Mobile........

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

What moble convenience would you like to visit your town?

The mobile library is a good idea, as is the mobile cinema that visits some outlying areas in rural scotland.

Ice cream vans, chip vans - classic. A mobile curry van would also go down very well in my neck of the woods.

My all time favourite, which I saw on the Simpsons was the mobile swimming pool. Genuis. I wish these were for real.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Do ice cream vans still sell drugs? Or is that out of fashion?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

The Mobile Library van is always parked on my street!

My mum used to drive one of them when she was younger - actually, it's kind of amazing to think of this 20 year old girl singlehandedly driving one of the things about the Transkii.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Whassi Transkii?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Transkei?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Leave my misspellings alone. Yes, Transkei. My mind was elsewhere. (Possibly Hawaii.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Okay, what's the Transkei? Some sort of Russian wasteland?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

South Africa innit?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

No, no, it's in South Africa. x-post.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

The Transkei:

http://www.mrc.ac.za/promec/transkei.gif

(Ciskei not included (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong. They are Afrikaans for "This side of the River, and That side of the River, I believe.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

i thought this would be a gareth thread about mobile, alabama.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

In fact, my mum's hometown is on that map! Butterworth! My Great Grandfather was the mayor. He was not a mobile mayor, but he was, however, a mobile doctor.

They don't have mobile doctors much any more, do they?

x-post

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I applied for a job as a mobile library assistant once, including the driving the library about part. I didn't get it, sadly.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Nah, not really mobile doctors. Doctors who perform housecalls tend to be very grumpy though.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Bring back mobile doctors. Or at least mobile duty nurses. I think it's a shame they got rid of them.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, but the idea of a mobile nurse reminds me unpleasantly of the 'jag neurse' who arrived at schools in a big NHS van.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Mobile disco!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

My workplace sent out an email asking if we would be interested in the services of a mobile hairdresser/beautician.

A few girls thought this would be a great idea, but WTF? We get one hour for our lunch, how could you fit in a half decent hairdo and something to eat? And who'd want to get their bikini line waxed in their work??

The idea was scrapped. We still get a mobile valet service though.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital...

dum-dum-dum dum-dum
dum-dum-dum dum-dum
daaa da da-da da da-da-da-da
da da-da da-da-da-da
da-da da-da da-da-da-da

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.