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Lateshift: For old-skool and becandled alike.

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gingerbop

23:04 / 31.12.03

Ditto with happiness. Though it's been the dullest new year since '99. Lots of pretending to listen to my neighbours blethering and watching middle aged women fuss over a spilled glass of white wine. Im guessing the only way for this year to go is up. Have a good un. x

Bear

23:10 / 31.12.03

Duuuudes I have no idea what's going on....

My Daddy was a bank robber!! No honestly its true....

Mazarine

23:12 / 31.12.03

Little under four hours to go here, watching the King of Iron Chef marathon from '99 on Food Network.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:28 / 31.12.03

Whoah Maz, you seem to have the BEST FUCKING TELLY where you are!

This is fun... the level of background chatter in the office is gradually getting louder and louder as everyone gets more and more drunk... I've already been told I don't have to check my minions' work, cos I'll be too pissed. (Last year I wasn't allowed to read the late editions.) And in the morning I'l have London to myself cos no-one else will be getting out of bed for AGES. Life is good.

uncle retrospective

23:38 / 31.12.03

That sound great Stoatie, I'm now off looking for beer, drugs and women! So it'll probably standing in a pub then. Have a good one folks and it's good night from him.
Good night.
And it's good night from me.
Good night.

Good night.

uncle retrospective

23:40 / 31.12.03

Wow, I seemed to get so excited I lost the use of english.
'night!

Bed Head

23:42 / 31.12.03

Good eeevening. And - yeah!!!! Happy new year! That’s right, isn’t it? Have I actually got the right night this time?

Stoatie - did you by any chance hear the Today Programme yesterday morning? All the presenters in the newsroom seemed to get, if not pissed, then at least loud and merry and raucous, following an in-depth article about the art of cocktail-mixing. And Thom Yorke was the ‘guest editor’ for the day. Bloody strange, it was, even by Radio 4 standards. I thought I was having one of those weirdy dreams.

cusm

23:54 / 31.12.03

Just a little more than an hour to go, and I am free of my corporate masters, free to lay waste to the unsuspecting heads of the party to come... MUHAHAHAHA!

I just keep getting more excited, I've been looking forward to this for days. Its been the only thing to get me through the hell of xmas, holidayshifts, and family functions.

And its so quiet in here you can hear the dead fart. There's only one other guy on shift with me, to mind the occasional paniced beepings of servers needing a reboot, or answer support mails from people who really ought to be out doing something other than breaking the mysql on their websites at this hour.

Bear

23:54 / 31.12.03

Faster than a cannon ball...there are people whitie-ing all over the shop.....

Rock with the power of 2004

Stoatie
uncle retrospective
and
Bed Head......

Bear

23:55 / 31.12.03

and
cusm

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:58 / 31.12.03

I didn't hear it today, BH... but one of my friends was just commenting on how shitfaced everyone sounded!

HNY, bear!

AND I've just learned that the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square had to be altered... BECAUSE IT LOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE MUSSOLINI! Isn't that ace?

Bed Head

00:12 / 01.01.04

Hey Cusm, classic fucking prog for your party: Stone Roses, Second Coming. Noisier than God and goes a treat with every drug around. Play a track for me, dude.

And Bear, you sound like you’re rockin’ already, man.

And, theres something’s fundamentally fucking wrong with statues in this country. Statues should be, like, Michelangelo’s David, or the Three Graces, and stuff. Only beautiful people, and definitely not ugly wee baldie fat men.

Bed Head

00:54 / 01.01.04

Blimey, where’d everybody go? Was it something I said?

Ah, I’m off to bed anyway. Blowing a kiss to all of you with a party still to go to, have a bloody good one: see you - and your hangovers - in rocking ‘04.

cusm

00:56 / 01.01.04

Woot! Time to head. Happy new year all!

Mazarine

03:57 / 01.01.04

I've eaten ten fun sized almond joys today. I didn't mean to, but there was a big glass of milk and the bag was right there. So I'm not getting to bed any time soon.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:53 / 01.01.04

Well, I haven't had anything disgustingly edible yet today. But there's the remnants of two pizzas in the fridge.

They are calling.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:54 / 01.01.04

I don't remember leaving work this morning...

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:57 / 01.01.04

You are, and always will be, my hero.

Today, I have no work. I spurn work. Instead, I embrace gin.

