NokkyQuotes/August2004

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Sat28 Aug

mike: I can't think of many occasions when I've just left my shoulders lying around unsupervised!

Thu26 Aug

alex: Nobody's going to be pitching me on a campsite!
- peter: We'll see about that

Wed25 Aug

serge: There will be a slight technical delay while we... [is interrupted by gunfire]... get shot!

Mon23 Aug

alex: I thought I could go for a kind of Russian doll effect: I'd climb into one whale, which would climb into another, which would get into another...

mike: Most chocolate is innumerate, I think you'll find

alex: That was such a good episode, I'm going to eat a stone

matthew: A good programmer is one who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
- david: And that's me, certainly. Never trust ANY system! Expect crashes! I KEEP looking both ways and any other possible way too. Always cater for the SkyFallOnHeadException? which could arise!
- mike: ...I'm interested to know what measures you have taken against the SkyFallOnHead? exception. Umbrella?
- david: That's not really sufficient, though I guess it would cater for the subclass RainFallException? of SkyFallOnHeadException?. I would probably refer to Asterix and find out what the Gauls did then patch it to ensure it's Y2K compliant.

Sun22 Aug (AmeCon)

matthew b: On the back of the trailer was a milk float. And on the back of the milk float was a jet engine.
- keds: Why do you suppose the jet engine was on the milk float?

Sat21 Aug (AmeCon)

cosplayer at work: Yes, they're my sleeves. No, it's not a bra!

Fri20 Aug (AmeCon)

keds: I don't think I've ever seen a bishounen gopher

morag: We had a great production line going last night, with dragon eggs

alan: A bit like Nagi, really... though I can't imagine sitting inside Nagi's stomach reading a book on art and literature in the 15th century... hang on... no I just did... oops...

Mon16 Aug

alex: I'm not into blokes dressing in short skirts just yet
- mike: There's something about that "not yet" that I don't like...

Sun15 Aug

amy to rachael: I think of you as a matthew

amy: The cat's going to sleep in the tent, you know
- rachael: Well we're going to put it down and hang it on the line, so that's OK

Sat14 Aug

simon c: Do you think anyone's ever tried to work out the resonant frequency of a cow's udder?

nagi [speaking slowly, after a bad joke]: The reason I'm not saying anything is because my ribs are... oh wait, I am saying something.

Fri13 Aug

matthew f: There are probably people who go on holiday and collect bus stations!

Wed11 Aug

[misheard by alex] ant: Yes, that's right: I think chicken soup, I think ChrisHowlett
[What he actually said shall be left to the /Context11Aug04? subpage... ]

vic: So when I want to have a shower, I have to put a saucepan on my chest of drawers

Tue10 Aug

james: You have no idea how tempted I am to dress up one of my rubberducks in a long black jacket and sunglasses and teach him martial arts...
[Context]

Sun8 Aug

rachael: So we sat there puttting our makeup on in the graveyard

Fri6 Aug

alex: Obviously, the width of someone's moustache is directly proportional to their philosophical inspiration!

alex: Okay, who put my brains in the Pocky? again?

Thu5 Aug

alan: I saw something in my beer and I just wanted to check it wasn't chocolate.

alex: Wow. I want a whale to come and do *my* washing up.

Wed4 Aug

mike: Awww, the poor concrete cows!
- alex: Oh, they'll be happy: "Hey, at last, we can fly!"

alex: I suspect there's more non-cow concrete in Milton Keynes than there are concrete non-Milton Keynes cows.

Mon2 Aug

alex: I wouldn't expect a glass bead to grow into a tree.
- mike: Well what would you expect it to grow into then?!
- alex: Yes, silly me...
- mike: A Silly Me?
- alex: Yes... I'd expect it to grow into a Silly Me. ...That's like a MiniMe?... except normal size...

stephen: I've never heard an Australian sheep to get a hold of its accent.
- alex: We can always phone one up for you...

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