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Until we get to see more explicit pictures:

On the left with a brown tee-shirt and magnificently sculpted and tanned thighs is me, holding a plate on the right and wearing a watch is Alexandra in WMass, across the picnic area with tennis shoes is Mrs Lupin, with Maggie the dog lying on her right, and the person behind the camera is afew. Lupin isn't anywhere on the picture.

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 10:45:56 AM EST
I focused on the jam question in this one. I also took some from further back including everyone and the river background, but they're not on the memory card at all. (Borrowed camera) (I was just told, press the button, you don't need to worry about anything else...) (excuses, excuses...)

In fact, we were so involved in non-stop conversation that getting serious about taking photos just wasn't a priority... I said we needed Colman...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 11:10:13 AM EST
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The first time I tried to take pictures with a digital camera, I also came home completely empty-handed (I was pretty sure that I was taking pictures though).

Even recently at a family occasion I took a group picture (had a dozen people standing in the sun) with someone else's camera, did all sort of fancy positioning (moving around like a professional photographer), pressed the button tens of times while giving out orders (smile, look to your left, you in the back bend forward etc). And in the end there wasn't a single picture on the camera!

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 11:16:48 AM EST
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Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.

I found this one in the camera under the title Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, but I don't know how it got there. I don't remember the ladies wearing dresses like that (?).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 12:34:58 PM EST
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I see you didn't go for the Alex/Manet version of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:47:05 PM EST
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But I understand that with cold, wet-nosed Maggie around this advanced ET version could have caused discomfort...

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:48:41 PM EST
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No Manet. I'm a gentleman, Sven.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 19th, 2006 at 03:05:52 AM EST
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and you could've burned him if there was a sudden cold snap ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 03:59:57 PM EST
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That raises two questions:

  1. Is Colman a heretic?

  2. Can he filled with hooch?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:00:14 PM EST
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  1. Yes.

  2. Yes. It needs to be good stuff though, so it's not very cost effective.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:03:03 PM EST
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Well, if you haven't finished the fine cognac and armagnac you were getting from an "acquaintance", a bellyful of that would do fine. We'll even let you light the match yourself.

All in the name of scientific investigation, of course.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:12:24 PM EST
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I forgot to thank you for the lemon ritual - it made an old man happy ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:35:10 PM EST
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Not cost-effective for you possibly, but for us it would be free inflammability. Colman = firestarter. I've had a lot of experience with barbecues and bonfires, but it was not until I chatted with a friendly fireman that I got the gubbins - you need a pesä or nest to reach critical thermal mass after which everything else just falls into the pesä and it keeps on self-stoking.

So faced with a whole gaggle of heretics to burn, I'd put Colman in the pesä and stand well back.

We Ducks from Leicester also know a good bonfire when we see one,as we have enthusiastically celebrated the ignition of RC Guy Fawkes in our youth ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:33:09 PM EST
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Yes indeed. Penny-for-the-guy autodafés by the hundred. I can smell the air of dark, misty November nights, and the sulphurous smoke of the fireworks and the burning... well, yes, Catholics!
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jun 19th, 2006 at 02:22:20 AM EST
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If you are ever in Helsinki and wish to acquire a take-home bottle of something inspiring after the state monopoly alcohol shops have closed, you neeed to know just one simple phrase:

Onks tietoo?

Roughly translated, it means "do have you any information?"

In dark Helsinki alleyways, it will mean a mere 3 minute wait and cash on delivery.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jun 18th, 2006 at 05:42:17 PM EST
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Funny... I expected you to look like...



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Jun 19th, 2006 at 04:40:17 AM EST
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hehehe

nah my hair never gets that long, I generally cut it when I start getting knots and dreads (and I cut it two weeks before the meetup). and my facial hair is still refusing to take me out of pre-puberty. and I don't wear sunglasses.
but you can still call me el duderino ;)

likewise, I expect you to look like this:

by Alex in Toulouse on Mon Jun 19th, 2006 at 04:57:56 AM EST
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