Something momentous...

[caddyman]

I don't know what, but something momentous has happened somewhere recently. It may be that we will never know, for the event has caused reality to slip a groove and we are, for the time being at least, in a slightly different continuum to that we inhabited yesterday.

I am indebted to the Lord of All String for digging up this snippet, which outlines a proposal to recommence airship production in Hertfordshire.

It is a known fact¹ that airships only appear at times of great stress to reality, presaging or reacting to great disturbances in the fabric of space and time (viz the 1930s: full of airships and sandwiched neatly in the advertising break between parts one and two of the World War².

I have posted this here as the redoubtable mr_h_r_hughes locks his journal. I would be grateful for any reports from around the world that may help me pin down the reason for the reappearance of the airship.

¹Also an un-provably known fact, so don't ask me to prove it.

²There are small airships that appear spontaneously to witness the distortion of reality at major sporting events too, when something completely unlikely happens, such as Cleveland making the Superbowl, or Chelsea winning the European Cup.

Comments

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

It is a known fact¹ that airships only appear at times of great stress to reality
Well indeed, who can forget the horror of 'View to a Kill'.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

'View to a Kill' *shudder*

Even airships and Roger Moore's eyebrows couldn't save that film.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

But you do have Walken's hair as a mitigating factor.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Don't mention Walken to me, I often use VTAK as one the witnesses for the prosecution in my assertion that Christopher Walken while a giggle to watch is a *massively* overrated actor who has made about 4 good films in his career.

Contraversial, but I stand by it.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Well, it certainly isn't a highlight in his career.

I have to say that I tend to enjoy the majority of his stuff though.
So, what do you see as the four films that make it?

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Don't thank me, thank the hideous chest infection that meant instead of lying in bed early this morning I was up watching the early news (and coughing my lungs up into a tissue, sprawled on the sofa like a latter day Byron or Shelley, only without the frock coats or shagging)

[pauln.livejournal.com]

*ahem* That would be Bedfordshire - the hangars are just down the road from us.

I find it hard to believe that "the local authorities are on board". The County Council practice the worst sort of nimbyism, the Borough isn't a great deal better (despite the best efforts of a decent independent Mayor) and of course if one of them backs the projects the other will oppose it on principle.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I think that it's the kind of 'big'tech-based but environmentally not too dodgy project that councils like to get involved with at the mo, plus it's seemed for sometime that various local bigwigs have wanted to do something with the Cardington hangars for sometime as they are something of a landmark and they want to make use of that (Bedford doesn't have many landmarks)

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Fair points.

There's a little bit of me wondering whether it's hoax or wishful thinking by a local paper on the anniversary of the R101 disaster. I've not seen the story anywhere else.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Well it was knocking around a few years ago but the company has supposedly got more funding. The report on the BBC local news this morning actually had film of the prototype so it would seem that they have done at least some work on a prototype. might be worth watching the local news tonight ?

[pauln.livejournal.com]

This bunch? (curse my tryping silks)

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

This may give rise to 'Airship envy' .... Neighbouring Local Authorities priding themselves of the size of their huge sausage shaped airships.

I like airships.

However, it was always narked that the scale of the Zeppelin in the Rocketeer changes it's ludicrous scale through the film.

[kathbad]

Ironically I have just posted about this...