He's especially good at expectorating!

[andygates]

Nobody else remembers that song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, do they?  Just me?  Good, good.

I have discovered how to get a clear lane at a crowded pool at lunchtime: get a cold; recover apart from a pound of lungbutter; take a strong expectorant cough medicine; swim.  Every hundred metres or so, enough gack becomes sufficinetly loosened that you have to stop to hack and gark for a moment.  After a few repetitions of this performance, the medium lane is empty, the slow lane is crammed and the fast lane has near-Parisian traffic problems.  Heh.

Found a new sweet spot today, synchronising the hip roll with the recovery arm's lift from the water.  All very rolly.  I think its a sustainable, hit-your-rhythm thing, but since my secret identity is Captain Catarrh, I can't confirm that just yet.

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"Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

He's especially good at expectorating!
Nobody else remembers that song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, do they? Just me?

Indeed -- for behold, the rest of us remember it from "Beauty and the Beast."

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Smartarse :)

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's true. But "Beauty and the Beast" is actually one of my favorite Disney flicks. Own the soundtrack and everything. Played the song at our wedding (the original Angela Lansbury version, not the godawful Peabo/Celine R&B monstrosity).

And now you can make fun of me, as payback for me poking at you.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I would do, had we not played the Kylie/Nick Cave duet at our wedding.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

YOU PLAYED "Where the Wild Roses Grow" at your wedding? That's FAB!!!

Note: You probably knew this, but I just learned there's a Nick Cave/Kylie/Shane McGowan song. Huh. Too bad Kirsty MacColl couldn't be around to join in the fun on that one.

How long have you been married?

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[maythen-apple.livejournal.com]

Played it at my wedding too. How can you not? Even the freaks need love.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

I hate that I don't get LJ comments emailed to me when it's not made in my journal. I didn't see this until today- almost a month later!

I think the freaks not only need love, they give it better than non-freaks in many ways.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what we all thought when we first saw The Crow with its happy loved-up freak couple before it All Went Bad, eh? "See!" we ranted, "Goths aren't morbid! We just wanna get married on Halloween in matching coffins 'cos it's wuvly, isn't it, punkin..?"

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

My laptop thanks me for the almost part of, "I almost shot coffee all over the screen when I read this."

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

"Almost" is better than a silicone keyboard protector.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank goodness, I thought it was just me!

There are only a few Disney films that I know all the lyrics to, however, so I was second-guessing myself.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Beat me to the punch, dang it.

My favorite Disney song evar, btw.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

...likes to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston!"

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It was three or four years, five years ago. But it was a great party :)

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

I came looking at your old entries because I felt I might have stuck my foot in my mouth. Basically, a memory of your cat-bringing-deadthings entry having the words "bachelor flat" in it collided with what I'd asked you here, and I suddenly felt terrible.

Also, I didn't see this reply when you made it, and just found it now.

The point, though, is that I'm sorry if I hit a sensitive spot. I'm not certain, either, that I did, but if "bachelor flat" means you're not married any longer, I'm sorry about that, too, no matter why.

Probably best to shut up now, before I end up with my toes down my throat. Seems to be my greatest talent.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[andygates.livejournal.com]

You carry on gargling :) No harm, no foul.

Re: "Ptui! Ten points for Gaston!"

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Always good to have my gargling tolerated. :)

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

lungbutter

Almost hacked some up because I laughed so hard at this term. Never heard it before- yours? Like it!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

An obvious extension of boy butter. Which you probably don't want to go too close to ;)

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

"Boy butter" sounds like a very sustainable, hit-your-rhythm thing, Captain Catarrh. ;)

NOT WORK SAFE

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

http://www.boybutterlubes.com/

Re: NOT WORK SAFE

[n-decisive.livejournal.com]

Umm, ahem, while not quite what I was thinking of, I'd say that the actual product and my perception of what "boy butter" was were both NWS. ;)

Thank you for the link! :)

Also? Been adoring your icon each time I see it.

Re: NOT WORK SAFE

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Also? Been adoring your icon each time I see it.

Why thank you. I made it myself.

Back on topic

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I was quite interested when I got the new Swimshop catalogue and saw this. I'm contemplating it. Fist gloves first, though.

I'm sure this is just sheer sadism.

Re: Back on topic

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

But not as sadistic as this!

Dear gods! What's wrong with these people?

Re: Back on topic

[andygates.livejournal.com]

They're making their crust flogging training gadgets to rich bored wannabe athletes? That's pretty sick. It's like a Powerbreathe in a survival situation!

Incidentally the wisdom from a couple of pretty serious swimmers here is don't bother with drag stuff, just swim in a T-shirt and some baggy board shorts. Just as draggy and another good use of old tees.

Fist gloves... yeah, might get those. I need more trunks and the rubber on my goggle-straps is starting to rot.

Re: Back on topic

[(Anonymous)]

I only swim for Work or recreation. But that's a sick little gadget. And I could instantly think of so many twisted uses. Thank you. It went well with my morning coffee.