OK. I think it's time for a round of
Charles Anthony
Whats on your desk right now ?
I have a Novell Mug dated 1988, my Inside The Personal Computer Pop-up
Guide mentioned earlier this week, an issue of Private Eye dated 14th
May, an inflatable fishing net, innumerable code listings, the QBS
Devlopers Catalogue, several entity-relation diagrams, a roll mop
herring, a set of manuals for the 4GL Development Environment
"Dynasty", 5 and a half pairs of stockings, a copy of Design Patterns
: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Design, 4 Amazon Bookmarks, 1
Bookpages bookmark (the original British online bookstore, bought by
Amazon), a Chilean nose flute, a book entitled The Awk Programming
Language, 1 glass from Ikea, and lots of crumbs.
You'll note that there are some fibs in there. I wrote a list of what
was actually on my desk, and it was far too geeky and boring to admit
to. Oh, and that's only scratching the surface of the crud on my desk.
A side game - play spot the porkies.
--
Charles Anthony
http://www.backstage.demon.co.uk/personal
Mr Pigeon
Charles Anthony wrote in message <375847a7...@news.demon.co.uk>...
>that good old uk.misc game :
>
>Whats on your desk right now ?
P.C
Telephone
Fifty piles of crap.
Coffe cup containing cold coffee.
Colin Batchelor
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Martin I. and Simons J., J.Chem.Phys. 62, 4799 (1975)
Child M.S., Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 355, 1623 (1997)
Greene C.H., Rau A.R.P., Fano U., Phys. Rev. A. 26, 2441 (1982)
Greene C.H., Jungen Ch., Adv. At. Mol. Phys. 21, 51 (1985)
Child M.S., Jungen Ch., J. Chem. Phys. 93, 7756 (1990)
Batchelor C.R., Part II Thesis (1998)
Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions
A day book, and pile upon pile of scrap paper plus unwritten up yet notes.
163.1.26.2
A mug from the University of Reading.
A pile of dead batteries.
Chris Eilbeck
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Nothing of any great note other than my current favourite big
blue stripey mug. Lots of techie stuff, lots of bills - mostly
paid ones, some rather nice orangey Lindt milk choc which I'm
desperately trying to save for later, a Sunday Times I haven't
got round to reading yet - read the tabloids but couldn't be
bothered with this.
> A side game - play spot the porkies.
All the computerey stuff?
Chris
--
Chris Eilbeck mailto:ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk
Mike Warren
Mr Pigeon wrote:
> Charles Anthony wrote in message <375847a7...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> >that good old uk.misc game :
> >
> >Whats on your desk right now ?
>
errr a banana..a cheese and apple sandwhich, a pile of pc install details,a
pen,a stapler,a metal blanking plate from a pc,a static-free bag,another
stapler,a pc,a monitor and 2 speakers,an 'in' tray with lots of paper, an
out try thats almost empty,a pile of delivery notes,a pile of computer
supplier catalogues,a sellotape holder..with sellotape...a mouse,a mouse
mat..and a bent paper clip.
Mike Warren.
Mr Pigeon
<37565F9C...@no.spam.please.we.are.british>...
>mat..and a bent paper clip.
It's those bastards that give the rest of the paper-clips a bad name.
Most of 'em do a brilliant job.
Mike Warren
Mr Pigeon wrote:
haha....good one.
This one I use to get cds out of cdrom drives if the platter doesnt open.
Mike Warren.
Victoria
> that good old uk.misc game :
>
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Very lovely purple imac which is the best thing in the world ever.
A USB serial converty thing which has a nice purpley shiny bit to match
my computer, a see through purple stapler, a stapler shaped like a
shark, a rubber stamp with a dolphin on it, some Frosties, my powerbook,
two fluffy yellow chicks, two fluffy blue Claris bug things, a HORSE
made of blutack, millions of bits of paper with phone numbers and
scribbles.
Mr Pigeon
>Piles of crap
... so no change there. Ho!Ho!
>Oyy, Dead, you faggot, limey asswipe root of all evil and Protestant.
Yes, you silver-tongued cavalier?
>Whilst I am compiling my databases at the weekend, I will be free to
>hit the piss for 7 hour stretches at a time. Do you fancy a beer? I
>promise that I won't cum if you turn up, but I will definitely come
>along.
Excellent idea.
Where and when?
I'm looking after my offspring during the day on Saturday but I'll be in
Clapham Sunday lunchtime...
Charles Anthony
> three phones
Isn't that a little excessive ? Wouldn't one suffice ?
Charles Anthony
>On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:40:50 GMT, in uk.misc cha...@hpdi.demon.co.uk
>(Charles Anthony) wrote:
>>
>>Isn't that a little excessive ? Wouldn't one suffice ?
>>
>
>One is direct BT, one is internal / direct Ascom and the other one is
>a special number, a type of red phone if you wish.
Kewl.
