Condition 1 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE


-- 
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; 
there are so few of us left.

Hot Badger Deluxe formulated the question :
> Condition 1 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE

A bit of trivia, if you are ever in conversation with someone regarding 
the Antarctic then refer to it as "the ice". That is the term that 
those in the know use.  FWIW.

btw I wouldn't have walked the other side of that door.  My balls would 
be frozen to the point they could be snapped off.

-- 
Count Baldoni

Baldoni wrote:

> A bit of trivia, if you are ever in conversation with someone regarding 
> the Antarctic then refer to it as "the ice". That is the term that those 
> in the know use.  FWIW.

I suspect I'm being wooshed here, but I'll bite anyway.
No it isn't.
Or at least not among our resident experts for whom "the ice" could just 
as easily refer to a Finish lake or somewhere half a mile off Svalbard. 
But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

<snip Ice>

> But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.

It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting sound
interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus spotter...


-- 
There are no persons capable of stooping so low 
as those who desire to rise in the world.

In message <1m9vuhejgh0dr.1qfmsce7t9es4$.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
Deluxe  writes
>On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>
><snip Ice>
>
>> But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.
>
>It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting sound
>interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus spotter...

I once wrangled a visit to the International Ice Patrol HQ on Governors 
Island. And I once froze a cubic foot of water and almost did my back in 
lifting it out of the freezer. A cubit foot of water weighs about half a 
hundredweight!

I believe there was a recent story in the Register about a keen 
photographer of buses who got his collar felt by Inspector Knacker on 
suspicion of being a pedio.

Another pack of lies from James Follett. Should save a few posts. I'm 
watching my pixel footprint.

Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
> 
> <snip Ice>
> 
>> But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.
> 
> It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting sound
> interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus spotter...

While I don't disagree, you would have difficulty digging up 3000 year 
old buses and using them to gauge what life was like all those years 
ago. Then again, it could work.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:50:15 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
<snip>
>> It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting sound
>> interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus spotter...
> 
> While I don't disagree, you would have difficulty digging up 3000 year 
> old buses and using them to gauge what life was like all those years 
> ago.

Oh yes, archeology of any sort is absolutely fascinating. Time Team used to
great, but seems to have lost the plot somehow...


> Then again, it could work.

Have you considered a career in IT management?


-- 
Right car
Wrong side of the road

Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> Have you considered a career?

Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:45 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> 
>> Have you considered a career?
> 
> Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
> as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.

I've probably mentioned that I had a great uncle who was a millionaire, and
intended to leave the money to my dad, but when he died, his spent
everything.

So I won't mention it again.


-- 
He was one of those men who think that the world
can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:45 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
> 
>> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>
>>> Have you considered a career?
>> Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
>> as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
> 
> I've probably mentioned that I had a great uncle who was a millionaire, and
> intended to leave the money to my dad, but when he died, his spent
> everything.

My mum always went on about some paintings by William Etty that had been 
passed down from the great(*n) grandfather who founded Derby Art School, 
but they were flogged before she got her hands on them. I don't suppose 
they'd be worth vast amounts, but still be a few fasand innit.

> So I won't mention it again.

Better not.

In message <18hnpenx3ja3h.bcarb7jzxxbo$.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
Deluxe  writes

>Oh yes, archeology of any sort is absolutely fascinating. Time Team used to
>great, but seems to have lost the plot somehow...

They've turned the JCB into a delicate archaeological precision tool.
-- 
Another Big Lie from Big Bad Jim Follett.

JF wrote:
> In message <18hnpenx3ja3h.bcarb7jzxxbo$.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
> Deluxe  writes
> 
>> Oh yes, archeology of any sort is absolutely fascinating. Time Team 
>> used to
>> great, but seems to have lost the plot somehow...
> 
> They've turned the JCB into a delicate archaeological precision tool.

If they're still using the same driver, then that's truer than you might 
think. The guy was so good I'll bet he could shell a hardboiled egg with 
the thing.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

> Baldoni wrote:
> 
>> A bit of trivia, if you are ever in conversation with someone regarding 
>> the Antarctic then refer to it as "the ice". That is the term that those 
>> in the know use.  FWIW.
> 
> I suspect I'm being wooshed here, but I'll bite anyway.
> No it isn't.

IIRC my mate who spends quite a lot of time on board a little red ship 
at either end of the planet (and occasionally going ashore) talks about
"going South". BICBW.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

In message , Willy Eckerslyke 
 writes

>My mum always went on about some paintings by William Etty that had 
>been passed down from the great(*n) grandfather who founded Derby Art 
>School, but they were flogged before she got her hands on them. I don't 
>suppose they'd be worth vast amounts, but still be a few fasand innit.

