Queen Mother dies - finally

24/8/00 23:08
gladney

a very crap film. Why is it so popular?

24/8/00 18:40
Simon_T

(I very rarely get the opportunity on 40% to post the sentence "More wicker please, Miss Ekland". Let me just luxuriate in that fact for a couple of minutes.)

24/8/00 18:40
Simon_T

Anyway, are we offering Satch and bat as an offering to the gods after our crops failed? Good. More wicker, please, Miss Ekland!

24/8/00 18:32
bat

*gone*

24/8/00 18:28
PWX

flaps

24/8/00 18:27
bat

hurrr... she said "willies"... hurrr

24/8/00 18:27
PWX

24/8/00 18:23
PWX

that's the beauty of it; i may not be there at all, but you still get the willies

24/8/00 18:19
tankgirl

hehehe, I missed this thread before. How f.ucking hilarious! Too strange!

24/8/00 18:16
BioPOT

if you don't watch it, she'll post a picture.

24/8/00 18:15
bat

shhh, pwx is watching. or might be.

24/8/00 18:13
BioPOT

Is that one of those big trucks? Like wot Ewebanks rides?

24/8/00 18:13
PWX

*climbs into panoptican, again*

24/8/00 18:12
BioPOT

*shits in stationery cupboard*

24/8/00 18:12
gladney

logocentrism: naming is shaming

24/8/00 18:11
PWX

*defenestrates people, randomly*

24/8/00 18:10
BioPOT

As a target or a mascot?

24/8/00 18:10
PWX

*names and shames everyone*

24/8/00 18:09
bat

certainly fukkin not. the crusties stole my name.

24/8/00 18:09
bat

*starts tabloid campaign to out logocentrists, with BioPOT splashed all over the front page*

24/8/00 18:08
gladney

hehe

whereas you, bat, are a banging acid techno fanboy, I do believe

24/8/00 18:07
BioPOT

Lobs in copy of "Usage and Abusage - A guide to good English" by Eric Partridge

24/8/00 18:07
bat

naaah, i got the older version. jason's got the corrected version, wot with him being a bufty techno fanboy and all that.

24/8/00 18:06
gladney

correctED

Gives up

24/8/00 18:05
gladney

Right! I bet you're using the correct edition--you're soft, you are

24/8/00 18:05
gooner

satch - go and kill her, then you'll be rigth - ish.

24/8/00 18:05
bat

looks like you need a subeditor, g

24/8/00 18:05
gladney

ROIGHT!

24/8/00 18:05
gladney

ROIGHT!

24/8/00 18:05
bat

... from a safe distance, of course

24/8/00 18:05
gladney

PERISH even

24/8/00 18:04
bat

*brandishes copy of Of Grammatology*

24/8/00 18:04
gladney

THUS PERSISH ALL JOURNOS

24/8/00 18:04
gladney

he's run off, anyway

24/8/00 18:02
BioPOT

*gets mecanno out*

Oh, deconstruction?

*slaps forehead*

24/8/00 18:00
gladney

calls bat out

deconstruction at 20 paces

24/8/00 17:59
PWX

*stands behind bio with shitty stick*

24/8/00 17:59
BioPOT

*stands behind gladney with pointy stick*

24/8/00 17:49
gladney

bloody insurers--bleeding me dry

*gets flaming torch*

24/8/00 17:49
fnord


who are you trying to push down a hill?

24/8/00 17:46
BioPOT

*peers out from behind crate of vinegar*

sorry!, tought you were sath, being all covered in tar and that

24/8/00 17:45
PWX

*pushes cheese down hill and chases it*

24/8/00 17:44
bat

*waves fire & theft insurance certificate at biopot*

24/8/00 17:44
BioPOT

oops, lost me mob

*legs it*

24/8/00 17:44
BioPOT

BURN THEM!!!!!!!!

24/8/00 17:43
bat

i don't want to get into a tar barrel with satch. i demand separate barrels. we're the 4th estate and should be treated with respect, y'know.

