Andrew Dean wrote:
oh, bloke in comic shop on monday after spotting my badge: "is that your dog?". what do you say? do you stand there for 10 minutes explaining belle and sebastian and dog on wheels or what?
my badge stories: the Patch one; Clare in my classroom just before the end of the summer, i'm wearing my patch badge and she goes 'nice badge, what's it all about?' and i tell her the story of how it's a belle and sebastian badge (she knew about them, all my students knew about them... i wouldn't shut up about them) and how this dog is called Patch and this is the one that the actual owner of Patch sent to me. Clare says 'do you have any spares?' and i say oh dear i just mailed my spare to Madame Cholet in America. Mentioning people you know in the americas is always a good way to impress the kids :-) And then as luck would have it Jon sent me another spare in the mail just a few days later so i gave it to Clare, which is how she came to have a Patch badge. the enamel one (pt1): in the Boston tea Party coffee shop, ordering a latte and a flapjack and the guy is looking at my jacket intently and points to my badge and goes 'wasn't that a tv show!?' and i say yeah, so he goes 'i remember that!!' dead happy. So i say now it's a Pop Group of the highest calibre, and he goes 'i'll have to look out for them then!' i go, you'd be making a good move and then pay for my latte and flapjack. the enamel one (pt2): Becky in my classroom just after we have come back, and i'm wearing one of my enamel badges on my jacket lapel and she goes 'nice badge, can i have one?' I say maybe, and she says 'Brown is the in colour' and i go 'belle & sebastian are a band' and she goes can you do me a tape then too?' and i go okay. Becky now wears her Belle & Sebastian badge in the knowledge that brown is the fashionable colour and that belle & sebastian are a wonderful Pop group. Several other students have now harassed me for badges, and David says Thank You because they can sell more. ON which matter, David, if you've read this far, um, did you mail those badges, and did you mail that second tape??? i've still not got anything and i'm sad. (except i'm not because i got nice mail today from nice people and i'm playing 'Before Hollywood' and feeling all.... oooh, you know.) the dukeTangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------