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St. John's Fire Brigade
These young volunteers would be on hand with a bucket of water at major events where the possibility of small fire-related incidents is possible. | |
They would be:
- On stand-by at bonfires all round the country on bonfire night when the fire-brigades resources are already stretched.
- Available for cat shows being held in the proximity of forests.
- Ready and waiting behind the scenes of “Can’t Cook – Won’t Cook”.
- On regular
fire-watch patrol over the Australian bush.
(?) St. John's Ambulance
http://www.communit...com/comm/stjohn.asp
Often seen at large concerts & festivals - a kind of 'soft-core' emergency service. [stupop, Jun 11 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Saint John’s Volunteer Fire Department
http://www.csbsju.e...alplant/sjfire.html
Baked in Minnesota, U.S.A. though their equipment looks a bit more modern [FarmerJohn, Jun 11 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto
http://www.stanford...yborgManifesto.html
a classic of its kind [earl, Jun 12 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
St John's Police Service
http://www.rnchs.ca/oldstjohns.html
Newfoundland [8th of 7, Oct 31 2010]
[link]
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By any chance is their enemy St Elmo's Fire? |
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St. Elmo's Fire Brigade sounds like a halfbakery idea. |
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send them to Colorado...oh, wait, you said "small fires"....nevermind. |
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I agree with beaux, St. Elmo's Fire Brigade is a catchier title.... who was St. John and what's he got to do with fire? Link! |
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- prowling college dorms, looking for students courting disaster with the old candle-in-the-wine-bottle trick
- scattered discreetly among the rows of revelers at rock concerts, waiting for someone to get a little too careless during a ballad
- backstage at child beauty pageants, hovering next to nervous stage moms spraying their daughters' hairdos while chain-smoking |
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The idea is based on St. John's Ambulance (which admittedly makes it a possible 'me too'). I'll post a link, but you'd really have to have seen them around to see what I'm getting at. |
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Will someone from the U.K. tell me if I should vote for or against this idea, please? |
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Either way, it doesn't really matter. |
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We have StAndrews Ambulance service in Scotland, and they do a good job, but they are no-where near as enthusiastic as St John's. |
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vote aye phoenix, and don't let anyone post "W.I. Anti Terrorist Unit" I claim it as my own. |
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Is the St. Elmo's fire brigade responsible for extinguishing the careers of Emilio "Mighty Ducks" Estevez and Andrew McCarthy? And have they finally turned their hoses on Demi Moore? |
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A promising idea, but what next ? A St. John's Police Force ? |
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Where would THEY practice ?? :-7 Who would their patron saint be ? We nominate St Peter Ad Vincula .... |
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//Who would their patron saint be ? //
St John, of course. |
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The argument can be made that anyone who has ever had a vaccination is a cyborg, because the body's immune system has been reprogrammed. I guess this and other, similar modifications would make one a "soft cyborg," versus the "hard cyborgs" we're more accustomed to in science fiction. Someone like Donna Haraway would argue that as members of a cybernetic culture, we are all already cyborgs. See link. |
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I can think of a number of cyborg modifications that would improve the performance of the young volunteers of the St. John's Fire Brigade. |
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Very fitting name for a fire brigade, actually. St John's day (which I think is the 25th of June) i.e. Midsummer Night is celebrated with bonfires in some countries. |
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<pedant> "St John Ambulance". Note, no possessive. </pedant>
Possibly, if you're posh, it is pronounced "Sinjun Ambulance". |
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We are the Borg - resistance is futile. |
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Perhaps Saint Barbara? Patron saint of firefighters, miners, architects, armourers, gunners, brewers, hatters and bomb technicians. |
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