24/8/00 17:40
BioPOT

Parp!

24/8/00 17:38
naked Chicken

OI!

24/8/00 17:37
PWX

*hands gladney feathers*

24/8/00 17:36
gladney

journos! put them all in the tar barrel!

24/8/00 17:36
beria

Well done, mate. So you're not an investigative journo, then?

24/8/00 17:34
PWX

that tabloid journos are somehow 'better' journos than broadsheet types. satch started it Mister!!!

24/8/00 17:34
bat

i'm here

24/8/00 17:34
gladney

of what?

24/8/00 17:33
PWX

bat wa shere this morning, trying to convinve Zinho and I os soemthing. we werentstanding for it tho

24/8/00 17:32
gladney

I haven't seen bat rouind here much lately. Maybe satch has done him in

24/8/00 17:27
viki

hahahahahaha - I didn't know this had happened. How funny. What a comedy moment.

I work for the same company as someone who comes on here - shit forgotten who - but we work at different sites unfortunately.

24/8/00 17:27
fnord

*rolles on floor*

24/8/00 17:27
knappy

HAHAHAHA *roles on floor*0

Fnord told me about this last night and I only half beleived him that this could actualy happen.

24/8/00 17:25
beria

Excellent stuff!


24/8/00 17:20
noj

beria check this out.......

22/8/00 15:12
BusStop

hehehehe

excellent work lads

what a pair

22/8/00 14:54
Satch

I heard that

22/8/00 14:45
seth

I remember saying that Satch was so sharp he'd soon find out if abother 40%er was working in the same room as him. He's hot, goddamnit!

22/8/00 12:33
noj

classic

22/8/00 12:29
PWX

go9od ld

now i have a decent pc, i can view best oif woithout my spectrum crashing

22/8/00 12:28
Simon_T

You know I put this on Best Of yesterday?

22/8/00 12:26
Dial Square

in fact he is the 'self-styled' scoop

bit like when Paul Ince decided to call himself 'The Guvnor'

18/8/00 14:24
Satch

heheheh bizarre!

18/8/00 14:23
Sammy

What a classic thread that was.

Brilliant. It could only happen to a Satch!

hehehehehehe

18/8/00 14:23
Simon_T

How does tonight sound for a Best Of entry?

[works]

18/8/00 14:21
Satch

do some work you!!!!

18/8/00 14:20
bat

that was weird. i reckon it's a sign from god to do some friggin work.

*laters*

18/8/00 14:19
shaun

Yee hoo!!!

18/8/00 14:18
tree

shhh! They were looking for a female.

18/8/00 14:14
Satch

that's no girl. That's a trannie!

18/8/00 14:14
Satch

Simon - a new thread for 'Best Of'!

18/8/00 14:13
tree

satch and bat - look twenty yards down the corridor...

see that lovely girl with the black skirt on?

Wave! Its me!

18/8/00 14:12
boredy

hahaaha classic moment

18/8/00 14:12
Satch

yeah. Bat just popped down from his desk - a good twenty yards away - to say 'Hi!'

18/8/00 14:11
fnord

what, in real life, like? Wish I'd gone for this IT job now. Sounds like no-one does any work there at all.

18/8/00 14:10
Satch

me and bat just had a very surreal conversation.

18/8/00 14:09
fnord

hahahah!

18/8/00 14:08
Dial Square

why don't you walk the 2 yards between you and talk instead?

oh i forgot........satch doesn't like using 'REAL' names when you meet

18/8/00 14:06
bat

i think i need a ciggie, i'm feeling rather faint...

18/8/00 14:06
Satch

nice to meet yer!

18/8/00 14:06
bat

bloody hell that was strange

18/8/00 14:05
Satch

bat - stand up. I'm wearing a red shirt at the end of the floor

18/8/00 14:05
Satch

f.ucking hell is that your name? Mind if I stick to 'bat'?

