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oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 12:50PM
<HTML>Mornin all.
just wondering if anyone other than Ben T and ScarletBea post here these days?
:-)
tee hee, only kidding. It's more fun than doing work, reading what these two are up to... (and a good job I've got a desk at the end of the room, so no-one can see I'm not working...)
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just wondering if anyone other than Ben T and ScarletBea post here these days?
:-)
tee hee, only kidding. It's more fun than doing work, reading what these two are up to... (and a good job I've got a desk at the end of the room, so no-one can see I'm not working...)
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Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:14PM
<HTML>Oh, we're being spied on!!!!
*tsk tsk* Dave, you're so bad! Isn't it enough that you're in a book unlike the rest of the mortals? *jealous*
So you want to say whatever too? :)</HTML>
*tsk tsk* Dave, you're so bad! Isn't it enough that you're in a book unlike the rest of the mortals? *jealous*
So you want to say whatever too? :)</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:21PM
<HTML>
and btw, 'more fun than work' can also be said for the stuff in 'pickwick's funatorium' :D
My faves are the Memory game and Mycroft' Maths (yes, I'm the Bea in 2nd place there :D)</HTML>
and btw, 'more fun than work' can also be said for the stuff in 'pickwick's funatorium' :D
My faves are the Memory game and Mycroft' Maths (yes, I'm the Bea in 2nd place there :D)</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:32PM
<HTML>oooh, not tried them yet. 25 minutes of lunch hour to spare too...</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:36PM
<HTML>oh, you were in hiding! ;)</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:41PM
<HTML>hmm. Am dreadful at maths game. got a grand score of 13.
Oh, the shame.
Slightly better at the 'connect 4' type one, but my connection is flaky and by the time the graphics have refreshed, I'mout of time. Haha.
is it friday yet?</HTML>
Oh, the shame.
Slightly better at the 'connect 4' type one, but my connection is flaky and by the time the graphics have refreshed, I'mout of time. Haha.
is it friday yet?</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:46PM
<HTML>*sees a long way from here till friday*
13!!!!! eeek! You have to look at the keys to type the numbers, don't you? ;)
And where is Ben? :(</HTML>
13!!!!! eeek! You have to look at the keys to type the numbers, don't you? ;)
And where is Ben? :(</HTML>
Re: oh y'know, stuff
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:49PM
<HTML>I know. I got confused by having to do sums, press buttons then find mouse to click on the answer button. I will try harder, I promise.
Not seen Ben around. I'm sure he's here somewhere. Perhaps he's Lost In A Good Book?</HTML>
Not seen Ben around. I'm sure he's here somewhere. Perhaps he's Lost In A Good Book?</HTML>
Mycroft Maths
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:50PM
<HTML>as I work with numbers all the time I just look at the screen, type the result without staring at the keys, and have the mouse already over the 'click here', so it's just look-type-click, look-type-click (except when I make a mistake LOL)</HTML>
Re: Mycroft Maths
Posted by: ben t (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:52PM
<HTML>Hiya Dave,
er, pretty rare that anybody else says hello in here other than me & bea,
I owe you a pint (see biogs thread)
must go before boss catches me... :-(</HTML>
er, pretty rare that anybody else says hello in here other than me & bea,
I owe you a pint (see biogs thread)
must go before boss catches me... :-(</HTML>
Re: Mycroft Maths
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:53PM
<HTML>good plan. I'll try again...</HTML>
drats!
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:54PM
<HTML>but I sent your boss to russia :( (see other thread)
oh well, I suppose I should go back to work too...</HTML>
oh well, I suppose I should go back to work too...</HTML>
Re: Mycroft Maths
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 01:54PM
<HTML>Ah, beer. If you say you owe me one, that's good enough for me. Mine's a Speckled Hen, if you please. Failing that, a pint of Number 3.
hic.</HTML>
hic.</HTML>
Speckled Hen
Posted by: ben t (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 04, 2002 05:19PM
<HTML>And a finer pint you will rarely see.
Have you ever done a themed pub crawl where you pick a word or name and then drink beverages beginning with each letter in turn (so dave would be diesel, adnam's, vodka, elephant brew).
