December 01, 2006

• There used to be one in Peterborough hospital when I were a lad, and I and my sister had great fun on it (especially going over the top). You don't really need to be that agile - it's hardly more challenging than stepping on to an escalator.
• When you build koko the house of her dreams, it shall be fitted with pneumatic tubes, a paternoster, and a dumbwaiter. What about the secret passageway?! Also a tower with the squiggly thing on top of castle towers that looks like this _|-|_|-|_ What's that called?
• I was just wondering whom to nominate as the dumb waiter...
• Crennelations. 1. Pie Jesu Domine. Dona eis requiem. *whack* 2. Very cool indeed; looks like endless possibilities for pranks there. A severed head placed just so....
• There was one at Essex University library when I was there. Great fun. I remember one at the convalescent home my grandad was in.
• Ooooooooh! Kind of like a Ferris Wheel, or a vertical revolving door. Surely the saferty issues could be resolved with the addition of automatic doors that only open when it's safe to go in? I guess that doesn't allow for people who need to take a long time to get in or out.
• The Granada TV Rental office building in Bedford had them as well. It was the best thing about an otherwise crap job.
• When you build koko the house of her dreams Wot, another one?? *grumbles, marches off*
• Paternoster, not to be confused with Paternite... Stephen Paternite.
• Roryk, the lift is still there. It was great fun... for the first few days. Then it became infected with the dullness of its surroundings.
• What about the secret passageway?! Also a tower with the squiggly thing on top of castle towers that looks like this _|-|_|-|_ What's that called? Turrets? Tourettes? Yes please. Also a widow's walk. And a moat. Except instead of alligators in the moat it should be killer bees. I don't know how you'd keep killer bees in a moat. You're the contractor, that's your problem.
• Cren-nel-la-tions. Stop that whispering in the back and pay attention, Miz K!
• Battlements? As for the bees, a fine self-healing mesh should do the trick. The mesh holds the bees in place, simultaneously angering them. An attacker falls through, and the mesh then self-heals, to wait for the next unfortunate.
• For the Koko Kontractor, here's a handy price list that is enhanced by its inability to render properly in Firefox.
• you definitely need one of those secret passageways that is entered thru the bookshelf/secret door. you have to touch the booby on the naked lady statute to trigger it, which always causes Shaggy to giggle, and Velma to look cross.
• Friend of mine actually has a bookcase/secret door that he built himself, to hid his office and its massive amounts of computer equipment. I swear to Mothra... coolest thing EVA. But, alas, no boobies.
• MonkeyFilter: coolest thing EVA. But, alas, no boobies *sigh*
• Paternosters make defenestration easy. I am probably the first person to ever make that sentence. *Does a jig*
• Roryk, the lift is still there. It was great fun... for the first few days. Then it became infected with the dullness of its surroundings. Students still living in those awful tower blocks? I've a vivid memory of sitting in the library one summer's afternoon and watching a swan launch a completely unprovoked attack on some hapless sunbather who was lying down near the pond. Also, the ducks who would mug people coming out of the shop on the square. Wivenhoe park used to be pretty, though.
• Almost went to Essex. Huh.
• My dear Koko, every time someone reminds you of something, that in-turn reminds me of another thing (somewhat "paternostic," no?). So you see, I cannot think of Koko without thinking of that zany band of brothers - the Marx Bros. Which leads me to ponder the paternoster. And what a fine implement it would have been in one of their movies. I can see Harpo going around and around... grabbing toupees, frocks and handbags to-and-fro. Groucho would surely be off-and-on at various floors, sweet-talking a trio of babes in different locations. And in the end, everyone is captured by the paternoster and tossed into a jumbled heap of twisting arms and legs. Yes, I see it. Grand! Say, have I met you before? Tootsy-fruitsy!
• And a viaduct. And also a safe room, so I can pretend I'm Jody Foster!
• And crennelations.
• Must be a University thing Newcastle Uni had one too in ????? tower where my bloody awful stats lectures were. And there's probably one in Birmingham University as well because David Lodge wrote a staggeringly funny episode about a chase in a paternoster in one of his Rummidge novels - sadly I can't remember which.
• Also, some of those thing. What do you call them? The things with the thing.
• I vould like to return ziss crennelation, it is scratched.
• I saw one once, when i was very young, at an auto garage that was considerably scaled down from the ones shown here...it was little more than a foot-wide belt with steps the size of a sheet of paper (8.5x11 or a4 ish) and handles like you'ld see on a drawer. it disappeared through a startlingly small hole in the ceiling (mind your arms) to the parts warehouse on the 2nd floor, where the steps would flip over for the downward journey. up and over! It was the kind of thing designed to occupy the dreams of children as it A) looked extremely fun and B) looked extremely dangerous. Now that i'm thinking about it, it occurs to me that I have an attic thats difficult to get into (table+ladder on table+indiana jones maneuvers)...this might be perfect...thanx koko!
• Isn't a crennelation what you use under a skirt to make it flouncier?
• thats a crinoline...btw, upside-down crennelations of the greek style are called dentals.
• Brie, Roquefort, Pont-l'Évêque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carre-de-L'Est, Bresse-Bleu, Boursin?
• Upside-down crinolines are trouble, spelled with a T.
• And a murphy bed!!
• And a manlift!
• Think it was Changing Places, diskdotcom.
• Great gif!
• If your employees must travel vertically in the routine performance of their duties...
• Why's it gotta be a man lift. Why can't it be a human lift? Personally I would rather do without the motors, so I could scale it like ..... well, a monkey.
• Speaking of which, I would even work at Fox News if they had bars in the ceiling, so I could brachiate down the hallway.
• I thought a Paternoster Lift would be when you're working out at the gym and praying that the barbel won't come crashing down on your noggin.
• So then a crennelation is one of those cereals made out of oats and nuts and stuff?
• Naw, Lara, you're thinking of gorgonzola.
• don't be ugly to the gorgons and act like Perseus who whacked Medusa's head off and turned it into a purse (and what's worse, 'twas not a sporran but a man-purse! quite enough to put to an end to any verse!) don't abuse the harpies! they do the best they can to classically pollute the food of every brute including adventurous Man
• how about a small cannon to mark the hour like the old captain guy in Mary Poppins? oh and who can forget a Lazy Susan? OH OH and those cross shaped slits in the stone wall where you shoot arrows at invaders? and just for the hell of it, can we also have a little train track that goes around the room just below the ceiling? I saw that in a restaurant. mesmerizing...
• as long as we are talking about dream houses, i am actually building myself a small studio/tearoom/clubhouse/fort/man-cave in my backyard. I have leftover lumber and whatnot from extending the deck and building a storage closet, so I began building last week. I don't think it will be big enough for a full sized paternoster but perhaps a small one for um, you know, um, fun or something.
• Perhaps this style? It's just down the street or me.
• /oops, from.