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Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: (I don't eat chocolate.) *shock* Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate. I managed to have a day trip to Geneva on Friday and didn't buy any at all. Do spiders make gravy...? Yes. It just doesn't taste very nice, you need a lot of them to make a decent quantity of stock and you keep finding bits of legs in your Yorkshires.
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate. Will drool for Green Black's dark organic chocolate. -Dom
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Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate. I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids. Most English milk chocolate resembles dark wax and tastes like cooking chocolate, although Galaxy is just about acceptable. Didn't the EU try and prevent English chocolate being called chocolate? I managed to have a day trip to Geneva on Friday and didn't buy any at all. European chocolate is a lot nicer. BTW a very simple way of making drinking chocolate is to to combine equal qualities of cocoa powder and honey before adding hot water and milk. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] radioactivity/is in the air for you and me
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Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Depends on the day. Today, two things: a goose called Lucy[1] ! :) It did cross my mind while posting the message that you were also on the list. (Today, it's my cheeky green duck Martin on the monitor.) Cheers, Philip Philip Newton -- datenrevision GmbH Co. OHG a gedas company Cuxhavener Straße 36, D-21149 Hamburg Telefon/phone +49-40-797 007-37 Telefax/telefax +49-40-797 007-10 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datenrevision.de --
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On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids. Better than American chcolate. L. Flower yourself in dissonance and eat yourself in cream.
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Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids. Better than American chcolate. I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK and thought they were better than the average bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. YMMV -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] the question is not if we should be paranoid, the question is if we're paranoid enough
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On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote: I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids. Better than American chcolate. I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK and thought they were better than the average bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Ick, NIME. And I didn't realise the Forrest Gump quote is true...how silly. L. Life is like a box of chocolates...a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift no one ever asks for.
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:12:42PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK and thought they were Hersey make their products from the ground up bones of dead rats stuck in the wheels of NY subway trains. It's *true*! Paul
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* Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010512 18:21]: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Laptop with a hologram(ish) postcard and an icecream sticker that says $1.80. I was inspired by a high ranking Andersen Consulting type who had skate boarding stickers on his laptop. -- Brad Bowman
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? -Dom Oh, God. Here's one I can win, although it's spread over two monitors. I've got a 21 SGI monitor with one Penguin Computing penguin and two mini-IBM penguins on, and a 19 Samsung with a Dust Puppy and a Ximian Monkey on. :) ~~C. -- Chris Ball. [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/ finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dream in perl a lot. Last night I dreamt in make, though. That just sucked.
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At 16:22 11/05/01, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? 8: 1. beanie baby camel (Niles) 2. beanie buddy (bigger) camel (Humphrey) 3. SUSE plush gecko (Geeko) 4. plush dust puppy (another is hanging from my shelf) 5. beanie baby lizard (Scaly) 6. medium plush tux 7. small plush corel linux tux 8. plush Norbert the dragon from Harry Potter and, underneath: 9. ceramic dragon (yes, i collect dragons, but the rest are in the living room) 10. lego polar bear (from arctic sets) 11. legoland plush dragon rattle - Natalie Ford Iterative Software Ltd. http://www.iterative-software.com Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Ltd. http://www.yacsc.com
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? monitor type=flatscreen None ;-) / Why, btw? L. This cheese intentionally left rank.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Deja vu, I had this thread elsewhere recently (although it was 'things behind'...) Here I have nowt, what with it being a laptop and all. At home, er... more monitors? http://pkl.net/~martin/room-bredroll.jpg Old picture. And, er, not me in it. The room's mostly still there though. Martin
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:33:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? monitor type=flatscreen None ;-) / Boring! You should be able to manage some clip on furry animals. For reference, I have 8 Kinder egg toys, 4 of which are Giraffes. Paul Mison stated that he had nothing on his monitor, but did confess to having a squealing monkey under his monitor (very bofh-ish, I feel). Why, btw? Because it's Friday Afternoon[tm]. And I want to know. -Dom
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? I have a solitary copy of a japanese netsuke depicting a cat. My machine is name 'neko', which is japanese for cat. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +447966251290 The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's crippled with the weight of my evasions, deceit, and downright lies
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Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Depends on the day. Today, two things: a goose called Lucy[1] (a Ty Beanie Baby) and a green duck called Martin. Both are plush toys. I generally bring one of my small stuffed toys to work, but sometimes I forget to take it out of my coat pocket, or forget to bring it along in the first place. And occasionally, I bring two at once. For example, the day before yesterday I had two Beanie Baby stuffed geese (of a different design than Lucy) called Wendy and Henry[2] who are married to one another. (Lucy and Martin are just friends. Maybe not even that; they're still a bit cautious about the relationship.) Cheers, Philip [1] Though her tag spells her name Loosy. [2] Their name tags say Honks; we decided that's their last name. Wendy, by the way, was bought in London while I was at yapc::Europe::19100, as a present for my wife. -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Dominic Mitchell wrote: For reference, I have 8 Kinder egg toys, 4 of which are Giraffes. Ah. At home I also have Kinder egg toys on my monitor. Three of them to be precise. I think they're all cars. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Philip Newton wrote: I generally bring one of my small stuffed toys to work ^ or my wife's. She has me than I. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Currently none. But at Torrington I had 8 items ( I think ) including marzipan models of Bagpuss (complete with Organ Mouse) and Tux. They have yet to migrate to my job. Rob --- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of IBNet Plc. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:43:29PM +0200, Niklas Nordebo wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? I have a solitary copy of a japanese netsuke depicting a cat. My machine is name 'neko', which is japanese for cat. That's cute! Do you have oneko installed to chase your mouse cursor as well? -Dom
