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Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 01:33PM
<HTML>I can testify to the not processing negatives first. If I say to eddie 'Don't stick your finger in that plug socket', he immediately looks for the aforementioned socket with one finger in the air, ready.
Similarly with 'Don't hit your dada', which usually results in a (small, but hard) hand in my mush.
Ahh, bless 'im.</HTML>
Similarly with 'Don't hit your dada', which usually results in a (small, but hard) hand in my mush.
Ahh, bless 'im.</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 01:47PM
<HTML>I won't say what "Don't run across the table and launch yourself at
Uncle Rob's head" resulted in...
It's fortunate I had a few brain cells spare...</HTML>
Uncle Rob's head" resulted in...
It's fortunate I had a few brain cells spare...</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 02:19PM
<HTML>unfortunately 'few' is the key here. You're stuffed if (when) he tries it again.. ;-)</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 02:19PM
<HTML>unfortunately 'few' is the key here. You're stuffed if (when) he tries it again.. ;-)</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 03:33PM
<HTML>Still enough that I don't keep repeating myself ! ;-)</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 28, 2003 07:16PM
<HTML>Fuzz weaas right after all - he just didn't specify which five threads....</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: Simon Reeve (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: February 04, 2003 12:59PM
<HTML>You got lost on the tube and ended up in Oxford?!? The tube doesn't go anywhere near Oxford on the Earth where I live, which Earth are you living on... ?</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: Simon Reeve (---.lancing.org.uk)
Date: February 04, 2003 01:03PM
<HTML>That's nasty. Have you ever heard of a species of parasitic fish called the Candiru, which lives somewhere in South America? Its normal prey is larger fish, but it will also attack mammals including humans... If a person urinates whilst standing or swimming in water where this fish lives there's a risk of it following the urine back through the water to the person and crawling into their urethra, where it then erects backward-pointing spines so that it can't be pulled or flushed out while feeding!</HTML>
Re: nothing grim here, honest
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: February 04, 2003 01:20PM
<HTML>It's simple, Simon (okay, I bet you've heard that joke before, but I haven't had a chance to type it so you can suffer). The tube thing works like this....
The last train back to my town leaves Paddington at some ridiculously early time, but not so early that I couldn't have one drink too many. Having left the wrong way out of the tube station, I couldn't find Paddington Station. (Yes, I know. Huge shed, full of trains, signposted for miles around, big tracks with trains on leading to it...) This meant I had to catch a later train and get off at Oxford. With no train back up to Evesham until the next morning.</HTML>
The last train back to my town leaves Paddington at some ridiculously early time, but not so early that I couldn't have one drink too many. Having left the wrong way out of the tube station, I couldn't find Paddington Station. (Yes, I know. Huge shed, full of trains, signposted for miles around, big tracks with trains on leading to it...) This meant I had to catch a later train and get off at Oxford. With no train back up to Evesham until the next morning.</HTML>
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