About twenty years ago or thereabouts I started collecting John Bratby 
paintings for three reasons: I liked them and enjoyed looking at them; 
they were cheap; I knew him slightly when I lived at Kingston. He used 
to say that he and I had much in common: a total lack of talent.

I wouldn't dare say what his frightful daubs are worth now but the 
insurance company won't allow me to keep them in the house. Now I no 
longer see them. What's the bloody point?

I don't suppose he has much of a presence on the Internet therefore he 
probably never existed therefore I'm spouting dreadful lies again.
-- 
James Follett

JF  writes:

> I believe there was a recent story in the Register about a keen
> photographer of buses who got his collar felt by Inspector Knacker on
> suspicion of being a pedio.

I suppose it makes a change from being accused of being a terrorist, the
usual reason that over zealous power-crazed busybodies give for stopping
people photographing in public places.

-- 
I'm nearly sober

JF wrote:

> About twenty years ago or thereabouts I started collecting John Bratby 
> paintings for three reasons: I liked them and enjoyed looking at them; 
> they were cheap; I knew him slightly when I lived at Kingston. He used 
> to say that he and I had much in common: a total lack of talent.
> 
> I wouldn't dare say what his frightful daubs are worth now but the 
> insurance company won't allow me to keep them in the house. Now I no 
> longer see them. What's the bloody point?

On my way to work, I used to see Kyffin Williams every morning as he 
went for his paper. As he steadily got older and shakier, I kept telling 
myself I should buy a painting or two of his, but never got the round 
tuit and would have felt guilty anyway as he was a nice old boy.
Of course now that he's snuffed it, they're worth huge figures.

And Hot Badger Deluxe  was like:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>
> <snip Ice>
>
>> But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.
>
> It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting sound
> interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus spotter...

Most of my school classmates were bus-spotters at one time. As far as
I could see, there were two sorts of bus - with platform, and
"front-loaders", but that wasn't good enough for them, oh no. They all
went around with lists of fecking chassis numbers if their pockets.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Text passed for distribution as an aid to the Dark cause

And JF  was like:

> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!

A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Our brother Tom has just got the piles

And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>
>> Baldoni wrote:
>> 
>>> A bit of trivia, if you are ever in conversation with someone regarding 
>>> the Antarctic then refer to it as "the ice". That is the term that those 
>>> in the know use.  FWIW.
>> 
>> I suspect I'm being wooshed here, but I'll bite anyway.
>> No it isn't.
>
> IIRC my mate who spends quite a lot of time on board a little red ship 
> at either end of the planet (and occasionally going ashore) talks about
> "going South". BICBW.

Anyone can talk about it. When it come to doing it, he probably finds
he's got a mouth ulcer or something.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| That was all. beer atheism Did he believe that?

"Patrick Hardlentil"  writes:

> And Hot Badger Deluxe  was like:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:33 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>>
>> <snip Ice>
>>
>>> But then they may be exceptions since they collect the stuff.
>>
>> It has to be said that collecting ice does make train spotting
>> sound interesting. There was a guy in Lewisham who was a bus
>> spotter...
>
> Most of my school classmates were bus-spotters at one time. As far
> as I could see, there were two sorts of bus - with platform, and
> "front-loaders", but that wasn't good enough for them, oh no. They
> all went around with lists of fecking chassis numbers if their
> pockets.

Even that's better than bloody Eddie Stobart spotters.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:14:07 +0100, JF wrote:

>In message , Willy Eckerslyke 
> writes
>
>>My mum always went on about some paintings by William Etty that had 
>>been passed down from the great(*n) grandfather who founded Derby Art 
>>School, but they were flogged before she got her hands on them. I don't 
>>suppose they'd be worth vast amounts, but still be a few fasand innit.
>
>About twenty years ago or thereabouts I started collecting John Bratby 
>paintings for three reasons: I liked them and enjoyed looking at them; 
>they were cheap; I knew him slightly when I lived at Kingston. He used 
>to say that he and I had much in common: a total lack of talent.
>
>I wouldn't dare say what his frightful daubs are worth now but the 
>insurance company won't allow me to keep them in the house. Now I no 
>longer see them. What's the bloody point?

None.  Get copies made if you really like them, and sell the
originals.  It's rocket science.

If you can't be arsed, send the damn things to me and I'll do it.  I
could do with the cash, and I'll even let you have the copies.

