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Our internet connection has been playing up - poor S2C has spent ages trying to get it working properly, and this is the first time for a couple of days that I have been online for more than 10-15 minutes. So far, so good...
I have been looking for a picture of me and my motorbike - I am sure that I saw a particular one only within the last couple of weeks, but now I can't find it - I have found a couple of others though, so I'll scan them in eventually!
D-d has started her Finals - in the British sense, not the American one, so much more scary! First one went well, and she is now wrapping up her dissertation.
Even now, she asks her Dad and I to beta read things like that, hence the following phone conversation.
The title of the dissertation is "Eighteenth Century Homosexuality: Molly Subcultures and the Societies for the Reformation of Manners". As you can see the subject is unusual, and open to humour...
S2C suggested a minor word change - because she had written It is apparent that men were aware of their own tendency towards sodomy and that they were not alone in this: and he pointed out that, as written, it meant all male humans, and so, if they were not alone in this, there must be others who were not men...
So - phone conversation involving all three of us -
"It could be women with strap-ons, or possibly porcupines..."
"Not hedgehogs though, because the hedgehog can't be buggered at all..." (Terry Pratchett ref. there!)
"Martians, perhaps... new slant on Mars attacks..."
"Well it makes me look at daleks in a whole different light..."
"You will be sodomised!"
"The Borg! The Borg! We put the ass in assimilate!"
The last, I hate to admit, was mine - and then I had to leave the room for fear of doing myself a nasty injury - from laughing too much, I hasten to add!!
PS - corrected version reads - "THESE men were aware..."
I have been looking for a picture of me and my motorbike - I am sure that I saw a particular one only within the last couple of weeks, but now I can't find it - I have found a couple of others though, so I'll scan them in eventually!
D-d has started her Finals - in the British sense, not the American one, so much more scary! First one went well, and she is now wrapping up her dissertation.
Even now, she asks her Dad and I to beta read things like that, hence the following phone conversation.
The title of the dissertation is "Eighteenth Century Homosexuality: Molly Subcultures and the Societies for the Reformation of Manners". As you can see the subject is unusual, and open to humour...
S2C suggested a minor word change - because she had written It is apparent that men were aware of their own tendency towards sodomy and that they were not alone in this: and he pointed out that, as written, it meant all male humans, and so, if they were not alone in this, there must be others who were not men...
So - phone conversation involving all three of us -
"It could be women with strap-ons, or possibly porcupines..."
"Not hedgehogs though, because the hedgehog can't be buggered at all..." (Terry Pratchett ref. there!)
"Martians, perhaps... new slant on Mars attacks..."
"Well it makes me look at daleks in a whole different light..."
"You will be sodomised!"
"The Borg! The Borg! We put the ass in assimilate!"
The last, I hate to admit, was mine - and then I had to leave the room for fear of doing myself a nasty injury - from laughing too much, I hasten to add!!
PS - corrected version reads - "THESE men were aware..."
