Since other people have been doing it, here is a selection of non-boring tweets from my Twitter account:
- ‘Mandibles’ is such a cool word, but I don’t know why.
- Is it a bad sign that after 6 and a half years I still can’t remember my ICQ number?
- Right now, I could really do with some mutant seabass with frickin’ lasers on their heads.
- Tearing my hear out at the so-called ‘HTML’ produced by Microsoft Office.
- Misheard ‘Maida Vale’ as ‘Made of Fail’. Don’t know whether that’s ironic.
- I wonder if there’s a boss or a secret level at the end of this spreadsheet
- Eating a Mars bar that proudly claims that it was made in Slough. This is one of the few times you will hear ‘proud’ and ‘slough’ together.
- There are too many time travellers here for my liking.
- Okay, ‘flu jabs are fine until your shoulder starts hurting. But I suppose it’s better than having ‘flu
- Applying for a job where the guidance notes are 16 pages long. Of which 8 of those pages could be abbreviated to “Must have common sense”
- And my copy of Wrath of the Lich King just arrived. That’s my social life for the next month gone then
- Seen at the bottom of an email: “WARNING : This message originates from the Internet”. Well where else would it have come from? Basingstoke?
- Come to the conclusion that Flyte is basically Milky Way in a posh wrapper and higher price.
- Been working here for a year and only now have I found out that we have a Christmas cupboard.
- Quote, paraphrased: “Yes, but you only sent the letter to us *last week*, and it was in Arabic…”
- £3.30 for a small glass of wine? In Bradford? My arse!
Some of those will make no sense out of context, and more to the point I can’t remember myself what the context surrounding the time travellers was.
January 11, 2009 at 16:04
Basingstoke, Hampshire?
January 11, 2009 at 16:13
Yes. A place notable for not being very notable at all.
January 11, 2009 at 17:34
You mean the internets aren’t controlled in Basingstoke? Good lord I have a lot to learn.
January 12, 2009 at 13:19
Basingstoke, oh my, I do like a good Gilbert and Sullivan reference!
Possibly you walked into a group celebrating “Act like a time traveller day” (cf Wikipedia art)