-- 

Peter

I'm an alien
email: groups at asylum dot nildram dot co dot uk
Well, since the gene itself is entirely hypothetical, we can make that part up.
- Sean Houtman

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:52:23 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:

> And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:
> 
>> IIRC my mate who spends quite a lot of time on board a little red ship 
>> at either end of the planet (and occasionally going ashore) talks about
>> "going South". BICBW.
> 
> Anyone can talk about it. When it come to doing it, he probably finds
> he's got a mouth ulcer or something.

Eh?  He does it.  It's his job.  He goes South.  He goes North.
He sends me his photos of penguins and polar bears.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

In article ,
Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:

>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.

A pint's a pound the world around.

-- Richard
-- 
In the selection of the two characters immediately succeeding the numeral 9,
consideration shall be given to their replacement by the graphics 10 and 11 to
facilitate the adoption of the code in the sterling monetary area. (X3.4-1963)

And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:52:23 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:
>
>> And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:
>> 
>>> IIRC my mate who spends quite a lot of time on board a little red
>>> ship at either end of the planet (and occasionally going ashore)
>>> talks about "going South". BICBW.
>> 
>> Anyone can talk about it. When it come to doing it, he probably
>> finds he's got a mouth ulcer or something.
>
> Eh?  He does it.  It's his job.  He goes South.  He goes North.  He
> sends me his photos of penguins and polar bears.

Oh. Doesn't it mean oral sex? I can't keep up with you young people
and your slang.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

On 27 Jun 2008 20:10:17 GMT, Richard Tobin 
wrote the following to uk.misc:

> In article ,
> Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
> A pint's a pound the world around.

Has it been a while since you last went to the pub?

mh.
-- 
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
http://personal.nukesoft.co.uk

From address is a blackhole. Reply-to address is valid.

And "Patrick Hardlentil"
 was like:
>
> Oh. Doesn't it mean oral sex? I can't keep up with you young people
> and your slang.

Yes, it does:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=going+south (sense
4). Am I hip to the scene, or what?

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:22 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:

> Yes, it does:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=going+south (sense
> 4). Am I hip to the scene, or what?

Yes, you are hip to the scene, and I am a mindless literalist.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On 27 Jun 2008 20:10:17 GMT, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:

>In article ,
>Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
>A pint's a pound the world around.
>
Only in the world where the Merkins live.

-- 
JAF anarchatntlworldfullstopcom
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/monarchycost/

On 27 Jun 2008 20:10:17 GMT, Richard Tobin wrote:

> In article ,
> Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
> 
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
> 
> A pint's a pound the world around.

A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.


-- 
There is no excellent beauty that hath not 
some strangeness in the proportion.

In article ,
JAF   wrote:

>>A pint's a pound the world around.

>Only in the world where the Merkins live.

Actually, not even there[*].  Their fluid ounce is bigger, so 16 US fl oz
weigh more than a pound.

[*] At room temperature.  The density of water decreases such that there
is a temperature around 95C at which a US pint weighs a pound.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

In message , Patrick 
Hardlentil  writes
>
>And JF  was like:
>
>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>
>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.

My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett

And JF  was like:

> In message , Patrick
> Hardlentil  writes
>>
>>And JF  was like:
>>
>>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett

For once, you weren't wrong. My mnemonic doesn't contradict your
exclamation; it complements it. Anyway, I thought you didn't care
about checking mere facts?

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:22 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:
>
>> Yes, it does:
>> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=going+south (sense
>> 4). Am I hip to the scene, or what?
>
> Yes, you are hip to the scene, and I am a mindless literalist.

Check it out, Daddy-oh. Too much tea and soft foods and goofy kicks on
the cool order.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| That was all. beer atheism Did he believe that?

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.

One pint = 20 fl oz.

One gallon = 10lbs.

And richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) was like:

> In article ,
> JAF   wrote:
>
>>>A pint's a pound the world around.
>
>>Only in the world where the Merkins live.
>
> Actually, not even there[*].  Their fluid ounce is bigger, so 16 US fl oz
> weigh more than a pound.

And their plugs are all wrong. And yet they complain about our
teeth. Shpxref.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Don't make me fetch my cormorant

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:37:01 +0100, JF wrote:

> In message , Patrick 
> Hardlentil  writes
>>
>>And JF  was like:
>>
>>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
> 
> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett

It's customary to use a sig-sep (i.e. "-- " on a line by itself).

