Toadfish Monastery

FYI all: I'm going to be once again ushering in the New year by brewing a beer.

I'm planning a Viennese spiced porter.  I'll have to find somewhere around me where I can buy a whole vanilla bean. 

Jesuit

Quote from: Swatopluk on December 30, 2008, 09:03:32 AM
Jesus (ok, the reference is extremly obscure)

It's not from the Simpsons episode where Homer and Ned disagreed about whether to call their motorcycle gang "The Christ Punchers", is it?

Yesterday, I set up my wife's new computer running Vista... in French.  It was the first time I touched Vista at all, so I have no idea what half the controls do.

Me yesterday:

"Terminer?  Okay... I know that means 'to stop' or 'to end', but in this context does it mean 'cancel' or 'finish'?"

"Afficher?  To me that means 'affix', but it looks like it might mean 'show'?  Should I press it?  Is it something I'll be able to undo if I don't like what happens?

I'm quite proud of the fact that I managed to muddle through without making the shiny new computer emit smoke even once.

Quote from: beagle on December 20, 2008, 09:38:53 PM
Yet another book on Windows Presentation Foundation, and online installation manuals on gas boilers. Reckon I could install my own replacement boiler if it wasn't for the tiny detail they lock up unregistered domestic gas engineers.

I'm not sure if it's still the case (I hope it isn't) but up until just a few years ago at least, homeowners here were allowed to do work on natural gas systems in their own home themselves.


I'm currently working my way through three books:

- Life, the Universe and Everything (I got the HHGTG set for Christmas... a replacement for the set I loaned out years ago and never got back)
- the Book of Mormon
- Moby Dick

Funny... when I saw this thread, my mind immediately went to this book: Natural Harvest.

And a belated Cephalopodmas to all!

dunk

livratoline (TM) - a brand of book lubricant.


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swooshfoonialism

Skutterby - a servant responsible for polishing the pets of the household (from Dickens).



Spile

to richardthird - to give roses that are an inappropriate colour for the occasion or relationship to the recipient.


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Gleepcake

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Quote from: Black Bart on October 01, 2008, 02:23:07 PM
What's wrong with Cornwall?

I like Cornwall...I went there once.

Who the hell goes to Cornwall?

Seriously!  Who does that?

umflik - n. Resting point. Originally an Inuit word meaning "where the sled dogs refuse to go any more until they get treats and belly rubs".

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Grigular

Quote from: beagle on September 30, 2008, 08:51:54 PM
When stopped my Dad always used to answer those surveys with places like "Birkhenhead" and "Cornwall", even if we were just going down the road in Surrey to Sainsburys. Wonder if they screen those out, or even now a new motorway is almost finished.

Usually not, since there's no way to confirm or deny the responses unless they're truly wacky (e.g. if your Surrey survey said "Ediburgh" and "York")... but if the sample size is large enough, a small number of fake responses won't have that much impact.

From the other side of the looking glass... I once had to interpret responses to a County vehicle trip survey where answers to the questions "where did you start the trip on which you received this form?" and "where were you going?" with detailed spaces for address and postal code information were filled in with things like "the doctor's office" and "my mother's house".