Posts by goldfish

I Want to see the manager

So.... If the sushi comes deep fried, or the rice is rock hard, who do I complain to...?

Can I ask for the manager, and if I do, will a killer droid with machine guns for arms come to "take care" of my complaints...

Wot !!! No haggis ??

I can't believe a butcher would not have a good sturdy haggis in the freezer.

One blow with that, and he'd have knocked the door off it's hinges

Is it my imagination, or have I missed the following in the list

- Haggis

- Potato Scone

- White Pudding

- Fried Pancake

Another string to the bow

Is Waymo related to Flymo, and can it also cut the lawn for you ?

Real Reason

"A big boy did it, then ran way......."

Could we be Mercurians ?

"Those tiny signals revealed that Mercury’s magnetic field is very ancient, at least 3.7 billion to 3.9 billion years old. The planet itself formed around the same time as Earth, just over 4.5 billion years ago."

Just suppose life started on Mercury when the Sun was not a pure melter, and as time went on it heated up, and the Mercurians thought, "Cop this for a game of soldiers, let go somewhere cooler!"

And there just happened to be this handy little planet nearby, with just the right environment and occupied by large meat based occupants (handy food supply).

And the rest, as they say, is history

Scale of destruction

I think they should adopt a sliding scale of objects which they don't find

harmless

mostly harmless

nearly harmless

almost harmless

not harmless

more than not harmless

definitely not harmless

should be noticed

definitely should be noticed

how on earth did you miss this !!!

just as well it missed us

perhaps it is true, that ignorance is bliss

And my Machine was a BBC micro as well

I loved my BBC micro, at the time the BASIC programming was leading edge, you could download programs on to your tape recorder from a BBC radio program (and they sometimes worked !!!).

My favourite was the racing cars one.

I also thought the sideways ROM chips were mega cool and I had a word processor and spreadsheet which I used regularly.

To run the programs, as I recall, you preceded the rom with an asterisk, so *W kicked the word processor program into life and *C brought the spreadsheet onto the screen faster than some prgrams run today.

I also had the space adventure Elite which was so far ahead of it's time... (sigh.. happy days)

Star Trek finally arrives !!!

So I press this start button and it will transport me where ?

Dave from IT wins the bet.

Well it looks like Dave from IT has won the bet.

No-one would have thought he'd convince the new girl that was how you started the laptop with Windows 10 installed

What's this 'ere ?

If only they'd gone to Specsavers....

(aimed at the U.K.)

I've got you now, Little Miss Muffet !!!!

Famous Phil Collins TV ad

Are you SURE this isn't a bar of chocolate ???

If they built cars, buses or planes to the quality and endurance of these space probes, we'd only ever need 2 or 3.

Wait a minute, didn't they say that about computers ?

If only industry made more products which can last as well as the Rover, we'd have 300 year old cars, smartphones that were invented by Alexander Graham Bell, submarines by Jules Verne and the everlasting Gobstopper by Willy Wonka.... sigh...

And they'd all still keep working.

Hershey stands for a unique chocolate flavour..........

I remember I was over in the States for the first time, and bought a Hershey bar, thinking it would be like a Cadbury's Dairy Milk

was I ever disappointed......

Now if they come up with a Cadbury's 3D printer, I'll be in the queue

driverless cars?... is that different from brainless drivers ?

I hope these four "lucky" guinea pig areas were chosen, because of the high calibre of drivers who will have gathered sufficient intelligence from dodging pedestrians / cyclists / taxi drivers to be able to add "driverless" cars to their list.

Why don't they give it a name with proper spelling, like "confectionery crumbs", or would that not be legal either ???

Congratulations Edwin, a worthy winner, and long may your fragrance linger........from Shadowman

*** Exclusive - New Death Star weapon discovered ***

Well, it looks like the Death star no longer needs to blow a planet to bits, it just nudges it towards the nearest white dwarf, then runs in the opposite direction...