And you don't appear to have said anything.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

In message , Patrick 
Hardlentil  writes
>
>And JF  was like:
>
>> In message , Patrick
>> Hardlentil  writes
>>>
>>>And JF  was like:
>>>
>>>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>>>
>>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>>
>> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett
>
>For once, you weren't wrong. My mnemonic doesn't contradict your
>exclamation; it complements it. Anyway, I thought you didn't care
>about checking mere facts?

I don't. I thought I was wrong and my integrity dictates that I should 
apologise for being wrong. Now I have to apologise for wrongly thinking 
I wrong was when I wasn't-- Oh, sod it. I'm going out for a drink. Sod 
it -- I don't drink. I'll kick the cats.

-- 
James Follett

As if proof were required that JF knoweth nothing.

In message <PBg9k.17046$E41.11452@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J 
Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes

>> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett
>
>It's customary to use a sig-sep (i.e. "-- " on a line by itself).

Yes -- I know. I can assure you that I have used signature separators on 
many occasions. But I hardly ever use a signature file for one-line 
posts. The Usenet is about good manners and I don't think appending 
signatures to posts that are longer than the post is doing anyone any 
favours.

IIR RFC1855(?) guidelines on posting to the Usenet doesn't say that the 
signature separator is mandatory. Merely that four lines of a given 
length is the recommended maximum.

-- 
James Follett

On 2008-06-27, Willy Eckerslyke  wrote:
> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>
>> Have you considered a career?
>
> Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
> as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.

I have got a rich uncle. But he has several wives, many children and a fair few
grandchildren, so I fear I'm a way down the queue.

-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On 2008-06-27, Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:45 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>
>> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> 
>>> Have you considered a career?
>> 
>> Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
>> as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
>
> I've probably mentioned that I had a great uncle who was a millionaire, and
> intended to leave the money to my dad, but when he died, his spent
> everything.

One of my great-grandfathers had a fair few bob. Unfortunately, his son chose to
drink himself to death with it.



-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:14:25 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:45 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
> 
>> Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> 
>>> Have you considered a career?
>> 
>> Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise 
>> as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
> 
> I've probably mentioned that I had a great uncle who was a millionaire, and
> intended to leave the money to my dad, but when he died, his spent
> everything.
> 
> So I won't mention it again.

Only just noticed that I missed the word "wife" out of the above.



-- 
I'll have a carafe of your house whiskey

And JF  was like:

> In message <PBg9k.17046$E41.11452@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J
> Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes
>
>>> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett
>>
>>It's customary to use a sig-sep (i.e. "-- " on a line by itself).
>
> Yes -- I know. I can assure you that I have used signature separators
> on many occasions.

*WHOOOOOOOOSH*

> The Usenet is about good manners

The fuck.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:15:57 +0100, JF wrote:

[snip 'whoosh']

> The Usenet is about good manners 

The fuck.

And it's Usenet, not "the Usenet", for the umpteenth time, 
Mr. James "first to admit I'm wrong, always happy to be 
corrected" Follett.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:02:43 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:15:57 +0100, JF wrote:
> 
> [snip 'whoosh']
> 
>> The Usenet is about good manners 
> 
> The fuck.
> 
> And it's Usenet, not "the Usenet", for the umpteenth time, 
> Mr. James "first to admit I'm wrong, always happy to be 
> corrected" Follett.

I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. They've been stealing
my clothes, you know...


-- 
Life is a game, the object of which is 
to discover the object of the game.

In message <7%n9k.17162$E41.12787@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J 
Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes
>On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:15:57 +0100, JF wrote:
>
>[snip 'whoosh']
>
>> The Usenet is about good manners
>
>The fuck.

But it is. Not totally, of course, but good manners help on the Usenet.

>And it's Usenet, not "the Usenet", for the umpteenth time,

In the great scheme of things, it's not really a terribly important 
point. Nothing that good friends like us should fall out over so let's 
agree to differ.
>
>Mr. James "first to admit I'm wrong, always happy to be
>corrected" Follett.

If I'm proved absolutely wrong I'll be the first to say so and I'll make 
you a happy bunny by no longer referring to the United States as such. 
I'll even roll over and let you tickle my tummy.
-- 
James Follett "In victory, magnanimity." W S Churchill

In uk.misc,  (Willy Eckerslyke) wrote in
::

>JF wrote:
>> In message <18hnpenx3ja3h.bcarb7jzxxbo$.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
>> Deluxe  writes
>> 
>>> Oh yes, archeology of any sort is absolutely fascinating. Time Team 
>>> used to
>>> great, but seems to have lost the plot somehow...
>> 
>> They've turned the JCB into a delicate archaeological precision tool.
>
>If they're still using the same driver, then that's truer than you might 
>think. The guy was so good I'll bet he could shell a hardboiled egg with 
>the thing.