GIN!

_pin

21:30 / 01.01.04

I want everyone to know that last nite I drove off a cliff, and now having survived that experience I am imbued with a new-found respect for a life, and a wish to teach you all to seize the day, as I have learned to. Join me, people, in staring wide-eyed at every new experience, nodding a lot and sounding a bit wispy, and far away.

Saint Keggers

22:19 / 01.01.04

Hey all!

Congrats to Pin for foilling gravities deadly plan! I've oft thought about seizing the day but instead have decided to build my forces and wait to seize the fortnight.
Spent a while with a fellow lither and a future lither. A weird carnival that was...but I think I liked it. Yes. Im quite sure. It was the roller coaster that got me hooked.

How have all you beautiful people been??? HOW??? Im in barbwithdrawl...

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:31 / 01.01.04

God, food - too horrifying. After the five course meal over New Year's - *five courses* - culminating in gilded chocolate cake (which I still find utterly ludicrous as a concept) I can't even imagine it. Have spent today practising not drinking and not smoking - we'll see how that goes...

Evening, all. How goes it? And pin - tell us more. Did Claire drive drunk?

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:51 / 01.01.04

I'm starting the New Year (well, the second day of it) with the ingestion of tiny packages of corpulence. To wit, strawberries coated in chocolate.

White chocolate.

Bed Head

23:00 / 01.01.04

White chocolate is the devils work. It makes no sense to me. Chocolate is brown, man. It’s meant to be brown. White chocolate makes about as much sense as brown cheese would.

Ahem. Hello, you lateshifters! After all that hazy confusion I saw in the new year stone cold sober, just for, you know, the novelty of it. I think I might see how far into the year this wagon will take me, before I leap off and tear the place up with nary a backward glace.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:10 / 01.01.04

White chocolate's ACE. Yeah, I know it's bizarre, but so what? It rocks hard.

Do tell us more, pin...

Tryphena Absent

23:30 / 01.01.04

Hiya! I'm watching Breakfast Club for the hundreth time, bloody marvellous!

Saint Keggers

23:34 / 01.01.04

Ah...the breakfast club...damn I'm feelin old.
White chocolate makes as much sense as vegetarian steak. Its just spp wrong.

Bed Head

23:40 / 01.01.04

Evening Keggers, Sparks.

It’s great feeling old. I like liking stuff that ‘the kids’ hate, like The Breakfast Club. Bloody young people are the new parents. They’re, like, so unfair.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:40 / 01.01.04

You, zir, are a fool and a charlatan. White chocolate is ace.

Right. I'm off to read tarot cards and watch The Usual Suspects, although not at the same time.

Bed Head

23:51 / 01.01.04

Okay, so that makes it two votes apiece in the ‘white chocolate is ace/the devil’s work’ ultimate decider. Anyone care to cast the final vote?

‘Next person who says it’s ace has to explain what the buggery blazes it actually is, by the way.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:00 / 02.01.04

Yeah, BH. Bloody young people. Most of 'em haven't even seen Footloose.

Bed Head

00:16 / 02.01.04

Yeah, that might explain why all these ‘young people’ are, er, so rubbish at dancing. If they would only prise their eyes away from that Timberlake chap and watch Kevin Bacon for a second, they’d see how one is supposed to cut a rug. Or is that Flashdance?

Stoatie, you can’t be at work again, surely! What the devil are these people going to do without you when you’re away?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:30 / 02.01.04

Kevin Bacon is indeed in Footloose. I think Flashdance was Jennifer Beals.
And yes, I am at work. But what with yesterday being New Year and all, it seems the global population were to busy being hungover to do anything newsworthy, so I'm having a really easy night. Which isjust as well, cos I feel terrible, having single-handledly polished off a bottle of Jack Daniel's on NYE.

Bed Head

01:03 / 02.01.04

Aha. That would be it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Flashdance. Or Footloose, actually, come to that. Or Dirty Dancing. I learnt to dance from the pictures in comic books, which explains a lot about my particular dance ‘style’.

Must sleep. Don’t work too hard Stoatie, and I hope you feel better soon.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:30 / 02.01.04

'night, BH. Anyone else still awake?

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:34 / 02.01.04

Yep. Just watched the filmmakers' documentary on my new copy of The Boys. Hunt that film down.

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