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Dear You,
Not so easy to blush nowadays, at least I don't.
But you could see deep crimson creep about my face in the underground, when my cellphone started to ring. More precise: it started to moan. To be even more exact: it used Irene Adler's 'Sexy Moan' from the wonderful 'Sherlock' episode "A Scandal In Belgravia'. (Have to see crime TV for professional reasons - but 'Sherlock' is a treat).
How come?
Well - sheer stubbornness on my side. For a long time, I had Sherlock's Intro as a ringtone:
Then I asked son please to instal Irene's Moan for an incoming SMS. He loaded it down on my cellphone - but it didn't work. Suspecting that he didn't really try (for what reason ever :), I went to the O2-Shop. The young man was very eager attentive, but he could not help me either.
So I forgot about it.
Three days ago I scrolled through my cellphone - to become more able in the use of technology - 'I will conquer it', I thought. Well, I did - in a way. Set Irene's moan as ringtone.
The thing is: of course I wanted to change back. Pressed the right button, pressed OK.
Irene moans on. And on...
I blush.
Advice: If a woman of a certain age complains that she gets invisible, she should load down Irene as a ringtone. In any old crowded underground she will stand in the spotlight. Instantly.
PS: the photo above I took in Potsdam's Park Sanssouci.
Ha ha! Was the vibrator switched on as well?
ReplyDeleteMedal for the quickest comment I ever got.
DeleteCuriosity about technology won't kill the cat, but can bring on some regret.
ReplyDeleteSee my Cheshire Cat grin, Joanne...
DeleteMy high school biology teacher taught that we only have so many blushes in us. Once we use them up we no longer blush. I prefer to believe that as we age it takes a bit more to shock us enough to blush. Funny story; moan.
ReplyDeleteIf I lose my faculty of blushing, Emma --- I will buy me a pot of rouge
DeleteYou are the limit! Very funny indeed!
ReplyDeleteThe limit, Sue? "I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
DeleteI keep my eyes wide open all the time"...
I have not seen "A Scandal In Belgravia" but will definitely watch it now!
ReplyDeleteWatched it! More complex than the original "A Scandal In Bohemia" --10 years ago we sent Daughter to school in Prague and warned her to avoid the golem-- but clearly a mystery of merit. And the ring-tone was a delightful and sensuous sigh, yes a modest moan that must delight those who overhear it more than alarm them. Fun production! Thanks.
DeleteDear Geo.,
Deletethank you so much! As a real scientist you examine and look/hear for yourself, and don't believe hearsay - that's what I appreciate.
Sherlock (especially the first episodes) are really intriguing, and, as you wrote, very complex. So fast and modern - I love them.
Was your daughter for a longer time in Prague? Such a beautiful city.
And your estimate of the moan is so enjoyable - its in a way elegant, that's why I wanted it for SMS (not as ringtone).
PS: Will send further comments from Berlin, not Bohemia :)
Dear Brigitta,
DeleteI can't remember how long Daughter remained in Prague. I do remember selling our property's roadside drainage ditch to the county to finance her stay. The next year, she studied theatre design at Meyerhold's Apartment in Moscow, and the ditch proceeds still helped. I love how selling ditches can advance cultural and artistic pursuits. Daughter is based in Chicago now and makes a good living in costume design. A most energetic and admirable generation.
Dear Geo.,
Deletethat is such a gift: being able and allowed to live in different cultures, gathering many aspects from the lives there - and all made possible by the kindness of parents who are willing to even sell their (last) ditch :)
Costume design is a wonderful way to bring theory (literature) and practice together - in an artistic way, expressing one's phantasy. A calling that I admire.
Nooooooo!
ReplyDeleteBut just think of the wonderful stories told around tables in many and various parts of town that night!
Dear Pondside,
DeleteI share your opinion: it is one main function of bloggers to entertain (and sometimes even to enrich life).
Oh, that is hilarious! I don't blame you for blushing, but I think my response would have been to giggle. No laugh out loud... laud until tears squirted out of my eyes. Thanks for the first good laugh of the morning.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!
Dear Susan,
DeleteI thought you might like it - we both are always fond of a good giggle or roaring laughter, and see the funny things that life often (unwillingly) presents, aren't we?
Sherlock is better than good. It makes almost everything else on TV look lacklustre.
ReplyDeleteI think the Conan Doyle stories are fantastic, too. I particularly like the way Watson alludes to stories that he never wrote up - like the Politician, the Lighthouse-keeper and the Trained Cormorant, or the Giant Rat of Sumatra, or the colossal schemes of the Baron Maupartis or -my favourite- The Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch.
Dear Sackerson,
DeleteI am glad that you like 'Sherlock' too that much. I also like Jeremy Brett, but this tops it.
The stories you name I have read a long time ago - though I am not sure if I read them all - so I have a fine list for long autumn evenings, thank you!