An auspicious day?
Steve McKinty - Sun Microsystems Grenoble
Well, maybe not, but Sue did drop a heavy hint that she was expecting
pressies today. Happy Birthday, Sue.
Steve
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Sue Spence
Steve McKinty - Sun Microsystems Grenoble wrote:
>
> Well, maybe not, but Sue did drop a heavy hint that she was expecting
> pressies today. Happy Birthday, Sue.
>
It was more of a demand, actually. Thanks everyone, they
were all very interesting. A certain theme emerged, having
to do with large metal mallets. I'm sure I don't know why.
Nicholas Bradshaw
Sue Spence wrote:
>
> It was more of a demand, actually. Thanks everyone, they
> were all very interesting. A certain theme emerged, having
> to do with large metal mallets. I'm sure I don't know why.
Eh? Birthday? I don't think they have them in Belgium owing to the low
chances children have of actually reaching their tenth one. Luckily I
missed the mallets as I was on holiday. Did you know it snowed in
Istanbul this April? No? You can learn things on s.c.b. you know. Turkey
in the snow is very beautiful, even if it wasn't quite what I had in
mind.
--
Nick Bradshaw - IRIDIA,ULB
Sue Spence
Nicholas Bradshaw wrote:
>
> Luckily I
> missed the mallets as I was on holiday. Did you know it snowed in
> Istanbul this April? No? You can learn things on s.c.b. you know. Turkey
> in the snow is very beautiful, even if it wasn't quite what I had in
> mind.
>
I like Turkey on my plate much better, especially accompanied
by seasonal vegetables and a bit pile of mashed potatoes
and gravy. Hmmm, I'm getting hungry now, must be nearly
lunchtime.
Peter H.M. Brooks
In article <335D03...@pennine.com> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
>
> I like Turkey on my plate much better, especially accompanied
> by seasonal vegetables and a bit pile of mashed potatoes
> and gravy. Hmmm, I'm getting hungry now, must be nearly
> lunchtime.
>
I am sorry to hear that you have developed a desire for turkey, it
is probably old-age. Sorry I missed your birthday, I was in Dublin,
I hope that it was a good one.
--
Peter H.M. Brooks
Sue Spence
Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>
> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
> >
> >
> > I like Turkey on my plate much better, especially accompanied
> > by seasonal vegetables and a bit pile of mashed potatoes
> > and gravy. Hmmm, I'm getting hungry now, must be nearly
> > lunchtime.
> >
> I am sorry to hear that you have developed a desire for turkey, it
> is probably old-age. Sorry I missed your birthday, I was in Dublin,
> I hope that it was a good one.
>
> --
I haven't developed this desire recently; I've always liked
it. Why were you in Dublin?
Peter H.M. Brooks
>
> I haven't developed this desire recently; I've always liked
> it. Why were you in Dublin?
>
Really. I always find turkey dry and tasteless, even when cooked by
good cooks. It isn't nearly as good as duck, even tame duck, and is
so inferior to goose that it should really become extinct.
I was working in Dublin, at least during the day, if that is the
intent of your question. It could turn into something pointless, but
apparently metaphysical, if there was any danger of that, I would
say that I was simply there, and only questions of how I got there
were relevant.
Actually, to be completely accurate, I wasn't in Dublin much, I was
in Dun Loaghaire. I stayed in a delightfully non-plastic hotel, the
'Royal Marine', pukka baths, high ceilings and adequate
beds, though they were four posters. It reminded me of the old 'Marine
Hotel' in Durban, though the service was not, of course, of the same
standard. The traffic seems to have got much worse in Dublin since I last
spent time there in the early '80s, and it seems considerably more expensive.
I am told that there is a new scheme where millionaires are allowed to stay
in Ireland tax free as long as they invest in local companies. I shall consider
the deal after I have won the lottery.
They are suffering dreadfully from the drought. It was quite bizarre to see
browning lawns in Ireland.
--
Peter H.M. Brooks
Sue Spence
Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>
> In article <33651F...@pennine.com> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
> >
> > I haven't developed this desire recently; I've always liked
> > it. Why were you in Dublin?
> >
> Really. I always find turkey dry and tasteless, even when cooked by
> good cooks. It isn't nearly as good as duck, even tame duck, and is
> so inferior to goose that it should really become extinct.
Geese are so greasy. Decent turkeys do not come out dry and
tasteless even when mangled by a fairly indifferent cook such
as myself. I don't think you have proper turkeys over there.
