"Hey, Ned, were you near any of the bombings in London?"

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Me (out loud): "No."

Me (to self): "*sigh* Is this the equivalent of people asking in earlier times if you saw the Queen while you were in London?"

Now I am hearing random jokes about the shoot-to-kill policy, coming some cubicles away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps you should explain your own to them.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Say "No, for it is I who is truly the bomb" and await gasps of wonderment.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Gee, Ned, were you in Europe? I didn't realize.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Actually I was in Sheboygan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

c'mon ned admit it, you went and got totally bombed with the queen in london!!

― haitch (haitch), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

We are the champions, my friends.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Me (to self): "*sigh* Is this the equivalent of people asking in earlier times if you saw the Queen while you were in London?"

this reminds me of when all my SC friends asked if i could see the 9/11 smoke, not realizing that rochester is SIX HOURS from nyc!

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

WELCOME TO THE POST-TERROR WEST, BITCHES. HOW YOU LIKE NEW YORK NOW? WHERE WERE YOU ON 9/11?? GIT SOME.

― The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 1 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

London Ontario got BOMBED????

!!!!!

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

....should be your reply.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

London, Ontario is a great place with lots of 24-hr supermarkets!

― Grell (Grell), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

"Oh yes! I was the guy whose backpack was supposed to blow up. And when it didn't, I had to run like hell to get away from those shoot-to-kill bobbies!"

[According to all recognized experts on this topic, I am definitely going to hell. I might as well enjoy the trip.]

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"London Ontario is a great place..."

Words I never thought I'd hear in the same sentence.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

this reminds me of when all my SC friends asked if i could see the 9/11 smoke, not realizing that rochester is SIX HOURS from nyc!

-- tehRZA gibbons (boringstandardaddres...) (webmail), August 2nd, 2005 8:09 PM. (tehresa) (later) (link)

Were we just talking about people who confuse RHODE ISLAND and LONG ISLAND?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

It's a bit like all those people who cycle to work to avoid being blown up, not realising that London traffic kills far more people than suicide bombers every year.

Actually it's nothing like that, is it?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, that's a fun fact.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Total of 8 cyclists killed in London in 2004
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-centre/downloads/Road-Casualty-Factsheet.rtf

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

when i say 'fun fact', i mean 'total bullshit'.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

how many people were murdered by islamists in london in 2004?

― grosvenor lucrece, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

when i say things, i mean not to.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

Plus I said "people", not "cyclists", and 216 of them got splattered last year.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Does that include people who throw themselves voluntarily in front of tube trains?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

I almost got run over by a cyclist this morning so don't expect me to show any sympathy for those bastids

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

No, that was only deaths in road accidents (not including people accidentaly tumbling off the back of routemasters, as far as I'm aware).

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

http://philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=10051:

It starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. Structure becomes shrapnel, air becomes fire, people become obituaries. Everyone-even the most candyass of heart, those who dare not think in curse words let alone utter them-reacts the same way: You motherfuckers.

When the London Underground came under attack earlier this month by Islamic killbots purchasing four tickets to Allah's bootycall with a backpack of C-4, I know the first thing you thought and the last thing you'd ever admit: God save the Libertines.

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Do not mention that travesty of an article again. I heard about it the other day and was revolted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I just read it all and AM revolted... At least the yank TV bods who were calling the British Transport Police to ask if Madonna was anywhere near the blasts has some vague angle going on, but that's just bollox...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

"now more than ever, Albion needs music when the lights go out."

philly soul, perhaps.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.sjfarthing.free-online.co.uk/english/prospect.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

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