| The Mat Who Wasn't There - 05.13.05 |
| submitter: | Smart Set |
| location: | Acton, London, UK |
| This was weird. I spotted the mattress leaning against the low wall and drove forward a few feet (towards the left of the pic) to get a nice angle on it. I stopped, checked on the viewpoint, turned away for a second to pick up my camera, turned back, and the mattress had disappeared! It took me a moment to realise that it had been blown over, but it was a weird moment. So I reversed and took the picture. Odd that the mattress should have chosen that very moment to convert itself from a "leaner" to a "pavement blocker"... |
| category: | Seen Worse |
| comments: | 21 |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | Nancy, I'll do my best to expedite this. I took a matt pic this morning, but the glove was nowhere to be seen.
It's quite capricious. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.11.05 | | Will be be seeing the teeth soon?! PLEEEEASE? |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.10.05 | | I've just examined the glove, and the mouth is between the two folded fingers you can see in this pic. The teeth are in the upper 'jaw' only. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.10.05 | | That's good. You have to think, talk and dream matts to become a top hunter. You gotta think like a streetmattress: "if I were a matt, where would I be?" And don't be afraid - they can smell fear. Beware, though -such dedication can take a toll on your social life. In my case, I took the precaution of not having one in the first place, which is probably why I became Smart Set. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.10.05 | | You know SS, after all that matt talk before bed, all I dreamt about was finding bits of bed all night! |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.10.05 | | I forgot about the mouth. It's not obvious that it can open. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.10.05 | | Really!? How have you not revealed that to date!? Sounds highly amusing! |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.10.05 | | Well, its lower fingers pivot down to reveal some teeth. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.09.05 | | Ok, now I have already shown my ignorance on the Yellow Sub front...how does a glove have a mouth? |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.09.05 | | Actually, the glove's mouth opens. I must remember to do that for one mattress pic. |
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| wim commented on 06.09.05 | | Dan did in the medieval time when there was more on Adam's bar |
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| wim commented on 06.09.05 | | good point Nancy |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.09.05 | | Best application of the fetching accessory yet, surely?? |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.09.05 | | I'm not trying to do a direct link. It looked just too hard to learn. Now, if someone were to show me, walk me through it.. |
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| wim commented on 06.09.05 | | you are as clumsy as I am with this direct linking business, I have to ask Art once again. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.09.05 | | There's a picture of it here: utopia.knoware.nl/users/ beatlunl/yspic6.gif (take out the space) and another one of the toy on its LOVE base: dvd.it/img_big/206261.jpg or just use Google Images searching on "yellow submarine glove". |
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| wim commented on 06.09.05 | | Does not ring a bell |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.09.05 | | I'm amazed by the number of people who don't recognise that (no offense, Kevin). |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.09.05 | | Neither, Kevin. It's the evil Flying Glove from the Yellow Submarine cartoon film. It appears every now and again to do point duty. |
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| wim commented on 06.09.05 | | SS, is ROBOMat, the rednailed pointer |
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| Kevin37uk commented on 06.09.05 | | Hey there, what's with the blue hand? Is it your hand in a blue glove or the hand of a mutilated garden gnome? |
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