test please delete

[FiveTimes]

Time to wash 40 empty beer bottles...

put them on the garden wall and throw stones at them

[Zippy]

Is that a euphemism?

No

[NickFitz]

Bit chilly today

I suppose I ought to set about downloading all the stuff I haven't been able to download while the broadband's been up the creek. Time to get the credit card out and buy software like it's going out of style

Parallels Desktop upgrade first...

[DS23]

I am delighted to see that The Good Soldier Švejk has been quoted here in a long string of posts a couple of years ago....

ah. yes. that would have been me. i'm delighted that you are delighted that i put them there. though i am somewhat nervous of the copyright issues related to it. were you googling schweik / svejk or were you actually reading tpd?

...I couldn't help but notice that he was being quoted as saying "humbly report". That is perhaps the correct rendition into the British military jargon (I presume), but is very misleading.....

perhaps. the joseph lada translation uses "beg to report" which works quite well. in fact i think i prefer the lada translation over the more modern one but lada (or his publishers) edited out the more extreme elements of the book (such as the swearing and attacks on religion). decisions decisions...

are you releasing a new version in english?

[DS23]

It is wrong to swap your parents in part-exchange for a new TV.

[DS23]

up to end of july now....

[DS23]

we need more drivel!

[AtW]

Let's see if we can hit 200,000 by Monday before TDP mob returns...

[NickFitz]

Let's see if we can hit 200,000 by Monday before TDP mob returns...

[BrowneIssue]

Time to wash 40 empty beer bottles...

The first crate of bottles (20) have been washed.