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DanaC 08-19-2006 12:31 PM

The epitome of optimism?
 
Here I am, sitting in my tiny living room listening to the patter of raindrops. I look out of the window at a grey Yorkshire sky, cloud troubled and missing any sign of the sun. I wonder if the weather will clear up any time soon, or if I need to bite the bullet and walk my dog in the constant downpour. And then......

I hear an entirely incongruous sound: the tinkling tune of an Ice-cream van, touting for trade, calling out with its music to the local children in the hope they'll buy Iced creams and lollies.

Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation?

Trilby 08-19-2006 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC
Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation?

Well, that depends. Is it a hot sort of rain?

edit to add: we have hot rain in Ohio all the time, so...I was thinking maybe other peoples are subjected to this unnatural atmospheric conundrum

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 01:03 PM

...Yes, but it's a hot rain...
;)

Trilby 08-19-2006 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
...Yes, but it's a hot rain...
;)

Are you being sexual????

*shakes fist*

'Coz if you are...

DanaC 08-19-2006 01:36 PM

umm....Not hot rain......just rainy rain. Not freezing...but definately coat and hat weather. Mind you, I shouldn't be surprised. I've known our Icecream vans venture out when in sleet.

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna
Are you being sexual????

*shakes fist*

'Coz if you are...

When am I ever not being sexual?

Trilby 08-19-2006 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
When am I ever not being sexual?

One likes to hope one can relate without resorting to...

...well, you know.

*ahem* BASE human Need!


croquet, anyone?*


*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.

dar512 08-19-2006 02:40 PM

I guess if Seattleites can have "dry" rain, Ohio can have "hot" rain.

xoxoxoBruce 08-19-2006 05:14 PM

What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound? ;)

If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather.
I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs.
That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard.

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Brianna
One likes to hope one can relate without resorting to...

...well, you know.

*ahem* BASE human Need!


croquet, anyone?*


*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.

Well thank god I'm being scolded for that and not for being flippant and incessantly making jokes about things important to other people.

But if you really must know I was making an oblique reference to the oft quoted "but it's a dry heat"

So, how *are* things in the gutter?

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound? ;)

If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather.
I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs.
That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard.

Despite his extraordinary vocabulary and language skills, the inchling has yet to put 2 and 2 together vis a vis the ice cream truck.

The facts:
He's had ice cream at home and once from the shop.
He knows that the vehicle which drives around mutilating various melodies is called an "ice cream truck"
He has a little "ice cream truck" truck
He does not know that the ice cream truck actually has any ice cream aboard
I'd prefer to keep it that way.
;)

DanaC 08-19-2006 05:45 PM

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*said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut.
Quite right too.

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He does not know that the ice cream truck actually has any ice cream aboard
I'd prefer to keep it that way.

If he ever catches on, just tell him what my Mum used to tell me: When they play the tune, that means they've run out of icecream!

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC
Quite right too.



If he ever catches on, just tell him what my Mum used to tell me: When they play the tune, that means they've run out of icecream!

your mom is a genius

DanaC 08-19-2006 06:21 PM

Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P

footfootfoot 08-19-2006 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC
Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P

Did she keep it on the stove then?


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