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I saw a mouse.

― Pete, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

where?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But did he see you?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you Mark, but it appears that Nicole was too fast to let us complete this properly.

But if anyone is interested - it was There, on the stair.

― Pete, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So did I. Mine was made by Microsoft.

― jel --, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A little mouse? One with clogs on?

― Alan T, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I declare.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was this in our flat Pete? Cos if so maybe it was just a clump of my hair being stirred by a breeze.

― Emma, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The main reason I bought this up was because in a moment of madness at work I mentioned this. I saw a mouse, I said
Where? - Said German student.
There on the stair - sez I motioning to a crate of Snapple in the corner of my office.
Where on the stair - said now quite confused student
Right there. Then I paused. To follow it up with-
A little mouse with clogs on

To which the unfortunately reply was
Are you feeling alright.

Nursery rhymes, linguistic games that other people don't know...

― Pete, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr Emma prescribes a lie down in a darkened room with one of those cooling bandage things on your head, Pete.

― Emma, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A Windmill In Old Amsterdam was written by Dicks. Seriously.

― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Dicks and Rudge actually, who were also responsible for Right Said Fred (the song, not the baldy blokes).

― MarkH, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An ex-boyfriend wet to Amsterdam and asked (jokingly) if I wanted a present, so I (jokingly) replied 'a little mouse with clogs on to put over there on the stair'. He then thought me utterly mad and described as being 'kooky' to all his friends.

Trouble that nursery ryhme.

― Anna, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My last trip to Amsterdam was in the company (for which read supervisor) of our womens football team The Hungry Dogs. WHilst much booze was inbibed on the coach, and we smuggled two Africans without visas unto and out of France, Belgium and Holland under some coats - the following tune was heard:

There once was a doggie in old Amsterdam
A doggie with boots on is rarely a problem
She played in the morning from noon until night
Don't worry her bark is much worse than her bite
I saw a dog
Bitch
Where?
On the pitch
There on the pitch right there
A little dog with boots on.
Well I declare going - (Cue large yapping noises).

Hence the rhyme is burnt into my brane.

― Pete, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Those cooling bandages look GRATE and I want some, especially for SUMMER! I think they will be tha NEXT BIG THING and as soon as it is hot I shall be THE FIRST TO TRY THEM! I will sit in the park and look stupid but GODDAMIT I SHALL BE COOL.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And here I thought you were starting into a Ladyhawke recitation.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

true story:

last wednesday morning upon leaving the subway, it was raining. lucky for me i had my good solid german army jacket on with the rubber lining in the hood. i put up my hood but there was something tangled up in there. assuming it to be the hoodie of my sweatshirt i reached up to straighten it out and felt something in my hair. something warm and furry. it was moving. so on 14th st, between 8th and 9th aves, at 8:30 in the morning, i fling a small gray mouse out of my hair that lands with a THWACK on the wet sidewalk. people veering around me. i stop frozen in a cliched pose of extreme bewilderment, my left leg extended behind me, peering down at this little fucker. he's not moving. then he stirs. i scrabble furiously in my hood, remove my jacket, look back down, he's gone, a man passes and smiles at me. i go to work.

he had to have been there the entire time on the train. Q transfer to L. fast asleep. i actually think i handled it pretty well.

― tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

me and liz used to have slugs in our house. they were fat.

― di, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't imagine happily describing my girlfriend as 'kooky'. That's hilarious and is also further evidence that most relationships are a sham.

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I too once lived in a house with slugs. We would see the trails and couldn't work out where they were coming from. l went into the kitchen very late one night and it was a copulating slug-fest. It is one of the most revolting things I have ever seen.

Kooky is one of those nastily ambiguos words, that people try to pretend is a compliament, but really they mean you are a little weird.

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not that it's an insult. It's just that it reflects so badly on the person using it, suggesting that they don't understand you at all.

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Nick - you're kooky.

― Pete, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I sometimes get people calling me 'quirky', which is the male equivalent, I guess.

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well kooky or quirky are surely better than mentalist / creepy? I do not even want to begin to imagine how my boyfs have described me to their friends.

― Emma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kooky is only a few steps away from wacky, and that's just awful.

― chris, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Describing yourself as kooky is the worst. I reckon Frank Black thinks to himself "Man, I'm so frikkin' kooky".

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You kids are zany! I guess you don't have to be mad to post on this borad - but it helps!

― Emma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Board even. Curse you Mr Vodka.

― Emma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think he does.

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

taking sides: iffy vs squiffy

(quiffy and whiffy can look after themselves)

― mark s, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite like squiffy.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kooky is a GRATE word! Katharine Hepburn in 'Bringing Up Baby' is kooky! Mary Margaret O'Hara is kooky! Anya in Buffy is kooky!

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A-and ALLY96 IS KOOKY TOO!

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

getting squiffy usually leads to feeling iffy in the morning! so on the whole squiffy i think.

― katie, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about quizzy-niffy?

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quirky is in fact a great description as it calls to mind Ananova's quirkies without which my afternoons / inbox would be so much emptier.

― Emma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Katharine Hepburn in 'Bringing Up Baby' is SCREWY! not kooky. hence screwball comedy, not kookball comedy.

― talulah gosh, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I rather perfer kookball comedy.

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but i love "why, th-that's the screwiest thing i *ever* heard" usually said in a cod james stewart voice that actually sounds like sean connery.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm quite a fan of "bonkers".

― Ronan, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"oddball"

Kooky is a whole different thing from zany.

― Graham, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kooky implies some form of OCD. Zany is only to be used sarcastically or for mocking someone.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't forget Madcap

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

true history: the morning last of Wednesday over leaving the subterranean, was lucky to rain for me who had my good solid German jacket of the army ignited with the rubber trimming in the chapel I put above for my chapel but there was something entangled for above in there if she is assumed that to be the hoodie of my sweatshirt that I reached to I straighten it towards outside and felt something in my somewhat hot and hairy hair. st moved so in 14to, between the 8vos and 9nos birds, in 8:30 in the morning, I throw a small gray mouse of my hair that lands with a THWACK in the wet people who turn around me who unemployment congealed in a cliched attitude of bewilderment extreme, my left leg of the sidewalk extended behind me, watching with fixedness down in this small fucker. then he is not moving it revuelve. scrabble i furiously in my chapel, acquittal my jacket, watched behind down, goes it, the passages of a man there and the smiles in me I am going to work he must have been the whole time in the train. The transference of Q to the sleepy uninformed L. I really think that I directed enough good to it.

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hanle y has been possesd by the ghost of Stanley Unwin.

― Ed, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The transference of Q to the sleepy uninformed L!!!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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