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.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Betsy HP - Feb 19, 2003 4:05:15 pm PST #2571 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 19, 2003 4:17:47 pm PST #2572 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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.
Steph L. - Feb 19, 2003 5:58:03 pm PST #2573 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ita, in Natter, on nicknames and authors:
Wassup, mah Pepys??
You think that happened to him much?
DXMachina - Feb 19, 2003 6:20:51 pm PST #2574 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
In Bitches:
Steph: Okay, folks. I need to write something for class tomorrow. Throw out some ideas.
Betsy: Childhood memories are always a goldmine. Write about the first time you ever plagiarized somebody else's essay.
DavidS - Feb 19, 2003 9:06:02 pm PST #2575 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In Bitches:
Fay(?): wrod. Like "Drat" comes from "God Rot Ye".
billytea: Yeah. And 'Zounds!' comes from 'God's wounds', and 'Zoinks!' from 'God's... oinks...' Um.
DavidS - Feb 19, 2003 9:43:12 pm PST #2576 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mo' Bitches:
Rebecca Lizard: Now I am a big pile of mollifiedness.
Teppy: I'm picturing a pile of mollifiedness, and I'm seeing peach, with shadings of rosy pink and orange.
erinaceous - Feb 19, 2003 10:08:14 pm PST #2577 of 10000
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
BHP the Goddess in Natter:
One of my co-workers just said to me "Well, I suppose it's better to have a writer who's a perfectionist [meaning me] than one who doesn't care."
Honey, I have lowered my standards so far on this project you couldn't find them with a bathysphere. You haven't SEEN me being perfectionist. You couldn't cope.
Theodosia - Feb 20, 2003 4:36:58 am PST #2578 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Alibelle:
That is silly. And now my giggle box has turned over and I'm having a hard time stopping.
Theodosia - Feb 20, 2003 4:39:31 am PST #2579 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hil R.:
He moved to Scotland after the war, got married, had a few kids, then decided that Scotland was too close to possible nuclear targets. He and his family moved to New Zealand, because he thought that would be far enough away from any nuclear attacks.
billytea:
This is probably sound logic, although it's a lot closer to any recent nuclear explosions than Scotland is. I mean, who would want to take out New Zealand? It's like kicking puppies. Sad-faced, loose-skinned shar-pei puppies.
ita:
"who would want to take out New Zealand?"
Gandalf'll kill them if they try anything.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 20, 2003 5:35:40 am PST #2580 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
A couple from my catching up:
From Dude:
ita?: Well, Scandinavian countries are in the EU, so I guess it doesn't bother them too much to be considered European.
Anne W.: There is something called the "Nordic Council of Ministers" which is sort of a Scandinavian-only EU. They publish terribly interesting books such as: Supervision of the Sanitary Quality of Composting in the Nordic Countries—Evaluation of 16 Full-Scale Facilities, and Apartment Ownership and Mortgage Finance in Lithuania—Busto Nuosavybe ir Busto Kreditavimas Lietuvoje. Or, if that doesn't interest you, there's always A Desk-Study of Diverse Methods of Fishing When Considered in Perspective of Responsible Fishing, and the Effect on the Ecosystem Caused by Fishing Activity.
This from the people who produced the sagas and prose eddas. Tolkein would weep.
Zoe Finch: Did you Google?
Anne W.: Alas, no. My company carries books from the UN, all the little UNlings, the U.K.'s Stationery Office, and the Nordic Council. Part of my job is trying to make these things sound vaguely interesting and/or explain what the hell the Nordic Council is. The worst had to be this UNESCO thing entitled "Puppets for Peace: Fostering Social Harmony through Puppetry."
In other words, I am quoting from the work I brought home for the weekend.
Zoe Finch:
"Puppets for Peace: Fostering Social Harmony through Puppetry."
For some reason I find this incredibly funny.
Anne W.: So did we. The cover art was on our Wall of Derision for several months.
Beverly: Okay, now I'm going to have to redecorate. I must have a Wall of Derision in the living room.
~~~
In Bitches, following a discussion of places to eat in London:
FayJay: It's this seedy little place with dust and mysterious stains and an aura of yesteryear, with a batty old lady running it who would have been wholly unfazed by a Kankanath demon demanding extra bacon.
Aimee: I was looking for a place to take my mother in law.