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A discussion of all things Thursday !
Re: friday
Posted by: poety time! (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 13, 2002 04:44PM
<HTML>Er, changed that plan. I looked like the garden centre employee from hell.
Now sewing two circles onto a black t-shirt.
Is this a record for 'most aliases in one thread' ?</HTML>
Now sewing two circles onto a black t-shirt.
Is this a record for 'most aliases in one thread' ?</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 04:44PM
<HTML>there are some fantastic beers, from Old Throat Warbler, to Old Horizontal (a classic). The fondly remembered (vaguely) Kirkstall Ruin (about 8%, had 2 pints in under 20 minutes and don't recall much after that).
Others on the favourite list - Pendle Witches Brew, SW2 (from the Orange Brewery in London), and the all time classic, number one, would have to be.....
wait for it.....
Oyster Stout, from the Porter House in Parliament Street, Dublin. Actually made with actual oysters. Says on the beer menu 'Not Suitable for Vegetarians'. Superb.</HTML>
Others on the favourite list - Pendle Witches Brew, SW2 (from the Orange Brewery in London), and the all time classic, number one, would have to be.....
wait for it.....
Oyster Stout, from the Porter House in Parliament Street, Dublin. Actually made with actual oysters. Says on the beer menu 'Not Suitable for Vegetarians'. Superb.</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: can't think of a good alias (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 04:46PM
<HTML>you mean you're all the same person? I thought we had load of new posters on the fforum...
did I mention Speckled Hen</HTML>
did I mention Speckled Hen</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: poerter stout (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 13, 2002 04:50PM
<HTML>I'm sure Hen got a look in somewhere on one of these threads...
Actually there are increasing numbers of people popping ni these dyas. Maybe we're encouraging them?</HTML>
Actually there are increasing numbers of people popping ni these dyas. Maybe we're encouraging them?</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: Darth Dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 04:53PM
<HTML>could be. Be fun to get some new online chums. Bored of you two now.
:-)
yeah right. Like you two ever get boring! It's gonna be a quiet few weeks without the Poet tho. Sniff.</HTML>
:-)
yeah right. Like you two ever get boring! It's gonna be a quiet few weeks without the Poet tho. Sniff.</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: pie-eyed poet (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:08PM
<HTML>I'll post in the evening's when I have free access, so I won't be completely absent. I'll just have to save up my daily inanities...
You realise I've had more 'we'll miss you's' off this forum than at work? Deeply disturbing...
If I'd actually talked to people rather than posting all the time...</HTML>
You realise I've had more 'we'll miss you's' off this forum than at work? Deeply disturbing...
If I'd actually talked to people rather than posting all the time...</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:10PM
<HTML>should invite them on here, so they don't miss you too much at work.
Any joy with the printer? Has it finished off the tech support bod?</HTML>
Any joy with the printer? Has it finished off the tech support bod?</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: pub-bound poet (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:14PM
<HTML>Just rebooted it. As in booted it again. With big heavy boots on. And a run up.
Hums slightly louder now, still won't print.</HTML>
Hums slightly louder now, still won't print.</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: TriviaKid (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:17PM
<HTML>Have you tried putting paper in it?
tee hee.
10 minutes to go. Lyle Lovett on the mp3. Nearly time to go see the Spud and see if he'll let me play with his new truck.</HTML>
tee hee.
10 minutes to go. Lyle Lovett on the mp3. Nearly time to go see the Spud and see if he'll let me play with his new truck.</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: poor man's poet (195.224.227.---)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:22PM
<HTML>Damn. I knew we hadn't thought of something.
One suggestion is that all the faxes are spilling out downstairs 'cause we can't work out how to tell it to dial 9 first, and that the printing is doing the same because nobody has the clearance to reconfigure the network. Or something...
Basically we've killed somebody who was standing next to a printer somewhere else in the building under a wall of paper several feet thick, because our natural instinct when a copy failed to amterialise was to click on print five times for emphasis. Oops.
He probably won't let you paly with his truck. Threaten him with proper music again....</HTML>
One suggestion is that all the faxes are spilling out downstairs 'cause we can't work out how to tell it to dial 9 first, and that the printing is doing the same because nobody has the clearance to reconfigure the network. Or something...
Basically we've killed somebody who was standing next to a printer somewhere else in the building under a wall of paper several feet thick, because our natural instinct when a copy failed to amterialise was to click on print five times for emphasis. Oops.
He probably won't let you paly with his truck. Threaten him with proper music again....</HTML>
Re: friday
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: September 13, 2002 05:24PM
<HTML>He'll probably attempt to beat me over the head with it. And, being me, I'll let him whilst saying 'how cute'.
Still, bandages are @#$%&.</HTML>
Still, bandages are @#$%&.</HTML>
Re: friday pub crawl
Posted by: all_american_cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: September 13, 2002 07:03PM
<HTML>Here's a question for you lager-logged Brit-types....
What's the most unusual name for a beer you've ever heard?
I was recently visiting family in Washington State (no,not Seattle as there are other places in WA!) and my niece introduced me to a very good one called "Moose Drool". Tasty and a wonderful name!
In the US, there are a lot of Micro Breweries and they seem to try to top each other for the craziest name for their beers. It's a riot. Too bad they don't always compete for flavor!</HTML>
What's the most unusual name for a beer you've ever heard?
I was recently visiting family in Washington State (no,not Seattle as there are other places in WA!) and my niece introduced me to a very good one called "Moose Drool". Tasty and a wonderful name!
In the US, there are a lot of Micro Breweries and they seem to try to top each other for the craziest name for their beers. It's a riot. Too bad they don't always compete for flavor!</HTML>
Re: friday pub crawl
Posted by: all_american_cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: September 13, 2002 07:27PM
<HTML>here's a link to see Moose Drool and their other beers, like Scape Goat and Slow Elk.
[www.bigskybrew.com] (click on 'Our Beers')
(oh my god, following a link in Google search, I see they've gone into business with another company that makes soaps and they have Moose Drool soap as well...made from the brewing ingredients! scary)
By the way, if you didn't already know it, microbrewed beer is an art form in the Pacific Northwest region of the US (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon) Maybe it's because the winters are so cold and the summers are quite hot. Need something to get through it all!</HTML>
[www.bigskybrew.com] (click on 'Our Beers')
(oh my god, following a link in Google search, I see they've gone into business with another company that makes soaps and they have Moose Drool soap as well...made from the brewing ingredients! scary)
By the way, if you didn't already know it, microbrewed beer is an art form in the Pacific Northwest region of the US (Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon) Maybe it's because the winters are so cold and the summers are quite hot. Need something to get through it all!</HTML>
hmmm
Posted by: Bea (---.telepac.pt)
Date: September 13, 2002 08:53PM
<HTML>I forgot to say goodbye this afternoon....
I was feeling so grrrrr that I just stormed off...
sorry...
Anyway...
I did buy clothes... lots of them, eeek... the lady at the shop was a very good salesperson and very nice... and the clothes were lovely... and I really needed them... lol
hmmm no, I wont write the list here ehehehe
Of course we miss you Ben :)))) and dont worry, I feel more close to people online then people at work too ;)
And Dave, sometimes I'm like that with kids too... they being little devils to me, and me going 'awwwww so cute'</HTML>
I was feeling so grrrrr that I just stormed off...
sorry...
Anyway...
I did buy clothes... lots of them, eeek... the lady at the shop was a very good salesperson and very nice... and the clothes were lovely... and I really needed them... lol
hmmm no, I wont write the list here ehehehe
Of course we miss you Ben :)))) and dont worry, I feel more close to people online then people at work too ;)
And Dave, sometimes I'm like that with kids too... they being little devils to me, and me going 'awwwww so cute'</HTML>
Decline of British Industry
Posted by: jon brierley (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: September 15, 2002 11:04PM
<HTML>Ladies and gentlemen;
It has come to the attention of Goliath Corp Inc that production figures in several sectors of British Industry have recently taken a sharp decline. We view this drop in profits very seriously, and subsequent investigation has shown that a significant section of the UK workforce is spending office time playing on the net. Most of this activity is as a result of morons looking at pornography.....but there is disturbing new evidence that literate, intelligent and potentially productive operatives are now wasting their time with something called the Fforde Fforum, which is not only possibly subversive but has far too many fs. This disease has also spread to other regions, notably Portugal (98% productivity drop in the last month) and the North West of the USA.
