My SWAG arrived - I am no longer one of the Riff-Raff !! ...

RANK people based upon their swaggism level...

I wish they would change the mugs back to the old style. I just KNOW if I got the new ones I would dump that puppy all over my keyboard....

Because it reminded me of the coffee 'cups' you'd get in a Parisienne street-cafe early in the morning. It holds easily twice as much as any other mug - whether it's the old or new variety I wouldn't know.

It almost blots out my 22" monitor when I take a swig from it!!

You did not advance at all, you have always been riff-raff

I'm a Want To Be Snob as I can't qualify as a real Snob yet.

Col

get some swag

or, from now on, you are Riff-Raff

This can be done by doing an interview or posting stuff
(sending) from the TR Out Loud (do some searching)

http://tinyurl.com/5wwcqh

or here

http://tinyurl.com/4tzcfe

Col

Send a picture - of yourself, your workstation, a techie gadget, a pet, or something else interesting (and appropriate for posting on the site) - to TROL at cnet.com (of course use the @ symbol... you know).



If I use it on TROLOV (TR Out Loud on Video), then I'll send you some swag, and you'll no longer be riff raff!!



It doesn't get any easier than that!

Pics is fine, but post is best left to the pros (Women of
course)

Are not used.

I sent her some Professional Medical Photos of me and she was too scared to use them. Hardly scary at all and as they are published Photos I didn't mind Honestly.

Col

HAL.

Davette

I'm a pack rat, but even if I wasn't, I would have held onto that picture just because it was so gnarly. It might have to make a subliminal appearance in TROLOV...

Provided yo say that is the result of trying to reason with Boxy.

Col

as long as she gets her way

If you think otherwise, it is yet another sign of a
malfunctioning HAL unit

You betcha. My way or the highway.

See I know exactly how to have a quite life.

Boxy whatever you say you must be right.

Yes it drives SWMBO nuts as well because she knows that she winning but it doesn't feel right.

Col

now that OM is no longer on the same lowly, non-swag level as I, will I ever hear from him again?

Now that he can rub the shoulders with the likes of Hal, Max, GG, Tig, etc., I will just be pitched into the waste bin of refuse that befits our ilk.

I will miss him.

oh woe it is to be sans swag.



[fidgeting with digital camera]

me and my coffee mug.

actually I expect to be moved up the ranks soon.

.

Davette is flirting again.

we need to cut all ties with the lowly likes of ya

Let us know when you are full of TR Swag, and we'll talk to ya
again

Well i only have a TR T Shirt, a Coffee mug and a E-Logo.

Well actually I only have the E Logo as SWMBO swiped the other stuff before I even saw it and has claimed it for herself.

So I suppose that I'm going to have to restore a Backup and find the E-Thing again just to qualify here. More Work that I have to perform.

While I may get mentioned a lot at some places here I don't ask for anything I'm just hoping that you lot get sick and tired of hearing my name being mentioned and start contributing to stop me getting all the Swag that you think I'm getting.

Perhaps I should have a talk to Sonja about the Radio Controlled TR Helicopter or that very important TR Computer Controlled Metal Lathe that I want. I just am too scared to ask for these Items as I'm not sure of the Helicopter conforms to AU Standards and I do know that the TR Lathe will be 110 Volt and I would need to convert it to the AU 240 Volts that is used here. I'm just not sure that the other insulation will be up to Spec though.

Sonja refused to send me a TR Ducati as she said I already have a Ducati and I was being greedy so she refused to send me one of those. She also refused to send me a TR Classic Mercedes because she wasn't willing to give any stuff to SWMBO as she's not a member of TR.

Col

You too can SWAG up by participating in TROLOV each week. Then simply demand your SWAG by emailing your street address to Sonja.

She tells you each week how to participate. Hint- she likes voice mail!

I prefer email

So I don't think it would be prudent to mention all the SWAG sent to me.



No, suffice to say, the TR coffee mug and the TR T-shirt did have other travelling companions for the trip over the Big Pond.

HUM I need to know what they have so I can tell Sonja the next time that she asks me.

So what do I want HUM lets think about this for a minute some Fuel Proof TR Stickers to stick on my Remote Control Helicopters and a Stop Violent Women Sticker as I'm tired of being beat up by th wife.

Balls here are a NO NO here as the Wife will just feed them to the daughters dog who is hopelessly addicted to chasing balls around though maybe if I buy a Remote Controlled Car and bolt one to that it may stand a part way decent change of living more than the standard 20 minutes.

What do I need nothing but what I would like to have is a different story all together.

Col

Like Coffee Mugs
Polo Shirts
Wine stopper and bottle opener...

Could use another Polo shirt ....

cause the new ones are blue (so I am told)(looked black to me in the vid)...

I received my TR Flag and PC Troubleshooter Resource Guide a couple of weeks ago. If only I could remember to send in some picks, I may be able to score some more Swag.

One of my boys came home the other day and said 'Cool Flag Dad' and I proudly went on to tell him how I got it. He patiently listened to my spiel. Then he said 'Dad I was talking about your Avatar'. Thats another story.

and they've been used. I haven't received swag for pics. What's up with that?

if you sent in pikkies and they were used you get Swag. That's what I thought OM got his swag for when he sent in that Donny Osmond lookalike.

the TROL/OV's and read very carefully. I need another TR coffee cup so that I can have a matched set.

If there are more than two of you for coffee someone is going to feel left out.

I dunno I think Sonja is getting to be the swag nazi...

we send in pics we call on the phone, we send in emails... what do we get?

No Swag for you!


[hope all knows this is a joke]

If your pics are used, then send Soja an email at trol@cnet.com asking for swag (from the list).

Then Soja will respond, telling you that what you asked for is no more (Tigs, stop hyping the Dartboard )

Start working for a set of four. DMambo only has three and we must beat him somehow!

hopefully soon enough to be 5 (just to beat out everyone else).

I sent in 4 pics, all of which were used on TROLOV. If I can get 1 mug per pic, that would be 5 mugs!

I guess I need 10 then

look back at the last 2 or 3 spotlights where she asked for photo's email and the lot.
She said he said that she said if you were mentioned, your pic used, or email send her your address for swag...

so boxie your still without swag???

classic TB classic

And as such become members?

has none anymore (see post above). And, well, JD -- we can
go break his

And we'll be calling you lefty!

Besides, you can't break a polo!

for ridding us of JD in the elitist posts?
C'mon, he already posts too much anyway. If we allow him into the non riff-raff area, he will be consumed and will integrate himself into TR with no ability to rid of him

Probably not, otherwise the TRI would've had to admit Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens as elite members!!

Original members:

Rex Baldazo (RexWorld)
Beth Blakely (beth.blakely)
Paul Cook (pcook)
Jay Garmon (The Trivia Geek)
Mark Kaelin (MKaelin)
Shawn Morton (sMoRTy71)
Ted Smith (tsmith)

Joe Moore
You Maxwell...
DMiles
The Chas

There was one lady that had a couple of thousand points when we had points. Haven't seen her since that revamp to thumbs...She was one..

That's about all I could quess at because I can't seem to find the page with the TR members with the most amount of thumbs.. list

Those with 3000 or more and there were about 5 or 6 were original members....

I was on that list...and the ones CG mentioned....and .....mind is searching but coming up blank. BFilm ?

James

I'd be guessing at the rest. Maxwell knows thought. I'm surprised he hasn't come back and let us know.

.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=268070&messageID=2539816

The fifteen, I believe, were regular TR members. Jay and sMoRTy were the primary TR contacts, and Beth participated, but I don't know if they were counted among the fifteen..

These I know for sure:

Oz_Media
TheChas
Hal9000
apotheon
willcomp
BFilmFan
house
Maxwell Edison

I'm certain the following were invited, but perhaps were inactive by then and didn't participate:

DKlippert
Joseph Moore
dmiles

After a couple of months, word got out and it really opened up to a lot of people. At that point, it seemed that everybody was an insider!

he was another one of the top 5 point holders back in the old days..

and willcomp haven't seen him for quite some time.



