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Posted on entry “Sex with robots is more common than most people think”. ::: December 19, 2008, 02:26 PM:
Wow, Rob Rusick's link at #25 led me to one of my favourite Sheckley stories, "Cordle to Onion to Carrot" which I haven't read in years.

Thankyou!
Posted on entry “Sex with robots is more common than most people think”. ::: December 19, 2008, 01:33 PM:
madeline@#7: Those are some seriously awesome eyebrows.
Posted on entry The honor of your assistance is requested in a small matter of language ::: August 22, 2008, 08:54 PM:
serge@225
Maybe from watching all those 1940s movies on Turner Classic Movies?

I prefer to think of them being handed down from father to son...

"when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much, he sticks his meatpole in her cocktrough."
Posted on entry The honor of your assistance is requested in a small matter of language ::: August 22, 2008, 06:23 PM:
I used to work with a guy whose language was fairly salty, and who had no social filter. The team were "bonding" in a pub, and he used the c-word. Our sole female team member objected, to which he responded "What about -" and proceeded to reel off over 30 variations. Most were fairly obvious, but one...

"Okay, I get all of those except ship-sinker."
"What sinks ships?"
"Loose... Oh."

Where a 19 year old got WWII references I declined to pursue.
Posted on entry Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Nine) ::: July 30, 2007, 06:47 PM:
I am irresistibly reminded of the Mighty Mighty LPD song.

Mighty, mighty lpd

mighty mighty lpd,
carries the print jobs to liberty,
overcoming the evil printcap,
with a jaunty daemon bitch-slap

talking with brethren all over the world,
to whom our print jobs could well be hurled,
provided postscript code doesnt gag 'em,
forcing the use of lprm

piping files to kingdom come
and just maybe actually printing some
we know our output is laying somwheres
and we hope it ain't in lpd-errs

mighty, mighty lpd
doing it's job so faithfully
sad that it's such a loner
damn! the printer's out of toner

(attribution - Tony Lyon, talk.bizarre)

talk.bizarre was the Making Light of the nineties.
Posted on entry Moderation isn't rocket science ::: April 18, 2007, 01:48 AM:
I've learnt a new word - minatory. I believe I shall use it when reviewing the next project specification I receive.
Posted on entry Open thread 78 ::: January 01, 2007, 08:53 AM:
Happy new year!

While happily playing with the "Extreme Resolution" Sidelight, I happened across a partial torso and head just lying in a Boston street. Passersby seem remarkably casual.

Bottom left corner - I assume its an artifact of things changing between taking the pictures for each tile.

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