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Fantasy » alt.fan.pratchett » Re: Fans-in-art
| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250332] |
Di, 04 April 2006 13:43 |
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pjamison2 wrote:
> "Sofia" <pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2006.04.03.21.56.23.166402 [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com...
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>>On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:36:12 -0800, Davina Stuart wrote:
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>>>We also recently took in a 4 year old Jack Russell Terrier named Willow.
>>>Her former owner went off to college, couldn't take the dog, and her
>>>parents
>>>said "find it a new home or we're going to shoot it, we want a
>>>rotweiller."
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>>Isn't it horrid what gruesome steps some people are prepared to go through
>>just to give themselves a bigger, and more powerful image - I can't think
>>what else could actually drive somebody to shoot a living animal solely
>>for this reason - there ought to be a law against it! :-(
>>
>>Harry doggy, whom I told you about, together with me in my A'files pic'
>>was also a rescue dog, like your three, and we were just lucky to get him
>>from "Battersea Dogs Home" at 10 months old. They would have incinerated
>>him if we didn't get there when we did, and we were told he was found
>>eating out of dustbins in Battersea Park. He died at nearly 15 of
>>lung-cancer, just before Halloween 2004, - but neither me or hubby smoked
>>while we had him, and it's still so hard even nowadays trying to forget
>>him - especially with his toys and photo's scattered all over the place.
>>
>
>
> I just wanted to come in here and say that I think that adopt rescue animals
> are angels on Earth.
>
> Thank you.
We got our whippet from the local NCDL place, before they started
calling themselves "Dogs Trust" or whatnot and started running those
stupid first-person-doggie-voiceover adverts. Or what about "This is
Bob. He'll be dead in a week if nobody comes and adopts him." for
instance? Ah well.
Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250431 ] |
Di, 04 April 2006 23:05 |
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On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Torak wrote:
> Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
> mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
> into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
Aaaargh, you didn't see it did you!?
My hubby recorded a horror film called "Ginger Snaps" for me a couple of
days ago, and played it for me the day after while I was eating. It was
disgusting - there were doggies being ripped apart all over the place
every 5 minutes! :-(
I don't think I've ever wanted to throw my food up more in my life, though
hubby seemed unmoved, remarking "Oh it's just a film"!
All the best
Sofie
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250519 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 07:52 |
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"Sofia" <pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.04.04.21.05.50.957861 [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com...
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
> > Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
> > mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
> > into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
>
>
> Aaaargh, you didn't see it did you!?
>
> My hubby recorded a horror film called "Ginger Snaps" for me a couple of
> days ago, and played it for me the day after while I was eating. It was
> disgusting - there were doggies being ripped apart all over the place
> every 5 minutes! :-(
>
> I don't think I've ever wanted to throw my food up more in my life, though
> hubby seemed unmoved, remarking "Oh it's just a film"!
>
>
> All the best
>
>
> Sofie
>
> --
> Please visit my deviantART page: http://sofen.deviantart.com/
>
hrm.. occassionally i'm of the opinion that some films were better left
unmade.. this sounds like it might be one of them.... :(
poor doggies....
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250525 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 09:40 |
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Sofia <pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
>> Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
>> mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
>> into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
>
>
> Aaaargh, you didn't see it did you!?
> [...]
My mother once pointed out a small wooden cross on
the road she has to take to work everyday. She told
me that at this place a cycling girl was run over by
a big truck/lorry. The father, on a bycicly behind
the girl, had to watch.
It was several years ago that she showed me and I
have never gone along that road since, but I can't
get that out of my head.
Schobi
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SpamTrap [at] gmx.de is never read
I'm Schobi at suespammers dot org
"The sarcasm is mightier than the sword."
Eric Jarvis
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250541 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 12:47 |
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Sofia wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
>>Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
>>mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
>>into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
>
> Aaaargh, you didn't see it did you!?
No - I was at school at the time, and remember wondering why the
teachers were being so nice and letting me play Crystal Forest and
Pacman for so long while I waited for Mamma to arrive three hours late
to collect me.