Thanks Maxwell....

I still check in from time to time and look around.

Never miss TROLOV and usually listen to the member spotlights. (Sonja could have selected Scotland the Brave instead of Irish Eyses are Smiling for OM's intro).

There was quite a bit of input from TRIs during site redesign, the vast majority of which was not implemented (or rather ignored since it didn't agree with their vision).

Most questions I scan through have been adequately addressed by others -- no need to add redundancy. Most of my "spare time" nowdays is spend on another help site dearly loved by TR staff. On that site, they at least attempt to get closure from questioners. TR was unwilling/unable to implement a similar program although it was highly recommended. I have a bunch of EE tee shirts to keep my TR coffee cup company ;>)

There's still a great community on TR and a lot of valuable information. I'll be around until age or senility gets to me -- I'm one of the old gray heads both literally and figuratively.

As well as GG and Dawg.

These I know for sure:

Oz_Media
TheChas
Hal9000
apotheon
willcomp
BFilmFan
house
Maxwell Edison
jdclyde
jaqui
sleepin'dawg

I had you (jdclyde) and jaqui on my original list, but I searched some of those first discussions and I didn't see any posts from you guys. It is possible, however, that I missed some of them. (The ones I did review were hard to find.)

GG didn't become a member until 2005. The original TRIs were in late 2004.

Who else am I missing?

maecuff?

I remember getting the invite for the seckrit club...and I know it was when it was created.

James

These I know for sure:

Oz_Media
TheChas
Hal9000
apotheon
willcomp
BFilmFan
house
Maxwell Edison
jdclyde
jaqui
sleepin'dawg
JamesRL

Sometimes it does seem some of us have been here since the doors of this place opened. I had an earlier handle in '99, but forgot the password and created this identity and managed to hold onto it all these years.

Coming up on 8 years here now.

Makes me think of some thing I have been working on in private time for some of my younger nieces and nephews and such to try and pass on some of the thoughts old Uncle Jerr's had over these years.

that there was a spot to check on Thumbs. It would be interesting to find out who was the first TR member to get Swag.

that was before there was thumbs and we had a point system. Joe Moore, Maxwell Edison, DMiles, there was one lady, and 2 others than all were in the couple thousand points. I figured those were the ones who were original 15.

there doesn't appear to be a facility to check to see who has the most Thumbs. I preferred the Points personally.

The peer with the most thumbs is TheChas- he has over 4000.

It would be nice to have a list somewhere.
as a lot of the old timers don't post very often these days.

I might look through the list that CG has provided. It is more out of curiosity as I can't remember a lot of the old timers until someone jogs the memory.

and then there was another list of the top 5.

I know Joe Moore, Maxwell Edison & DMiles was on the top 5 list. I don't remember The Chas being on the top 5 list of points but then....I can't remember the other 2. I do know one has a woman's name and saw her post only once since the format change from points to thumbs...

not sure if she was that high though, however since the site changed, she's been a 'ghost' here.

The good ole (if what somewhat pointless) 'techpoints' system.
I only just started posting to the Q&A again as it always seemed most of the answers went without the OP approving. It did not motivate me to assist, and I need all the motivation I can get (ask my wife).

without the OP approving.

But it is a Buzz when you do get recognition for your efforts.

what is it like?

constipated and then it is all over.

I don't post much on Q&A simply because most of the questions are the same questions over and over and over. The vast majority are not questions from Tech Pros about some type of problem they haven't seen before but rather from those with very little experience trying to do a job someone with experience ought to be doing or help desk I type of questions.... blah blah...

Discussions are much better.... Friday Night Music...and well Friday Night Music.....

also on the experience factor.



I will have to check out Friday Night Music in the not to distant future.



I just rememberd Friday night is card night.



(*.*)

Coz it keeps me up 'til 03.00 hrs local Scottish time!

* And you're 9 hours ahead of me!!

I am trying to outpost JD today. So this is just a useless post

which is funny, a few years ago (before I started doing discussions) I was always in the Q&A section. It somehow does not seem worth it usually these days.

I will have a look around.

Hang on, just gotta re-size the piccies.

Back in a mo' ...

Gi-normous TR t-shirt and crazy creepy-feel flashing TR ball in this half.

Hmmm, now you need a blue shirt... Time to get back in the TROLOV

Sonja was in charge of procurement, I let her choose for me.

NOW there's talk of monitor stickers. Can you get one that looks like a dead pixel?

but since it uses transparency stickers, it'll cost a bit more

The Flintlock type with a Flared Barrel and I naturally Registered these Concealable Firearms when the law changed here.

But the Authorities didn't want to know because there was a Made in Taiwan sticker on each Pistol so they must be Replicas right?

Do those count? Perhaps I could show you how they work but you would have to look at the big end to make sure that something comes out. I'll mount one in a Wood Vice and pull a length of string as I'm not about to hold one of those Replicas and fire it.

Col

If they are really French, how do you know they will fire?

They are probably sturdy though. Would have to be if they are French and 400 years old. They would have been dropped so many times I can't imagine.

Ok, hold it with the long barrel pointing towards you.
Look INTO the hole to make sure that everything will fire
properly. THIS IS THE SAFE END...

Now test fire it. You will be totally safe while staring into
the barrel. Make sure that you can see that everything is
functioning properly when it fires.

There, all said and done now

Though I'm not about to try one out these days with Modern Powder being so much more effective than what was available when these where made.

Ideal Shot Gun type thing though and being Flintlocks I don't see how they couldn't fire that is if anyone is silly enough to actually pull the trigger. I do have Flints for them but no powder or Shot but the Rams Wadding and Powder Horns are in the case along with all the artwork in the barrels they look so pretty that they must be replicas. Honest.

Well that my story and I'm sticking to it as no one is likely to actually use them for anything but display.

Besides I haven't seen them after the move so they are safe where they are hidden with all the unpacked stuff that I can't find anything that I want in.

Col

My Vivitar takes piccies too wide for Photobucket to handle, even when cropped.

TR coffee mug, toolkit & flag:

Why does the TR coffee mug have an in-built 'Dribble Capability'? And before anyone slags me off, I wouldn't hurt a fly - but BORIS would and he lives in the WEB behind my desk! ....So you could say we're both 'on the web'!!

Old Boris there in the back..ROFL priceless

a TR mouse pad

ROFL

Great Stuff Old Mycroft....

now to give it USB support

In a photo album I posted in March. To the photo of the assembled swag, mentally add a white polo and the sacred coffee cup.

em lighting up

on second thought not so sure about that...

of course it would need to be uploaded into a secure location

balls and they light up when she's smacks em against something

.....I'm a little apprehensive about seeing em in action....

wise.

.

My Religion Made me do it.

Col

all Hallowed are the TR mugs.....

dart board..humm I think I would like the blue polo rather than white polo. I tend to slosh coffee around so white isn't really a good color for me. Ends up coffe brown....

That thing Jay sent me all those years ago is a coffee cup?

I've been using it as a temporary bourbon or malt scotch beverage container and never knew it was for coffee!

Oh Sonja!!!

The magic number for coffee cups is four. So that we have more than DMambo!

because I have the wine kit!
AND a little TR flag!
AND a TR shirt that is THREE sizes to big for ME!

Strictly speaking, it makes me look slim!

When the Spotlight interview was finished I asked Sonja, without wishing to sound in any way condescending to the American populace, if TR did bigger-type T-shirts because I was having a spot of bother fitting myself into what we Brits call a XXL size.

She very kindly, (avoiding the opportunity to ridicule my self-professed weight situation) assured me that TR had sizes that would help my difficulties.

Now, the T-shirt that arrived is a XXXL which filled me with excitement when I saw the size on the label, until I then disappeared into this gargantuan T-shirt-shaped Gazebo.

