tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40857910226076834822024-03-03T16:26:04.635-08:00Socrates' SoliloquiesSocrates' Soliloquies is a companion blog to Plato's Procrastinations and Clouds and Silvery Linings. Socrates has kindly agreed to utilise his deep thinking capabilities, requiring a slightly sharper mind, for very silly posts and odds and ends which the others cannot handle. Thank you Socrates - I thought you were at rest though, and Plato for that matter, but I understand you are on vacation in Rhodes!Eddie Bluelightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069024660422117718noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-1322224563940142262011-02-23T10:00:00.000-08:002011-02-23T10:00:52.527-08:00THE SUNDAY ROAST QUESTIONSWelcome to the Sunday Roast<br />
Please answer within two weeks if possible and in Black and White please.<br />
I've found it easier to send and receive by email with pictures/photos as file attachments.<br />
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Please forward answers to my email address:<br />
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<a href="mailto:thesundayroasting@gmail.com"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">thesundayroasting@gmail.com</span></span></a><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Title </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">We Need a witty/humorous/suitable heading based on your blog title and/or something about you, maybe from your profile. I can help with all of this.<br />
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</span></div></div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Then the introduction</b></span></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;">Some want their full names, some Christian and some completely incognito - either is fine. Everyone is different. Up to you.<br />
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</span></div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This week's interview is with Mickey the Budgie</b><b><br />
who writes the blog, <a href="http://platosponderings.blogspot.com/2009/10/didnt-i-say-youd-make-my-eyes-light-up.html">Birds Of A Feather Flock Together</a><br />
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Thank you for the interview, Mickey</b></span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A very warm welcome to you and your followers<br />
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</b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div>Then perhaps add two photos of you if you wish.</div>Please make them high definition. <br />
Some add little graphic piccies used for their commenting. Nice to have these as well.<br />
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</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Then the standard <span class="il">questions</span></b>Please include all the hyperlinks if you can - saves me a bit of time.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Here's the first of the standard <span class="il">questions</span>. Why do you blog? <br />
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</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What's the story behind your blog name?<br />
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</b> </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><div><b>What is the best thing about being a blogger?<br />
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</b> </div><div><b>What key advice would you give to a newbie blogger?<br />
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</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the most significant blog post you've ever read? <br />
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</b></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the most significant blog post you've ever written? <br />
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<div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Which two blogs would you recommend for roasting?</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <div><span style="font-weight: normal;">(more if you like)<br />
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</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then some more funny questions. If you are uncomfortable answering any of them just pick the ones you feel you can answer, or even omit them all . . . but most bloggers are brave and go for the lot!!)<br />
</span></div></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That concludes the formal aspect of the interview but it would be nice to get to know you a little better while you are slowly turning on the roasting spit. So while you are screaming in agony above the open fire here are a few more <span class="il">questions</span> for you.<br />
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Pick three things you can't live without.<br />
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</div><div>If we were to make a movie about BlogLand, what would it be and who would you cast in the leading roles?<br />
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</div></b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div><b>If you could live your life again who would you be, and why?<br />
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</b> </div><div><b>You have been given a wonderful talent from above. This causes you to make your mark on humanity and be world famous. In which area would prefer: a best selling novelist, a brilliant artist, a gifted musician, a fantastic singer, a charismatic leader, anything you choose, and why? <br />
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</b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you were an ice cream cone, which flavour would you prefer and who would you most want to lick you?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">A bit naughty but it usually gets a laugh - leave the last part off if you wish.<br />
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</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><div><b>Describe in one sentence your perfect day<br />
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</b></div><div><b>If you were a fiction writer which one would you be and why?</b></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><div><span style="font-size: small;">(Leave out if you wish but it has proved a real ice-breaker if treated lightly)<br />
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</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">. . . .<b> and if you are really brave . . . . <br />