The advantage - or, I suppose, not-as-disadvantage-as-it-could-have-been
- of Trixie running into the side of the truck is that she didn't run in
front of the truck, so... how shall I put this... her structural
integrity was largely unaffected apart from an abrasion on her shoulder.
Ah well. We buried her in the orchard, in a nice pine box wrapped in her
favourite blanket. Our tenants in one of our cottages liked the idea, so
when their dog died she was buried next to Trixie.
Of course, being a country estate, there's a dog graveyard somewhere on
the grounds (with actual professionally-carved nineteenth-century dog
gravestones dotted about the place here and there), we're just not sure
where it is now.
> My hubby recorded a horror film called "Ginger Snaps" for me a couple of
> days ago, and played it for me the day after while I was eating. It was
> disgusting - there were doggies being ripped apart all over the place
> every 5 minutes! :-(
>
> I don't think I've ever wanted to throw my food up more in my life, though
> hubby seemed unmoved, remarking "Oh it's just a film"!
I don't mind violence against humans in films. In fact, I don't tend to
get squeamish at all, except where it involves needles or orifices in
general; eyes, teeth, noses and so on.
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250543 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 12:51 |
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Hendrik Schober wrote:
> Sofia <pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Torak wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anyway, yes, our whippet. Lovely dog, was Trixie. We clocked her at 35
>>>mph on a couple of occasions. But then one day she found the A75 and ran
>>>into the side of a truck. Which was a shame.
>>
>>
>>Aaaargh, you didn't see it did you!?
>>[...]
>
>
> My mother once pointed out a small wooden cross on
> the road she has to take to work everyday. She told
> me that at this place a cycling girl was run over by
> a big truck/lorry. The father, on a bycicly behind
> the girl, had to watch.
> It was several years ago that she showed me and I
> have never gone along that road since, but I can't
> get that out of my head.
We live in an area where the local police reports are published in the
paper; they're usually involving bicycles stolen to get home from the
pub and returned the next day, or the occasional "Joe Bloggs, 33, of 27
Random Terrace, was cautioned by Sheriff Even More Random Bloggs for
driving without a seatbelt..."
Apart from a growing drug problem, it's not a high-crime area.
But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted his
father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively. Put it like this,
the father of one of the cadets at my squadron was the paramedic who
collected the corpse... and the head.
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250552 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 14:32 |
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Torak <perry_awm [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
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> But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted
> his father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the
> local Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively.
I can see the headlines: "Joe DiMaggio made me do it!".
Surely, the city banned baseball after that, cause it's Important To Blame
Someone Else?
Jokes aside, there seems to be a /lot/ more violence done with baseball bats
than cricket bats, even where the latter are more common. Is this simply
because the baseball bat is lighter and easier to hide under a jacket, or
are there other reasons for the correlation?
Regards,
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*Art
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250622 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 22:08 |
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:51:19 +0200, Torak wrote:
> Apart from a growing drug problem, it's not a high-crime area.
>
> But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted his
> father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
> Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively. Put it like this,
> the father of one of the cadets at my squadron was the paramedic who
> collected the corpse... and the head.
Ummm? Errr? It *isn't* a high-crime area?
I think I must have misunderstood something here!
All the best
Sofie
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Please visit my deviantART page: http://sofen.deviantart.com/
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250623 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 22:12 |
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Sofia wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:51:19 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
>> Apart from a growing drug problem, it's not a high-crime area.
>>
>> But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted
>> his father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the
>> local Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively. Put it
>> like this, the father of one of the cadets at my squadron was the
>> paramedic who collected the corpse... and the head.
>
>
> Ummm? Errr? It *isn't* a high-crime area?
>
> I think I must have misunderstood something here!
Well, he was killed in the car park, and presumably fell down quite
quickly, which would make it a low crime.
Seriously, though, one incident, however horrible, does not make a
high-crime area. Itäs when crime happens often you need to worry.
Orjan
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The Tale of Westala and Villtin
http://tale.cunobaros.com/
Fiction, Thoughts and Software
http://www.cunobaros.com/
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250637 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 23:14 |
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In article <pan.2006.04.05.20.08.24.839631 [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com>,
pinkmonster2000REMOVE [at] ALLCAPSyahoo.com says...
