What’s In My Bag?
Now we come to a portion of the blog that I like to call “What’s In My Bag”, where I zzzzzzzzzzzzz…..
Mints, Extra Strong
USB memory stick (containing posts, contacts, CV, including my great British novel - have I mentioned?)
Gum, Sugar free
Ventolin inhaler
Nachos and cake
Ipod
Laptop
Two spiral bound A5 notepads
Three number two pencils
Sunglasses and case
Keys
Phone
Office swipe card and digital secure network login gizmo
Umbrella
Four bottlenose dolphins
What do you want from me? It’s Friday.
Coincidence and a song tomorrow - it’s like the blogging equivalent of a Kinder surprise.
Have a good weekend.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Just how big is this bag?
September 14th, 2007 at 8:11 am
It’s a big bag. A big manly bag. What are you saying?
September 14th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Is it a man bag?
If you can’t put it on your back and it doesn’t have at least four secure safety straps, it’s a man bag.
Tell me it at least has a secret compartment or two?
September 14th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Is that a school of dolphins that you have there, would you say?
September 14th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Have a good weekend, Cliff.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I wondered what kind of bag could hold that amount of junk even before I spotted the dolphins. I wasn’t making any insinuations, I promise. I’m just coveting your bag.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Angry - It’s more of a professional effect transportation system. Manbag my arse.
Katy - It’s a pod, technically. Everyone loves a pedant.
Thanks Ed - You too. You’ll appreciate the weekend song, in particular by the way. I’ve already said to much.
Wendy - A big manly one. For men.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
what’s a number two pencil?
September 14th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
A pencil that poos.
Nachos and cake? Odd combination. Sounds tasty, though. Do you have a photo of your bag?
September 14th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I believe you will find that both are correct.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
ACTUALLY.
Yeah.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Mark Twain once received this telegram from a publisher:
NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS.
He responded:
NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES.
You can throw out two paragraphs in 40 minutes and have 15 comments follow. I’m not even sure Twain could do that.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Wow Ed - now I feel bad about lying about the dolphins. Thanks a lot. Being compared to one of your heroes is hard to be humble about. Two days, huh? What is it, Saturday? I’ll do a two page short story for Monday.
Iain - number two pencil posts here and here.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Hey that wasn’t a challenge, man, that was just an observation;)
September 14th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Yeah, but now I want to do that too.
September 15th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Don[’t be writing one about the jumping frog contest in Calaveras County. I’m thinking that one’s been done.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I like that one. Mysterious Stranger, too.
September 15th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
After Ed’s comment I like to think that I get no comments because I put a tremendous amount of thought and effort into my posts - sure, I could pander to the lowest common denominator, but it’s all about the music man, I wouldn’t want to compromise my styles.
But really Cliff - two notepads, three pencils AND a laptop?
September 16th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Sam, I didn’t even know you had a blog.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Katy, are you admonishing poor Cliff for writing about dolphins? As I recall, your last entry was not ABOUT spiders, but directed TO spiders.
What do you call a group of spiders? A gaggle? A funnel? A Web? a bunch? Too many?
September 16th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Sam - I’m on the cusp of a new notepad. I have three pencils because they can break. I use a laptop because I have a blog so it has to go into a computer at some stage. Also - you’re blog’s great and people should read it.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
A number two pencil.
It’s what mathematicians work it out with when they’re constipated.
Yes yes, gross.
September 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I’ve never seen a group of spiders together, it’s not a term I’ve had to use. Do they ever congregate? They seem like remarkably solitary creatures to me…probably because people stand on them a lot, it’s like the royal family all travelling in separate cars.