The Watercooler

[unclehobart]

Ah... a little sideroom of my own to kick back and relax away from Freaktown up above.

*sips bad coffee*

*stands out in the cold autumnal air*

*fires up a Lucky*

[Scanty]

*stands out in the cold autumnal air* ???

LOL.

Oh and by the way...

There's no escaping me. :eek10:


:yell: "HAS ANYONE SEEN MY CAMEL!?"

[ris]

it phoned in sick, although i heard it had been out getting lashed night so think its just skiving.

[Scanty]

:sd1:

what am I gonna do with that camel...

[ris]

shorter leash methinks, the current one can get to teh pub where she can fill her hump.

[Scanty]

LOL @ the way unc's 'peace and quiet' thread has gone... :D

[unclehobart]

Don't mind me... I'm just hovering in the corner whipping up a batch of scones.

[greenfreak]

*drinks some water*

What?

Am I the only person who actually goes to the watercooler to drink water?

:disgust2:

[unclehobart]

I just use it to drawn decent water for the bad coffee... kinda ironic, no?

[greenfreak]

Unc at the water cooler:

http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~kateh/starsky/watercooler.jpg

[Scanty]

:laugh:

Nice hair.

[unclehobart]

Paul Michael Glaser... Was he Starskey or Hutch? Its been 25 years since Ive seen that show.

[unclehobart]

Oh well... the watercooler used to be nice and calming... but now the other threads are muscling me aside. *sigh* Is there nowhere to hide in a dank, quiet corner anymore.?[/siz]

edited by ris, ten to midnight, friday 27th sept, just for unc :)[/siz]

[unclehobart]

hmm... the edit button went away... I'd really like to slap a '?' on the end of ^

[ris]

i got edit functions, that do you?

[unclehobart]

youre a mod. Edit functions should follow you full time. The edit button, for me at least, is missing in this forum.

[ris]

true, but i don't got edits in all forums, only the ones they lets me. odd that you canm't edit your own though, perhaps its one for phury to know about.

[A.B.Normal]

I don't see an edit button either ?(


Maybe part of the punishment for being sent here is not being able to correct your posts ,having all your typos and misdeeds left for all to see and ridicule ;) and those that wander in here are similarily forced to live by that rule :D

[ris]

man, i hope i never get snet here :D

[sir]

little testeroo

[ris]

hmm, severe punishment indeed is the kiddy korner, view other forums only and no edit. harsh but fair ;)


Look mommy, i can edit :D - Justin :P

red skoi at noight - get off moi thread!!! :D

[unclehobart]

bah.. piss off, ya 'edit button' boy... *backwards V* :D

[ris]

we believe the lack of an edit to be 'a feature not a flaw'

enjoy the full features of kiddy korner, spelling miskates and all ;)

[unclehobart]

me mispel, Thst unpossible.

[ris]

thort as much, beware the fat-fingered typist.

[Gonz]

thort as much, beware the fat-fingered typist.

who you calling phat fingered???

[unclehobart]

*hucks a turnip at the first person to see this* ... that might just be you, mr nosey-nose. :)

[Nixy]

OW!

[unclehobart]

It was probably me. I relooked at it to correct a typo and got a turnip hucked at me.

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with a nice halibut in a white wine sauce*

[HomeLAN]

*Wipes white wine sauce off face*

Thanks a lot! You knew that with my schedule it was likely to be me. Now I have to work all day reeking of white wine. Not to mention fish.

[unclehobart]

Its too bad youre not big on fish. At least the wine sauce won't stain too bad.

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with Beef Wellington and a side of bernaise sauce*

[Nixy]

OW AGAIN!

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with a peppery bloody mary*

[PT]

Thanks Unc! I love Bloody Mary's for breakfast.

[Gato_Solo]

"What'll you have"?, the waiter asked as he stood there picking his nose...
"Hard-boiled eggs!", I replied with a sneer. "You can't put your fingers in those."