>
> I was working in Dublin, at least during the day, if that is the
> intent of your question.
I was just curious.
> It could turn into something pointless, but
> apparently metaphysical, if there was any danger of that, I would
> say that I was simply there, and only questions of how I got there
> were relevant.
It is not necessary for you to get all weird over simple
questions, Peter.
>
> Actually, to be completely accurate, I wasn't in Dublin much, I was
> in Dun Loaghaire. I stayed in a delightfully non-plastic hotel, the
> 'Royal Marine', pukka baths, high ceilings and adequate
> beds, though they were four posters. It reminded me of the old 'Marine
> Hotel' in Durban, though the service was not, of course, of the same
> standard. The traffic seems to have got much worse in Dublin since I last
> spent time there in the early '80s, and it seems considerably more expensive.
> I am told that there is a new scheme where millionaires are allowed to stay
> in Ireland tax free as long as they invest in local companies. I shall consider
> the deal after I have won the lottery.
Tax free? That's very attractive, but it would mean living
in Ireland. Hmmm.
>
> They are suffering dreadfully from the drought. It was quite bizarre to see
> browning lawns in Ireland.
So how long has this "drought" lasted? 3 weeks or so?
Peter H.M. Brooks
> Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
> >
> > In article <33651F...@pennine.com> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
> >
> > >
> > > I haven't developed this desire recently; I've always liked
> > > it. Why were you in Dublin?
> > >
> > Really. I always find turkey dry and tasteless, even when cooked by
> > good cooks. It isn't nearly as good as duck, even tame duck, and is
> > so inferior to goose that it should really become extinct.
>
> Geese are so greasy. Decent turkeys do not come out dry and
> tasteless even when mangled by a fairly indifferent cook such
> as myself. I don't think you have proper turkeys over there.
>
Geese are not as greasy as ducks. In any event, if cooked properly,
you don't notice any grease. I am sure that the turkeys over here
are quite improper.
>
> > It could turn into something pointless, but
> > apparently metaphysical, if there was any danger of that, I would
> > say that I was simply there, and only questions of how I got there
> > were relevant.
>
> It is not necessary for you to get all weird over simple
> questions, Peter.
>
No, it isn't. It can be fun, though.
>
> > I am told that there is a new scheme where millionaires are allowed to stay
> > in Ireland tax free as long as they invest in local companies. I shall
> consider
> > the deal after I have won the lottery.
>
> Tax free? That's very attractive, but it would mean living
> in Ireland. Hmmm.
>
Very pretty place, and the beer is good.
>
> >
> > They are suffering dreadfully from the drought. It was quite bizarre to see
> > browning lawns in Ireland.
>
> So how long has this "drought" lasted? 3 weeks or so?
>
About two months.
--
Peter H.M. Brooks
Jeff Drabble
Oh, settle down, Sue. A drought is a relative thing, surely. Two
months for Ireland is probably quite out of the ordinary. It may not
be for Ca, but so what. I remember a drought in Australia (around the
NSW, Queensland border) in the 80s where there were children of school
age who had never seen rain, but for that area it may have been no
more extraordinary than 2 months of drought in Ireland.
Jeff Drabble
Dick Jackson
On Sun, 04 May 1997 20:02:31 GMT, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff
Drabble) wrote:
>On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 04 May 1997 04:50:14 GMT, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff
>>Drabble) wrote:
>>
>>>Oh, settle down, Sue. A drought is a relative thing, surely. Two
>>>months for Ireland is probably quite out of the ordinary. It may not
>>>be for Ca, but so what. I remember a drought in Australia (around the
>>>NSW, Queensland border) in the 80s where there were children of school
>>>age who had never seen rain, but for that area it may have been no
>>>more extraordinary than 2 months of drought in Ireland.
>>
>>Your point about Cal is well taken, Jeff. *I* cannot remember the last
>>time it rained here. But at my age *all* the recent past is a bit of a
>>blur.
>>
>>But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
>>remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
>>Would you like me to?
>
>Your words are as the golden notes from a choir of angels, wafted on
>a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
>soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
Pile it on a bit more, and I just might! Beautiful set of words,
there, Jeff.
Dick J.
