according to Peter Kay. These are so true.

1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your
pint to toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

4) You've never quite sure whether it's ok to eat green crisps.

5) Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits
55378008 into a calculator.

6) Reading when you're drunk is horrible.

7) Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

8) You're never quite sure whether it's against the law or not to have a
fire in your back garden.

10) Nobody ever dares make cup a soup in a bowl.

11) You never know where to look when eating a banana.

12) Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

13) Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

14) Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

15) You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

16) Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.

17) The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to
call your teacher mum or dad.

18) The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill
you at the first given opportunity.

19) Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

20) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way
through and then raced against the flush.

21) Old women with mobile phones look wrong!

22) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

23) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

24) You never ever run out of salt.

25) Old ladies can eat more than you think.

26) You can't respect a man who carries a dog.

27) There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when
you've got your hand or head stuck in something.

28) No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

29) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has
had their arm broken by a swan.

30) The most painful household incident is wearing socks and
stepping on an upturned plug.

31) People who don't drive slam car doors too hard

32) You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood
specifically to stir paint with.

33) Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

34) Bricks are horrible to carry.

35) In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.

5) Everyone who grew up in the 80's has entered the digits
55378008 into a calculator.


I haven't!!! is this an english thing?

In the 70s we used to put 5318008 into a calculator. You can't do that with a PC. Well, you can, but you can't turn it upside down to read it.



- - -
I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

tee hee.

Is it me, or are there not as many posts now the new fforums (ffori? fforae?) are up and running?

Well, I couldn't post at all yesterday, kept throwing up an error ... I think the boojums are putting people off.



- - -
I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I agree. It doesn't seem to have settled down yet.
Then everyone will come flooding back...

Did anyone else do 31077345 in their calculator ??

Shouldn't that be 71077345 Rob?
Oh and yes I did :)

didn't we all?

ok it's an english MALE thing
;-)

oh and Dave, I got an Out of Office thing from you...

Carla wrote:

> ok it's an english MALE thing
> ;-)

er, yeah. Teenagers, eh?

> oh and Dave, I got an Out of Office thing from you...

Didn't we all. Bloody spammers.



- - -
I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Good spot Adam, you're quite correct.

I didn't get an Out of Office thing from Dave.
He's in the Office. He must be if he's posting here...

interesting. Wonder why you're getting my out of office autoreply mails? Should only get one of those if you're mailing me direct.. I was out of the office yesterday afternoon...

Turned off the out of office thing as I am in the office now, as Rob so correctly points out. Though I do post from home sometimes too...

Nope, it's not an english male thing, because I did it here in the States too. And I have it on good authority that I'm female (as the pic in my profile should confirm).

We also did 07734.



--------------
"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Hmmm....
Had to go to the Lost in a Good Book Forum to log in - any reason why?
Hope this post works - I've been trying for a couple of days now to log in - changing computers might help...
And I spent many a happy maths lesson working out what words I could put into my calculator. Then I got a nice *programmable* calculator...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

In the 90s, you had to be long and complicated...

(Grab a calculator and type the numbers...)

There was this girl she was 13
Her grandmother was 64
Her mother was 45
She went to the doctor and the doctor said 0
Take these pills 2 x (hit times key)
a day. She took them 4
That made her...

(Hit equals)

There, wasn't that worth waiting for?



--------------

There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Nope, and it wasn't then either when it seemed novel....

I had one of those programmable ones too, and at the end of every maths exams I'd use it to program a game or two and sit there fiddling. None of this 'reading through your answers' for me - I couldn't understand them the first time....



PSD

==========

This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I like the Douglas Adams thing still:

1: Anything that is in the world when you're bor is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the worlds works.

2: Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3: Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.



PSD

==========

This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Gosh Ben, that's so weirdly true....
But I hope the last age limit extends for me, I'm fast reaching it *shakes* I still want to find things new and exciting and revolutionary!!!!

That'd be Anne Summers' new Che Guevara range, then...



PSD

==========

This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

LOLOLOL
I don't think so ;)