gnimmel ([info]gnimmel) wrote,
@ 2007-05-29 08:38:00
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Death and Taxis


(usual disclaimers apply; single large image behind the cut, the fluffhouse server is flaky at the moment (as was the case with the last post, now hopefully back up).




NB also: in between starting this and finishing it, it was established that:
a) Yes, there was a mouse in our kitchen, but
b) it went a little too close to the cat in our kitchen.
hence the whole matter is somewhat moot. :/

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[info]angevin2
2007-05-29 07:43 am UTC (link)
YOU. ARE. BRILLIANT.

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[info]splodgenoodles
2007-05-29 07:55 am UTC (link)
Marry me?

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[info]king_laugh
2007-05-29 08:10 am UTC (link)
Robert Burns eat your heart out.

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[info]pseudomonas
2007-05-29 08:23 am UTC (link)
*sound of fanboying*

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[info]feanelwa
2007-05-29 08:38 am UTC (link)
A work of genius!

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[info]ewx
2007-05-29 08:39 am UTC (link)
Good stuff!

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[info]taimatsu
2007-05-29 09:15 am UTC (link)
*swoons*

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[info]the_elyan
2007-05-29 09:45 am UTC (link)
Words fail me. And I want a lollipop sign that says "Stop! In the name of Love"

Have you done anything with Hitler's Bicycle yet, or can I have that one?

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[info]gnimmel
2007-05-29 09:45 pm UTC (link)
Ssssh! I have plans for Hitler's bicycle. Mine!

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[info]the_elyan
2007-05-29 09:51 pm UTC (link)
OK. I thought you might, which is why I have not committed it to text, although I have spoken of it in hushed and reverential tones.

You will do it far better justice than I ever would anyway [crawl, crawl]

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[info]squirmelia
2007-05-29 09:52 am UTC (link)
Some cool taxis there!

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and yet again, you pwn the internets
[info]mirabehn
2007-05-29 10:12 am UTC (link)
You are a genius, and the world needs to know about it.

For pity's sake, put these things on websites, t-shirts, publish them, just...

Wow. Wow wow wow Lynnette. You have just made my week with the sheer wonderfulness of your brain. :-)

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[info]chickenfeet2003
2007-05-29 10:16 am UTC (link)
Brava!

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[info]ixwin
2007-05-29 10:21 am UTC (link)
You are, as ever, utterly fabulous.

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[info]emperor
2007-05-29 10:35 am UTC (link)
:-)

You need to get an account somewhere that won't be killed when everyone wants to view your pictures at once :-)

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[info]smhwpf
2007-05-29 10:39 am UTC (link)
Hail [info]gnimmel, Goddess of teh internets!

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[info]robhu
2007-05-29 10:58 am UTC (link)
That was awesome!

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[info]kaet
2007-05-29 11:00 am UTC (link)
Excellent!

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[info]axamendes
2007-05-29 11:02 am UTC (link)
*Random and loud applause from an unexpected quarter*

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[info]kaet
2007-05-29 11:06 am UTC (link)
I've always wondered about Dave's Disco Taxi, too. Whether people book the disco taxi, or if it just sometimes arrives?

Like those taxis the maffia send, where you end up a tunnel support on the Jubliee Line extension? Are there giant-afro'ed disco overlords in a secret mirror-clad underground lair who decide one day: "send the disco taxi", perhaps by projecting a giant glitterball into the sky?

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[info]gnimmel
2007-05-29 09:51 pm UTC (link)
That's interesting -- I think the one that went past me was Alan's Disco taxi. Which raises the slightly scary prospect of there being >1 disco taxi in the country.

Although the rest of your comment makes me think of families hiding their young and hip children in the basement when the moon is full and glittery, for fear of the disco taxi coming round and taking them off to be dance minions....

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[info]kaet
2007-05-29 10:20 pm UTC (link)
You could be right about Alan, my brain often alliterates when it forgets, :).

[info]angua posted a story she wrote when she was a child a while back. It was one of the best fairy stories I've read. I'll try and find it. Damn, I think it was friends locked.

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[info]aldabra
2007-05-29 11:22 am UTC (link)
In awe of ur headspace, which is clearly much more interesting than my headspace.

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[info]boydonegood
2007-05-29 12:15 pm UTC (link)
I love the Taxi of Adventure. I'm sure that's adaptable into a children's book or something.

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[info]22by7
2007-05-29 12:24 pm UTC (link)
i was linked here. i chuckled for a whole minute. this is just the best thing i've seen in days.

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I say.
[info]lionsphil
2007-05-29 12:39 pm UTC (link)
That's rather genious, that is.