As I told her when I thanked her for the SWAG - I'll have to check the local wind forecast before I venture outside wearing this thing!

I DO get plenty of air round the oxters though, even on a hot day!

[It has to be a sizing thing between British and American standards - maybe I would fit into an American medium to large ]

I am not huge, but not small either. Typically an XL does me grand.

It seems that every time they add an X they double the size!

Here is a chart I found on-line.


http://reviews.ebay.com/MEN-apos-S-CLOTHING-SIZE-CONVERSION-CHARTS_W0QQugidZ10000000004386174

USA Men?s Size Standard
Approximate
US Sizes , Neck inc. , Chest inc. , Sleeve inc. , Waist inc. , Neck cm , Chest cm , Sleeve cm , Waist cm
[ XS , 13-13? , 33-34 , 31?-32 , 27-28 , 33-34 , 84-86 , 80-81 , 68-71 ]
[ S , 14-14? , 35-37 , 32?-33 , 29-31 , 36-37 , 89-94 , 82-84 , 73-79 ]
[ M , 15-15? , 38-40 , 33?-34 , 32-34 , 38-39 , 96-102 , 85-86 , 81-86 ]
[ L , 16-16? , 42-44 , 34?-35 , 36-38 , 40-42 , 107-112 , 87-89 , 91-97 ]
[ XL , 17-17? , 46-48 , 35?-36 , 40-42 , 43-45 , 116-122 , 90-91 , 101-107 ]
[ XXL , 18-18? , 50-52 , 36-36? , 44-46 , 46-47 , 127-132 , 91-93 , 111-117 ]
[ XXXL , 19-19? , 54-56 , 36?-37 , 50-52 , 48-49 , 137-140 , 93-94 , 127-132 ]

tie a rope on ya and use you as a kite....

into a gliding outfit???
What about a parachute???

Hmmm, maybe I need an XXXXXL for that

of an XXL -- I think that you just like the third X rating better

Down under I am a XL fitting but looking at the chart I am more like a L US fitting,
Those mugs sure hold a good drop of coffee, Its a 2 spoonful cup.
The first cup in the morning the wife has is a 3 spoon shot!!!Of Maccona
My wife grabbed the ball and it is in her toy collection at work now.
I still have the flag.
The pens are still on the desk, surprise surprise

welcome to the world of the non Riff Raff.

A tent manufacturer with some slack production, and they'd gone into T-shirts for a change but got the sizing a bit skew-whiff.

Worn outside the trousers it almost obliterates my knees, and I'm 5'11" !!

And if the XXX rating DID apply - to quote JP Donleavy :

"Upon Having without Invitation an Uncontrolled Erection
It is extremely bad manners to stand in prolonged postures with your member prominently bulging in front of strange ladies to whom your temporary enormity means little. And to twitch it is a cardinal rudeness. Depending upon the size of your engorgement, attempt to sit putting the offending member down the least obvious trouser leg."

OR just wear a TR t-shirt of the SWAG size!

Scotland isn't it. Consider it a TR Kilt.

Perhaps the t-shirt is 'shrink-to-fit'

Now, if I could just find a washing machine big enough...

1. make sure that the T-Shirt isn't wet

2. make sure that you press the sporran

3. don't take Viagra

That would be prime
then it could be filled with a TR USB coffee cup warmer and a TR mug. Also, a USB water boiler, and a TR notebook with multiple batteries for the USB devices.

of a TR Notebook but what would we have to sacrifice for that offering.

Bribe them with the tent.

and charge like $10 for each

Now, what size stickers do you want???


Oh, BTW -- DONT tell TR

you left yourself wide open there.

$10 a ticket what SIZE

Didn't I loan you $20 not long ago.

I'll have two Billboard Size thanks

BTW -- Billboard size is not 1 sticker. It is approx. 300 stickers. Will that be cash???

ok so who are members?

The more SWAG you got, the higher your status

Oops, disregard, I only have a single TR mug (Thanks Jay). So I would be just above PEON (one who has a lesser item)

OM on the other hand, would be up there a bit
And Tigs, with that DartBoard -- our Goddess???

throws darts at us from time to time...

I've got a mug and a shirt...if I call in the chip for the spy on the JPL picture and phone call I'll have 3 items.... is it the # of mugs we got that sets status or shirts? If it's shirts, those parachute XXXLLL's probably can be made up into 3 or 4 of em ....

1. -- discontinued TR items
2. -- Mugs -- the more the merrier
3. -- XXXL parachute dress/shirt thingys
4. -- TR stamped USB devices (I havent heard of any yet).
5. -- Shirts
6. -- flags, notepads, and various other items.
7. -- homemade TR stamped items (I may start working on these, and I'll sell them for a pretty penny (or more).....
8. -- a flag by your member name on TR (not an avatar, but the TR flag).
9. -- any other item that we decide to accept

I can only use 1 at a time...maybe the wife will want one...

Will the TR mugs be able to retrofit into one of those 'beer can hats' those dopes wear at football games?
If so, maybe you can use 2 simultaneously, and still type.

I remember a couple years back OTR had a pic with GWB and a TR mug
Please tell me we can restrict his access or the whole thing will be FUBAR

what do you think Sonja?

In fact if I'd had a mind to do it, I could've done a Music Degree at the Scottish Royal Academy.

But my Dad was a Principal of Music in a Highschool and I witnessed how it destroyed his love of music, teaching all the tone-deaf numpties.

I opted to keep piano for pleasure. Although - strictly speaking, if you're gonna use a piano for pleasure it had better be a concert grand!

Was Sonja asking me if I'd sing - I told her I might consider a duet - now if we can get a decent static free phone line....

James

If I was gonna sing for Sonja, I'd have to buy an acoustic muffler for my new phone, then move into bigger accommodation so that I could stand far enough away from the phone!!

These cheapy oriental phones aren't designed for the full onslaught of a Basso Profundo at full pelt.

Don't want to destroy it when it's only been used twice, apart from the guy selling me the fitted kitchen!

You can purchase a CD and hear me.

I've been on many recordings, but one of them was a commericial CD, and it was never widely distributed. You can get it from Toronto's Hannaford Street Silver Band, the CD is "Voices on High". No solos, sorry, but there is a male voice only piece if that helps.

I've also made some WMA files of a recording of a Christmas concert I sang at a few years back.

Somewhere in the archives there is a VHS tape of me performing solo (in a quartet, its complicated) for Mozarts Solmnes Vespers.

I know there have been commercial recordings where people litterally phoned it in - one of Frank Sinatra's last albums of duets was done that way - Frank was in the studio and the other person had a high quality VOIP line, if I recall correctly.

James

I would imagine the sound on a VHS of Mozart sounds a little different to a rock band. When ever my bands had 'home video' shooting the music was so loud it was distorted beyond comprehension.

I can tell you its generally more difficult than most rock band recordings (and like Hal, I've been behind the boards of a rock band - Say Hal, do you know "Rosie"?)

The problem with classical recording other than micing a large group, is the dynamic range. Some acapella songs are little more than a whisper, some are as loud as 100 people yelling.

Actually before DAT existed, there were people using VHS HIFi as a recording device - mid 80s timeframe, as it actually was better than many home audio cassette recorders than amateurs used for recording.

James

I still think a jam session sounds like fun. Everyone could bring their swag, and we'd ROCK IT OUT!

Can you imagine a TR branded Rock Band ....I'm waiting for it on the Wii.

James

.

.

I am sure y'all dont wanna get hurt listening to me try to play
an instrument -- or worse yet Sing

Nope, aint gonna happen, I like the lot of you enough not to
make yo go through the torture
Aint I a nice Scummy ~cough cough~

I have been told that I have a good voice, just a rough passage out.

I'll make you sound like Tiny Tim and people will never think of you the same again.

Now say after me Tip Toe Through the Tulips.

Col

we just set it up as a beat box and he can pretend that he's playing it.

