BS: Watching paint dry.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 08:53 AM

What colour are you painting Guest's Playhouse then?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 04:25 AM

I would just like to say a big thank you to all those volunteer paint dryers.

Without their efforts, the paint would just stay wet.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 06:02 AM

Well, if you want, I can wet it again for you - just had a beer!

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 09:14 AM

Folks, get with it. This thread is about WATCHING paint dry. It would be cogent to EXPERIENCE paint dry. Now, there's a challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 11:49 AM

This thread is of some small interest in relation to the siubject of really dull and boring things to do.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: number 6
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 12:00 PM

Oh, there's twenty thousand grandmas
Wave their hankies in the air
All burning up their pensions
And shouting, "It's not fair!"
There's a regiment of soldiers
Standing looking on
And the queen is bravely shouting
"What the hell is going on?"

With a blood-curdling "tally-ho"
She charged into the ranks
And blessed all those grandmas
Who weith their dying breaths screamed, "Thanks!"

Me, I'm waiting so patiently Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do this jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 12:24 PM

Good poem, sIx. Where's it from?

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 01:21 PM

It's a Rolling Stones lyric from the song "Jigsaw Puzzle".

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 01:23 PM

Cool, Thanks. I musta got stoned and missed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 03:24 PM

I don't know why (duh) but those lyrics immediately came to my mind when I read this thread at lunch .... haven't heard them, or thought of them in years ... but in revisting them today, I realized they are quite good ... might just add that song to my song list.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 08:31 PM

Actually you used to be able to buy DRY PAINT. It was called 'water paint' or 'casein paint' and came as a dry powder to which you added water.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 09:19 PM

"Jigsaw Puzzle" was a case of the Stones trying to write lyrics that sounded like Dylan. He had quite a big influence on them, and they on him too, albeit probably to a lesser extent.

There's a neat video of the Stones performing "Like A Rolling Stone", and Mick does a good job on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 09:58 PM

Gazing at the night sky, watching the Universe expand. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: number 6
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 10:16 PM

People disagreeing everywhere you look,
Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
That was really shook.
But this ol' river keeps on rollin', though,
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow,
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow.

...... B. Dylan

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: GUEST,Mingulayat work
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 06:06 AM

Do I sense a song lyric thread creep??

Although some might argue that listening to Dylan or the Stones can be compared to watching paint dry, albeit a little noisier.

Mingulay, who stretches, yawns, farts and returns to the exciting world of varnish spotting.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: GUEST,Dryandra
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 08:30 AM

If paint be dry, eyes cannot watch the mark.
Now will he gaze under a mighty wall,
And wish his drying paint were that kind of tome
As eyes call bonnie, when they watch alone.
Graffit'd wall, that it were, O, that it were
An open et cetera, though a public poem!
Footsteps on, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;
This painted wall is too hot for me to sleep:
Come, shall we go?

Dryandra Pig-Ment

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 11:47 AM

Perhaps watching paint dry is really not all that is cracked up to be?

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 12:00 PM

Correct preparation of the surface, including not painting over old pain will usually guarantee that it will not crack up when drying.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 01:08 PM

Why are we painting the living room?
Why are we painting the living room?
Why are we painting the living room?
Why are we painting the living room?
Why are we painting the living room?
Why are we painting the living room?

The chorus to a Lou and Peter Barryman song.

Oh when them painters come marching in,
When them painters come marching in,
Be sure to lay a drop-cloth
When them painters come marching in!

From something Shel Silverstein composed?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 01:09 PM

I would rather watch paint dry than listen to "Horse With No Name."

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 02:30 PM

Perhaps watching paint dry is really not all that is quacked up to be?

Especially when it is Teal or Duck Egg Blue?

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 03:18 PM

I'm going to watch paint dry next week. (LO/MIT II). And then I'm going to watch my electric bill drop.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 05:12 PM

I'm fed up with watching paint dry, I'm doing some embroidery design instead... didn't realise not watching football could be so expensive.... : (

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: GUEST,mrdux
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 07:30 PM

Charley --

"When the paintners come marching in" is an Allan Sherman lyric. Note that "paintners" is not a typo.

michael

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 10:54 PM

Michael-

Thanks for the correction. Allan Sherman it is. I beieve he also composed "My Son the Folksinger."

As a nautical feller, I'm used to calling the rope one uses to tie up the boat "the painter." I'm not sure why it's called that or why other ropes are called "sheets." Sailors are just weird fellers.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: number 6
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 11:56 PM

I prefer wall paper over paint.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 08:53 AM

Wall paper over silk emulsion or gloss paint makes it really easy to remove for the next person who decorates... it's great!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 09:18 AM

Goldarn!!!! Y'all make ANYthing more fun than....well, in this case, doing dishes.    Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 23 Jun 06 - 09:04 AM

Still not dry yet.
Maybe I should try taking the lid off the tin?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: skipy
Date: 23 Jun 06 - 09:46 AM

Just heard on the News that:-
a tanker loaded with blue paint & owned by ICC, has crashed into a tanker loaded with red paint & owned by Burger. It is reported that 26 sailers have been marooned!
Skip (in a sort of bored / playful mood )

Subject: RE: BS: Watching paint dry.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jun 06 - 11:20 AM

Oh whoopee... Wimbledon week. Another excuse to go watch my paint peel.

(Similar to watching it dry, but with a more tactile, satisfying result).

LTS