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[camrogers]

Just got back from seeing the current generation of the Cambridge Footlights do an hour's worth of sketch.  They're actually really damned good.  I saw the Cambridge Limelights and they didn't hold a candle.  These guys could absolutely run with it.  They has understanding and technique.

Walked back through Grassmarket.  Spotted a plaque on the ground I'd never noticed before.  Apparently the spot outside the nearest local was bombed once, in 1916.

By a zeppelin.

Immediately looked up and tried to imagine it.  And I still can't work out why those flawed, fragile, fucking enormous things got past the design phase, or how they ever got close enough to England with hostile intent to do any damage.  Not that I've properly looked into it, mind.

Seeing Stephen K. Amos at 9:15pm and then Gutted at midnight.  Reginald D. Hunter was okay but it was probably the weakest and least focused set I've ever seen him do.  The smaller acts so far have been better than the headliners (Pappys and The Penny Dreadfuls... if they play the Melb Fest, you need to go.)  Not a bad day so far.  And it's only cost me sux poond.

I don't think I can go on living without Irn Bru.  I didn't understand it at first, but two cans in it seems to taste better than coffee with a more forgiving kick but minus the urgings toward blank-eyed homicide.  The ingredients seem to say it's mainly just sugar and water and citric flavouring.  No caffeine, no taurine, no nothin'.  Weird.  Maybe it's just a shitload of sugar.

Gonna miss the endless refrain of "free comedy!" a person is met with every twenty feet in this town.

I need to go back and explore Iceland.  But I also need to live in Edinburgh.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

how they ever got close enough to England with hostile intent to do any damage.

No radar then, and quieter engines than planes, so detection relied on someone physically spotting them.

Irn Bur is loaded with caffeine. Loaded. I'm told that in France it's classed as a medicinal product and can only be sold in licensed pharmacies and health food shops, along with stuff like Red Bull. Not convinced - I don't think the French would drink it!

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Weird. There's not a mention of it at all anywhere on the... oh wait there it is. As a subheading of 'flavouring'.

Right. Well. I guess I can live without it.

Where's my nurse?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I can get the uniform from somewhere... ;>

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling you'd like Edinburgh from what everyone had told me about the place.

also, a zeppelin dropped a bomb on the Victoria Embankment in 1917. The damage is still visible

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

That was a zeppelin? I always thought that was Blitz damage. Goddamn.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

it was from an airplane, but WWI rather than the Blitz.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

oops, check that. the bomb was dropped from an "Aeroplane".

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Ah. Hmm.

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Irn Bru. Secret ingredient - rust.

[thebaronmk1.livejournal.com]

You can't get Irn bru in Melbourne anymore - used to be stocked at coles. My (scottish) in-laws enquired what happened and were told that the Caffeine level exceeded that allowable for soft drinks that are not specifically calssified as 'energy drinks' so it has dissappearewd (sniff)

As for Zeppelins, in 1916 they were able to fly higher then most propellor driven aircraft and even if they were hit by the puny machine guns, the few holes did little damage. Only when the Brits invented 'incendiary bullets' became flying a Zeppelin over England very hazardous.......

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Always wondered why simple gunfire didn't pose a threat to something filled with volatile gas. Thanks. :)