> I answer that one,
>the others are all filtered by a sexy Terry.
By a chocolate orange ?
Chris Eilbeck
> A Yuri Gagarin Poster (from Moscow)
Have you heard this story, could be UL, that Gagarin wasn't the first
man in space and someone else went first but was burnt to death on
re-entry, his screams being recorded by several radio amateurs?
Chris Eilbeck
> On 03 Jun 1999 11:26:51 +0100, in uk.misc Chris Eilbeck
> <ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> >All the computerey stuff?
>
> How was the Jazz, geezer?
Shpxvat terng, thanks mate!
Victoria
> Baby wipes (in case I get any babies on my screen)
That made me choke on my fruit pastel that did.
Chris Eilbeck
> On 03 Jun 1999 14:34:57 +0100, in uk.misc Chris Eilbeck
> <ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >Shpxvat terng, thanks mate!
>
> I told you I wasn't just a useless phag.
Absolutely not, you come out drinking too, unlike certain persons
I could mention.
Dom
cha...@hpdi.demon.co.uk (Charles Anthony) wrote:
>a roll mop herring,
What sort? I'd love to find Ziggerneroller (sp?)
without having to go back to Vienna.
Maybe I should just go back to Vienna.
Dom
Chris Eilbeck <ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>k...@jaf.nildramNOSPAM.co.uk writes:
>
>> A Yuri Gagarin Poster (from Moscow)
>
>Have you heard this story, could be UL, that Gagarin wasn't the first
>man in space and someone else went first but was burnt to death on
>re-entry, his screams being recorded by several radio amateurs?
Complete and utter rowlocks, and the subject matter of a row
that led me to conclude that AFU is so far up its own posterior
as to make uk.misc look, errr, like something that isn't
completely H-U-A. Which it is.
It was Soyuz-1, the parachute failed: meaning that he
hit the ground with considerable force. Chances are
he was alive up to that point.
During re-entry, there is a radio blackout.
Hence no chance of recording a cremating
cosmonaut. Which wouldn't happen if you hit
re-entry correctly.
Here's the post where I first flagged up the bogosity:
From: d...@i-cubed.co.uk (Dom)
Subject: Re: Swissair crash, phone call
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
In article <6t4sma$3nr$1...@blackice.winternet.com>,
nel...@winternet.com (Gregory Nelson) wrote:
>Just to fill in the rest of the quote:
>
>In article <dtmJ1.3692$2s.34...@newsfeed.slurp.net>,
> <no....@adams.patriot.net> wrote:
>>See James Bamford's _The Puzzle Palace_, in which an NSA radio
>>operator describes the parachute failure and subsequent
>>incineration of Soyuz 1 on April 23, 1967:
>
>"They couldn't get the chute that slowed his craft down in re-entry to
>work. They knew what the problem was for about two hours...and were
>fighting to correct it. It was all in Russian, of course, but we taped it
>and listened to it a couple of times afterward. Kosygin called him
>personally. They had a video-phone conversation.
>
>>"Kosygin was crying. He told [Vladimir Komarov] he was a hero and
>>that he had made the greatest achievement in Russian history,
>>that they were proud, and that he'd be remembered. The guy's wife
>>got on too. They talked for a while. He told her how to handle
>>their affairs and what to do with the kids. It was pretty awful."
>
>"Towards the last few minutes he began falling apart, saying,
>'I don't want to die, you've got to do something.' Then there was just a
>scream as he died. I guess he was incinerated."
Parachute? Re-entry? Sense no it makes. Stuff I found on the web:
Linkname: Friends and Partners in Space : Soyuz-1 Anniversary
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/dconst/fpspace97/0613.html
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James Oberg
22 Apr 1997 21:43:47 -0400
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Tonight (GMT) is the 30th anniversary of the launching of Soyuz-1.
I've finally become satisfied, through recent conversations with Russians who
were at Yevpatoriya during the mission, that the famous "dying words" with
Komarov's wife and with Kosygin never occurred. They were just bar room
fantasies passed around by people pretending to have inside information.
JimO
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And in the same thread (excuse the formatting, ain't mine):
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I've always thought that Komarov must have considered he had a
reasonable shot at returning
alive from the mission while still in orbit. The various technical problems
that cropped up after
orbital insertion - the semi-deployed solar panels, and the navigation and
electrical problems - would
have been seen as dangerous, but not fatal; this is borne out by the fact
that Komarov was able to acheive
a reasonable retrofire maneuver, and did survive re-entry. The one
malfunction that did cause the fatal
accident - the fouled parachute - was probably not even considered during
preparations for re-entry.
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Sue
Charles Anthony <cha...@hpdi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:375847a7...@news.demon.co.uk...
> A side game - play spot the porkies.
Clearly everything bar the 5 and a half pairs of stockings.
Sue.
Sue
>
> Whats on your desk right now ?
A monitor with a fluffy stick-on dog on it.
