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
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 chco
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
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."
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 a
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 fac
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
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 dar
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 06:56:51PM +1000, Brad Bowman wrote:
>
> I was inspired by a high ranking Andersen Consulting type
> who had skate boarding stickers on his laptop.
Ah, they're cool when they have geek meaning too. I have a 'backbone'
one stuck on a router.
I've done spray jobs on laptop
* 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.
-
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. medi
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:22:04PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
My monitor is currently not attached to anything, and has many cans of
cider precariously balanced atop, some roleplaying books, and a half
bottle of vodka.
The monitor that I
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
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
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
A
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 placin
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 mode
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
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\
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 Compu
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?"
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
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
> (I don't eat chocolate.)
*shock*
L.
"Do spiders make gravy...?"
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."
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
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?
> >
> > None ;-)
> >
>
> Boring! You should be able to manage some clip
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
n
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 th
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 occasiona
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:51:40PM +0100, Robert Thompson wrote:
> 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.
They've probably been eaten by now...
marzipan++ # tasty
-Dom
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.
>
> None ;-)
>
Dean
--
Profanity is the one language all programmers
Currently just Tux, who thankfully doesn't get used as Nerf gun target
practice since leaving tw2.
Barbie.
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 f
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')
- Coffe
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 ja
>
> 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
-
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 sol
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'
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 ta
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] -><- +44796625129
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?
>
>
> None ;-)
>
Boring! You should be able to manage some clip on furry animals.
For reference, I have 8 Kinder egg to
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
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
None ;-)
Why, btw?
L.
"This cheese intentionally left rank."
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