reception and repetition |
temping temping tempting and tenpin bowled over... I'm in a different office just for a few days a week, just for a few dollars more due to a surprising tax bill, a looming disaster involving a discon...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:02:00 GMT |
high maintenance |
you know those genetically modified perfect people - well-heeled, shiny hair, they don't go blotchy when they cry, their hair is in a style, accessorised, they've got stamps and lipsticks and stuff li...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:40:00 GMT |
overhearing things |
S: I think I've got moth maggots in my woollen wear. N: where did they come from? S: I was looking for my winter hat and I found lots of little coccoons. is the white clumpy stuff the eggs?N: put them...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:09:00 GMT |
far too complicated |
I recently saw a slightly bad rendition (is that the right word?) of Twelfth Night. There was a cardboard watering can on the stage which made me wonder why someone had taken the time to cut out the s...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:54:00 GMT |
well, where would you keep a business continuity plan? |
The Wet Blanket Boss has been fussing round the office recently in readiness for a fire safety inspection. Apart from disrupting everyone individually and asking them questions of great idiocy and unl...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:24:00 GMT |
mild irritants |
The Wet Blanket Boss had scheduled a short meeting to discuss my job description. Actually, as we're a co-operative, he's not really my 'boss' in the same way that Hell's Handmaiden was the big ...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:51:00 GMT |
you know, sometimes I question your commitment to sparkle nation |
I've been employing (deploying?) this phrase for some months now. It's from the film donnie darko - I love its' irony and its' victoriawoody quality of over ambitious /loss-of-sense-of-perspective, sm...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:26:00 GMT |
modern love |
I was in a works canteen and overheard the first bit of this, but imagined the rest... "So," he said, "I added you to my msn".So suggestive. So flirty. Like hey, we all know what means, you!, you with...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:57:00 GMT |
only the green |
I was on holiday in turkey (this was ages ago) reading a translated leaflet about a boat trip. 'You will enjoy only the blue on this tour...' it read. We hooted with laughter, of course, and made cons...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:42:00 GMT |
speed bump and car bomb |
it wasn't a swell-with-pride-damascus-ique realisation, really. It just popped into my head that in recent efforts to learn latin american spanish, grimly, I knew the words for speedbump, carbomb and ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:00:00 GMT |
