From: Cane on 23 Mar 2010 08:19 On 22 Mar, 15:42, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the > Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30 The 'what'?
From: Simon Wilson on 23 Mar 2010 08:26 On 23/03/2010 12:19, Cane wrote: > On 22 Mar, 15:42, darsy<da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > >> [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the >> Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30 > > The 'what'? I guessed what it meant, but had to look it up: "Jamaican English term for corrupt establishment systems, often applied to the police. Derived from the Rastafari movement." -- /Simon
From: Cane on 23 Mar 2010 08:37 On 23 Mar, 12:26, Simon Wilson <siwil...(a)nodamnspamn.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> [1] funnily enough, and I never did find out why[2] but I had the > >> Babylon ring my doorbell last night around 03:30 > > > The 'what'? > > I guessed what it meant, but had to look it up: > > "Jamaican English term for corrupt establishment systems, often applied > to the police. Derived from the Rastafari movement." Sorry, so the Enfield Police are playing knock down ginger at 3am?
From: Switters on 23 Mar 2010 08:39 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:24:19 GMT, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember Switters <me(a)privacy.net> saying > something like: > >>On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:30:58 GMT, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote: >> >>> Otoh, this is rather unique. >> >>It's either unique or it isn't. > > And? If you want shades of grey, speak to Champ.
From: Simian on 23 Mar 2010 08:53
darsy wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:26:06 +0000, Andy Bonwick > <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:48:45 -0600, vulgarandmischevious > ><vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:18:37 -0600, vulgarandmischevious > >>><vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>>>darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > [1a] just in case any of you need putting off their dinner, > > > > > > it's to be noted that I normally sleep naked, > > > > > > > > > > who doesn't? > > > > > > > > people who need to wear incontinance pants. > > > > > > A good number of UKRMers, then. Twats. > > > > I stopped sleeping naked when I'm in a hotel after I opened the > > wrong door and ended up in the corridor instead of the bathroom. > > hah - I thought I was the only idiot who'd done that. > I did it in my own home once - first week in a new flat, missed the bathroom and ended up naked outside my front door. *click* This would have made a much better story if the police had turned up /before/ I'd managed to break back in. |