PAP
I am moving to London on Friday. I am going to miss Bristol, probably mostly for the papping potential. It is good to pap here because of the vast amounts of exposed wet mud in the Avon and the new cut. A pap is the action of throwing a suitable item into the mud and watching and hearing the ‘pap’.
Tom Smith did you introduce me to the art of papping?
I can remember most of the papping experiences I have had here but a few stick in my mind.
I once papped a toffee eclair. I took off the wrapping and the reason it was so exciting was because of the two tone nature of the toffee and chocolate brown hitting the mud. It was also pretty much the right weight.
But the best one I think was yesterday. Walking through London after looking at out new flat I picked three conkers for a future pap. Then on the way home in bristol the conditions were pretty ideal and I papped all three, one after the other. It was ideal. Perfect shape, light enough to stop just below the surface of the mud but heavy enough to make a volcano like hole (on a smaller scale).
I like the idea that I gave some of my new home to my old home said my own special goodbye to Bristol.
October 1st, 2006 at 8:53 pm
i was cetainly one of the instigators of the papping scene. but maybe i wasn’t - they say if you can remember your first pap, then you weren’t there!
can you pap in the thames?
October 1st, 2006 at 9:04 pm
I imagine london is too busy to pap. Too many people looking at the Thames to find an adequate papping space, and too much noise to hear the pap.
We’ll see.
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:29 am
well do you think papping is about the sound? I thought it was but usually one paps at great distance near a busy road and surely you’re not going to hear a conker hitting some mud? Which made me think it is all about the visual and just an imagined sound. PAP.