I'm starting to get worried. Not about the test results that haven't come in yet, but because it's been 46 hours and nothing I've eaten since I woke up has come out yet.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
If we can help with that - we most definitely will! :)
We did close down the TLPTPW threads though with an Honorary win for John Clark after he passed sometime back.
Awww - that's a lovely gesture :) I count myself very unfortunate to have joined seti at the wrong time to get to chat with him on the boards :( From everything I've heard, he sounds like one of those people you're always grateful for having had in your life, in whatever way that was achieved.
I do hope you have a lovely time in France, Jonathan :) Is Mikey still in Las Vegas? Wondering where I should point my wave... *make wild guess*
Checking in early on a Wednesday morning...just trying to win.
Yes. I see, Randy :) that didn't work out so well really, did it? Looking at the winner's podium, it really does look more like an anniet-sized one - and the way it's been sunk into the ground like that (so I can address the masses with my nose on tiptoe) has left me rather a lot more than a little convinced! :)
*start preparing victory speech*
Oh Annie, how Iwe've all missed you.
Awww - I've missed you lot too, David :) very much. I can't belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve I was last here on page three :( I hope all develops well with your hospital stuff... My jaw has spread RIGHT up both sides of my face and has now got into my ears.
It's funny really how you can go from being somewhat repelled by the way your mouth falls open during the night and drools on you till you wake up - to really reallyreally missing those nights and mornings, isn't it Mike? My doctor thought so anyway. He seemed to do a good job suppressing his snorts, until I remembered he'd asked me a question about heavy machinery I operate, and I vaguely said kettle. I'm wondering whether I should have mentioned I've been thinking about chainsaws and not having one. Oh!
I'm not sure why that made me suddenly think that it's been awhile since MAGIC has been in, but it did.
one just finished initial stages of being a doctor and now off to study surgery
I made a cake for the daughter of my daughter's Year 2 teacher, to celebrate exactly the stage your niece is at WK :) It was anatomically very correct with a pre-incised and ready to hack at torso. Because I was delivering it to her at the end of the school day - when there would be many innocents abroad who might be quite into ogling cake - the patient was draped with a removable surgical sheet made of icing :) It was tremendous fun to do.
the great unwashed as was the term
*droop eyelids one by one by one* wasn't that one of the first seti topics you (representing your people) and I (representing mine) exchanged views on, Chris? :) I'd not heard the term until I infiltrated the UK.
*suddenly elevate nose dispassionately* It's not so much that we at the bottom of your heap are unwashed, it's that in the time it takes us to hose ourselves down, and before we manage to dry ourselves off, we've been covered in the next pile of dung from above. ;)
Oh.
Look! My view now is much the same as it was then ;)
I've got to go and work out what I'm giving people to eat tonight. My other half was discharged from hospital today, but as he's still waiting for an ambulance to bring him home, I'm not sure if I'll be serving him... or when - but it will be lovely to get him back and reintroduce him to my mum a gajillion times a day :)
Hope I'll be able to find time to pop in over the weekend *remember not to forget to say hello to Bill* or later this evening even :) to check in on how things are erm... transiting for you David.
edit: I forgot to say hello to Bill. I was in a printer's the other day and the man must have told me at least four times not to bang my head on the way out, which I assured him each time I wouldn't, and then I banged my head on the way out
Hi Bill! :)
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Hope I'll be able to find time to pop in over the weekend *remember not to forget to say hello to Bill* or later this evening even :) to check in on how things are erm... transiting for you David.
Not too long after I posted, there was finally some action. Hot on the heels of that, I also had (mildly) low blood sugar for the first time in several years. I say mildly because 79 is not really low, but it felt almost like it did the time it was 51 and I didn't wait for it to get any lower.
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Mike Hewson wrote:
...... but the real danger are the lurking grandmothers. There are an immense number of ladies who have reached the age of 86, by luck largely, and despite having ****ed up the first 85 years of their life are still endowed with social worship because of their assumed 'wisdom'. They don't bother me so much : I give them the 1000 yard stare to let them know that I know they are a fraud and 'go ahead, make my day'. So they usually select a 17 year old grand-daughter who has just had a child and berate them with 'helpful advice' about infant care. This is normally a thinly disguised barb that Jack had nicked off to Queensland just after the positive pregnancy test, and why did you trust him you silly young thing ? Which is exactly what happened to her in 1946, only it was Bob and Western Australia.
