Comments about the elaine

There are 100 comments about "the elaine"

elaine: i like this a lot. i can almost hear the lights pinking....

in response to: Emptiness by joey

elaine: peter! look up 'desire line' in wiki. i tried to post the link but am out of practice with your coding, and the robot thought i was spamming you. ...

in response to: Pollards and Avenue by elaine

BillH: Liz when you were born I was 24 and living in Colorado so I am a "few" years older than you. I am probably about the same age as your parents. Where did you......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Rob, Sheila and Norma, Rob yes that's right it's the same Mr Jimmy Iddon, he worked at Royles the same as my dad, now about Christine?????? sorry I don't know what made me think......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: Sheila V, You're most likely correct about Hapgoods; I know they did live on our right hand side, so no.20 is probably right. I don't remember a Christine Iddon - only Elaine. Was Christine an older......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Maureen: Elaine was the youngest daughter of Jim & Edith Iddon, they did live in Harewood Road....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Maureen: Hello Anne I remember Mrs Iddon, she left Kendals and came to work at the Margarine works, she worked with me from time to time. Elaine Iddon was Edith Iddon's daughter, Ediths husband was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anne - Ontario: Who was Elaine Iddon then? I think she came from Harewood Road....

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Elaine: the gay pride flag has 6 colours, the co-op movement flag has seven. There is a light blue stripe in the co-op flag. it was adopted in 1927...

in response to: The Churchmouse and Firkin by Biff

Jamie: These have both been on UK TV recently. Elaine's {Sixy Trolls} have been in a {Volvo} advertisement too....

in response to: robot building by elaine

elaine: ta. actually, it makes me think of the 70s and early 80s. very 'life on mars'...

in response to: Time Travelling by elaine

elaine: all my enemies are, by definition, terrorists. but now i am a buddhist i can smite them with my big buddha sword. ;-)...

in response to: Berlin April 22 2008 by hool

elaine: i think they do call ferret children kittens......

in response to: Lost Kitten by fuzzytank

elaine: this thread is way weirder than the one we got for that previous post....

in response to: Feeling Sixy? by Peter

elaine: it's creepy that i find the stuffed toy more emotionally affecting than the real rabbit. mind you, real rabbits are DINNERS....

in response to: Lost Bunny by GGP

anon (199.218.252.54): Hey, I'm a kid whose popped up in a lot of these as pictured in Citynoise places, and I'm thinking about moving from the states to Hackney, Dalston to be specific. I was just......

in response to: Hanging Around by elaine

elaine: i stayed in an apartment on tompkins square park when i went to new york for the first time. i got up crazy early because of the time difference and walked around. i saw a......

in response to: A Tree and Resident in Tompkins Square Park by jack

jack: 'twas August, and the fierce sun overhead smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 elaine, your walking on famed streets, check out Arnold, wrote some good stuff....

in response to: Deflated by elaine

mike: elaine: is that the same as pebbledash? i think pebbledash is applied to a surface just like stucco. i think this is an aggregate concrete that is structural....

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

stepha: I am tickled you are all trying to unravel the identity of the "mystery"building. ok, here's another memory, walking around the ebbets fied area one day my friend elaine and i came......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

stepha: no, but i will seek out some now that i am motivated, i particularly remember sidney s, susan g, maxine and elaine h. the arlene sounds familiar. went to lefferts jhs......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

elaine: is it really true we have better phones than you? mine, the nokia n80 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n80-1347.php fyi, has TWO yes TWO cameras on it! the secondary camera is designed with teenagers in mind i think and......

in response to: Silvery Paste Up by elaine

elaine: nope... well here's the link to my helljay http://elaine4queen.livejournal.com/21900.html where there is one picture. i am sorry, i am so ill these days, i have no idea if or where i might have put any others.......

in response to: Sit and Reflect by serlingrod

elaine: i sort of want one... but they do look a bit uncomfortable...

in response to: Sit and Reflect by serlingrod

jack: really nice pictures, the first one made me run to the latrine, that's lu to catherine and elaine....

in response to: April in Downtown Fort Worth by dfwtiger

Halley: I'm on board with Elaine; if you look closely into the shiny chrome, you will see the lovely ladies taking the pictures, and they do look sexy...

