Ah yes, I've seen that cat riff, whether or not it's fake it was amusing. I
loved the shaky report from Channel 10 'live on the night' and by accident
it also lead me to Dan Ilic (lovely sweater) on copyright law and the TPP..
Indeed, he's right : beware of Yanks bearing Acronyms.
I did visit Melb for a few weeks ten years ago and the image of the CBD
having a shake is not one I relish, though it was outside normal office
hours so I guess a lot of those tall buildings would have been mostly
empty. I see it was one of half-a-dozen since 2000: useful in that case to
live in a city that is predominantly one-storey.
I wonder if the cat's bringing out an album?!
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On 22 June 2012 08:03, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The magnitude of ranks of traffic cones being broken! Wondrous image,
> David. Youtube is full of scenes of Melbourne ranklings at the time. One
> shows a cat clawing the catgut strings of a guitar and lifting its head and
> moving whiskers curiously as it notices the room doing its slight sashay.
>
> On 22/06/2012, at 4:23 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, the 'sidewaysness', that's it. We had a lurch or shake here in the
> > English East Midlands a few years ago: it threw loose things off roofs
> and
> > broke the ranks of traffic cones and so forth, however, if you live in a
> 15
> > storey block of flats, as I do, and at 1 o'clock in the morning it
> suddenly
> > moves from one side to another like a tube train, it has a certain
> > magnitude of statement, whatever Mr Richter might say.
> >
> > On 20 June 2012 00:58, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> less quake than rattle
> >> seismic stomach lurches
> >>
> >> put down to clothes dryer
> >> now confirmed to be
> >>
> >> Moe-centred subterranean
> >> lurchings.
> >>
> >> it was the sidewaysness
> >> that unnerved.
> >>
> >> the fast talk that followed
> >> soon returned equilibrium.
> >>
> >> Bill Wootton
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
> > -* F. Sionil José*
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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> >
> >
>
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"We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
-* F. Sionil José*
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