JCB have a precision display team that do just that, among other stunts.
Standing a JCB on its bucket and using the hydraulics to lift the whole
vehicle clear of the ground is quite impressive, too.
-- 
Marc

  Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

In message , Patrick 
Hardlentil  writes
>
>And JF  was like:
>
>> In message <PBg9k.17046$E41.11452@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J
>> Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes
>>
>>>> My apologies if I was wrong. I didn't bother to check. Jim Follett
>>>
>>>It's customary to use a sig-sep (i.e. "-- " on a line by itself).
>>
>> Yes -- I know. I can assure you that I have used signature separators
>> on many occasions.
>
>*WHOOOOOOOOSH*

Not really. I was well aware of the poster's underlying irony but didn't 
consider that a sound enough reason to abandon my policy of always 
providing polite responses to posts on the Usenet.

-- 
James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk
Power Corp are making a TV miniseries of my novel ICE.
http://scripts.digicc.com/powtv/prog_synopsis.php?id=655

In uk.misc,  (Richard Tobin) wrote in
<g43hf9$44q$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>::

>In article ,
>Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
>A pint's a pound the world around.

*Thwack*

No it isn't.  That's a US pint.
-- 
Marc

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first
woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."
              -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

In uk.misc,  (Fevric J Glandules) wrote in
<B1b9k.16914$E41.14544@text.news.virginmedia.com>::

>On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:52:23 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:
>
>> And Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> was like:
>> 
>>> IIRC my mate who spends quite a lot of time on board a little red ship 
>>> at either end of the planet (and occasionally going ashore) talks about
>>> "going South". BICBW.
>> 
>> Anyone can talk about it. When it come to doing it, he probably finds
>> he's got a mouth ulcer or something.
>
>Eh?  He does it.  It's his job.  He goes South.  He goes North.
>He sends me his photos of penguins and polar bears.

If there are any with both on, check to see if he has Photoshop.  Or a
zoo membership.
-- 
Marc

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first
woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."
              -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

In uk.misc,  (Patrick Hardlentil) wrote in
::

>
>And JF  was like:
>
>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>
>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.

And a cubic foot is around 49 pints, so for once he's in the right
ballpark.
-- 
Marc

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first
woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."
              -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> One of my great-grandfathers had a fair few bob. Unfortunately, his son
> chose to drink himself to death with it.

You'd have to go a lot further back than that to find any money in my
family. I'm distantly related to the steel makers that founded Sheffield
University on one side of the family, and of all people to Jane Horrocks
on the other side, so have the same remote connection to wealth that she
does. My great aunt pointed out when I visited a stately home in
Manchester that it used to belong to her side of the family but the
money was frittered away.

I think from rags to riches and back to rags in three generations seems
normal progress for most families.

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2008-06-27, Willy Eckerslyke  wrote:
> > Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> >
> >> Have you considered a career?
> >
> > Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise
> > as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
> 
> I have got a rich uncle. But he has several wives, many children and a
> fair few grandchildren, so I fear I'm a way down the queue.

Never seen "Kind Hearts and Coronets" then?

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:21:10 +0100, Marc Wilson wrote:

> zoo membership

Is that a euphemism?

Or, possibly, an euphemism.


-- 
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:34:41 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

<snip>

> I think from rags to riches and back to rags in three generations seems
> normal progress for most families.

At a village that I lived in many years ago, in Cornwall, when the
Methodist chapel closed down, a local farmer bought it, and turned it into
a pub. This was poetic wossname, as, when the Methodists had invaded the
village previously, they bought the pub and closed it down.

Anyway... there was a farmer who used to be the biggest landowner in the
area. Then he discovered the Fruit Machine (good name for a gay bar, that)
in this place, and, within a couple of years, he was down to two acres.

This post was bought to you by the letter ",".


-- 
Ever since Owen died, all you do is agree with him.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. 

It's capitalised in the RFCs, but not in Real Life As We Know It Today.

RLAWKIT.  I like it.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

And Marc Wilson  was like:

> In uk.misc,  (Patrick Hardlentil) wrote in
> ::
>
>>
>>And JF  was like:
>>
>>> A cubit foot of water weighs about half a hundredweight!
>>
>>A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
> And a cubic foot is around 49 pints, so for once he's in the right
> ballpark.