in response to: Swarm of Bikes by Guy McLaren

jack: once upon a time, an aging man, was left home, alone, his wife had gone off to work, his children all at their places and with their families, and this old man, well older gentleman,......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I would agree with the majority of what has been said, but I will state my opinions on each issue, so it becomes obvious where I stand. I think the best way to have notification on......

in response to: User Survey 2007 by Jamie

jack: my two favorite girls, prancing about in london, the next thing you know citynoise will have a convention in manhattan, oh my, oh my, i don't want you to see me and lose the illusion......

in response to: Out and About with Elaine by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: and that is exactly what their policy will be, or am i being a cynic?...

in response to: Moronic Nonsensical Message on a Smoking Zone Bench at the Amusement Park Written in Marker, and Not Very Well, at That by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Just found this thread. Those last few comments are not only mean-spirited but way off the mark. In the very first line Elaine establishes it's Liverpool of 1982, during a much rougher time. She's studying......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Hello Elaine, I'm trying to contact Peter but haven't been sucessful as yet. I'll be in London for March 1st and part of the 2nd, then heading for Kent...

in response to: Tyres in Snow by elaine

elaine: i hope you had a very nice bath, jamie. and do you know that credit suisse have now made it possible for the man in the street to buy shares in the gherkin now! i......

in response to: Gherkin Sneaks Up on You by elaine

elaine: i liked LA, virtually no culture shock from london, since the pace of life is similar. i went in winter, which was about the right weather for my sensibilities - i am sure i would......

in response to: Clean LA Air by Damon

elaine: haha! ta jeeff, but no need to dig yet;-) the promised snow crisis (albeit played out on the roads with serious gritting, and in airports with flights cancelled) has only resulted in a veneer of......

in response to: Tyres in Snow by elaine

jack: yes! thats true! but i have to admit, he uses his colors effectively. but he misspelled - witness's - two times! am i using my !!!!! too much like elaine on the......

in response to: Disgruntled by groovehouse

jack: as elaine would say, "crikey". by the way, what does that mean? crikey?...

in response to: Oakland Zoom by joey

Jamie: was this man irish, jack? and what kind of a uniform were you wearing? i like how i can be away from here for so long and come back to find the same people doing......

in response to: Gherkin Sneaks Up on You by elaine

jack: interesting, a rocket to God. good to hear from you elaine. by jove, you and catherine on the same day, too much for the common man. i'll read your journal....

in response to: Gherkin Sneaks Up on You by elaine

PABLOMERSEY: Well Elaine you sound like you don't like our city ? If that is the case get out of it and give someone a chance from Liverpool. Im fed up with whinging people like you who......

in response to: rapid hardware by elaine

jack: this is great and i think you caught a drop as it exploded into the water, good shot. this should be a painting. elaine, please paint this....

in response to: Raindrops by Guy McLaren

elaine: seems to me that snacks are wasted on the dead, but what do i know? if i was dead and could eat snacks i would be chuffed to bits that someone brought me sweets instead......

in response to: Sugar Skulls by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: and are you in london just now, or are these from your archive?...

in response to: Millennium Bridge by steelisreal

elaine: nice photo. if you have a woody variety of basil you can put the last stalks in some olive oil, after a short while the oil is very basily and can be used as a......

in response to: Basil Flower by Biff

elaine: roland, i bet i have got that pic somewhere, maybe even at dads... catherine, my eyes do little else. it is a wonder i haven't got run over. dreamster at large... biff, you saw it here first!...

in response to: Transparency and Reflection by elaine

elaine: indeed. quite a small weir, though, but i think if you were a hapless little creature the same rules would apply!...

in response to: Transparency and Reflection by elaine

elaine: heh, yeah, except without all the scissor and paste work!...

in response to: Transparency and Reflection by elaine

elaine: ooh! pretty! i once went to a film event at a swimming pool, and the films lit the water and the water lit the roof in a ripply way that was just lovely. there was......

in response to: Film Pool by jeeff

elaine: the graphic makes it look like a puzzle you might be tempted to try and solve, or a relationship problem you might like to bring to terminal completion......

in response to: The Drowning Machine by ksedge

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm with Elaine on how much I love the Chrysler building and was fortunate enough to have a 16th floor [[2191:office]] opposite it. ...

in response to: The Chrysler Building by Pakko

Grandfather Time: elaine does great, just check out the reflections in the last one, that broken pane of glass look spectacular in my opinion... these are cute =)...

in response to: hideoms by elaine

elaine: i like the way they can do that. i can't do that. can you do that?...

