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Patrick & Robin, I've read about a Washington DC artist's project: taking photos of fireplugs in that city. A rather high percentage of them don't function But I can't retrieve the write-up, despite assorted google searches. However, the major US slang usage surfaced, as in Norman Mailer and Wanda Sykes are fireplugs. I can imagine Robin being questioned by a martinet if witnessed taking photos of fireplugs: issues re fire control and water supply. There are about 23700 views available via google image search. Barry On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:27:32 -0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Fireplug ? >Wozziz it? >P'd'ignorant >Is it to do with sex??? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >Behalf Of Robin Hamilton >Sent: 22 December 2009 19:23 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: warning!! > >> Barry don't worry they are only after poets(disguise yourself as a banker >> or >> summat)-people are getting arrested taking photos of landmarks >> And to think that poor rodent robin is in that wild land -will he make it >> back-????? >> Patrick the ancient > >Yeah, but what I want to know is whether I'll be arrested if I try to take a > >photograph of a fireplug? > >To me, fireplugs are wild and strange and unusual and Deeply USAmerican, and > >I want to immortalise them with the new digital SLR that I treated myself >to, such things being cheaper, if not free, in the land of the free rather >than in the UK where there are no citizens but subjects. > >On the other hand, I don't greatly relish the idea of being shot to death >while photographing one, rather a high price to pay for an essentially >trivial artefaction. > >A Rodent Abroad >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.430 / Virus Database: 270.14.117/2581 - Release Date: 12/22/09 >08:09:00