<div>If you awoke to find you had changed gender what would be the first and second things you would do?</div></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;">(Probably scream I would think! . . . . and then scream again!)<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Your turn to ask me a question if you wish.</b></span></div></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><span style="font-size: small;">(The <span class="il">questions</span> I have had to answer!!!! They love to put me on the spot LOL and I love it too. However some ask serious <span class="il">questions</span> and I reply likewise. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's it folks - the invitation is open to everyone - and its great fun.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><wbr></wbr></b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><wbr></wbr></b></i></span></div></div></div>Eddie Bluelightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069024660422117718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-46012513062413260892010-10-27T15:19:00.000-07:002011-02-23T10:02:44.301-08:00THE SUNDAY ROAST<div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, I can see you are a little curious so I am going to tell you a little about The Sunday Roast.</span></div><br />
It is an interview column founded by David McMahon on 3rd February 2008.<br />
Originally it asked just serious questions but some humour permeated through into some answers by the more extrovert roastees.<br />
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David asked me if I would continue the feature when he took a break from blogging in Oct 2009 and I have been Marinating, Skewering and Roasting people ever since. They just love it!! LOL<br />
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The main purpose of The Sunday Roast is to enable bloggers to get to know each other a little better, and sometimes very well. It encourages people to read your work and to comment . . . and, yes, to follow your blog. Just look on me as a match maker in your life! LOL<br />
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We have some fun getting the interviews together with the humorous questions and interface with some light hearted banter, which the readers love, but there are some serious questions as well, which gives the interview a very well balanced flavour.<br />
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Now are you hooked, aren't you? Good, because I think you would make an ideal candidate for the Sunday Roast. Everyone in BlogLand is a valued blogger and has a valuable point of view with unique skills.<br />
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So sign up now and as a reward I will give you the password to leave this place called Socrates' Soliloquies and be transported by magic back to <a href="http://eddybluelights.blogspot.com/">Clouds and Silvery Linings</a> from which you will see your escape route.<br />
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But you don't want to escape do you? LOL<br />
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My email is:<br />
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<a href="mailto:eddiebluelights@gmail.com"></a>eddiebluelights@gmail.com<br />
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WRITE TO ME and I will send you ALL THE SUNDAY ROAST DETAILS free of charge. Just say Socrates invited you and I'll know from whence you came.<br />
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OR Leave a comment BEGGING ME for a piece of this action.<br />
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I expect to see a zillion comments here by tomorrow morning LOL<br />
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There have been some great people amongst the 140 bloggers interviewed by David or myself and I think you should be numbered amongst them. David did 84 Roasts and Yours Truly has done the rest. I have listed ALL roasts a linked them to their relevant Roast Posts, <a href="http://eddybluelights.blogspot.com/2009/10/concise-compendium-of-sunday-roasts.html">HERE</a> .<br />
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Do not be modest - join this elite band of bloggers who hold their heads high in BlogLand. My press gang agrees with me entirely and INSISTS that you WILL board this ship. LOL<br />
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I am introducing also The Sunday Roast Supplement, called The Sunday Re-Roast, which gets previously roasted bloggers, who feel they are safe, off their backsides so they can answer my new questions. I will be writing to them all to invite them onto the show again and the queues have already started for them to feature - so BOOK early!. <br />
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So you want to get out, do you? ONLY IF YOU LET ME ROAST YOU!!! <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OK?</span></div><br />
OK Press <a href="http://eddybluelights.blogspot.com/">HERE</a> to escape - Now you really want to be roasted don't you! Well don't you?<br />
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So why not see the questions?<br />
To do so please press <a href="http://platosponderings.blogspot.com/2011/02/sunday-roast-questions.html">HERE</a>Eddie Bluelightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069024660422117718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-38426813501440126502010-09-04T00:55:00.000-07:002010-11-14T11:30:50.273-08:00Maths Problem Answer<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>Here is the question again:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">There are eight doors in a row. Behind each door is a number. Each number is less than 20. No two numbers are the same, and the numbers on the doors are in order.<br />
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• three of the numbers are prime numbers<br />
• two of the numbers are square numbers<br />
• two of the numbers are multiples of 5<br />
• five of the numbers are even<br />
• three is a factor of two of the numbers<br />
• there is a run of two consecutive numbers, and another run of four consecutive numbers.<br />
• the numbers sum to 93<br />
What are the numbers on the doors?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How did I do it?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used a spreadsheet, Exel</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tried to satisfy the 4 consecutive numbers first </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then the 2 conscutive numbers</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b>And here is the answer:</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">2, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">It all equals 93</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">2, 11, 17 are the prime numbers</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">4, 16 are the square numbers</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">10, 5 are multiples of 5</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">2, 4, 10, 16, 18 are all the even numbers</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">15, 18 are factors of 3</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">10, 11 are the two consecutive numbers</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">15, 16, 17, 18 are the four consecutive numbers</div>Eddie Bluelightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069024660422117718noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-50809207769479186582010-07-19T22:00:00.000-07:002010-07-21T15:17:11.927-07:00STANLEY HOLLOWAY MONOLOGUES<div align="center">(Posted individually on Plato's