Ping Darsy: is you certified yet?
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From: Champ on 23 Mar 2010 09:25 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:26:01 +0000, Simon Wilson <siwilson(a)nodamnspamn.hotmail.com> wrote: >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: You had to look it up?!?!? Perhaps I'm more street than I thought. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: darsy on 23 Mar 2010 10:11 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:37:36 -0700 (PDT), Cane <caneukrm(a)gmail.com> wrote: >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? see my reply to Simian about 4 posts previous in this thread. -- d.
From: Champ on 23 Mar 2010 11:26 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:36 +0000, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >though just got a >call about a job interview for next week, which if I were to get the >role, I'd be Bolly and Stoli all round for everyone[1] 'ray! >[1] OK, just me. Boo! C'mon, after we've all been so supportive and everyfing. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: CT on 23 Mar 2010 11:35 darsy wrote: > just got a call about a job interview for next week, which if I were > to get the role, I'd be Bolly and Stoli all round for everyone[1] > > [1] OK, just me. I'd be much happier just with a decent pint or two, if you could stretch to that! -- Chris
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 23 Mar 2010 15:28
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:26:01 +0000, Simon Wilson <siwilson(a)nodamnspamn.hotmail.com> wrote in <80rqarFrqtU2(a)mid.individual.net>: > 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." That's not _quite_ what Chambers says: "a place, etc of luxury and decadence, used (derog) formerly by Protestants in reference to the Roman Catholic Church, more recently by Rastafarians of Western culture, or generally by one group of another group which they consider to be corrupt." -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |