The Wit and Wisdom of Richard Caley |
| Just your standard long haired, beer drinking, bisexual, computer addicted, under-lifed, gravitationally gifted Kate-o-Phile really. |
Newsgroups: ed.general
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:42:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Bonfire Night events
In article , Richard Tobin (rt) writes:
rt> What's a NED?
Brummie in charge of a school.
rt> And while I'm at it, what's a shell suit?
Oil company executive.
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Newsgroups: alt.uk.edinburgh.misc, ed.general
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:26:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Speed camera on Salamander Street
In article , Graeme Wood (gw) writes:
gw> How do you prepare for a pyroclastic flow suddenly hitting the centre of
gw> Edinburgh?
Hang 1000 battered Mars bars on strings and stand back?
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Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 11 Dec 2000 23:43:07 +0000
Subject: Re: No rule in FAQ or CHARTER against anonymous posting
In article <1elhz7d.10rw7fkk93cdwN%sa...@uni-duesseldorf.de>, Victor Sack (vs) writes:
>> You have to read the source, then it all becomes obvious...
vs> Most people probably don't even know what 'source' is...
It's like ketchup but more taisty.
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Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 15:22:48 GMT
Subject: Re: The "French Paradox"
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pa> Do you really think that having cancer makes you immune to
pa> cardiovascular disease?
_Dieing_ of cancer makes you immune to CV disease.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Date: 29 Apr 91 18:57:46 GMT
Subject: Re: A couple of questions...
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naw> 2. Now, a real personal question--how much do you spend on books
maw> a month?
That information is classified for fear my bank manager might find
out.
Last week I bourght four books, that's probably about average. I try
and keep myself under control by making it a rule never to buy
hardbacks (except for technical books, which is another problem
altogether) and never to order books. I also try and make sure I
re-read a couple of books a week to keep my habbit satiated.
I never got the hang of libraries, they keep wanting the things back
and get upset when they need a crowbar to force it out of my hands :-).
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: Richard Caley - Find messages by this author
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:12:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux...why?
b> you can obvioulsy understand what i'm saying. you're just being
b> pendantic.
Lack of proper punctuation, spaceing, line breaks, capitalisation
etc. is like bad handwriting, it doesn't make it impossible to read
what was written, just harder. But you probably write in green crayon
anyway.
Yes, Richard really wrote this one!
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To: Robert Inder
Subject: Unintended Truths
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:06:50 GMT
The title displayed in the icon manager for a web page from a certain
well known telecoms comapny:
O2 (UK) Limited Help
They certainly are.
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Date: Fri, Jul 9 1999 12:00 am
Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.environment, alt.politics.socialism.trotsky
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Scientists are disagreeing. That is what scientists are for. If they
all agree about something more controvertial than `we need to do more
research', then I'll start worrying.
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In the context of a discussion of a suggested research group tie or T-shirt:
Caxton was the name of the group's printer...
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 90 10:34:57 BST
From: Richard Caley
Subject: Tie/Tee Shirt/Rolls Royce
To: Everyone
I wore I tie for the Carlton Highland fling an my brain has still not
recoverred from the oxygen depravation.
I'd go for the tee shirt if we can get one quilted to about TOG 15, so
it could be used outside the four days a year when the temperture is in
double figures Kelvin. ( unless anyone knows a good upcoming conference
on the equator in need of a paper on text planning :-) ). Ok, ok, I'm a
pampered southerner.
I like the idea of colour coding but I think it aught to be by project,
that way we could find out what all those people we see around but never
meet actually do. I don't know about the others but TTS should probably
be a little metalic with something of dead parrot about it.
Red for the COs and technical people since they get fed to each new
machine which gets delivered so that the rest of us get to see how the
monster works.
I'll just go and hide now before Andie feeds me to Caxton.
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