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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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.