quote:Originally posted by mart: They start spouting the sort of wankspeak that I thought was very recent in creation - things like 'blue-sky it', 'hoist it up the flagpole and see who salutes', all those expressions.
But! The book was published in 1959.
They do this at the start of 'Twelve Angry Men' (Henry Fonda, cross). The angry man who just wants to get back to work and god damn the defendant all to hell is shown to be impatient because he says something about flag poles and ideas. Or it's not him, it's the weak one who goes along with everyone else. The creative (read: queer). Either way, not only did they have wankspeak back then, but they also considered it wank.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: But! The book was published in 1959.
I was reading an old book the other day and it had stuff like "the darling buds of may" and "band of brothers" and "to the manor born" in it. Turns out that it was published in like 1620 or something. I didn't think they even had TV then.
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My weekend was good, involving lots of socialising. Three lots of people in three days! At my age! Not a moment's gardening! It did however involve slightly too many cute one-year-olds with blond hair for my liking.
Now back at work, tension building in shoulders. Partly due to chair/desk height problems; partly due to unrealistic workload; partly due to having to choose an underling. Does one go on personality or experience? Is drawing straws an acceptable recruitment method?
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Also, though this more of a sadd than a happie, I saw Steelquim selling the big issue outside Clapham Junction station this morning. I don't think he recognised me. Mercifully.
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You reached over with your hand and knocked my Jap over
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Sighting Stealgate is usually a premonition of imminent good fortune. Worth buying a lottery ticket this week, perhaps?
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I had an ok weekend. went to borough market on saturday, was overwhelmed by the number of ***** taking photos. The stall owners should just lay all their stuff out and put it behind a curtain, and then charge people to look under the curtain and take photos. Nobody seemed to be buying anything, just earnestly snapping away at dead game and gutted fish, presumably for their blogs and flickr profiles. I bought mussels and steamed them in shallots, garlic and wine, then served them with cream, parsley, and fetuccini. Put in slightly too much wine, but it was still edible.
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By way of out-Baudrillarding Jimmy Big-Nuts, I've noticed that an increasing number of businesses seem to call themselves by the name of their website - there's one in Boroughbridge, for heaven's sake, called something like "www.classic-autos.co.uk" - as though the bricks-and-mortar building you see before you is actually a mere adjunct of a more authentic entity that exists in cyberspace.
Maybe it's a fair point: perhaps it's time we realised that businesses are actually sinister, Lovecraftian beings that have managed to bridge a spectral chasm between the dimensions.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: I had an ok weekend. went to borough market on saturday, was overwhelmed by the number of ***** taking photos.
Yes! I wanted to buy fish, but due to the scrum of photofiends around a monkfish spread over a log I couldn't get close. There were also some embarrassing performers clogging up the way, singing badly in an oldee stylee.
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We were there at the same time. I saw that monkfish too. And those stupid performers. What a bunch of cocks. They may as well have set up shop in the middle of Borough Road for all the horrible congenstion they were causing.
I was only in that neck of the woods because I'd left my card behind the bar in a pub near Borough the previous evening, so the whole excursion was already tinged with bitterness and failure before I even got to the market.
Did you get anything in the end?
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: This is BBN's opportunity to playfully banter with a newbie and keep them hooked on TMO. Don't mess it up Nutway.
I don't think that Pepper is a newbie. Been here since 2002.
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thumsup for the Nutway name, enwode. btw i was trying to come up there with an ewok/endor elision for you to imply that you're small, hairy, squeaky and violent but my brain gave up halfway :sad:. you'll have to fill in the mental blank yourself instead.
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on saturday i went to this, but turns out you need to book in advance.
That looks fan-fucking-tastic!
It would be better if it was quicksand rather than water - and if you had Christoher Biggins in a safari outfit squealing and capering on the shore.
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You're right, I'm not new, but at 40 odd posts I am nearly-new.
I got eggs, creme fraiche and olives before going home in a huff. I'd only gone there at all because the so-called food market at Exmouth Market consisted of around six paltry stalls.
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