Comments on: Won’t Complain Any More About Techie Things After This Post. Honestly, I’ve bored Myself With It And I’m Hard To Bore

By: wes

wes — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:20:29 +0000

A Western Islander from Scotland, British or American? At what particular stage of your journey did you change from ‘being bent (/) to becoming upright*?’ Having spent a few years in the OH, I’m a little confused about nationality issues.

best wishes and blessed blogging be with you

Grandpa bear

* I think i recall reading this phrase in one of your earlier blogs but cannot lowcate it.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:02:53 +0000

Jenn: a berk is Cockney rhyming slang. Comes via Berkeley Hunt, I believe. Not generally used in the, er, original sense these days, more just as a word for idiot.

Maybe Zoe should rename her blog “My Boyfriend is a Berk” (well, he IS….)

By: wirepeach

wirepeach — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:41:27 +0000

Welcome joeinvegas! Thank you for coming to visit pcb!
I am indeed of a British persuasion. A long time ago in the Western Isles of Scotland some representatives of Whosever Majesty it was came and asked the people if they wanted to be British. “Will we get tinned goods?” asked the people “For we have often heard of tinned goods and long for their tin goodness.” “Yes”, said Whosever Majesty’s representative. And so the Outer Hebrides were persuaded to become British. Prior to that we had been wild and howling and our clothes were dated compared to mainland fashions. Once the tinned goods arrived, we settled right down.

By: joeinvegas

joeinvegas — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:30:54 +0000

But, how can you be American and loose a stone? I thought that was British speak?

By: wirepeach

wirepeach — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:02:02 +0000

The best thing about being American is the hopeFULLness of the national character. It’s why I like living here. Hopelessly hopeful, the lot of you.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:08:01 +0000

What’s a Berk? If I’m in the Berkshires, does that make me a Berk? Oh, such exotic words you know. I feel so dull and dimwitted and hopelessly American.

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:28:26 +0000

Brilliant. I love this post.

Particularly as it gives me hope that if I ever get around to transmogrifying myself into the kind of web developer that does jobs like this, people like you might actually pay me for it!

I could offer to take your money right now, but seeing as I don’t actually know what I’m doing, that would be siloly. And mean, and wrong, and anyway what I realy need is time, not money. Oooh, I know, I’ll do it for you if you pay me in weeks – how’s that?!

By: wirepeach

wirepeach — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:48:17 +0000

Dave, my beloved, I know for a fact that you are as html-illiterate as me, despite your polyglottedness in the other computer languages. Why am I working in the only language you don’t know? Why am I working with Wordpress, when everyone knows it is the tech-head-onlyest content management system in the galaxy?

None of this is doing anything for my ever multiplying wrinkles, you know. ‘Til death do we part you, YOU, David going to have to look at this face as time and blogging ravage it . For the sake of our marriage, one of us is going to have to learn html and it won’t be me. You KNOW I’m serious ‘cos I just called you David. Love and Botox etc.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:34:34 +0000

Maybe that Harvard president was right.