Comments on: Angling For a Parade http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:12:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5333 HalfEmpty Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:15:10 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5333 <p>It has the same sort of cool that a ballon has plus and little bit of steam locomotive gigantism weird thrown in. No good reason, just fun.</p> It has the same sort of cool that a ballon has plus and little bit of steam locomotive gigantism weird thrown in. No good reason, just fun.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5332 ninme Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:24:32 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5332 <p>Ehm, what exactly was the point of them? Because, to the layman, they seem colossally stupid.</p> Ehm, what exactly was the point of them? Because, to the layman, they seem colossally stupid.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5331 HalfEmpty Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:40:49 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5331 <p>I've never seen a Zep of course, but one of my major yoofull memories is of seeing the Goodyear Blimp (Akron?) cross overhead at maybe 200 ft. I was just dinking around in the back yard. I had no warning, audible or visual that it was on the way.... It was JUST THERE. I was born to fly fighter blimps.</p> I’ve never seen a Zep of course, but one of my major yoofull memories is of seeing the Goodyear Blimp (Akron?) cross overhead at maybe 200 ft. I was just dinking around in the back yard. I had no warning, audible or visual that it was on the way…. It was JUST THERE. I was born to fly fighter blimps.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5330 ninme Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:18:38 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5330 <p>See, a Royal Barge. That's EXACTLY the sort of thing I mean! Oh, how lovely it would be!</p> See, a Royal Barge. That’s EXACTLY the sort of thing I mean! Oh, how lovely it would be!

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5329 Rueful Red Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:13:13 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5329 <p>Our Zeps weren't very good, Half, my uncle as a little boy was watching one of them over the Humber when he observed that, in his words "it's broken!" He was being hushed by other spectators when the Zep in question crashed not very gracefully into the Humber, killing almost all the crew. The funny thing was that the Zep in question had been built for the US Navy: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-forn/uk/uk-lta/r38.htm</p> <p>The Germans were much better at Zeps.</p> Our Zeps weren’t very good, Half, my uncle as a little boy was watching one of them over the Humber when he observed that, in his words “it’s broken!” He was being hushed by other spectators when the Zep in question crashed not very gracefully into the Humber, killing almost all the crew. The funny thing was that the Zep in question had been built for the US Navy: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-forn/uk/uk-lta/r38.htm

The Germans were much better at Zeps.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5328 Rueful Red Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:04:31 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5328 <p>I'd like to see HMQ rowed up, or for that matter down, the Thames on a huge Tudor-style Royal Barge, and accompanied by the barges of all the livery companies in full rig. Handel's Water Music playing in the distance. Millions of people would line the banks and cheer her.</p> I’d like to see HMQ rowed up, or for that matter down, the Thames on a huge Tudor-style Royal Barge, and accompanied by the barges of all the livery companies in full rig. Handel’s Water Music playing in the distance. Millions of people would line the banks and cheer her.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/04/angling_for_a_p.html#comment-5327 HalfEmpty Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:58:18 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/04/26/angling_for_a_parade.html#comment-5327 <p>Tudor-style? Did they have it all diagramed by then? Seems a tad early. I'm not certain that court processions even changed into Parade Dress, so they may have been ummm, road-worn. I'd wait until the invention of drycleaning at least. I'd also think gentlemen of the black-rod and numerous chamberlains would be needed. And someting to fly overhead - maybe a huge British 64 gun Zep-of-the-line.</p> Tudor-style? Did they have it all diagramed by then? Seems a tad early. I’m not certain that court processions even changed into Parade Dress, so they may have been ummm, road-worn. I’d wait until the invention of drycleaning at least. I’d also think gentlemen of the black-rod and numerous chamberlains would be needed. And someting to fly overhead - maybe a huge British 64 gun Zep-of-the-line.

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