Thursday, 21 October 2010

Hold the snide.

I feel this blog has got a little sneery lately, so here's something I saw in Edinburgh that I really liked. It made me both smile and admire everyone involved - the person who wrote it, and the people who did what they did when they read it. Click for a bigger version, if it's too small to read. 


37 comments:

  1. SebiMeyer7:16 pm

    I agree, that is totally awesome.

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  3. On behalf of the world at large, thanks to you and RLS. That made my day.

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  4. I had assumed an elephant would be involved when I saw your tweet about your favourite thing anyone's put on a brass plaque. No disrespect to the majestic pachyderm, but this was even better.

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  5. I would add to Debbie Cowens' comment that if you DO wish to see a brass plaque involving an elephant St Mary's Church in Stansted Mountfitchet has a memorial at the back of the church to a man who was crushed by an elephant while out hunting.
    In some ways you can't help but sympathise with the elephant...

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  7. Hopeful and heartwarming, isn't it! Thanks for sharing. I was in Edinburgh this summer, had I'd know this gem was there I would have visited it myself.

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  8. Thats one of the things I love about Edinburgh, its full of old things like that.

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  10. I'll admit the fun snarky comments are part of what caught my attention and got me reading your blog, but warm fuzzies are also good.

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  14. Where is that plaque located, do you remember? I work in Edinburgh and am a big fan of RSL but I've never seen it. Is it near the writer's museum perchance? Anyhoo, I agree it is very sweet.

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  15. ... Re-reading my post it sounds a little accusatory - I don't mean to imply that I doubt your veracity. That I believe you have fabricated this plaque in some way. I just ask out of interest because I'd like to see it myself :-)

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  20. Anonymous1:26 pm

    Brilliant! :0)

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  21. Zceepy - Wow. That is almost worth going to Stansted Mountfitchet to see. Almost.

    Jazzbaby3 - I think it's on Drummond Street, on the corner where Nicholson Street meets South Bridge. Somewhere near there, anyway.

    William Prescott - Although I know you are just an automated spambot, I find your message strangely moving. Like you're a superhero, just for writers. I wish you existed.

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  22. Zceepy - Wow. That is almost worth going to Stansted Mountfitchet to see. Almost.

    Jazzbaby3 - I think it's on Drummond Street, on the corner where Nicholson Street meets South Bridge. Somewhere near there, anyway.

    William Prescott - Although I know you are just an automated spambot, I find your message strangely moving. Like you're a superhero, just for writers. I wish you existed.

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  23. One of the wonders of the internet is finding random gems months after they were posted. That plaque is one such gem. Made my evening. (I have a very limited social life.)

    Cheers for that. :)

    (I mean cheers for the post, not for limiting my social life and... oh god, I think I'll just go away now.)

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  24. Anonymous3:13 pm

    Needed that :)

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  25. Anonymous4:53 am

    Oh, how nice! I needed that, too. :)

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