Two speakers
A black clock (I said clock)
A calculator
A mouse (where, there on the stair)
2 mousemats
A notepad covered in doodles
A Winnie the Pooh mug half filled with warm tea.
A snotty tissue.
A malteser (singular).
I have a very small desk.
Sue.
Chris Eilbeck
> I heard something similar, but the 'official'(1) explanation was chimps
> or monkeys, though why they would bother giving a monkey a transmitting
> radio makes little sense. Bearing in mind that Gagarin was sent up in a
> machine that wasn't even properly ready, in order to beat the US, and it
> was all a bit hasty, I doubt it, myself.
I saw one of the Gemini capsules last year in NYC and the whole thing
seems to have been done at a much higher risk factor than I'd be
comfortable with.
> But then again, they lied
> about most other things, such as Gagarin's landing (he ejected, and
> parachuted, while his 'module' crashed), and the Glorious Soviet Union
> would never like to admit to a failure. Who can tell, eh?
The thing that makes me doubt the story is that radios don't work
during re-entry due to ionisation caused by the heat. This negates
the only known source of independant verification so I guess we'll
never know for sure unless one of the superpowers owns up to its
records.
> I shook Yuri Gagarin's hand, you know, but it doesn't mention that in
> the book ('Starman').
Show off!!
ian potter
Anthony) wrote:
>that good old uk.misc game :
>
>Whats on your desk right now ?
A diorama of chaos. On the bit to the right of me is a whole seperate
desk, on which there is a gullotine (standing by for the declaration
of republic, otherwise used for chopping paper) and a tray full of
assorted printed matter that I inherited from the last person to hold
this job. As it's undoubtedly all bad news and passed deadlines, I am
not looking in there, and thus retaining my facade of ignorance should
anyone complain.
In front and to the left is the desk proper. One pen rack thing with a
two red pens, a green pen, two blue (one fountain, one ballpoint), a
black bic pen, a pair of scissors (metal, only for use under the
supervision of an adult), and a scapel (emergency self-distruct). One
Dell computer (allegedly they will give me a mac too at some point
before the sun goes nova)obscured by a litter of post-its with
partially legible scrawls of cryptic notes like 'not 185!' They meant
something once. A large heap of gold bullion. Piles of floppy disks,
several copies of assorted esteemed scientific publications, one copy
of today's Metro, a two-foot pile of mail, a desk organizer calendar
pad courtesy of H Charlesworth & Co, and a pile of proofs from the
typesetters that might require my attention at some point before they
topple to the floor. Which would be unfortunate, as I use the floor as
filing space.
ian.
--
new and improved
now lasts even longer
Dom
Chris Eilbeck <ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Absolutely not, you come out drinking too, unlike certain persons
>I could mention.
Christ, I didn't come out while I was drinking did I?
Dom
k...@jaf.nildramNOSPAM.co.uk wrote:
>machine that wasn't even properly ready, in order to beat the US, and it
>about most other things, such as Gagarin's landing (he ejected, and
>parachuted, while his 'module' crashed),
I thought that was S.O.P. for the early Soviet flights?
Chris Eilbeck
> Complete and utter rowlocks, and the subject matter of a row
> that led me to conclude that AFU is so far up its own posterior
> as to make uk.misc look, errr, like something that isn't
> completely H-U-A. Which it is.
> ***SNIP***
Cracking effort, Dom. See, you wanna know about Soviet space
history, ask on uk.misc, you know it makes sense!
Alex Buell
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Two loudspeakers, a textphone, a USR Courier V.Everything, a 17" monitor,
a mug containing very warm coffee, a Road Tax Fund licence worth £155,
dated 05/00 (must remember to put it on my car when I go out - yes, I'm in
a happy mood, just got Hannah back today!!!), a mouse, a happy smiley
(anyone remember acid house?) mouse mat, an ashtray with 3 cigarette
butts stubbed out it in, a new cheque book, one drawing pin, a company
electronic door tag (for entry to work), Madonna's "Like a Prayer" CD, two
packets containing 4 hearing aid betteries, a bank statement with a
balance running well into four digits (£*.***.**), a portable music centre
belting out Madonna's "Love doesn't exist here", a letter from a friend,
three floppies (with a fully licenced copy of Agent zipped & along with
pkunzip & pkzip, ready to be smuggled into work to install on my work
peecee), a silver cigarette lighter with a cannabis logo embossed onto it,
a 'post-it' note with two telephone numbers on it (that I'd got from the
last time I went nightclubbing).
I am *so* fucking happy, I've just got Hannah back, she now needs running
in for the next 500 miles or so once I've caught up on news & e-mail.