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:51:19 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
> > Apart from a growing drug problem, it's not a high-crime area.
> >
> > But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted his
> > father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
> > Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively. Put it like this,
> > the father of one of the cadets at my squadron was the paramedic who
> > collected the corpse... and the head.
>
>
> Ummm? Errr? It *isn't* a high-crime area?
>
> I think I must have misunderstood something here!
"High crime" normally refers to the *number* of serious crimes committed
in the area. One crime, however appalling, does not make a high crime
area. A thousand burglaries in which no-one was hurt do make a high
crime area.
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250643 ] |
Mi, 05 April 2006 23:36 |
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Sofia wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:51:19 +0200, Torak wrote:
>
>
>>Apart from a growing drug problem, it's not a high-crime area.
>>
>>But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted his
>>father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
>>Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively. Put it like this,
>>the father of one of the cadets at my squadron was the paramedic who
>>collected the corpse... and the head.
>
>
>
> Ummm? Errr? It *isn't* a high-crime area?
>
> I think I must have misunderstood something here!
It's the only murder we've had since... well, probably ever. The weekly
newspaper tends to have three or four reports of speeding tickets and
seatbelt evaders, and the occasional Section 25 outside the pub. And
that's about it.
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250706 ] |
Do, 06 April 2006 03:52 |
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Arthur Hagen said:
> Jokes aside, there seems to be a /lot/ more violence done with baseball
> bats
> than cricket bats, even where the latter are more common. Is this simply
> because the baseball bat is lighter and easier to hide under a jacket, or
> are there other reasons for the correlation?
Maybe it's because a baseball bat is a single piece of wood. A
poorly-maintained cricket bat is quite likely to break in two if you
subject it to extreme violence. Not that I have ever hit anyone with
either. I merely hypothesise.
If you really have to hit someone, folks, do so with a pillow, and then make
up afterwards. It's not as messy, despite the feathers; and there's no
down-side, despite the down side.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #250707 ] |
Do, 06 April 2006 03:57 |
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"Arthur Hagen" <art [at] broomstick.com> wrote in message
news:e10dd6$d3s$1 [at] tree.broomstick.com...
> Torak <perry_awm [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted
>> his father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the
>> local Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively.
>
> I can see the headlines: "Joe DiMaggio made me do it!".
> Surely, the city banned baseball after that, cause it's Important To Blame
> Someone Else?
>
> Jokes aside, there seems to be a /lot/ more violence done with baseball
> bats than cricket bats, even where the latter are more common. Is this
> simply because the baseball bat is lighter and easier to hide under a
> jacket, or are there other reasons for the correlation?
>
> Regards,
> --
> *Art
Rancid did not sing a popular song about a cricket bat. I guess your bashing
implement needs a certain style to it. 8|
Aggie
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #251321 ] |
Sa, 08 April 2006 17:51 |
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:32:38 -0400, Arthur Hagen wrote:
>> But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted
>> his father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
>> Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively.
>
> I can see the headlines: "Joe DiMaggio made me do it!". Surely, the
> city banned baseball after that, cause it's Important To Blame Someone
> Else?
In a few years time it might be classed as a high crime area though, when
the headlines change to, "Headless zombie goes shopping for a head at
Co-op" - sorry, bad joke. :-(
All the best
Sofie
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Please visit my deviantART page: http://sofen.deviantart.com/
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| Re: Fans-in-art [message #251357 ] |
Sa, 08 April 2006 22:32 |
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Sofia wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:32:38 -0400, Arthur Hagen wrote:
>
>
>>>But a few years ago, a local teenager got a baseball bat, confronted
>>>his father - or stepfather, or some such - in the car park at the local
>>>Co-op, and beat him to death with it. Comprehensively.
>>
>>I can see the headlines: "Joe DiMaggio made me do it!". Surely, the
>>city banned baseball after that, cause it's Important To Blame Someone
>>Else?
>
>
> In a few years time it might be classed as a high crime area though, when
> the headlines change to, "Headless zombie goes shopping for a head at
> Co-op" - sorry, bad joke. :-(
"Shop at Coop to get ahead."
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