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OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
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| Apologies in advance if I'm just being dense, but exactly how did the Colorado lady realize that the person she spied on the road was a vampire? |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1096 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-06-2010 20:45 Post subject: |
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No need for an answer, just googled it and found a book - Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex In Public Places by Laud Humphreys.
You do learn something new every day. I didn't know what a coconut or banana was until yertserday. |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
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| Posted: 30-06-2010 23:45 Post subject: |
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| OldTimeRadio wrote: | | Apologies in advance if I'm just being dense, but exactly how did the Colorado lady realize that the person she spied on the road was a vampire? |
That's a very good question actually...
Also - I don't know anything about tea rooms, bananas and coconuts either so it will be an interesting evening on Google I suppose.  |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-07-2010 03:53 Post subject: |
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To demonstrate just how obsolete my world-view is, to me a "tea room" remains a quiet and secluded little restaurant over on the south side of Shady Street where spinster Miss Jessop and her life-long friend the Widow Abernathy share luncheon every Thursday at two p. m.  |
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| LaurenChurchill Pretty Good Old One
No I am NOT a yeti Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Total posts: 933 Location: Oz Age: 27 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 01-07-2010 04:34 Post subject: |
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And now I feel like cucumber sandwiches. Off to the shops for me then  |
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| Anome_ Faceless Man
Great Old One Joined: 23 May 2002 Total posts: 5328 Location: Left, and to the back. Age: 44 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-07-2010 07:51 Post subject: |
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| I must have been hanging out in the wrong tea rooms... |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 01-07-2010 08:09 Post subject: |
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| Cucumber sandwiches, eh. You dirty devil. |
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| Peripart is only passing through
Great Old One Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Total posts: 3840 Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-07-2010 10:32 Post subject: |
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| OldTimeRadio wrote: | | To demonstrate just how obsolete my world-view is, to me a "tea room" remains a quiet and secluded little restaurant over on the south side of Shady Street where spinster Miss Jessop and her life-long friend the Widow Abernathy share luncheon every Thursday at two p. m. |
It's what they're doing at 3pm that'd make your eyes water. Filthy devils - who knew, eh?
| OTR wrote: | | Apologies in advance if I'm just being dense, but exactly how did the Colorado lady realize that the person she spied on the road was a vampire? |
Exactly my first thought - she didn't stop to talk, so what was the giveaway? A face that looked pale in her headlights? Hardly conclusive evidence, is it?
| Quote: | | The woman claims she spotted a vampire in the middle of a dirt road near Fruita, Colo. Sunday night. She told Colorado State Troopers she was startled by the undead being, threw her SUV into reverse, and crashed into a canal. |
Sounds like an interesting insurance claim! As excuses for driving into a canal go, though, it's a good 'un. As you say, there's nothing in the very brief account to say what evidence led the woman to believe that she's seen a supernatural being, and not just some poor soul wandering home from the local bar. |
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| PeniG Proud children's writer Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Total posts: 2902 Location: San Antonio, Texas Age: 52 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 02-07-2010 00:32 Post subject: |
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I expect she saw his fangs, or the voices in her head told her. Very handy, those voices.
How did people suddenly get all the way back to my STD rant from September? And inquiring minds want to know -- how weird do y'all feel that you learned that particular alternate meaning for "tea room" from someone who writes books for young people? (It should not surprise you that such a person cares so much on the subject of sex miseducation, however.)
Although I think there are places in like, New York, that still use "tea room" for a legitimate business, if you want a nice cup of tea and a biscuit, you'd better ask the policeman for a "tea shop" to fend off misunderstandings. And then order tea and cookies when you get there. |
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| locussolus Great Old One Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Total posts: 232 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 02-07-2010 04:48 Post subject: |
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I know there is a Tea Room in Greenwich VIllage, where a woman literally reads your tea leaves. I thought that's what she did..... 
There are many "Happy Ending Massage Parlors" in the city, know enough to stay away from those. One has been turned into a fancy Norwegian Cocktail Bar......they kept the sign and the back room intact for novelty. |
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| Zilch5 Vogon Poet
Great Old One Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Total posts: 1463 Location: Western Sydney, Australia Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-07-2010 05:12 Post subject: |
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I still don't that tea room business - I suppose we must call them something else here...
I once had dinner in the Russian Tea Room in Boulder, Colorado. It was lovely and no one wanted to grab my crotch for money.
What am I missing here? |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 02-07-2010 08:18 Post subject: |
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The tearoom trade as described by Humphreys was about recreation, not money, though. The term 'trade' here means 'business', as in monkey business.
What Humphreys found was that some ostensibly straight men knew where to go for impersonal homosexual contact with minimum risk of discovery, at a time when these acts were still illegal. They were in it for fun, not money.
Of course, the 'tearooms' are actually public lavvies, so there's little danger of being served the wrong type of sticky buns. |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 71 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-07-2010 10:01 Post subject: |
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| Peripart wrote: | | Exactly my first thought - she didn't stop to talk, so what was the giveaway? A face that looked pale in her headlights? Hardly conclusive evidence, is it? |
Well, I was going to suggest that it was the fangs, save that Peni stole my thunder there.
But of course vampire fangs can be purchased at any novelty shop year-'round or indeed at any large American chain drugstore during the month or so before Halloween, and for 50 percent off the week after.
Or maybe it was simply the fact that the vampire had great black bat wings and was hovering four feet above the ground? |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1096 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-07-2010 23:08 Post subject: |
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I don't want to derail this thread again, but I wish to reply to PeniiG tat I find your education beautfully ironic. I genuinely had no idea what it meant. Thank you for educating me.
Now, back to vampires... |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17657 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2010 21:30 Post subject: |
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Yeeaaaa! Shes left the Dark Side!
| Quote: | Top author opts 'to quit being a Christian'
ALISON FLOOD
Sat, Jul 31, 2010
TWELVE YEARS after choosing Christianity over atheism, bestselling author Anne Rice has “quit being a Christian” because of the religion’s attitude to birth control, homosexuality and science.
In a message posted on her Facebook page, Rice said she was “out”. “In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen,” the author wrote.
An atheist for decades, Rice returned to her childhood faith of Catholicism in 1998. In 2002 she “consecrated her writing entirely to Christ, vowing to write for Him or about Him”. She began to write novels about the life of Christ, completing Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt in 2005, and publishing Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana in 2008 when she also released the memoir Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession , about her conversion at the age of 57.
Rice posted on Tuesday revealing her distress about a news story in which an American “punk rock ministry” said that “executing gays is ‘moral’”.
“No wonder people despise us, Christians . . . I don’t blame them. This kind of thing makes me weep. Maybe commitment to Christ means not being a Christian,” she said.
Later, she linked to a report about the Westboro Baptist church in Kansas, which “spreads the message that because the United States condones homosexuality, abortion and divorce, all Americans are going to hell”, according to the story.
“This is chilling. I wish I could say this is inexplicable. But it’s not. That’s the horror. Given the history of Christianity, this is not inexplicable at all,” Rice wrote, pointing to Gandhi’s statement: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – (Guardian service )
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0731/1224275906275.html |
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