Cheers,
Alex
--
"The bible was written by the same people who thought the world was flat!"
http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk
nickey davies
> that good old uk.misc game :
>
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Telly & remote, Nintendo-64 playing Yoshi's Story, Time Out, full ashtray,
empty glass, modem, stack of photos of the Isle of Wight, laptop, phone, 2
beer mats, old Golden Virgina tin, Lypsyl, fags, lighter, wooden flute,
photo of great-great-grand-dad, modem, another beer mat, another laptop,
sheaf of illegible notes, Tesco tissues, Umax scanner, cordless mouse,
Bugs Bunny mouse-mat, camera recharging, banjolele, AAA batteries, feather
duster. And I'm just about to add a tin of Holsten.
--
Nickey
Gary Robert Kelly
news:376c92d7....@news.bdx.co.uk...
>
> I told you I wasn't just a useless phag.
Do you let people park their bikes in your workman's bum cleavage too?
--
Gaz Kelly <change 'tepid' to 'hot' to reply>
"My greatest fear in life is that no-one will remember me
when I am dead" - Anon
Shereen
> that good old uk.misc game :
>
> Whats on your desk right now ?
PC.
My wind up Tails on monitor.
Mouse & mat.
Phone.
Printer.
Plastic holder for vending machine cups.
Sellotape dispenser.
pen pot.
pet rubber band ball (6 years old last month).
can of drink.
pot of soup (see lunch thread).
Unwanted sandwich.
Mysterious pile of paper which appeared whilst I was away. I'm sure it
contains work but I'm not disturbing it just yet.
Oops - blob of split soup.
Illegal spider plant (we're not allowed plants on our desks).
Stapler.
desk pad.
my elbow.
Shereen 'sorry Charles'
--
"It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
Ian Henden
<co...@msc.thchem.ox.ac.uk> put his/her 2penn'orth in to say>Martin I. and Simons J., J.Chem.Phys. 62, 4799 (1975)
>Child M.S., Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 355, 1623 (1997)
>Greene C.H., Rau A.R.P., Fano U., Phys. Rev. A. 26, 2441 (1982)
>Greene C.H., Jungen Ch., Adv. At. Mol. Phys. 21, 51 (1985)
>Child M.S., Jungen Ch., J. Chem. Phys. 93, 7756 (1990)
>Batchelor C.R., Part II Thesis (1998)
>Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions
>
>A day book, and pile upon pile of scrap paper plus unwritten up yet notes.
>
>163.1.26.2
>
>A mug from the University of Reading.
Who is it?
>
>A pile of dead batteries.
--
Ian Henden
Adrian Vickers
> that good old uk.misc game :
>
Crikey, where to start?
1 PC + associated rubbish
1 notepad computer
1 digital camera
2 phones
several CDs, none of which contain music
3 Derek & Clive CD boxes, only two of which contain discs
2 mice
various pens
1 "Florence Nightingale" style brass candleholder serving as an ashtray
3 cigarette lighters (just in case)
1 microwaved Compuserve CD, serving as a novelty coffee mat
>
> A side game - play spot the porkies.
>
No, no pork pies whatsoever. Sadly, as I'm rather peckish right now.
--
Ade.
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." - Dan Quayle
Adrian Vickers
>
> I am *so* fucking happy, I've just got Hannah back, she now needs running
> in for the next 500 miles or so once I've caught up on news & e-mail.
>
You should try Charlene. From what I've heard, she needs no running in at
all....
Welcome back, Alex!
Adrian Vickers
No, on the train afterwards.
HTH, HAND, etc.
Adrian Vickers
> a nice purpley shiny bit
Are really badly obvious followups allowed in this thread?
Tim Emanuel
> that good old uk.misc game :
>
> Whats on your desk right now ?
Keyboard, monitor, speakers, mouse, digital camera, letter from a
friend called Phil, theenvelope it came in, a bit of the envelope I
tore off to make a toothpick with, an empty crisp packet, a die, a
hooter from a christmas cracker, a black biro, a plectrum, two bits
that I've torn off at the perforations of zip disk case inserts, a
Yvahk boot disk, a piece of paper with an out of date phone number and
IP address for the AS/400 at work.
Tim.
--
Gate 84. Block 540. Row 27. Seat 20.
26th May, 1999.
Paul Stevenson
> Whats on your desk right now ?
· a computer monitor on which I can see the letters of this post appear
one by one in correlation with pressing of the keys of my keyboard,
which brings me to: a keyboard (of the computer variety) and my forearms
as they reach to the keyboard.
· some dinky computer speakers which sound lousy (but I have a crap
sound card to match them, so that's okay)
· A vcr remote control
· an empty glass, atop a coaster
· a lamp, off.
· a mouse on a mouse mat
· A much annotated thesis outline describing the thesis I ought to be
writing right now.
· a pencil, and a pen.
· an empty beer bottle.
· some ringworm cream (ahem).
· a fridge-magenet-cum-book about rabbits.
Alex Buell
> > I am *so* fucking happy, I've just got Hannah back, she now needs running
> > in for the next 500 miles or so once I've caught up on news & e-mail.
>
> You should try Charlene. From what I've heard, she needs no running in at
> all....
