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Fri 31.5.02
zoë: You can tell this one was Josh's, it's broken. - josh: Er - modified...
Thu 30.5.02
angela: I've got big purple Paul and little green Jesus and Paul. I've got little orange Jesus...
Wed 29.5.02
alex: He does talk gibberish sometimes... ["He" = the theologian Karl Barth] - angela: I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Tue 28.5.02 (Alex's birthday)
sally: Hello! It's Alex's birthday! We're blowing the world up...
Mon 27.5.02 (Morag's birthday)
rob to mike: You can wake me up, then I'll wake you up
alex: ...Unless the day I finally won my independence from Holland was since last Monday.
mike: I assume that insane cackling constitutes agreement?
[D mag32] mike: All I heard of that was "beans with Darth Vader on" - alex: It's pretty much all I needed to hear before I thought "I'm getting this for Morag"...
alex: Is he torturing a... a flounder? [I meant to say "Is he torturing a Clanger?"] [What, that's not enough context for you?!?]
Sun 26.5.02 (uk.r.c minimeet)
serge: He's cool! - morag [indignantly]: He's a total pervert! - serge: He's a bloke!
alan: The only time I have a normal conversation is with the cows.
morag: There's been some discussion on ukrc - richard: But is there an official position? - morag: No, don't be silly - this is the Methodist Church!
matthew: I've been out spray-painting cows this morning - angela: Most people go to church on a Sunday morning. But if that's your form of worship, that's fine... - mike: Post-modern Christianity taken to its extreme, methinks. - alex: Well, it depends on whether you're spray-painting the gospel on the cows or not...
angela to matthew: I half-expected to see your legs and half a cow
morag [pointing to alex and angela]: He's a girl and she's a boy. You've got to get it right. - matthew: You're not a biologist, are you?
simon: He said "I meet people at Jesus' feet". Is that near Jesus Green...? - alex: That'll be next to Christ's Pieces, then?
jonathan to angela: I do know Angela, I just didn't know you were Angela
siomn: [My music] ends up sounding like bells and gongs - angela: Do you think you'll end up getting this onto Radio 3, then?
serge: It's not marriage for the purposes of the law we're talking about, but marriage for the purposes of fornication - richard: You mean for the purposes of *not* fornication?!
serge [re simon gray's clothes]: I want an outfit like that... - morag: There's one in my wardrobe!!
morag: I don't think my tummy's big enough for a full-size keyboard...
angela: Everyone would know I wasn't fat - they'd know I was just hiding inside a dodecahedron!
angela: I don't like being compared to an armadillo!
Sat 25.5.02
alex: You could have a giant pit you were dropping them into... lead balloon on top of lead balloon...
angela: Why d'you call it May Month? - morag: Cause it's in May!
morag: I think we've been declared officially dodgy
mike: Does Alex generally keep his bones in his pockets?
angela to serge: So you spend your day coding dogs to poo.
serge: Is Nagi still Nagi when there's no one around to appreciate him?
mike: Food smells hungry! Feed food! [This wasn't random in quite the way it sounds. It was a series of exclamations on passing through a kitchen, which Mike probably *intended* to be punctuated as: "Food smells! Hungry! Feed! Food!"]
matthew: So you walk into a pub and expect to find a large blue inflatable pint glass...
morag: Has anyone seen hide or hair of Anil? - angela: I once saw a hair. In fact there's one here. - serge: Excellent - we have his elements...
alex: Anne counts as lots of loud people
serge: I spent ages trying to light a dog in purple
Fri 24.5.02
matt: Take two and use three of 'em... erm, hang on...
susan: Would you put the light on, it's getting dark. - matt: It did that yesterday, too... - susan: Yes dear, it usually does... would you like me to explain night and day to you...?
anne: I've been wondering why [they] were advertising molecules
Thu 23.5.02
val: David I hope is secure enough to know that I accept him despite the manure
alan to nagi: You have earned a nigipint. - nagi:
Claim - nigipint equiv to beer barrel full of beer. Proof - trivial by nigiliver. []
Wed 22.5.02
vicky re andrew: I've decided it's a bad idea to tickle him, as he tends to do things involving meat cleavers [context: while he's cooking...]
morag re their prospective kittens: At this rate, by the time they grow up, they'll be meowing in Japanese
vicky: "Here, kitty, kitty - BANG!"
Tue 21.5.02
mike: Alex, your library is not at 90 degrees to normality in Steve's room...
chris: I want to know the logic behind snow
james: Bubbles are evil. They're part of my secret plan to take over the world!
