I was knitting at the bus interchange this evening. Knitting and waiting for the free bus to the stadium to watch the Socceroos lose in a lacklustre fashion to Kuwait.
The woman on the bench next to me asked what I was knitting, fondled the spare balls of Jet and marvelled over stitchmarker bling and told me about how her late mother was a knitter and how nice it was to see someone younger (than her late mother) knitting.
The bus for the stadium came. My neighbour let out a huge sigh and said "Thank heaven the stadium bus is here, now all these hooligans will leave!"
I smiled and said, gently, that I was leaving on that bus too. She blushed and replied "You? But I thought with the knitting and everything...."
"We're not all hooligans", I assured her.
Mind you, I think I like the sound of hooligan knitters.
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Hey, one of my students told me yesterday that one of their teachers calls our knitting group 'the knitting mafia' and was very down on it.
It's ok though: we'll send him to steek with the fishes.
"Steek with the fishes"? Is that like surf and turf?
Can I be a knitting hooligan, too?
I do think that knitting hooliganism could take the fibre crafts to whole new levels of civil disobedience.
All power to the knitting holligans!
(I once crocheted at a Crusty Demons show - I think that not only was I the only person crocheting, I was also the only SOBER person there)
steek with the fishes! *teehee* =)
Wasn't the game awful?
I have to say, the highlight for me was racing you to the loo at half time =)
xo
OK, Michelle, so now I'm trying to design a jacket patch for Fibre Fiends/Chaos Crafters etc., just like the Hells Angels have.
Kuka, I think you and I showed much more speed and commitment in the loos than any of the Socceroos did on the field.
Taph, that would be hilarious!
Kinokuniya bookstore had a craft logo a couple of years back with a skull with a granny-style bun, and hooks and needles as the cross bones. I think they gave me one as a temporary tattoo when I bought something. I really should dig it out one of these days!
That reminds me of Roger McGough's poem 'I'm a Nooligan'!! (I think thta's it, I read it a long time ago!!!)
Now I want me one of those tatts - temporary of course!
"Nooligan" is a great poem, 2paw. Here's a link to it online http://paul.caffeinatedbliss.com/archives/2007/10/nooligan-by-roger-mcgough/
You rabble rouser you!
My kind of hooliganism! Love the sound of that tatt too Michelle! Of course it would have to be a needlework design to be truly hooliganistic!!! (nothing like a new word!)
Some of us are hooligans and damn proud of it!
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