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posted by [identity profile] miwahni.livejournal.com at 11:30am on 18/01/2009
You have some splendid icons! Tony Harrison made me laugh, as did Moss. The one that has me intrigued though is "I choose as my weapons the jiff-lemon and the angry cat". Explanation please?

- and, is your AoTB icon gankable?

My icons are all pretty basic, I don't think there's any that would need explaining. But ask away.
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You have some splendid icons!

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 12:01pm on 18/01/2009
Well thankee kindly!

LOLZ! Jiff lemon, huh? Yup, that's an obscure one! It's from a sketch my sister and I wrote for a BBC show that never got into production (that happens to a lot of my/our stuff *g*) that had an elderly couple calmly seeing off an intruder by means of the Jiff lemon (do you have that? It's lemon juice; comes in a yellow plastic, lemon-shape squeezy bottle) which the woman shot into the intruders eyes, then the man threw a cat whose face had previously been dipped into the toilet water (and hence in a sitting rage) at the burglar. I hope it was funnier than I'm making it sound. Our producer loved it. I should re-pitch it somewhere.

The cat is Mr Stubbs, the family cat (my stare of evil is our dog, Hamish).

Arthur is indeed, gankable, if you would wish to take it - though I'm thinking of doing some work on it, improrve the text. I hope it brings you joy.

I think I get most of yours but what's going on in Doesn't play well with others. LOL! I like it a lot. *g*

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posted by [identity profile] miwahni.livejournal.com at 12:14pm on 18/01/2009
I'd love to see that sketch, it sounds quite Pythonesque! I can picture it happening. We have the squeezy lemon juice bottles shaped like lemons although it goes by another name; Jiff here is a cleaning product for kitchen/bathroom.

Doesn't play well with others - I'm not sure what was going through the creator's mind but it always made me think of the shy child who hovers on the edge of a group, wanting desperately to join in but never having the courage to risk their rejection. So she sits on the stair, in the shadows, watching the other children having fun, both yearning to join in and at the same time despising herself for not being game enough.

And I've noticed that one of my icons is not, in fact, my icon. The one labelled "Pros B&D Hairier Chest" should look like this (points upwards) but has been replaced on my icon page by someone throwing themselves on their sword.

Thanks for the icon, too. Spreading the AoTB love!

ETA: icon is still displaying as sword-suicide lady. Does it look right from your end?
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 12:21pm on 18/01/2009
I'm seeing 'my chest is hairier than yours' alright. How bizarre...
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Icon weirdness

posted by [identity profile] miwahni.livejournal.com at 12:29pm on 18/01/2009
I heard about this happening to someone else on my flist; apparently her icon and the impostor had the same http location (find by clicking on your icon and choosing Properties) except that her icon was a .jpeg file and the impostor was a .gif file. The best cure is to delete your icon and re-upload it; off to do that now.
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