Thoroughly ludicrous sights...

Subject: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Freddie Fox
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 04:54 PM

This I have to pass on...

My husband was driving me down to the dentists a couple of days ago, and we passed a roundabout covered in roadworks. They had a huge mobile generator [one of the sort that's quite capable of powering a full rock concert], but what were they using it for? They were boiling a kettle...! Not an urn - a small, white domestic kettle.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: annamill
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:10 PM

I've seen a couple (maybe more, if I think about it harder).

At the top of a very steep, large hill sat a hospital with two very long driveways coming down the hill into traffic. I was sitting in that traffic looking up at the hospital amazed by the height of that hill. All of a sudden, at the top of the hill, I saw a name laying on one of those tables with legs that they take you to the operating room on. He had a johnny (you know, one of those little robes you have to wear in the hospital) and was pushing the wheels like crazy, making the ?gurdy? go like crazy toward one of the driveways. My mouth was wide open and as I looked at my husband to ask him to see this frightening scene, the light turned green and I never got to see if that poor man plummeted down the hill into traffic. It is, however, a sight I have never forgotten and often wondered about and this was years ago.

Another one that amused me and I always felt would make a great picture, was the sight of an Amish couple in full dress, with their quaint little stand in front of a gigantic 18 wheeler selling their fruits. I still laugh at that thought.

Truth is certainly stranger than fiction.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Micca
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:16 PM

Several years ago there was a photograph in a local paper here of a small boy(3-4) standing on the very edge of a very busy road p***ing in a perfect curve into the traffic. Always stuck in my memory.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Bill Cameron
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:20 PM

Freddie are you sure that wasn't a small nuclear power plant? That's all they do you know--boil water expensively!

Bill

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Melbert
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:27 PM

I watched a colleague once, sat in front of what was then the latest, most powerful personal computer, with a spreadsheet on the screen, and he was actually counting on his fingers.
After a few minutes he realised I was there and in response to my bemused expression he eaplained that he was working on a French tanslation of our company's software and was figuring out how best to abbreviate some of the technical terms to fit into the field lengths available.....

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Melbert
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:28 PM

Just an afterthought.... why is abbreviation such a long word????

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:48 PM

How about the notice on many a notice board for the Adult literacy scheme:

Need help in reading signs and notices? Ask inside for details.....

Then there was my cat, little white fluffy thing it was then (all teeth and tangles now, ears like bus tickets and a knowing look on his face...), poised delicately neither in nor out of the cat flap, suspended by the middle, in a door that was open wide..... I suspect he was waiting for the other cat to come and lick his bum, like cats do, but you never know......

Someone asked me a question yesterday - Is New Years day going to be 1st Jan next year? Doh!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 05:54 PM

pictures on tv of imelda marcus' shoe closet

an umbrella being used in a summer downpour in New England....why bother?

dudes who stick their jeans inside their cowboy boots...no self-respecting cowboy would ever do that!

personal privacy fences at nude beaches, again....why bother?

we have a bypass road, which goes round town, at the foot of the mountain. the wind ALWAYS blows like crazy along it; several semis get blown over on it each year. our highway department has to cover their arse, though, and state the obvious; at both ends, east and west, are signs saying "high winds possible"...duh!

THE MOST LUDICROUS? Here in town, a couple of right to lifers, with bumper stickers stating so all over their cars, with several children riding along, no seatbelts, no carseats, nothing! Sometimes the children are up, walking around in the minivan or hanging far out the window! Always makes me angry, as though their children, once born, are disposable, or not worth the care and discipline it takes to belt them in. (No offense intended to anyone on here.)

kat

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:03 PM

How about the sight of a 2 year old child in the garden, in November, in the UK. It is windy, it is frosty, it is dusk. She has chosen to wear a small crocheted cap and a pair of teletubbie wellingtons. Nothing else, just the small crocheted cap.......

Not even Alan Titchmarsh or Percy Thrower did that I bet!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Melbert
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:05 PM

Road sign - "To the Braille School".... worrying!

