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Who is Mr. Jones

  
 
pointless and uncalled for
15:22 / 20.01.03
As I sit here in a luxuriant Covent Garden internet cafe, a tannoy announcement has been broadcast to advise that Mr. Jones is in the area.

Any ideas? I will ask and update later.
 
 
Linus Dunce
15:25 / 20.01.03
It's probably a coded fire alarm.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:26 / 20.01.03
It's probably a Ricin alert - run for your life, don't drink anything!
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:27 / 20.01.03
Who can say - although I'm willing to bet that something's going there, but he doesn't know what it is. Does he?
 
 
Loomis
15:29 / 20.01.03
Did the voice sound like Adam Duritz?
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
15:34 / 20.01.03
I would have to know who Adam Duritz is. Is he the tall, thin, collegey looking one with the light-brownish hair who I keep seeing at barbemeets.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
15:37 / 20.01.03
Nope, that's Haus.

Sounds like a coded alarum of some sort to me. Done Pride stewarding and we had a whole bunch of these for fire, unattended baggage etc...
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:38 / 20.01.03
No, that's Haus and he's ginger. "Mr Sands", is, I believe, the name given to outbreaks of fire in theatres (presumably because of the massive unlikelihood of actually seeing Julian Sands within ten miles of anywhere where people act) - not sure what they call blazes in the outside world.

Maybe it's the owner?
 
 
Jack Fear
15:38 / 20.01.03
No, dear. Adam Duritz is an irritating American "rock star," lead singer for a band called Counting Crows, whose first hit was a li'l ditty called (wait for it) "Mr. Jones."

Loomis was making with the funny, you see. And I've gone and spoiled it.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:40 / 20.01.03
Oh, and The Orgone Grinder is also making a tee-hee, with a sideways reference to a Bob Dylan song called "Ballad of a Thin Man." Nothing escapes my pop-culture grasp!

Out of respect for the recntly deceased, I shall refrain from quoting the relevant passages from the Bee Gees' "New York Mining Disaster."
 
 
Bear
15:41 / 20.01.03
So what happens if there really is a fire and some poor Mr. Sands or Mr. Jones has to go and find out what's happened all worried that someones scratched his car or his parrots died?

"Sorry sir, it was actually a bomb can you go back to your seat now please."
 
 
Whisky Priestess
15:59 / 20.01.03
"Mr Jones and me tell each other fairytales
Stare at the beautiful women ..."
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:55 / 20.01.03
Mr Jones, IIRC, was also the ship's cat in Alien. Jinxed them good and proper. Acid blood dripping from the roofspaces would seriously distress the stonework of Covent Garden.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:26 / 20.01.03
It's also a character played by Richard Gere in a movie about someone who's bipolar. Which might lend that Counting Crows song a little more interest, if there's only one bloke involved...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
05:57 / 21.01.03
As long as you don't hear "Dr Benway to surgery" when you're in a hospital.
 
 
Ganesh
08:50 / 21.01.03
Dunno, but we got a thing going on...
 
 
bjacques
08:51 / 21.01.03
In my highschool, "Lloyd, come to the office" was the code phrase for "bomb threat." We'd get a few, usually during exams time, and I'd do a "duck and cover" routine.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
08:53 / 21.01.03
That's Mrs Jones, ya big silly.
 
 
Ganesh
09:12 / 21.01.03
Nah, Mrs Jones ain't my type. Her husband's a shag, though.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:43 / 21.01.03
Oh Ganesh, haven't I warned you about going with seabirds? They're so... flighty
 
 
Ganesh
09:49 / 21.01.03
A tad oversalted too, one finds.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
22:42 / 21.01.03
Tell us, Bob, who really, who really is Mr. Jones?
Mr. Jones is a man who doesn't know who Mr. Jones is.
 
 
Linus Dunce
00:44 / 22.01.03
As long as you don't hear "Dr Benway to surgery" when you're in a hospital.

Stoatie, is this a pop culture ref or something really scary? I have to know. :-)
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
04:10 / 22.01.03
It's probably just a good day for Mr. Jones. He's back in town from his holiday.

Ignatius J, Dr Benway is both.
 
 
Linus Dunce
11:36 / 22.01.03
So cruel. P l e a s e .
 
 
Analogues On
12:05 / 22.01.03
Ignatius J:

Dr Benway Operates
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
12:07 / 22.01.03
- Shouldn't that be sterilised, doctor?
- Very likely, but there's no time

Who wants to tell him?
 
 
Sax
14:28 / 22.01.03
Wasn't Mr Jones also the spooky little cartoon character that kept popping up all over Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron?
 
 
Linus Dunce
14:52 / 22.01.03
Thanks. Very good. :-)
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
18:15 / 22.01.03
Well despite the fact that this thread has given rise to much shag and bombs related frivolity I feel honour bound to reveal my findings.

Should you here an announcement in Covent Garden that Mr. Jones is in the area, it means that the security office has spotted shoplifters and pickpockets. The codeword for a bomb threat there is Mr. Richards.
 
 
Cosmicjamas
20:52 / 22.01.03
Ah, bummer! Still, cheers for updating us Potus, will know what to listen out for in future!! Course, maybe it would be nicer to hear an announcement to the effect of "We can see what you're up to, filthy pickpockets, kindly line up to have your right hands amputated" and watch them flee, but I guess they want to catch them in the act!
 
  
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