‘Cos I forgot to email the flipping file home. Here goes:
Old clothes
After arriving at work and being accused of mimicking a throwback to the seventies with my bright orange shirt and equally bright green tie, conversation drifted on to other outmoded fashions.
I remember being about 8 and having red corduroy trousers with a plastic badge on one of the pockets featuring the Muppets. I also had at least one 100% nylon t-shirt with a superhero print on it. I think I had Captain America and Spiderman. Both had a big picture of the fella himself and a 3-4 panel cartoon.
I wonder how many of those t-shirts melted themselves onto screaming youngsters in front of open fires before someone thought that maybe cotton made better clothing?
Any more embarrassing clothes you used to have as a kid? If any woman say they still have their school uniform, I want photographic proof. Even better if it barely fits any more.
Klingons on the starboard bow
I got an email from someone on helpdesk asking us to urgently chase up a query because "the SLA is 90% breached". Am I the only one who conjures up images of a fat Scotsman in a red shirt running round shouting "Cap’n! She canna tak it any mair! The SLAs are 90% breached and we canna channel any mair current from the Dylithium crystals!"
Bugger. I thought I would be.
Another one pops their clogs
Dave Allen has shuffled off this mortal coil aged 68, leaving a lonely stool sat on a stage. A wonderful, dry, foul-mouthed Irish comedian I never got to see enough of his material.
Now will the Grim Reaper please stop offing these nice people and start on ******* like Bush, please?
Echo – at times I feel morel ike the poor bastard in the red shirt who you know’s just going to get killed off and nobody will remember them. At others, I like tot hink I have the dry wit of Bones. Once in a while there’s this Uhura fantasy, but I don’t talk about that in public.
Hmm — if Scotty’s running around needing help, does that make you Cap’n Kirk ? Or Mr Spock, who after arching his eyebrow, could always solve the problem “logicallly” ? 😉
I still have my gym skirt – school badge on it and all!
I think I might be able to get it around one thigh….
I’m another lonely stool, still here, if that’s any consolation…
I’m more of a commander Riker – mainly because I haven’t shaved all week. Wouldn’t mind doing the nasty with Counselor Troi though.
RE Dave Allen. Been a bad few months. Peel, Vance, Allen, Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick (2 of the guys who discovered the DNA helix). I suppose the last two shuffled off the Helical coil..
Why can’t they take Harry Hill?
Or Vic Reeves? Or everyone involved with both Little Britain and Leage of Gentlemen in one big BBC aeroplane distaster (leaving the innocent flight crew miraculously unharmed)?