18/8/00 14:05
bat

Nope, I'm on the same side as the reception desk, up by Banking Technology. And yerself?

18/8/00 14:04
Satch

you on the other side then, opposite reception?

mmmmm Risk Professional. Oh here it is.....'Waking Up to Weather Risk' - snazzy cover mate.

I'm off soon as well.

18/8/00 14:03
Dial Square

you work on the same floor and you didn't even know?

arf!

18/8/00 14:03
bat

this is a bit expletivein bizarre

18/8/00 14:03
Alvin

He his b/f!

18/8/00 14:03
Dial Square

aye thankyew tree

18/8/00 14:02
bat

Risk Professional - I edit it. But not for much longer, I'm off at the end of the month.

18/8/00 14:02
Satch

er....me too. What publication?

18/8/00 14:01
tree

DIal Square's 13:51 posting is brilliant.

18/8/00 14:01
bat

third

18/8/00 14:01
Satch

bat - er....yes. What floor are you on?

18/8/00 14:00
Satch

Shmav - Sarah was the one wot told me! How does he know her?

18/8/00 14:00
Alvin

(bat sits next to Satch!)

18/8/00 14:00
Dial Square

informa a licky boom boom down

18/8/00 14:00
Alvin

Satch - do you know Sara Pope? This bloke here knows her and heard the same?

Its runour going round your company!

18/8/00 13:59
bat

Errm, so do I. Are you based in Paul Street?

18/8/00 13:59
boredy

he's making a list of companies with gullible employees

18/8/00 13:59
Satch

bat - yes. Why?

18/8/00 13:58
bat

Satch - did you say you work for Informa?

18/8/00 13:56
boredy

RIP Queen Mum

she doesn't look very well in this picture

18/8/00 13:54
Simon_T

cf Pamela Anderson, you mean?

18/8/00 13:54
Bilborough Magpie

I smell BULLSHIT

18/8/00 13:53
Satch

I'm terrible for that. As soon as I hear anything, no matter how ridiculous, I broadcast it round the office and round to my friends saying: "But it's true goddammit!"

18/8/00 13:53
Dial Square

I take it back

she STILL smells of piss

18/8/00 13:53
Simon_T

Well, you have to credit someone with coming up with such a wildly inventive, original rumour.

18/8/00 13:52
bobbins

bollocks

18/8/00 13:52
boredy

sucker

18/8/00 13:52
boredy

its not 'scoop satch'

it's 'poop satch'

18/8/00 13:52
Satch

balls - looks like it's one of those e-rumours

18/8/00 13:51
Satch

shmav - Informa

18/8/00 13:51
fnord

nothing on BBC site.

18/8/00 13:51
Dial Square

so what.....she smelt of piss

18/8/00 13:51
Satch

still waiting for BBC or Reuters (or anyone) to post something up.....

18/8/00 13:50
Alvin

Soem body here has just got a mail from his buyrd about it.

Satch - what company do you work for?

18/8/00 13:49
tree

at last,

the price of gin will rocket

18/8/00 13:49
viki

There was a rumour going round ages ago about this. Is she really dead or are yer all joking??

18/8/00 13:49
Simon_T

Is this like her much-publicised secret death a few months ago?

18/8/00 13:48
Satch

they don't call me 'scoop' Satch for nothing

18/8/00 13:48
Dial Square

she's been dead for ages,..........they pulled a ringer in for the public celebrations recently ...........it's a well known fact

18/8/00 13:46
Alvin

Cue BBc dusting off the obit.

This runour just went round the office, but the BBC or pa press haven't got it yet.

18/8/00 13:46
Satch

you'll be yawning on the other side of your face once it's confirmed young man.

18/8/00 13:45
BioPOT

Satch is right. Someone's just rung me and said the same thing.

18/8/00 13:44
boredy

*yawn*

18/8/00 13:43
Satch

don't believe me eh?

18/8/00 13:41
Satch

you heard it here first.




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