The story about the man on the tractor has actually made it into the pages of the Eastern Daily Press (Norwich edition) today. The EDP does notice biggish world events, like Iraq, but otherwise one is more likely to be reading about controversial plans to cut down a hedge in Great Snoring. (Yes, it really exists).

isn't there a 'little snoring' too?

Not sure if this qualifies as Nextian News, or just odd.

[news.bbc.co.uk]



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Dave,
Yep, there is. Probably bigger than Great Snoring too.

I love british town names.

Righteous people can be reincarnated as fish? Not gonna be righteous then.

If I got reincarnated as a fish I think I'd carp about it a bit. If we are going to have transmigration of soles I'll stay as a human. I know my plaice (even if I am a bit hard of herring these dace). The key to successful re-incarnation is to keep in tuna with the universe, and to try not to hake people. Keep clam; if one can face all misfortune with a benevolent bream, then eventually all wounds will eel. Some people are a dab hand at this. Fill the unforgiving minnow with sixty seconds worth of distance swum, and you shall one day be reborn as salmon else. If you cannot be a little ray of sunshine, but go through life crabby and piking, all nervous and tench, you stand every chance of coming back as an old trout. You may even lose your grip on the perch of humanity altogether, and flounder about as some lower form of life, thus moving one still farther from cod.

Ok, I'll stop now. I mustn't be shellfish.



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I was about to say that cod does indeed move in mysterious ways, but jon's beaten me to it.

Grooooaaan....

Aaargh! I need Twila's macro!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

I was just gonna say, I need to break out my macro!!

[SHIFT + ALT + K] banging head against keyboard....

Happiness is the sound of fforumites banging their heads against keyboards. If I have made someone groan as I pass this way, then my living shall not have been in vain.



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We seem to be doing lots of damage to our keyboards, don't we ? Cups of tea being spilt over them, people banging their heads against them.

I broke my keyboard once. My graphics card had developed a problem and the computer kept freezing for no readily apparent reason (rather more so than they usually do). I'd got in from work and I was trying to get some vetinary information online, as Diesel was having problems with losing her baby teeth. I needed to eat and get myself sorted to go out quickly. The *^%** computer crashed three times in 20 minutes, needing a press of restart each time.
On the third occasion, I not only screamed, I punched the keyboard so hard, I bust the spring under one end of the space bar. The alt key was a bit wonky too. At least I hadn't given in to my first impulse, which was to post the ***%&** keyboard through the *"£*!!*(*** screen.
(Please excuse my French)

Ever noticed how old keyboards start translating things into Welsh ?
You get results like:
Ever noticedd how olld keybords start trnslatingg thhings into Wllsh ?

Must be a conspiracy.

Notes:

1: Great Snoring is nothing. Cambridgeshire has a Six Mile Bottom [www.multimap.com] and search for proof. Birmingham has the truly inspired Pink Green.

2: Cod does indeed move in mysterious ways. Christopher O'Donaghue is his real name, hence shortened to Cod. He has so far shot himself in the foot, blown himself up lighting a fire with deodorant and catapulted himself across a ford on a push bike (resulting in catastrophic loss of his t-shirt in a sluice gate). The man is a disaster zone.

3: Guiness is not good for keyboards. Nor is using them for tennis.

4: The Stop The War Coalition has called for a day of inaction to disrupt the war. If I do nothing, how the hell will anybody be able to tell the difference?

DAVE ---> No (embarrased llook)



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do I spy the welsh keyboard virus striking again?

Yes it is the Fyrus Cymraeg .... and I shan't tell you what 'twll' means in Welsh!



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The Welsh Learners Links - according to Google.

Alternatively it forms part of the phrase "twll tin pob Sais", but I won't translate



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I didn't know Geri Halliwell lived in Saxon times and it seems rather rude to call the poor girl thik

That's quite a rude insult you've got there, Ben ... resonates with twll dyn pob Sais, funnily enough ....



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the absolute WORST thing that can happen to a keyboard that will render it completely non-cleanable and particularly unusable, is to have a cat pee on it.

'nuff said!

I know it's quite rude, except I've forgotten exactly what it means... Hopefully there aren't too many speakers of old norse on the fforum to do the 'disgusted of Stavanger Wells' bit...



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