Gar, in Natter, on the Phoenix Board:
the quality of this board gives it the fastest response I've seen. Most bulletin board software simply did not pay the amount of attention to quality of the code that the coders for this one did. It was handled not merely professionally, but top-tier professionally. It was tested to hell and back before release. It seems like "good enough" was never accepted for any of the code. It not only had to be functional, but elegent, and pretty much all optimized.
Because I think it needed to be memorialized. And I agree wholeheartedly.
billytea, also in Natter:
Roxy Music now wants to know if my love's strong enough. It survived Charlotte and Norfolk, so I'm going to say yes.
In Bitches, on the subject of cursing in British:
Betsy Hanes Perry:
If your mother didn't punish you for saying it, it doesn't count.
Steph:
That means nothing counts for me.
Right fucking ON, man!
Right buggering damn sodding hell ON, man!
Erica: Fay,you know "shag" is a carpet here, right? Also a dance from the 60s, and (Hi, Hec) a haircut.
Billytea: I'm still waiting to discover that in America, 'Bugger me sideways with a fish fork' is a brand of moccasin or something.
Steph in Bitches:
On top of that, I just asked incompetent!boss the same question 3 times -- the exact same wording each time -- and got the following answers:
Me: "[Printer] needs these files in XML?"
I!B: "No."
Me: "[Printer] needs these files in XML?"
I!B: "I don't know what you mean."
Me: "[Printer] needs these files in XML?"
I!B: "Yes, of course."
And then I figured it out. Incompetent!boss IS MegaHAL.