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there's a not-old woman standing in the street, in a rather pretty little black dress, no shoes, bare legs, accosting passersby, and shouting up at the the windows in the block of flats opposite: she wants cigarettes or drink, and she just shouted "I need to marry someone or i'm going to die".

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

once when i was in new york a well-dressed black guy with a small beard pointed at me as i passed him and shouted "666 the number of the beast!!"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a woman on my street, not too shabby looking, middle aged, who walks up and down holding something in front of her with both hands, head height. I don't know what it is, it looks like a small box, but it's wrapped in a plastic bag. A cliched guess might be that it's the ashes of her husband or something. I'm too scared to ask.

But she's not totally mental. We have a minor tourist attraction on our street, and I've seen her giving quite sane directions to groups of Japanese and German people.

― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 31 August 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Save her Mark.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

she wandered off graham

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

''once when i was in new york a well-dressed black guy with a small beard pointed at me as i passed him and shouted "666 the number of the beast!!"''

Was Uncle Crowley there with him?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 August 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s- got yr message. Outlook express has fucked up otherwise I would've replied by now. Thanks :)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

''once when i was in new york a well-dressed black guy with a small beard pointed at me as i passed him and shouted "666 the number of the beast!!"''

Was Bruce Dickinson with him?!

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

or emily dickinson?

: (

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 31 August 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.fullycentral.com/fullygames/Springfield%20sniper%20rifle.jpg

You know what to do.

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 31 August 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a woman in Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire a.k.a. the best film ever made who stands on corners and asks men to marry her.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 31 August 2002 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

it was her!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

you tempted mark?

― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

bare feet and little black dress = hot BUT asking passersby if they have a spare can of lager in their shopping = warning sign

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 31 August 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

mark- b-but you could change her!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 1 September 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Spare can of lager isn't as bad as spare bottle of gin, surely? How many offers of marriage does one get in a given day?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 1 September 2002 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

actually when I'm doing research I get to home at 10 pm soemtimes and outside Euston station you often find the mad.

the funniest was this one guy shouting 'I am an irishman' ina very thick Irish accent. Then he would get in yr way and say 'what abt you sir?'. or things like 'I am better than [insert a philosopher's name here]' and it was really funny (I know it isn't but...)!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 1 September 2002 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

You heinous pile of middle class shits. I wish nothing but madness and lonely penniless street-wandering on you all. You are one tiny inch away from Bumfight. You really are.

And putting "(I know it isn't but...)!" is no sort of get out. Go drink a Coke, scoff a Burger King and blub to Cripian about the failures at the World Summit.

― Lynskey, Sunday, 1 September 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

lynskey, that kind of proposal won't get you a husband.

― keith, Sunday, 1 September 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't think either of my mad people were penniless, lynskey, judging by how they were dressed (or indeed pitiable or incapable, necessarily): i think in both cases i was drawn to notice them because they were simultaneously behaving overtly unusually and being deliberately funny — i mean consciously playful and joking, even in an aggressive/assaultive/non-standard sense — so there was a kind of contradiction there, were they self-possessed or not?

the alley that my flat overlooks gets a lot of shouty people (late-night drunks, kids, the usual), and i don't even look out normally anymore: i heard this woman while i was working and there was something about her vividness of self (in her tone and what she was shouting) that made me go see

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 1 September 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Its a sad day when the guardians of the streets have to bathe in frog gas to re vitalise the local economy!

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Monday, 2 September 2002 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

''And putting "(I know it isn't but...)!" is no sort of get out. Go drink a Coke, scoff a Burger King and blub to Cripian about the failures at the World Summit.''

and what the fuck are YOU doing, huh?

you sound like a liberal, all complaints and NO action.

''i don't think either of my mad people were penniless, lynskey, judging by how they were dressed (or indeed pitiable or incapable, necessarily): i think in both cases i was drawn to notice them because they were simultaneously behaving overtly unusually and being deliberately funny — i mean consciously playful and joking, even in an aggressive/assaultive/non-standard sense — so there was a kind of contradiction there, were they self-possessed or not?''

I don't know whether he was mad or not either BUT he what he said was funny. and he was dressed well too.

and again, kids hang around late at night, also last friday at 6 pm i heard two ppl arguing there.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

And putting "(I know it isn't but...)!" is no sort of get out. Go drink a Coke, scoff a Burger King and blub to Cripian about the failures at the World Summit.

You wouldn't happen to be related to Bobby Gillespie, would you?

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 2 September 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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