This rain

I must admit to forgetting the one pair of socks that was so filthy we told him to throw it away. He insists that he put loads of stuff into the washer but I know what came out so unless there's a sock-and-underwear-eating black hole in the washer, he's mistaken. The kids really are alike all over, aren't they?

I have another admission, then. I am one of those Monty Python quoters. I try to retrain myself but every once in a while something will set me off. the kids both love Python but since they're quiet folk like their dad, you don't get the blithering on you do with me. DD has, however, decided to adjust what speaking we do hear from her. She has replaced "Hey!" with "Oi!" quite thoroughly. That's courtesy of the good Doctor. (It's pretty cute, I must say.)

Oh my! Fortunately we're still lingering somewhere around, "She turned me into a _newt_!"

Karen E.

Aaarrrgghh! I'm surrounded by it! ;-D

Do you have the knights who say 'Ni' at your house? And do your children sing 'The Lumberjack Song' at you incessantly? DD and her friend have taught their entire Scout troop to sing it and they're becoming very popular at campfires with their raucous rendition. It's *bizarre*: like a disease, really. And once *one* MPQ (Monty Python Quoter) gets going, it brings out the MPQ in everyone, near and far. Off they all go, silly-walking and ex-parrotting and looking on the bright side of life... Whew!

In fact, that was the way in which DD first sneakily uttered the 's' word in front of me without my noticing! It was good, though. Gave me a fair excuse to give 'er a good slap on the bottom, which I'd been itching to do for a while. DD is like her father - has a rapier wit and is *much* quicker at it than me. Sigh. Sometimes, y'can't win!

ROTFL! Just you wait...! ;->

We absolutely "ni" at each other.

Oh Trish. It's the ringtone on my cellphone, I kid you not.

My particular weakness is the Four Yorkshiremen. "Corridor?!? We used to _dream_ of living in a corridor!" But our kids would never get away with singing The Lumberjack Song with Scouts. They're pretty picky about drinking references.

My mom used to insist that the only reason I sang along with "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" was so that I could use "d**n".

Have you ever seen The Reduced Shakespeare Company? They do the Complete Works in under two hours. And it's three guys. It gets a bit blue sometimes, but my kids have seen it. They love the version of Hamlet. (They do it faster, then faster, then faster, and then backwards in about five seconds.) I like when they do all the historical plays as an American football game. (King Lear gets penalized as a fictional character on the field.) Your DD might enjoy it, and you can pretend it's edifying.

Karen E.

I love it! My ex was a member of The Marching Lumberjacks, and his dear sweet sister and I used to sing it to him frequently. A pair of coloratura soprani, trying to outdo each other, it was priceless. (Well, he thought not.....)

I wish I could get in touch with her so that the next time she's visiting, she borrows your ringtone. VBEG

They say "ni" at our house, too. And it's just as often DH that starts spouting MP!

DD#1 had an interesting reaction to Spammalot: Everyone else raves, but she said it was "just okay...Really, it doesn't hold up anywhere near as good as the movie."

(Our computers used to sing the Spam song while downloading email. That stopped several years ago...thank goodness!)

Sue

One of our older computers said, "I'm not dead yet!"(from Holy Grail) at shutdown. I wish I could figure out how to set this laptop up to do that.

Karen E.

I got mine from my carrier's (Cingular) site. Coupla bucks plus the download charge. I consider it a good investment.

Karen E.

(Which is really funny, because it makes people jump when the mail comes in!) ;->

Sigh... there's no escaping it!

I hadn't thought of that! Our blokes don't seem to mind such references, so long as the kids are laughing at them.

NOOOOOOOO, but it sounds like exactly my kind of thing! LOL!

Here in the UK we have the National Theatre of Brent

Bruce

Not sure if it's the same guys, but we saw "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Condensed)", and I thought I would fall off my chair, I was laughing so hard. We were in the front row, and during one of the plays (Hamlet) I had one of the actors practically sitting in my lap.

