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50 pence (iN Da Pod)
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
World Record Holders
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
My Ten Favourite Blog Posts:
The human league (of friends)Because everything counts
It's only a TV programme
No names mentioned
Chicago, Improvised
Superstar Power
Minding the Gap
Lift is a mystery
117 people later
184 days later
Previously on iBlog...
My Last.FM
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Which is which? I’m fairly sure I’ve never used the word “poufee” in any kind of conversation…
Wonderful speeling, I think he means ‘Pouffe’, as in something you rest your foot on, and which is pronounced with one syllable, like poof, and not with two syllables, as in ‘poofay’.
I talk with my US counterparts in Minnesota a lot, and we frequently compare US vs. Canadian vs. UK words for things. Soooo many strange variances. For example, where I grew up a chesterfield referred to pretty much any sofa. In the UK, it’s particular sofa. In the US, you’ll never hear it outside of antique auctions.
It very much depends on where you first encountered the words. For example, in my parents living room, a pouffe was the small round stool that you could sit on or rest your feet on. An ottoman, on the other hand, lived at the end of my grandparent’s bed and was an upholstered, bench-size box used for storing clean bedlinen. In Turkey, on the other hand, an ottoman was a highly successful ruling empire founded on the principles of steam baths.
Couldn’t we have things we like to feel? Or can’t bear to touch? (keep it decent)
e.g. I love flanelette sheets, and knobbly fleeces, furry things like teddies to
cuddle. Many of us I’m sure had a little blanket we used to hold when small.Can’t bear the thought of touching a sanke, although I’m sure they’re lovely.
2: corrected! thx Alan (told you i was feeling lazy)
Kurtz = Lusty
… let me explain.
I was just sending a text message to my brother in law of all people, which ended with the phrase ” … as long as I can be Colonel Kurtz!” (Don’t ask! Suffice to say it was about Apocalypse Now)
However as I was typing the predictive text, which strangely had the word “Kurtz” already in it, I switched the word by accident with the “spell” button, and you know what it changed it to? Yup …
“… as long as I can be Colonel Lusty!”
Damn I’ve got some explaining to do!
In the absence of writing anything witty about feel/touch, could you upload a video of you miming along to Divinyls “I Touch Myself”?
#8 – Done! Search for “Geoff Touching Himself” on YouTube and it’s the first hit.
#9 – no it’s not.
Anyway – call that a post? And I went and got you a clip art and everything!!
Pfftt….;-)
maybe “dishware” is a US regional variant? I grew up in the heart of the midwest but only ever heard the term “crockery”.
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