Jeff Drabble
On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
wrote:
>On Sun, 04 May 1997 04:50:14 GMT, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff
>Drabble) wrote:
>
>>Oh, settle down, Sue. A drought is a relative thing, surely. Two
>>months for Ireland is probably quite out of the ordinary. It may not
>>be for Ca, but so what. I remember a drought in Australia (around the
>>NSW, Queensland border) in the 80s where there were children of school
>>age who had never seen rain, but for that area it may have been no
>>more extraordinary than 2 months of drought in Ireland.
>
>Your point about Cal is well taken, Jeff. *I* cannot remember the last
>time it rained here. But at my age *all* the recent past is a bit of a
>blur.
>
>But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
>remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
>Would you like me to?
Your words are as the golden notes from a choir of angels, wafted on
a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
Jeff Drabble
Dick Jackson
>Oh, settle down, Sue. A drought is a relative thing, surely. Two
>months for Ireland is probably quite out of the ordinary. It may not
>be for Ca, but so what. I remember a drought in Australia (around the
>NSW, Queensland border) in the 80s where there were children of school
>age who had never seen rain, but for that area it may have been no
>more extraordinary than 2 months of drought in Ireland.
Your point about Cal is well taken, Jeff. *I* cannot remember the last
time it rained here. But at my age *all* the recent past is a bit of a
blur.
But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
Would you like me to?
Dick J.
Simon Patience
In article <3371eafc...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
|> wrote:
|> >remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
|> >Would you like me to?
|>
|> a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
|> soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
Uh-oh, it looks like the olduns are about to get all nostaligic on us. Still, you
tell the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.
Simon.
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Peter H.M. Brooks
In article <336E32...@pennine.com> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
> Ah, a teeny dry spell then. I'll be sympathetic in a
> couple more months.
>
Not really. It usually rains several times a week at this time of
year, a week without rain would normally give rise to comment and
speculation. The grass was brown in many places which just isn't
the colour that it is meant to be in Ireland.
--
Peter H.M. Brooks
Jeff Drabble
On 5 May 1997 13:03:50 GMT, s...@albion.engr.sgi.com (Simon Patience)
wrote:
>In article <3371eafc...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
>|> On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
>|> wrote:
>|> >But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
>|> >remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
>|> >Would you like me to?
>|>
>|> Your words are as the golden notes from a choir of angels, wafted on
>|> a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
>|> soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
>
>Uh-oh, it looks like the olduns are about to get all nostaligic on us. Still, you
>tell the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.
Hello . . . excuse me . . . but where, on this ng, has my age been
correctly established.
Your words are as the bilious vomitings from a nest of vipers, howling
on an icy blizzard and viciously slicing our collective ear with the
delirious rantings of anarchy and disorder. Put the kettle on, would
you? There's a chap. Mine's milk and none.
Jeff Drabble
Sue Spence
Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>
>
> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
> >
> > Ah, a teeny dry spell then. I'll be sympathetic in a
> > couple more months.
> >
> Not really. It usually rains several times a week at this time of
> year, a week without rain would normally give rise to comment and
> speculation. The grass was brown in many places which just isn't
> the colour that it is meant to be in Ireland.
>
GOLLY! Somebody call Hollywood - they're missing an opportunity
for a thrilling natural disaster flick. I suppose the Brish
government is about to cough up a million or two for Lawn
Relief?
Sue Spence
Simon Patience wrote:
>
> In article <336ec354...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
> |> On 5 May 1997 13:03:50 GMT, s...@albion.engr.sgi.com (Simon Patience)
> |> wrote:
> |> >In article <3371eafc...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
> |> >|> On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
> |> >|> wrote:
> |> >|> >But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
> |> >|> >remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
> |> >|> >Would you like me to?
> |> >|>
> |> >|> Your words are as the golden notes from a choir of angels, wafted on
> |> >|> a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
> |> >|> soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
> |> >
> |> >Uh-oh, it looks like the olduns are about to get all nostaligic on us. Still, you
> |> >tell the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.
> |>
> |> Hello . . . excuse me . . . but where, on this ng, has my age been
> |> correctly established.
>
> newsgroup?
Furthermore, what makes Drabble think we are even *interested*
in correctly establishing his age? Anyway, I think Lusby told
everyone that Jeff's 44 or so. That's a wrinkly to me and thee.
>
> |> Your words are as the bilious vomitings from a nest of vipers, howling
> |> on an icy blizzard and viciously slicing our collective ear with the
> |> delirious rantings of anarchy and disorder. Put the kettle on, would
> |> you? There's a chap. Mine's milk and none.
>
> And you are a wrinkly. Is that a digestive with that or would you prefer a
> chocy hobnob?
