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Off to the airport in 20 minutes; I'm not sure how much I'll be posting from the states, so happy holidays everyone!

― g000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Have a wonderful Winter Consumerfest, Gooblar!

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Cheers. You too.

― g000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Merry Kwanza!

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.themepsp.com/albums/userpics/10268/Kwanza.jpg

― tissp! (tissp!), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

God, I'm a pretentious fuck. I should be shot.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I appear to have successfully got out of going to the office Xmas party. Phew.

However, I still may be too ill to go to the Early Years. I haven't had a night in since Sunday, and I think I might need one. I don't know! I wish they weren't on so late. I wish someone else were going.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i might go

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Well hello. Feeling a bit edgy this morning - but on the other hand the boss is off.

I typed that as "odd", which makes sense too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Wha.

I did make it to the kids panto, all that driving and stopping for emergency fillup! Only to be stood outside the door whie the audience smiled at whatever was on stage out of my eyeview. Fortunately, a four year old, running amok, decideed to let me in, and I did get to see all of it. (The bit I missed was some tot playing "London Bridge" really badly. And if this gets googled, allthis happened in Swindon, natch)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning. My boss is giving me grief about not going to the Xmas party next Tuesday. I have a band rehearsal and I'm sure as hell not missing that. The party will be most likely dire, like every other 'social' occasion organized at this place.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

our work party is tonight. I feel like I'm in a minority on ILX as our parties are actually quite good.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

We are having a late lunch/afternoon drinking today, there's only 6 of us it should be fun.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a bit fearful about the Elvis impersonator however. The party is on a Vegas theme so maybe he'll be extremely corpulent. Someone in the office used to go out with an Elvis impersonator and so we had to check to make sure it wasn't the same one. Her current bf is the editor of 2000AD making her possibly the only person in history to date both Elvis and Tharg.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely in a minority, Mark.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm with you mark. i love work parties so much i'm going to TWO this year. (one lunching and boozing extravaganza and another tonight i'm attending post-work, even though i'm not lunching with them)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think there are THEMES to either of the parties though, unless you count alcoholism as a theme.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The best theme of all.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I am on the social committee at work and this afternoon my partners and crime and I will be loading up a couple of cars with partty poppers, streamers, banners, table decorations, balloons etc to take to the party venue which is the Oxford Masonic Centre. No silly handshakes involved, but there is a picture on the wall of some minor royal (possibly the Duke of Kent) dressed in his regulation leather apron. It is testament to the vast expanse of time I've spent in Oxford that I have been to Christmas dos at this venue with THREE different employers!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Seeing as this thread *starts* with a bad pun, here's a joke I was sent today. Well, it's probably in the "it's only a joke because someone *says* it's a joke" category, but here you go:

What sound do you get if you drop two elephants and a cymbal off a cliff?

*badoom-tish*

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

you should play some will smith at the place later.

then you can have some Oxford Masonic Boom Shake Shake Shake the Room init.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Incidentally, I've just tested our new watercooler, and its tap water tastes like, erm, tap water. Blech.

(probably cos the reason our tap water mings is its extreme hardness, which filtering isn't going to remove)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Good afternoon. Bah, I wish you'd said that earlier, Emsk, as I ended up going home. Which was, I guess, what I actually needed, as I got a decent night's sleep.

Spent the morning wandering around the back of Clapham/Stockwell looking for my new shrink. Half an hour to examine you, and then it's a new course of medication. Well, not until next year because we didn't finish my ... err, what's it called. When they poke at your head and ask how your thoughts are racing. Two potential new meds I'm going to have to google. Sigh.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Kate! I'm in Minneapolis. I never want to be in Houston airport EVER again though in three weeks no choice...

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, Suzy! How's the weather up there?

Bleurgh, Houston airport is a portal of hell. It truly is.

I think I am going into PBW withdrawl. Sigh.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i have a mate who has recently moved from Oxford to Minneapolis. He tells me there is a restaurant there called Leaning Tower of Pizza. Arf!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I even have a PBW song stuck in my head. Curse him for being so catchy. It's gotten worse. I no longer want to sleep with him, I now want to write songs with him. ARgh!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Go and look at Archel's flickr for some lovely lovely news. :-D

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I assume it's baby photos?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay!

Mark, LTOP does exist and it's been feeding scenesters ever since I can remember. But it's drecky Minnesota party pizza mainly. If he lives locally to it then he is neighbours with my friend and occasional ILXor Chris K.

Kate, I had to wait in Houston's Continental Express winglet for my flight for three hours of 'we don't know what's going on with Minneapolis, what the FUCK do we look like, EMPLOYEES or something?' and it was gross. It smelled like dirty socks.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

he lives on Grov3l4nd Avenue, if that helps.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I was quite disappointed to discover that the restaurant building isn't shaped like a leaning tower of pizza.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Groveland? VERY NICE.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"Here's what I'll do, I'll split myself in two
And that way you can be with me
And I can learn to be with you"

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Go and look at Archel's flickr for some lovely lovely news. :-D

Linkage???

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

if i can spilt myself in two
i'd be giving blowjobs to myself*
all day long, woohoo.

*(depending on the split)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, I figured she'd want to log on herself later, and make the announcement, and I don't want to steal her thunder or anything, but here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20144310@N00/

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Awwww. I hope Archel and Matt don't mind you stealing their thunder, but really, awwwwwwww.

I will have to tell my mum, because that's her middle name.

Matt's camera needs its clock setting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

She has the same birthday as my mum. :-)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy yesterbirthday to your mum then!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

What's everyone doing at the weekend?

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

going to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Picking up my mum up at the airport and then hanging out with my mum!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost met your mum when you brought her to Oxford! But by the time I was ready you were already on the bus back to London. Remember? Was that last Christmas or the one before?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/weather.jpg

― g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

!!!

― g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

No, you wouldn't have met my mum. I had already ditched mum and godmum at the restaurant before heading to the pub by myself.

That was two Christmasses ago. Blimey.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, I just remembered which house I was living in at the time and realised it must have been two years ago.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

What's everyone doing at the weekend?

Hopefully taking someone away for the weekend!

(I don't like to say "I *am* taking..." because I'm sure if I do that I'll jinx everything and five minutes later she'll email me telling me she has to cancel)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Gooblar, dude, is that the weather in Jersey? Or Bermuda?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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