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Thursday September 21, 2006

Ha Ha

I hope you find this funny, Tim did when I told him this story..

While standing out in the sun waiting for the wedding photos to be taken there were some children near me by a sunken barrier between the hotel garden and a field. One of the children pointed to the barrier and said "do you know what that is?" He proudly announced to them all - quite correctly "It is a Haha". A short period of silence followed and then the attention focused on the cows in the field. One child said "that cow is much bigger than the others and its udders are different"

The cow in question was in fact a bull and in front of the children and the wedding party it took an interest in one of his wives rear end - sniffing it. I thought "please do nothing else, we don't want any funny business going on now please". Luckily the bull decided that the green grass was more interesting and left his other exploits for another day. As Tim said the idea of the Bull's antics in the field accidently getting on the wedding photos was just to terrible to contemplate..

( Sep 21 2006, 12:00:04 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]

Comments:

There's a good one at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park which has a bridge across it - the Ha Ha Bridge (of course) - the sides of the bridge are made of thick steel sheet into which "HAHAHAHAHAHA" has been cut, one side in 'positive' (letters left as metal) and the other in 'negative' (letters cut away). And because the letters H and A are symmetrical it reads correctly from any direction. Rather clever I thought...

Posted by Alan Burlison on September 21, 2006 at 02:29 AM PDT #

Excellent shot -thanks!

Posted by Paul Humphreys on September 21, 2006 at 06:04 AM PDT #