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Dykes and Duck

  • 26th Aug, 2004 at 1:25 AM
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cleanskies

Dykes and Duck, originally uploaded by Jeremy Dennis.

Groc and Archontic have persuaded me that Flickr might be fun to play with.

I recommend visiting the "tags" page. The one that lists them all. Almost as much fun as searching for "anxiety" in the mirror project.

I've also posted a picture of my old broken transparent palm, I seem to remember a few people asked to see it, months ago ...

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celestialweasel
25th Aug, 2004 17:33 (UTC)
This was more or less the premise of my idea for a sitcom. You would have to ask mr_snip about this, but when he was living in the shared house just off Botley Road with Tanaqui, she brought back an injured duck then went to bed so the others came downstairs in the morning to find, much to their surprise, the duck. In the wonderful world of the sitcom (working title 'Mind The Duck') this would be misheard as an 'injured dyke' and the local women's group would arrive only to find said fowl sitting in the lounge quacking confusedly.

Of course I may have misremembered, or the story may have 'grown in the telling' as they say. Then again, did you live in that house anyway? :-)
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cleanskies
25th Aug, 2004 17:44 (UTC)
no!
... I didn't live in the house, but I do remember all about the duck. For months Neal would speak of nothing but, it seemed. I think it was the regular mallard type, however.
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celestialweasel
25th Aug, 2004 17:47 (UTC)
Re: no!
"for months he spoke of nothing but the duck". I can imagine this as the caption of a Glen Baxter cartoon or pastiche thereof featuring mr_snips.
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marstokyo
25th Aug, 2004 17:37 (UTC)
what fun with toys you have!! LOVE the silver duckie-- I've never seen one that color before! Is it aerodynamic?
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cleanskies
25th Aug, 2004 17:48 (UTC)
more in the "can be thrown" category
Novelty rubber ducks are quite big over here -- the Devil Duck is justly famous, but he has a whole host of less popular friends. After christmas there are bins full of them on sale, he's a christmas reject.
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marstokyo
25th Aug, 2004 19:15 (UTC)
Re: more in the "can be thrown" category
Oh, I have a Devil Duck, and the standard yellow. A friend of mine collects them and has James Brown, Betty Boop, among others.
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 02:52 (UTC)
that sounds like
his *more* famous friends!
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celestialweasel
25th Aug, 2004 17:48 (UTC)
shouldn't that be aquadynamic?
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marstokyo
25th Aug, 2004 19:15 (UTC)
Yes, of course! DOH!
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bugshaw
25th Aug, 2004 17:49 (UTC)
Wilful misunderstanding
I recommend visiting the "tags" page.

I do like the Google Ads on the page. Looking for tags to annotate your photos with? How about this terribly relevant Pet Tags & Micro-chipping course? Or this Digital Dog Tag which can hold 40 lines of text?
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cleanskies
25th Aug, 2004 17:53 (UTC)
at least that makes sense
... for some reason, my page is advertising trampolines. Why?
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bugshaw
25th Aug, 2004 18:05 (UTC)
Re: at least that makes sense
So is the tag=gerbil page. There's a link to comment to Google on their ad service. I told them I couldn't quite see the special relevance of trampolines to people who like photos of gerbils. But it is late, and I am talking drivel. The tag=godzilla page is advertising news feed software. Want to keep up to date on the latest global threats by large mutant lizards? Create an RSS feed straight to your desktop! At least that makes sense.
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 02:31 (UTC)
hmmm, gerbils, dolls, barbies
... maybe there's some sort of humourous reassignation of vaguely rude tags going on.
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bugshaw
26th Aug, 2004 03:33 (UTC)
I was going to introduce a note of sense at this point, like "This site is new, and Google are probably still developing their algorithms".

But first I decided to do a perfectly ordinary Google search on one of the words, say, "gerbil", to see if it also brought up trampolining information. And was presented with the following context-sensitive advertising.

Bargain Gerbil
Fantastic low prices here.
Name your price on eBay.co.uk!
www.ebay.co.uk

Gerbil
Great deals on new and used items.
Search for gerbil now!
www.eBay.com

Aw!
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 03:39 (UTC)
thanks goodness I'm the only one in the office
... I'm not even sure *why* that's so funny.

Bargain Gerbil
Great range of household items.
Make it yours on eBay.co.uk!
www.ebay.co.uk

Gerbil
Great deals on new and used items.
Search for gerbil now! -aff
www.eBay.com

household items
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badasstronaut
27th Aug, 2004 06:07 (UTC)
Re: thanks goodness I'm the only one in the office
Rude gerbil page
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cleanskies
27th Aug, 2004 09:35 (UTC)
Re: thanks goodness I'm the only one in the office
I am so not going to look at that at work.
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grocko
25th Aug, 2004 21:37 (UTC)
Re: Wilful misunderstanding
S'alight for you people I've noticed with some alarm google ads for anti pigeon and seagull spikes and for pest control firms. So here's me putting up pictures that are more or less saying 'look at the nice pretty birdies' and the google ads underneath are saying 'vermin - kill them'.
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 03:04 (UTC)
oooh, nasty
"safely drive birds away". Honestly, the very idea!
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fridgemagnet
25th Aug, 2004 18:01 (UTC)
Flickr is fantastic. I like to dominate tags that nobody else posts into. Right now, I rule "penguins" without even trying.
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 02:43 (UTC)
weird, isn't it?
With two pictures of deviant dollies, I own the dyke tage.
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badasstronaut
27th Aug, 2004 06:11 (UTC)
Look what I found!
http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=25136
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cleanskies
27th Aug, 2004 09:36 (UTC)
so pink!
so gay! ... so sickly-looking.
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ex_kharin447
26th Aug, 2004 02:24 (UTC)
Hmm, like the duck. I did set up a flickr account but I'm still rather ambivalent about the use of it. Will you be streaming photos from it onto your website?
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cleanskies
26th Aug, 2004 02:51 (UTC)
after the theoretical redevelop?
... er, maybe. To be honest, it's more of a convenience while the home network uhm, does what home networks do when you've been running on out of date equipment for a while.

I suppose I could stream it on cleanskies ... not that I use that for much any more ...
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