Fly in ointment. Just discovered fifth gear doesn't work! 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
and 4th all works fine, can't get into 5th :o( Still the new engine is
incredibly smooth and I swear it purrs to itself as I cruise at a rather
leisurely 60mph (rpm well under 3,000, not bad). I'm definitely treating
this engine with kid gloves for the next few hundred miles.
I'll book the car in for Saturday to get that 5th gear sorted.
Shereen
> SOP?
Standard Operating Procedure?
Shereen
--
"Friday left me fumblin with the blues,
And it's hard to win when you always lose." Tom Waits
For all your ASP discussion needs: http://www.aspforums.com
The above reflects the views of the author only.
Charles Anthony
>k...@jaf.nildramNOSPAM.co.uk wrote:
>
>> SOP?
>
>Standard Operating Procedure?
>
>Shereen
Special Old Pale
--
Charles Anthony
http://www.backstage.demon.co.uk/personal
Illtud Daniel
>The entity calling itself Charles Anthony wrote:
>> Whats on your desk right now ?
>A GENDER CHANGER U.S. PAT: 5190481
Two USA PATENT 5199906 GENDER CHANGERs (ROC PATENT 64341)
A box of assorted ethernet cards.
A coax toolkit.
Lots and lots of paperwork.
Two 17" monitors.
Two keyboards (one IR).
Speakers.
Four O'Reilly books (bash, advanced perl, unix CD bookshelf, linux)
Two lightning-fried hubs to be tested.
A plastic case freebie by Panasonic which I'm in two minds whether
to throw out or not.
Mags (n/w week, info week, pc pro, Netsuccess(?))
University telephone directory.
Palm cradle.
Sellotape.
A package addressed to Ian Batten.
Meece.
3 palm styli which don't fit the PIII. (anybody got a pro, or original?)
A TDR UTP tester.
A 56k modem, in box.
Assorted CDs.
Assorted printouts.
Betteries.
DC2120 carts.
A delivery of security tags.
A fountain pen.
A telephone on an arm-thingy.
1000m of 4-core tight-buffered indoor/outdoor fibre. (well, under
the desk, but it makes a good footrest)
Illtud Daniel
Sam Nelson
|
| The entity calling itself Wun H Lo wrote:
| >
| > On 03 Jun 1999 16:38:17 +0100, in uk.misc Chris Eilbeck
| > <ch...@yordas.demon.co.uk> wrote:
| > >
| > >Absolutely not, you come out drinking too, unlike certain persons
| > >I could mention.
| >
|
| Look, you onfgneqf, I was unavoidably detained, like wot I said.
| Yes, it's my round. Come up here and collect, if you like.
| We could do with another Sk0tZ meat.
|
If I find out about it before it happens this time, I might even join in.
--
SAm. (Insert bandwidth-wasting disclaimer here)
`The depths of space gob in my face; the stars my degradation'
Sam Nelson
| Some Vodafone statements. I have two phones in my name. One for me. One
| for the wife. Except one's Vodafone Retails and one's Vodafone Connect.
| I learned that they do an NHS discount of 19% but only if I transfer
| both to Vodafone Care Club. What a hassle!
|
Oddly enough, I'm moving our phones to a group tariff just now. They sent me
a form I didn't understand, so I took it to the shop this lunchtime to ask
about it. To cut a long, tedious story short, it took three people twenty
minutes and two phone calls to work it out. I think I have it fixed so that
Kids' Mother just has to sign her name on the form now. It is indeed a hassle,
but I'm pretty sure it'll work out cheaper, and since KM is unwaged at present,
it makes sense from the cashflow PoV as well.
| Ticket stubs from three Manchester Arena concerts: Springsteen, Meat
| Loaf and MSPs.
|
Yuk. Taste clinic, anyone?
| A few rocks of crack.
|
For medicinal purposes only, of course.
Sam Nelson
|
| [...snip...]
|
| Palm cradle.
|
| [...snip...]
|
| A package addressed to Ian Batten.
|
|
| 3 palm styli which don't fit the PIII. (anybody got a pro, or original?)
|
you want rid of 'em, put 'em in the post.
Illtud Daniel
Sam Nelson <s...@cs.stir.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <7j8f63$fp0$1...@sheba.jesus.ox.ac.uk>, ida...@sheba.jesus.ox.ac.uk (Illtud Daniel) writes:
>| Palm cradle.
>| A package addressed to Ian Batten.
>| 3 palm styli which don't fit the PIII. (anybody got a pro, or original?)
>|
>Hey, this is beginning to sound a bit like a Palm cabal.
PalmPnony?
>KM has a PPP: if you want rid of 'em, put 'em in the post.
I do want rid of 'em. Mail me an address.
Dom
Ian Henden <i...@weatherseal.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<<SNIP!>>
>>A mug from the University of Reading.
>Who is it?
