Thought of the day

[HarperPR]

I am resurrecting what transpired to be a very popular thread on the other board. I think we had about 800 posts!

To kick off: Nick is very very nice, handsome, wearing well and some of his fans are bonkers.

Not my view but Avrilo of the singingmidwifeblog's. She also has a nice pic there of Nick @ the Cavern recently (wearing that gorgeous black puffer that he looks very cool in!).

[scotpaulabear]

Very cool! But definitely not the Cavern, it's the Chattery in Swansea...
http://thesingingmidwife.blog.co.uk/2007/12/01/ah_yes_me_n_nick_harper_we_re_good_mates~3381320
I recognise the specials board!
And yes, there were nutters afoot there (who make me look like an amateur :rofl: )...

[Marcie]

I'd love to see funky join up here. I miss her whimsical (to say the least) posts.. Anyone in touch with her?

[HarperPR]

And she has been told to get her butt here! She's had a few problems of late and been a bit low, but I am sure she will appear here soon.

[critch]

Aha. Thought for the day! Found it!

Hi paula! Missed you! How're things?

[scotpaulabear]

Critchmeister! *more hugs* I'm good, well that is if you count being rushed off my feet at work and coughing up a lung with the latest lurgy as good :p Can't complain! Much :D

And here's my Steven Wright thought of the day:
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

[Marcie]

And she has been told to get her butt here! She's had a few problems of late and been a bit low, but I am sure she will appear here soon.


Aww, thanks Linn, wish her well for me.. :)

[Marcie]

Critchmeister! *more hugs* I'm good, well that is if you count being rushed off my feet at work and coughing up a lung with the latest lurgy as good :p Can't complain! Much :D

And here's my Steven Wright thought of the day:
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Feel better Paula..:) I'm laid up with a sore throat myself.. not a good thing as I have a festival gig next weekend and I need to be right as rain by then.

[HarperPR]

Just had word with the munky, but I fear she may only be lured out if she found a Banksy thread going on - ha!

In the mean, Marcie, she suggested you pop along here:

http://www.santasghetto.com

[critch]

If you speak to funky again you could pass on my wishes to her too.

Don't worry paula. It'll soon be christmas, but once that's gone, a new tour, so loads to look forward to. Hope you feel better soon.

[scotpaulabear]

Thanks Critch :biggrin: I'm very much looking forward to Christmas, hoping Santa drops that sparkly purple electric geetar under the tree like I asked for - I've been very very very good! :Angel_anim:

And big love to the munky from me too!!

[critch]

Sounds very cool! I've been playing my geetar alot lately - my fingers are hurting to the point i can't hold a cup of tea! And i'm still rubbish! Lol. :)

[Marcie]

Just had word with the munky, but I fear she may only be lured out if she found a Banksy thread going on - ha!

In the mean, Marcie, she suggested you pop along here:

http://www.santasghetto.com

Hi Linn.. tell munky thanks.. and that I'll check the site out in detail. Looks very interesting at first glance..

[critch]

My phone doesn't want to play that site - but the url sounds interesting!

I saw lewis hamilton on topgear yesterday. Incredible driver - if he'd been in the dry, he would have beaten the stig! Which set me thinking, who is the stig?

[marky]

Alonso :biggrin: I'll get my coat:blushing:

[HarperPR]

Thought of the day


Only 17 of them now to Chrissy-mas......:grouphug:

[critch]

Only 9 of them til my birthday! Lol!

[Barry]

Another month and we can get back to some sort of sanity.

[HarperPR]

Sadly not for me. Looks like I shall be 'insane' for awhile yet - says so here, haha! And while everyone is still resting in the post-Christmas/New Year lull, I start going into overdrive with the next tour. Insania!

[critch]

Today i've been mainly thinking about starting a "pedants' corner" but that involves a few pedants! Any volunteers?

The starter for 10 is ms pr's mistake! Lol!

[HarperPR]

Mistake? Where, you, you...pedant you! I think there are some - I blame the mobile.