:D

[ris]

damn, no food attack this time, and i was hungry too :(

[unclehobart]

*resets trap with toast points and red caviar*

[ris]

mmmm, cavairrrrrr :D

[unclehobart]

*resets trap with mincemeat pie and a christmas cracker*

[unclehobart]

*thumbs through an Oct 92 Hong Kong edition of Penthouse while awaiting the next victims arival*

[ris]

aww, shit. early seasonal food assault :eek:

*wipes pie off face, pulls cracker*

*sneaks a look at early 90s big-hair porn...*

[unclehobart]

*resets trap with a Bulmers and some honey roasted hazelnuts*

[greenfreak]

I don't know what Bulmers is but I'm a big fan of honey-roasted anything!! *yummy*

That was a nice mid-afternoon snack. But I have to watch my diet.

[unclehobart]

http://www.bulmers.ie/bworld.htm cider

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with zweiback cheesecake and a shot of Turkish espresso*

[Nixy]

YUM! That'll keep me up all night! Which is good cause i gotta do HW!

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with a 'Hotbody Firemen of Maimi' desk calendar*

[Nixy]

HUBBA HUBBA!!!

I have got GREAT luck today!

[unclehobart]

*resets the trap with yet another even more diabolical trap*

pretty diabolical, no?

[Nixy]

:hmm:

[unclehobart]

See?!... you are trapped! ... a swarthy trap it was after all.

[Nixy]

*handonhip

[unclehobart]

Snared... snared hard! ... held by the windmills of your mind.

[Scanty]

the windmills of your mind.


:lloyd:

[unclehobart]

It was a Muppet Show lyric that I was humming at the time... I wish i could remember the rest of it... *rushes to Google*

[unclehobart]

This was sung by a stressed-out green bird-like thing with three
legs and feet rotating like a wheel, moving along faster and faster
as he sings faster and faster...


"Windmills of Your Mind"

Spoken: I'm very relaxed. I'm terribly calm and tranquil.
I'm very very relaxed indeed -- on the outside,
but on the inside...
Sung:
I'm like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel.
I'm never ending nor beginning, on an ever-spinning reel.
Just like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon,
Or like a carousel that's turning, running rings around the moon.

'Cause like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face,
See that the world is like an apple whirling silently in space.
Just like the circles that you find, they're in the windmills of your mind.

Just like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own,
Way down a hollow to a cavern where the sun is never shown.
Just like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream,
Or like the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream.

'Cause like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face,
See that the world is like an apple whirling silently in space.
Just like the circles that you find, they're in the windmills of your mind.

There's a jingle in your pocket, there's a jingle in your head,
Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?
See lovers walk along the shore and leave their footprints in the sand,
Or is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand?

See people streaming in the hallway, see the fragment of a song,
Half-remembered names and faces but to whom do they belong?
'Cause when you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware
Then that the Autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair.

Just like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel,
Never ending nor beginning on an ever-spinning reel,
It's just these images of mind, just like the circles that you find,
They're in the windmills of your mind.

(Collides with windmill)

Spoken: But on the outside I'm very calm.... aaaaahhhhhh!

[Scanty]

That was on The Muppet Show???

Jesus, that's really nice. Wow. I really like that. I'm gonna copy it, actually. It's just good as a poem. I love poems that rhyme. They're still the best, for me.

[Gato_Solo]

It was a 'real' song too, BTW...I'm old enough to remember it before the muppet show, but not old enough to remember who actually sang it...Now, of course, I can't get that song out of my mind. Fuck you very much, unc... :D

[Gato_Solo]

It was a 'real' song too, BTW...I'm old enough to remember it before the muppet show, but not old enough to remember who actually sang it...Now, of course, I can't get that song out of my mind. Fuck you very much, unc... :D

It was Dusty Springfield's Windmills Of Your Mind

[Scanty]

Found it by Sting, Dusty Springfield and some others.

d/l at 43K/s!!! That's fast for my puter :D

[Scanty]

And Johnny Mathis

[Scanty]

Shit, unc, thank you so much for printing the words to that song. I've just listened to the Sting and Dusty versions - it's gorgeous. So, so, nice. Both of the versions, actually. I was surprised at how well Sting sang it.
I swear I've heard it somewhere before but I've never really heard it, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, thanks. That's what I'll be playing for the next week, non-stop and annoying my parents. :D

[unclehobart]

Well damn. I'm old enough to remember the Muppet Show and know of Dusty and Johnny. Buuuut... I never realize that it was a lifted real tune. *runs to Kaaza*

[Scanty]

So did you like it? :lloyd:

[unclehobart]

It was different. The muppet show tune was a fast chanting melody of madness. The real tune is a soft and moody club jazz lamentation.

