Escape Pod Dreams - 8
Created | Updated Dec 23, 2003
Three coins in the fountain gets you nicked for a five coin fine!
We here at Irritating Public Radio, Your Friends In The Air, heard a rumour that there would be an excuse for the deskbound among our employees to discard their old calenders and then pin up new ones...
We have decided to forestall this, as we haven't yet gotten the planning consultant to submit a master design for the offices, by placing a memo on the corridor bulletin board proclaiming the formulae for projecting the new months and days onto the old ones, with the use of a simple calculator...
and some butcher's paper left over from the St. Valentine's Day Charity Abbattoir. The suggestion has been made that IPR spring for some bespoke calenders with our logo and motto on them, or at least some ready-to-go ones with the lady in the cowboy hat and the bubble-blowing bottle...
Pride is at stake and we are almost at the point of repainting one wall with a humongous calender so everyone can use it and see what everyone else is doing, which will cut down on people visiting each other and lingering about the tea cart muttering imprecations about their ruined weekends when the computers go all west again...
In the meantime, the Central Services bunch have been poring over plans and swatches for new camougflagy carpeting in the main foyer, as an alternative to the old rush matting that has to be replaced every other season, but rarely is. The gents have been experimenting with either getting the flooring to match the majority of coffee and tea and cocoa stains commonly found about the premises and on E.T.A. Bergmann's tweed cummerbund, or to pick a colour that they truly favour and mandate that the beverages brought on deck all contain the matching sort of food colouring so that it doesn't clash.
Of course, we know that they can't plan for every eventuality, witness when the Board Chairman's Chow/Basenji mix chewed on the overhead markers and then ...
Please find below a few of the hues that are being considered:
Considered hues for your perusal:
1. 8:57 AM
Plebian Tantrum #4, an exercise in freedom and clean underpants...
by Fotran Feeblefoinker
1. 8:58 AM
The Homely Homily: This week, The Archdruid of Camembert....
by Princess Crania de Linger, now appearing brightly in her own mirror
1. 8:59 AM
"I married Tom": An in-depth probe into the typical family's reaction to such prodding...in four part harmony!
by Three cat and a ferret Night!
1. 8:50 AM
The Dimwit Zone: Fluffy, the psychic kitten.
by Your Other Right Foot (appearing nightly without warning)
A cautionary note to the Night Watchperson
The cameras have been fixed for a week and we have had a good look over your shoulder at that Illustrated Edition of Proust you've been perusing looking for the 'good parts'. We suggest some of Melville's more suggestive works, or maybe the 'Song of Solomon'.