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Mon29.3.04
mike: Do *you* search for accommodation in cups of tea? - alex: Well, I haven't so far...
alex: I did consider having an email conversation with Nokkette... but I thought that might be a bit... pointless
mike: I don't think [Pixel] would want to be cloned enough to asssemble multiple copies of her into a radio telescope
alex: To engineer a new technology for full magic data transfer takes quite some development time - dave: And you'd know all about that? - alex: Well, it's not that different to what we do at work!
alex: Don't do that to Angela, she was killed by a throwing carrot once - dave: Was this in Assassins, or...?
Sun28.3.04
otto lin: Dean was born the youngest of the family
Sat27.3.04
serge: I stabbed my cat to death with a carrot
Fri26.3.04
~ alex: How many species of fish?
mike: So you could think about eating something. Preferably not a house.
mike: What's this record you have coming out, Alex? You didn't tell us about that! - alex: Well, you know me, I don't like to blow my own trumpet. ...The recording studio had to lend me one...
alan: I so wish monitors and printers were like bikes and cars... they'd be able to talk to each other then!
Thu25.3.04
alex: I was imagining professional baptistry thieves
mike: Nokky might eat millipedes! They have a certain resemblance to quotes after all...
Tue23.3.04
stephen: You go to the parental adoption agency and say "Hello, I'd like to adopt a piece of Tupperware", and they say "Okay, fill in these forms so we can check that you're not mad"
news article re a dingo: He often walks up on to the chair, on to the piano, stands on the piano and then moves his feet around. - alan: I do that...
Mon22.3.04
alex: I'll see you on Planet Earth! Or the Cambridge approximation thereto. - [...] - alex: I was meaning somewhere sane!!
alex: You nasty man! You caused my brain to do a division by zero! - [...] - alex: Well, if you're going to make me calculate the percentage of things a soft toy says that make sense, then what do you expect...? *pause* ...Ah, er, more quotes I guess...
alex: A pun powered flying machine! - mike: I like this idea!
alex: The Cockcroft doesn't really have any beams upon which jellybabies could be balanced
mike: A Sarcastic Karaoke-Singing Cat is a prospect too distressing to contemplate
Sun21.3.04
alex cairns: I've always wanted to be a fictional character before I died
Thu18.3.04
alan: I think the lack of hills in Cambridge is a conspiracy on the part of coffee companies....!
Tue16.3.04
alex: He has the first final say
douglas to alex: You appear to have SpiceGirls? stuck to your kitchen furniture. What did they do to deserve this? - chris: Do you mean the SpiceGirls? or the kitchen furniture? - douglas: Which do you think??
alex: I think Douglas does have an unarguable point. - peter: No, it is arguable, because the atmosphere is a finite size
douglas: Do you die from peanut butter? - chris: Not from eating it. - ian: He might die if struck by a high-speed peanut butter sandwich. [Or HighSpeedPeanutButterSandwich?]
chris: I'd be slightly worried if it was a gravitational anomaly - alex: What, given that it's being sold in shops as a board game?
mike: Concentration is proving highly elusive... - zoe: Have you tried texting him? Since he got his mobile, he's not been as good at reading his email or actually speaking to people on the phone.
Sun14.3.04
kenton: The church is like a dynamic link library! - [...] - alex: I think we've concluded that Jesus is Object-Oriented
Fri12.3.04
liz: Do you often have problems with your socks at this time of night? - alan: Yes. Most nights in fact...
zoe: I'm bemused; I do change my socks daily. However I don't store my juice in used socks, only clean ones!
liz: So do you like the idea of being carved? - alan: I like the /idea/ of being carved, I just don't like being carved.
Wed10.3.04
alan: You mean Bouncing isn't the particular solution to every differential equation?!
Tue9.3.04
nick: Blood! Brains! - alex: Both at once? That's greedy. - nick: Not at all! It's like port and Stilton. Only not.
nick: When the coastline of Italy was formed, mud was there waiting!
peter: You can take the compsci out of the coffee, but you can't take the coffee out of the compsci
chess: There are no rules for being put into the weasels
[W] vitenka: Realism is defined on a per reality basis. ...I like mine soupy.
Mon8.3.04
mike: What about your ith cousins pi times removed? - alan: You mean Alex and Serge?!
Sun7.3.04
ant: Ah, shame: I *can* actually poke myself in the stomach
ian: What's a serene weapon? - chris: A watermelon on a stick!!
Sat6.3.04
[W] senji: Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. - requiem: Yes - but he does make damn fine coffee.
Fri5.3.04
stephen: Members of the CavendishLaboratory? just let their magnetic fields run around Tesco's screaming!
alex: Everyone either has created, or knows someone who has created, a CambridgeUnderground system!
milan: I'm so mysterious, I don't know where I am!
Thu4.3.04
mike: I don't think I've ever seen you eat a brick wall. - alan: Really? Oh... you've missed out!
steph: Can you make an aeroplane out of it? - elaine: No... - steph: Well that's no good, is it!!
kate: Dad, we're just going to go and buy the stone... - steve: Are you? Very generous of you, off you go... - kate: Well, when I say we, I mean you.
mike: If I have a haircut will it improve my wordplay? - alan: Yes... the two events are quite causal and applicable to people in general, not just those who ride mountain mikes...
Tue2.3.04
alex: I have theories about StarfarersOfCatan?. Does this mean I need to get out more? - stephen: No, it means you're Richard Dawkins!
alex: There's no President of Knowing What Stephen Means - stephen: Yes there is, he's called Dave! I met him last week... apparently it's quite a small country, used to be part of the USSR...
stephen: I'm pretty sure the Queen of Clubs tastes like tomato and basil
alex: There's no reason for me to tell you the sun isn't an orange, even if it's sunset.
a PhD student who shall remain nameless: Just found the "Data Editing" module - Or rather "fudging results" module!
alan: That's because it's quicker to eat the plate than to separate the food from it! - mike: Is Nokky interesting in plate-consumption? - alex: I wouldn't know, never having consumed a plate while considering how interesting my phone is.
Hmm. I started going through annotating the quotes, but I put in a dozen "~"s and no Image:43s at all, before even getting halfway through. The quotes just aren't what they used to be. I'm afraid that someone deliberately constructing a weird combination of keywords from the current conversation isn't really all that interesting after the fact. I found one that I liked, though! :) --M-A.
Yes, I think we used to record funnier quotes. Is it now that we record more mediocre ones or that we aren't making funny ones any more? - SunKitten, hoping the latter is implausible
It's a combination of the two. We're making much fewer of the funniest quotes these days, which is primarily why I record fewer quotes than 2-3 years ago. But it may be that the average comedy level has gone down too. I do my best to ensure that what gets quoted isn't actually deliberate. I have noticed that the quotes aren't what they used to be 2-3 years ago, but people and groups change. A number of these may be "funnier if you were there": in most cases I'd like to know if you think this so I can continue to hone my sense of what's funny out of context. It may be I quote a few too many of the alan-and-mike email surrealities. It is valuable to have some ~s, even if there are significantly more than stars - some days I don't edit the quotes ruthlessly enough. Nonetheless, I do still think there are some gems being said, so me and Nokkette won't be retiring from quote-collection any time soon :) --AlexChurchill
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