We take a dim view of all this, I can tell you, and in conjunction with SpecOps warrants have been issued for the restraint of certain parties, starting with one Jasper Fforde, believed to be the ringleader....we can't actually find him, but rest assured that we will invade Iraq anyway.
All should bear in mind that your employers can and do monitor all net activity and read all your e-mails if they want to. Goliath is here and now, and you better beleive it.
However, I shan't grass anybody up - on one condition.
You let me play as well.
Jon (not at work cos it's a Sunday)</HTML>
It has come to the attention of Goliath Corp Inc that production figures in several sectors of British Industry have recently taken a sharp decline. We view this drop in profits very seriously, and subsequent investigation has shown that a significant section of the UK workforce is spending office time playing on the net. Most of this activity is as a result of morons looking at pornography.....but there is disturbing new evidence that literate, intelligent and potentially productive operatives are now wasting their time with something called the Fforde Fforum, which is not only possibly subversive but has far too many fs. This disease has also spread to other regions, notably Portugal (98% productivity drop in the last month) and the North West of the USA.
We take a dim view of all this, I can tell you, and in conjunction with SpecOps warrants have been issued for the restraint of certain parties, starting with one Jasper Fforde, believed to be the ringleader....we can't actually find him, but rest assured that we will invade Iraq anyway.
All should bear in mind that your employers can and do monitor all net activity and read all your e-mails if they want to. Goliath is here and now, and you better beleive it.
However, I shan't grass anybody up - on one condition.
You let me play as well.
Jon (not at work cos it's a Sunday)</HTML>
Decline of British Industry
Posted by: jon brierley (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: September 15, 2002 11:06PM
<HTML>Ladies and gentlemen;
It has come to the attention of Goliath Corp Inc that production figures in several sectors of British Industry have recently taken a sharp decline. We view this drop in profits very seriously, and subsequent investigation has shown that a significant section of the UK workforce is spending office time playing on the net. Most of this activity is as a result of morons looking at pornography.....but there is disturbing new evidence that literate, intelligent and potentially productive operatives are now wasting their time with something called the Fforde Fforum, which is not only possibly subversive but has far too many fs. This disease has also spread to other regions, notably Portugal (98% productivity drop in the last month) and the North West of the USA.
We take a dim view of all this, I can tell you, and in conjunction with SpecOps warrants have been issued for the restraint of certain parties, starting with one Jasper Fforde, believed to be the ringleader....we can't actually find him, but rest assured that we will invade Iraq anyway.
All should bear in mind that your employers can and do monitor all net activity and read all your e-mails if they want to. Goliath is here and now, and you better beleive it.
However, I shan't grass anybody up - on one condition.
You let me play as well.
Jon (not at work cos it's a Sunday)</HTML>
It has come to the attention of Goliath Corp Inc that production figures in several sectors of British Industry have recently taken a sharp decline. We view this drop in profits very seriously, and subsequent investigation has shown that a significant section of the UK workforce is spending office time playing on the net. Most of this activity is as a result of morons looking at pornography.....but there is disturbing new evidence that literate, intelligent and potentially productive operatives are now wasting their time with something called the Fforde Fforum, which is not only possibly subversive but has far too many fs. This disease has also spread to other regions, notably Portugal (98% productivity drop in the last month) and the North West of the USA.
We take a dim view of all this, I can tell you, and in conjunction with SpecOps warrants have been issued for the restraint of certain parties, starting with one Jasper Fforde, believed to be the ringleader....we can't actually find him, but rest assured that we will invade Iraq anyway.
All should bear in mind that your employers can and do monitor all net activity and read all your e-mails if they want to. Goliath is here and now, and you better beleive it.
However, I shan't grass anybody up - on one condition.
You let me play as well.
Jon (not at work cos it's a Sunday)</HTML>
Re: Decline of British Industry
Posted by: poetscientistd (non) thinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: September 15, 2002 11:24PM
<HTML>Okay, okay you caught us red handed. Fancy a cut of the profits frokm when we sell this inane line of chat as a world-wide brand? Come and play anyway...
