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So far, dud.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm disappointed there is no "Meta > Meta" category.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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Now it is Classics. Heh!

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

New word: martingale! It means a gambling strategy AND naughty Rabelaisian hose which fasten at the back.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The mathematician who used the word to describe a kind of probability function is called DOOB! He is very old now and teaches at Illinois. I do not know if his hose fasten at the back, though.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is that kate? Is that that crusty historian?

I went to see AC/DC on tuesday.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The skeletons are dancing in the midwinter wind,
tchik-tchik-tchik-tchika-tchika-tchoo!
Let your weary bones sway wildly in the air,
tchik-tchik-tchik-tchika-tchika-tchee!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That is the Horny Historian. He is a member of the CLASSICS Department.

As far as I know, they don't have a Dud Department at Cambridge.

(Unless it is an acronym for the Department of Undergraduate Development or something...)

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ode to a Martingale". Bet you that's on some geeky site somwhere.
xpost Hello Tuomas. Do you like Sibelius?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate I didn't even get the joke because I am slow.

I thought they called it "Greats". Or is that at Oxford?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Sibelius wrote some nice waltzes, IIRC.

I'm still holding out for "Ode Upon A Grecian Formula".

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

X-Post, Classics meaning Romans and Greeks (and Etruscans, apparently, according to the HH's books) not Classics meaning Great Literature or somesuch or whatever those silly Oxonians think...

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother (who is at Oxford) recently went to a Piers Gaveston (sp?) Society party. PG was apparently a lover of one of the Edwards. (Longshanks's drippy son in Braveheart I think) The PGS is apparently devoted to decadence in all forms. It sounds a bit stupid to me, but my brother didn't go into details. He's probably a Stonecutter or something now.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My washing machine jumps around the kitchen on spin cycle. I tried to sit on it and was thrown off! I spent a long time with a spirit level trying to correct this but to no avail.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What is the etymology of "wacky"?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Check the transport bolts haven't been left in!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy fuck. There are "transport bolts"? The thing just got moved to my house from the in-laws and it was done by professionals so they probably would have put them in. Do you know if they fuck your machine up?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if they actually damage the machine. They certainly make it jump all over the place.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks.

This thread is now classic. I should burble on ILX more often.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed and Suzy's washing machine leaps about like a contemporary dancer! I wonder if they also have this "transport bolts" problem? (Or merely dishonest builders.)

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the motto of the PGSoc = DO YOU HATE FUNNEL?!!

(not my joke sadly)

*adds piers gaveston to list after elric and neoteny*

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, so are there any crazy secret societies in the Cambridge History department that I should be aware of, just so I know in advance, so I don't get any scary images of NStheHH leaping about in deer antlers chanting about dead Scottish noblemen or somesuch other things that I reckon they do at Oxford?

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread was never not classic. Now it is more so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

And lo Ned did wake at 6am and log on.

I'm reading Brideshead Revisited at the moment so I'm sort of drowning in Oxonian nonsense. I can't decide if I like the whimsical studentness or not. Probably not, on balance, but I probably would have at 18. I just wouldn't have had the style to necessarily join in/be invited.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Brideshead Revisited! It used to be my favourite book, and probably is still on the top ten list. I think the whimsical studenty Oxford bit is really part of its strength - especially because when it becomes a poignant counterpoint for the unrelenting misery and ruin that follows later on...

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm enjoying it. I have tried quite hard in the past with EW (ie read 2.5 books) but haven't honestly thought he was actually any good until now.

Have you seen the series? I was tempted to buy the DVD yesterday, it looks very big and lush and good.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping that this was a thread that we could do a retrospective on threads that we thought there might be an interesting division of critical thought on. Like someone did with this thread, only with interesting threads.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Sam, the series with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Edwards is utterly utterly fabulous and lush and wonderful, and faithful to the book in most respects, and it really captures the wonderful, beautiful, aching end of an era thing about it. Yes! If you're enjoying the book, get the DVD, by all means! (And lend it to me, too!)

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I like this thread! More randomness, please!