I tried doing Tchaikovsky with an orchestra once, but after a few we couldn't spell it, let alone say it. Anybody up for
metaneopseudoantidisestablishmentarianistically?
And anybody fancy mopping up after me?</HTML>
Have you ever done a themed pub crawl where you pick a word or name and then drink beverages beginning with each letter in turn (so dave would be diesel, adnam's, vodka, elephant brew).
I tried doing Tchaikovsky with an orchestra once, but after a few we couldn't spell it, let alone say it. Anybody up for
metaneopseudoantidisestablishmentarianistically?
And anybody fancy mopping up after me?</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 05:28PM
<HTML>ooh, sounds like a grand game. I've done a speed pub crawl at uni. The club we were running set a treasure hunt/pub crawl, so we had to start everyone off, then pub crawl the same route but get to the finish first so we could check who won.
Except after 11 pints we were in no condition to stand up, let alone check who'd got all the items (which included a pizza box, a physics first year, last week's guardian etc. Only one team got the physics student. Strangely it was an all-girl team who walked into the first pub and shouted 'any first year physics students fancy a pint with us?)
Some kind of checklist would be in order. Though what would you be drinking by the time you get to Y? pretty much anything, I suspect...</HTML>
Except after 11 pints we were in no condition to stand up, let alone check who'd got all the items (which included a pizza box, a physics first year, last week's guardian etc. Only one team got the physics student. Strangely it was an all-girl team who walked into the first pub and shouted 'any first year physics students fancy a pint with us?)
Some kind of checklist would be in order. Though what would you be drinking by the time you get to Y? pretty much anything, I suspect...</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: ben t (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 07:37PM
<HTML>I can remember crawls like that. Perhaps the best one was with a boat club, and I'd promised some bloke's missus I'd bring him back to our college bar at the end of her shift. Five minutes to spare we duly down our pints, and can't find him. We eventually find him round the back doing somehting he definitely shouldn't have been.
Remembering her threats about what would happen if we lost him, we pulled him off, (er, better say we removed him from the offending other) and ran back with him to our own bar, before depositing him (now comatose from his head hitting the cobbles of Durham once too often) on the bar, in front of all her mates, with his pants round his ankles.
Strangely she forgot to thank me for the sterling service.
By the time we got to 'y' I'd be drinking extremely badly and messily, I think.
Kidnapping physics' students souns a bit like an Ooberman song called 'Physics Disco'.
(Bea, I'm much better behaved now, before you start to worry about me buying you a pint ;-) )</HTML>
Remembering her threats about what would happen if we lost him, we pulled him off, (er, better say we removed him from the offending other) and ran back with him to our own bar, before depositing him (now comatose from his head hitting the cobbles of Durham once too often) on the bar, in front of all her mates, with his pants round his ankles.
Strangely she forgot to thank me for the sterling service.
By the time we got to 'y' I'd be drinking extremely badly and messily, I think.
Kidnapping physics' students souns a bit like an Ooberman song called 'Physics Disco'.
(Bea, I'm much better behaved now, before you start to worry about me buying you a pint ;-) )</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: September 04, 2002 09:38PM
<HTML>hey, I didn't kidnap him. It was the all-girl team!
It was fun though. Did the entire otley run in just over 2 hours. 10 pubs, plus the student union for a nightcap.
ah, happy days.</HTML>
It was fun though. Did the entire otley run in just over 2 hours. 10 pubs, plus the student union for a nightcap.
ah, happy days.</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: ben t (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: September 04, 2002 09:46PM
<HTML>Durham's college challenge runs to 16, I think, when you include the union and things like that. Bung in Klute afterwards (officially worst night club in Britain) and 1 pub and you've got an 18-hole course for crazy golf. Par = 72 sips, and river = one major water hazard....</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: ScarletBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 05, 2002 09:11AM
<HTML>*starts getting scared*
I don't drink guys....
;)</HTML>
I don't drink guys....
;)</HTML>
Re: Speckled Hen
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 05, 2002 10:18AM
<HTML>what, at all? Not even coffee?
*goes into cold sweat thinking about a world with no cappucinos....*</HTML>
*goes into cold sweat thinking about a world with no cappucinos....*</HTML>
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