Hi SM. :)

All body parts present and correct. Well, mostly correct....

rob:
No LHC for me, sadly.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Were you at the bordello?
Was there a pinata?
Were you in the Gobi desert?
Were you in the South Seas?
Were you at your mom's house?
Were you at the South Pole?
... the North Pole?
how is Santa?

Did I even get close?

Oh, wait. <sees the sig line> Did you go to Wonderland?

Well, the North Pole is in the wrong hemisphere, I have never seen a pinata in the flesh (so to speak), the Gobi Desert is a long way away (although it sounds interesting), South Seas sounds lovely, Santa is. :P

I am back at home though, so that was fairly close.

Heh. The .sig has been that for many years. Since before the fforum had paged threads even.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

A new (so far) unanswered question:

Do aphids hallucinate when they eat my Brugmansias?

Has anyone been regularly posting longer than Martin? He was certainly here when I joined.

I can only think of Lycanthra Pod and Prinz Hilde that may have been here longer. Prove me wrong.

Just out of interest, how long is martin ?

Skidmarks: Kitten is probably of a similar vintage to me, but I think shortly after me. I seem to remember her arriving in a shoe.
Lycanthra Pod has been around for*ever* and I can not remember not seeing Prinz Hild who was almost certainly also around when/shortly after I joined.

I miss Puck. Toasting marshmallows is just not the same anymore. And Lady Teaspoon.

I got curious, and the earliest of my posts I can find is from 2005, but I am sure I introduced myself at some point as well....
My joining was after hearing a review of WOLP on the radio. Shortly after I found TEA, LIAGB and WOLP as a discounted set, and I must have joined in here shortly afterward.

On searching around, I did dig up this gem:

Quote:

My first post was on 28/04/2005 and I don't recall anything really significant, deep, meaningful or relevant being said in that time....

OB (I keep thinking Old Brown Sherry when I type that...) 6'?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

My first post was 15 August 2004. I remember I immediately upset PSD.
I posted only a dozen times per year or so upto 2008; I don't know if that falls within your definition of "regularly posting".

I was a regular poster in about 2003/4, the earliest post I can find is Feb 2004, but that seemed to be a post from when I'd been around a while. Then I took a little hiatus of about 7 years before my low key return a few months back.

In a desperate attempt to get this thread off track may I ask if your low key return is the same as a low return key? And if so is it something that is new in the world of the information superhighway on which I am traveling the wrong way?

I think we are well enough off-topic, but I also think that you, like the rest of us have moved from the information superhighway to the data sideroad.

At least we should be safe from the Vogons.

What does a Vogon eat for canapes?

The data sideroad. So ~that's~ where I've been! I was wondering. It's still an unanswered question as I don't know where that road is. Or where it goes. But at least I know I'm on it.

And I'm not sure that I want to know what Vogons eat, ever, so let's please leave that question unanswered too.

Have we had Christmas yet?

No, we had Hogfather's.
The 26th is Australia day so it's beer and barbeques by tradition, but I had bacon and eggs and tomato heated in the microwave as i wasn't allowed to put it with the bbacon.

Christmas comes but once a year.....


To totaly change the subject while looking for a job just now I saw a vacancy for a 'Termite Welder'. Reading on it was actually for a Thermite welder.

It made me think of how you would weld termites, or do the termites actuallllly do the welding?

Answers on the back of a scarab addressed to the easter Bunny, Calici Drive, Myxamtosis.

As always, so terribly behind the times, its for a short term IT electronics welder. I doubt it's for you.

What else was there?

Are you sure it wasn't for a termite wielder? A person whom can make use of the mighty power of the termites. (A bit like Spiderman but with a penchant for cellulose.)

Termites sell you loose what?

termites sell you loose metal parts.

At least north of here they do.

One of the sheep stations north of Woomera built a timber framed dunny clad with corrugated iron.

Within two weeks the termites had eaten all the wood and the structure had collapsed.

It was later rebuilt using steel framework.


Not all termites in Australia are this ferocious but they try.

If the dingoes, tiger snakes, red backs, taipans, cane toads, funnel webs, and their relatives don't actually bite you the termites will make your life a matter of uncertainty.

Especially when you need the dunny urgently, it would seem.

The term might rule the world one day springs to mind