[Scanty]

It's a good chill-out track, at the risk of sounding local-radio-jock-ish.

I just went out and bought the new Supergrass Album and the Aqualung album. I'm half way through Supergrass and it fucking :headbang: 's

[Gato_Solo]

If you think about it...it is a melody of madness...

[unclehobart]

5pm over there? Day is almost done for ya. *sigh* I almost missed it all, myself. I fear Im going to have to push back away from this desk and do a few of lifes little tasks.

[Scanty]

Like what?

Watering your geraniums?

:D

[unclehobart]

reset my watch to the first of the month. It has a perpetual 31 day calendar that has to be hand adjusted on the odd months. Spin a little laundry. Mow the yard. Weve had sunshine for three days now following a perpetual 10 day rain from a tropical storm. The grass has gone positively soccer riot. Its the first of the month. Time to pay some bills. I probably should do the dishes and scrub a few loo's whilst im innit, eh?

[unclehobart]

Geraniums? Whadda think this is? 4th season of East Enders? :D We got no stinking geraniums here.

[Scanty]

Scrubbing loos...mmm. Well, I'm sitting at my desk, staring at my folder with all my book notes, waiting for inspiration to rear it's pretty head. But that's what I do everyday, :D

[unclehobart]

*putting sneakers on* done with the dishes. Time to hit the yard.

What do you have in your notes so far?

[Scanty]

A load of random, jumbled, brain-spew.

It's like my prefrontal lobe fell out onto the paper. It's all a mix of little plot-notes and character-notes and theme-notes and universe-notes...all of which only make sense to me.
It's hell, I tell you, hell.
:D

[unclehobart]

lawn is done... and im forgetting the side projects out there. I keep forgetting that early October= red wasp swarms. Ive been stung twice this year already and I have little intent on getting nailed a third time. There were a few 100 all over the mailbox and the kudzu and junipers.. Everytime I drew close I was dive bomb assaulted. 2 cans of wasp kill and 50 dead wasps later... I have a mowed, albiet sloppily, yard.

[Gato_Solo]

Next time I get sent to the Atlanta area, I'll try to get you a can of the 'good stuff'. Spray, go inside, and watch the little insects as they die. They look drunk when they're in the initial stages, too, so it's pretty funny in a warped kind of way.

I found out about that when I used a bit on a rather large roach when I was in the Barracks. You ever see an insect trip and fall?

[Spirit]

...... You ever see an insect trip and fall?

Oops, excuse me folks, I must have turned left instead of right at that intersection - it would appear I am at the local Asylum.

:D ;)

[unclehobart]

*resets trap with a reuben and a nice crisp pickle*

[tommyj27]

Oooh A PICKLE!

[Professur]

*sneaks in and resets Unc's trap with a Montreal Smoked Meat sandwich*

[Leslie]

ACK!! :sick:

* runs away from the mystery meat :bolt:

[unclehobart]

What is on a Montreal Smoked meat sandwich?

[Leslie]

nobody knows... :eek6:

[unclehobart]

I can imagine a meat sadwich ... and even smoked meat at that. I was just wondering what made it so 'Montreal'. I've seen Montreal steak seasoning at my local supermarket... but I wonder if its a certain medley of mustard/mayo/veggies that makes it just so.

[PT]

Moose

[unclehobart]

Nah... that would be more of a Saskatchewan thing. Mo-ray-al would probably rely on more tranditional sources of meat ... like beaver.

[PT]

What ever happened to a good old Racoon BBQ? I haven't been to one of those in years.

[unclehobart]

Perhaps a Montreal meat sandwich is a variant on a menage a trios.

