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IctoanAWEWawi Started conversation Dec 14, 2002
Well, it's where I always used to go to get away from it as a child.
Dedicated lurk space 
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Fred Smith Posted Dec 15, 2002
*Wanders in, gets hoover and sits down to Lurk.*
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Dec 16, 2002
Hmm! my kids had a choice of TWO cupboards under the stairs.Problem was they had to remove several bags,a cold box,half empty paint cans,several rolls of left over wall paper(stupid husband is a DIY hoarder)a water heater and the vacuum cleaner.Not exactly conducive to a quick hideaway.
Incog.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Dec 16, 2002
Perhaps not, but soooo much fun clambering through it all, I bet!
One of my favourite toys as a kid was the several boxes and tins of 'stuff' in the garage, spark plugs, nuts and bolts of every size, metal brackets, spring clips you know, motor 'stuff'. Spent hours making stuff!
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Dolt Posted Dec 16, 2002
*settles in to lurk besides the electricity meter*
I never had a decent-sized cupboard under the stairs... there was usually too much space occupied by ironing boards, clothes horses, vaccuum cleaners, bottles of wine and the like.
We did have a shed though. Dad donated loads of old electrical components from various defunct gubbinses... the shed was transformed into spaceships, time machines and moonbases innumerable times.
And Dad got soo fed up of fishing "bombs" made from dead capacitors out of the lawnmower 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Dec 16, 2002
Ah yes, capacitors, such fun! I took the electric sparking unit of an old gas cooker apart once. Hooked up the 1.5v battery and had it sat there sparking away merrily, but thought one of the connections was loose so decided to re-twist the wires. Only knocked me down 5 stairs and back about 4 foot 
Although I never quite had the guts to do the same with the capacitors outa the old telly I had (for about 2 weeks!). It used valves and had a switch between 400 and 600 odd lines it was that old. The capacitors to charge the thing up were 4 inch high cylinders, about 1.5 inch round. Ah, I coulda had some fun with them.....
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Dec 20, 2002
hmm! It's amazing how such a small place fills up with junk in such a small space of time.I reckon junk breeds.
Incog
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Dec 22, 2002
I feel old - When I first left school I started an apprenticeship in Radio and Television engineering - got my City & Guilds part 1 - and the sets I used to work on were the ones you describe Ictoan - I remember the first colour televisions, we had to drive the van at about 5 mile an hour so as not to shake it up too much, and then it took us about an hour to set it up once we got there.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Jan 7, 2003
Oh 
Now I shall have to remove that,this,this,that,and what is this? Grumble,mumble........
Incog.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Jan 11, 2003
Now then I just need half a can of white paint - I know there'll be one in here -
Someone tidied up.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Jan 11, 2003
Don't suppose you bothered to look in the attic?
Incog.
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maduin Posted Jan 27, 2003
Pretentious reasons why the cupboard under the stairs is a great place:
It is so dusty, broken, old so tired that it's like being in the bowels of the beast of the modern home. It's also a metaphor for the entropy of the universe; how everything is broken down and removed and drawn to order by The Cleaner but life still rebuilds and creates mounds of chaos in spite of this law.
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted Jan 27, 2003
withdraws head from cupboard and slowy looking maduin in the eyes backs away very,very sloooowwllyy.
Incog.
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maduin Posted Jan 28, 2003
*looks shifty and draws hood over face*
Mwahahaha
*gets hallucinations of a deity cleaning the cupboard and stumbles out with a headache*
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Dolt Posted Jan 28, 2003
Oh dear... I think you may have hit your head on the low roof in there... why don't you head over to one of the other rooms with a slightly higher ceiling and have a nice cup of tea?
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Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 Posted May 8, 2003
Wellies,wellies,wellies!No not in here either.
Incog.
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Clare Posted May 13, 2003
Aha! Maybe *this* is where they keep the mop....nope, can't see it. That 
's staining the carpet something 'orrible.
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Clare Posted May 13, 2003
Aha! Maybe *this* is where they keep the mop....nope, can't see it. That 's staining the carpet something 'orrible.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted May 13, 2003
well, yes it 8is8 where we keep the mop, but as we are corrently constructing the armour and weapons for a knight we need the mop for a lance. This also explains where the coal scuttle has gone (helmet), the poker for the fire (sword) and the dustbin lid (shield).
Still working on the rest of the armour....
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Clare Posted May 13, 2003
That sounds cool, can I join in?
Could I borrow the mop very quickly, pleeeease?! I spilt a and it's staining the carpet 
! Then you can pretend the coffee on the mop is blood from one of the knight's victims 
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- 1: IctoanAWEWawi (Dec 14, 2002)
- 2: Fred Smith (Dec 15, 2002)
- 3: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Dec 16, 2002)
- 4: IctoanAWEWawi (Dec 16, 2002)
- 5: Dolt (Dec 16, 2002)
- 6: IctoanAWEWawi (Dec 16, 2002)
- 7: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Dec 20, 2002)
- 8: McKay The Disorganised (Dec 22, 2002)
- 9: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Jan 7, 2003)
- 10: McKay The Disorganised (Jan 11, 2003)
- 11: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Jan 11, 2003)
- 12: maduin (Jan 27, 2003)
- 13: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (Jan 27, 2003)
- 14: maduin (Jan 28, 2003)
- 15: Dolt (Jan 28, 2003)
- 16: Still Incognitas, Still Chairthingy, Still lurking, Still invisible, unnoticeable, missable, unseen, just haunting h2g2 (May 8, 2003)
- 17: Clare (May 13, 2003)
- 18: Clare (May 13, 2003)
- 19: IctoanAWEWawi (May 13, 2003)
- 20: Clare (May 13, 2003)
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