Mon 20.5.02
milan: Norgage? Is that like a cross between Nagi and mortgage?
milan: Alex, pardon me if I might be mistaken, but I think you're being eaten alive!
milan: I sleep on people's books. And beds, floors and other things as well. Um, I shouldn't have said that with all these people around...
milan: There's not much similarity between quantum mechanics and a brick - jenny: Yes there is... they're both made of paper!
Sun 19.5.02
john coultard: The leaf of the lettuce is detestable in the eyes of the Lord, but the cantaloupe melon is esteemed above all things
alex: Remind me why I am a communist regime?
angela to alan: Why do your trousers open at the bottom? - andy: They have to, or your feet would get stuck...
angela: Schnappenburg - I wish I was called that!
mike: I shall nibble you to death - angela: No you shan't. That's my prerogative
alex: As long as the Hawaiian is female... - stephen: And a pizza!
jenny: This is the most time I've ever spent over my make-up in my life! - angela: And in this case your make-up is an M-and-M!! [It was! Does anyone have photographic evidence, to prove it? Post here if so...]
alex: My head feels a bit heady
Sat 18.5.02
anil: Serge, can you let me know which [FruitsBasket fruits baskets] you have so that I don't keep downloading duplicates...
mike: One multitudinous brick...
mike: Geodesic dome, spherical hexagon... - anil: What's a few facets between friends?
alex: Mike has 20 life. This is odd given we're playing Settlers...
dave: I thought that 10 speakers in my room would be enough but I was mistaken...
Fri 17.5.02
mike: When I'm embarrassed I suddenly sprout a random beard, until I stop being embarrassed, when it retracts again.
mike: Well, when I'm on a boat and I'm feeling seasick, I'll just have to get someone to call me R2D2 and I'll be fine...
alan: I've just proved I'm not a computer. - rob: Ah, well you obviously haven't met some of the computers I know.
mike: You can't be a proper compsci, you only have one computer in your room... - rob: Two. - mike: Ah, my faith in your compsciness is restored. - rob: Only one of them works... - mike: Like I was saying...
angela: I'm good at taking people to bits all the time - that's why I've got Alex, for that purpose
Thu 16.5.02
alex: We haven't had many discussions about significant things recently, have we? - angela: Only buying a house...
Wed 15.5.02
mike to alex's bike light: Behave! - alex: No, it's OK, I do in fact have a biscuit on the floor. - [...] mike: I shall obviously have to start talking to a bike light on a more regular basis
mike: I'm talking about Dialect dialect. Not dial-up dialect. That would be one of the stranger 0891 numbers.
alex: You don't mention debugging your Allen keys... [I meant "you don't mention undoing your gear mechanism"... we had been talking about Allen keys, but there'd been *no* mention of debugging the entire evening. It was a Freudian slip... um... I'm making this worse, aren't I? ] - mike: The bit that worries me is that you could have a Freudian slip that involves debugging!
stephen to jenny: You have sticky tape instead of a breastbone?
tony: Am I the only one who wants to sing "super-paramagnetism-expialidocious"?
Tue 14.5.02
sally to susan: How much does it cost to get a complete set of Star Trek videos? ...And - you haven't got a bed yet, right?
susy: Ant, your dinner's on the plate! It's not a cat this time...
susan: You're not allowed to say "Uh". - sally: I didn't say "Uh"!... I *went* "Uh"!
Mon 13.5.02
tony: I had an alarm-clock-related problem, which other people think is called oversleeping
Sun 12.5.02
nagi: He's not scary, but he's frighteningly intelligent. ...No, not intelligently frightening...
nagi to alan: I don't kiss you very often!
alex: At least I can still offer people jellybabies. [looks round, making puzzled "putting-on-backpack" motions] ...At least, I could, except I can't, because I didn't bring my bag...
stephen: The more sleep you get, the less evil you can do, because you're sleeping! "Oh, I could take over Poland... but I think I'll just have a bit of a kip"
Sat 11.5.02
vicky: Have you heard the theme tune to Enterprise? - anil [in a "It's not that bad" tone of voice]: Oh, it grows on you... - vicky: But *athlete's foot* grows on you!!
nagi: We can sort it out when we get there. It's all a matter of coordinates... - douglas: But we know what *you* do to co-ordinates, Nagi!
alex: My hair is not a lever!
[misheard by morag] serge: We could leave you guys here to dissect Phil [Actually: to *intercept* Phil]
mike: I seem to be dopier than usual most of the time [In the same way that most poets are far above the norm, right, Mike?]
nagi: Full metal panic is a Good Thing [Actually referring to the anime FullMetalPanic]
morag: Angela, you just asked your fiancé to die, so that you can have more food!! - angela: Only temporarily...
nagi: Injured people still live, and they can grow their limbs back
Fri 10.5.02
Thu 9.5.02
Yes, no quotes on Thursday or Friday :( It happens occasionally...
