tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post7581475620326668915..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: Picture QuizO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-83545097360654967262011-08-24T10:40:04.172-07:002011-08-24T10:40:04.172-07:00:-(
don't blink around here, or you will neve...:-(<br /><br />don't blink around here, or you will never keep up.Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787377470200331937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-50355756067100121082011-08-16T21:39:22.618-07:002011-08-16T21:39:22.618-07:00It's not commonly known, but the Mars Bar that...It's not commonly known, but the Mars Bar that took the edge off for you, Saddam, was probably the European version, which is actually made in England, and is the same as what is marketed in the US as the Milky Way Bar.<br /><br />Either way, a dental hygienist would probably say you possessed weapons of mass destruction after all.<br><br>Cliff Clavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-6895274145091602832011-08-16T21:00:11.288-07:002011-08-16T21:00:11.288-07:00I don't want to get hung up on candy, but the ...I don't want to get hung up on candy, but the Mars bar really did take the edge off in the spider hole.Saddamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-49989024830839455972011-08-16T18:31:01.247-07:002011-08-16T18:31:01.247-07:00Exactly Baydog. I thought the reference to Gallo w...Exactly Baydog. I thought the reference to Gallo wanting to be the Campbells of wine nicely completed the circle of our discussion.<br /><br />The question is did Mars want to be the Slough of candy? Bar none!tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-52202555776715822872011-08-16T14:53:01.752-07:002011-08-16T14:53:01.752-07:00Although Gallo makes a few really fine wines, Till...Although Gallo makes a few really fine wines, Tillerman pointed out, early on they did allegedly want to be "the Campbell Soup company of the wine industry". Camden again.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-81663063085868342392011-08-16T08:07:29.538-07:002011-08-16T08:07:29.538-07:00A very big family.<a href="http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html" rel="nofollow">A very big family</a>.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-18532242840465997502011-08-16T07:52:34.931-07:002011-08-16T07:52:34.931-07:00It's a bigger family than I thought.It's a <a href="http://chicagofree.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/thunderbirds-at-Chicago-air-and-water-show1.jpg" rel="nofollow">bigger family</a> than I thought.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-63836401018531071772011-08-16T07:05:47.599-07:002011-08-16T07:05:47.599-07:00Another cousin - but not very shiny.<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/" rel="nofollow">Another cousin</a> - but not very shiny.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-16658905815934282982011-08-16T06:56:47.185-07:002011-08-16T06:56:47.185-07:00Look - also shiny! A cousin, perhaps?Look - <a href="http://flic.kr/p/aduxxG" rel="nofollow">also shiny!</a> A cousin, perhaps?bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-22308704015571048362011-08-16T06:14:33.578-07:002011-08-16T06:14:33.578-07:00Oh, I get it. A bit slow this morning.Oh, I get it. A bit slow this morning.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-44791760359893334332011-08-16T04:30:11.569-07:002011-08-16T04:30:11.569-07:00Chunky New England Clam Chowder came from New Jers...Chunky <b>New England</b> Clam Chowder came from New Jersey? Give me a breaktillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-46356210700132298792011-08-16T01:35:53.228-07:002011-08-16T01:35:53.228-07:00I do know Lady P... from the repeats!