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Hmm. I usually have a technic lego bike (thanks secret santa.) Also floating around in my geek sphere at the moment is: - A wind up clockwork chick (as in 'chicken,' not as in 'woman') - Coffee Mug (extra large) Empty Caffinated Mints boxes. - A Beach ball - A copy of 'e' and the 'bofh' books - Various O'Reilly books (mostly blue) and a Manning Book (the other one is on the main bookshelf) - A SPACED DVD, A copy of the 'Worms World Party' computer game. - A large card that has 'Horror' printed on one side and 'Beauty' on the other. - Simpsons' daily desk calendar - One arm of my chair (that I removed because it was annoying me and now use as a book holder) - Palms (multiple,) Laptop, flash memory and other computer hardware items (such as a PCMICA network card that I borrowed off of leon and then never returned.) At home on top of my monitor is a Mars Bar that I was presented for 'putting up the most from another perl monger while they were in another country' (I don't eat chocolate.) Later. Mark.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:48:40PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: Philip Newton wrote: I generally bring one of my small stuffed toys to work ^ or my wife's. She has me than I. Eeek, I have more than my SO and I am wondering if in fact my population of small giraffes is diminishing... -Dom (suspicious)
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Currently just Tux, who thankfully doesn't get used as Nerf gun target practice since leaving tw2. Barbie.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:33:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? A dust puppy fluffy toy, a copy of Network Progamming with Perl and a flock of post it notes. monitor type=flatscreen None ;-) / monitor type=21inch deskspace=minimal / Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:59:13PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:22 PM How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Here - none (not sure why my mini-Tux never made it to Acxiom) At home - many things. But boring things like network hubs or CD backups or boot disks. And occasionally a (real) cat. You heard that's how sleepycat software got their name - it was the first thing that they saw when they looked around their office. :-) -Dom
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:52:15PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: My machine is name 'neko', which is japanese for cat. That's cute! Do you have oneko installed to chase your mouse cursor as well? I do now :) Hadn't thought of it, of course I should have a copy of neko installed on neko. -- Niklas Nordebo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +447966251290 The day is seven hours and fifteen minutes old, and already it's crippled with the weight of my evasions, deceit, and downright lies
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:33:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? monitor type=flatscreen None ;-) / Boring! You should be able to manage some clip on furry animals. A cow-orker did selotape a sympathetic Wildlife bar to the screen, but she's not very computer savvy and I had to put it in the DNA fridge to un-thaw. I have a furry orangutan climbing an inflatable Big Ben. L. Cambridge Beer Festival, 21-26 May, Jessus Green www.camra.org.uk/cambridge
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Under and around my SGI flatscreen I have: SGI Tux waiyip Tux beanie-baby penguin fluffy dust-puppy wooden camel (known as YouBastard after Pratchett) fluffy santa beanie-baby monkey BB squid (it's a sex thing) fluffy octopus (aka Admiral Akbar) plush baloo Extreme Networks flag Extreme baseball cap and t-shirt Lara Croft t-shirt Veritas baseball cap Cowboy hat Cheers, Mike -- Mike Wyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Woof? http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mw || Gaspode the Wonder Dog Work: +44 020 7594 8440|| Mobile: +44 07879 697119|| ICQ: 43922064
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Philip Newton wrote: Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Depends on the day. Today, two things: a goose called Lucy[1] ! L. Blessed are the cheesegraters.
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: (I don't eat chocolate.) *shock* L. Do spiders make gravy...?
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: (I don't eat chocolate.) *shock* It's not strictly necessary, as you still get the kinder egg toys... -Dom
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: (I don't eat chocolate.) *shock* So you buy them anyway and give the chocolate away... L. Can I be your new best friend?
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? -Dom Zero but then things don't really sit too well on the powerbook's lcd or on the 15 lcd I've got :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Er, none this is a laptop :) I did have a wooden camel on top of the old desktop machine but this is now on top of the telly. /J\
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? -Dom Time enough for a delurking... 1 Frog (green, flat, catbeaten) 1 Dinosaur (brown, with pointy horns and tail) 1 Dinosaur (those wooden skeletons (you'd not imagine the trouble I had trying to buy this...)) And, tied to the ceiling above the monitor, a 35p flying dinosaur which waves in the thermals. Alex Gough -- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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From: Robert Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:51 PM Subject: RE: Monitors How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Currently none. But at Torrington I had 8 items ( I think ) including marzipan models of Bagpuss (complete with Organ Mouse) and Tux. They have yet to migrate to my job. That's because they were sold off in the Torrington sale of assets. Matt
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Five CommTech Star Wars figures -- the type that have a chip with a few voice samples in their base which the reader scans plays. Some of them have defined sequences so placing one figure after another on the reader results in a conversation. Very silly! Paul, who will now drop by toy shops that are in clearance-mode more often PS My 3rd 21 monitor is in the mail, muhaha. Sony F520 for $850, hee :)
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Nothing. If your monitor cost as much as mine, you'd keep it sacrosanct too. -- SM is fun. ADSM is not. Safe, Sane, Consensual... three words that cannot used to describe ADSM. - Graham Reed, sdm.
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On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: How many things do you have on top of your monitor? Nothing. If your monitor cost as much as mine, you'd keep it sacrosanct too. All this says is you don't have enough money to buy a decent monitor every few months. Ah, to be kept in the lifestyle to which one so easily becomes accustomed... Sell the gold cat! Paul