[critch]

So Ms Pr! Exactly how many Harpers are over the moon? :w00t:

[HarperPR]

LOL! I dunno. Depends how many Harpers are footie managers - hahaha!!!

But I can explain that. I copied from Google link, and then later saw the apostrophe lapse. Trouble is, Paul is very tight with his windows of opportunity here - ! - and they are simply not long enough always for me to re-edit in!

[critch]

LOL! I dunno. Depends how many Harpers are footie managers - hahaha!!!

But I can explain that. I copied from Google link, and then later saw the apostrophe lapse. Trouble is, Paul is very tight with his windows of opportunity here - ! - and they are simply not long enough always for me to re-edit in!

I see...

On a brighter note... it's my burfdee in 5 days!

I also share my burfdee with another musical genius...

http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/archive/images/peanuts2007112223207.gif

[HarperPR]

Hope everyone is full of Christmas cheer!

You may have seen this in the paper yesterday. A mental health facility in Salford published in a magazine a top ten of festive songs for th ementally disordered. Of course there has been a bruhaha about it, but some are quite funny:

Do You Hear What I Hear? (Schizophrenia)

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town To Get Me (Paranoid)

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Deck The Halls And House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and... (Manic)

Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me (Narcissistic)

[critch]

With Christmas having come and gone, today, as yesterday, I have been mainly thinking about my exams! In particular, Concrete and Steel which is on Friday! Everybody, please wish me luck! God knows I'm gonna need it! :w00t:

[aspwatterson]

Very cool! But definitely not the Cavern, it's the Chattery in Swansea...
http://thesingingmidwife.blog.co.uk/2007/12/01/ah_yes_me_n_nick_harper_we_re_good_mates~3381320
I recognise the specials board!
And yes, there were nutters afoot there (who make me look like an amateur :rofl: )...

I've left a comment on your noticeboard as a visitor. Andy

[HarperPR]

Moderate alcohol consumption is good for you. Official. Researchers claim that it can protect against fatal heart attacks and extend life expectancy. Those who neither drank or exercised were found to have 50% more chance of heart disease in this latest Danish study.

So, what's everyone having...?!

[Barry]

I'm going running!

[HarperPR]

...is that running to the local hostelry by any chance - ha?!

[critch]

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

[HarperPR]

7 days and counting until the start of Nick's tour. Dig on down!

[critch]

I fink manchester will be my first on the second. Just about sorted all the problems regarding logistics of it. Looking forward to it hugely.

[HarperPR]

Read yr email and let me know about Manc.

[pete c]

This thought occured quite sharply to me earlier today:

Don't walk around with scissors in your pocket.

[critch]

That's kinda like the tip that i always give barstaff - don't put light bulbs in your back pocket!

[fickle_Witch]

the best tip to give waiters "get a haircut" amazing how i find it funnier than them!! :rofl:

[critch]

I like these:

Don't wear socks in the shower.

If you have any spare cash, put it on the first test match to be a draw.

Just because someone hoots their horn at you doesn't mean they fancy you. It may just mean you're in their way.

[HarperPR]

My thought of today: where's all my hair gone???

I've just had four inches cut off.:w00t:

Still got about a foot left, so not quite a Britney though!:biggrin:

[critch]

Today i've been thinking mainly it's 5 days til i get to see nick! Assuming saturday goes to plan! Which these things seldom do. I'll be on my own there me thinks though so if any one is going and wants to meet up, let me know.

[HarperPR]

Today i've been thinking mainly it's 5 days til i get to see nick! Assuming saturday goes to plan! Which these things seldom do. I'll be on my own there me thinks though so if any one is going and wants to meet up, let me know.

Ah, don't sound so sad:( Debbie will be there, Leyla, Craig Powers and perhaps you-know-who???? See your email I copied to you and D.

Did you miss him then?:rofl:

[HarperPR]

May be five days for you but only TWO DAYS to official start!:w00t:

[critch]

perhaps you-know-who????


