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amusements, memes, photography, quotes

ABC Meme


ABC Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme was an alphabet meme … a word for each letter of the alphabet (but we were allowed to drop one letter to make a 5×5 square. Of course yours truly has to do it all — and put a different (I hope) slant on it by doing the English comic alphabet as first produced by the variety duo Clapham and Dwyer in the 1930s. So I give you the not entirely original …

A for ‘Orses
B for Mutton
C for Yourself
D for Dumb
E for Brick
F for Vescent
G for Police
H for a Beer
I for Novello
J for Oranges
K for Restaurant
L for Leather
M for Sis’
N for Lope
O for a Pee
P for Relief
Q for a Bus
R for Askey
S for Teeda
T for Two
U for Me
V for La France
W for a Bob
X for Breakfast
Y for Husband
Z for Breezes

The two centre images are the first and last Greek letters, Alpha and Omega, so beloved of Christian symbolism.

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Horse Eating Hay, 2. Assorted Beef & Mutton satay, 3. The day the little rocket hit a tiny little planet, 4. Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 5. Heaved bricks, Glencoe between Reading Way and Kings Way, 6. Sweet and Bubbly, 7. Chief of POlice, 8. Felix having a beer., 9. Ivor Novello Plaque, 10. Jaffa Oranges, 11. Caff, 12. Gerald Tobin Hells Angel Funeral , 13. Tiny? Bite me! (101/365), 14. A (alpha), 15. Omega, 16. embroidery envelope 1, 17. Mannekin Pis, Brussels, Belgium, 18. Cafe Achteck (Pissoir) am Chamissoplatz, 19. Bus Queue, 20. British Film Icons, 21. Ferula asa-foetida, 22. ~Tea for two~, 23. 365 day one hundred & fourty-nine: will you for me, 24. vive la france, 25. 100708_Shilling_1955, 26. Egg for breakfast on pain complet in France., 27. husband and wife, 28. zephyr

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amusements, memes, photography

Fictional Meme


Fictional Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme allows our imaginations to run wild by providing an imaginary/fictional name for each of::

1. Pub. The Beaver & Dyke
2. Fictional character. Willie P Gentleigh
3. Steam engine. General Puffin A Long
4. Passenger liner (or battleship). SS Lieutenant
5. Place. Rutting-in-the-Wold
6. Company. Kidney, Scrotum & Codd, Debt Collectors
7. Restaurant. The Twist of Lemming
8. Cosmetics range. Poof
9. Railway station. Muddefield Parkway
10. Army camp. Camp Tutu
11. Model of car. Nissan Hutt
12. Pet animal. My late friend Victor always wanted to call one of his cats after the Georgian artist: Pirosmanashvili

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Beaver Lodge, 2. Hold my world gently, 3. Puffing Billy, Emerald Lake, Victoria, 4. SS Great Britain, 5. Ashridge – the Rut 2, 6. debt collectors, 7. Garden Critter Yellow Mouse, 8. the poof tree, 9. Manifest on mud flats, 10. Pride 2009 (42 of 82), 11. shed on wheels, 12. Niko Pirosmani

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amusements, books, thoughts

Wierd Books We Have (Not) Known

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Abebooks is currently promoting some of the weirder books and literary oddities which are available. These include such delights as:

  • Ductigami: The Art of the Tape by Joe Wilson

  • The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories by Ailsa Surkis & Monica Nolan

  • Monk Habits for Everyday People by Dennis Okholm

  • The Great Pantyhose Crafts Book by Edward & Stevie Baldwin

  • Do-It-Yourself Coffins by Dale Power

  • and what is billed as the world’s weirdest book: Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus

I think I’m glad I’ve managed to miss out on these, although I do have a copy of Bill Hartston’s The Drunken Goldfish. What are your favourites?

amusements, arts, books, memes, music, personal, photography

Dinner Party Meme


Dinner Party Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to imagine your ideal dinner party. Which 12 famous people / people from history would you invite? Here is my rather curious set of bedfellows:

1. Anthony Powell; English novelist and man of letters has to be my first choice!
2. William Byrd; Tudor composer and recusant
3. Samuel Pepys; Restoration diarist
4. Richard Feynman; hugely influential physicist
5. Galileo Galilei; another hugely influential and brave scientist
6. Dalai Lama; always calm, always measured and always laughing!
7. Terry Jones; formerly of Monty Python but also a first rate medieval historian
8. Mick Aston; archaeologist and eccentric
9. Alice Roberts; incredibly bright, multi-talented medic, and very sexy
10. Susanna Reid; another incredibly bright and attractive young lady who’s a BBC TV newscaster
11. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll); Victorian mathematician and writer of Alice in Wonderland
12. Leonardo da Vinci; another hugely influential artist and scientist

Why so few girlies? I don’t know. I’m sure there must be more in my brain!

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. ANTHONY POWELL, NOVELIST, AT HOME IN SOMERSET, 28 DECEMBER 1983., 2. William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), 3. Samuel Pepys memorial, St Olave’s Church, London, 4. Richard_Feynman, 5. Galileo, 6. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, 7. terry jones, 8. Time Team in Salisbury, 9. alice roberts, 10. susanna 15, 11. lewis carroll was kind of cute, 12. vitruvian man leonardo da Vinci

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amusements, food+drink, memes, photography

Pizza Meme


My creation, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme … we’re each finding 12 slices of glorious pizza! Here are my 12, in order: Green, Cat, Sweets, Knitted, Onna Stick, Mouse, Black, Catnip, Nude, Fruit, Bento, Purple. And for a wonder not a pretty girl in sight this week. 🙂

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Green & White Pizza, 2. Bad Cat Got to the Pizza First, 3. Who ordered pizza?, 4. knit pizza, 5. Pepperoni Pizza on a Stick, 6. mouse pizzas in detail, 7. Black Bean Pizza, 8. mouse pizza, 9. Pizza Man!, 10. Fruit pizza, 11. Pizza Boy, 12. purple pizza

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amusements, memes, photography

Sox Meme


Sox Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme … It’s laundry day here so it would be fun to check out other people’s laundry on Flickr! So this week’s meme is to find 12 pairs of fun socks! Here are the contents of my washing machine …

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

1. Curiouser and Curiouser!, 2. Smileyface toesocks, 3. thigh high socks, 4. 6252 Stripe Thigh High W/Strawberry And Bow, 5. Japanese School Girl, 6. 133/365 – Rainy days and holey socks…., 7. Odd Sock, 8. Rainbow of Christmas Stockings, 9. marigold knee socks, 10. sock and roll sushi, 11. Pink toe’s in stockings, 12. fairy girl in tutu and legwarmers

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amusements, current affairs, topographical

Modern Day Prayer

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I saw this today posted on the wall of the gents in the Royal Oak at Brookland, Kent. It has to be preserved for posterity …

Modern Day Prayer
Gordon Brown is my shepherd, I shall not work.
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my faith in the Conservative Party.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment.
Yea, though I wait for my dole,
I own the bank that refuses me.
Brown has anointed my income with taxes,
My expenses runneth over my income,
Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of his term.
From hence forth we will live all the days of our lives in a rented home with an overseas landlord.
I am glad I am British,
I am glad I am free.
But I wish I were a dog
And Brown was a tree.