Procrastinations)<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><strong>CONTENTS </strong><br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sam-pick-oop-tha-musket.html">SAM, PICK OOP THA' MUSKET </a><br />Stanley Holloway (1929)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/alt-who-goes-there.html">'ALT! WHO GOES THERE ? </a><br />Stanley Holloway (1930)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/back-to-sam-small-here-drummer-boy-at.html">BEAT THE RETREAT ON THY DRUM</a><br />R.P.Weston and Bert Lee (1931)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-each-apiece-all-round.html">ONE EACH APIECE ALL ROUND </a><br />Stanley Hollaway (1931)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sams-medal.html">SAM'S MEDAL</a><br />M. Constanduros and M.Hogan (1933)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/several-friends-have-asked-if-i-have.html">OLD SAM'S PARTY</a><br />M. Constanduros (1933)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/marksman-sam.html">MARKSMAN SAM </a><br />Marriott Edgar (1934)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sam-drummed-out.html">SAM DRUMMED OUT</a><br />R.P.Weston and Bert Lee (1935)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sams-sturgeon-by-ashley-sterne-1935.html">SAM'S STURGEON </a><br />Ashley Sterne (1935)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sams-christmas-pudding.html">OLD SAM'S CHRISTMAS PUDDING</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1939)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/sam-goes-to-it.html">SAM GOES TO IT</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1941)<br /><br /><a href="http://eddybluelights.blogspot.com/search?q=stanley+holloway">THE LION AND ALBERT<br /></a>Marriott Edgar (1932)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/return-of-albert-albert-comes-back-by.html">THE RETURN OF ALBERT </a><br />Marriott Edgar (1934)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/alberts-reuinion-with-lion.html">ALBERT'S REUNION</a><br />Stanley Holloway (1978)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/runcorn-ferry-tuppence-per-person-per.html">RUNCORN FERRY</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1933)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/alberts-jubilee-day-sovereign.html">ALBERT'S JUBILEE SOVEREIGN</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1937)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/albert-and-headsman.html">ALBERT AND THE 'EADSMAN </a><br />Marriott Edgar (1937) 14<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/albert-ramsbottoms-recumbent-posture.html">THE RECUMBENT POSTURE</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1939)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/albert-evacuated.html">ALBERT EVACUATED </a><br />Stanley Holloway (1940)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/05/three-half-pence-foot.html">THREE HA'PENCE A FOOT </a><br />Marriott Edgar (1932)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/many-happy-returns.html">MANY HAPPY RETURNS</a><br />Archie de Bear (1933)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/05/gunner-joe.html">GUNNER JOE</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1933)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/07/beefeater.html">THE BEEFEATER</a><br />R.P.Weston and Bert Lee (1934)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/05/hole-in-ark.html">THE 'OLE IN THE ARK </a><br />Marriott Edgar (1937)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/06/jonah-and-grampus.html">JONAH AND THE GRAMPUS</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1937)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-george-and-dragon.html">ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON </a><br />R.P.Weston and Bert Lee (1935)<br /><br />THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS<br />Marriott Edgar (1937)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/">THE MAGNA CARTA</a><br />Marriott Edgar (1937)<br /><br /><a href="http://platosprocastinations.blogspot.com/2009/07/brahn-boots.html">BRAHN BOOTS </a><br />R.P.Weston and Bert Lee (1940) </div><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">More monologues (to be posted)</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.seiyaku.com/lit/monologues/index.html">http://www.seiyaku.com/lit/monologues/index.html</a></div>Eddie Bluelightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18069024660422117718noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-12669886267030357332009-10-04T12:30:00.000-07:002011-02-23T08:51:57.492-08:00Mickey's Blogs<div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 130%;">Did you really think Mickey had two blogs:</span></b><br />
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<b>Birds Of A Feather Flock Together </b>and <b>Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch</b>?<br />
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They are dummy blogs, you dummies LOL<br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;">You have just made <b>Eddie's</b> eyes light up.<br />
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<div align="center"><b><i>What's going on? There's two of me!<br />
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<div align="center"><b><i>Two of me for the price of one!!</i></b></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Looks like I'm cloning myself now! The blooming import wouldn't stop - if I hadn't intervened there would be millions of me taking over the world!!<br />
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</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">After this small digression to return to <b><i>Mickey's Mid Week Nosh-Up</i></b> please press <a href="http://eddybluelights.blogspot.com/2010/05/midweek-nosh-up-mickey.html">HERE</a> <b> </b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085791022607683482.post-24836443052790902072009-04-17T17:27:00.000-07:002010-05-17T14:41:09.884-07:00New Experimental Blog<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbEeAcVl7v8oe2wlb6A2bQI6T46OlaIv5-kxBdUrYShX3HYOWdabZWr0hVBCIlARe9NXgJlkXeH6vlvE8dg1MRm-XMAb8k8cVaL9XiWcNzodpxf5rba0UJKVATrNCUyL3yjIF-cfiwSI/s1600-h/Eddie+Plato.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327614574671516642" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 303px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbEeAcVl7v8oe2wlb6A2bQI6T46OlaIv5-kxBdUrYShX3HYOWdabZWr0hVBCIlARe9NXgJlkXeH6vlvE8dg1MRm-XMAb8k8cVaL9XiWcNzodpxf5rba0UJKVATrNCUyL3yjIF-cfiwSI/s320/Eddie+Plato.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div>Hello my dear friends</div><div></div><br /><div>I hereby introduce you to my home for experimental work, Plato's Ponderings as opposed to Plato's Procrastinations. </div><div> </div><div>We cannot get any peace and quiet at Clouds and Silvery Linings with all the every day distractions.</div><br /><div>By special invitation you are invited to my inner sanctuary for the purpose of fellowship, discussion and debate, away from the rush and tumble of normal blogland. </div><br /><div></div><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1