Nope, aint gonna do that either.
I'll tell ya what. I'll listen till I get bored and move along

phrases like that are just -- not -- ME!!! I dont think that
you would be able to trick me into saying anything like that !

That was used elsewhere as the sample to reconstruct The Scummy Ones into saying whatever I want.

No Problem Mac's are good for doing things like that.

Col

How do you know that it was the real Scummy Ones voice???

As stated, I was in the BC at the time (before caffeine)
therefore The Scummy One didnt come out to play.

Therefore all you have is W2K's recording...

Do you really think that it matters who's voice I use to mangle and make sound like a Castraito?

I did just say that no one would ever think of you the same way again and that's all I need to achieve.

Any Voice will do but using W2k will be much better and that one is associated with the Scummy One.

Col
I really need to think about inserting a Maniacal Laughter wav file in here.

but I can clap. I can also do fridge runs.

and the runs as well

that kind of response from you?

The Clap all we need.

Sorry Davette I can not allow you to do that.

What have I just said of course I can allow Davette to do that and laugh all the way to the Free Clinic to Video The Scummy Ones Appointment.

Col

whoever wants it has to pay for it.

wtf is a Smeg anyway???

SCUMMY

As for what a Smeg is well it was used in Red Dwarf instead of the last work in the beginning 3 works of your question. It's a 4 letter word that means exactly the same thing as what can not be said on TV durring Prime Time. So they used Smeg Head, Oh Smeg It, Smegging Hell and so on.

Of course I could be mistaken and it could just be reffereing to a Brand of White Goods sold now in most parts of the world.

SMEG IT.

Col

In fact these deliberately vague references to Red Dwarf and/or the White Goods manufacturer might bewilder the less fleet of mental feet, but not a die-hard like me.

So either you front-up and admit what a filthy, notoriously uncomfortable (it could be said), or decidedly distasteful (it might also be said, although I wouldn't know!!) Monicker you have chosen, or you're not the 'kind' of SMEG I assumed you were.

And on a more serious note: - How come my direct emails to you keep getting bounced??!!

I had a bounce problem with Boxy recently as well. I had to use a different account for them to get through.
Read the bounce message, it should give some clues as to the problem. In my case, Boxy's server rejected my mail because it came from a known SPAM server (public server, easily possible).

Take solace that a whole host of historically prominent folk precede you

in suffering this annoyance. But once it is medically confirmed you are in

this condition, the feeling is unmistakably not nice. Besides having to

release one's evil doings to a doctor who must, for the sake of

protecting society from you, record such facts, you are conscience

confined to cohabitation with others whom you believe, to the best of your

knowledge, are chronically and hopelessly clapped up and to whom another

dose will make little difference. However, this continual little friendly

extension of hospitality to your respective microbes which, through

interbreeding, pathologically improve their species, can keep you clapped

up forever.

A moment of embarrassed hesitation will normally confront you upon releasing identifications to public health authorities of folk who have clapped you up or whom you have clapped up. This is always a sad occasion except for those unpricipled enough to relish throwing in a lot of innocent names for good measure.
There is of course nothing quite like the tension encountered when a stranger confronts you with a notebook upon his knee taking down your details of this embarrassing disease. Be calm when innocently accused, and treat it as practice for the day when it might be true and you can release your own **** list of folk who although they might not have the disease, ought to have it.

If you are yourself presently free of the troubling condition, try not to overtly wipe off door handles or drop utensils just touched by folk branded with this venereal ailment. But when in greeting a hand is offered by the clapped up for you to take, do then prevail upon your courage to state your position unequivocally.

'Gosh if you don't mind I'd prefer to shake hands when you're cured.'

Or in PUKKA.

'I'm frightfully sorry but I cannot possibly allow myself to touch those morbidly infirm.'

If the infected lady is devastatingly attractive and you cannot overcome your ardour this presents an awkward situation. Before you jump her and hopelessly contaminate yourself, do ask the victim to sit down to see if you can work out a medical treatment schedule during which, with a suggested proper employment of prophylactics, you can meanwhile nearly wholesomely enjoy her body.

If madam fumes with umbrage and takes lunging swipes at you with the broadside of her patent leather handbag, plus screaming and shouting and trying to kick you in the balls while drawing everybody's attention as she chases you all over this elegant hotel lobby, you may then safely assume that she is not harbouring the affliction.

and you, too, Scummy One.

Here sweet lil innocent me was talking about musical contributions I could make to the TR jam (!) session and you two have to go and make some king of tasteless, nearly obscene running (!) joke of it.

OM, you have had entirely too much fun with it.

I am so disappointed.

Born in New York City in 1926, educated there and at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland!).

J.P. Donleavy

It's actually very difficult to type his words without breaking into fits of laughter!

I really can't...

Ahh, those days runnin around the lobby getting beat up by
a handbag

The Crab Louse

Sometimes these little monsters in profusion about the private parts and hooked into the skin at the roots of the hair, can wreak more havoc than all your enemies formed into a well-financed corporation the whole purpose of which is to get you. Because of their incredible engripment and optimistically prodigious reproduction abilities together with their slow crab-like deliberate movement whenever they feel like a stroll, these infuriating little bugs can really settle in for the long haul upon your person.

If as you lie there with this sweet little thing in your arms and you begin to itch where you have not itched before, you wonder what in hell is chewing around your pubic hair follicles, it may already be too late. These bloody bugs with their nearly unbelievable migratory tactics can travel like trapeze artists right across from her hairs to yours. And even though you only hesitate for brief additional seconds before leaping to your feet to dump mild methylated spirits all over your privates, these buggers may have already established their vice-like toe-holds in your crotch ermine.

Increased itching will now be profound evidence that these mighty little mites are presently abroad on both your persons and grazing away. And unless you are still jumping all over the room with your pr!ck and balls scalded by meths, severe silent embarrassment will exist between you and your partner. If your present lifestyle happens not to be of the best, it will now suffer such a thoroughly despicable mortification that it could socially relegate you for good and always, especially if these considerable creatures get up into your eyebrows where others without any optic assistance can see them crawling around.

Do not stupidly try dilute acids or hot baths, scorching yourself in the process. And aside from the disenchanting greasy handful this presents to another, do avoid the long term attempts to smother them with vaseline. It takes real he-man chemicals to make these diminutive parasitic brutes pack up and vamoose. Your persistent scratching or undergoing a generally intolerable fidgitiness around your pubic parts is usually a dead giveaway. Watch carefully for such folk and although you may take comfort from the fact that this noxious animal is feeble at jumping, it is nevertheless prudent to stand well clear of infested persons.

Since the most efficient remedy stinks to high heaven you will now find it necessary to come clean to all within smelling distance that you have the crabs. The fair minded will of course allow a moment of grace before their departure to acknowledge your explanation that you are under the speediest first class treatment for these beasts' removal. Some callous folk however, ignoring nostrums, have been known to try to deliberately shift the entirety of their creatures onto someone else and astonishingly this sometimes works with the result that entire office staffs end up having to be fumigated.

As low standards of hygiene are favourable to their multiplication, the pubic louse can be found in more groins than you can shake a stick at. In its epidemic form whole armies have been reduced to a bunch of scratching idiots unable to man mortar or cannon, with the opposing uninfested enemy able to charge unhindered to cut the loused-up to pieces.

If you do not detect this fantastic leaping animal by feeling its distinct assaults in a rising manner up and down the legs which immediately leads to scratching, then you will certainly notice the parasite's presence as it drills for blood. And anyone, even those of the most haughtiest particularity, may be guilty of harbouring these little beggars.

If, as with some hosts' mutts, you suspect these ready to send a cloud of fleas upon your person, don't hesitate to let fly with a boot in their direction. In the case of Irish Wolfhounds or other monsters who might bite your foot off, make a run for it. But when taking tea with an elderly old lady who may sometimes have these jumpers skittering about, it could be mortally wounding to her to withdraw. Rather pretend your discomfort as an old recurrence of piles. And a long vigorous walk later through the countryside will often rid you of even the heaviest infestation.

