A London souvenir: a little bit of home to take away
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Asked by Beagleskin 11 months ago for 10 kudos
Best answer by babybat
Last active 11 months ago
66 responses
So I left the chewing gum-speckled streets of London 
for the dog-poo smeared streets of Antibes 
.
And lovely as all this wine, cheese (my god the cheese, they have three aisles of it in the hypermarket), and sunshine is, I am missing my grimy, damp, and communter-ridden (it’s a new word I am trying out) city.
Every time I visit a new place, on this tiny planet we call oirth, I bring a precious thing back to remind me of better, more mosquito-ridden times. Rather like a modern day Indiana Jones if he were female, had curly hair, was English, and bought most of his treasures rather than stealing them from ancient, angry tribes (i.e. in no way at all like Indiana Jones).
Think dragon kite from Bali, chunk of quartz from New Zealand glacier, real live geisha locked in my basement from Japan, tacky Empire State snowglobe from New York, blah blah blah
So for ten shiny kudos I want the best suggestion for a London souvenir that I can bring back to Antibes. To remind me of home, the drunken fools I pine for, and the city that sleeps at about 12:30 or is forced to brave a night bus.
Over to you, you lucky London-dwelling lovelies.
66 responses
me :-)
Posted 11 months ago by wickedlywitchy
A Fortnum and Mason Cheese Larder
Comes with 4 cheeses. Two of which are French, but what the hey.
Posted 11 months ago by iSleepDiagonal
premium onlineCobo.
Posted 11 months ago by BraveNewMalden
premiumFunny, funny, funny people.
Are ten kudos not enough to tempt you?
I can bring you back a nice horse burger when I am next back if you like.
Posted 11 months ago by Beagleskin
What says london to you?
How about one of those black and white pictures with a red bus etc that seems to be around at the moment – some of those are rather good (rest are tacky turist traps). One that sums up the cold, bleakness and shere wonder that is london.
Amykate – who can’t spell today
Posted 11 months ago by Amykate
premiumBMN – not sure what to make of that..
I’d love to go somewhere warm and out of this damp dismal weather.
Posted 11 months ago by cobo04
Why do people keep saying BMN in threads I post in….? What does it mean?
A
Posted 11 months ago by Amykate
Keep it under your hat, BNM Amykate, but I think you have a doppelganger. I had one once, but it got way too confusing. I started growing my sideburns really long and everything…
Beagle…how about a stab wound?
Posted 11 months ago by Juvey
How ‘bout a real live Womble?
Posted 11 months ago by purpaboo
premiumWhat is a BNM?
Juvey, are you threatening me?
Purpaboo, that womble appears to have no eyes. I fear him.
Posted 11 months ago by Beagleskin
i wanna womble
Posted 11 months ago by wickedlywitchy
Mais non, mon cherie! Stabbings are like the new toy dog bags, they’re all the rage! Or was that caused by rage? Hmmm…
In America they a B M is a bowel movement. Insert word here for hilarious gag with an “N”...
Posted 11 months ago by Juvey
Actually, what you really want is one of these… 
One should really be quite easy to get, since they’re not supposed to move, right? So you could just wander up to one, slip off the chinstrap and away you go! And then you could change your name to Bearskin. I’ve always thought that skinning a beagle was rather cruel…
Posted 11 months ago by Juvey tipped with 1K
premiumSo, you’re offering to stab me?
backs away slowly, still smiling but reaching for weaponry
If you steal me a busby I’ll give you every kudo I have. And I’ll visit you in prison and bring you a file with a cake in it. Mmm freshly baked file.
Posted 11 months ago by Beagleskin
Actually that womble is very tall.
And chubby.
Posted 11 months ago by purpaboo
I’d prefer a cake with a bottle of habanero tabasco in it…
Unsheathes weapon…
Posted 11 months ago by Juvey
premiumA BNM – that be Mr BraveNewMalden – see yet another TLA hits the site.
Posted 11 months ago by cobo04
Oh my God. That poor, poor womble…it looks like he’s got a tuba…
Posted 11 months ago by Juvey
premiumGet me the hat, Muppet, and you can have what you like tobasco, fromage, the skin of beagles…
And put that away, this is a family thread.
knits weapon cover
You misdiagnosed too. That womble clearly has tuba-culosis.
Posted 11 months ago by Beagleskin
Beagle, give BNM his joke book back.
Posted 11 months ago by iSleepDiagonal tipped with 1K
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