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[garjones]

Watto the flying slave dealer thing in the Star Wars prequels is played by Harry Secombe's son.

[Steve Sensible]

You must have been surfing the BBC website. I wonder what happened to that full-size Millennium Falcon.

[garjones]

You must have been surfing the BBC website. I wonder what happened to that full-size Millennium Falcon.

I was, I liked the Welsh Star Wars claims, reminded me of that Goodness Gracious Me sketch where the dad claims everyone is Indian

[Ogul]

I heard abut a study that said that people who are coming back from vacation are no happier than they were well before the vacation, that it's the period before the vacation in which people are happiest, anticipating the vacation to come. That'd be a great use for selective amnesia, constantly anticipate your vacation next week, and then when Sunday rolls around, the memory is wiped and replaced with it being the week yet to come. You could be "almost on vacation" 52 weeks a year.

[Sanjay]

I was, I liked the Welsh Star Wars claims, reminded me of that Goodness Gracious Me sketch where the dad claims everyone is Indian

Who seemed to be based on my Dad as well.

[Marc Diamond]

I heard abut a study that said that people who are coming back from vacation are no happier than they were well before the vacation, that it's the period before the vacation in which people are happiest, anticipating the vacation to come. That'd be a great use for selective amnesia, constantly anticipate your vacation next week, and then when Sunday rolls around, the memory is wiped and replaced with it being the week yet to come. You could be "almost on vacation" 52 weeks a year.

Perhaps we should NEVER reach our goals then. Just anticipate getting to the end of them.

That said, I've been discovering the satisfaction of reaching a deadline always makes me feel all jittery and a bit 'lost' until a new one is in place. Oh God... I'm a workaholic!

[Ogul]

Perhaps we should NEVER reach our goals then. Just anticipate getting to the end of them.

I honestly think it would be, but it's hard to manage permanent anticipation. If you don't feel like the goal is reasonably close then yuo don't get much effect from it, and if you're aware that the goalpost keeps getting moved then you get frustrated. It would only work if you could forget that the goalposts keep moving.

[Henry Blanco]

I learned that I am able to survive a hot and humid day without benefit of air conditioning thanks to my Caribbean genetic code.

[Miqque Loveland]

On a spin-off from BBC2's Top Gear, Richard Hammond's Crash Course, he was down in Denver at the main landfill and was told a story by one of the long-term heavy machinery operators. Story was that Longmont United Hospital had lost a biopsy and had to send a crew down to search the landfill to find it. Hammond asked "How big was the biopsy?" and told "About the size of a pot roast."

My eye surgery is to be at Longmont United Hospital.
















Yup. <- "after"

Edited by Miqque Loveland, 29 May 2012 - 02:27 AM.

[Ogul]

My eye surgery is to be at Longmont United Hospital.

It's unlikely that they'll need to take as much as a pot roast for that. Maybe a medallion, a fillet, tops.

[Martin Smith]

I learned last night that there is a lot I don't know about Star Wars and Star Trek (well, not so much 'learned' as had that reaffirmed). It doesn't bother me so much, but it is a hindrance on pub quizzes.

Also, I was the only person in a packed pub who had heard of Kamandi and possibly the only one who knew the JLA debuted in Brave and the Bold. What are they teaching people these days?

[garjones]

That sounds like a tough pub quiz. Kamandi is pretty obscure even for comics fans.

[Martin Smith]

That sounds like a tough pub quiz. Kamandi is pretty obscure even for comics fans.

I don't know, he was on the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon a half dozen or more times (which is how I know of him). It was a fairly hard quiz I suppose, in that if you don't know the specialist subjects you've not got much chance of guessing correctly (as we found with Star Wars, Star Trek and Alien). I aced all the few comic questions on there though, including getting the full name of SWORD right, which I'm quite proud of.

[garjones]

I don't know, he was on the Batman: Brave and the Bold cartoon a half dozen or more times (which is how I know of him).

That still qualifies as obscure for me in a pub quiz.

[Martin Smith]

That still qualifies as obscure for me in a pub quiz.

Hmm, perhaps. It was a special 'geek quiz'.

There was a set of spaceship anagrams on the initial hand-out sheet. I knew one of them would be the ship from Blake's 7 but I couldn't for the life of me remember what the damn thing was called. It turned out to be one of the two we didn't get (the other being Heart of Gold, which completely stumped us).

[Arjan Dirkse]

It was a special 'geek quiz'.

If only I could do geek quizes for a job....

Of course I'd still lose to most of you geeks.

[Miqque Loveland]

It's unlikely that they'll need to take as much as a pot roast for that. Maybe a medallion, a fillet, tops.

Thanks, Tim. I neededthat.

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Kamandi? Evvvvvvvvvvvvvverybody knows Kirby!


Who am I kidding? Willie Lumkin was obscure.

[Henry Blanco]

I need to learn something today: What is "XKCD?"

[Martin Smith]

A web comic.

[Henry Blanco]

Thus was the prophecy fulfill'd....

Now, what is "Reddit?"