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densnaps
Ace Cruncher Sunny Lancaster Windmill capital of England Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 4205 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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----------------------------------------Got the drift of the "Vejrby" honestly  ******************************* Looking at the Image I posted above of the new American Embassy ^^^ I see one of those rotating shop displays selling small products? I wonder does the building rotate ? And where will the Large Eagle Go from the old Building I always thought the embassy quite impressive sat at one side of Grosvenor square. London is filling up with buildings of strange appereance shape and form some like the Gherkin and the City hall distinctly pot bellied or Weird like the Lloyd's building inside out with pipes entrails lifts wires hanging on the outside disemboweld  Here is City Hall defying gravity  All that glass presented a problem with heat somewhere in the structure of the building cooling water pipes extract the heat ( This is not the hot air heat generated from the politicos who "work" therein) I'm thinking that the cooling isn't working , as you look at the building its dashed well sliding off to one side its all melting ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by densnaps at Jul 6, 2011 12:36:23 PM] |
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It would appear that there are those of you who don't know the true story of the Budgie!, I hope this clarifies and puts it to rest......
 A friend of a friend was asked by her gran to look after her budgie so the old dear could keep her usual Wednesday-afternoon appointment with the hairdresser. The young woman decided to bird-sit with her new boyfriend, and as they waved the elderly lady off, he came up with the idea to give the bird a treat, reasoning that it must have been ages since it had been allowed to fly around. After checking that no doors or windows were open and that the cat was out of the room, he opened the cage door and encouraged the bird to stretch its wings. The timid thing took some enticing, so long ago had it last tasted freedom, but then it gathered itself, sidled over to the door, and burst upwards, flying and flapping around in a small feathery frenzy. Alas, its over-enthusiasm, combined with a novice's grasp of aerobatics, proved costly. For in a crazed bid for even greater liberty, it flew head-long at the large double-glazed patio doors, smashed into the glass and tumbled to the floor. Luckily, it was still alive, though its leg was quite clearly broken. What would Granny say! The young couple resolved to apply first-aid and come clean with her. Ingeniously, the bloke produced a box of matches from his pocket and, taking a reel of cotton, delicately bound one stick around the distraught budgie's damaged leg as a splint. Then he gently lowered the bird back inside its cage and covered it with a bed sheet to keep it calm while it mended.. Tragically, the boyfriend had not known about the sandpaper floor of the cage, and as the poor budgie shuffled over to nibble its dried cuttlefish, the match struck, and the poor thing caught on fire and quickly ignited the cotton sheet covering its cage. Since the girl and the boyfeiend were in the basement making out, the fire spreed to the curtains and soon the whole house was on fire with the end results being that the house burnt to the ground and the young couple barely escaping with their lives. It wasn't me 'onest  Old Sage |
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 Help, HELP, HELP! - help me stop laughing, please, someone, please Mercy ....no Vikings will ever invade any more ... well, they wouldn't dare having read this old sage, thank you in spite of midriff pains, for sharing  ... |
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Turn your back and Mr. den Quixote has expanded his post into art!
Oh, don den, you have really made a hairy point there - I see all those USSR No. 1s in front of me: Hair - no hair - hair - no hair - loves me - loves me not .... -- never understood why they scrapped Mikhail Gorbachev, tho Reagan, Ronald, belongs to my collection of hairy successes in US politics, just forgot about him up till your picture. It's the Irish line: Reagan, of course, JFK and Tip O'Neill (I'm sure you can find a boatload more). What a pretty house the Americans built in London with half? a moat around it. Saw the one they constructed in Santiago de Chile some years ago. Very handsome. Wonder when they are going to replace the Copenhagen one which looks as if Andropov designed it, I'm afraid ...  |
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OMG, you have repeated the art act in one more post, dens,
which needs my attention, of course, all those fine houses ... Have to dash to the hospital blood lab to have checked out why my Anticoagulation Test Strips don't work any more. I'm afraid they zapped them in security in CPH ... |
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densnaps
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 now theres a building for you Ceausescu has no need of it now |
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Looking at the Image I posted above of the new American Embassy ^^^ Yes, this one:I see one of those rotating shop displays selling small products? Do you mean to say that the new US Embassy isn't limited to the half moated house? I wonder does the building rotate ? Will it also put up office in all the other buildings that makes up that transparent compound? Whauw! It's really pretty! And big. The US will have very nice employment stats after all desks are manned ... What do you mean by "rotating shop displays selling small products"? Is it the wart seen on top of the almost most-to-the-right and almost most-to-the-back building you mean? The thing that could very well be a difficultly accessible rotating kiosk ....? And where will the Large Eagle Go from the old Building I always thought the embassy quite impressive sat at one side of Grosvenor square. Well, it probably has to go to old sage's bird infirmery  Actually, I find both the Lloyd's building and the City Hall very interesting. That the Lloyd's building has some technical fineries only add to the pleasure - maybe the architect took after the Pompidou Centre in Paris - the one you know took after genuine English outside plumbing  The one you call the Gherkin, I don't particularly like without pointing to what repels me. However, having just looked at an interior picture here Canary Wharf and the Gherkin outside and inside I kind of warm up to it. Next week we will look at the Moustache growing abilities of the distaff side of politics I cannot wait. Uncle Josef's, Teddy Roosevelt's ..... looking forward, don den - and no, Nicolae Ceaucescu and Elena don't need that house any more - nor does he need the elephant that goes with Denmark's finest order which he was awarded [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 6, 2011 4:20:14 PM] |
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densnaps
Ace Cruncher Sunny Lancaster Windmill capital of England Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 4205 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yes Thats the one. The image is at the moment just a twinkle in some Arky Techs eye a pigment in their imagination
----------------------------------------and for inspiration see below scaled up a bit  Hope you see what I mean^^^ any way the details of progress from the embassy are available below sounds very up beat what its going to do for employment (keep in with the Wandsworth locals......) I can see one little hiccup on the horizon " The London cabby's " traditional cry "Nah not going sarf of the river Guv" http://london.usembassy.gov/new_embassy.html However there are some nice buildings quite well known though out the capital one cares for around 1600 people and employs 600 . its built in a traditional brick style http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/...nd/enlarge-wandsworth.htm ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by densnaps at Jul 6, 2011 6:54:14 PM] |
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Evening all
We been entertaining for lunch today so I've had forty and a half winks before the clearing up and will now probably doze off in front of the television after a very light dinner. |
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The image is at the moment just a twinkle in some Arky Techs eye a pigment in their imagination Yes, I see. But it's fine with me to be able to find inspiration anywhere.and for inspiration see below scaled up a bit Cannot believe (well, I can) that prison architecture is so alike in the UK and Denmark. Here is the primary Danish prison for serious criminals:  Wandsworth has four wings - Vridsløselille five - apart from that equally depressing and opressing ... and maybe it should be ... it was for the victims, I assume I can see one little hiccup on the horizon " The London cabby's " traditional cry "Nah not going sarf of the river Guv" Is that what they say? What's the problem with South of the river? And what is "Guv"? |
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