"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[mnblade]

Let this movie be a warning to you knife-toting juvenile delinquents ....... of all ages!



-- Mark

 

[Jack Black]

Just had a phonecall from Duncan in NZ, made my evening

 

[Gevonovich]

Just had a phonecall from Duncan in NZ, made my evening

I can keep a secret

 

[leghog]

Breakfast of champs. With saltines this AM.

 

[knarfeng]

Pass on the octopus.
hash browns, eggs, and ham for me.

 

[Jack Black]

I can keep a secret

I visited the North Yorkshire market town of Skipton today. It would have been a very scenic journey except for the thick fog! :grumpy: Thought I'd post these pics here. The first one didn't come out so well, but I couldn't resist the pic of someone sitting outside a health food shop enthusiastically puffing away on a cigarette. Unfortunately, I was a bit too far away to catch the clouds of smoke! The second one was just a quick snap of the sign, it was only when I got home I realised I'd caught the feller tucking into his pie!

 

[sitflyer]

Jack, first thing I thought was she was picking her nose

 

[waynorth]

Jack, first thing I thought was she was picking her nose

She'd be better off.:barf: It's a healthier activity!!

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, first thing I thought was she was picking her nose

Yes! She's actually coughing, the cigarette is in her right hand, and she was alternating really sucking the bones out of this, with heavy bouts of coughing. Originally, I'd been standing looking in the window of the shop, when she sat down next to me, and I was enveloped in a cloud of smoke! Definitely not a good advert for 'Healthy Life'!

 

[meako]

If I owned that health food shop I'd shoo her away.... in a sort of hippy friendly way.
maybe leave a trail of carob nuggets for her to follow down to the railway crossing.
Or something.:foot:

 

[meako]

Just had a phonecall from Duncan in NZ, made my evening

hope he didn't mention the rugby league
oh drat.

 

[Jack Black]

If I owned that health food shop I'd shoo her away.... in a sort of hippy friendly way.
maybe leave a trail of carob nuggets for her to follow down to the railway crossing.
Or something.:foot:

LOL! She was well and truly parked up there too!

hope he didn't mention the rugby league
oh drat.

 

[meako]

I missed it anyway I was scrabbling thru caves at Wee Jasper with Scouts. Immensely enjoyable.
These were fairly wild caves -not the kind you walk through and my son found a "Lenny Hong"* in one of the chambers.
I mean really come on.Who does that?


*there was also a cherry ripe wrapper for when they got the munchies .

 

[waynorth]

I missed it anyway I was scrabbling thru caves at Wee Jasper with Scouts. Immensely enjoyable.
These were fairly wild caves -not the kind you walk through and my son found a "Lenny Hong"* in one of the chambers.
I mean really come on.Who does that?


*there was also a cherry ripe wrapper for when they got the munchies .

What's a Lenny Hong?

 

[paulhilborn]

Just had a phonecall from Duncan in NZ, made my evening

I know that exact feeling Jack:thumbup:

 

[Jack Black]

I know that exact feeling Jack:thumbup:

:thumbup:

 

[meako]

http://http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lenhong.com.au%2F&ei=1_FqVKa1LcLXmAW6_oCIAQ&usg=AFQjCNGwlPTLvig8Z6aSHiEY8XXfm49-jA&bvm=bv.79908130,d.dGY
In the Southern suburbs of Sydney where I grew up there is a Chinese restaurant called the Len Hong.
It is located on the southern banks of the Georges River at the end of Tom Ugly's Bridge(Tom Ugly was the ferryman before the bridge was built and he was either really ugly or the local aborigines could not pronounce his name "Huxley")
As white Australian teenagers in the 1970s and early 80's we had little to no knowledge of Chinese culture other than "Kung Fu" on the telly and Chinese food.
As with most demographics of teenagers there are those who flaunt the rules and involve themselves in questionable activities such as drinking ,rooting ,driving like idiots and smoking an illicit herbacious drug using an implement known across the world -here it is called a bong.
To avoid being busted we needed a code word. That word is Lenny (we had familiarised the name as though it was that of the man who ran the restaurant although it is unknown if it even is the mans name and not the title of the restaurant).
Lenny Hong is therefore a contemporary rhyming slang.
So if you ever find yourself in the Sutherland Shire and happen to overhear a couple of scraggy unkempt surfie looking cretins mention "going for a lenny" You may half close your eyes and nod with sagely yet smug smile.

 

[pmew]

... And into the notebook that goes....

 

[Jack Black]

... And into the notebook that goes....

LOL! Nicely told Meako. I used to know someone who was in the education department of a large English prison, and I remember them telling me that the junkies would constantly go on about 'Jimmy'. They were talking about aluminium foil, which they used in the taking of heroin. Jimmy Boyle was a notorious Scottish prisoner. This was some years ago, so they probably call it something else now.

 

[meako]

We sometimes ventured over to the northern end of Tom Uglys to the now long gone "Sea Breeze Hotel" pub. The Sleaze Breeze as it was better known.
For some strange reason I have a desire for braised chicken with cashew nuts and some sort soup.