h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*shocked* Oh no - I wouldn't dream of sampling it before the Omnipotent Incognito Judge has!

I thought not.

I've got a lot of annoying little jobs to do today. I don't know which of them to do first. It's tempting to play on h2g2 instead.

It took me forty minutes to cycle out to Ripley to see this car get its check up only for the garage to look surprised and say that it had been moved to Friday (today). Apparently the seller and the garage agreed to move it but never told me. Luckily Tocatta is off to look at it this afternoon, but I am well peeved. One phone call would have been fine.

I hope that you at least had nice weather, Munchkin!

[Sol]

Yes T, on the bright side the weather was nice, I got some exercise, that bit of Surrey is quite pretty and I stopped in a pub for a mid afternoon pint but I'm still annoyed. I'd have been more annoyed yesterday, but I was knackered from the bike ride.
Oh, I was phaffing about on the web earlier and I found a site on the Scots Language (what Robert Burns spoke and I can occasionally impersonate) Its got a front page in Scots and English and I'd be intrigued to know how much of the Scots people can understand. http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/index.htm

Oops, that wasn't the one I was thinking of. Here you go http://www.lallans.co.uk/

The oddest thing just happened to me - I received an e-mail to my spam-attracting address, and it's from... myself? No attachment, the subject is 'Tiny Teens' and the mail is empty...

{[caer csd] off to look at notmail}

"the jurnal for writin in Scots" -- to me it just looks like bad spelling, not a completely different language. "a Scots wittins blad an aw" on the other hand is almost completely incomprehensible.

I've noticed a sudden increase in spam that comes to me with my own address in the "from:" line, but be careful you don't have a virus there, T. Is there an attachment? Speaking of which I got a message yesterday with a .doc file, the message in the e-mail was to the effect of "I may have sent you a virus by accident, please open this attachment for more information about how to find out if you have it." I thought that was an interesting twist in tricking people to open the doc file (which I'm certain would have given me a macro virus).

No attachment, that's what I thought was so odd... and no contents whatsoever except for the subject - maybe he/shey forgot to attach the virus file?

[LIL]
half-wishing for the old Compuserve-on-DOS days

I've just set the front of my hair on fire while lighting the gas stove .

(it'll turn up one day )

I could understand most of the Scots, Munchers, except for a few places, like the one d'E pointed out. I particularly like the expression "fleetchin at", meaning lobbying. Has a much truer ring to it.

And Titania - I just entered a wine, too.

Also looking forward to , too Amy.

I'm beginning to feel sorry for the Italic who is going to judge the wines - the poor thing has to sample them all, including yours GL - and d'E's (or Zeppo's rather)!

The thing about the Scots is that, unless I go to one of these "authorities", I don't know what is real Scots and what is just bad grammar and spelling. Annoying as it used to be a proper language, with official documents written in it and everything.

[{Courtesy}]

Oh, if only everyone was so polite as to not attach the virus.

a rather incompetent virus purveyor, I would say.

At my mom's for the holiday weekend, rather nice. Her new house is what I thought it would be, I really like it.

Odd not to be able to show my small person pictures of me when I was small, however.