>>
>>A pile of dead batteries.
Ian, old chap, could you a) trim and b) leave a gap,
like most people round here do? It's a right bugger
to spot what you've actually written amidst the quoted
material.
Ta.
Dom
Iain A F Fleming <ia...@kororaa.uk.eu.org> wrote:
>Look, you onfgneqf, I was unavoidably detained, like wot I said.
>Yes, it's my round. Come up here and collect, if you like.
>We could do with another Sk0tZ meat.
Sk0tZ M3aT 2000! About this time next year.
Helen Deborah Vecht
from cha...@hpdi.demon.co.uk (Charles Anthony) contains these words:
> that good old uk.misc game :
> Whats on your desk right now ?
My computer, printer and speakers.
My Hi-fi.
My late lunch tea mug, sitting on a coaster.
7 CDs or CD-ROMs
A desk tidy containing 7 black Bics, a highlighter, a Bambi stapler,
a Pentel pencil with 3 boxes of spare leads, a stapler, an allen key,
a ruler, a multitool and a UV pentorch and marker.
An ocarina.
Two watches
Two pencil cases
A calculator
Paper and envelopes.
Sellotape in a dispenser.
A pair of polyurethane thermal glove liners.
A British National Formulary.
The Audax UK Calendar.
Three letters awaiting attention.
A freebie clock from a drug rep currently running 15 mins fast. This
clock runs so fast that I put it back by two hours every October,
which means it reads correctly for a day or two. By the spring, it
has gained enough time to display the right time without needing to
be advanced manually.
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helen...@zetnet.co.uk
Kingsbury,
London NW9.
Mr Pigeon
>
>One hell of a newsreader, so it it.
------------------------------^^^^^
Shame it hasn't got a grammar checker.
Illtud Daniel
>An ocarina.
I've got something that's a bit like an ocarina crossed with pan pipes
(or do I mean a marimba crossed with pan pipes? Does an ocarina look
rather like an oil-lamp shape with holes in' top?). My brother bought
it back from... from... hmm - can't remember - somewhere in Asia.
It's well weird. When the OxMeat finally happens, we'll have to see if
anybody can get a tune out of it.
I'd do some ascii art, but I can't be arsed.
Iain A F Fleming
Nut puker.
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Iain A F Fleming
Chris Eilbeck
Nah, the bugger'll invite us all and then go brown-nosing instead
of getting pissed.
Chris
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Dom
>>
>> It's a right bugger to spot what you've actually written amidst the
>> quoted material.
>
>shown nicely where the new stuff starts.
>One hell of a newsreader, so it it.
"Well *my* newsreader can cope with it"
- bozo newbie excuse no. 94.
Yes, better newsreaders allow you to cope better with
HTMLised posts, massive cross-posts, badly formatted
posts, and so on. Doesn't excuse them, though.
Chris Eilbeck
> The entity calling itself Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> >
> > Nah, the bugger'll invite us all and then go brown-nosing instead
> > of getting pissed.
>
> Actually, I wasn't brown-nosing.
> I don't need to do that kind of thing.
> I was trying to fashion my escape to get to a pub.
> The only decent beer in the place was bottled heineken.
Tee hee!
Victoria
> An ocarina.
Way k3wl! We've got one of them. I nicked it off my mum. It has many
years worth of many different peoples saliva on it.
Dom
Iain A F Fleming <ia...@kororaa.uk.eu.org> wrote:
>The entity calling itself Chris Eilbeck wrote:
>>
>> Nah, the bugger'll invite us all and then go brown-nosing instead
>> of getting pissed.
>
>Actually, I wasn't brown-nosing.
>I don't need to do that kind of thing.
>I was trying to fashion my escape to get to a pub.
>The only decent beer in the place was bottled heineken.
Chris, he's suffered enough. I think we can stop giving him
a hard time now.
Alex Buell
> >Look, you onfgneqf, I was unavoidably detained, like wot I said.
> >Yes, it's my round. Come up here and collect, if you like.
> >We could do with another Sk0tZ meat.
>
> Sk0tZ M3aT 2000! About this time next year.
M3 2 if the time and day be right
Adrian Vickers
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:54:03 +0100, in uk.misc
> nos...@toolsbase.demon.co.uk (Adrian Vickers) wrote:
>
> >Whilst making a point in uk.misc, Victoria wrote:
> >
> >> a nice purpley shiny bit
> >
> >Are really badly obvious followups allowed in this thread?
> >
>
>
That's just taking the piss.
Jeannie
Alex Buell <alex....@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.10.99060...@tahallah.demon.co.uk...
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Dom wrote:
>
> > >Look, you onfgneqf, I was unavoidably detained, like wot I said.
> > >Yes, it's my round. Come up here and collect, if you like.
> > >We could do with another Sk0tZ meat.
> >
> > Sk0tZ M3aT 2000! About this time next year.
