion isn't quite the same without Garrison Keillor.

 

[loquere]

I like cherries a lot, no connotation to be found here. I could eat cherries every day for ever. I would share the cherries I would grow, yeah, might even sell them. However they'd mostly be for me. Once more, I like cherries a lot, they're my favourite fruit.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I like cherries a lot, no connotation to be found here. I could eat cherries every day for ever. I would share the cherries I would grow, yeah, might even sell them. However they'd mostly be for me. Once more, I like cherries a lot, they're my favourite fruit.

Okay, sorry. But it is the free association thread, somebody had to make something out of it. Now, I used to have a plan to plant the entire pasture across from my house with apple trees and make it a u pick orchard. Nowadays, I might just put it on the free fruit map. Maybe someday...

 

[JKendallDane]

Okay, sorry. But it is the free association thread, somebody had to make something out of it. Now, I used to have a plan to plant the entire pasture across from my house with apple trees and make it a u pick orchard. Nowadays, I might just put it on the free fruit map. Maybe someday...

Sheesh! Now I'm craving a big slice of hot apple pie with a huge scoop of ice cream on top of it.

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[MagicaPractica]

Sheesh! Now I'm craving a big slice of hot apple pie with a huge scoop of ice cream on top of it.

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I tend more toward apple crisp. I sub out the sugar with maple syrup and often use olive oil in place of butter.

 

[Mister_Song]

I tend more toward apple crisp. I sub out the sugar with maple syrup and often use olive oil in place of butter.

When I get elected president in 2020, I'm replacing all the weapons with apple crisp. Everyone will be so happy and full there will be no need to fight.

This, also, is one of two tenets of the platform I'm going to run on--the other is an extra day off each week to have sex. I'm keeping it simple for the masses.

 

[SamScribble]

Yes, I concur, I'll most likely never be a boat owner. I'd like to instead spend my excess income on a cherry orchard!

Many, many, many years ago, I came across a poem called, I think, something like 'The Axe in the Cherry Orchard'. For some time, I thought that it may have been written by WS Merwin - but maybe not. I'd love to find it again.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Many, many, many years ago, I came across a poem called, I think, something like 'The Axe in the Cherry Orchard'. For some time, I thought that it may have been written by WS Merwin - but maybe not. I'd love to find it again.

Any more you remember about it? It sounds like it derives from Chekhov's stage direction:

"[...Silence ensues, broken only by the stroke of the axe on the trees far away in the cherry orchard.]"

 

[Handley_Page]

Any more you remember about it? It sounds like it derives from Chekhov's stage direction:

"[...Silence ensues, broken only by the stroke of the axe on the trees far away in the cherry orchard.]"

A difficult sound effect to create, back in the day.
It rather depends upon the shape & sharpness of the axe head, I think.

 

[SamScribble]

Any more you remember about it? It sounds like it derives from Chekhov's stage direction:

"[...Silence ensues, broken only by the stroke of the axe on the trees far away in the cherry orchard.]"

Good thinking, Tio. I seem to recall that the sound of the axe in the cherry orchard was a metaphor for the artillery at the start of the First Wold War

 

[JKendallDane]

Good thinking, Tio. I seem to recall that the sound of the axe in the cherry orchard was a metaphor for the artillery at the start of the First Wold War

Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes.

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[MagicaPractica]

When I get elected president in 2020, I'm replacing all the weapons with apple crisp. Everyone will be so happy and full there will be no need to fight.

This, also, is one of two tenets of the platform I'm going to run on--the other is an extra day off each week to have sex. I'm keeping it simple for the masses.

Ah, if only it could work that way. I can't find it but I swear there was a song that said, "I'd like to buy the world a beer."

Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

 

[JKendallDane]

Ah, if only it could work that way. I can't find it but I swear there was a song that said, "I'd like to buy the world a beer."

Arsenic and Old Lace

Paper Lace's big one hit wonder: The Night Chicago Died

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[Handley_Page]

Paper Lace's big one hit wonder: The Night Chicago Died

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These days, she's too busy being fabulous.

 

[MagicaPractica]

These days, she's too busy being fabulous.

Maybe she'd stay home if he'd learn what R-O-M-A-N-C-E is.

 

[JKendallDane]

Maybe she'd stay home if he'd learn what R-O-M-A-N-C-E is.

Romance gone bad could lead to D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

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[SamScribble]

Romance gone bad could lead to D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

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BREXIT

 

[MagicaPractica]

BREXIT

Well, I can't say I recommend anyone "exiting" to the U.S. right now. It's a little surreal here.