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In other news that doesn't, strictly speaking, affect me at all, my best friend's daughter and her boyfriend went to Hawaii this week and he proposed. After asking at least three times if he was serious, she said yes. Right at the end of the video, some off-screen old biddy is heard asking "Do you know what she's having?"
(She's not.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
*scrutinise T suspiciously* Good afterafternoon Chris S! :)
Look! My view now is much the same as it was then ;)
Hmmm, gotta do something about that!!
Oh. Well, many have tried, Chris ;)
Some even survived with their own views intact... *baffled blink* ... no... I can't understand it either...
Have a nice post election day (wish I was) :-)
It's a long time since I enjoyed a post election day. In fact I was so sure I wouldn't enjoy this one, despite the rumours, that I didn't even bother watching the results come in, till I caught sight of them on my way to bed for three-quarters of an hour at quarter past six this morning *start gathering smelling salts* which meant I didn't go to bed after all because I suddenly felt absurdly cheerful ...
*place Chris in recovery position* It didn't last.
he'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiine!!! :) It's just it all turned into a bit more of a bloodbath than some thought possible and others dared to dream really...
edit: I missed seeing the last two posts, I'm going away now to read them...and might be back - I don't know ...
again-edit: I do now. I did, Come back I mean.
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Quite a disaster for May that was!
*nominate Jonathan for understatement of the year award* Yes, I think we had no way of keeping it quiet for her poor thing. Mind you, ducking out of debates might be why she's still clinging on, who knows ;)
Very pleased to hear there has been a promising development, David. :)
YES I AM BACK! WHAT OF IT!? I just forgot to wish the happy couple even happier times ahead... now I have :)
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I was rather pleased on the post-election days in 2008 and 2012.
I got a bit of amusement, and some good laughs from The Onion, in the days following 2000, although the final outcome was less than pleasing.
I enjoy other people's post election days from time to time :) but not always for long. It's all so fraught with pitfalls, politics. One minute, the poor things think they know what we're thinking, and the next they realise they didn't.
edit: I put in a past tense that should have been a present one so I could edit it
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I'm starting to get worried.
I'm starting to get worried. Not about the test results that haven't come in yet, but because it's been 46 hours and nothing I've eaten since I woke up has come out yet.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Good news! I finished my
YAY!!!
If we can help with that - we most definitely will! :)
Awww - that's a lovely gesture :) I count myself very unfortunate to have joined seti at the wrong time to get to chat with him on the boards :( From everything I've heard, he sounds like one of those people you're always grateful for having had in your life, in whatever way that was achieved.
I do hope you have a lovely time in France, Jonathan :) Is Mikey still in Las Vegas? Wondering where I should point my wave... *make wild guess*
Yes. I see, Randy :) that didn't work out so well really, did it? Looking at the winner's podium, it really does look more like an anniet-sized one - and the way it's been sunk into the ground like that (so I can address the masses with my nose on tiptoe) has left me rather a lot more than a little convinced! :)
*start preparing victory speech*
Awww - I've missed you lot too, David :) very much. I can't belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve I was last here on page three :( I hope all develops well with your hospital stuff... My jaw has spread RIGHT up both sides of my face and has now got into my ears.
It's funny really how you can go from being somewhat repelled by the way your mouth falls open during the night and drools on you till you wake up - to really really really missing those nights and mornings, isn't it Mike? My doctor thought so anyway. He seemed to do a good job suppressing his snorts, until I remembered he'd asked me a question about heavy machinery I operate, and I vaguely said kettle. I'm wondering whether I should have mentioned I've been thinking about chainsaws and not having one. Oh!
I'm not sure why that made me suddenly think that it's been awhile since MAGIC has been in, but it did.
I made a cake for the daughter of my daughter's Year 2 teacher, to celebrate exactly the stage your niece is at WK :) It was anatomically very correct with a pre-incised and ready to hack at torso. Because I was delivering it to her at the end of the school day - when there would be many innocents abroad who might be quite into ogling cake - the patient was draped with a removable surgical sheet made of icing :) It was tremendous fun to do.
