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What, wait a minute - did you say you had to re-fillm a video? I thought these were all done in one take?

They nearly all are, but we do get the occasional mess up that just ruins the video, so we have to start again. This happens maybe once or so during the month of a competition.

 

In this instance, I was shaking the chassis to mix up the names when a load of tickets flew out the top and in my surprise I used a mild swear word. I carried on for about 2 seconds thinking "it's okay, I'll bleep it out", but then I did a much worse swear word as a I mentally castigated myself for the first transgression. Fearing a potty mouthed snowball of vernacular expletives would ensue if we continued, I just decided to quit there and start again. It would probably have been an amusing video, but not really in keeping for the image of a company supplying to all tiers of education.

 

Al

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but not really in keeping for the image of a company supplying to all tiers of education.

 

Al

 

That reminds me... I'm still waiting on an email from Tom or Andy [not sure who].

 

Go poke 'em.

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Al... I just don't think [you] understand.

I'm so upset about it all that might blow up and kill this land.

 

Where would that leave us eh?

 

Al

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not really in keeping for the image of a company supplying to all tiers of education.

And not in keeping with your name, Very Polite Computers...that's what it stands for right?

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And not in keeping with your name, Very Polite Computers...that's what it stands for right?

 

Nah, it's Very Precise Calculators.

Posted (edited)
Man ......

...wait.... what?

 

- ahhh sheesh, I'm a right cloth eared doofus, and I clearly have been for about 20 years.

 

Al

 

EDIT - I'm not changing the way I sing it (sure, I sing that song. So what?), I like my version better.

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The lyric is "He might blow up and kill this man"

Yeah, I get that now.

 

Thanks for bursting my bubble and pulling the foundations upon which my world is built out from under me and waking me up smelling of coffee gathering moss on a rainy day (makes my soul, makes my soul, trip trip trip away-ay-ay).

 

Al

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Makes my soul, makes my soul drip, drip, drip away

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man!

 

"Trip away" really makes sense though!

 

"Drip away"??? what?

 

Al

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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man!

 

"Trip away" really makes sense though!

 

"Drip away"??? what?

 

Al

 

Rainy day? Dripping? Surely you can see the connection!

 

Anyway, hometime for me - just been hanging around to upgrade our internet connection, 100mbps is such a nice round number :D

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Rainy day? Dripping? Surely you can see the connection!

 

Anyway, hometime for me - just been hanging around to upgrade our internet connection, 100mbps is such a nice round number :D

Yeah I see the liquid phase of matter based behaviour reference sense in it, but I thought she was all delighted by the sunshine on her rainy day making her soul trip away-ay-ay, whereas drip away sounds a bit depressing, like her lifeforce is running out in a bad sci-fi where they legitimise the concept of life having a quantifiable and finite value akin to energy rather than being a purely abstract concept with no physical basis.

 

Thank what I think.

 

Al

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Yeah I see the liquid phase of matter based behaviour reference sense in it, but I thought she was all delighted by the sunshine on her rainy day making her soul trip away-ay-ay, whereas drip away sounds a bit depressing, like her lifeforce is running out in a bad sci-fi where they legitimise the concept of life having a quantifiable and finite value akin to energy rather than being a purely abstract concept with no physical basis.

 

Thank what I think.

 

Al

 

I hereby express an appropriate level of gratitude for your thoughts, as instructed. They were goodly thoughts.

 

(Seriously, though. Have you broken your fingers or something? Are you just mashing the keyboard wildly and hoping the right words come out? Are you wearing a muumuu right now?)

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We think it, @sonofsanta says it.

 

This is how I so often upset people. One day I will learn to filter my thoughts before they reach my fingers. That day has not yet arrived.

 

Disclaimer, for now and ever forth: I never mean any offence. I am merely incompotent at judging social situations and restraining my oft-inappropriate sense of humour accordingly.

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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man!

 

"Trip away" really makes sense though!

 

"Drip away"??? what?

 

Al

 

Gotta say, I'm with @VeryPC Al on this one. I've always thought of it as 'trip' as opposed to 'drip'. I mean, let's face it, it was around the time when everyone was discovering acid again and it was trendy to make casual drug-related double entendres.

 

Edit: BTW @sonofsanta - That Songs of Praise video had me crying with laughter.

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