>
Do you have an plain chocolate rich tea biscuits? Homewheat
will do otherwise.
liv...@jnx.com
In article <5kklrm$i...@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Simon Patience <s...@albion.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Uh-oh, it looks like the olduns are about to get all nostaligic
> on us. Still, you tell the youth of today that, and they won't
> believe you.
And they would be wise not to, since nostalgia is not what
it used to be, as anyone who has read Cellini can attest.
Now there was a man who knew how to shake his salt cellar.
On the other hand, I can remember a bright spring day,
sitting under the trees, reading the naughty bits out of
Lysistrata with the aid of a dictionary, sustained by
nothing more substantial than sunbeams, a cup of smoked
green tea, and an occasional tipple of warm sake.
And if I put my mind to it, I bet I'll remember what I did
the day before yesterday.
jon.
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Jeff Drabble
On Wed, 07 May 1997 11:16:13 -0700, Sue Spence <s...@pennine.com>
wrote:
>> |>
>> |> Hello . . . excuse me . . . but where, on this ng, has my age been
>> |> correctly established.
>>
>> Oh right, and since when have facts had anything to do with posts to this
>> newsgroup?
>
>Furthermore, what makes Drabble think we are even *interested*
>in correctly establishing his age?
The great kindness and interest in people of other cultures in far off
lands is a trademark of your average scber. And because I am so far
away they are *very* interested. It's quite chummy really, despite
the distance. Of course, unlike you, I'm not of another culture: I'm
a guardian of the Empire's fartherest outpost. My family has been
doing this work for Britain for the past five generations. I must say
though, we're rather looking forward to the relief contingent's
arrival.
I seem to have wandered again.
> Anyway, I think Lusby told everyone that Jeff's 44 or so.
>That's a wrinkly to me and thee.
Yes, well, a chap from San Diego takes a stab and it becomes fact.
Fair enough, but you might consider the fact that he could still be
bitter about us flattening them in the battle for the America's Cup.
No, wait, that was the cup we flattened . . . oh dear, we wrinklies
grow confused easily.
>
>> l> Put the kettle on, would
>> |> you? There's a chap. Mine's milk and none.
>>
>> And you are a wrinkly. Is that a digestive with that or would you prefer a
>> chocy hobnob?
>>
>
>Do you have an plain chocolate rich tea biscuits? Homewheat
>will do otherwise.
I say, what about a round of shrewsburys: oh, yes please.
Jeff Drabble
Jeff Drabble
On Wed, 07 May 1997 16:01:20 -0600, liv...@jnx.com wrote:
>
>And if I put my mind to it, I bet I'll remember what I did
>the day before yesterday.
Hello, Jon.
Jeff Drabble
Dick Jackson
On 8 May 1997 00:44:04 GMT, s...@albion.engr.sgi.com (Simon Patience)
wrote:
>I could never get on with rich tea as they disintegrate when you dunk them (a
>vile habit I know, but impossible to resist). I had a packet of plain chocolate
>digestives a while ago but they have long been eaten.
I thought you'd all like to know that I found a British import store
in Morro Bay. The proprieter is from Derbyshire.
A 250 gm jar of you-know-what cost me 9.25USD.
Dick J. (Sorry about the metric, but that's what it says).
Simon Patience
In article <3370C6...@pennine.com>, Sue Spence <s...@pennine.com> writes:
|> Simon Patience wrote:
|> >
|> > In article <336ec354...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> > |> wrote:
|> > |> >In article <3371eafc...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> > |> >|> On Sun, 04 May 1997 15:20:15 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
|> > |> >|> wrote:
|> > |> >|> >But it seems only just the other day when I were a lad -- I can
|> > |> >|> >remember that quite clearly, and I can go on about it at great length.
|> > |> >|> >Would you like me to?
|> > |> >|>
|> > |> >|> Your words are as the golden notes from a choir of angels, wafted on
|> > |> >|> a warm summer zephyr and gently caressing our collective ear with the
|> > |> >|> soothing unguent of calm and reason. Please, do go on at length.
|> > |> >
|> > |> >tell the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.
|> > |>
|> > |> correctly established.
|> >
|> > Oh right, and since when have facts had anything to do with posts to this
|> > newsgroup?
|>
|> Furthermore, what makes Drabble think we are even *interested*
|> everyone that Jeff's 44 or so. That's a wrinkly to me and thee.