Wed 8.5.02
vic: It's amazing how many interesting nine-letter words there are
nagi: People practically say that in the Department [of Applied Maths] - "Either in this life or the next, I will prove the uniqueness of this solution!"
serge: You will all be excreting building materials. As Nagi would say. - nagi: Ah, I wouldn't say it *quite* like that...
alex: Do I have one of those? - anil: What, a giant triangular-shaped building? - nagi: Yeah, I got one in my room, I forgot to bring it...
Tue 7.5.02
mike: Nagi, the way you teach maths and the way you teach kung fu are different...! - nagi: They are, yes - in kung fu you don't have to kill people, and in maths you do!
stephen: Tubby-Toast with a range of two hundred metres!!
angela: Well I'll go on a team of 5, and you go on a team of zero! - alex: Okay...
anil: I've got really bizarre trains of thought about pizza being a chelating ligand... complexing by metal ions and suchlike...
jenny [walking into the room] to anil: Hello! So, are you on fire?
serge: I am a transitive closure
Mon 6.5.02
stephen: There's two tons of protein lost somewhere in Milan's head. It stopped to ask directions at the cerebellum...
stephen: I wasn't sleeping. Just lying... on my bed... in a sleep-like fashion.
alan: The qows? are now in the near corner of the field. - mike: Surely that should be the qorner of the field? - alan: Indeed. But the q-ness of qows? is related to the faqt that you made Nokky interested in them. So if you want it to be qorrect I think we should submit the above for Nokky's perusal. ...Two of the qows? were missing when I qame baqk from lunqh. There was a suspiqious looking qhild hanging around though.
Sun 5.5.02
angela: Breathe! - alex: I don't want to, but I have to...
katie [explaining why she's not sent much email recently]: I got a job. And a house. And a husband. - alex: I've got a job... I'm getting a house... but I should be safe from getting a husband, so I think I'll be OK
mike: Half the equipment I haven't had the chance to break yet, because other people have broken it for me
angela: I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out - katie: That's one of the advantages of being under a table.
mike: Is that a crouton? - katie: Looks more like an iceberg...
Sat 4.5.02
zoë: Mike is rather better at wedding dresses than football
mike to fiona: Are you saying you're Zoë's remote control? That's a rather demeaning position, wouldn't you say?
mike: It's not a 24-hour emergency sock vendor!
mike: Zoë is 4 inches and 25 pence short!
mike: I have to say, I'm not really surprised in either of your cases - alex: Because that would be silly. It would however be quite cute, carrying around a little surprised Mike in a case...
mike to fiona: Has your water got bones in it?
mike: Where's Alex? - rob: Somebody make a quote, he'll soon turn up
mike: I dread to think. - zoë: We know, Mike. You avoid it at all costs...
alex to fiona: All you have to do is get Mike a whole load of collars, write all your biological principles on them, and then keep turning them up...!
mike: I fear, Rob, you haven't ever defied one of Zoë's threats. Your shoelaces will regret it.
mike to fiona: Are you revising the psychology of finger-waving?
zoë: My bike tyres need pumping up - mike: Oh yes, we didn't do that, did we? - zoë: You didn't, no..
angela: Rob saves his eyebrow-raising for more worthwhile purposes - mike: Rob has free-range eyebrows...
angela: I've got a problem: I haven't yet passed on
alex: Hamsters aren't known for their deranged grins...
Fri 3.5.02
stephen: Technically, tomato is a fruit. But pizza isn't.
alex: I don't mind getting emails about cows really... they brighten up my day...
Thu 2.5.02
zuza: These five girls ate me out of house and home - it was really nice!
angela to alex: I'm so tired. I might be docile tonight. You can go "Hello, yes, this is my fiancée, but she's actually my pet hamster today"
Wed 1.5.02
alex [putting on different voices in turn]: Redirect Quote-Fate! Redirect Quote-Fate! Redirect Quote-Fate! Redirect Quote-Fate!
mike: The elephants have been breeding! Boom-boom boom-boom-boom-boom boom-boom. Pish! ... The cymbals haven't...
mike: I'm addicted to nyo! - alex [with satisfied grin]: I believe we have a quote to finish off the evening. - mike [cries out in dismay]: Nyooooo!
nagi: So sue me! I don't have a simplicial basis! My homology sucks! - dave: It's always bad to have a sucking homology.
morag: We're still going to have the great big broccoli, because that was one of the summer specials. We just don't get the broccoli at the start of each episode...
morag: When I am an evil overlord, I will not spend my time explaining my plans to my enemies. - nagi: I believe you when you say "when", not "if"!