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay. What's your view on Concord?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ConcordE I mean. But you can do a concord/discord taking sides if you like.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently Schoenberg introduced discord into whatever it was because he argued with his wife or something. However I think I read that in the Sunday paper so everyone's probably seen it.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's all a giant plot to rebuild Concorde's brand image, getting people all excited about it again because they think it's closing, and then next week, they'll unveil that Richard Branson really bought them, and it will be all "OK! Fooled you! We're really keeping it going for ever and ever!" you know, just like Classic Coke.

But on the other hand, it's good, because I've managed to see 3 documentaries about supersonic flight and the sonic boom in the past month!

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the way Concorde offers very rich the opportunity to enjoy cramped and uncomfortable conditions for a few hours.

― robster (robster), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Did New Coke ever get released in England? Or have we just picked up all our knowledge about it from US sitcoms?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate putting facts I find interesting on ILE because everyone seems to know all about everything already. But I suppose no one is going to make the effort to post "I didn't know that", so your perception gets skewed.
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I hate all the killjoy letters to the paper about how concord is for rich people and is therefore bad. It's a lovely plane.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCK, CONCORDE

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in the US when New Coke happened. The whole thing stank to me so badly of a PR stunt that I immediately switched to Pepsi. Sigh.

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I don't know anything really about concord/discord (apart from some vaguel Illuminati references to Discordia etc.) so you can post anything you like about it, and you just have to picture me reading with interest going "Hmm, I didn't know that."

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like that guy in "Henry in Rawlinson End" who's always saying stuff like "Did you know there is no English word for the back of the knee?"

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

But there is! "Back of the knee"!

And this makes me want to ring up the Medical Specialties department and ask them what the medical term for the back of the knee is.

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Tonight I am going to see Bill Bailey. ILE probably hate him, grumble grumble.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Back of knee = Popliteal fossa.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried to look it up on our intranet, but it's too confusing. I mean, there are policies on what to do if another train derails and crashes through the back of Paddington Station into the hospital, but NO medical guidelines as to what to call the back of your knee.

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Bailey is a god amongst men.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Bailey = Classic

― robster (robster), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot afford to go and see Bill Bailey = I cannot afford laughter = Bill Bailey is a git who should do shows where the only tickets left are not FORTY QUID.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought that Bill Bailey was that silly WWII comic strip that used to appear somewhere between Garfield and Hagar the Horrible?

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you know what? I think I was looking for Bill Bailey interweb stuff when I first found ILx here: Find a song on ILM that everybody HATES

Or possibly vice versa.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey Kate I'd forgotten about that Bill Bailey. Was this in the SA Sunday Times by any chance?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the only place I ever read it was in Albany, NY! His nemesis was a fat officer named Sarge. This is all I really remember about it!

― kate (kate), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Back of knee = Popliteal fossa.

Will Self would call it something quite different.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam & Kate -- You're thinking of Beetle Bailey.

Well, I'll be off now. Ta!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

They say on moonlit nights he still rows the old boat, and you can hear the noise, "row, row, row, row".

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Things to do today:
- Get my brother to download "Rock Lobster" for me.
- Drop enormous hints to my goodwife re birthday present (look around you on dvd. Thanks ants. Thants.)
- Try and creep out from under hangover

Bill Bailey was a bit disappointing by the way but he did do a marvellous Portishead parody. Also, Wyndham's Theatre - your seats SUCK.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Beetle, Bill, what's the difference? Ah well.

I'm happy cause I found loads of good books in Greenwich.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The internet is weird. When it eventually loses all its novelty and becomes just an extension of the real world, I think people are going to think that posting random messages on a board/blog is about as sensible as writing things out and sticking them to random walls. I think the idea of blogs might seem quite quaint to future generations.

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My washing machine works now.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Maple Leaf Rag" is damn catchy. I wish I could play the piano instead of the guitar like every other young fellow of a certain age.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

When it eventually loses all its novelty and becomes just an extension of the real world,

You mean it's not? Damn! Where am I?

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

You only exist in the internet, and only while posting.

What books did you buy?

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Second! Hand! Bookshop! Bargain! Binge! Woooo!

I am very happy.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of pictures of saucy ladies in WAAF uniforms sitting at oscilloscopes and giving radar reports and the like. Phwoar, etc!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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