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

remember seeing a tv prog with a policeman (british) saying that the scene of crime had been 'forensicated'.
By a forensicator presumably.

I always wondered, as well, if someone who perpetrated the burglarisation was a burglarisator?

The forensication of the forensicated scene must surely have been carried out by a forensicationiser?

>> ..carried out by a forensicationiser? <<

Or at least someone who has been trained to work forensicationiseristically.

~jwf~

I think the proper term is actually: forensicationiseristicalist

>> I always wondered, as well, if someone who perpetrated the burglarisation was a burglarisator? <<

Nah, he was a burglarisationalist. Hope you've all set your burglarisationalist traps today...

RF

I was going to write a devastatingly witty reply to the above posting, but my computer was burglarisationalisticated.........

Ladles and Jellyspoons, I think we have a winner!

A winner? Are you taking the Michael?

Extracting the Michael, as my brother used to say...

Here's a little gem I found lurking on BBC news (education): Hitlerisation

On TV last night, (relatively) mad scientist trying to demonstrate how the Incas cut fine joints in blimey big boulders by using parabolic mirrors to 'deaggregate' a stone, failed miserably and tried it on a lolly pop stick instead, being careful not to 'dedigitise' the person holding the stick.

Could be genuine words for all I know but it made me think of this thread

Snockerty, me old mate, you're alive!! Delighted to see you back on thread. I've been feeling remote Grimley rumblings, but they're still too remote to be life-threatening.

Re: general gobshite ( no military gentlemen included ) I came across the definitive abuse of the dreadful "I'm like...."

A restpected movie actor ( who shall remain nameless because I've forgotten his name...) in interview regularly used the phrase "I'm like..." as a replacement for "I said," "I thought," and "I felt."

e.g "I'm like, this colour doesn't suit me," and "I'm like, no way man, I'm not doing that...","I'm like, what am I doing here anyway?"

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Hello Chai, been occupied trying to learn Flash, foolishly tried to animate extracts from Grimley which was a bit of a disinsperationiser.

Animation!!! What a glorious thought, maybe enough to undeinspirationalisicate me regarding Grimley. "Grimley Moer, the Movie!" Waaaaaah!

Apparently it's illegal to set burglar traps in the UK now - HMG's advice about the use of "reasonable force" (in case anyone was wondering about why I was using that phrase (no?...apparently not )...anyway, it just conjured in my mind a vision of an enormous mousetrap with a DVD where the cheese would normally go.

Wonder if that would work?

RF

Hasn't entrapment been illegal for quite some time? And rightly so. Inviting a crime just because you'll be able to catch the perpetrator if and when they come along is crazy. Apart from anything else, there's a waste of police and court resources which could be avoided by increasing security instead of purposefully creating an enticement for a burglar to strike.

Yeah, but, no, but, yeah...There's been this big thing about HMG advice to the burgled that's been on'telly an'all...

Well, it made me laugh, anyway. Now I'm off down to Robert Dyas to buy me a burglar trap.

RF

Setting a trap for a burglar has been illegal for as long as I can remember. That means things like wiring you door and window latches to the mains electricity and surrounding your property with barbed wire.
There is always the chance it might catch someone completely innocent.

Entrapment is a bit more grey.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,581043,00.html

For instance there is the practise of sending children into shops to buy prohibited items like cigarettes and alcohol. This is a form of entrapment that is legal.

However, never having been burgled (note terminology) I do not know what I would do if confronted with the situation. Probably kick him down the stairs as live in a second story flat. If he cracked his skull on the way down that would just be an unfortunate accident.

Donald

"I'm like"... yes, I have heard that. It brings tears to the eyes, does it not?

You're lucky if you have only "heard that." It seems to be a virulent strain of linguistic disease, spreading through the younger population via magazines and TV. My elder son's girlfriend is rather prone to it. It makes me cringe. Which is absurd, when you think about it. Why should someone else's slang, ( if it can be called that ) be upsetting at all? They're only words, after all, and we know what they mean. Nonetheless, it still makes me cringe, and deliberately ask, "Sorry, what are you like...???"

I get pretty snarly about "ball-park figures" too.