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Jul. 4th, 2008 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogWe've just discovered that the post office is shut today, and so are most of the shops. Is it a public holiday or something?
realthogWe've just discovered that the post office is shut today, and so are most of the shops. Is it a public holiday or something?
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Date: 2008-07-04 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-07-04 03:57 pm (UTC)Or -- you go to the lake with a passel of friends and / or relatives and all the kids, and spend the day eating, driving the boat very very very fast, and maybe water skiing, and drink a lot of beer, if you're a husband / father / grandfather / uncle, etc. If you're a wife / mother / grandmother / aunt etc. you spend the day making food, packing food, unpacking food, putting food out, making sure the kids eat enough, making sure the kids don't go into the water until an hour later, etc. etc.
When it gets mosquito time you give the kids sparklers. When it gets dark the men, who have now drunk cases of beer, put on a fireworks show.
Then you all go to Dairy Queen.
Love, C
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Date: 2008-07-04 04:04 pm (UTC)This is part of the English tradition of giving deliberately bad advice to clueless newbies and standing back to see the results.
(There's a great fake tour guide for Americans in Britain that includes suggestions such as going to the Shouting Gallery in St Paul's Cathedral, and asking policemen about cottaging.)
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Date: 2008-07-04 04:32 pm (UTC)Really bad advice? Wasn't my advice up to snuff?
Love, C.
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Date: 2008-07-04 04:54 pm (UTC)Cottaging = Tea-room trade (see Senator Larry Craig for details).
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Date: 2008-07-04 05:31 pm (UTC)Eeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, that other thing. Ick.
Love, C.
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Date: 2008-07-04 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-05 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 09:25 pm (UTC)What you have to do, old chap, is stand on a corner and sing the National Anthem very loudly. The verse calling on god to scatter her enemies always goes down a treat.
That sounds like good advice to me. I'll let you know later how it goes.
quite a lot later, perhaps.
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Date: 2008-07-04 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 09:23 pm (UTC)Sort of Give Me Liberty or Give Me A BBQ, you mean?
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Date: 2008-07-04 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 09:27 pm (UTC)"a Roman candle to point at passing cars"
Does the recent Supreme Court decision cover Roman candles, then?
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Date: 2008-07-04 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 09:29 pm (UTC)It's okay. I've been listening to it on MP3.com to decide whether or not I like it enough to invest.
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Date: 2008-07-04 09:37 pm (UTC)And a happy one to you and Pam!
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Date: 2008-07-04 09:41 pm (UTC)It's our national holiday for blowing up things "real good".
I seem to have slept through much of it -- this effing convalescence thang.
Well, better go start making up for lost time . . .
Hm. I think a little rouge would be nice, or . . .
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Date: 2008-07-05 02:48 pm (UTC)You're doing very well with your "effing convalescence thang", no rouge necessary, I should think. And I like the corn pone twang you've affected. Appropriate for this time of the year. ;D
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Date: 2008-07-04 11:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-05 12:39 pm (UTC)*AND* it wasn't the decaff muck which is all I'm allowed to drink at the moment!
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Date: 2008-07-05 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-07-05 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-07-06 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-06 11:49 pm (UTC)