On aircraft or trains when it is obvious that it is one of your fleas which has jumped straight onto the open clear page of your winsome fellow passenger's fashion magazine, immediately call the insect by the name, Igor. If your highly attractive seating partner hasn't screamed or clawed her way over you to escape down the aisle it will astonish you how this conversational opener may get you places. Even into bed where, if you suspect it wasn't your flea who jumped in the first place, it is recommended that you become immediately beware of the crabs.

just had time to open a box as I was finishing the Fleas -
- and it had all kinds of goodies

I guess with 2 mugs now, I have elevated my status

After all, if I had to go to the trouble for just one mug - you've got to find a macro digital camera to fit both on the one shot!

Maybe you could take a shot of the massive stain on your t-shirt as the aftermath of attempting to drink from both simultaneously!!

My right bicep is already one millimetre bigger than the left one from lifting all those fully-charged TR mugs of coffee.

(Actually that's not true - the right bicep is just 1mm!!) :^0

Piccie swag arrived today! I now have a matched pair of coffee mugs, a pen, one of the flashing bouncing balls (Hmmm....), a nifty little lighted tool set and a trusty, TR flag!



I think I must find more excuses for pics.

That is what I got. We now have identical items.... Including
the second mug...
Hmmm, must send more stuffs to Sonja!!!

I got a TR wine set today!

However, I rarely drink, and when I do it is not wine.

Well I used to drive a sound board

So I'm happy to remain behind the scenes though I do have one question.

Who wants to sound like Alvin the Chipmunk?

Yes Sonja I can use a Mac to edit the finial mix too.

Col

so I am more special

wait, not that kind of special

Oh Yeah, Boxy got hers today too!


So now, how much SWAG do you have???

I got the blue bed sheet (masquerading as an XL t-shirt) , the trusty TR flag, TR pen, TR flashing ball, TR mini toolset/light and a TR disposable camera.
All this sent before I got my "celebrity" friend to call up Sonja.

Disposable camera???

I am glad I didnt get that -- I got something else instead
(one of the reference materials to read).

Personally, I refuse to use a disposable camera...
However, that my be because I got 7 cameras anyway...

You got some kind of inability to let go?

Don't they all have 'Use By' dates?

Oh No, they have Use By dates????
Geez, do I need more now?



Actually, about every 2 years I pick up a new Digicam.
However, I do continue to use the old ones as well. Unless
of course, they are broken.

I keep 1 in my truck, 1 in my backpack. When I go to do
anything, like hiking/vacation/etc.. I keep 2 to use (my
newest 2) and bring another 1 or 2 for those dimwits that
go with and forget to bring one (it always happens).

Because I got my swag yesterday as well and I'm in AU and Customs opened one package.

So it was tied up in Transit to be inspected for Weapons of Mass Destruction and the silly people passed it. Seems that the Wine Bottle Opener which I asked could I have in a Discussion Thread because I love Puzzles looked a Bit strange to Customs in the X Ray so they had to have a look see what it was.

I wonder if they knew what it was.

And the TR XL Shirts are not all that large and my new Blue one has a pocket in it so it's even Very Useful wondering what comments I'll get the next time I wear it out the last time was to the Corel X4 Release and I had a guy ask me if I knew HAL 9000 then jump on me because I said he was an Idiot.

OK in retrospect the Wine Bottle opener wasn't such a good idea as SWMBO took it off me immediately she found out what it was saying it was too good for me. Then she made the mistake of opening a Secret Cupboard & I got to see where she hid it with the Silver. The down side however has to be the 2 TR Flags that arrived one in each satchel SWMBO promptly inspected one and said Good Plastic they will not hold the Blood Stains referring to the actual white bit and then I saw her stabbing meat with skewers latter so I have a fair idea of what's in store for me.

Col

is watching the HAL 9000, too. By now everyone knows it is in need of some serious repair.

very 'Special' kind of way!

Hmmm, now that I have been nce to someone today, who can I rip apart???

Now there's a (remote) possibility it'll all change again?

Why don't we have an interactive front-end?

TR could release a GUI and we could all have our own choice of colour!

Hmmm, the Limited Edition SWAG, for just $9.95 (forego
shipping/handling for those who qualify).
10% proceeds go to Tigs cause...

knock up the percentage to Tig, though. 35%.

we'll add a special price. Just $19.95 + shipping ( no
handling charges)

then 50% will go to Tigs, and 35% will go to Scummy (need
some income for the religion thing)

OM will have to start part 2 or start a non Riff Raff Discussion.

did go a bit far. I know I joined out of fun, and I would assume others did as well. I doubt that anyone actually believes this, however it was in interesting viewpoint.

You gotta admit though, this was a fun thread!

it certainly is a fun thread.

It's been real, it's been fun. It hasn't been real fun though!

must be heading for a record.

To the record for a Discussion that the Evolution Lie went to before it became Self Aware and tried to take over the place.

We had to shoot that one multiple times to make it at least controllable and it has limped off to recover in the Archives. Hopefully it will not show it's head again as it may have learned it's lesson but I don't think has.

Col

Politics and Religion.


Its a bit like which came first the Egg or the Chicken.


You are sounding better now. I would like to know who lets you near those beauraucrats, you do realise that they are no good for your health Col.

I hate Bureaucrats! But in an attempt to send me completely mad they keep calling me back into the place. I think that they consider it Intensive Therapy for me.

They mess tings up and have no idea at all of what they are doing and then complain when I undo some idiot thing that they have done that stopped it working but they know it broke the system but expect me to repair the system and still leave their break working because they made it up.

The inability to do even the simplest thing and the massive waste of money involved with these places does drive me Insane. They will spend 3 times the cost of replacement hardware to repair something that they have broken because the money for Repairs comes out of a different Budget so it's not their expense.

Col

I love the way that they rob Peter to pay Paul. There always seems to be monies allocated to something that they can use for something else. The Registrars in the School system earn their pay.

They blow all of their Entire Budget hopefully it lasts the year out but if it doesn't they then qualify for Emergency Funding to tide them over till the new Year Budget is approved or they are allocated Extra Funds.

But Repairs and Consumables never come out of the Departments Stated Budget as these are not possible to budget for there is money available through a different source for these and they just have to justify the need for the expenditure so a Invoice for Repairs or Consumables is all that is required. Naturally it has to be from a Authorized Repairer and then when it gets submitted State Works Department pays the bills. As apposed to the Actual Department that you are doing the work for. Of course this happens over night if you consider a wait of between 12 & 18 months Overnight as the Original Department Holds the Invoices till they have a Decent Value Amount to pass on and then the Submitted Invoices get moved to the Bottom of the pile at the new Department so they need to be logged in and looked at and some time latter maybe get paid. That's probably how they keep getting me back there is a Implied Threat that maybe if I don't attend there is the possibility that any submitted Invoices may be delayed. Of course this is a Vicious Circle where the more that they owe you the less you can afford to Pi$$ them Off.

One place where I used to work was still being paid 3 years after their contract had expired and still them had not received all the outstanding payments. Bureaucracy is just lovely and there to help you.

Another Place that I know of went broke because they had too much money tied up in Unpaid Government Work and the Receiver was still getting payments for Submitted Invoices 5 years after that company ceased trading. But there of course the Public Servants had to check out every bill to make sure it was justified. Didn't matter that they where paying bills after the Required Holding Period for the Tax Man had expired they just sent a bit of money every now and then to keep the Receiver happy.

Col

someone just starting out having to wait 3 years for a pay cheque.




I don't like to admit it but I was employed as a public servant I managed to last 4 months. I read the Dune Trilogy for something to do.




At 9:00am I would grab a Z car and take a breifcase to Hodgeman's office in Parliament House. Then return with the breifcase to Electricity House in Civic. At 3:00pm I would do the same. That was my workload for the day. I then had a promotion to a CA4 because someone who looked after the Flexi times went on maternity leave. It took two hours to fill in the Flexi time forms each week. Fridays wasn't too bad as I rode my Z1000 and did the Embassy mail run which allowed me to do it quicker than in a Z car so I could use the time that I saved to my advantage.