Nick? I bloody hope he'll be there! Not going otherwise...*sulk*

[fickle_Witch]

May be five days for you but only TWO DAYS to official start!:w00t:


and i'll be there! :w00t::w00t::w00t:

[HarperPR]

He who digs deep, digs the longest...

[critch]

He who digs deep, digs the longest...
Is that really profound or just really obvious? :)

[SteveT]

He who digs deep, digs the longest...

I dig a pony - Lennon.

[HarperPR]

It was just meant to be ...deep.

And to help you with another 7 posts to become a space cadet before you see Nick!

[critch]

Yay! Space Cadet on its way - with a little help from my friends!

[HarperPR]

Pah, I'm en route to infinity!

[critch]

Pah, I'm en route to infinity!

Assuming we can count your posts as all part of a set of posts, would you think that then infinity you are approaching would be a asaṃkhyāta ("countless, innumerable") or ananta ("endless, unlimited")?

I suppose this is dependant upon the limit of the integer set that Paul has designed to count the post numbers. The IEEE floating-point standard usually would specify positive and negative infinity values but these can be the result of arithmetic overflow, division by zero, or other exceptional operations.

Some programming languages (for example, J and UNITY) specify greatest and least elements, i.e. values that compare (respectively) greater than or less than all other values. These may also be termed top and bottom, or plus infinity and minus infinity; they are useful as sentinel values in algorithms involving sorting, searching or windowing. In languages that do not have greatest and least elements, but do allow overloading of relational operators, it is possible to create greatest and least elements (with some overhead, and the risk of incompatibility between implementations).

So Paul, how many posts are we allowed before we have to create a new login (or you have to buy a new server!)?

[HarperPR]

Now if only you'd put all that in your gig reviews - hahaha!

[critch]

Yeah - no one would read them!

[pd]

Post counts are stored in an unsigned integer per user, with up to 10 digits. This means that the number of posts can range from 0 to 9999999999.

Based on an average of 10 posts per day, according to my calculations it will take 2739726 years for Ms PR to exhaust the available numbers. Should this situation ever arise I will probably take the easy option and just reset her post count to zero again.

[HarperPR]

I think you underestimate me: I'd say more like, maybe, 6 months?! Ha!

[aspwatterson]

Pah, I'm en route to infinity!


WITHOUT PREJUDICE


I think the whole system of judging people's contributions to decide their username hierarchal echelon status nomenclaturely should be replaced with a more judicious & fair grading ascendancy to aspire to. The present system is whimsically decided by some remote arbitary judge/fairy on his pedestal valuing quantity of posts [the more inane/mundane the better] and not the quality of the postings. This is blatantly unfair and not because I am now 'a real loony on a bus' with sour grapes, but it encourages a dilution of input with no respect to quality control and suchlike. In addition, the 'sweetener' if you transmit a donation, in offering cool options of a bank of solicitous phrases like 'silk pyjamas cruising in the Bahamas' renders the whole Richter Scale of tectonicity senseless and open to blatant corruption. I rest my case...


andisean

[fickle_Witch]

you mean you are the real loony on the bus andi?

:sifone:

[aspwatterson]

you mean you are the real loony on the bus andi?

:sifone:


"She chuckled, I smiled..."

Maybe if I reach 150 posts now I'll be promoted to something more conducively thematically endemically relevant to my obvious intelligence which shines out of me and my corruscating posts? Or donate a 5p used postage stamp as a donation to upgrade my status through bribery?


aw:w00t:

[fickle_Witch]

or .... no that wouldnt work, what about ..... nah too far fetched ..... ah i know ..... nope think that is illegal in most parts of europe, i know, live up to it!!
if i could i would, but i cant, coz captain kirk and i fell out, he is a joint hog ya know???

hw :cheers2:

[critch]

I think we should organise a "Harpic Tour Bus" next year! However this is a tour bus with a difference! This is for the fanatic fans like me, Paula, Linn...etc

Then we can go to every gig and drink! Yay!

