Comments on: Experience the Fury Of… Our Gift Shop http://www.unlikelywords.com/2006/06/27/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/ A blog with delusions of grandeur. Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:29:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: 32Fletch http://www.unlikelywords.com/2006/06/27/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-343 32Fletch Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:14:07 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-343 Hi Matt, I am so enjoying the account of your trip. It's almost like being there, but without the jet lag and tired feet. Do give scones another chance, and you are definitely on the right track with the clotted cream love you feel. It deserves its own level in the food pyramid. This still has me laughing, several hours after I read it myself and then read it to Mr. 32Fletch: “I saw a dark room with four big dark red squares, a video of people mud-wrestling in bikinis, a painting of a man urinating, and a CD of fart sounds. I’m ready to go.” I've NEVER heard this kind of candid commentary on any of Rick Steeves's shows. You could totally do his job. Hi Matt,

I am so enjoying the account of your trip. It’s almost like being there, but without the jet lag and tired feet. Do give scones another chance, and you are definitely on the right track with the clotted cream love you feel. It deserves its own level in the food pyramid.

This still has me laughing, several hours after I read it myself and then read it to Mr. 32Fletch:

“I saw a dark room with four big dark red squares, a video of people mud-wrestling in bikinis, a painting of a man urinating, and a CD of fart sounds. I’m ready to go.”

I’ve NEVER heard this kind of candid commentary on any of Rick Steeves’s shows. You could totally do his job.

]]> By: Robust McManlyPants http://www.unlikelywords.com/2006/06/27/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-341 Robust McManlyPants Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:21:37 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-341 In the late '90s, a friend and I did a lot of walking the wrong direction for a couple of days in London. Fortunately, the tube station near our hotel had a cadre of retirement-aged people in orange vests who would just stand around and give sight-seeing advice. On the same trip, we ended up at the Museum of Modern Art in Edinburgh. We paid a pound fifty to see a "special exhibition" of sculpture and video by an artist whose name I can't remember. When we realized we were watching a video of her writhing nude in a plastic cube half-filled with mud, and that in the next room there was video of a microscopic camera exploring every one of her orifices, we were pretty much done for the day. Your hotel in Italy? Wow. I mean, <i>wow</i>. That is too awesome! In the late ’90s, a friend and I did a lot of walking the wrong direction for a couple of days in London. Fortunately, the tube station near our hotel had a cadre of retirement-aged people in orange vests who would just stand around and give sight-seeing advice.

On the same trip, we ended up at the Museum of Modern Art in Edinburgh. We paid a pound fifty to see a “special exhibition” of sculpture and video by an artist whose name I can’t remember. When we realized we were watching a video of her writhing nude in a plastic cube half-filled with mud, and that in the next room there was video of a microscopic camera exploring every one of her orifices, we were pretty much done for the day.

Your hotel in Italy? Wow. I mean, wow. That is too awesome!

]]> By: Lisa http://www.unlikelywords.com/2006/06/27/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-338 Lisa Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:31:53 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-338 I'm exhausted reading this. I'm impressed you made it to the vicinity of your pillow before falling asleep. Our visit to London a few years ago was characterized by taking turns falling asleep on the Tube each night on the way back to way we were staying. I’m exhausted reading this. I’m impressed you made it to the vicinity of your pillow before falling asleep. Our visit to London a few years ago was characterized by taking turns falling asleep on the Tube each night on the way back to way we were staying.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.unlikelywords.com/2006/06/27/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-337 Lauren Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:18:37 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/experience-the-fury-of-our-gift-shop/#comment-337 I have this great image in my head of you pointing and saying, "this way" in a very deep and confident tone and marching off in the direction you just pointed. I've been reading your travelouge aloud to Morgan and Karen. They love it. I have this great image in my head of you pointing and saying, “this way” in a very deep and confident tone and marching off in the direction you just pointed. I’ve been reading your travelouge aloud to Morgan and Karen. They love it.

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