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2 days to go... and there's Marmite on my Moby CD

So if there were 2 days to go 4 days ago, that means whatever there were 2 days to go until must have happened by now, so how was it, whatever it was?
Oh, and try cleaning your CD with a soft, damp cloth. *raises hat*

Ooh visitor...
Hi EV!
*grins*
Clearly you can't count, it's obvious there are now 27 days to go
Sorry...
I applied for Cambridge y'see, they were supposed to tell me on the 30th of December (nice festive treat for us applicants there)...which they did but only to tell me I was pooled which meant absolutely nothing. They then told me to wait until the 9th of January and at any time before then I could be called down for an interview on the tenth... but then I wasn't but apparently that doesn't matter as they didn't need to so now I have to wait until the 30th...and it's annoying me somewhat

Oh and soft cloths don't remove marmite I've tried...my brother says to wash it but I don't trust that! I wouldn't mind but it's meant to be a limited edition CD because it has B-sides on it not because it's won't play due to marmite modge

*scratches head*
Oh, I see, so it's now...... some days to go. I'll try and remember that.
And what were you doing spreading Marmite on your CD in the first place? Dairylea goes better with CDs, I find.

*grins*
26 days...although it may be longer as I don't understand the concept

Dairylee? Really...I always prefered Philadelphia...
Ummm it was playing in my Cd player whilst I was eating toast and reading a newspaper and then it finished so I took it out to put in another CD (Top Loader actually which is very good and so far seems to work despite the marmite!) forgetting that I was eating toast...

Oh well, now it all makes sense...

But of course... Don't I always make perfect sense?

*attempts to explain the very mundane story*
I was eating my breakfast of toast and marmite whilst reading the newspaper and listening to the Moby CD. Half way through my toast the CD stopped. At this point we should note that the CD had been on for some time before this and I wasn't eating 78 minutes worth of toast...
*wonders how many slices of toast would equate to 78 minutes worth*
Anyway I then decided to change the CD forgetting that I'd probably have marmite off of the toast on my fingers. I changed the Moby CD for the TopLoader CD getting marmite on each. Interestingly the Toploader CD will still play whereas the Moby Cd won't... hence how do I get marmite off of CD's

Sorry, I'm having trouble with the idea of someone being up for 78 minutes and only just getting round to having breakfast. That never happens to me.
Anyway, I still maintain that a damp cloth should do the trick, or you could try putting it in the washing machine, but I wouldn't recommend that.

I think I was probably watching cartoons so forgot about breakfast

Hmmm washing machine...and then I could put it in the tumble dryer afterwards to dry it, that's an excellent plan, minimal effort as well

I think I was probably watching cartoons so forgot about breakfast

Hmmm washing machine...and then I could put it in the tumble dryer afterwards to dry it, that's an excellent plan, minimal effort as well

Yes. Don't forget to take the CD out of the case first though.

Just goes to prove that Marmite is truly evil!

Glad to see your music taste is improving
good luck with cambridge!

Well of course! The case is cardboard so it'd be silly putting cardboard in the washing machine...and the tumble dryer would just mush whatever was left of it and stick it to the CD! Although I guess that'd make a change from the marmite
*goes off to wash the CD*
OOh did you know it's only 45 days until the start of the new F1 season And it's only 1 day until the start of the tests at Silverstone

Well of course! The case is cardboard so it'd be silly putting cardboard in the washing machine...and the tumble dryer would just mush whatever was left of it and stick it to the CD! Although I guess that'd make a change from the marmite
*goes off to wash the CD*
OOh did you know it's only 45 days until the start of the new F1 season And it's only 1 day until the start of the tests at Silverstone

There's that echo again.
So, in fact, your countdown should be "45 days to go". Cool!

*grins*
Sorry Mr Z, didn't see you there...
I'm having issues with my computer...
*growls*
and with Btinternet as you may have noticed by the continual double posts about 20 minutes apart

I never thought marmite was intrinsically eveil...but if you'd said Twiglets then maybe

Hey! My music taste has always been wonderful, it was clearly yours that was wrong, I mean how can you dislike the songs of SClub7... Besides, my CD collection reads like the nomination list from a music awards ceremony...of course, it'd be the Brit awards merged into the MTV pop awards but still

*throws cushions at the computer*
I have just spent 50 minutes with an extremely slow connection attempting to download a file to fix my computer and after 4.82 MB of a 4.84MB file BT has just disconnected me, the computer crashed and I have to do it all over again...
*grins*
This could become mildly annoying

Anyway, this could take so long to reply to as every time I post, someone posts in before me...presumably because they're not connected at about 10,000bps...

*grins*
I suspected if I started a count down to the F1 season people wouldn't understand...so I figured I'd just sulk about my Moby Cd instead
*plays the TopLoader CD very loudly at the Moby CD to prove a point to it*

*wonders if the Moby CD is worried by this action*

Anyway, you think BT is bad, you obviously haven't read my rant about the so-called Free Internet.

*Moby CD can be heard playing in the background*
Yup! I played Top Loader at it, it learnt it's lesson and it's now playing happily
*grins*
Alternatively I washed it and it now has no marmite on it ... Thanks EV, you've saved me thinking up some weak excuse to claim that "my friend bought me this for my birthday and when I tried to play it it wouldn't work...i can't think whats wrong with it"

Hey, how many times has your computer crashed after your ISP disconnected tonight? I've been disconnected 8 times already, several files have been wiped and nothing will work...but it's still better than last week when I had to wipe my entire hard drive in order to erase the damage it had done...combined with ICQ it can really cause havoc

Umm...just out of interest has this site been working for the past hour or so?

Every time I reach for the post button ny browser crashes!
Arrrrrgggghhhh!
OPERA caused an invalid page fault in
module USER.EXE at 0004:000002c5.
Registers:
EAX=02000000 CS=17ff EIP=000002c5 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=00843898 SS=22ff ESP=000083a2 EBP=000005f2
ECX=8155afb8 DS=171f ESI=00020201 FS=13df
EDX=00011067 ES=1067 EDI=0002bc70 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f6 8b 56 f8 e8 c0 00 89 46 fe 8b 46 fa 8b 56 fc
Stack dump:
83d2171f 18073675 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 02000001 00200bc4 00024e38 00020020 0000000c 00030001 05f2000b 44018400 0002c87c 0002bc70 bc70171f