Posts by Pedigree-Pete

Re: Mandolin...

..thank you Commentariat. I now have Rod Stewarts Maggie May rattling around in my head. Hey Ho. Could be worse. PP

Re: OK - here we go

@discustedoftunbridgewells.

I thought pigs in blankets was a leftpondian reference.

We call them kilted sausages. PP

Travel anywhere near the USA.

It's not just a question of where the conference is held. If you travel via a US airport you're deemed non-airside and basically imported with your luggage and the aforementioned checks (suspicion/indignities) before being promptly exported with the same again. Of course, the fact that you set out with no intention to set foot in the good ole' US of A seems to be taken as some kind of international slight.

Once in the US of A I've always found the people I meet to be kind, interesting and interested. It's getting through that barrier that for me is no longer worth it.

I appreciate the OP pointing out that Canadas Border agency are only just behind, but I have a feeling they apply it with more good humour and dose of common sense. Can't wait to visit. PP

Icon.>>> Keep your Montana mountain base. I'd feel safer with "our friends in Hereford".

Re: What do we want?

I can't upvote Niel twice, so you Sir can have Neils 2nd for stating exactly what I was thinking. PP

Arrakis....

...didn't originally have water like that . /pedant. PP

Re: It's not broken.....

It's not broken YET and you know whos' door they'll come banging on when it does break. PP

Re: "It's a bit silly to leave debug code in production apps"

I think I remember one Mark Watney being rather glad of that requirement. :) PP

Re: ...list of things they do to embarrass their teenage children ..

@ Lost all faith....Amen brother. Have an upvote and one of these.

Re: intellectual masturbation

@The Man who fell to Earth... SaaS, Survival as a Service? PP

Icon, perhaps you weren't joking..

RE: I just don't answer the phone

All our house phones have an ansaphone on them. We don't pick up if they fail to start to leave a message and we don't recognise them. Legitimate callers always leave a message and you can choose if you wish to call them back. Simples! PP

RE: Fidget

Well done vir, thoroughly entertaining. Your Helldesk must be quieter than mine. :) Have another upvote and one of these. PP

Re: Correct

Did anyone run it up the flagpole and see who saluted it? PP

Re: Non-threatening

@Timbo and the Comentariat. Am I the only one that now has Billy Joels "We didn't start the Fire" going round my head?

Re: "but your aeroplane has a big nose. "

Before anyone else does....

But how does it smell?

Awful. BOOM..BOOM.

Yeh. I'm going.

ONE BEEEEEEELION POUNDS

According to 2011 census, that's £552.23 per head if you accept 1B as 1,000M. Can I have £552.23 too please? I can hear the "No, feck off" all the way from Londonderry.

West an Y-Fronts...

You AC, are Rab C Nesbitt and I claim my £5. PP

Land-based Aircraft Carrier..

...........on the left side of the pond I understand they also call that Inglan'. PP

Re: Plan details how to get 1m humans to Mars

RE: Kids on Mars. They can't be bigger than Marvin. He has a height complex and an illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator. PP

Re: Something less drastic maybe

@ AC. Bristol Airport not in Bristol. Good point well made. PP

Have 1 for Friday.

Dent in bonuses? You're joking of course.

You're right but the source of cash in a private enterprise is it's customers so we'll ultimately be paying. :( PP

>>Friday Eve.

On a DOS machine....

As others have alluded to, C:/ on a DOS machine suggests someone hasn't used command line DOS in a while. More command line Linux...and yes I did run up a cmd window to check 'cause I couldn't believe my eyes. PP

RE: British Navy

Thanks for your vote of confidence Bob. Have an upvote but try and use the name Royal Navy. :) PP

I appreciate there are other royal navies but Royal Navy usually screams British.

DAMN Korev, you beat me to it.

...crash as far away from the US as possible...

You mean Australia, already been done. PP

To....too

@ Iron. (or at least they would be too young to remember). TFTFY. PP

the opening salvo of the Star Wars fanfare

Thanks Aristotles S&DH. Thank $Deity$ it's not just me and Mrs. Pedigree who do that. PP

Of course we watched Ep IV the other night, didn't you?

Re: I hope they succeed ... but! Economics!

Thanks AC. I did watch that presentation and I feel better educated. :) PP

Have a pint.

Shower....

29th Feb for me. PP

I'm with JP, disappointed with "the future"

REF:What the fuck was the point of getting excited about the future in the 1970s if this is what it is now ?

PP

>>One for you Jimmy.