*droop eyelids one by one by one* wasn't that one of the first seti topics you (representing your people) and I (representing mine) exchanged views on, Chris? :) I'd not heard the term until I infiltrated the UK.
*suddenly elevate nose dispassionately* It's not so much that we at the bottom of your heap are unwashed, it's that in the time it takes us to hose ourselves down, and before we manage to dry ourselves off, we've been covered in the next pile of dung from above. ;)
Oh.
Look! My view now is much the same as it was then ;)
I've got to go and work out what I'm giving people to eat tonight. My other half was discharged from hospital today, but as he's still waiting for an ambulance to bring him home, I'm not sure if I'll be serving him... or when - but it will be lovely to get him back and reintroduce him to my mum a gajillion times a day :)
Hope I'll be able to find time to pop in over the weekend *remember not to forget to say hello to Bill* or later this evening even :) to check in on how things are erm... transiting for you David.
edit: I forgot to say hello to Bill. I was in a printer's the other day and the man must have told me at least four times not to bang my head on the way out, which I assured him each time I wouldn't, and then I banged my head on the way out
Hi Bill! :)
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Good afternoon AnnieT
Good afternoon AnnieT :-)
The great unwashed
Meaning
The common, lower classes; the hoi polloi.
Origin
This rather disparaging term was coined by the Victorian novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He used it in his 1830 novel Paul Clifford:
Look! My view now is much the same as it was then ;)
Hmmm, gotta do something about that!!
Have a nice post election day (wish I was) :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Die Amy of you follow the
Die Amy of you follow the British election? Quite a disaster for May that was!
anniet wrote:Hope I'll be
Not too long after I posted, there was finally some action. Hot on the heels of that, I also had (mildly) low blood sugar for the first time in several years. I say mildly because 79 is not really low, but it felt almost like it did the time it was 51 and I didn't wait for it to get any lower.
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In other news that doesn't, strictly speaking, affect me at all, my best friend's daughter and her boyfriend went to Hawaii this week and he proposed. After asking at least three times if he was serious, she said yes. Right at the end of the video, some off-screen old biddy is heard asking "Do you know what she's having?"
(She's not.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Good afternoon AnnieT
*scrutinise T suspiciously* Good afterafternoon Chris S! :)
Oh. Well, many have tried, Chris ;)
Some even survived with their own views intact... *baffled blink* ... no... I can't understand it either...
It's a long time since I enjoyed a post election day. In fact I was so sure I wouldn't enjoy this one, despite the rumours, that I didn't even bother watching the results come in, till I caught sight of them on my way to bed for three-quarters of an hour at quarter past six this morning *start gathering smelling salts* which meant I didn't go to bed after all because I suddenly felt absurdly cheerful ...
*place Chris in recovery position* It didn't last.
he'll be fiiiiiiiiiiiiine!!! :) It's just it all turned into a bit more of a bloodbath than some thought possible and others dared to dream really...
edit: I missed seeing the last two posts, I'm going away now to read them...and might be back - I don't know ...
again-edit: I do now. I did, Come back I mean.
*nominate Jonathan for understatement of the year award* Yes, I think we had no way of keeping it quiet for her poor thing. Mind you, ducking out of debates might be why she's still clinging on, who knows ;)
Very pleased to hear there has been a promising development, David. :)
YES I AM BACK! WHAT OF IT!? I just forgot to wish the happy couple even happier times ahead... now I have :)
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I was rather pleased on the
I was rather pleased on the post-election days in 2008 and 2012.
I got a bit of amusement, and some good laughs from The Onion, in the days following 2000, although the final outcome was less than pleasing.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
David S wrote:I was rather
I enjoy other people's post election days from time to time :) but not always for long. It's all so fraught with pitfalls, politics. One minute, the poor things think they know what we're thinking, and the next they realise they didn't.
edit: I put in a past tense that should have been a present one so I could edit it
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It's just it all turned
My local MP, one Nigel Evans (Cons) has apparently said "We didn't shot ourselves in the foot, we shot ourselves in the head"
Winning with no other
Winning with no other comment.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.