The boredom beat me in the end.

I lasted for over 6 years in the British Civil Service.

I mean, if you had to hang around for 2 whole sodding years before any of your employment qualified for pensionable status, you'd end up feeling like you might as well hang about a bit longer.

So seven hundred and thirty-one days after I started I got an internal memo telling me that as of 09.15 hrs, the day before, I was now an 'Established Civil Servant'. Down at the Pub at lunchtime that same day, I asked some of the long-term civil servants what 'established' actually meant and they all laughed at me! Eventually someone piped up that it meant life as I had previously known it - was over. I could do almost anything I wanted to do and I couldn't be fired.

By the dawning of the day of the seventh year I was beginning to understand what that drunk in the Pub that day at lunchtime had meant, and I set forth to secure gainful employment elsewhere. Y'see at the beginning I kept getting frustrated by how slow things took to happen - after 6 years I would have a sharp intake of breath if I so much as saw someone running down a corridor, even if there was a wall of flame coming up behind them at a rate of knots.

I HAD to escape, and finally handed in my notice of 4 weeks. That's when the **** hit the fan.

My boss asked me if I could possibly give them THREE MONTHS notice because it would take them that long to organise a recruitment package, advertise the post, interview folk from all over the UK, whittle it down to second interviews, deliberate on who was the best candidate (apparently all done by committee, which in itself took weeks to get everyone in the same room at the same time for the committee to make a decision), inform the successful candidate, then for me to TRAIN this poor bastard in the wiles and wherefores of my job (because nobody else had any knowledge of printing except me) etc etc blah blah.

I made it easy for them - I insisted on leaving at the end of one month's notice and took my remaining 18 days holiday entitlement as holidays, so I left 12 days later with a month's salary.

I hate that place with a vengeance as it's totally hopeless there. I escaped from there about 30 years ago after being caught in there for way too long and I was beginning to actually think that they did some good so I just had to leave.

Then a few years ago now I went back down to Cantberra for my brothers funeral and I had to behave myself then as well because most of the Indonesian Embassy Staff as well as the Ambassador where there at the funeral. I couldn't even have a decent fight with my brothers or get drunk things where really grim.

Well I've recovered from that Mindset now and can never understand how I put up with it for so long even if I was mostly out on the road whenever I was in the office it took 3 years to do 1 hours work.

Col

Wow that place had a few decision makers.


It would take me two days max to work out whether someone will work out.


You are right about being in, as over here it is nearly impossible to get rid of a poor achiever.

One Department of the QLD Government who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty had a senior Station Officer appointed. She came into a Suburban Office and promptly asserted her complete inability to do anything correctly by blowing the entire years budget in 3 months.

The result of this was a Promotion to a newly created position in the same office where she could no longer organize the day to day running of the show. All she had to do every fortnight was to sign the Time Sheets which she failed to do as she was unable to trust the person who had been doing this for 6 years and caused all the staff not to get paid on time for the next 8 months. The State Government doesn't redo the pay if they miss the deadline you have to wait for the next fortnight to get paid so it's a long wait.

Anyway not satisfied with effectively turning all of the staff there into getting paid by the month she then set about reorganizing the office for better productivity which meant that she got to look over most things and had things moved for her convenience. A bank of 8 Color Laser Printers which run all day was told to be moved downstairs to the area in front of her office and the person given the job was told to use the stairs not the elevator as that was for Members of the Public. The person in question was then presented with a Trolley without any means of tieing the printer to it and told to wheel them down the stairs. The first one bounced off the trolley when it went down the first step and there where another 2 floors to go. But it was OK as it bounced it's way down the 2 flights of stairs only taking out 2 members of the public on the way and constantly being kept on the stairs by the Guard Rail on the outside of the building which was there purely for show but it restrained the main part of the printer from going over the edge even if most of it was torn off the concrete stairs and bits of the printer that broke off where raining down over the edge onto the cars and members of the public on the ground floor. Anyway the now considerably unrecognizable printer continued from the ground floor into the basement parking lot where it got another member of the public on the way down and finally came to rest in the drivers side door of the car of the new Suburban Manager who then demanded that she be given a rental car till hers was repaired.

As the printer was now 6 months old and barely resembled anything recognizable she instructed the repair agents to repair it as there was no money available to buy a new one and they promptly repaired it to the tune of 300% the cost of a new one and it them required a full time person to babysit it to close the front door every time it stopped working which was after about every 10 minutes or so.

When it came time to move the next printer as she was not to be dissuaded from her grand scheme this time she decided that maybe it wasn't such a good idea taking them down the steps at this stage the ambulances hadn't finished packing up the injured or even moved them off the stairs when she insisted that the next one be moved down the stairs but this time with it tied with a bit of rope to the trolley. These where not small printers but the size of a photocopier and run into the ground with only being marginally able to do the required work. Anyway the next one was sent down the stairs with 2 people this time wheeling the trolley and with very specific Instructions on how to do things safely which effectively meant don't stand in front of this or you may get run over. This one got away on the first or second step as well but instead of going down 2 floors killing people on the way it reached the turn at the second floor and instead of bouncing off the wall went straight through it into the office of one of her workers severely injuring this person and destroying everything in the office. Luckily this office had been rearranged by the new manager so that this woman had her back to the door and when the printer came through the wall it tried to push her out of the door. Unfortunately she wasn't quite in line with the door and got squashed between the wreckage of her office and one side of the door frame before it collapsed.

Now that she had effectively destroyed 2 of these printers injured 3 members of the general public severely and one of her own staff and rendered the building unable to be secured she finally relented and demanded that the remaining printers go down the elevator. But instead of just rolling one in she had to have members of staff standing outside the elevator on all 3 floors and the basement to prevent anyone using the elevator and then she insisted on filling up the elevator with 3 of these printers. Naturally the elevator refused to move as it was by now severely overloaded so she rang the Maintenance company for the elevators to come out and fix up the broken Elevator. When she was told a few hours latter that it wouldn't work with the load that she had placed in it she went ballistic claiming that the Elevator Repair Company was trying to undermine her by not supplying competent repair staff who could make the elevator work when it was getting a bit full.

Anyway by that time it was the end of the day and she left the building in her Rental Car and the staff there just did as they where told and moved 1 printer at a time down to the new location without her there to supervise the move. They then set them up and now instead of the staff who work there walking out of their offices on the third floor to the printers they have to go down two floors to the printers pickup their print job and go back to their offices. The new staff member there can not leave the printers as 2 of them need constant attention to keep them sort of working. He is also supposed to clear the trays of any finished jobs except the ones that this woman prints as she doesn't want anyone looking over her work as they might be spying on her.

Anyway within 1 12 month period this woman had 3 promotions and was eventually moved out of that office to the Head Office in the City where she was paid more to do even less than what she had been previously.

I'm not sure as to what happened to start the initial promotion spree off but it was a comedy of errors all the time that she was at this suburban office and the staff where always inspecting solid brick walls in case something was going to punch it's way through and injure them.

The 2 members of the public settled out of court for 4 Million $ in Damages I'm not sure how much was paid to the person attempting to come up from the basement as they where injured more severely or the woman crushed in her office by the second printer crashing its way in. But they had to employ a security Guard to make sure that no one unauthorized entered the building by the newly formed doorway till it could be repaired a few weeks latter.

OH 3 Weeks after this disaster was performed she was provided with her own printer so she no longer had any need to walk out to this bank of printers to get her own print jobs.

All this to move a few printers down 2 floors and people wonder why I have absolutely no respect for the System.

Col

You gotta post a piccie or two, just to exercise the saliva glands of those who have yet to join!

when I get it. I had a phone call from the courier this morning wanting to know my address. Apparently it was addressed to me at South Bundaberg. Lucky that I am the only one in the phone book with my last name.

