Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 31/01/12 13:55, Guinevere Nell wrote: I keep reading it as "where to buy Cossacks " Carsocks is also a valid synonym in the more radical wing of the "rent a choir" fraternity (www.clerkes.org.uk)

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Guinevere Nell
I keep reading it as "where to buy Cossacks " On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Will Crawford wrote: > On 31 January 2012 13:13, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > On 31 Jan 2012, at 13:03, David Cantrell wrote: > ... > >> and it is great for scaring people in o

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Will Crawford
On 31 January 2012 13:13, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2012, at 13:03, David Cantrell wrote: ... >> and it is great for scaring people in on foggy evenings. > > Got a top hat and cane? ... and spare time to wander around Whitechapel?

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 31 Jan 2012, at 13:03, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:05:53AM +, Andrew Beattie wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:44, Greg McCarroll wrote: >>> We'd also not have a language that attracts people who like to fly giant >>> kites (Andy W. and a few others) and buy priests c

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:05:53AM +, Andrew Beattie wrote: > On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:44, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > We'd also not have a language that attracts people who like to fly giant > > kites (Andy W. and a few others) and buy priests cassocks (Evil Dave and no > > other few others ;-) )

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrew Beattie
On 31 Jan 2012, at 09:15, Ian Norton wrote: > J. Wippel & Co. Ltd certainly sell new ones - > http://www.wippell.co.uk/ though a bit extreme for making kites out of The idea is to wear a bishop's cassock (I quite like the purple) whilst wrestling the kites. Sometimes I wear a kilt (and all the

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Kieren Diment
On 31/01/2012, at 8:15 PM, Ian Norton wrote: >> Is there a "place to go" to buy a used Cassock other than the 'Bay? > > With great difficulty. As Dirk said, most people who do wear them do > so until they fall apart and even then it's likely they'll be kept to > patch up others in a less worse s

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Norton
> Is there a "place to go" to buy a used Cassock other than the 'Bay? With great difficulty. As Dirk said, most people who do wear them do so until they fall apart and even then it's likely they'll be kept to patch up others in a less worse state. J. Wippel & Co. Ltd certainly sell new ones - htt

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Dirk Koopman
On 31/01/12 08:05, Andrew Beattie wrote: Is there a "place to go" to buy a used Cassock other than the 'Bay? It's hard. So hard that most regular cassock wearers end up buying new ones. At least they then stand a chance of fitting. More difficult questions are: what colour, closely followed

Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Andrew Beattie
On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:44, Greg McCarroll wrote: > We'd also not have a language that attracts people who like to fly giant > kites (Andy W. and a few others) and buy priests cassocks (Evil Dave and no > other few others ;-) ), I have never seen the phrases "giant kites" and "priests cassocks" t