In fact do we care what Jeff says, if Peter says he's 44, then that's good
enough for me.
|> > |> Your words are as the bilious vomitings from a nest of vipers, howling
|> > |> on an icy blizzard and viciously slicing our collective ear with the
|> > |> delirious rantings of anarchy and disorder. Put the kettle on, would
|> > |> you? There's a chap. Mine's milk and none.
|> >
|> > And you are a wrinkly. Is that a digestive with that or would you prefer a
|> > chocy hobnob?
|> >
|>
|> Do you have an plain chocolate rich tea biscuits? Homewheat
|> will do otherwise.
I could never get on with rich tea as they disintegrate when you dunk them (a
vile habit I know, but impossible to resist). I had a packet of plain chocolate
digestives a while ago but they have long been eaten.
Simon.
Simon Patience
In article <337b2597...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> On 7 May 1997 03:42:50 GMT, s...@albion.engr.sgi.com (Simon Patience)
|> wrote:
|> >In article <336ec354...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> >|> Your words are as the bilious vomitings from a nest of vipers, howling
|> >|> on an icy blizzard and viciously slicing our collective ear with the
|> >|> delirious rantings of anarchy and disorder. Put the kettle on, would
|> >|> you? There's a chap. Mine's milk and none.
|> >
|> >And you are a wrinkly. Is that a digestive with that or would you prefer a
|> >chocy hobnob?
|>
|> walnut on it.
And the Poutometer goes off the scale........
Simon Patience
In article <338c120d....@snews.zippo.com>, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson) writes:
|> I thought you'd all like to know that I found a British import store
|> in Morro Bay. The proprieter is from Derbyshire.
Congratulations Dick, so it isn't true that you don't get out much these days.
|> A 250 gm jar of you-know-what cost me 9.25USD.
Err, no I don't know what. Marmite? Branston? Lubricating Jelly? Please enlighten.
|> Dick J. (Sorry about the metric, but that's what it says).
It must be tough for those educated more than 30 years ago, when they started
teaching it in schools.
Jeff Drabble
On Thu, 08 May 1997 13:38:11 GMT, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson)
wrote:
>On 8 May 1997 13:51:10 GMT, s...@albion.engr.sgi.com (Simon Patience)
>wrote:
>
>>In article <338c120d....@snews.zippo.com>, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson) writes:
>>|> I thought you'd all like to know that I found a British import store
>>|> in Morro Bay. The proprieter is from Derbyshire.
>>
>>Congratulations Dick, so it isn't true that you don't get out much these days.
>
>Actually I ran all the way there (25 mi) as a warm-up for the Coalinga
>iron man competition.
>
>>|> A 250 gm jar of you-know-what cost me 9.25USD.
>>
>>Err, no I don't know what. Marmite? Branston? Lubricating Jelly? Please enlighten.
>
>I was hoping to avoid another "you-know-what" thread. If one starts
>up, you are responsible.
>
>>|> Dick J. (Sorry about the metric, but that's what it says).
>>
>>It must be tough for those educated more than 30 years ago, when they started
>>teaching it in schools.
>
>Au contraire, old chappie, one learned the cgs system at one's mater's
>knee. Then had to unlearn it in favour of MKS, which later became SI.
>You had it easy!
Ignore Patience, Dick. He sees it as his life's work to give cheek to
his elders and betters. He is but a pebble in the shoe of humanity
and should be treated with appropriate disdain.
Jeff Drabble
Dick Jackson
>In article <338c120d....@snews.zippo.com>, di...@thegrid.net (Dick Jackson) writes:
>|> I thought you'd all like to know that I found a British import store
>|> in Morro Bay. The proprieter is from Derbyshire.
>
>Congratulations Dick, so it isn't true that you don't get out much these days.
Actually I ran all the way there (25 mi) as a warm-up for the Coalinga
iron man competition.
>|> A 250 gm jar of you-know-what cost me 9.25USD.
>
>Err, no I don't know what. Marmite? Branston? Lubricating Jelly? Please enlighten.
I was hoping to avoid another "you-know-what" thread. If one starts
up, you are responsible.
>|> Dick J. (Sorry about the metric, but that's what it says).
>
>It must be tough for those educated more than 30 years ago, when they started
>teaching it in schools.
Au contraire, old chappie, one learned the cgs system at one's mater's
knee. Then had to unlearn it in favour of MKS, which later became SI.
You had it easy!
Dick J.
