RogerBW's Blog

Mild Day 2014 20 April 2014

Things heard, and links, from the Mild Day on Saturday. In no particular order.

"You mean the US site is smarter than the UK site?"

"Side effects may include: death".

"It's the tugging as the stitches come out, and your vision distorts."

"The records from my youth… are mouldering in a storeroom somewhere in Manchester."

"Craterer isn't that much of a profession, and you never get to collect the pension."

"I'm planning to cook myself this evening."

"And the rest is playing with the sluice gate, so at least there's that."

A toast to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov.

"What's she doing these days?" "Nothing since she published her autobiography in 1985."

"Going by what I know of Saffron Walden, there will be about three women of ages sixty to sixty-five who want all the local history they can get."

"'And then, he lost thirty pounds' worth of curried goat' — not a sentence I'd have heard in my youth."

"If anybody's going to be doing any knife fighting round here, it's going to be me."

"I gave that to Marianne, and she gave it to Mick, and he wrote Sympathy for the Devil".

(When KFC first came to the UK) "So they went down the Job Centre… you're the manager, you, you, you and you are staff, good to go."


  1. Posted by Michael Cule at 01:37pm on 20 April 2014

    IIRC what I said was:

    "I'm planning to cook myself this evening. (PAUSE) I am planning this evening to cook myself. (LONGER PAUSE) The evening I myself am planning to cook."

    I got there in the end didn't I?

    And you should probably point out to puzzled passers by that this was a gathering to drink the several pints of mild you had left over from the Not-A-BBQ and had nothing to do with the weather.

  2. Posted by RogerBW at 01:41pm on 20 April 2014

    Actually it was a box of mild I'd got in for the occasion*.

    • the occasion was "mild is available"; Bingham's usually only brew it in April.

Comments on this post are now closed. If you have particular grounds for adding a late comment, comment on a more recent post quoting the URL of this one.

Search
Archive
Tags 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 3d printing action advent of code aeronautics aikakirja anecdote animation anime army astronomy audio audio tech aviation base commerce battletech beer boardgaming book of the week bookmonth chain of command children chris chronicle church of no redeeming virtues cold war comedy computing contemporary cornish smuggler cosmic encounter coup covid-19 crime cthulhu eternal cycling dead of winter doctor who documentary drama driving drone ecchi economics en garde espionage essen 2015 essen 2016 essen 2017 essen 2018 essen 2019 essen 2022 essen 2023 existential risk falklands war fandom fanfic fantasy feminism film firefly first world war flash point flight simulation food garmin drive gazebo genesys geocaching geodata gin gkp gurps gurps 101 gus harpoon historical history horror hugo 2014 hugo 2015 hugo 2016 hugo 2017 hugo 2018 hugo 2019 hugo 2020 hugo 2022 hugo-nebula reread in brief avoid instrumented life javascript julian simpson julie enfield kickstarter kotlin learn to play leaving earth linux liquor lovecraftiana lua mecha men with beards mpd museum music mystery naval noir non-fiction one for the brow opera parody paul temple perl perl weekly challenge photography podcast politics postscript powers prediction privacy project woolsack pyracantha python quantum rail raku ranting raspberry pi reading reading boardgames social real life restaurant reviews romance rpg a day rpgs ruby rust scala science fiction scythe second world war security shipwreck simutrans smartphone south atlantic war squaddies stationery steampunk stuarts suburbia superheroes suspense television the resistance the weekly challenge thirsty meeples thriller tin soldier torg toys trailers travel type 26 type 31 type 45 vietnam war war wargaming weather wives and sweethearts writing about writing x-wing young adult
Special All book reviews, All film reviews
Produced by aikakirja v0.1