We dont believe ya unless there are pics

Good Going -- you are part of the TEAM now.

Next time you contribute to TROLOV, I'll send you a ball too... that way all three of you boys can play with your balls!

because I would keep turning off the lights so I could play with my balls in the dark....

This is going in a direction I do not like!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqNRQvVfITA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4H77mttdAE&NR=1

old sports injury?

Woman Injury
How many times do ya gotta be told to stay away from the crazy ones

.

Now I wonder what it is called.

Col

I didn't realise the stakes were soooo high.

Sonja keeps badgering me, sending emails, bit's of scribbled paper with the SWAG, pretty-pleasing me for an up-to-date image of this suave, sophisticated, erudite, adonis-like, nubile creature's face.

But all I've got is piccies of me!!

She is obviously besotted with the black&white image of Young Mycroft, but I haven't got the heart to burst her bubble.

Even for 4 mugs!

Your Toby Jugs are probably still on the production line somewhere in Taiwan!

Maybe the cool and aloof approach would work better. I'll try that.

I just don't need all the riff-raff knowing, is all

I better start looking at what I may have to offer. I could start with a family of 3.

3 more mouths to feed right now, they just made cut-backs!

Hmm, send them anyway, you oughtta get something for them

Oh, BTW, it may be easier to ship them via UPS than try to fly them there...

I just need an address to upload them to.

ATTN: Tech Republic MotherShip
Kentucky, USA

There, since the entire state knows about TR (population -- 15) there should be no routing troubles

Number 1 son is complaining about the heat in the Shed and is wanting to know what can be done about it for the coming summer.

What happened to the days when kids wanted their indepenence.

remove him from the locked shed, and place him in da shipping box
Send him to where Winter is coming
No Heat, No Problems

Now I can swagger around in my new shirt from Guatemala. It's hard to get them here with pockets, I'm glad that I have another one on order. I was'nt warned about the size of the Mug disguised as a coffe cup though. I didn't realise that they held so much from the photos that I have seen. Thanks Sonja and TR.

I dare you to even attempt to drink coffee from the TR mug without leaving a coffee-dribble mark running down the side of it!

As I previously posted:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=268070&messageID=2538428

Mine is covered in dribble marks within seconds of using it.

Devalue it or Add value?

When you fill it with coffee!

keeping one available and obviously it will be mine and mine only. I will let SHMBO know when she gets home. Can't have Riff Raff using them.

trying to trick it.

To prove to TPTB that TR coffee mugs are not just prized possessions that are shoved away in cupboards or on display shelves.

No - TR mugs are working units, keeping the peers going through the day and night, clarted in stains from the rigorous punishment they are put through on a daily basis.

Was that strong enough?

Clarted: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clarted



Interestingly my TR shirt was made in Egypt. Is there no end to TR's procurement potential??

It's 5 o'clock here now, not on the coffee.

I did try to take some with the web cam but it became overcast and ended up with poor light.

Good speech I like mine strong too.

"made in Egypt" that's probably why you got the tent.

now I have two cups, two flags, two pens a book and a ball.

a pic from somewhere in the Internet, and blew it up. Poor Res, poor pic...

Maybe you can fool a newbie, but...

was used in poor light. That's my dribble and I'm stickin to it.

a webcam at 1.1 megapixels

Ok, since you got 3 shipments -- show the goodies

Oops, not those ones, you could get banned from TR for that

Shirts are in the Wash

You DO have SWAG -- Welcome

a mug for a pic of your t#ts....

Yes, indeed.

Hope all is well, and you enjoyed your trip!

As Sonja has seen you are being Greedy so you'll get nothing ever again.

So Boxy's card has been marked and if her greed persists Tammy will be handing out a Red Card for Boxy.

Col

the box of Red cards have been sitting out for many years, they are pink now!
Get it Right!!!

Judging by who would be in it !!

Consequently, it takes me ages to get synchronicity with the FLASH, so's I know when it's ok to actually say the phrase.

It's like a 'WALK / DON'T WALK' sign.

Or am I taking it at its word?

What a thought that is!

I remember synchronicity - yes, I'm sure that's what it was called (or at least what was intended).

I think.

Amended the above text for fear of being summarily thrown off the TR site.

Tammy isnt looking, we might sneak this one in


Or

To hell with synchronicity.

It was never that successful first time round.

I think!

I was just thinking how hard it would be to get those four letters in between blinks.
What were you thinking? Hmm?

around a bit more

I led a very sheltered life.

I think it was me that did anyway.

you have left out FOAD.
And FFS.

etu

I am a bit goofy, and barely naive, but if you expect me to believe that, then you ain't been payin' attention!

Are you naive then too ?

Boxy

When not wearing clothes she

I suppose I should have expected that.

techie baby, I have NO idea what you are getting at. A bouncy thing?

Ok

Or

Never even occurred to me. I was thinking something else entirely.
I didn't use that 'naive' word for nothing. Sure as sh*t won't pair it with barely again!

NiT

.

After all - how can you flaunt it when you ain't got it ??

Although to be perfectly honest, up until very recently I have deliberately shied away from any personal clothing bearing outwardly visible branding or logos.

Something inside me gets rather angry when I realise that I am advertising a manufacturer without being paid for it!

TR t-shirts aside, the only clothing I have with logos is all-weather gear and my Boston RedSox baseball cap.

I'd wear a TR shirt. But then, they're not exactly a manufacturer.

We're not just advertising for a manufacturer without getting paid, we're paying to advertise for a manufacturer in many instances. We have to buy the d@mn clothes first. That would be a big, fat 'Bite Me'.

I'll advertise TR until they wear out.

There not any doubt as to what you're 'hinting' at !!

normally takes the fight out of em.

manufacturers are pretty freaking ballsy to put that stuff out there at the kind of prices they do, and consumers are pretty freaking stupid to pay that kind of price to advertise for some corporate that can afford to pay for its own advertising. Grrr...





playing with my new toy - edit the usual

I've not seen that before!

Grrr...

Get down text. Shrink!

Grrr...

nope, not working for me either

Neither is this

Cloths that where part of the job to wear I personally don't have a problem with wearing them but then again they paid me a lot of money to wear them.

I do particularly like the Flame Proof old Porsche overalls that I used to have to wear many years ago when I worked for McLaren nice gear there and far better than the Ford Overalls that I had to pay for to work at one Ford Dealer many years ago.

But the thing I particularly liked when the kids where younger was the way that all this Special team Wear was worn by SWMBO kids and their fiends. The stuff that was only for team members was worn by all the neighbor hood kids well that's how it appeared to me and I even lost my old Porsche Jacket which was the best Cold Weather Gear that I've ever worn. It was at that stage when SWMBO daughter stole it that I stopped referring to them as My kids and started referring to them as SWMBO Kids. Confuses many that as they all seem to think that I'm the second partner. But at least they don't pick on me for their poor behavior.

I do still wear a couple of the very Old Ducati T Shirts that where part of another Racing Team and I do really like them but they are getting very second hand now.

Col

..... and HOW did you do the shrinking of the font?

(I think they're called?)
lesser than sign - font size=type a number between 1 and 7 here - greater than sign - add text here - lesser than sign - /font - greater than sign

Learned it yesterday in Tig's discussions. CaptBilly is afraid I'll go off the deep end with it.

I might! The possibilities!

etu

Just use the presets within the TR control codes, that way the definitions are already embedded...

that are acceptable tags we can use?

Just curious might be nice to know for those of use who have been bound by our ignorance of these fancy techniques.

I am not sure, I was using this for size http://techrepublic.com.com/5206-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=269649&start=0
with the first symbol being instead of ( for paragraph breaks for bold for line breaks to change color.



AND always remember to remove the tags like this removes bold removes font color removes font size
etc..

that alot of your basic html text formating tags will work.

Good to know

If you're typing it in that way (with the lesser than/greater than characters), you're typing it in HTML. I didn't know the board would allow HTML! Cool!!!!

