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Kingdom of Late Shifting (WARNING- CONTAINS SCARY BALLOON MAN)

 
  

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Saint Keggers
23:11 / 06.02.05
"the peasants are revolting!"
"Well ofcourse they are...they dont have running water"

or something along that lines...my python recall is not what it once was..
 
 
alas
23:14 / 06.02.05
python recall problems are often an early warning sign for . . .

surely there's something funny I could say there, but my brain is stopping. Fill in the blank anyone? We could go in a snake-training direction or something related to dementia or . . . ? work with me, people...
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:16 / 06.02.05
We could even go the full monty direction...which I wont.
 
 
alas
23:26 / 06.02.05
it's probably for the best. Sir Paul is now on, very safe white aging knighted rock star half time. nary a breast in sight. Even all the women in the carefully selected audience are wearing sweater sets with discreet necklines.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:28 / 06.02.05
yes..its sad really. Nothing like our Grey Cup games. Where the only reason people are covered is its so freakin cold out.
 
 
alas
23:32 / 06.02.05
I need to go let my dogs out and then go to bed, I suspect. So, alas, alas says good night.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:35 / 06.02.05
G'night Alas!
 
 
Mazarine
01:20 / 07.02.05
Who's still up?
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:22 / 07.02.05
My Sally sense must be tingling...I was away working on a Valentines gift, decided to see if the LS was still running.. Im still up...

Hi Sally!
 
 
Papess
01:50 / 07.02.05
Hey! I just woke up! I think I might have slipped into a coma, and then came back out over the weekend. Yeah, a weekend coma, you know...

Hello Lateshifters!
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:58 / 07.02.05
I SOOO love the new name.
 
 
Papess
02:30 / 07.02.05
Thank you, Keggers! (You did mean me, right?)

It is easier to spell than my last name, and hopefully won't be so distressing to people here. :P
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:04 / 07.02.05
Has this thread died whilst I was off to get another drink?
 
 
Papess
03:09 / 07.02.05
I think it died a while back, and no one noticed.


We can always dance on it's grave.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
03:13 / 07.02.05
I'm still up-ish, and taking a short break from reading the 'Geefe' articles on the 'Cookd And Bombd' webpage, which are genuinely trif. Geefe, in character, is a 30-something journalist who's agreed in writing to kill himself on such-and-such a date, ( there's a book deal in the offing, plus his editor keeps asking, ) but who's nevertheless having second thoughts.

Apparently, ( and unbelievably really, ) this was taken seriously at the time, so the rising sense of disgust, but also jubilation, that runs through the articles as their author realises that he's actually going to be able to get away with this stuff is really quite something.
 
 
Saint Keggers
03:17 / 07.02.05
Sounds quite odd, Alex. but I could see why they'd be interesting.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
03:30 / 07.02.05
'I told him how I'd been suicidal myself for six months after giving birth, until I decided to sue my baby for what it had done to my figure. I showed him my wrist-scars and he spoke to me like a poet-philosopher.'

I don't know if Geefe's writings can be recommended highly enough.
 
 
Papess
03:34 / 07.02.05
Ahh, another honourary Mamo.

Hello Alex. That site does sound interesting. I am not sure if I get it though...is it real, or what?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
03:36 / 07.02.05
I should have said that Geefe's work was originally published in The Observer
 
 
alas
23:10 / 07.02.05
Anyone up? I'm eating a vegetarian soup, very light, for dinner because I do have a bad cold. A little red pepper, onion, noodles, carrots, fresh parsley, broth. Nice.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:13 / 07.02.05
Ah yes, "Time To Go"... they were fucking brilliant columns. Chris Morris rules.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:16 / 07.02.05
Oh, I'm here, btw. Hello shifty people. I'm at work, listening to music through one ear and trying to decide whether I can be arsed to go and put some soup in the microwave.
 
 
alas
23:19 / 07.02.05
Urgh . . . microwave soup. I don't blame you for not feeling arsed. I'm feeling very sleepy. Need to walk the dogs.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:06 / 08.02.05
Hi there Stoat. I'm about three or four hours into the working day myself, I can never seem to get all that much done too early on, so I'm presently listening to Scott Walker's greatest hits, watching Brass Eye in the room next door, rolling a joint, and cooking lunch, in effect.

A multi-tasker, is me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:08 / 08.02.05
Hmm. Wish I worked from home. No spliffs or telly for me, no siree.
 
 
alas
00:21 / 08.02.05
Well, I'm supposed to be beginning my own late shift, having worked all day, but I'm finding it rathah difficult. Tell you what: I'll pick up that pile of papers and grade 2 before going to bed. 2! Surely I can handle that...
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:24 / 08.02.05
But never mind about all that - how's the ear doing chief ?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:25 / 08.02.05
I'm guessing grading papers isn't like watching episodes of your favourite programmes on DVD... there probably isn't the risk that you won't be able to stop at 2, but will convince yourself that just one more will still leave you time to sleep, and then another, and then another, and before you know it you have two hours before you start work...

I'm guessing it isn't like that at all.
 
 
alas
00:26 / 08.02.05
Well, I'm supposed to be beginning my own late shift, having worked all day, but I'm finding it rathah difficult. Tell you what: I'll pick up that pile of papers and grade 2 before going to bed. 2! Surely I can handle that...
 
 
alas
00:29 / 08.02.05
I hate that double posting thing. I did nothing wrong! I am innocent, I tell you!

But you're totally right about grading vs. dvd lounging. It's more like slowly poking a needle into your eye.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:31 / 08.02.05
Oh, and the ear's still FUBAR.
 
 
alas
01:01 / 08.02.05
I remember situation normal, all fucked up, but fubar I'm forgetting--fucked up beyond all recognition?

gotta love soldier linguistics. I love the goofy noises my dogs make.

I'm working on a research project instead of grading. Even two proved too much! I am a sad case.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:17 / 08.02.05
Yeah, that's it (the FUBAR thing).

I've just been reading about "sport stacking"- apparently it's all the rage among kids (largely in the US, I think... you know anything about this?) and is all about stacking plastic cups really really quickly. I'm convinced the article was just made up, cos that doesn't sound real. Anyway, I just tried it and I'm crap at it.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
01:21 / 08.02.05
Without wishing to go an about Brass Eye too much, out of many highlights, Stephen Berkoff on heavy electricity was just great -

'That could be your mother !' indeed.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:54 / 08.02.05
I just Googled it. It's real. Kids are going crazy for plastic cups. The world's gone mad.
 
  

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