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Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:56 pm
by Cody
The Botox Camels would make a pretty good punk act.
Damn it, that nearly cost me a cup of tea - over a brand new keyboard too!
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:27 am
by spud42
Disembodied wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2018 4:50 pm
And The Botox Camels would make a pretty good punk act.
oh please , someone make this happen . lol
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 12:54 pm
by Disembodied
“On the internet, no-one knows you’re a Russian-hacked fridge pretending to be a Swedish bot pretending to be a Fox News dog.”
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:48 pm
by Disembodied
If you think you had a bad day, at the start of the week Mark Zuckerberg's net worth could have maintained the average American's lifestyle for 1.2 million years, but now it's only 1.1 million years, so actually it's like he DIED 1300 TIMES.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:31 am
by RockDoctor
Disembodied wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:48 pmMark Zuckerberg's(...) so actually it's like he DIED 1300 TIMES.
This reminds me of a joke heard at about the time of Spinal Tap - indeed, it may have been part of a Spinal Tap spoof, which is an interesting recursion in itself.
Interviewer : Why don't you use a drum machine since you keep on killing drummers?
Lead Singer : Well, it's like. With a drum machine, you punch the rhythm you want into the machine, and it does it. But with a real drummer, you have to punch it in time and time again and he keeps on getting it wrong, so you punch it back into him again. Much better.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:35 pm
by Cody
Ajit Pai is the most courageous, heroic person that I know.
<guffaws>
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 1:00 pm
by Disembodied
Cody wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:35 pm
Ajit Pai is the most courageous, heroic person that I know.
<guffaws>
His reward, a showpiece gun, was not actually handed out on stage, quite possibly because the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has a no-weapons policy for its events.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:00 pm
by RockDoctor
the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has a no-weapons policy for its events.
No? Seriously? What could possibly have prompted that?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:02 am
by CaptSolo
RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:00 pm
the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has a no-weapons policy for its events.
No? Seriously? What could possibly have prompted that?
I detect a degree of sarcasm in that reply, and justly so.
Maybe some feared Trump would have a fit and grab a loaded weapon?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:01 pm
by Disembodied
London will be battered by gusts of wind of up to 23mph
Sending thoughts and prayers …
Source: the not-at-all-prone to blithering panic Telegraph
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:06 pm
by Cody
London will be battered by gusts of wind of up to 23mph
<chortles> That's only force 5 on the Beaufort scale:
Fresh breeze - small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:06 pm
by RockDoctor
Cody wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:06 pm
London will be battered by gusts of wind of up to 23mph
<chortles> That's only force 5 on the Beaufort scale:
Fresh breeze - small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.
Britain's winter can pose unique hazards. for example, accumulation of snow in the bowls of radio telescopes can cause mechanical instability, so the dish needs to be tipped over and emptied.
Think James Bond ski-jumping, and stabbing Blofeld with a 10ft icicle from the edge. Think ... the unbelievable horrors of the British winter. Siberia - where people really do get impaled by icicles falling from the eaves of roofs - has nothing on this.
video
Emptying the ice out of your communication antenna should be an item on any proficient overhaul schedule. If that includes rubber-duck shaped comet debris, all the worse.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:00 pm
by Disembodied
We should have a new force called the Space Force. It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space, because we’re spending a lot of money on space.
Now, the question: Philomena Cunk, or Donald Trump?
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:41 pm
by Cody
It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space...
<grins> That actually sounds more like George Dubya - and doesn't the US already have Air Force Space Command or something?
I had to Wiki Philomena Cunk.
Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:12 pm
by Disembodied
The US Air Force Space Command already exists, yes. And Trump’s own government’s policy is the opposite of what he just said. Or it was, until now. Maybe. Much may depend on the exact mix of E numbers in his next Happy Meal.
[edit:
Philomena Cunk is worth a watch, by the way - if only to see the expressions on the faces of the people she talks to.]