Comments on: Overheard. *hic* http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/overheard-hic?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=overheard-hic I Came, I Saw, I Suffered Immensely Mon, 21 May 2012 00:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/overheard-hic#comment-381 Mikeachim Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:35:34 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=535#comment-381 <b>I hope you sold it. That's what I did with mine. (Good old eBay).</b> I hope you sold it. That’s what I did with mine. (Good old eBay).

]]> By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/overheard-hic#comment-380 Mikeachim Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:34:41 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=535#comment-380 <b>Ta. (Wait - "sorta funny? *outrage*). I will run his blog through Google translate and have a read (these programs usually allow you to get the gist, if not the specifics). Leaving comments on there, translated into Italian, well, I'll have to pass on that one.</b> Ta.

(Wait – “sorta funny? *outrage*).

I will run his blog through Google translate and have a read (these programs usually allow you to get the gist, if not the specifics).

Leaving comments on there, translated into Italian, well, I’ll have to pass on that one.

]]> By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/overheard-hic#comment-379 Mikeachim Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:31:51 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=535#comment-379 <b>That's York at its least variable. You should see what happens when the Viking Festival is on, for example - people in plain clothes standing in the street, shouting Norse poetry, and nobody knows if they're being clever or just deranged (the same as with hands-free phone users, jabbering into thin air). Also, it waxes and wanes in all sorts of weird ways. When the races are on, the madness is of a better-dressed, top-hatted ilk. (I nearly wrote "elk" there, which would have changed the meaning considerably). And in the summer months, there are many many more tourists, and the streets glitter with camera-flashes.</b> That’s York at its least variable. You should see what happens when the Viking Festival is on, for example – people in plain clothes standing in the street, shouting Norse poetry, and nobody knows if they’re being clever or just deranged (the same as with hands-free phone users, jabbering into thin air).

Also, it waxes and wanes in all sorts of weird ways. When the races are on, the madness is of a better-dressed, top-hatted ilk. (I nearly wrote “elk” there, which would have changed the meaning considerably). And in the summer months, there are many many more tourists, and the streets glitter with camera-flashes.

]]> By: Mikeachim http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/overheard-hic#comment-378 Mikeachim Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:27:20 +0000 http://www.mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/?p=535#comment-378 <b>I think it's an archaeologist that is on a sustainable income. Or put another way, it's an urban myth.</b> I think it’s an archaeologist that is on a sustainable income.

Or put another way, it’s an urban myth.

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