in response to: Swallow\'s Nests on Lighthouse by EvilGentleman

jack: ok, thats it we need toe's picking things up shots. elaine and catherine your both on....

in response to: Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night by zagg

jack: thanks so much. great pics. the women are truly beautiful because my son married one. of course lets not forget the lovely ladies that grace citynoise. elaine is a knockout but i......

in response to: Rio De Janeiro by adam

elaine: the bird feeding has finally come to an end. the greenfinches continued to feed their little faces long after the insectivores had gone elsewhere for their dinner. however, recently the pigeons have discovered me, and......

in response to: Fledgling Greenfinches by elaine

elaine: lovin them bots. ...

in response to: robot building by elaine

elaine: the castle inn, centre of excellence for signwriting. actually i saw some dismal signwriting right here in throbbing londinium, so it is not the preserve of country towns, but they do do rather well at......

in response to: Morning Walk: Part One by jamie

jack: elaine thx, there was a movie of a mannequin on the 13th floor of a department store where every day a new mannequin would have the feedom to walk and talk like a human. ......

in response to: June Bride by joey

elaine: shame. there are loads here, and they are not indigenous, so i had thought a nice christmastime cull with goose for dinner could be a good thing, but if they are not tasty the cunning......

in response to: Why Did the Geese Cross the Road? by drea

elaine: i like the way you have specified 'american' dollars, cat. my new thing is trying to bring back guineas....

in response to: But Is It ART? by EvilGentleman

elaine: i love seaside. obviously, i have my preferences, but really any seaside rocks. i like the tacky stuff, i like beach, and i like sea....

in response to: The Great British Seaside by Jamie

elaine: "rooby-rooby-rooo!!!" yes. i have stopped watching suspense thriller things, i can't take the suspense, it makes me feel ill. but also there is always that 'let's go towards the creepy noise/basement/woods' moment when i lose sympathy......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 5 by Scott Sargent

elaine: ha, mm. they were meant to be in a row, initially. i forgot i put them there, i was thinking "that was jeeff's post, wasn't it? how would i have arranged the photos?" special stupid......

in response to: crow vs. goose by jeeff

kc: love the way elaine arranged those pics. hmm. ...

in response to: crow vs. goose by jeeff

elaine: i thought that was mares tails and a bit of mackerel, that sky. you're telling me there are SCIENCE words for that shit? damn!...

in response to: Sunset by jack

elaine: do you know, just the title of this post got me going. i am a total homer simpson. i watch adverts going "mmmm. i want one". i can want things i don't want or need.......

in response to: I Want One of These by CE

elaine: ah, bill burroughs. bless his drug addled veins. (i wrote that in his voice, something me and my ex used to do endlessly) i always liked that line he spoke on laurie anderson "i can......

in response to: No Horn Blowing Except for Anger by Peter

elaine: looks like rhodedendrons to me. and if they are, they can grow much big....

in response to: Hydrangeas by Peter

elaine: and good for them - die apostraphes die!...

in response to: No Horn Blowing Except for Anger by Peter

elaine: nice. can't beat a bit of casting. i only got this domestic critter, the frog wins. but it's all good. [[img:7871]]...

in response to: Hoffa Frog by Tyfoid Kid

elaine: my yankophilia only stretches to pronunciation and actual words. there is no point in asking where the nearest laundrette is or for tom-ah-toes in america. i am old timey enough to insist on english spellings......

in response to: Overkill Signage by Peter

elaine: ok, soz. being a bit of a sark myself sometimes i get paranoid and judge people by my own appalling standards... thanks for the esteem. would it be right to say props? do i have the lingo......

in response to: The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998. by I.T.U.C.

I.T.U.C.: elaine: No sarcasm. I note your influence on the bloggs. So I thank you for your interest. Please get use to my thanks, coz base my life of N.A.S.A (Nice And Safe Attitude); Peace......

in response to: The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998. by I.T.U.C.

elaine: was that a bit sarcastic? sorry if what i said was a bit plank. i can get like that sometimes... the first shot is the most interesting photo btw, but the rest make good context....

in response to: The Traffic Light Tree, Pierre Vivant 1998. by I.T.U.C.

elaine: greebs and spots and rock and roll. and they say hoodies are dangerous. pah....