Not entirely convinced that I ever constituted any portion of British productivity anyway, but that's besides the point.
AAC - will come back to you with some more names later, but this weekend I have been drinking 'Piddle in the Hole' and 'Piddle down under' from the Wyre Piddle brewery in Worcestershire. This lead to the great laugh (okay, that attraction soon faded) of asking for a 'pint of piddle, please'; right in front of a load of tourists who were, er, bemused and delighted by the quaint Shakespearian term for beer. Once saw a beer titled 'Norfolk Enchants' too, which more or less describes the chance of avoiding a hangover.</HTML>
Not entirely convinced that I ever constituted any portion of British productivity anyway, but that's besides the point.
AAC - will come back to you with some more names later, but this weekend I have been drinking 'Piddle in the Hole' and 'Piddle down under' from the Wyre Piddle brewery in Worcestershire. This lead to the great laugh (okay, that attraction soon faded) of asking for a 'pint of piddle, please'; right in front of a load of tourists who were, er, bemused and delighted by the quaint Shakespearian term for beer. Once saw a beer titled 'Norfolk Enchants' too, which more or less describes the chance of avoiding a hangover.</HTML>
Beer names
Posted by: just a drinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: September 16, 2002 12:02AM
<HTML>Okay, just a few picked at random from [www.allaboutpubs.com] that happened to tickle my fancy (I forget more beers than I remember - possibly through the action of said beverage):
'Croak & Stagger' from the Frog Island brewery,
'Dog's Bollocks' - Wychwood
'Off the rails' - Pembroke
'Chase your tail' - Spinning Dog (not sure which wayb round that should be, actually)
'Who put the Lights Out?' - Skinners
My winner so far though is (drum roll)...
'Piston Bitter' from Beer Engine (think about it...)
Of course the names you can call beer when ordering are far more fun (just like Piddle) - and even more likely to make toruists panic when you order them in a Stratford pub. Examples are 'cooking lager' - cheapest beer in the place, and 'canoe' - @#$%&, weak lager - so named because just like making love in a canoe, it's f***ing close to water... Gant's piss does the same job here.
Of course, you may have to spend a while educating the barstaff first, as we did with 'Window Jumping Juice' - a particular beer likely to result in serial defenestration in a 'round the cottage and through the window five lap steeplechase'
Probably best not to ask...</HTML>
'Croak & Stagger' from the Frog Island brewery,
'Dog's Bollocks' - Wychwood
'Off the rails' - Pembroke
'Chase your tail' - Spinning Dog (not sure which wayb round that should be, actually)
'Who put the Lights Out?' - Skinners
My winner so far though is (drum roll)...
'Piston Bitter' from Beer Engine (think about it...)
Of course the names you can call beer when ordering are far more fun (just like Piddle) - and even more likely to make toruists panic when you order them in a Stratford pub. Examples are 'cooking lager' - cheapest beer in the place, and 'canoe' - @#$%&, weak lager - so named because just like making love in a canoe, it's f***ing close to water... Gant's piss does the same job here.
Of course, you may have to spend a while educating the barstaff first, as we did with 'Window Jumping Juice' - a particular beer likely to result in serial defenestration in a 'round the cottage and through the window five lap steeplechase'
Probably best not to ask...</HTML>
Re: Beer names
Posted by: Bea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 16, 2002 08:21AM
<HTML>*gasps for air*
can I stop laughing now?
Anyway Jon, I only go here when there's nothing else to do or I need a well deserved break ;) *points finger*</HTML>
can I stop laughing now?
Anyway Jon, I only go here when there's nothing else to do or I need a well deserved break ;) *points finger*</HTML>
Nearly 100
Posted by: TravellerBea (148.177.129.---)
Date: September 16, 2002 08:25AM
<HTML>Well, we did say we'd reach 100 on this one ;)
I just wanted to know a phylosophical question: why can we write several mails that have nothing in them, and when we need to write some that you actually need to tell stuff you're stuck?
*kicks self*
Come on girl, go write!</HTML>
I just wanted to know a phylosophical question: why can we write several mails that have nothing in them, and when we need to write some that you actually need to tell stuff you're stuck?
*kicks self*
Come on girl, go write!</HTML>
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