[Professur]

Smoked Meat 101 (http://www.bootsnall.com/cgi-bin/gt/namericatravelguides/montreal/sep02meat.shtml)

[Leslie]

:sick:

[Professur]

Whaaaaaat?

[unclehobart]

Les is like 98% vegitarian.

[Professur]

Well, that leaves 2% to enjoy a good smoked meat, doesn't it?

[Leslie]

I can't get the mysterymeat preconception out of my head on that...it's like...mock chicken...can't abide the thought of that either :sick:

[Professur]

It's not mystery meat. It's brisket.

[unclehobart]

mystery meat? I read that it was brisket. Brisket... if handled right ... is yummy.

[Leslie]

I said preconception, it doesn't have to be logical :P

[unclehobart]

Most of the high end delis are outright kosher. Kosher means a higher standard above and beyond.

[Professur]

I said preconception, it doesn't have to be logical :P

Preconception, Misconception. What's the diff?

[Professur]

If you want a job at Ben's, you literally have to wait for someone to die. I've been getting served there by the same guy for over 15 years.

[unclehobart]

Depends upon the judge presiding over your case. It could mean the difference between freedom and the chair.

[Professur]

Frig. This conversation is making my mouth water. And i'm not scheduled downtown at all this week.

Damn it.

[unclehobart]

have a Frosted Frog then.

[PT]

Don't you have any bugs installed you can activate from home? Works great for slow times. :wink2:

[Professur]

The Frosted Frog brand was discontinued 2 years ago.

PT, I'm shocked at the suggestion. 'Sides, too many of my clients are financial institutions for me to attempt that.

[PT]

That probably could get you in a lot of trouble. :D

[Professur]

Y'think?

[PT]

Ok well, I've never done it myself either. :hmm: Thought about it though, thought real hard about it. :disgust2:

[unclehobart]

Or at least ruin his wallet after his rep is demolished once such a thing was discovered.

[Professur]

Ok well, I've never done it myself either. :hmm: Thought about it though, thought real hard about it. :disgust2:

Twice I've had to deal with the aftermath of a timebomb left by a fired network admin. It's amazing the damage you can do when you're inside the security. One company was smarter and called me in to look at the machines before they called the meeting.

They asked me to sit in, saying nothing. Just to sit there. When the to-be-former admin came in and saw me, his face dropped. His boss told him he was being fired, but before he left, he had the chance to avoid jail time. That I'd looked at the machines and had found somethings that shouldn't be there. And that if they weren't there by the end of the meeting, they'd be forgotten about.

The admin spent the next hour pulling stuff. Including a lot of stuff I hadn't caught. What really got me was when he pulled what I'd assumed was a remote admin card from a server. It was designed to short the entire server, hard drives, tape backup and all. Would have made it damn tough to get them back up and running, I'll tell you.

[PT]

Damn, I guess there are some vindictive people, like I said, I've thought about it, but never had the balls or stupidity to actually do it. But to actually rig the stuff while you still work there? I assume he must have guessed the end was coming soon. :confuse3:

[Leslie]

Oooh A PICKLE!

:laugh: that makes me giggle everytime I see it

[tommyj27]

i'm so thirsty right now, good thing we have a water cooler.

[Vortex]

:alienhuh:

[Luis G]

i'm so pissing right now, good thing we have a toilet.

:D

[Vortex]

:alienhuh: You're pissing and typing??

Impressive ;)

[PT]

Not that impressive for a guy really, Vortex. All you really need is a bucket in front of your chair. Wait. I think I may have said too much.

[Vortex]

:alienlol: Aaaa, , so now the truth is finally out !!

*looks at PT's avatar*

Dunno why, but that could remind me of this situation ;)

[Professur]

The Frosted Frog brand was discontinued 2 years ago.


And now I know why!!! :mad: Sleeman's bought up the entire company and discontinued everything. That's why I can't find any really good beer out there anymore. Time for a harshly worded letter to Mr. Sleeman. Bastard had better read his own mail.

[tonksy]

*kinda likes sleeman.

[tonksy]

I liked Sleeman? Eew-ith.