Challenging English number plate spotting game (via bluejoh)
The boynton family used to play a simple version - A-Z - on long journeys into town, but those were in the pre de-regulated days before the anarchy of so many sad sexi's, cheap shots, bad puns, crude slogans, damn lies, corporate mobile sandwich boards, or the rapid turnover of state propaganda. Yesterday boynton spotted a few genuine (as in non customised - the pure truth of the random) plates that equated with her initials, and those would be the only personalised plates she'd ever contemplate possessing. On her imaginary car.
Closest thing she's ever had to the customised was the AAH sported by the car she drove on her P plates.
Some examples of the Vic genre can be seen here.
Comments: plates
I was followed round yesterday by a strangely initialled car.
Posted by Tony.T at July 11, 2003 03:33 PM
Sounds intriguing TT. Did it look like this?
http://www.justice.vic.gov.au/BEST/BESTimages.nsf/Images/p_pol/$File/p_pol.jpg
Posted by boynton at July 11, 2003 04:31 PM
Pictures!!! How clever! What ever could have given you that idea? Anyway, the number plate stole some of the coppers' letters.
Posted by Tony.T at July 11, 2003 05:36 PM
Some of the coppers' letters?
O I C
Posted by boynton at July 11, 2003 05:40 PM
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Friday, July 11, 2003
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
better farming train
Sometimes it's all in the caption.
(and maybe there was some link between sewing and mathematics afterall.)
Comments: better farming train
What do you suppose a "better farming train" is, exactly? And I'm a little concerned that the audience is standing behind him.
Posted by mcb at June 24, 2003 05:19 PM
I could say "scroll down", mcb, "and all shall be revealed" but it's so much better to guess.
Perhaps the BFT like the Bunyip was only a mythological creature, discussed around the campfire or a semi-circle of suits.
(note the dog has gone one degree further and turned his back on the speaker)
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2003 05:41 PM
I liked the photo of "a lecture about breeding purebred stock" although the bull appears to have found it quite boring.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 24, 2003 05:46 PM
He had probably been expecting to hear "elementary eugenics" instead.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2003 05:56 PM
Tenuous linkage....
Sew a train on the train.
or....
Sew, that they may grow.
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2003 01:56 PM
Tony,
Who do you think was responsible for making all the wheat bags? Pioneering life was hard, I tell, you, hard.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 25, 2003 03:03 PM
Or even "Why is it Sew?".
It was the mere look of algebra or some other mathematical branch in the symbols on the blackboard demonstration that would have had me puzzled. I would lose my train of thought - even if I'd caught it in the first place.
And I wonder whether running up a wheat sack for the local dance involved darts and tucks?
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2003 03:46 PM
That would be a matter of striking the right balance between a boringly utilitiarian design and an ostentatious display of craftswomanship.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 25, 2003 04:40 PM
Just can't tell if "craftwomanship" would be some way down the the track, or was already old hat in 1924? Hard to place the en-gendered language at the correct station.
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2003 07:29 PM
Or even tarts and ducks. I like ducks. Boynty, as a countrified Kewgirl you've been delegated to collect all the wheat bags in the leafy green east and use them to gather all loose deposits of wordplay.
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2003 09:35 PM
they break down eventually
Posted by boynton at June 26, 2003 12:55 AM
(and maybe there was some link between sewing and mathematics afterall.)
Comments: better farming train
What do you suppose a "better farming train" is, exactly? And I'm a little concerned that the audience is standing behind him.
Posted by mcb at June 24, 2003 05:19 PM
I could say "scroll down", mcb, "and all shall be revealed" but it's so much better to guess.
Perhaps the BFT like the Bunyip was only a mythological creature, discussed around the campfire or a semi-circle of suits.
(note the dog has gone one degree further and turned his back on the speaker)
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2003 05:41 PM
I liked the photo of "a lecture about breeding purebred stock" although the bull appears to have found it quite boring.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 24, 2003 05:46 PM
He had probably been expecting to hear "elementary eugenics" instead.
Posted by boynton at June 24, 2003 05:56 PM
Tenuous linkage....
Sew a train on the train.
or....
Sew, that they may grow.
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2003 01:56 PM
Tony,
Who do you think was responsible for making all the wheat bags? Pioneering life was hard, I tell, you, hard.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 25, 2003 03:03 PM
Or even "Why is it Sew?".
It was the mere look of algebra or some other mathematical branch in the symbols on the blackboard demonstration that would have had me puzzled. I would lose my train of thought - even if I'd caught it in the first place.
And I wonder whether running up a wheat sack for the local dance involved darts and tucks?
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2003 03:46 PM
That would be a matter of striking the right balance between a boringly utilitiarian design and an ostentatious display of craftswomanship.
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at June 25, 2003 04:40 PM
Just can't tell if "craftwomanship" would be some way down the the track, or was already old hat in 1924? Hard to place the en-gendered language at the correct station.
Posted by boynton at June 25, 2003 07:29 PM
Or even tarts and ducks. I like ducks. Boynty, as a countrified Kewgirl you've been delegated to collect all the wheat bags in the leafy green east and use them to gather all loose deposits of wordplay.
Posted by Tony.T at June 25, 2003 09:35 PM
they break down eventually
Posted by boynton at June 26, 2003 12:55 AM
Friday, June 20, 2003
nre photos
Taking the waters at a Central Victorian mineral spring in the 1930s.One of the historic photographs from the Natural Resources and Environment Virtual Exhibition.
Ringbarking a giant tree from the Giant Trees category
The butter working room 1905 and Grading Butter...
and A view of thronging crowds in the Government Pavilion, Royal Melbourne Show, 1954.
Comments: nre photos
I never knew that there was a class above "First"
(as with the Grading of Butter). How timely Boynton, as I pen the last of my reports. From now on I'll have to mark my top students "choicest"
Posted by Nora at June 20, 2003 10:26 PM
that'll learn em. But isn't "Gifted" somewhere above that still - or is that b/w choicest and first?
I was sometimes Pastry Class myself (in maths and needlecraft anyway)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2003 11:32 PM
Ringbarking a giant tree from the Giant Trees category
The butter working room 1905 and Grading Butter...
and A view of thronging crowds in the Government Pavilion, Royal Melbourne Show, 1954.
Comments: nre photos
I never knew that there was a class above "First"
(as with the Grading of Butter). How timely Boynton, as I pen the last of my reports. From now on I'll have to mark my top students "choicest"
Posted by Nora at June 20, 2003 10:26 PM
that'll learn em. But isn't "Gifted" somewhere above that still - or is that b/w choicest and first?
I was sometimes Pastry Class myself (in maths and needlecraft anyway)
Posted by boynton at June 20, 2003 11:32 PM
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