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In the beginning was the Plan, and the Plan contained Assumptions;
And the Assumptions were without form, and void; and the Plan had no substance; and darkness was upon the face of the Employees.
And the Employees went unto their Team Leader and said: It is a Crock of $#|7, and it Stinketh.
And...
No good. There's no cure for natural death.
Dear me, if I had even a stingy rate for every hour of my time I wasted on that game, I'd be supping a cold one on a sandy beach somewhere even now. 'Bye Gary, those were some fun times.
Not when there are Sleeping Policemen at Acton Town you don't! That's a three-rail switch, and you didn't Renege first. According to Cryer vs. Brooke-Taylor 1973 you move one place back down the order until the next Clockwise Shunt (note: not a Clockwise Shift - a real beginner's error, but some...
You know you owe it to yourself and the world in general to string "Olga" along for as long as is humanly possible - ideally getting "her" to comply with a string of increasingly off-the-wall demands. Claiming to have sent money via Western Union and providing fake details to take to "her" local...
And to give the philosophers some equal time:
René Descartes goes into a bar and orders a small pastis, which he sups reflectively while enjoying the ambience. When he is finished, the waiter says "Another pastis, M. Descartes"? "No," says René, "I think not."
Whereupon he disappears.
So Feynman and Heisenberg decided to take a road trip together, with Feynman driving and Heisenberg in charge of the map. Every so often Feynman checks with Heisenberg for directions
“Where are we?”
“Forty three miles out of Tuscon. Take a left at the next exit.”
This sort of thing continues for...
Funny you should say that. I haven't heard the word "lough" used in thirty-five years, but it's a largish body of water in Ireland, similar to the Scottish "loch". :D
So in fact "Ian Huntley may be freed" actually means "Some offender might escape conviction, but not Huntley 'cos this doesn't apply to him, but we'll toss in his name for the 'OMGWTF that's outrageous!' factor"?
How bizarre that we should have some kind of legal procedure that we have to go...