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: DonMeixner
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:12 PM

Going to play a wedding reception at the Hotel Syracuse. As I stood on the corner of Warren and Harrison Streets I could see the Bride emerging the Limo at the Warren Street entrance. She'd shut her train and the back of her dress in the limo door and got not to very far towards the the door. And looking towards the loading bay on Harrison I could see two Men in white coats looking at a stack of cake boxes upside down on the sidewalk. It reminded me of a Gluyas Williams cartoon from The New Yorker. The rest of the night went as you might expect.

Don

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 07:17 PM

G'day,
Here is part of an email I got here at work. I regularly get these:

If you are not receiving this email but would like to, phone ***** ****** at the Information Technology Services Unit on **** ****. If you are receiving this email but don't want to..................................

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Llanfair
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:45 AM

Enormous sign, just outside Nantwich, Cheshire;
TO THE SECRET BUNKER->
"Chesire born, Cheshire bred, strong i'th arm, thick i'th 'ed" Hwyl, Bron.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:49 AM

MY pet sighing was at a folk festival c couple of years back: A lute player, in full costume, was peering intently at his electronic tuner as he twisted his pegs.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: sophocleese
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 09:48 AM

Walked into a University Bookstore one day and saw, in large letters, the general heading for a section "Man and Society". The first shelf DIRECTLY under this title was labelled 'Women's Studies'.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Pelrad
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 09:54 AM

Annap -

That gurney-man sure does get around. I saw him up in Montreal back in 1984, crossing a busy intersection downtown in his johnny and a white hostital blanket. I don't remember seeing exactly how he was propelling his... vehicle, but there was nobody else with him. I thought for a moment I had entered the twilight zone...

I was in a pet store one day, checking out parrot cages, when my husband yanked my arm and pulled me away. There, directly in my path, was a little towheaded boy, nonchalantly peeing on a bird cage.

Later, when my kid stops screeching, I'll come back and tell you my Frenchman story. :-)

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 10:57 AM

Me on stage...

Art

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Penny S.
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 01:16 PM

Not thoroughly ludicrous, but on the same lines as sophocleese's posting: newsagents with shelves labelled Adult Interest, above those labelled Women's Interest, (this one isn't) while alongside General Interest includes Miniature Triumph Bike Collector, Which Nasal Hair Cutter, Paint Drying Watching and other titles of limited appeal.

I really have to search hard for the astronomy and sciences.

Penny

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 03:51 PM

WEll, if you ever attend Old Songs, at the Altamont NY Fairgrounds, you'll see several buildings clearly posted as SHEEP. HORSES and WOMEN.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 04:21 PM

We have a number of small stores that serve as outlets for a guy named Dick..his signs are all alike where ever you see them, they say..Dicks Worms.. really, he raises them for sale to fishermen. One of the silliest sights I have seen was a man standing in the bucket of a front end loader driving a fence stake with a pole axe!!

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 04:35 PM

Look again, Art, not ludicrous you, more like luminous and full of greatness. luvyaKat

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: Micca
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 04:52 PM

I think the sight of 13 men in dresses and 5 or 6 women (including the future bride and yours truly) dancing the Can Can in the Car Park of the 3 Horseshoes at Towersey Folk festival at closing time. for Clarification ask Liz the Squeak.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:53 PM

boy, I screwed that up..the signs all say DICKS WORMS AND CRAWLERS. I asked one clerk what the going price was for a dick..he didnt get it.

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: annamill
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:08 PM

Kendall, you got it! I would have said how much per pound! HAHAHAHAHA!

love, annap

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: annamill
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:12 PM

Thread creep... back in the 60's or 70's there was a great Gayan Wilson cartoon in Playboy. An old couple were driving a buckboard through town and a sign in the general store said "Cast Iron Sinks". The old man was looking at the woman saying "Damn! Any fool knows that!". I loved Gayan Wilson and I hope I'm spelling his name right ;-) Funny what we remember, huh?

Love again, annap

Subject: RE: Thoroughly ludicrous sights...
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 09:56 PM

Sing in the window of a general store in up state NY.. DOG SUPPLIES.. flashlights camping gear etc.
ad in rural Maine.. Motel for sale..always full, especially on week ends.
my favorite.. Ears pierced while you wait.