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[info]moonytoes
2007-05-29 01:02 pm UTC (link)
Linked by [info]jereeza. I so want to go to Boogie Sunderland.
This is ginormously cool.

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[info]lethargic_man
2007-05-30 07:28 pm UTC (link)
I so want to go to Boogie Sunderland.

Tangentially, there was a prog rock group in the seventies called Hatfield and the North. (I'm not familiar with what they sounded like, though.)

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[info]compilerbitch
2007-05-29 04:37 pm UTC (link)
You just made me late for work! ;-P

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[info]fluffymormegil
2007-05-29 05:17 pm UTC (link)
Your brain is, in fact, made of 100% WIN.

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[info]frimfram
2007-05-29 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Here via [info]jereeza, but a fellow Cantabridgian - I've had the disco taxi too, coming back from the Junction! Given that the Disco Taxi is literally a taxi full of disco, and given the name of the major cab company in question, I guess we were just both lucky they didn't take their moniker seriously and send one driven by a dangerous carnivore.

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[info]roz_mcclure
2007-05-29 06:17 pm UTC (link)
You (and this) are quite brilliant!

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[info]ukcougar
2007-05-29 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Brilliant. I was going to say "genius" but it'd appear that several others have beaten me to it. I'm loving all the background stuff, the main sign on the "taxi of sex" panel just cracked me up. Excuse me while I forward this to everyone I've ever met.

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[info]xanna
2007-05-29 06:45 pm UTC (link)
Hello. I've had two recommendations to read this post today. One from [info]the_elyan whom I randomly met in the street (nice street) and another from someone who doesn't know you and had no idea that I would. He just thought you were random groovy Internet person. You have far-reaching Internetting happening with this one. Well done!

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[info]turtle_realms
2007-05-29 07:01 pm UTC (link)
You rule the rock. :o)

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[info]lethargic_man
2007-05-29 09:29 pm UTC (link)
<applauds>

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[info]philipstorry
2007-05-29 10:21 pm UTC (link)
Marvellous. Thank you!

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[info]the_elyan
2007-05-29 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Lou's recommendation getting around too then? ;-)

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[info]philipstorry
2007-05-29 10:42 pm UTC (link)
Actually, I came here from your recommendation. :-)

I've just had the window to post this comment in the background for hours. It's been a day of unclosed windows in my browser, sadly...
:-(

Still, this brightened my day considerably. I'm glad I got around to it...

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[info]darcydodo
2007-05-30 12:22 am UTC (link)
Oh, awesomeness. :) (And yay for [info]livredor's link.)

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[info]uniquefergus
2007-05-30 07:08 am UTC (link)
Superb! I got here via recommendation...is there more? May we be LJ friends?

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[info]verlaine
2007-05-30 08:21 am UTC (link)
If you took away everything except the *colours*, this would still be the best thing ever.

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[info]_kent
2007-05-30 08:45 am UTC (link)
Clearly made of Awesome. I want to go to Boogie Sunderland, driver.

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[info]mostly_a_cat
2007-05-30 12:07 pm UTC (link)
Hail Lynnette of joy

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[info]strongtrousers
2007-05-30 02:20 pm UTC (link)
All this (in combination with a recent excess of Jasper Fforde) makes me wonder if there's a gap in the market for a Shakespeare Taxi, one wherein the passengers may request of the driver any speech from any of his plays. Perhaps there would be copies of the Complete Works so that passengers could take other parts in the scene. Perhaps this would make a killing among American tourists in Stratford. One might call it BardCab.

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[info]mirabehn
2007-05-30 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Yay!

I want there to be a Shakespeare rail carriage. Running on a line going from London to Milford, obviously.

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[info]realinterrobang
2007-06-01 07:47 am UTC (link)
Oh, god, I live just down the road a piece from Stratford, Ontario (which is home to a huge theatre festival, one of the biggest of its kind in North America), and I could so see them doing that there, since the entire town has a bad case of the thematic quaints.

I got here from [info]marnanel's link. I've been swapping this around quite a bit.

The postscript reminds me of something that a friend of mine said once. We were staying at another friend's house, and there was a cricket in the guest room. It finally shut up and we were able to go to sleep. In the morning, I remarked that the cricket had shut up quite providentially, and my friend said, very ingenuously, "It seems to have found its way beneath my shooooe..."

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[info]rettstatt
2007-06-09 03:50 pm UTC (link)
That's really brilliant. Made my morning.

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[info]kyte
2008-01-21 03:59 pm UTC (link)
I've just been shown this, rather after the event!

You should take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Cab

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