Tillerman: ...I do know Lady P... from the repeats!<br /><br />Tillerman: I never knew that about Dunder Mifflin!<br /><br />Blogs are such a great source of knowledge :)JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-79072872331254307322011-08-15T18:20:34.813-07:002011-08-15T18:20:34.813-07:00Big wholesome chunks of Atlantic clams, Idaho pota...Big wholesome chunks of Atlantic clams, Idaho potatoes, and celery from Salinas.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-46290121388005931982011-08-15T17:55:49.388-07:002011-08-15T17:55:49.388-07:00They never did explain what the chunks are.They never did explain what the chunks are.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-31343556158326360482011-08-15T17:49:44.878-07:002011-08-15T17:49:44.878-07:00Lady Penelope.Lady Penelope.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-20876226291734192162011-08-15T17:43:30.294-07:002011-08-15T17:43:30.294-07:00Slough sounds an awful lot like Camden, NJ. But I...Slough sounds an awful lot like Camden, NJ. But I don't think anything as exciting came from there as the Thunderbirds. Except Chunky New England Clam Chowder. It's a soup that eats like a meal.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-12784321809988845532011-08-15T16:17:26.147-07:002011-08-15T16:17:26.147-07:00JP is probably too young to remember Lady Penelope...JP is probably too young to remember Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-69735591706842638022011-08-15T15:39:21.137-07:002011-08-15T15:39:21.137-07:00In the allegorical Pilgrim's Progress, the pro...In the allegorical <i>Pilgrim's Progress</i>, the protagonist is trapped in a blog in the Slough of Despond. He gets by with a little Help from his friends.<br /><br />No wait, it's <i>bog</i>, not blog.<br /><br />Sorry, JP, I wouldn't expect today's mystery object to be very well known in Europe or the UK, or even much outside northern California, although, locally, it is an almost mythical presence. More anon.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-36962570243756827082011-08-15T14:15:27.637-07:002011-08-15T14:15:27.637-07:00Isn't Slough a perfectly awful word? I can'...Isn't Slough a perfectly awful word? I can't imagine why anyone would call their town that. It must have been a self-fulfilling prophecy.<br /><br />As Bunyan wrote in The Pigrim's Progress: "This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond: for still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place; and this is the reason of the badness of this ground."<br /><br />Thank you O Docker for writing this post about references to sloughs in English literature. How do you do it?<br /><br />I like the US Office too. Did you know that the address of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin is 1725 Slough Avenue?tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-40534041051530822542011-08-15T13:53:59.671-07:002011-08-15T13:53:59.671-07:00I was just about to ask how to pronounce 'Slou...I was just about to ask how to pronounce 'Slough'.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-70174583533874676612011-08-15T13:53:49.330-07:002011-08-15T13:53:49.330-07:00Sorry to hear about the sick family member - hope ...Sorry to hear about the sick family member - hope things do improve. Ditto with the all consuming project.<br /><br />It all sounds unfortunately very familiar :(<br /><br />Unlike the photo which draws a blank, but it looks like the big-brains have got there anyhow.<br /><br />At least its not Slough (shudder) - I actually prefer the US Office to the UK Office.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-43937946283503160762011-08-15T12:54:26.217-07:002011-08-15T12:54:26.217-07:00Talking of Slough, did you know that the British v...Talking of Slough, did you know that the British version of The Office (starring Ricky Gervais) is supposedly set on the Slough Trading Estate, also the location of the mysterious building known as 700 Stirling Road, where (according to O Docker) the moon landings were filmed.<br /><br />There is also a famous John Betjeman poem about Slough.<br /><br />Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!<br />It isn't fit for humans now, <br />There isn't grass to graze a cow. <br />Swarm over, Death!<br />Come, bombs and blow to smithereens<br />Those air -conditioned, bright canteens, <br />Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans, <br />Tinned minds, tinned breath.<br /><br />Mess up the mess they call a town-<br />A house for ninety-seven down<br />And once a week a half a crown <br />For twenty years.<br /><br />And get that man with double chin<br />Who'll always cheat and always win, <br />Who washes his repulsive skin <br />In women's tears:<br /><br />And smash his desk of polished oak<br />And smash his hands so used to stroke<br />And stop his boring dirty joke<br />And make him yell.<br /><br />But spare the bald young clerks who add<br />The profits of the stinking cad;<br />It's not their fault that they are mad, <br />They've tasted Hell.<br /><br />It's not their fault they do not know <br />The birdsong from the radio, <br />It's not their fault they often go <br />To Maidenhead<br /><br />And talk of sport and makes of cars<br />In various bogus-Tudor bars <br />And daren't look up and see the stars<br />But belch instead.<br /><br />In labour-saving homes, with care<br />Their wives frizz out peroxide hair<br />And dry it in synthetic air<br />And paint their nails.<br /><br />Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough<br />To get it ready for the plough.<br />The cabbages are coming now;<br />The earth exhales.<br /><br />The poem was written in 1937, but it was equally appropriate in 1971.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-44469353885805193912011-08-15T12:42:21.158-07:002011-08-15T12:42:21.158-07:00Nice to see that we haven't forgotten how to g...Nice to see that we haven't forgotten how to get way off topic, regardless of who's posting.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-70055084498273012572011-08-15T11:47:06.253-07:002011-08-15T11:47:06.253-07:00And I always thought that "Neil Armstrong&quo...And I always thought that "Neil Armstrong" in that July 1969 episode walked suspiciously like a puppet.tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-51089028709837522352011-08-15T11:36:39.499-07:002011-08-15T11:36:39.499-07:00Many of the characters in that TV series were name...Many of the characters in that TV series were named for Mercury astronauts.<br /><br />Can there be any further doubt?<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.com