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Old Sep 26th 2011, 8:23 pm
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It'd be pretty close.
I feel like I've been stuck on a mining ship for 3 million years, but I realised I only started feeling that way after I'd been here...
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Old Sep 26th 2011, 8:28 pm
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People don't make stuff up on an internet forum. What the bloody hell are you on about

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Either way, you both spelt 'cheque' incorrectly
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I spelt it that way for authentication purposes.. arsehole. I have no idea what even made me think of the term in the first place.
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Entirely possible. I wonder why the US military would do that.. but then I wonder why they do a lot of things.
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Catch yourself on, son - I was just having a larf
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Catch yourself on son, I was only taking the piss back at you.
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I know
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We must be short of people to take the piss out off, if it's reduced to just us two.
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Wait for it, the international thread police will be on to tell us we post too much again.
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WGAF?
WCGAWIE? (Translation: Who can get a word in edgewise?)
And look what I learned how to do - multiple quotes. Oh, goody.
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I feel like I've been stuck on a mining ship for 3 million years, but I realised I only started feeling that way after I'd been here...
It feels more like 4 million years.
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Old Sep 26th 2011, 8:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Egg and Cress
WCGAWIE? (Translation: Who can get a word in edgewise?)
And look what I learned how to do - multiple quotes. Oh, goody.
Bloody hell, you'll have opposable thumbs next.
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Bloody hell, you'll have opposable thumbs next.
Nah, already got those - and do more with them than sit on them like some folks I know. What you'll see me learn next is the 2 finger salute - can't wait till you see that one!
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Who let Dorothy Parker in?
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Originally Posted by Egg and Cress
Nah, already got those - and do more with them than sit on them like some folks I know. What you'll see me learn next is the 2 finger salute - can't wait till you see that one!
I knew I should have turned the webcam off..
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Old Sep 26th 2011, 8:50 pm
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Nah, already got those - and do more with them than sit on them like some folks I know. What you'll see me learn next is the 2 finger salute - can't wait till you see that one!
My son picked up on that one very quickly
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Either way, you both spelt 'cheque' incorrectly


A thought occurred to me regarding the use of "cutting" -- the old mimeograph process included "cutting a stencil." Military orders were issued in multiple copies through use of mimeograph machines. Terminology from old technology often outlives that technology -- witness the use of "dial" in telephony.

Rather than dislike a phrase, it is often more fun to speculate on etymology.
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Old Sep 26th 2011, 9:02 pm
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A thought occurred to me regarding the use of "cutting" -- the old mimeograph process included "cutting a stencil." Military orders were issued in multiple copies through use of mimeograph machines. Terminology from old technology often outlives that technology -- witness the use of "dial" in telephony.

Rather than dislike a phrase, it is often more fun to speculate on etymology.
Yeah, we 'dial' a number on a keypad now, don't we?
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Old Sep 27th 2011, 12:49 pm
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A thought occurred to me regarding the use of "cutting" -- the old mimeograph process included "cutting a stencil." Military orders were issued in multiple copies through use of mimeograph machines. Terminology from old technology often outlives that technology -- witness the use of "dial" in telephony.

Rather than dislike a phrase, it is often more fun to speculate on etymology.
I always use "fire up" .. as in "fire up the DVD player," or "fire up the computer." However, no riddling, buckets full of coke or pokers are involved.
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
Who let Dorothy Parker in?
But she'd need to be able to produce some witty comments, to be properly compared to Dorothy Parker. I haven't seen any sign of that happening, yet.
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I always use "fire up" .. as in "fire up the DVD player," or "fire up the computer." However, no riddling, buckets full of coke or pokers are involved.
Shame on you. You should be burned at the stake for such nonsense.
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It feels more like 4 million years.
Agreed. In fact the way it's going, it could feel like 10 million by the time we get to January 2012.
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Agreed. In fact the way it's going, it could feel like 10 million by the time we get to January 2012.
That sounds like time dilation, relatively speaking . . .
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