Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

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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

Jersey! I think they outlawed winter here, as it wasn't politically feasible for Christmas shopping.

Bette Midler's on Martha (American TV!) because tonight's the first night of Hanukkah, and, um, she's promoting her new Christmas album.

g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF? I was always jealous of the Jewish kids at school, because no only did they get all the Jewish holidays, but they got all the Christian ones as well. That's just SO not fair.

That was when I told my school I was gonna start taking obscure Celtic holidays like Samhain and Beltaine.

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

They "got" all the Christian ones.

We didn't have a choice! We got all the Jewish holidays and "got" all the Christian holidays shoved down our throats!

g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

does Pastafarianism have any holidays? I wouldn't like to think that the works of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were going uncelebrated....

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

A day off school is still a day off! I'd have celebrated Zoroastrianism if it'd got me more holidays!

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, as if we got Jewish holidays off school. (OK, maybe a day a year)

g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

my weekend :

tonight : I really feel like going out and getting wrecked, but I am babysitting for my nephew while my sis goes out and gets wrecked instead.

saturday : a.m buy a christmas tree! p.m Xmas shopping in town followed by BIG beeeeer and chinese food with lots of friends. Also mrs dr c has been in a play which finishes tomorrow, so there will be much associated revelry there.

sunday : recover. play guitar. do stuff with kids like put the tree up.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to a religious school, and the Jewish kids always got given their own holidays off! Everyone else had to go to school, but they got the day off.

I actually wanna buy a Christmas Yule Tree this year. They've got living ones across the road, and even though I seem to be able to kill every plant (except the ficus) dead that comes through my door, I'd love to have a living gymnosperm in the garden. I could reuse it every year!

Plus, tree worship is totally pagan. I love it.

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've already had the big argument with my brother about Winter Consumerfest that we have every year which ends with him telling me the British economy is going to shit and it's like DUDE!!! It's your currency that's turned to monopoly money, not mine! And then he calls me a raging liberal and I call him a tory and try to throttle him for eating all the mincepies and my mum has to separate us. Except I call him by his real name for the rest of the season which really winds him up. Hah!

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

Yeah, the British economy's in a LOT of trouble.

Except I worshipped as a GOD here because my wallet's full of ££££££.

g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"Look upon a real currency and DESPAIR!!!"

What is Latin for James? I feel another windup session coming on.

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

Jacob-something

g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link


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