I was having a leisurely stroll around town today, pondering this and that, when I passed upon a neighborhood establishment I'd seen once or twice before.
With my new SmartPhone I decided to record it for posterity:
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You could tell this was a pretty serious caning shoppe that expected to do steady business.
The penalties for misusing their parking spaces could well be quite severe... :secret:
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But as I looked closer, I was alarmed to see none of the familiar caning supplies in stock. In fact, the building was on the market to be leased. :o
I leaned in to photograph the interior but all I got was the dim reflection of my lonesome and a couple ponytailed types in the distance, certainly not a vibrant caning shoppe. :(
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But just when all hope had vanished and despair had seized my very soul, my burden was relieved! The Caning Shoppe had only shed its meager confines and flourished on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fin. :sleep:
What drama! I don't really have the nerves for this. I need to lie down now.
But thank you. :)
Caning Shoppe on Elm Street, what a nightmare.
Unfortunately, while I was pounding the pavement, trying to rally the spirits of my old friend The Brain, I neglected the moral education of the household cat.
The humble and virtuous friend I left behind had become a dissolute roué, squandering vast sums in the pursuit of obesity and games of chance. :(
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Lettow doesn't like mixed race cats now.
This is the best new thread in a while.
Drama, pathos, sudden reversals of fate. This is the dickensian/riefenstahlian thread for the ages!
You definitely need to go to Somerville and update the thread with their selection of canes.
Quote from: Neil on September 05, 2011, 06:54:24 PM
This is the best new thread in a while.
:yes: :w00t: :frog:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 05, 2011, 07:27:33 PM
You definitely need to go to Somerville and update the thread with their selection of canes.
A dismal gray New England dawn emerged. Sheets of cold rain poured down outside my window and I huddled in my cheap polyester comforter. It had been a rough night. These few days of vacation and all I've done is waste them, I thought. As 6:00 sprang onto the digital alarm clock, I couldn't take it anymore. I reached over and lit a Winston, hoping for some direction. Sure, I felt the familiar vapors in my throat and in my lungs, but I felt nothing in my soul, my heart, my brain..... my Brain.... The BRAIN! I must revive him even if my own humours fail me!
Sure enough, I pulled on my slicker and grabbed my roommate's tango-themed umbrella. Out I would go, off to see what the new Caning Shoppe had to offer. With my SmartPhone poised, I would document its new iteration in the service of Man's aspirations...
But the new Caning Shoppe was as dismal as my mood on rising. :( Papered up in a storefront cramped against a dubious pet shop. August 20? It is to laugh. :(
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But one cannot say that they do not still aim to attract the caning aesthete...
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Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 08, 2011, 07:25:39 AM
A dismal gray New England dawn emerged.
Wait, I thought you were living in Kentucky? :unsure:
Winston? Is that a fag?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 08, 2011, 07:28:46 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 08, 2011, 07:25:39 AM
A dismal gray New England dawn emerged.
Wait, I thought you were living in Kentucky? :unsure:
Summer law internship in Knoxville, Tenn.
Quote from: The Brain on September 08, 2011, 07:30:42 AM
Winston? Is that a fag?
This is the US. If a fag's in my own home, I can reach over and light it. Castle doctrine and all.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 08, 2011, 07:35:04 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 08, 2011, 07:30:42 AM
Winston? Is that a fag?
This is the US. If a fag's in my own home, I can reach over and light it. Castle doctrine and all.
Photo? :)
Quote from: The Brain on September 08, 2011, 07:38:13 AM
Photo? :)
Uh uh. :yeahright: No snuff on this board, pal.
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"Addictive"? Should the warning label really be selling the product?
Porter Square, Somerville. Were you visiting Boston Capetan? You're not from around here are you?
Quote from: PDH on September 05, 2011, 06:58:28 PM
Drama, pathos, sudden reversals of fate. This is the dickensian/riefenstahlian thread for the ages!
It has that balzacesque tinge.
I want a flying saucer!