(of course Nick could have a space too, but only if he asks *reeealllllly* nicely! :p :biggrin:

http://www.theoriginaltour.com/images/bus.gif

[scotpaulabear]

Sure! If Otway can do it, so can Nick :biggrin:
http://www.ctgrouptravel.co.uk/johnotway2007/index.aspx

(love the bus pic, Critch!)

[Sadfish]

Post counts are stored in an unsigned integer per user, with up to 10 digits. This means that the number of posts can range from 0 to 9999999999.

Based on an average of 10 posts per day, according to my calculations it will take 2739726 years for Ms PR to exhaust the available numbers. Should this situation ever arise I will probably take the easy option and just reset her post count to zero again.

Sorry to out-geek the geek...... :w00t::w00t:.....

.....but, in mysql there is a integar limit, dependent on what you use probably the 32bit one here and then the upper limit for posts is actually 2147483647, in which case it will only take her 588351 years to get to the upper limit.

:p:p

[wessexy witch]

Hey,save me a seat on the fun bus !!
:p

[critch]

I think we should do the scottish gigs in the bus! Paula sold arran to me the other night!
Wonder if nick'll do a cover of "the wheels on the bus"

[scotpaulabear]

Let's all get ready for Good Bus '08... heh heh...

I think we should do the scottish gigs in the bus! Paula sold arran to me the other night!
Wonder if nick'll do a cover of "the wheels on the bus"

Wicked! When he's in Glasgow, we'll try to teach him the old Scottish schoolkids' fave, "Oh, ye cannae throw yer granny aff tha bus" :rofl:

[critch]

It's a daft idea, but it's an appealing one! Think it might have to be done. Any ideas how much a coach and driver is for 2 weeks?

[just jane]

not such a daft idea. A few of the hardcore levs fans follow their european tours on a tourbus, I dont know them but I think Paula does.

[scotpaulabear]

not such a daft idea. A few of the hardcore levs fans follow their european tours on a tourbus, I dont know them but I think Paula does.

Indeedy I do! How could I forget the Frog Train and the Clog Train! :blushing: :w00t:

[critch]

Indeedy I do! How could I forget the Frog Train and the Clog Train! :blushing: :w00t:

No idea what you're talking about.

Has anyone got any quotes on coaches yet?

[HarperPR]

No idea what you're talking about.

Has anyone got any quotes on coaches yet?


On a coach with you lot??? Sounds horrendous!:w00t:

The above you'll find more about on the Levs alternative messageboard!:closedeyes:

[critch]

I've got something i really wanna post, but i can't. Nick forbade me! I'm not even allowed to say what it is! It's driving me crazy!

Grr!

[scotpaulabear]

Is it a photo of him in his pants? :rofl:

[critch]

Why have you not got a photo of nick in his pants? :p

[scotpaulabear]

Why have you not got a photo of nick in his pants? :p

Cos I'm a good girl and a married woman, me! :p :Angel_anim:

[critch]

Yeah true... I suppose it's a good job that the thought isn't what really counts then! :)

Has anyone heard from MsPR? She's been quiet since i told i couldn't tell her about the above! Hope she's not offended! Not my fault. Orders from his harpicness must be obeyed! Lol.

[Sadfish]

she's not responded to my PM or emails, so she is ignoring me too.

I almost feel lost without her bullying me into sticking some posters up somewhere..... :rofl::rofl:

[critch]

Oh i know! We need to bring back the "homework" thread from the other place!

[Uriel]

She must be busy. I had an email from her yesterday evening so I wouldn't get too worried.

[Sadfish]

She must be busy. I had an email from her yesterday evening so I wouldn't get too worried.

oh so she takes her time to email you but not us! favouritism, thats what it is hurumph!

[scotpaulabear]

Must... resist... posting... sarky... comment :blushing:

[Sadfish]

Must... resist... posting... sarky... comment :blushing:

oh come on..........

[critch]

Bad paula! But well done for resisting!