And they did it - all the plays in 90 minutes.

MargW

If you are using Windows, go to your control panel, (Sounds and Audio Devices) there is a section that sets up the sounds for items like start-up, sign-off, etc. If you choose an item, and then browse, you will see a list of sounds associated with each item. You can download .wav files and then use them for your sounds.

MargW

We have "Shakespeare's Skum," who perform at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. One of the best skits is "MacBeth in 20 minutes or less" that starts with everyone in the audience synchronizing watches....

This page gives you the flavor:

That sounds like the one, Marg. Was it not a hoot? My DH took me to see it in college (I took three semesters of Shakespeare) and it was a riot. There is a DVD out there - why yes, I do have it - and it's well worth it.

Karen E.

MacBook Pro. Until we were gifted with a Dell last month, we were an exclusively Apple household. I figured that if I could et up the files on one Mac I should be able to do it on another but I was wrong. Oh well, someday....

Karen E.

Is there a Mac User Group you could ask, Karen? I'll eat my hat if there's no way to customise a Macintosh - that's what they're all about!

We were doing all that back in 1987 when Windoze only had a green screen to offer! Whenever I emptied my trash (the icon was a toilet), you heard a flushing sound. When the trash was full, you saw an icon of 'something' hitting a fan. ResEdit was a *wonderful* thing!

Not only that, but each of us in our Apple dealership had recorded the voices of our children saying 'Good morning Mummy/Daddy' as a startup sound. At 8.30 every morning, you'd hear a chorus of little voices as the SE30s were started up! LOLOLOLOL! My office-mate, Jenny, who was childless by choice nearly went *mad*. She reckoned it turned her stomach to hear all those pooncy little voices. So she got a recording of her neighbour's rottweiler and had that as her startup sound. It was kinda funny when the Rotty got introduced to what we called 'The Dawn Chorus'... LOL! Fond memories...

Do all the Mac Users remember HyperCard? It was clearly a precursor to the browser softwares we use today, but at the time there was nothing quite like it. My DS was only nine years old, and pretty severely autistic at the time. Yet, he wrote his stories in Hypercard and was able to add animated movies to illustrate them! All I did was to show him how to source the hypertext to achieve this or that kind of animation and he did the rest. That was pretty ground-breaking stuff back when DS was nine and most kids were only capable of playing Brickles on a PC. But Macs were that easy. (O how I wish I could afford to have one today! Snif! Weep!)

To bring this back on topic, I actually charted my Mac Screen for cross stitch using ResEdit - one stitch per pixel. It's only half-done, as my Mac got put into storage and never came out again. My hard drive icon was of an owl wearing a mortarboard and the trash was the toilet. I have the menu bar running across the top with 'File Edit View Special' etc.

I was collecting all the icons of all the programs and systematically stitching them onto my white aida in black floss. I had MacWrite, MacPaint, SuperPaint, Canvas, HyperCard, ReadySetGo!, PageMaker, Wingz, Dark Castle, Beyond Dark Castle, Macinooga ChooChoo, CopyIIMac, Toy Shop and lots of others besides. When the Mac II came out, DH fantasised about me charting all the fabulous new colour icons, but,y'know: they never held the same sentimental attachment as good ol' MacWrite/MacPaint etc!

"Trish Brown" wrote

No, but I do have a very nice (or as the French Taunter would say, varrry nize) ident card which I ran up on my 'puter for me and two accomplices after a priest who has since left called me a liturgical terrorist. It of course features....The Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapons are ..... (I believe I have been designated Cardinal Fang.) Dawne

"Susan Hartman" wrote

After I saw Spamalot in Toronto (with my MP keen son and my long suffering daughterinlaw), I renamed my poor old cat Not Dead Fred, since he was supposed to die 4 years ago. Dawne

NOT YOU TOO, Dawne?! =:-O