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[wellinghall]

I am going stir crazy stuck at work, and I need human interaction! Please - a comment, a message, answer a quiz, take part in a poll or a meme, ask me a question - anything!

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

£$%&*Q£$*%&"£$(%*"Q£$%&( England batsmen!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Also, do you have a favourite Tolkien quote?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's not a major point, but I do like it in the siege of Minas Tirith when "At last Denethor released the sortie."

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

GRR!! *&%^&£YED£ "batsmen"!!!

(There's an Asterix cartoon where Getafix the druid ?drops a sickle on his toe, and then says something like, "*&^%". There's a footnote to this: "Gaulish swearwords, translated as $%^&".)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Gaulish swearwords, translated as $%^&

Brilliant. I must re-read Asterix - I'm sure there are loads of jokes I missed.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

OTOH, some of the bowlers are doing rather well!

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Fred: "If you had #10 in your pocket, what would you do?"
George: "Wonder whose trousers I had on".

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

:-)

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

First woman: "How's your husband?"
Second woman: "OK, I suppose. He works so hard that I only see him for an hour each day".
First woman: "Oh, I am sorry for you".
Second woman: "Don't be, the hour soon passes".

A chess puzzle

[emperor]

How long can Black evade mate in the following figure? [Black to move]

Re: A chess puzzle

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

At a first approximation, somewhere between 0 and infinity moves. A second approximation may follow.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Noticing that you have a Pratchett tag, do you have a favourite Discworld book, book focus, or character?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I do like the Guards books, and the Unseen University ones. Possibly The Fifth Elephant?

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I think the Guards books are pretty high on my list too, along with Susan books. And the Witches... My favourite book is probably Monstrous Regiment.

request for when NEXT you are bored etc

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Can you name them? And then indicate which order you think they are best read in. Then I might be able to do my Pratchett retry.

[segh.livejournal.com]

Give a sentence containing 11 consecutive "had"s - or have I already asked you that one?
My brain is frozen.
So are my fingers, which is worrying,as I'm playing lots of things in public on Sunday and Monday and none of them is perfect.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You haven't, but I have seen it before.

John, where Ted had had, "had", had had, "had had." "Had had," had had the examiners' approval.

*counts* Yes, eleven.

*offers warm gloves and mug of tea*

[adaese.livejournal.com]

I counted three (count 'em, three!) whole snowflakes in Stoke Gifford this morning.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Old news. Two colleagues have told me this.

Still good news, though :-)

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

It's snowing here :-)
I am at work :-(

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We've only had three flakes :-(

But it is still snow :-)

I'm going home soon :-)

But I am in four days next week :-(

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Hello from an almost-empty Duke Humfrey's Library, where the shelves have been emptied of secondary texts as almost everything is being moved to the new temporary Special Collections Reading Room in the Radcliffe Science Library. A letter came with my recent order of MSS saying that in the near future I will be expected to read my MSS there; and as space is limited, I will need to book a table in advance. This is not an advance for reader services.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*waves*

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Er I only saw this on LJ now ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Heh, no problem.