Return of the Drag: 2011

[marty21]

Tony Bennett?

 

[Pickman's model]

The Tej and the spices would do that anyway.

 

[TruXta]

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[TruXta]

i don't geddit

 

[marty21]

i don't geddit

I think he's saying you look like a horse who gets drunk and falls over in the snow

 

[Pickman's model]

I think he's saying you look like a horse who gets drunk and falls over in the snow

it's a horse cooling its arse in the snow.

 

[Badgers]

How has the historic relationship been between the Vikings and the Ethiopian/Eritrean people?

 

[TruXta]

I think he's saying you look like a horse who gets drunk and falls over in the snow

I prefer that to

it's a horse cooling its arse in the snow.

this

 

[TruXta]

How has the historic relationship been between the Vikings and the Ethiopian/Eritrean people?

Non-existent I believe, until the 1980s (famine, refugees etc).

 

[hiccup]

* I am a he (as Marty well knows)
* I have tried mead
* It was rank

 

[marty21]

* I am a he (as Marty well knows)
* I have tried mead
* It was rank

you fear the honey

 

[Pickman's model]

Non-existent I believe, until the 1980s (famine, refugees etc).

vikings famously flourished c. 975-1150

 

[TruXta]

vikings famously flourished c. 975-1150

That's what we want you to believe.

Edit - it was actually more like 750-1100.

 

[marty21]

The vikings ravished Ireland

we may be related

 

[neonwilderness]

* I am a he (as Marty well knows)
* I have tried mead
* It was rank

Maybe you tried some rank mead? There are quite a few varieties

 

[TruXta]

The vikings ravished Ireland

we may be related

I'm your dad three thousand times removed.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's what we want you to believe.

Edit - it was actually more like 750-1100.

so what's this about the 1980s above?

 

[marty21]

I'm your dad three thousand times removed.

bad times

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm your dad three thousand times removed.

that's a fuck of a lot of pubs to get banned from

 

[marty21]

so what's this about the 1980s above?

the A-Ha years

 

[Badgers]

Non-existent I believe, until the 1980s (famine, refugees etc).

Getting to know each other now then?

 

[TruXta]

so what's this about the 1980s above?

That's when we/Norway started interacting with Ethiopia and Ethiopians. They became one of the favoured foreign aid recipients - big Church Aid type of involvement too. I've got a few mates who lived there cuz of parents working for NGOs.

 

[machine cat]

work drinks tonight. i'm a bit undecided whether or not I should go or not.

 

[neonwilderness]

Perhaps not?

Where's the venue?

 

[Badgers]

work drinks tonight. i'm a bit undecided whether or not I should go or not.

Is Newbie 1 going?

 

[BoatieBird]

work drinks tonight. i'm a bit undecided whether or not I should go or not.

On a Wednesday?
Is it a special occasion?

 

[Badgers]

In other news late lunch now.
I will be back later.

 

[Badgers]

On a Wednesday?
Is it a special occasion?

Is there an unwritten company understanding that people can be late in tomorrow and stuff?

 

[TruXta]

Is there an unwritten company understanding that people can be late in tomorrow and stuff?

Last Thursday SO's work had a big do, the day before a massive strategy day thingie.