in response to: Bescootered Narcissus by Tom

elaine: i love night mail. it's a very cozy feeling to watch it. didn't auden also write 'come friendly bombs and fall on slough'? i also like blackheath, though more the village and the short walk to......

in response to: A Hidden Gem from the Past by I.T.U.C.

elaine: that's weird, it just changed. oh well, the elaine scarry book, 'on beauty and being just' is now in my shopping cart, even if there is now a book about business on the goo.........

in response to: Just for Elaine... by Lawrence

elaine: by the way, the goo on this is perfect for me....

in response to: Just for Elaine... by Lawrence

elaine: ooh! i didn't know that was on. i must go. she once cast the inside of a house that was going to be demolished anyway. it was on viccy park. hackney idiot council demolished it,......

in response to: Whiteread\'s Embankment by Lawrence

elaine: i have a rug that wants cleaning, but i think it is pushing it to send it to new york from london. i have lost the will to look at yellow pages, i never understood......

in response to: Wisdom on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: KEWEL!!! i have been away for a few days and am just catching up with the information superhighway, and it is very flattering to have a post for ME ME ME !!!!! THANK you, lawrence, and boo......

in response to: Just for Elaine... by Lawrence

jack: i guess the guys have a thing for elaine....

in response to: Just for Elaine... by Lawrence

elaine: yes i did. and yes it was. also [[984:rapid hardware]] was a fave haunt. i am told that that whole street is rapid hardware now, but even back in the day it was so big......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

I.T.U.C.: Elaine, 1981 to 1989 were my Liverpool years. Did you shop down Berry and Duke Street, near the bombed out church for your jellies? The international deli you mentioned. Do you mean Mr "M"'s in......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: ITUC, i was in liverpool from about 1979 to 1985, i went to art school there, which as you know is not far from chinatown. this was before all day drinking and there was a......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: nice post. in london our chinatown is still chinatown, but then i think it really is actually chinese. it is very central, and i think the chinese residents have enough of a time trying to......

in response to: Not-Chinatown / Fish-heads On Ice by aer suzuki

elaine: i like that idea. it's nicer than dogs with eyes the size of saucers, cartwheels, windmills etc....

in response to: Test Box N.F.D. by Peter

elaine: hurrah for heathens. ::does down face dog, just for the hell of it::...

in response to: God Is Good by Peter

elaine: is that the same as pebbledash?...

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

elaine: i never understood the urge to lick ice before, and now my screen is all messy....

in response to: Kangirsujuaq II by EvilGentleman

elaine: i like how the abstract forms have gathered to take a look. i wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall for their conversation......

in response to: Natural Ice Sculpture of Goose by EvilGentleman

elaine: i take issue with the use of the word 'regency'. if the regency period was a brand it would sue bigtime....

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

elaine: peter, ditto tai chi. that, too creeps out the xtians. in this country, at present, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is getting taken very seriously as THE treatment of choice for NHS patients with psyche problems (apart from......

in response to: God Is Good by Peter

elaine: it looks brick built, is it? i believe brick buildings can only get so tall before something drastic happens. it looks knitted. and i agree that it has a certain mojo just for surviving, as......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

elaine: the way the bricks have been used as exercise book lines......

in response to: God Is Good by Peter

elaine: weirdly, that first link namechecks the school i went to. the royal high was all male until it went comprehensive, one year before i began attending....

in response to: Edinburgh Graff and Street by Cheesy Member

elaine: maybe the killer was interrupted. it looks like quite a bit of tasty whatever is left, there....

in response to: Decapitated Bird (Warning: Yes, Really) by jeeff

elaine: yes, hence the 'UK' shame there was no picture of calton hill to contextualise. lemme see... yep, have a look at the building from various angles [[http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=calton+hill+edinburgh&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images]] it was designed to be a big posh statement building,......

in response to: Edinburgh Graff and Street by Cheesy Member

elaine: the source of our thames is a muddy field somewhere here: [[http://www.thamespilot.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=thames&f=generic_theme%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3dtheme_record_id=tp%2dtp%2dsourcetosea_thameshead&s=OQjUtR4WVi3]] but beyond that initial confusion nothing like as complex as the tributaries that make up the source of yours...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff

jeeff: elaine: [[img:12313]] from [[http://www.chrs.ca/Rivers/Thames/Thames_e.htm]] chia: i think the stairs at the back of our house are about to collapse but they're only wood. detail from #3: [[img:12312]]...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff