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Vagabond wrote:

"I like tea better, but I drink coffee because it's free and fast. Tea is, unfortunalty, neither.

I am now, however, preparing to consume copious amounts of alcohol. Because I have now written my last exam. I have now finished all my classes. I need only do my field placement, and I am officially a Library Technician.

Which means I'M DONE!!!.



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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only obligation.""
-Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney"

Congratulations, Vagabond. That's great."

Mr. Gage wrote:

"Yes, Vagabond, that's wonderful. Cheers! I take it you are now, for all intents and purposes, Rupert Giles?"

topper24hours wrote:

"Vagabond, you should hit up the Sandman Presents board. I think Lucien of the Dreaming posted something about needing a new Library Tech. "

Mike Carey wrote:

"Great news, Vagabond - congratulations. There you go. Who says this board ain't got no class?"

Papercut Fun wrote:

I think Morningstar High could use a library technician Vagabond. But you have to supply your own whip. Those card catalogues can get a bit uppity if they're not updated regularly.

And don't get me started on the hardcover non-fiction section. We lost a dozen good men to that one last year alone.

Dr. Stranger wrote:

"Mike- I noticed ""13"" will be starting in 2000A.D. Prog 1289 and continuing thru at least Prog 1297. Nice to see it referred to as an ""epic""! How many parts to ""13""?(Or is that a retorical question answered in the title?) :) Continued sucess, Dr. Stranger

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""I DON'T RECALL INVITING ANY OF YOU. I MADE MY HOUSE WITHOUT DOORS FOR A REASON."" LUCIFER"

I've been in Devon for a week with my partner's parents, and they don't drink coffee so it was tea, tea and more tea (plus booze). PG Tips, Earl Grey and Assam. I'd forgotten how nice Earl Grey is.

I absolutely love the fact that new visitors here find the Lucifer board's longest thread is about... tea. How hardcore is that!"

Mike Carey wrote:

"We're cool about it, though. There are coffee-drinkers amongst us, and no-one's ever suggested a pogrom.

Dr. S, there *were* originally 13 parts to 13, but now there ain't. Matt has had to fold four episodes down into two at one point, so we're left with 11. Curses. But symmetry is a ten dollar whore, as Sheila Ortiz Taylor once remarked. Presumably back when you got a lot more bang for your buck, if you'll pardon the expression.

Driving back from Leeds on Friday, we put on the radio and heard, within about ten minutes of each other, Blondie's Dreaming (""I'll have a cup of tea, and tell you of my dreaming..."") and Is it a Dream by The Damned (""Then suddenly, like a fly in a cup of tea...""). Clearly this thread is now big enough to exert considerable pressure on the fabric of causality."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Sorry, Dr.S, I forgot to say thanks for the good wishes."

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
We're cool about it, though. There are coffee-drinkers amongst us, and no-one's ever suggested a pogrom.

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""I did not speak up for the Tang drinkers, fizzy pop drinkers and Sunny Delight drinkers silenced before me. Who is left to speak up for me now?"""

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

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Originally posted by D. McDonagh:
""I did not speak up for the Tang drinkers, fizzy pop drinkers and Sunny Delight drinkers silenced before me. Who is left to speak up for me now?""

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Hmm... The Koolaid drinkers perhaps?"

Mental health professionals?

Is tannin a form of caffeine?

Pastor Niemoller's last words out of fashion lately, then?

Seahorse, are you calling me a looney?

I think caffiene might be a form of tannin, actually. Is there a botanist in the house?"

I wouldn't be so harsh. But any Sunny D fan has to be slightly unhinged. "

Mike Carey wrote:

Depends on whether you're using it as a drink or an industrial lubricant.

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Seahorse:
Mental health professionals?

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Hey, don't blame me, I'm not taking the rap for him."

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
Is tannin a form of caffeine?

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No.

Tannic acid cleans your teeth.
I mean it makes them go yellow.

Caffeine is C8H10N4O2 a stimulant alkaloid."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

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Originally posted by D. McDonagh:
[B]Pastor Niemoller's last words out of fashion lately, then?

B]

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Not at all, but what other answer could I submit to a query like yours when the first one that came to mind seemed so right it had to be wrong?"

No worries, Greg.
I doubt that the subtext I read into Mike's comment was there anyway."

It seems a little strange that nobody has mentioned the subject of biscuits on this thread yet.

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by D. McDonagh:
It seems a little strange that nobody has mentioned the subject of biscuits on this thread yet.

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whatever happened to Jaspers ?
I liked them"

Mike Carey wrote:

Chocolate Hobnobs go great with tea. Little known fact.

I'm turning into Michael Caine.

Adrian Brown wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Chocolate Hobnobs go great with tea. Little known fact.

I'm turning into Michael Caine.

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You immersed yourself in too much Hellblazer research ?"

Chocolate Hobnobs are great, but they seem to have stopped doing the plain chocolate ones. Evil sods: plain chocolate biscuits are far better than milk chocolate biscuits."

I hate it when they break off and sit in the bottom of your tea cup like a fat slug. Yuk.

Vagabond wrote:

"Whee. Been busy with my field placement so, I've missed a bunch. Here we go...

I'd been avoiding working in schools cause I hate students. So Morningstar High ought to be perfect. As for that card catalogue, never fear. I'll just sick the OPAC on it.

I like Sunny D. I'm also slightly unhinged. Draw what conclusions you like.

Have to run. 15 min coffee beaks aren't long enough! Back to the slave labour...

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only obligation.""
-Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney"

Bevis wrote:

"I'm back. After a couple of weeks of not being able to get to the DC boards because of a stupid new firewall at work I come back from me hols today to find I can get here again. Yay! I shall do the happy bunny dance now. Dance, dance, dance.

And that's quite enough of that. Hmm, tea and biscuits. Well I've been in Paris for the last week (fantastic time. Disney Studios are a bit pointless, although some of the history of their animation is pretty interesting, but so help me god, Disneyland itself is soooo fun. Very tacky, very cheesy, but I loved it. *sob*) so was just having chocolat instead of tea for the whole week. France is the only place in the world where you can actually get a good cup of hot chocolate that doesn't taste bitter or powdery (bitter in a nasty way, rather than just bitter chocolate which is yummy) but they can't make tea. So that was the first thing I had when I got back on Friday night. Then I had a bottle of red wine, but that's not the point.

Biscuits with tea has to be Gingernuts for me. Not just any old ginger biscuits (although Tesco own brand ones are pretty good), Gingernuts. They have the added advantage of making the tea taste slightly gingery which is fantatsic.

And just a little thanks to Mike. Glad you like Mazikeen. I think she might be feeling a little out of place but after a few drinks she'll fit right in. "

Mike Carey wrote:

"Bevis, could you explain that last comment? I'm having a slow, hungover Monday.

We did Disneyland Paris the Summer before last, and we had the dumb luck to go just before the start of the French school holidays. No queues for anything - it was brilliant! :) "

Bevis wrote:

"Just talking about your intro to the story Al and I have done.

wasn't the French school holidays while we were there but it did seem to be the week that every single bloody school in America had a trip to Paris. Hundreds of tourists as always in Paris (apparently it's the biggest tourist destination in the whole of Europe) but most of them seemed to be 15 or 16 year old Americans. We went past the mini Liberty while on a boat trip and it was probably the thing they took most photos of out of the entire journey. Never mind the Eiffel Tower or the Louvres or Notre Dame, the Liberty statue seemed to be their fave thing. "

Mike Carey wrote:

"Okay. I'm an idiot. Despite Bevis not being as common a name as say, Mike, I never realised you were Bevis Musson until you just said so.

Anyway, it was my pleasure. It's a really sharp and enjoyable little tale, and a great intro to the characters. And I think Maz swings every way there is to swing, as far as that goes. She sure *seemed* to be having a good time... :)

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Lord_Savaunt wrote:

All this Mazikeen talk makes me say:

HUH?!

Mike Carey wrote:

"Alistair and Bevis write and draw comics, and they were major contributors to an anthology that they distributed at the Bristol con last year. They've just done a story introducing some new characters, the Oddcases team, and in one panel there's a party in a drag bar where Maz puts in a brief appearance."

Alistair wrote:

"But in case DC's lawyers are listening-

You see, it's not really Mazikeen, it's someone *dressed up as* her. Or maybe as a female Phantom of The Opera.

No copyrighted characters in our comic at all. Oh no. Except the ones that are our copyright, of course. If you see someone looking like a character from somewhere else making a cameo, it isn't really, 'mkay? Just people dressed and made up like them.

They're really all named Bob. Even the girls."

Bevis wrote:

"Don't be silly, they're not all called Bob. The girl dressed as Mazikeen is called Neville. Everyone else is called Bob though."

Argh! Who has changed the channel to The Two Ronnies?

(I used to work for a law firm which was instructed by DC's lawyers to do contentious intellectual property work in Hong Kong. As I think I said before, it mainly involved arguments over using Superman on underpants.)


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The Society for the Perpetuation of Independent Thought

www.robkamphausen.com"

How wonderful. Spending hours seriously contemplating the legal effects of seeing Superman on a pair of pants. Somehow it makes me love DC more. :) "

Mike Carey wrote:

I wonder what the American way consists of in that context.

Bevis wrote:

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Originally posted by Alistair:
You see, it's not really Mazikeen, it's someone *dressed up as* her. Or maybe as a female Phantom of The Opera.

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You know, this is one of those things that annoys me completely irrationally. Sometimes i despair that anyone in the world has actually read the book 'Phantom Of The Opera'. Because if they did they'd no the only time the ghost wears a mask is at the masquerade ball. the rest of the book he's just described as having a face like a skull. It's his real face, not a white mask. It looks like a mask but isn't. No hideous scarring from whatever, no Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeness. You never really find out who the ghost is or quite why he's like why he is (although I'm pretty sure it's hinted at) and he's never even called 'the Phantom Of The Opera'. he's just the ghost.

Or, well, he's only called 'the ghost' in the translation I've got. My french is just enough for me to be able to cope when on holiday in France but not to read a book in it.

But Phantom Of The Opera is one of the best books I've read. Sort of like Gormenghast in that it's frequently described as 'gothic fiction' but isn't really. It has certain elements that link it to gothic but it isn't really like that. Way better than Frankenstein or Dracula, and both very scary and very touching.

all that being said at least Terry Pratchett seems to have read it because of the very careful parodying he does of it in 'Maskerade'. Pratchett's book is much funnier if you've read the original."