Oh, I know that - I was just adding some folk wisdom, what with the
beggars and HORSEs riding around nearby.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Do not touch happy fun gnooby

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:42 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> 
>> I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. 
> 
> It's capitalised in the RFCs, but not in Real Life As We Know It Today.
> 
> RLAWKIT.  I like it.

Yebbut, RLAWKIT != USENET


-- 
If a train station is for trains to stop at, then I think 
I'm making good use of my work station.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:34:41 +0100, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk>
wrote the following to uk.misc:

> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> One of my great-grandfathers had a fair few bob. Unfortunately, his son
>> chose to drink himself to death with it.
>
> You'd have to go a lot further back than that to find any money in my
> family. I'm distantly related to the steel makers that founded Sheffield
> University on one side of the family, and of all people to Jane Horrocks
> on the other side, so have the same remote connection to wealth that she
> does. My great aunt pointed out when I visited a stately home in
> Manchester that it used to belong to her side of the family but the
> money was frittered away.
>
> I think from rags to riches and back to rags in three generations seems
> normal progress for most families.

We had some relatives in the 1890s who lived in a big house. Unfortunately
it turned out to be Hull workhouse.

The furthest I've managed to get back without paying money to ancestry.co.uk
is roughly the turn of the 18th/19th century where there's a family in a
small village near Beverley. One person is landlord of the local pub,
another runs a shop and a third is the parish clerk. Could be interesting to
wander round the local graveyard and have a chat wth the current vicar, and
of course stop off for a pint in the pub (this one:
http://www.eccles2000.karoo.net/skidby/food-halfmoon.htm). Plenty of rags in
the family but no riches that I've found so far.

mh.
-- 
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
http://personal.nukesoft.co.uk

From address is a blackhole. Reply-to address is valid.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:13:11 +0100, Marc Wilson wrote:

> JCB have a precision display team that do just that, among other stunts.
> Standing a JCB on its bucket and using the hydraulics to lift the whole
> vehicle clear of the ground is quite impressive, too.

Coo.  Must go and search youchoob.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:43:54 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:21:10 +0100, Marc Wilson wrote:
> 
>> zoo membership
> 
> Is that a euphemism?
> 
> Or, possibly, an euphemism.

Only if you say "oofumism".

-- 
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On 2008-06-28, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-06-27, Willy Eckerslyke  wrote:
>> > Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> >
>> >> Have you considered a career?
>> >
>> > Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise
>> > as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
>> 
>> I have got a rich uncle. But he has several wives, many children and a
>> fair few grandchildren, so I fear I'm a way down the queue.
>
> Never seen "Kind Hearts and Coronets" then?

Yes, but so long ago that the only thing I recall about it turns out to be wrong
when I checked before posting.

-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:17:29 +0100, JF wrote:

> Not really. I was well aware of the poster's underlying irony but didn't
> consider that a sound enough reason to abandon my policy of always
> providing polite responses to posts on the Usenet.

You don't have to reply.  And if you do have to, it's customary 
to make it clear that you haven't been whooshed, else people will
start to think that you are a fucktard.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:03:51 +0100, JF wrote:

> If I'm proved absolutely wrong I'll be the first to say so and I'll make

How much proof do you need?

> you a happy bunny by no longer referring to the United States as such.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Great Britain.

The Internet, JANET, Usenet.

-- 
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:12:49 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:42 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> 
>>> I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. 
>> 
>> It's capitalised in the RFCs, but not in Real Life As We Know It Today.
>> 
>> RLAWKIT.  I like it.
> 
> Yebbut, RLAWKIT != USENET

Sez 'oo?

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

In article ,
Marc Wilson   wrote:

>>A pint's a pound the world around.
>
>*Thwack*
>
>No it isn't.  That's a US pint.

We've already done that.  Do try to keep up.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2008-06-28, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2008-06-27, Willy Eckerslyke  wrote:
> >> > Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Have you considered a career?
> >> >
> >> > Nah, I'm just waiting for a rich uncle to snuff it. A pointless exercise
> >> > as I haven't got any uncles, but it passes the time.
> >> 
> >> I have got a rich uncle. But he has several wives, many children and a
> >> fair few grandchildren, so I fear I'm a way down the queue.
> >
> > Never seen "Kind Hearts and Coronets" then?
> 
> Yes, but so long ago that the only thing I recall about it turns out to be
> wrong when I checked before posting.

"I shot an arrow in the air, he fell to Earth in Berkeley Square." As
Dennis Price kills Alec Guiness playing the balloon obsessed relative.

Somehow I can't shake the Ealing Comedies that I've seen from my mind,
nor "Arsenic and Old Lace" which seemed to follow the formula.

