Croydonian moving up in the world
I've just been listed by dmoz.org, which is nice, and am keeping Iain and the Johnsons, père et fils, company.
I've also outed myself as being called William. However, I'm keeping my surname to myself, as it is a comparatively rare one.
I've also outed myself as being called William. However, I'm keeping my surname to myself, as it is a comparatively rare one.
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what's the dmoz link say/do,can't open it.
Stay anon Croydonian,the veiled anonymity of the blogosphere has a charm of it's own.
Dodgy link fixed.....
Yup, there is some fun to be had in silent running....
Barbara - thanks for that.
I'm also wary of the Curse of Google, and have at least one friend who would make an unbelievable nuisance of himself here if he found this place.
I'm also quite active on sundry non-political fora, and think it is helpful to keep a separate identity as with some folk any political identification is going to, at the very least, make waves.
Croydonian, congratulations and very well done. How many hits do you get a day?
I am intrigued about Barbara's mysterious identity, I wonder who her clients are and what her real name is. I wonder if we have already met as I do a lot of networking in East Anglia. If our paths ever crossed, she would have the advantage over me.
Thanks Ellee - it seems to pushing a lot of extra traffic my way and has overtaken Iain as my leading referrer. I'm getting about 25-30 visits a day, which is nice. It looks as though one can nominate sites to dmoz, and I was thinking of submitting your blog but thought I'd ask first.
As to Barbara, International Woman of Mystery, I'd always assumed that was her real name. Maybe she'll e-mail and tell you....
Well, who knows, maybe one of these days we could have a bloggers, erm, convention and we can 'out' ourselves?
I think East Anglian Woman of Mystery has a rather nice ring to it, actually. Still, I'm biased having spent my formulative years in God's Own County.
So, Barbara, do you prefer the Margaret Lockwood version or the Faye Dunaway version?
Barbara, thanks again for your kind words. And do continue to enjoy your anonymity, I totally understand.
Meanwhile, more fun with name meanings:
Derived from Greek βαρβαρος (barbaros) meaning "foreign". According to legend Saint Barbara was a young woman killed by her father Dioscorus, who was then killed by a bolt of lightning. She is the patron of architects, geologists, stonemasons and artillerymen.
Bizarre, I could have sworn blind I'd posted convention / pub crawl, but I think it all went wrong when it wouldn't accept the html for a crossed out word.
Apparently the latter version is quite bad (well it was directed by Michael Winner), and achieved notoriety some way down the line as a then unknown actress was involved in a rather salacious scene involving whips. When she went on to be a character in one of the new Star Treks, screen grabs etc were flying around the net with the claim she'd been in an S&M flick.....
Ah, the dreaded Hays code. Even now, the US networks are far more sensitive about language and so forth than the British broadcasters, and cut films to ribbons. The use of nonsense phrases to cover up profanity can be priceless - motorscooter, mutualfunder etc being used for the oedipal term. I watched 'Bridget Jones' in a hotel in NY last year, and was dumbstruck at what they cut, but also that they left in the oblique reference to one of the more edgy sexual activities. I read the other day that one of the network versions of 'Big Lebowski' cuts all the scenes with John Turturro, who plays this unbelievably over the top gay man.
As a sidetrack to a sidetrack, I've found that Americans swear a lot less than their peers on this side of the pond.
Yes, the Brits are pretty big on swearing. I laughed like a drain at a comment in one of the newspapers that many middle class parents are completely unpeturbed if their children say "f*ck" but go ape if they "toilet". My ex is just like that and if I'm honest, I'm pretty much the same.
I know exactly the scene you mean in BJ- mainly because it was the cause of one of those "and what does that mean then, Mummy?" moments which every parent dreads. At least we weren't in a cinema. "The Big Lebowski" is one of my favourite films- I'm a bit of a Jeff Bridges fan on the quiet, though I'm sure that isn't very cool.
Anon at 5.06 - yes, I fear that is just about right. There's a whole discussion to be had about the way the new 'swear' words are racial and disbility based rather than good old anglo-saxon, quite apart from the class indicator business. I'm afraid 'pardon' as a self-contained sentence sets my teeth on edge.....
You have my sympathies for having to deal with that line of questioning. I'm struggling to think how on earth I would have answered it. And Jeff Bridges is deeply cool, so nothing wrong with being a fan. After all, the Dude abides.
In which case I offer up thethe which Big Lebowski character are you? test
Thankfully I'm The Dude.
There are all sorts of silly tests like that lurking out there, which can throw out all sorts of disturbing results - on a 'which Futurama character are you?' I came out as Amy, and depending on the answer to one question in a Simpsons test I'm either Barney or Mr Burns. Oh dear....
And apparently most of the clothes sported by the Dude were Jeff Bridges' own.
Futurama is fabulous, and should appeal to anyone who likes 'The Simpsons'. If you have a free to air digibox, it is shown on Sky 3, AKA Sky Travel.
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