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sheldrake ([personal profile] tadorna) wrote2005-02-23 03:34 pm
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Some Things

I really like this "ten things wot people have done" meme. Mainly because, unlike quite a lot of these things, it's interesting to write and read. I'm thrilled and enthralled and enchanted by all the exciting things I've learnt about you people. So here's mine:

In no particular order, some things I've done that I flatter myself are, while nowhere near unique, at least approaching the unusual.

1. Seriously pissed off a priest during Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

2. Crocheted out of a upstairs window until it reached the pavement below.

3. Accidentally swallowed some home-made honey-flavoured chewing gum at the home of a Greek family who lived across the street.

4. Watched my two-year-old brother get hit by a car, and as a result had to borrow huge flowery knickers from 'Auntie' Eileen next door.

5. Had a serious conversation with workmates concerning whether our emplowers were smuggling diamonds from Benin.

6. Got hit over the head by a nightclub bouncer.

7. Rubbed some baby clothes around in the dust of a decaying church.

8. Er.. ate chalk?

9. Realised had run out of interesting things to put in list.

10. Just one more ... um ... spent much of childhood in approximation of Edwardian dress. [note to self: poss. why had no friends?]

If you haven't yet Gizzoogled your journal yet, THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE DO IT NOW!

Later, congregizzles!

[identity profile] rochefort.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad I'm here first to get this one in: 'Rapuzel, Rapunzel let down your chain... '
(Well, somebody had to...)

Gizzoogle just told me I was a 'bad boy wiz lotsa hos'.

Eh?

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Gizzoogle just told me I was a 'bad boy wiz lotsa hos'.

Ah, well you can hardly deny it, can you?

[identity profile] elanorkat.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, I have to ask...What on earth did you do to piss off a priest in Notre Dame? Not that I disapprove, or anything...

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's actually quite boring. I was touring with the local youth choir, and we did a concert in the cathedral. As a sort of bonus thingy, we got to sing the er... singy bits (please excuse me, I am ignorant) during the mass. Only none of us knew what we were doing. And it was all in, like, Latin and stuff. So we kept singing our bits in the wrong places and the priest was getting visibly angrier and angrier, poor man, and kept glaring at us. We thought it was hilarious, of course.

[identity profile] blythely.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Priest story: TELL.

[identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com 2005-02-23 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
The only thing from my webpage that stayed intact from gizoogling was:


Blowjobs I Have Had
Dominic gets blowed nine times. An exercise in styles. NC-17.


I feel this is somehow apt.

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Most apt. :)

[identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com 2005-02-24 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
spent much of childhood in approximation of Edwardian dress. [note to self: poss. why had no friends?]

I would have been your friend. I would have been your over-enthusiastic, worshipping, envious, absolutely besotted friend who always wanted Edwardian dress but never had the elan for it til she was twenty. One of my heroines is Lisa St Aubin de Teran (author of 'Slow Train to Milan' and many other novels and travel memoirs), who always wore Edwardian bustles, and even when travelling took with her several hat boxes and several crates of books, or so she says.

Could I be any more fond out you?

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately my attempts at Edwardian costume were somewhat on the pathetic side. They tended to involve blankets and nightdresses.

By the time I was twenty, I'd worked out that it's easier if you try to fit in, so I was wearing things full of holes in an attempt to be Kurt Cobain.

[identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com 2005-03-21 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I never quite pulled off my masculine Edwardian or Oxbridge 1920s look due to my CHILDBEARING HIPS & also total poverty which precluded lace, bustles or fancy waistcoats. I still covet a Regency overcoat, and I'm damned if I won't one day have an ice-white stock around my throat.

By the time I was twenty, I'd worked out that it's easier if you try to fit in, so I was wearing things full of holes in an attempt to be Kurt Cobain. Kurt Cobain was the man who made me cool, because finally, with grunge, you really couldn't get it wrong. They were heady days. Even I looked fucking good. I love our generation.

*continues to adore you*

[identity profile] childeproof.livejournal.com 2005-02-25 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ahem. Will we ever get to hear more about 6 and 7? Is 7 related to 1 at all - and are you a professional exorcist or something???

[identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com 2005-03-08 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the dull explanation to 1 is here. It's, sadly, not remotely related to 7, which was all in the name of Art. And 6 was due to (I thought at the time) an outrageous display of violent homophobia. Several years later I realised it had more to do with a certain inebriated friend of mine who was under the mistaken impression that it was appropriate to reveal his genitals in the middle of the dancefloor. I'm still not sure what it had to do with me though. Anyway, the club burnt down later that night.