The “pissed as newts” tour
Meet at the Eros statue in London at 1 p.m. on Friday to go on the “pissed as newts” tour. I love how they use language over here, by the way. While walking around Cardiff yesterday I realized where a lot of those weird Web 2.0 names must have come from: Wales. The Welch language seems to be missing a few vowels. I should take a picture of a sign to show you what I mean.
Anyway, we won’t just visit pubs. Hopefully the locals will show us around some other fun things in London too, so if you’re not into getting “pissed like newts” please come along too. I promise not to get too out of control. After all, Maryam’s coming along and will slap me upside the head if I drink too much.
On other news, we’re off to London today. I just read all my feeds and put up a few dozen new items on my link blog. There’s lots of good blogging going on lately.
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November 28th, 2006 at 6:51 am
Hey, Anybody else going to the UK Firefox 2 Launch & Birthday Party?
http://www.firefoxparty.com/parties/view/13
November 28th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Darren: we are. That’s part of the “Pissed as Newts” tour. :-)
November 28th, 2006 at 7:17 am
Here’s a good example of a Welsh sign - http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/52463/2/istockphoto_52463_welsh_sign.jpg
Have a safe journey and come visit again soon.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:20 am
For those who don’t know where the Eros Statue is, here’s how you get there. Go to Picadilly Circus on the tube or bus. Then look for this thing:
http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/gallery/leicester-square-piccadilly-circus/eros.htm
Can’t miss it. I certainly won’t be.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Tom, looking forward to seeing you.
Robert, yeah, that’s the kind of sign I was thinking of. Thanks! I hope to be back. Maryam’s brother lives in Newport, so it wouldn’t surprise me to be a regular visitor of Wales.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Welsh has seven vowels: a,e,i,o,u,w and y, so words full of ‘w’s and ‘y’s aren’t actually lacking in vowels even though they may appear so to English speakers.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:16 am
eifion: thanks, didn’t know that.
Actually, when I was talking with the guy who named Wifi, he said his firm keeps dictionaries of a ton of different languages. Often times they’ll find a good name from another language.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Oh a better landmark to meet at Hyde park being a bit big.
Robert just rember the traffic is on the other side of the road and the double deckers don’t take no prisoners.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:56 am
Don’t forget that the world’s longest domain name is Welsh: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com.
Dave Edwards.Log Buffer
November 28th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Hi there,
Just so you know, it’s not actually Eros that statue, but try asking for it by it’s real name (Agape I think) and you’ll never find it.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
visit Tate Modern and try the big slides !
November 28th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[...] Although… given that they’re meeting at 1pm, and most of us (surely) have to work at least a little later than that… by the time we were able to get stalky, they’d probably be onto about the 4th pub, which would mean both that we’d have to call Hugh to see where they were (which would kind of blow our cover), and that the conversation would surely be interesting! [...]
November 28th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
@Nick: Let’s check wikipedia! ;)
Although known as the Statue of Eros, the figure itself is actually of the Angel of Christian Charity. When changing the name from the Shaftesbury Monument, the childlike statue complete with bow was mistaken for the Greek god of love, and since then the name has stuck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28Statue%29
November 29th, 2006 at 1:13 am
s/Welch/Welsh/
Welch means something else entirely…
November 29th, 2006 at 3:08 am
[...] Going to any conferences soon? I am sharpening my pencils for a trip to Online Information 2006 tomorrow followed by a bit of Word of Mouth Communications on Friday, perhaps seguing into Robert Scoble’s “pissed as newts” session. [...]
November 30th, 2006 at 5:00 am
[...] Robert arrived with his wife Maryam freshish from a busy day in London and much to my surprise we had a talk from Maryam rather than Robert. She was fantastic and talked with passion and without prompts about her family journey in the blogosphere and the impact it had on people’s lives. I’m hoping Ian captured the video of it and publishes. Summary is that Robert now takes out the trash, Maryam now blogs and it’s changed their lives. Oh and they brought some brown girls only PodTech t-shirts. Zune brown almost! [...]
November 30th, 2006 at 10:33 am
[...] Pissed as newts [...]
December 1st, 2006 at 7:16 am
[...] The Hugh McLeod/Robert Scoble pub crawl was just getting going as I snapped Mr McLeod stepping out of a very smokey pub for a breath of air. [...]