Sometimes Sayings.

Two or three weeks ago, Gryphon replied to one of my comments. His reply made me laugh and a few days later I remembered something my father said when I was a child. I may have posted it here before but too bad:-

You make I laugh,
I pee I pants,
It trickle down I leg,
Make I foot go rusty. 

Sometimes computers annoy the hell out of me. Apart from when they change the words you have entered and seen on the screen, predictive words that it thinks I might want to write come up, it shows them in grey and on the odd occasion when I do want that word, no matter what I do, it will not change to black and I have to type it anyway. These are just two of the things that annoy me.

A few minutes ago, I had almost finished typing my message below, when it all disappeared and a stupid emoticon thing comprising a large letter C and a colon, and a message that read "Microsoft has encountered a problem and will open again as soon as possible" or words to that effect.

My screen eventually reopened but all my text was gone and it had logged me out of the forum. I had to try three times to get logged in again.

While I was typing this whinge, it again closed, saying AVG has encountered a problem and it deleted all I had typed. After it had restarted and was typing this again, the latest sentence I had typed disappeared.

I will try once more before I give up:-

Another true one:-
Some years ago, I was at a restaurant with work colleagues and ordered a menu item that sounded interesting. It went something like "Tender juicy medallions of year-old steak, lovingly cooked to perfection, served on a bed of delicious spring vegetables and drizzled with our Chef's own special dressing." 

After the waitress had served most of the guests, she bellowed "Ooo ordered the beef". Of course, it was mine although that description seemed to spoil the dish.

Another time I was at a meeting of local business owners. The guest speaker was talking about businesses not delivering what the customer expected. She asked for examples and when it was my turn, I said that when we changed to metric weights and measures, when a customer ordered a dozen oysters, some restaurants served ten and if the customer complained about being charged for twelve and being served ten, management explained that ten was a metric dozen.
There was absolute silence from the many restaurant operators in the room.

Wow, I got through it all without any of the above problems occurring again, apart from two little popups from Malware bytes, something I have never used, and who says Big Brother is not listening/watching?

Morris.
 

 

The ancient Latin poet said (and this is the English translation) "A harsh nurse of men."
It has been used as a school moto.

Mine was Barully Wavy Argent and Vert.
Which meant something something (about a shield with waves on the bottom part) Silver and Green.
 

Sorry Morris, I have no idea what this even means

I'm sure it is something wonderful

Paul

Typical English use of Latin for school motto.

My Grammar school motto was "semper sursum" which roughly translated means ever onwards, always aiming higher, or continually upwards . . .  which in itself shows my lack of ability with Latin.

Of course the intellectuals will stress that you can go anywhere in the world and find somebody who can read Latin!?   

There was a Catholic School that changed its motto "Hoc Habe" - "Hold This" when a cartoon appeared with the school priest addressing the boys choir.

Anyhow I love this little thought.

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

 

 Gave me a chuckle


Paul

If there is an idiot in power, it means that those who elected him are well represented.

Attributed to Mahatma Ghandi.

Just happened last week