>
> M3 2 if the time and day be right
Nice to see you back, Alex :-)
~~
Jeannie
~~
r.phi...@nospam.clara.net
wrote:
>that good old uk.misc game :
>
>Whats on your desk right now ?
>
A Digital Alpha Station 255 (that's being used as a rather large and ugly
bookend at the mo)
A Dell WorkStation 400
A stuffed beaver (I kid you not)
An empty can of Fanta
A "Narcotics Officer" cap
2 busted 3.5" floppy drives
A menu for a restaurant in the Barbican
My minidisc recorder
2 Halogen bulbs
My tube pass
A busted 3 com "dongle"
A big long list of "problems" to solve
--
Richard Phillips
"Madness takes it's toll, please have correct change"
Marcus Houlden
ia...@kororaa.uk.eu.org inscribed <6r1zfsv...@news.kororaa.uk.eu.org>
to tell the good people of uk.misc the following:
> The only decent beer in the place was bottled heineken.
I think you misspelt "a large urine sample possibly taken from a circus
animal" [(c) Bill Bryson]. Actually a while back I had an export bottle
of "Guinness". This wasn't Guinness because it was brewed in London, had
no head and was FIZZY! I abandoned it halfway through. This was in a
hotel bar not more than 500 metres from the Boddington's brewery in
Manchester and it wa the best thing they had. I endured Bud for a bit and
then got to a decent pub (Lass O'Gowrie) which served decent beer. This
was the UAP con in case people are wondering.
--
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PGP Key ID: 0x75B02986 ICQ: 29654055
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Alex Buell
> > M3 2 if the time and day be right
>
> Nice to see you back, Alex :-)
Thanks =8-) Err.. I've been a silly little boy lately haven't I?
Paul Stevenson
> Iain A F Fleming wrote in message <6raeugv...@news.kororaa.uk.eu.org>...
>
> >One hell of a newsreader, so it it.
> ------------------------------^^^^^
>
> Shame it hasn't got a grammar checker.
Without wanting to win the most boring miscreant award, I feel I ought
to point out that it does, or at least emacs, in which gnus runs, does.
Sort of. Well, it's a spelling checker really but it also catches things
like repeated words.
Paul Stevenson
> Gnus does not cope with HTML posts, as they are EV1L,
> and the perpetrators of such should be hunted down,
> beaten senseless, skinned and dipped in hot salt baths.
(Damn, this is my second techie newsreader post of the day)
everything after the first comma I concur with, but recent versions of
gnus do speak html (if you ask nicely) using emacs' w3 web browser. It's
very handy for when my relatives send me email in html.
Paul Stevenson
> I've got something that's a bit like an ocarina crossed with pan pipes
Hmm, my brother has something remarkably similar. I wonder if they are
the same thing...
> I'd do some ascii art, but I can't be arsed.
Ah, neither can I. shpx it. He got his in Oxfam, so probably not.
Jeannie
ISPCAP <aw...@five.in.the.morning> wrote in message
news:19990604....@hotch.demon.co.uk...
> > Whats on your desk right now ?
> A few rocks of crack.
So that explains a few things :-D
On the desk:
Monitor
Scanner
Printer
Dictaphone
Microphone
Calculator
Two telephones (one recharging cellular)
Two speakers
Three-hole punch
Stapler
Hand lotion
Post-It Notes
Rolodex
Stack of bills
....and a
Hutch containing:
(top shelf)
PDR
Webster's Unabridged
Dorland's
Twenty-four softcover, computer-related books
Wooden sign
Mother's Day card from my boys
(middle shelf)
Basket
Two greeting cards
Crystal clock
Envelopes
Eighteen computer CD's on a built-in rack
(bottom shelf)
Floppy/CD case with yet more CD's but ICBA to look
Ceramic mug with pens, pencils, & stamps
More bills (less important ones)
(shelf nook on right)
Medical Trans. coursebooks
Micro-cassette recorder
*Ta-da!* I have now qualified myself as the most boring miscreant.
~~
Jeannie <~~ definitely has the most boring sig. I must do something about
this.
~~
Helen Deborah Vecht
from sp...@caradawc.freeserve.co.uk (Matt Craddock) contains these words:
> In article (<199906041...@zetnet.co.uk>), Helen Deborah Vecht
> <helen...@zetnet.co.uk> typed:
> >My late lunch tea mug
> How did it die?
I sucked it dry...
Any way it was only about 4 pm when I posted that...
A similar mug is on the same coaster now. My breakfast coffee once
lodged there...
--
Helen D. Vecht
helen...@zetnet.co.uk
Kingsbury,
London NW9.
Alex Buell
> Jeannie <~~ definitely has the most boring sig. I must do something
> about this. ~~
I can lend you some of mine.
Ian Henden
2penn'orth in to say
>I
[]
><<SNIP!>>
>
>>>
[]
>b) leave a gap,
>
[]
>Ta.
Sorry.... getting lazy in my old age...