Sue Spence
> |> >
> |> > In article <336ec354...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
> |> > |> >
> |> > |> >Uh-oh, it looks like the olduns are about to get all nostaligic on us. Still, you
> |> > |> >tell the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.
> |> > |>
> |> > |> Hello . . . excuse me . . . but where, on this ng, has my age been
> |> > |> correctly established.
> |> >
> |> > Oh right, and since when have facts had anything to do with posts to this
> |> > newsgroup?
> |>
> |> Furthermore, what makes Drabble think we are even *interested*
> |> in correctly establishing his age? Anyway, I think Lusby told
> |> everyone that Jeff's 44 or so. That's a wrinkly to me and thee.
>
> In fact do we care what Jeff says, if Peter says he's 44, then that's good
> enough for me.
Works for me too.
>
>
> |> Do you have an plain chocolate rich tea biscuits? Homewheat
> |> will do otherwise.
>
> I could never get on with rich tea as they disintegrate when you dunk them (a
> vile habit I know, but impossible to resist). I had a packet of plain chocolate
> digestives a while ago but they have long been eaten.
It's not vile just messy. The name 'digestives' is kinda gross
though. They don't taste too bad but the name really puts me
off.
liv...@jnx.com
In article <337344...@uk.sun.com.fish>,
Trevor Kirby <trevor...@uk.sun.com.fish> wrote:
>
> You really have kicked off a severe nostalgia trip here, we
> did physics in imperial units in the first year, CGS in the
> second and SI in the third. Any poor sod of a teacher who
> failed to specify units in an exam question was rapidly reduced
> to a gibbering wreck.
They were still dinning SI into us, which led to some funny
situations. My Physics class had gone from a hundred and
some in first year to twenty by third year, but we still had
a couple of people who were hoping to swot up before finals,
and didn't really keep up.
One morning a bright young grad student was screaming at us
about something or other when his eagle eye searched the
thnning ranks and, thank God, found the other slacker and
yelled "You there! What's the wavelength of the Sodium Yellow
line!".
There was a moment of hush, and then a thin voice replied "A
hundred and two?". Grad student, eight feet tall by this
time, yells back "A hundred and two *what*".
"Point three?"
Peter H.M. Brooks
> > vile habit I know, but impossible to resist). I had a packet of plain
> chocolate
> > digestives a while ago but they have long been eaten.
>
> It's not vile just messy. The name 'digestives' is kinda gross
> though. They don't taste too bad but the name really puts me
> off.
>
This is most peculiar. All that the name suggests to me is that they
are easy to digest, what is gross [or 'kinda' gross] about that?
I was surprised a good many years ago to find that my mother found
the word 'feedback' objectionable. She refused to explain why.
--
Peter H.M. Brooks
Simon Patience
In article <33813b04...@snews5.zippo.com>, jef...@super.zippo.com (Jeff Drabble) writes:
|> Ignore Patience, Dick. He sees it as his life's work to give cheek to
|> his elders and betters. He is but a pebble in the shoe of humanity
|> and should be treated with appropriate disdain.
Only a fool goes on a walk through life ignoring the pebble in his shoe. Ooo, that
sounds a bit confucian.
s...@pennine.com
In article <863422...@psyche.demon.co.uk>,
pe...@psyche.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> In article <337278...@pennine.com> s...@pennine.com "Sue Spence" writes:
>
> > > vile habit I know, but impossible to resist). I had a packet of plain
> > chocolate
> > > digestives a while ago but they have long been eaten.
> >
> > It's not vile just messy. The name 'digestives' is kinda gross
> > though. They don't taste too bad but the name really puts me
> > off.
> >
> This is most peculiar. All that the name suggests to me is that they
> are easy to digest,
Exactly - as though they were pre-digested. I do not need help
digesting my food.
>
> I was surprised a good many years ago to find that my mother found
> the word 'feedback' objectionable. She refused to explain why.
>
Depending on the context, I think I probably agree with her.
Peter H.M. Brooks
> > This is most peculiar. All that the name suggests to me is that they
> > are easy to digest,
>
> Exactly - as though they were pre-digested. I do not need help
> digesting my food.
>
There is no implication of pre-digestion. Bananas are easy to digest,
but nobody, that I know of, believes that they have been pre-digested.
>
> >
> > I was surprised a good many years ago to find that my mother found
> > the word 'feedback' objectionable. She refused to explain why.
> >
>
> Depending on the context, I think I probably agree with her.
>
Which context do you object to and why?
--
Peter H.M. Brooks