Faculty of Pogonology at the University of Milton North

[DumSpiroSpero]

Time for a new specialism, methinks!

I have no idea how rotfl ended up in my last post...

at both of you!

steampunk a la Wiki

Sounds worth investigating?

This is really about to just switch off and lead is in the drawer upstairs so I am going to call it a night, happy in the thought that all is well in the faculty.

Night Small - sweet dreams!

Thanks for the steampunk info Spiro. I have to confess that for reasons I don't understand at all I find this genre really spooky and scarey and not very nice. As I say, this is pure gut reaction, I have no idea whatsoever why I feel this way.

Night small. I won't say happy steampunk dreams obviously

Hello again! To anyone still around?

Night Small!!

Thank you for the kind offers of donations to the telly box fund. I know I may sound like one of the peasants scavenging for groats in the alleys of Nottamun but we can (probably) afford to buy ourselves a new telly. It's just that I'd been trying to put it off until after we've had the sitting room in our hovel well-appointed abode redecorated, as that will mean one less item of furniture to lug from room to room. But I think we'll have to bite the bullet and buy the thing anyway, as the first link in my carefully-planned sequence of renovations has just broken.

::Enrols on plumbing course so that she can shift her own radiators::

Massive - I tend to agree about the steampunk. I've seen several films which have (as far as I can judge) a very steampunk aesthetic and I guess my question was more about why has it (apparently) become so popular, rather than what is it.

Boing! Off to bed said Maud.

It doesn't immediately strike me as my sort of thing, but then neither were LOTN or The Sunne in Splendour.

I don't know if you checked out the 'Fiction' section of that Wiki page but it mentions a collection of 3 short novels, including one about an imaginary love affair between Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson, so I might give that a go before I form an opinion of the genre as a whole.

I find the whole idea of genres and sub-cultures really fascinating - there seemed to be a fairly limited 'black & white' selection when I was doing A-level Media Studies, but now there seems to be endless groups.

Hello Phoenix, the gang's all here, well some of us.

Maud it's not as if we thought you couldn't afford a new telly, we just wanted to show solidarity that's all.

And I doubt peasants would find any spare groats in Nottamun, not with Vaisey around -- he sends the street-cleaners around on their hands and knees to sweep up with their tongues, in case they miss anything.

I am sure steampunk has its good points, Spiro and I hate to dismiss anything out of hand, but for some totally irrational reason this has made me go yeuch.

An imaginary affair between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson? The mind boggles and wanders off to the Dead Poets' Society.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Right. Really off to bed now. G'night.

Night, Maud and sweet Milton dreams, it was great fun to talk to you again!

What exit lines, btw!

Morning ladies! Another fun filled day of work ahead

Morning, Small. Perhaps you have a site meeting with an important client?

::Hopeful on your behalf::

You know what Maud? If that were my client I would do the job for free and skip all the way to sarf London too.

Tis a London job that I am working on though but the civilised side west of London.

Morning ladies, I hope we're all set for another blockbuster week.

I see Colin and Co pretty much swept the board at the Oscars. Didn't he do well?

I wonder how Twiggy is getting along with Mickey. As a toddler I used to prefer Donald, strangely enough. My first and last blondy crush. She will be an hour ahead of you lot so the day will be getting on towards lunchtime for her now. As someone else said, I would love to have seen the look on the kiddies' faces when they realised where they were going.

Small, I wish you a succesful trip to West London and hope indeed that your client is the one Maud found for you. Or maybe he will have morphed into a hunky builder type, climbing enticingly up ladders at your eye-level. Of course he's just helping out his cousin who's the site manager, he himself taking a break from his whizz-kid career as banker/top IT man/famous author/spy.

Speaking of the powers of invention, Spiro, I hope the writing is coming on well.

Oi - SmallPrint - who are you calling uncivilised? There are at least couple of us from the dark side of London on this thread (albeit not currently residing there) .

West London may well be civilied but it's transport system certainly isn't if my experience at the weekend was anything to go by - you'd probably need to skip there - would be faster than public transport.

The writing is coming on fine Massive - sleep, not so much !

Heh heh, knew that would start a war of words. One o my very good friends is an East End Girl and we love to insult each others part of London - just a bit of playful banter, East is loverly if you like living in Beirut.

Ooh yes, I wonder how Twigs is getting on. I feel excited for her!

We drove through East London yesterday and saw the Olympic buildings. Tres exciting. You may think that west London is civilised, Small, and I dare say it is if one can afford to live on the Mall at Hammersmith (if you are deaf to the motorway yards behind you) or at Kew (ditto for planes landing at Heathrow) but the cognoscenti know that sarf London is best. We even have our own bunting cupcake shops and resident heart-throbs and proper public transport that isn't built around the Stannah stairlift.

::strikes modish pose::