tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post7693466570271371048..comments2024-03-10T00:00:31.355+00:00Comments on BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog: A SIGN FROM HEAVENBrian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-49512428297445521042009-10-24T09:59:07.431+01:002009-10-24T09:59:07.431+01:00Love the quote, SUZANNE, and yes, BOLL, dogs (and,...Love the quote, <b>SUZANNE</b>, and yes, <b>BOLL</b>, dogs (and, indeed, goats) on bikes are common Greek road hazards that make our crazy cyclists and suicidal pedestrians seem nothing more than minor irritations...Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-19627230632383089772009-10-23T20:01:29.354+01:002009-10-23T20:01:29.354+01:00Greece is the only place where I've been overt...Greece is the only place where I've been overtaken by a man on a moped carrying a dog under one arm. On Crete we came across a set of table and chairs on a pedestrian crossing and my own favourite, a couple towing their garden produce on a trailor with a goat in the trailor eating it !<br />Luski : The act of flashing your headlights constantly to warn oncoming road users of a speed trap ahead. In Greece, the oncoming road user is probably a mad motorcyclist with no helmet towing an animal but no matter, he must be warned.Boll Weavilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03858122220880954456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-56828110668626647982009-10-23T06:41:47.838+01:002009-10-23T06:41:47.838+01:00We have a saying in French about traffic lights, p...We have a saying in French about traffic lights, particularly when they're red: In Europe they are "impératif", in the Mediterranean they are "facultatif" and in North Africa they are "décoratif"!<br />kosmis: the Greek word for the faculty of doing what you like at a red lightSuzannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-88055684435739278592009-10-22T22:37:26.243+01:002009-10-22T22:37:26.243+01:00Salome would need seven of them, and they'd be...Salome would need seven of them, and they'd be veils, not boas... ;-) (Veils are less constricting than boas. Sorry. I couldn't resist. My name is SCB and I'm a bad-pun addict.)<br /><br />I saw Godspell on stage in September 1974 -- that sure takes me back!scbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048966584552769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-90599511024836603932009-10-22T19:56:44.794+01:002009-10-22T19:56:44.794+01:00EUDORA - Well, I learnt more, I think, with the he...<b>EUDORA</b> - Well, I learnt more, I think, with the heart than with the head...<br /><br /><b>SCB</b> - Great! I guess it's not Salome after all. Must have been the feather boa that confused me!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-59848093840437503652009-10-22T15:28:02.105+01:002009-10-22T15:28:02.105+01:00YouTube version of song, with feather boa, now pos...YouTube version of song, with feather boa, now posted on my blog, along with an interesting challenge from one of my blog-buddies. Enjoy!<br /><br />http://serenityathome.blogspot.com/2009/10/earworm-while-i-think.htmlscbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048966584552769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-29928377541783196002009-10-22T10:25:45.674+01:002009-10-22T10:25:45.674+01:00I see, then you have a superb religious education,...I see, then you have a superb religious education, as, I think, most of the europeans, except the "Very Catholic Spain". You now, it was a time that to read the Bible was prohibited...Matters of the history and culture...Arts and Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06747217179477869995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-79887577065071826582009-10-22T09:15:54.501+01:002009-10-22T09:15:54.501+01:00GILL e-mails the following comment...
"On K...<b>GILL</b> e-mails the following comment...<br /><br /><br />"On Kalymnos at least, it is only sensible to drive in the middle of the road. On one side there are falling rocks, on the other a long drop to the sea!"<br /><br /><br />That's true, Gill, except when the middle of the road is full of goats!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-29288177564275517342009-10-22T09:14:12.413+01:002009-10-22T09:14:12.413+01:00SCB - Ah, Godspell, I remember sitting in the thea...<b>SCB</b> - Ah, <i>Godspell</i>, I remember sitting in the theatre watching the show when one of the characters - Salome, perhaps? - came down into the audience with a feather boa and sat on my lap! As a just-out-of-teens-ager, it was a toe-curling moment!<br /><br /><b>EUDORA</b> - All those verses I learned by rote in Sunday School still come back to me, along with entire hymns and choruses complete with actions.<br /><br /><b>SHEILA</b> - <i>We</i> have freeways, the <i>Greeks</i> (in fact, most Mediterranean people) have free-for-all-ways!<br /><br /><b>SHARON M</b> - Yep! Camera-ready Sibley, they call me!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-63686392155622246142009-10-22T08:57:52.945+01:002009-10-22T08:57:52.945+01:00Yes, you have an extraordinary mind, Brian - and f...Yes, you have an extraordinary mind, Brian - and fortunately, you always seem to have a camera on you too!SharonMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369769107190148944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-64033636867541693762009-10-22T08:53:12.237+01:002009-10-22T08:53:12.237+01:00Thanks, scb, I've got that tune running throug...Thanks, scb, I've got that tune running through my head now!! <br /><br />In Greece one has not only to worry about driving, but also about walking in traffic free zones: signs that say No Vehicles don't apply to speeding motorbikes, small three wheelers or any other motorised vehicle that can squeeze through.Sheilanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-39019078779206892422009-10-22T07:20:42.300+01:002009-10-22T07:20:42.300+01:00Oh, Brian, you see a traffic sign and then you rem...Oh, Brian, you see a traffic sign and then you remember the Bible, the book of Ezequiel.... is awesome.Arts and Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06747217179477869995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-44756528596322984422009-10-22T03:47:12.557+01:002009-10-22T03:47:12.557+01:00The motto of my brain has long been "a song f...The motto of my brain has long been "a song for everything, and everything with a song", so the little DJ in my brain just started playing "Turn back o man forswear thy foolish ways" -- the raunchy sounding version from <i>Godspell</i>.<br /><br />Love this post! (Blog post, sign post, whichever...) ;-)<br /><br />DROTOMB -- where one ends up if one does not pay attention when driving in Greece. (as I've seen elsewhere, "either one is quick or one is dead")scbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048966584552769915noreply@blogger.com