--
Ian Henden
Rod Begbie
news:375847a7...@news.demon.co.uk...
> Whats on your desk right now ?
* Monitor with "Fuck Work" and "Annoy The Boring" stickers stuck on it.
Resting on top of it are Wile E Coyote & Road Runner toys and a pair of
wind-up chattering teeth, which are sadly keyless.
* Funky keyboard with a volume control on it. Only cost $10, and it's
brilliant to be able to mute the computer's speakers just by hitting a
button.
* Oh, so I'd better mention the speakers themselves, then.
* A "Do You Yahoo?" beermat with a bottle of chocolate Nesquik on it.
* Umpteen piles of CDs, including the new Austin Powers soundtrack in a
rather snazzy faux-velvet case.
* Assorted paychecks, bank statements and bills.
* Mad big Wile E Coyote "You May Refer To Me As Super-Genius" mug. filled
with dimes, nickles & pennies.
* My passport (So *that*'s where it was! I was getting worried)
* A pen holder, holding pens. Surprisingly enough.
* A letter holder which has never, to the best of my knowledge, held any
letters. Came free with pen holder
* More stickers from unamerican.com, including "Destroy What Bores You On
Sight", "Minimize Bad Things" and "Jesus Hates Me". Haven't decided where
I'm going to stick them.
* A bag of "Millennium Bugs" that my mum sent me.
* A catalogue for "Rocket Girl" mail order records.
* The base for my cordless phone. But not my cordless phone.
* Club flyer with phone number scribbled on back.
roD
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| "How did you find America?"
| "Turn left at Greenland."
Jeannie
Rod Begbie <r...@begbie.com> wrote in message
news:57j63.12028$AL5....@ndnws01.ne.mediaone.net...
> Charles Anthony <cha...@hpdi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:375847a7...@news.demon.co.uk...
> > Whats on your desk right now ?
> a pair of
> wind-up chattering teeth, which are sadly keyless.
LOL! And with that, I'm going to bed :-)
~~
Jeannie
~~
Chris Eilbeck
> A stuffed beaver (I kid you not)
JPEG! JPEG!
Chris
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Penguin Trivia #46: Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were.
-- Chicago Reader 10/15/82
Dom
Iain A F Fleming <ia...@kororaa.uk.eu.org> wrote:
>Anyway, I tend to ignore badly formatted posts on priciple.
And ones with speeling mistakes in them, just not worth
the time of day.
Paul Stevenson
> The entity calling itself Paul Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > everything after the first comma I concur with, but recent versions of
> > gnus do speak html (if you ask nicely) using emacs' w3 web browser. It's
> > very handy for when my relatives send me email in html.
>
> HTML in email is EV1L, and the perpetrators of such
> should be hunted down, beaten senseless, skinned and
> dipped in hot salt baths.
I know it would be wrong to use gnus to post news in html, And <I>I</I>
would never do such a thing, but it's useful to be able to read the damn
things, especially since I use gnus for mail and most of my family use
some kind of unfortunate piece of software which defaults to sending me
html mail.
Rapunzel Syndrome
The fingering patterns for the ocarina are, of course, unique. No other
instrument uses anything remotely similar. Hence their fading
popularity in schools.
--
I've been away. I'm back. Sorry about the FAQ. Maybe later. Much.
Dom
Rapunzel Syndrome <1999052...@mcc.ac.uk27051999> wrote:
>The fingering patterns for the ocarina are, of course, unique. No other
>instrument uses anything remotely similar. Hence their fading
>popularity in schools.
WTF ever happened to the idea of *education*?
Linz
>Whats on your desk right now ?
>
Mouse
Modem
Monitor
Vaseline
Name/Address self inking stamp
Speakers
Staple removers
Telephone
Pencils/Pens
1 chewed eraser (I would've said rubber, but...)
2 Answering Machines
Yellow lighter (not working)
Evening Telegraph dated 7th May
Box of Staples (Empty)
Cheese slicer (has been lost for ages-rarebit for supper)
Paper Direct magazine
Association/Referees/SAFA handbooks
Tupperware tub of paper clips
More pencils/pens
Letter opener
2 hole punch
4 hole punch
Bottle opener (always within easy reach)
A block of wood my son made for me at school (Ahhh)
Various floppy disks (unknown contents)
Triangular bandage (boxed)
White lighter with naked lady (working)
Cigarette rolling machine
Cigarette papers
Filter tips
Ashtray
Recently emptied bottle of cheap lager
Various receipts from Haddows
Favourite propelling pencil/assorted pens
Presentation clock (not working)
Novatech magazine
PCS magazine
2 pairs of scissors (1 large/1 small)
Elastic bands (various sizes - many many bands)
Toilet roll holder
Hairbrush
Gas bill dated Jan 99
Roll of double sided tape
A pile of fuvgr I daren't disturb for sake of balance.
I've got a big desk.
Linz
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