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• 23:58 Phone keeps chirping to say it's running out of battery, but can I find it....? No. #
• 08:29 Seminar paper to give this morning, and handouts to print.... #
• 09:01 Watching the steam rise off my printouts, I realise the house has a bigger damp problem than I thought.... #
• 09:07 Annoyed with external hard-drive. Keeps refusing to let me copy stuff. Also, R3 announcers should be able to pronounce "Baden-Würrtemberg". #
• 14:53 I really hate filling in online surveys... This afternoon, I must go and buy some sort of convection heater - Boswells or Argos? Questions! #
• 15:02 And then the bloody website crashed when I tried to send in the questionnaire! The Commem. ball committee are meeting in here; v noisy. #
• 16:44 I approve of the way the Making Light thread on spiritual warfare has turned into a game of Mornington Crescent. Also, I have a heater. #
• 17:28 Ack, have lost the file for a presentation I made in summer, and which I need... Should give things better names. #
• 17:49 @ParrotKnight Same prefix; OED says " With the forms compare the note at PROTO- comb. form; the present word is unusual ..." #
• 17:50 @ParrotKnight ...in that the forms in -th- have come to predominate, probably as a result of their use in the titles of particular officers. #
• 17:51 Lots of fireworks outside (over the Meadow?) Wonder why... #
• 17:56 If Ignatius Loyola made holes in his soles so that he was finally only wearing the uppers, how did they stay on? Subtle Jesuit superpowers? #
• 18:19 Dear American Undergraduate: SHUT UP, stop loudly describing how to get to Brookes over the phone in a library. May your battery go flat. #
• 19:04 @pellegrina Ah, of course. I'm afraid I tend to be much more conscious of the Muslim population, but there are Hindus too. #

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Comments

[owl]

One can do nothing other than approve of spontaneous games of Mornington Crescent.

[tree_and_leaf]

Mornington Crescent makes everything better.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

What exactly is a game of Mornington Crescent? Inquiring minds would like to know.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's a bit like Fizzbin, but played using stops on the London Underground instead of cards, the aim being to get to Mornington Crescent before your fellow players. It has a very complicated rule system.

... actually, it's a spoof game invented by the Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, but if played with sufficient seriousness you can convince naive bystanders that they are on the point of understanding what's going on.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was already trying to make sense of your "explanation" before I read the rest of the comment.

[tree_and_leaf]

Fizzbin is, of course, the spoof card game invented by Kirk and Spock as part of an escape plan in "A Piece of the Action".

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

*bows in deference to your ST:TOS knowledge*

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

People talking on their mobiles in the library are spawn of Satan. It is driving me NUTS on my course at the moment. Why do they think it is ok to do this?!

[tree_and_leaf]

It's appalling - I sat there making cut throat gestures at him, and while he mouthed 'sorry', he then kept right on talking, which made the whole thing infinitely worse.