In article <vvrfy9oyj5jy$.j0oezsnhxhxl.dlg@40tude.net>,
Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:

>> zoo membership
>
>Is that a euphemism?
>
>Or, possibly, an euphemism.

Well it's certainly not euphuism.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Richard Tobin 
said:
> In article ,
> Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
> 
> >A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
> 
> A pint's a pound the world around.

Nah, even Holt's costs more than that now.
-- 
teh internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

In message , Marcus Houlden 
 writes

>We had some relatives in the 1890s who lived in a big house. Unfortunately
>it turned out to be Hull workhouse.

Lovely! It sounds like a Thomas Cooper classic!          Jim Follett

In message <wgq9k.17221$E41.5259@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J 
Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes
>On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:17:29 +0100, JF wrote:
>
>> Not really. I was well aware of the poster's underlying irony but didn't
>> consider that a sound enough reason to abandon my policy of always
>> providing polite responses to posts on the Usenet.
>
>You don't have to reply.  And if you do have to, it's customary
>to make it clear that you haven't been whooshed,

Well I did make it clear. My word, old friend, you do seem willing to 
allow yourself become mired in obsessions with the inconsequential such 
as agonising over the definite article. Not even Bertrand Russell got to 
grips with that one to the satisfaction of all. See his Theory of 
Descriptions. Do what many others seem to enjoy doing by worshipping the 
ground that coming to me!
-- 
James Follett  Novelist (Callsign G1LXP) http://www.davew.demon.co.uk. "The
Silent Vulcan" trilogy might be reprinted. Half a million words!

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:01:31 +0100, JF wrote:

> In message <wgq9k.17221$E41.5259@text.news.virginmedia.com>, Fevric J 
> Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes
>>On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:17:29 +0100, JF wrote:
>>
>>> Not really. I was well aware of the poster's underlying irony but didn't
>>> consider that a sound enough reason to abandon my policy of always
>>> providing polite responses to posts on the Usenet.
>>
>>You don't have to reply.  And if you do have to, it's customary
>>to make it clear that you haven't been whooshed,
> 
> Well I did make it clear. 

When?

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:34:06 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:12:49 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:42 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. 
>>> 
>>> It's capitalised in the RFCs, but not in Real Life As We Know It Today.
>>> 
>>> RLAWKIT.  I like it.
>> 
>> Yebbut, RLAWKIT != USENET
> 
> Sez 'oo?

RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.


-- 
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

In uk.misc,  (Richard Tobin) wrote in
<g45g5a$ph4$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>::

>In article ,
>Marc Wilson   wrote:
>
>>>A pint's a pound the world around.
>>
>>*Thwack*
>>
>>No it isn't.  That's a US pint.
>
>We've already done that.  Do try to keep up.

*Sigh*.

Do go and google "usenet propagation", there's a good chap.
-- 
Marc

Remember- two wrongs don't make a right...but three lefts do

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:06:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:34:06 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:12:49 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:00:42 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:08:48 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I thought that it was USENET, but am probably wrong. 
>>>> 
>>>> It's capitalised in the RFCs, but not in Real Life As We Know It Today.
>>>> 
>>>> RLAWKIT.  I like it.
>>> 
>>> Yebbut, RLAWKIT != USENET
>> 
>> Sez 'oo?
> 
> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.

Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.


-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:06:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>> 
>> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
>
> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.

RLAWKIT + USENET = Sad middle-aged man pretending to be teenage blonde
                   lesbian

-- 
I hoped it might happen again

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:27:42 GMT, Fevric J Glandules wrote:

>> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
> 
> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.

Now wash your hands.


-- 
The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel
about the steeple of my dreams.

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.

Has she got a friend and do they do home visits?

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:57:25 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> 
>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
> 
> Has she got a friend and do they do home visits?

Yup - their names are Sweaty Geoff and Harry The HORSE.


-- 
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act
humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:57:25 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
> 
> > Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> > 
> >> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
> > 
> > Has she got a friend and do they do home visits?
> 
> Yup - their names are Sweaty Geoff and Harry The HORSE.

As long as they don't have willies.

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:08:58 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:57:25 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:
>> 
>>> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
>>> 
>>> Has she got a friend and do they do home visits?
>> 
>> Yup - their names are Sweaty Geoff and Harry The HORSE.
> 
> As long as they don't have willies.

Nah - Willy keeps his well protected in a large iron casket.

Either that, or he needs to change his tailor.


-- 
The bitterness of poor quality lingers long 
after the sweetness of meeting schedule.

Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> > RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
> > USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
> 
> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.

What is this thing called, Love?

-- 
^Ï^                            Sn!pe  

   <:>----------[  I'll wash it as fast as I want  ]----------<:>

Marc Wilson wrote:

>>>> Oh yes, archeology of any sort is absolutely fascinating. Time Team 
>>>> used to
>>>> great, but seems to have lost the plot somehow...

>>> They've turned the JCB into a delicate archaeological precision tool.

>> If they're still using the same driver, then that's truer than you might 
>> think. The guy was so good I'll bet he could shell a hardboiled egg with 
>> the thing.
> 
> JCB have a precision display team that do just that, among other stunts.
> Standing a JCB on its bucket and using the hydraulics to lift the whole
> vehicle clear of the ground is quite impressive, too.

OK I'll be a total anorak and point out that Time Team's "JCB" is 
actually a Case and the driver's supplied by the company along with the 
machine.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:55:55 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

<snip>

> total anorak

Now there's an idea for a video game...


-- 
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

In message <1tqelbc2u04ms$.bx36qyxu2dhc.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
Deluxe  writes
>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:55:55 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> total anorak
>
>Now there's an idea for a video game...
>

One particularly geeky and detail obsessed technical paper I wrote some 
years back was titled "Full Nylon Anorak", a title I still rather like.


-- 
bof at bof dot me dot uk

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:49:02 +0100, bof wrote:

> In message <1tqelbc2u04ms$.bx36qyxu2dhc.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
> Deluxe  writes
>>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:55:55 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>> total anorak
>>
>>Now there's an idea for a video game...
>>
> 
> One particularly geeky and detail obsessed technical paper I wrote some 
> years back was titled "Full Nylon Anorak", a title I still rather like.

Total Anorak III - This Time It's Starting To Get Creepy...


Jello Biafra (formally of the Dead Kennedys) wrote a song called "Full
Metal Jackoff".

The man who also conjured up the following suggested name for a band on one
of his live spoken word thangs...

Jehovah's Rifle Cream.


-- 
No trees were destroyed to manufacture your losing 
ticket - it was recycled from other losing tickets.

In uk.misc,  (bof) wrote in <K5+j2ASeoLaIFw5v@hotmail.com>::

>In message <1tqelbc2u04ms$.bx36qyxu2dhc.dlg@40tude.net>, Hot Badger 
>Deluxe  writes
>>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:55:55 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>> total anorak
>>
>>Now there's an idea for a video game...
>>
>
>One particularly geeky and detail obsessed technical paper I wrote some 
>years back was titled "Full Nylon Anorak", a title I still rather like.

I treasure a faint memory of a sketch (possibly Not the 9 O'Clock News)
wherein train drivers were spotting anoraks:  "Yeah, that's a classic
1960's fishtail, the other one's a Millets copy."
-- 
Marc

Anglicanism, in general, is the Salk vaccine of Christianity.  
Once you've had a dead god, you end up with immunity to a live one.
   - Doug Wickstrom.

August West wrote:
> Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:06:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>>
>>> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
>>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
>>
>> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.
>
> RLAWKIT + USENET = Sad middle-aged man pretending to be teenage blonde
>                   lesbian

It'll never work August, unless you shave your eyebrow maybe.

"John of Aix"  writes:

> August West wrote:
>> Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:06:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
>>>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
>>>
>>> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.
>>
>> RLAWKIT + USENET = Sad middle-aged man pretending to be teenage blonde
>>                   lesbian
>
> It'll never work August, unless you shave your eyebrow maybe. 

But I've shaved my legs, and then some...

-- 
shut the door, cut the light

August West wrote:
> "John of Aix"  writes:
>
>> August West wrote:
>>> Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:06:50 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> RLAWKIT = Sad middle-aged man
>>>>> USENET  = teenage blonde lesbian.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.  I think I should investigate this USENET thing.
>>>
>>> RLAWKIT + USENET = Sad middle-aged man pretending to be teenage
>>>                   blonde lesbian
>>
>> It'll never work August, unless you shave your eyebrow maybe.
>
> But I've shaved my legs, and then some...

It's a start. Waxing's better though.

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:33:24 +0200, John of Aix wrote:

> It's a start. Wanking's better though.

Well, isn't it?


-- 
You don't have to believe everything you think

In article <1tqelbc2u04ms$.bx36qyxu2dhc.dlg@40tude.net>, 
watercress@spamcop.org says...
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:55:55 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > total anorak
> 
> Now there's an idea for a video game...

No, I think it's a Future Publishing glossy monthly.