Thursday 12 July 2012

Frontiers

I live in Norfolk these days. A mere couple of furlongs down the road is the River Waveney, which around these here parts is the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. I believe the differences between the ancient North and South `folk` used to be very much a tribal thing.

When the Jack Rascal Terrorist and I were returning from our largely Suffolk walk last night, we crossed the river back into Norfolk via a small stone bridge by a weir and a beautiful pool bordered by weeping willows. The border remains unguarded, unlike this one.

We do, however, have the occasional border ceremony which may well have been where those other people got the idea from, as I distinctly heard `mine's a pint` shouted in a Hindustani accent.  I do hope they don't have nuclear weapons, after all, we need a cool head and steady hand for those things.

9 comments:

Quartermaster said...

So. I guess you are the English version of a Yankee and have just returned from your invasion of the south. :-)

Hogdayafternoon said...

QM: That made I larrf!
Yosemite Sam has a few of my favourites:Gotta burn my boots, they touched Yankee soil.

http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/

johnd2008 said...

I always feel that the English Rugby team should do a Morris dance in reply to the New Zealand Haka.It must be worth 2 tries before the All Blacks stop laughing.

Hogdayafternoon said...

Johnd: That must be done!

Dave Pie-n-Mash said...

I know this will make me seem like a dummy, but that border closing ceremony clip - it's a comedy sketch, right? Seriously, I can't tell.

Quartermaster said...

Dave, it's not a comedy clip. You just gotta know the Paks and the Indies and how much they hate each other. It's about the only are in which the Paks are competitive with the Indies. So far, they've lost in everything else.

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

I first saw that clip about 5 years ago, and I have to watch it every now and then, it makes me smile.

Justthisguy said...

1. On Nukes: How do we know that any of them will actually work, if we decide to use any of them? It's been a very long time since anybody has set one off.

I mind the Great Secret Torpedo Scandal of 1942 in the USN. The torpedoes were so secret, and so expensive, that they never got tested in real conditions. How can you know that yer nukes actually work, if you don't set one off from time to time?

1.1. Theodore Taylor, who designed all of the really ingenious American nukes, was of the opinion that we should set off a good loud one above ground every generation or so, with politicians at Danger Close so that they could feel the heat pulse, just to help the politicians keep their minds right.

2. I am all for local affinities, as the Christian principle of subsidiarity teaches us. Just don't knock those other folks on the head, mmmkay?

(We Anglo-Celtic-Scots-Welsh- Irish gave that up years ago, but the lesser breeds without the law seem still to have fun doing that.)

Justthisguy said...

Humans really are the most dangerous monkeys on the planet. A human is the only critter who will kill you because he dis-approves of your bad taste in music.

If I thought I could get away with that...