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Gill Richards 02 February 2004 10:33 RE: hi
Now you surprise me. Why is having pubs open
all the time namby pamby? I can think of many things that 24/7 is but namby
pamby?!
How was your weekend? I spent most of it
painting again however i am more than half way there. Surprisingly i don't
have any cat stuck to my doors. Very strange weather on thursday. There was a
crack of thunder and the world turned white then froze. Going to work was fun,
i walk downhill - or rather slid....
Vile Jelly 03 February 2004 09:14
Well, it's namby-pamby if some poor soul is trying to persuade the Reporting
Team that they might as well stay and make some tea because the pub won't be
open yet.
You didn't say you were a painter as well. What style are you pre-raffle,
surreal madrid-ist, cubanist or impressionable?
Gill Richards 03 February 2004 10:08
Are they any good at making tea? If you end
up making as much tea as you buy rounds then it's all purely acedemic
anyway.
Definitely impressionable. lots of snowmen in
blizzards.
Vile Jelly 04 February 2004 09:53
No idea. I've never managed to keep them out of the pub long enough for the
kettle to boil!
Can you do black cats in a coal mine at midnight?
Gill Richards 04 February 2004 09:59
It's a speciality of mine. Frogs on grass,
worms in soil, i do them all.
Do you think the Tat would pay me?
Vile Jelly 05 February 2004 10:30 Probably not ..... unless you titled your monochromatic masterpiece 'The Intolerable Strain of Political Apathy in a Materialistic Society', dressed up as a woman/man/brown owl* [select according to your personal tatstes] and changed your name to Moses Hildegard Protoplasm! Gill Richards 05 February 2004 10:57
I like the title but i'd rather not change my
name, i have enough problems remembering who i am anyway.
Has anyone told you that there seem to be
some mails missing from the web site, either that or you decided to keep stuff
to yourself this week.
Vile Jelly 05 February 2004 11:16
Yes, obviously you didn't read the small print of THE PRONOUNCEMENT either. I
have received a stroppy e-mail from Helling accusing me of all sorts of
heinous crimes from misogyny upwards (to be published this week if her
assassins haven't caught up with me first). The accusations are all true,
of course, but not, in this instance, why only some e-mails got promulgated.
It's not that they didn't get replied to it's just that they didn't all get
promulgated because I am trying to get some small shred of relevance back into
the e-mails section which has swollen to such proportions (just cracked 400+)
that it takes up too much space and time.
Don't forget all you have to do is scribble a few mutterings in your
individual e-mail maker whereas I have got not only to come up with replies to
everyone but I have also got to render them into a web-able format. Winwaloe's
e-mails are an absolute ****ing nightmare to try to promulgate. I have long
since given up trying to correct the spelling and grammar but what you don't
realise is that they don't even line up properly when they are copied and
pasted so every single sodding line has to be re-formatted. Yours aren't much
better to be honest, the spacing isn't quite so wonky but they come in a
different font, font size and even colour (British Racing Green if you are
interested).
So, each e-mail has to have a new web page created for it. The e-mails have to
be assembled in the correct chorological order (a bloody nightmare when Maeve
or Winwaloe 'go off on one' and we start batting back and forth several
different strands at the same time). The e-mails have to be reformatted and
the pages have to be hyperlinked to all the relevant parts of the site. I've
got hard copies of all the site and the e-mails section is now into its second
lever arch file. Try printing them off and you'll see just how much there is!
Under the circumstances is it any wonder that I have been driven to despair
and the Reporting Team have been driven to drink?
Gill Richards 05 February 2004 11:26
sorry i asked.
i did read it. 3 weeks ago. my memory's not
so good.
so what colour and font would you like? and
why do you print them off?
go and have a drink
Vile Jelly 05 February 2004 17:14
Sorry I answered. Why did you ask?
Oh well, at least seeing the same things in SSI every week will be a new
experience for you every time.
Paisley Wingdings ..... Actually that's a good blunt (which is much like
a good point but not so threatening), Frontpage just says 'default' and
'normal' in its idiot boxes, it doesn't actually say what the default is (or
define normal but in fairness to Mike Rosoft that's a problem a lot of us
struggle with!). You can select all sorts of alternatives from Times New
Roman, Daily Telegraph Neo-Nazi Gothic, Grauniad Pisprintz, The Sun Gibberish,
etc. down to Mesopotamian Hieroglyphics but what it's actually using as
the default is beyond my ken (and Reporting Team). N E Way, to be honest the
font thing isn't that difficult to fix cos you can select all the text and fix
it at the flick of a bogey. It's the weird spacing that does my head in. I
don't know what Winwaloe's using but in the format they arrive at my end
of the transfusion it would only be marginally slower to transcribe his e-mus
into illuminated manuscript! - Because when I started out I wanted to keep a
hard copy in case things went prune-shaped and I had to do it all over again.
Then, like Magnet Magnetson, once I'd started I had to finish. At least if the
bailiffs come hammering on the front door for us the RT will have something
heavy to drop on their heads from the bedroom window.
No money. I am lying in wait at the front door in the hope that I can capture
one of the RT when they roll in for tea and squeeze some alcohol out of them.
Gill Richards 06 February 2004 14:27
I don't know why the spacing goes all
strange. I receive them with v odd spacing sometimes, yours are always ok but
the lot goes off to the right after time . Blame Microsoft, i would.
I can always make the text black if that
would help.
Shaun should have plenty in all that fleece.
Vile Jelly 06 February 2004 15:50
I was going to but then I saw a report from Lord Hutton saying that Microsoft
was a charitable organisation that had lost money hand over fist while
bringing universal peace and contentment to all. Personally, I wasn't of that
opinion but who am I to query LH's objectivity?
It would be more help if you could nip round to W's and give him and his
computer a slap in the vitals and tell them to stop being so bloody awkward
all the time.
Yes, but that assumes I can (a) see in the dark, which is when they tend to
come home, and (b) I grab the right person. Have you ever squeezed an irate
hedgehog? Lawks that makes your eyes water!
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