What the...?

[Spotbowserfido2]

Occasionally I see a quotation from CATHR at the top of the main page. But the link doesn't take me to a CATHR quotation forum, as I would expect; it just connects back to the main page. The search function won't find anything from these quotes, either. I'm sure this is because we're still in pre-publication times. But I'm intrigued by the idea that there's a secret quotation forum somewhere, which occasionally yields an evanescent, untraceable quote.

They are hiding in Quotation Database under Content.

 

[gveranon]

Occasionally I see a quotation from CATHR at the top of the main page. But the link doesn't take me to a CATHR quotation forum, as I would expect; it just connects back to the main page. The search function won't find anything from these quotes, either. I'm sure this is because we're still in pre-publication times. But I'm intrigued by the idea that there's a secret quotation forum somewhere, which occasionally yields an evanescent, untraceable quote.

They are hiding in Quotation Database under Content.

So they are. Thank you.

"Should it be called revelation or delirium when the mind interposes itself between the sensations of the soul and a monstrous mystery?"
-- Thomas Ligotti, "In the Shadow of Another World"

In my case, delirium.

 

[Odalisque]

I don't post for a day... and am awarded the bronze activity skull... Shouldn't that be a bronze inactivity skull?

 

[Odalisque]

Now, after a day away, my activity is up to 50%.

 

[Odalisque]

I was thinking of bumping this thread because I recently noticed something that seemed to me extremely odd.

The eastern end of the Central Line of the London Underground stops at a place called Theydon Bois. (Perhaps I should explain for non-London folk that, in spite of the name "London Underground" this largely urban railway system is above ground towards its outer limits... Nor is the whole system urban... Theydon Bois is a village four stops outside Greater London, and separated from surburbia by farmers' fields.)

Just outside Theydon Bois they're repairing a road bridge, and there's some scaffolding above the railway track. The peculiar thing is that they've hung a notice from the scaffolding saying REDUCED HEADROOM in large white letters on a red background. But there is obviously plenty of headroom for anything that likely to pass underneath (Central Line trains and people working on the track). London Underground trains don't have roof racks, nor have I ever seen passengers sitting on the roofs of the trains. So why the warning?

And the notice further reduces the headroom!!

 

[Odalisque]

After some thought, I've boiled down the substance of my last post into a Tweet:

Anyone thinking of sticking their head out of a Central Line sun roof should beware. There's reduced headroom just outside Theydon Bois stn.

(That uses all 140 characters.)

On a related note, I've also Tweeted this:

Someone, some time, must have bashed his (not her... women have more sense) head on a "reduced headroom" sign.

 

[Odalisque]

I've had a weird email from Amazon this morning:

As someone who has browsed baby products at Amazon.co.uk, you might like to know about today's Baby Bonanza Daily Deals.

I feel as near certain as possible that I have never browsed baby products at Amazon. Why would I? I don't have a baby.

Are mumsnet hacking into this computer?

 

[Odalisque]

My eye was caught by the bottom image in today's "newest thumbs". My first thought that it was a pair of knickers about someone's ankle. On closer inspection, I realise that it's a hand. :drunk: