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[AndyD]

[Copper]


[Catseye3]

@copper Well dang, why didn't somebody tell me that? Here I've been chewing my way through the cardboard to get to the pizza my whole life.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

[George K]

[Mik]

[mark]

From the 3D printing group on FB...

[Catseye3]

That's, like, geek humor, right?

[bachophile]

[Doctor Phibes]

@bachophile LOL - that's great

[Loki]

@doctor-phibes said in Funny Pics:

@bachophile LOL - that's great

Almost did one of these small barge trips with another couple but the photos scared me off, as in too slow all around.

[Doctor Phibes]

@loki said in Funny Pics:

@doctor-phibes said in Funny Pics:

@bachophile LOL - that's great

Almost did one of these small barge trips with another couple but the photos scared me off, as in too slow all around.

From what I understand, they're 99% total boredom, and 1% terror when you come to a lock.

I used to live in a house that backed on to the Shropshire Union Canal. It was very entertaining watching the amateurs pootle past. I also used to get the dreaded psycho swan knock on the back door, demanding bread with menaces.

[Catseye3]

@doctor-phibes said in Funny Pics:

I also used to get the dreaded psycho swan knock on the back door, demanding bread with menaces.

I gotta hear more about this.

[Doctor Phibes]

@catseye3 said in Funny Pics:

@doctor-phibes said in Funny Pics:

I also used to get the dreaded psycho swan knock on the back door, demanding bread with menaces.

I gotta hear more about this.

The famous Waverton swan. He would travel along the canal, and pop out visiting houses along the way.

I was renting a room, and basically looking after the house for this rich guy who spent most of his life on a yacht somewhere in the Mediterranean. Sunday morning, I'm sitting in the kitchen, and there's a knock on the back door, that led out to the canal. I started, looked out of the window, nobody there. Then another knock, then this freaking swan's head suddenly appeared in the window, banging repeatedly on the glass.

They can get quite aggressive.

[Catseye3]

@doctor-phibes said in Funny Pics:

They can get quite aggressive.

"Step away from the bread and you won't get hurt."
^

[brenda]

@doctor-phibes Love that stoyr, Phibes!

[Doctor Phibes]

I loved living in that place. The guy was basically gone for about 8 months of the year.

Here was the street, it cost me about $300 a month to have the run of the house.

[brenda]

@doctor-phibes That must be a popular place to live!

[Doctor Phibes]

It was great for me - I worked about 5 minutes away from there in an old converted farm. It was out in the countryside, with a little village pub.

Some of the newer people were a bit hoity-toity (it was in Cheshire, after all), but the older locals were all great.

When he was selling the house, a couple came around with a young child. The mother looked at the canal and said 'I'm not sure about that with our Jimmy...'. The father said 'Well, he'd only do it the once!'.