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Scary Munter!
Posted Mar 7, 2013
Benjamin has just come downstairs complaining of a scary munter.
We think he means monster, or at least, we hope he does.
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Latest reply: Mar 7, 2013
Happy Christmas!
Posted Dec 25, 2012
Happy Christmas to all the strange people I see on h2g2!
May your new year be as bizarre as ever.
Geggs
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Latest reply: Dec 25, 2012
I'm an Operator. I Operate.
Posted Oct 17, 2012
I've just had a new badge bestowed upon me. It seems my work with QotD (the archiving, leaderboarding and congratulating) is worthy of recognition. And I've been recognised in the form of being made an Operator - U14994913.
It's all quite dizzying. I'm just being me, really. Evidently some men have official Volunteer status thrust upon them, as Shakespeare would have said if he had known of h2g2. It really was quite remiss of him not to look us up. Call himself 'The Bard', did he? Honestly, poets these days. Getting away without even the bare minimum of research.
Anyway, were was I? Oh yes, I am Operator. That is a shiny badge isn't it?
Lovely.
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Latest reply: Oct 17, 2012
Snailmate
Posted Jul 19, 2012
I thought I heard that correctly, though I started to doubt myself later.
Listen to tonight's PM, presented this evening by Caroline Quinn. At 19:48, in reference to discussions at the UN about Syria, she uses the word 'snailmate'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01kt441/PM_19_07_2012/
It's obviously a play on stalemate, but I get the feeling that it's slightly more nuanced. Instead of the parties being completely deadlocked, there is at least the possibility of some movement, however slight, but that a large amount of discussion about precise details, which could drag on for hours, has to take place first. In order for any progress to be made it has to be at a snail's pace.
Interesting word.
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Latest reply: Jul 19, 2012
Falling over slowly
Posted Jun 12, 2012
Well, that was silly.
My desk in the office is a quick chair ride away from the bin, and as I'd just finished my sandwiches I went to perform said scoot to dump my sandwich bag in the receptacle.
Unfortunately, my coat, which is hanging on the back of my chair, got snagged in one of the wheels, preventing the forward motion of the chair. Momentum, however, would not be abated. And so, with my arms spinning madly, I, and my chair, gently fell over sideways.
I tried to preserve what dignity I could by getting back up as quickly as possible. I'm fairly sure I failed. Most people around me heard the bump as I landed, but only one saw the whole thing. And she didn't stop laughing for the next five minutes. I'm sure she would have videoed it if she'd had the presence of mind to do so.
And I'm chuckling every few minutes as I consider how ludicrous I must have appeared.
I blame the chair.
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Latest reply: Jun 12, 2012
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