Why does my phone case not fit my phone? :eye brow raise emo:

[Uriel]

Heh, Don't get too worked up. It's the first email I'd had from her in several months (I think). Maybe there's other unusual behaviour afoot?!

[critch]

What behaviour would be unusual for MsPR? A good question me thinks!

[HarperPR]

P*** off you lot! Give me a break. I had very important Twang stuff to deal with yesterday. And when my head stops pounding I have even more important 'LB's LB' stuff to do today!!! Nah!

[Sadfish]

P*** off you lot! Give me a break. I had very important Twang stuff to deal with yesterday. And when my head stops pounding I have even more important 'LB's LB' stuff to do today!!! Nah!


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[HarperPR]

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Ha ha!!!!


Just a word that I am about to do same again in Reading - so don't wait up for posts!:rofl:

[critch]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that nick could and should do a cover of the theme from the kids cartoon "trapdoor"?

[fickle_Witch]

its you :blink:

altho now you mention it, he could put it in a medly with rod hull and emu.

my thought for the day, had i known that my pox ridden husband would give me such a nasty chest infection, i would have put him in the shed when he was ill last week :angry:

[critch]

Poor you! Chest infections are nasty. Stay in bed. Lots of sweet tea and make sure hubby brings you a bacon butty.

[fickle_Witch]

spent day with dear friend for whom the plot had elluded her in winchester instead. hoping that maybe said plot will return with the sharing of my germs ;)
i'll get over it, making homemade chicken soup tonight, does it get any better than that?
thanks for the thought critch :)

amor mundi

hatty :)

[HarperPR]

Winter draws on everyone! Get the thermal vests out!

IT'S SNOWING IN LONDON!

[Travellerman]

I am not amused. :D I think I had 3 weeks of summer this year (in California) and that was it, everywhere else was Winter or Spring!

[wobbly bob]

isn't it always summer in california?

[HarperPR]

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Lao Tzu

(let's spread the lurve!:D)

[Travellerman]

isn't it always summer in california?

Generally, it's 'shorts weather' from April to October, but I was only there for 3 weeks this year and I arrived from the snowy Australian Alps. It's just been one long winter this year!

[critch]

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v142/43/62/120807678/n120807678_35691677_7626.jpg


Roar....!

[leigh]

I never knew avrilo was a Harpernaut. Just shows.

[leigh]

I am resurrecting what transpired to be a very popular thread on the other board. I think we had about 800 posts!

Oi ! You big robber :wink:

[critch]

Just found this on Urban Dictionary and it made me lol:

lol theory (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol%20theory&defid=2570095)




The theory that the internet phrase lol (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lol),meaning "laugh out loud", can be placed at any part in any sentence and make said sentence lose all credibilty and seriousness.
ex 1
Doc: We need to operate on your colon lol, you have cancer.

ex 2
Jesus: Take this all of you and eat it, it is my body, lol.

ex 3
Me: Will you marry me? Lol.

^Lol theory in action

[wobbly bob]

reality tv 'celebrity' jade goody has been given weeks to live, lol!

yeah, see what you mean...

[HarperPR]

I am what you say I am - to you

I am something different in everyone's mind...

I am not someone else to different people... I am a response to you

I am a thought to friends... I am sacred to family... I am naked to myself...

I am honest to all...

I am not without fault...

I am trying...

I am me.................

I just am


(this isn't mine, but the words of a friend of mine, the artist Temper. Hope he won't mind my copying here, but I thought rather apt to all...)

[aspwatterson]

I think we should organise a "Harpic Tour Bus" next year! However this is a tour bus with a difference! This is for the fanatic fans like me, Paula, Linn...etc. Then we can go to every gig and drink! Yay! (of course Nick could have a space too, but only if he asks *reeealllllly* nicely! :p :biggrin:
http://www.theoriginaltour.com/images/bus.gif


Critch? Weekend in sunny Wiltshire perchance? This company is literally on the doorstep :


http://www.dudleys-rv.com/

I ain't got a PSV licence though.....

Andi