Lock up your sons and hide the booze... and update your AV programs





edited to reflect a mistake in assupmtion of gender. realizing my foot don't taste so good...

I thought the fingernail polish was a dead give-away... but I guess not!

as a not she... I was not observant enough to notice the nail polish (although in this day and age...)

Please accept my sincerest apologies.

re: This day and age.....

Yeah, I thought about putting some earrings on. But, that would surely confuse everyone!

Don't sweat it. It's a common mistake.


  edited to add:

I see you edited the original post. Now we'll confuse everybody!

I'm already about as freaking confused as I can be .



freaking stupid parts

confusion goes away with simple reading of his post (mistaken gender bit) and the fact that it was edited.
Now that this is hidden, I can continue and most will not even notice 1 bit.. I can go on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on, and on and on and it may still be overlooked. Hmmmm, now where was I? Oh well, for another post I guess!

Grr ..Grr! Use the Force Old Obi-Wan Mycroft, use the Force!



Thanks for the mental challenge Boxy, things were getting a little slow.

I knew that there was a way to change the Fonts and Colours I just couln't work it out by myself.






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Missed one.

Please do an end tag or whoever reads this will have the small fonts over their screen.

Dont forget, change ( to

still on L plates. I went through and added it to my posts.







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Thank You!

Just insert the end tag before anything you typed.

to help Jacky learn how to correct it!

Also, going into any other post reformats it, so the screwed up fonts didnt last long. But can you see a newcomer getting frustrated over it??

If we are going to use these tags, we need to remember that it is our responsibility to end them as well, wouldnt you agree?

I'm still seeing dinker text from this point on, hmmm?

Tags, edit tags?

better.

Thanks, Jacky.

I won't advertise any 'trendy' brands.

And I only wear the tech stuff to work on casual days or to tech shows.

I once had some LA Gear sneakers that I got because I couldn't see an LA Gear logo on the outside. Then walked on the beach...

Ahhhh!! with every step I was imprinting 28 dift LA Gear signs in the sand, the tread was formed from LA Gear logos!

With that kind of thinking, you could have a field day in Discussions.

After all, if politics and religion was around before the chicken or the egg, then it must have been applied to the fishes, as that would be where our forebears existed at the time.

Maybe there's a Bible-in-a-Bottle, floating around somewhere!

.

What came first the Fish or the Egg?

Lets see you work out that one OM.

Col

For a quiz question.

Anyone that's not as bright as me will have to wait for this heated discussion to progress further...

Have you mentioned the damage to Sonja as yet?

Jeez, I'd be livid. There's something wrong when the TR mug suffers damage without even leaving the North American mainland, yet TR mugs arrive unscathed in Australia and the UK.

Maybe you'll end up with TWO!

I stopped short of asking for another one, after all, I DID get one. Maybe she'll send me another, don't know. Would be nice. It's the perfect size for my single cup coffee-maker.


I'm no longer riff-raff. That's what counts.

This is the first casualty I've heard of in a while. Hopefully the next one will make it in one piece!

I really appreciate that. I hesitated to ask because I know how busy you must be. Now I'll have two mugs! Too cool!


I'm pretty sure that the Elmers glue is going to hold well enough to make a decent penholder out of the one I have. I couldn't bring myself to just throw something like that away.

lighty uppy bouncy ball?

Mug bummer, for sure.

No-one told me that!!

Mine is a rather alarmingly piercing RED.

That's why I asked. Mine is red, too.

Big bummer but at least I'm the first to 'crack open' a TR mug.

See here.
http://tinyurl.com/6xuun8

Remind me to read the thread before I post, would you please?

Repaired Riff Raf now a even more elite group of people who have received TR Swag.

By the looks of the mug thay placed something heavy on the box and squashed it slightly.

I had DHL do the same thing years ago to a Intel CPU that died on a customer. Naturally they didn't hurt the dead one just the replacement one.

Col

Sadly DHL don't seem to have heard that though.

The box shows no damage at all but you're right, it wouldn't take much squashing to bust the mug.


What really did it in was the box length, bright orange, "Fragile-Handle with care" label. I think that turns it into a challenge for certain delivery people.

.

In fact, it has done the rubber bands better than the cracked ceramic!

...just wish I'd thought of the idea first!

It was making it look like it was broken that was rough. Looks pretty realistic too doesn't it?

This could be a nice little earner for you.

To send a carton so he can get one unbroken Mug.

Might even work too.

Col

That's what I say, anyway.



I wanted to make sure that your TR coffee mug arrived in one piece! Glad to hear that this time was a success.



You are very welcome!

I've got to tell you, though I'm still hyped that I got my mug, while I was typing my last reply I got an email from my wife that I read after replying here. Apparently she's been selected for lay-off on 9/29.


Talk about your quick highs and lows. Dammitall! What a day it's been so far.

I'm unsure how we're going to make it but we'll figure out a way. There's got to be a way.


I saw this coming. She works in the office of a manufacturing plant and they've just made the decision to go with one shift, work is that slow. I look for the place to be closed in a years time or less. Those people will join the 1,000's of local folks that have lost manufacturing jobs. It makes me want to scream. No kidding.

That really does suck.
Hope your wife finds a better position for better compensation swiftly.

Think positive, right? We laid some plans tonight, her last day is the 26th and who knows? She could be in a better position the following week. Hope so. I said that I wanted to spend more time with her but not like this.

After the box is unpacked you can then use it to relieve stress by popping the bubbles.

Should keep someone occupied for hours or in my case weeks. I was handed a Garbage bag full of Red Bubble Wrap and while I sit here popping the bubbles I can not help but think of Red Dwarf where Rimer went back in time and told his younger self to do this and the other kid in the dorm did it and made a fortune.

Col

Red Dwarf. TV doesn't get any better than that. I'm giggling thinking of that show. Hmmm... next purchase. Complete Red Dwarf.

Probably why I have all of Red Dwarf and am on their mailing list. So much better than things like Sleeper Cell which SWMBO is watching on DVD at the moment.

Red Dwarf was classy unlike the junk that passes for TV now.

I guess I now know why you like Cats.

Col

It doesn't have to be American to be good.

are British. The original 'Dr. Who', 'Red Dwarf', 'Waiting For God', 'As Time Goes By'.
And another the name of which I don't know and have only seen by accident a couple of times.

Tops. Just tops. American tv is crap in comparison.

Edit: left out Jeremy and the various Sherlock Holmes he did. Poirot. Monty Python.

There's one blonde actress on there that seemingly never closes her mouth. She's a mouth-breather. It takes away from the whole show because I'm always looking for her to shut her mouth.


Okay, got that out of my system. Feel better.

I ignore the new. It sucks.

I don't know if it's the new one or the old one. I suspect it's the new one. It's like FFS, close your lips at least once per episode. Dang!


Edit: FFS and dang in the same post. Makes a lot of sense huh?

I've just seen my first British episode of 'The Office'. Crack me up.

Unlike the American version which is tripe.

NT.

You may have the big @ss gaming rig...
(that I am very jealous of, BTW)

But, I just got my TR Snake Light!!!!

...a welcome addition to my swag collection.
Eat yur heart out.

And got nothing.

Maybe If it wasn't me who asked it.

Col

Might have had some effect in you not being considered for the prize!!

I don't think so.

Col

I thought TR was only giving the Snake Light to someone who'd never posted before.

Or am I mistaken again?

It was available for anyone eligible for Swag that had not recieved any in the last year.

I dont care about the light. I got one already -- USB light from thinkgeek.com

Ok, its missing the TR logo, BUT, maybe I can add a sticker to it?

TAMMY/SONJA -- Please send me TR stickers with the CASE of mugs (and I am still awaiting a response for the mugs...

You may now be on the Blacklist.

I try hard and it sometimes pays off.

Col

I dont know about the stalking, however some comments (like banning Tammy from FNM) is probably the culprit