Time travel is tricky

[shewhomust]

I've been re-reading Good Omens (because, you know, I can...) and I came to this passage:

"Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically.
"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.
"Tartan straps?"
"Tartan is stylish."

"No," I thought, "Tartan is cool, like bow-ties, and bunk beds... Oh, no, not yet."

Time travel is tricky, even the sort that goes in one direction, 60 minutes to the hour.

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I don´t know that book (though I know how to read) but wrongdone slang is fun.
Like my parents used antiquated words from their youth that I used myself when moving to Germany and those who understood them found them, well: cool because they were so antiquated that they had gone all the way round to be considered in again sometime soon, though they weren´t at the time, so everyone just laughed at me. Drollig was the parental word for "funny" but nobody says that, I think. Today it is: lustig.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

This is true, but I'm afraid I was referring to something else - the current Dr Who is fond of claiming as cool things that... well, that aren't.