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Blair press conference: he's thanking John Howard for working with Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq. No mention yet of the fact that these incidents form a Christian cross on the map of London.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

is this the press conference? if so, it's LAME. australia? who cares! (ps: i want kit kat!)

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Judging from Blair's 'speech' he seems not terribly bothered about todays events.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

my stomach's stood down from amber alert now. and cute girl loves me cos she hasn't had any lunch.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Blair press conference: he's thanking John Howard for working with Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq. No mention yet of the fact that these incidents form a Christian cross on the map of London.

Thank you Dan Brown.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"they just had pictures on the news of the guy with his shirt stripped
open and a load of police with submachine guns pointing at him just
outside downing street."

missive from the missus.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

No mention yet of the fact that these incidents form a Christian cross on the map of London.

I think it's pretty irrelevant given how Christians, Muslims, Jews and aetheists alike all died in the attacks a fortnight ago.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

oval, shepherds bush, warren st and hackney don't make a great cross, do they?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I think it's pretty irrelevant given that any four points are likely to make some kind of cross!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

so no groups are rushing to claim responsibility for this then?
"we are the Inept Liberation Xecutionorz!"

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

my mom was on a 30 bus at warren st as they were evacuating. she got off, freaked slightly at the sight of people stampeding, and went for gnocci and wine. i finally convinced her to leave the area to go to her flat in case she was cordoned in or some such.

she said it was very scary to be there. but then again, she was probably drunk when she told me that, so who knows.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I think it's pretty irrelevant given how Christians, Muslims, Jews and aetheists alike all died in the attacks a fortnight ago.

It may be irrelevant in your mind, but it's not at all irrelevant in the minds of the people doing it.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Next you'll be trying to tell me that all the Hawksmoor churches in London form a pentagram shape or something!

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Splitters!

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

(the incidents DON'T form a cross really, they form a T)

(cf borges "death and the compass") (for a totally irrelevant "clue")

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

so no groups are rushing to claim responsibility for this then?
"we are the Inept Liberation Xecutionorz!"

oh fuck. it's going to be Fathers For Justice, isn't it?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Spookily, all the Hawksmoore churches in London are fronted by grassy knolls.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

i still blame dom joly

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

God bless incompetence: I heard something had happened when I came in to work this morning, and I was half-ready to just go right back home and sit around feeling terrible for all of you. This thread's a relief, compared to what I was imagining.

Take care, everyone.

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

or even "Hawksmoor"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

xx-post

The bombers of two weeks ago intended to make a cross, but failed due to the Northern Line being closed. This looks like another botched attempt. Here's hoping it's not a case of third time lucky.

― bg (creamolafoam), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I think the Star of David Pub Crawl may have given them the idea.

Hang on, four things always make a cross, and a square. And the Thames looks like the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Ken, please take a picture of the cute girl with your camera phone. Now is your chance.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

(Might be a different kind of cross: Iron cross, for instance.)

(xpost)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

oh fuck. it's going to be Fathers For Justice, isn't it?

look out for a man dressed as the Green Goblin with wires protruding from his ass?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

tottenham court road update: here come the hare krishnas!

― Pete W (peterw), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

due to the comparative lack of tube south of the river they are never going to make an ideal cross.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

The Parliament Street (Whitehall) entrance to my office has just been shut on the orders of the police. More generally, we're being told to stay put unless it is essential we leave the building. Lots of sirens.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Mark, I first thought of the arts group that was based on COpenhagen BRussels Amsterstam, I think. Then I thought that GI Joe or some such fought C.O.B.R.A., but I might be wrong, and in any case can't recall what it stood for.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Met Police sez: Situation Under Control

whatever the fuck that means

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

@text:Mr Blair, speaking in No 10 alongside Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who was in London for routine talks, said: "I heard about this as I was in the middle of the lunch meeting.
"I have then chaired the Cobra meeting at 2.30pm.
"I have just spoken to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and his hope is that things can get back to normal as soon as quickly as possible.
"We can't minimise incidents such as these, all I would like to say is this -we know why these things are done, to frighten people and make them anxious and worried.
"Fortunately in this instance there appears to have been no casualties. We have just got to react calmly."
The Prime Minister said he would be returning to his schedule of meetings as Sir Ian and the Security Services are now fairly clear as to what had happened.
"We hope that we can get the rest of the transport system back up and running again as soon as possible," he said.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Four things not making a cross:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/694/fourthingsnotmakingacross9xl.jpg

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

In the States, COBRA it is a kind of insurance you can pay for after you lose or quit your job - Collection Of Benefits R-something A-something, I think.

(cf borges "death and the compass") (for a totally irrelevant "clue")
Yeah, I keep thinking about that, that these guys have been scooped by a Rabbinical detective story!

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Next week I full intend to leave fairy cakes around the tube network in the shape of a lazy cat:

http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/images/lazy_cat_back2.gif

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Four things not making a square:

http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/4200/fourthingsnotmakingasquare9vh.jpg

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Hey, how did you do that?!

That originally referred to four things not making a cross, but that has been usurped by Jerry The Nipper's artistic genius.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Those are the same four things, you just coloured them in differently.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

But they still don't make a square. The red ones kind of make a twisted cross, so I guess there's a payoff somewhere.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, if the oval were the symbol of a major world religion, the symbol of "crusades" which the fundamentalists responsible for these incidents think it's in their interests to rekindle, I would have said the shape was an oval. Let's not deliberately read this message against the grain, though. The "four points, east north west and south" pattern has repeated each time and been mentioned in the responsibility claims. Tony Blair has every interest in ignoring that message; we don't.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Actually I tried to do the cross thing, and the angles are a bit wonky, line from Warren Street to Oval is a bit more slanted from the perpendicular than the Bethnal Green/Shepherd's Bush one. Also it would be a Cristian Cross on its side too.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

G.I. Joe's COBRA not an acronym, just capitalised for effect, according to Ian Blair.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/fourthingstmakingacross9xl.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

i suppose you'd really need 5 things to make a cross. otherwise it could be mis-interpreted, as a kite, for example.

― bg (creamolafoam), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

momus:

1. shut up

2. see 1

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Continuation of Benefits

I've always suspected the acronym is cleverly fashioned to be the imperative of the Spanish verb cobrar- to collect (money owed to you).

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

PJ if you follow JTN's image to the site where it came from, you will find an assortment of animals 'see' in the tube network.

Momus should do the horoscopes in The Mirror. In fact, if you grew your hair a little you could easily pass for Justin Tope.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

3. invesigate the involvement of sir william gull in this

― grosvenor lucrece, Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

rjg has actually revealed the four points to form the shape of a HORRIBLE DOG

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Depends whether you use a tube map or a 'real' map too. And 4 points of the compass is also a pretty standard reference. I don't think it's really an oval, except there was an incident at Oval so maybe its not so tenuous after all!!!1!

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

It was actually supposed to be in the shape of a "Two Headed Dog," protesting the gross indifference shown on Roky Erikson's birthday last Thursday.

Death and the Compass

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I do apologize for interrupting the Kit Kat jokes. Carry On ILX.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

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