Not waving
Who annoyed Lissa yesterday? In the midst of what was rather a busy afternoon, my colleague wailed - literally - several times. She mumbled something about moderating the Blog and I ran in the opposite direction*. For goodness sake don't upset her, as we all suffer. She gets angrier than Mel Gibson with a drink in him, though thankfully she believes all the wars in the world are caused by tight underpants.
The highlight of the show last night, for me, was the always marvellous Tom Symonds discussing what size hand baggage you're allowed on planes. Tom is bi-media so we can forgive him for gesticulating to indicate a bag's dimensions. Oh how we laughed. Hahahahaha. But of course you had to be there. Literally.
*I walked, of course.
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Concerned of Bognor raised a point last blog. The calendar. On my screen there is a large gap between Sun and Mon, smaller between Mon and Tues....does this help to indicate the rush towards the end of every week?
I think I may be responsible for Lissa's troubles yesterday.
I promise to behave today.
Now if I look at the Webcam later, will you actually be in the studio today?
Damn,
Beaten to the number one slot today.
Do I have too much time on my hands?
Stephen, I had too much time on my hands, I was laying in wait for the new blog, so as to legitimately get the no 1 spot today.
hmmm, I'm sure I can even hear the words:
"whose bloody idea was this anyway?"
"They're like a bunch of kids"
"I don't know"
"aaarrrrggghhhhh!!"
and all the time some unnamed colleague is smirking away and having a great old time getting his vowels around a funny-sounding-name.
Well.... as one of the kids I'll take it on the chin.
And anyway, its Friday. and its sunny. So... lets keep it cheerful - lets not moan about missing comments and lets try spreading some love today.
Actually Stephen - gulp - I think Lissa with an a not an e meant me too (and John H) (see49) mind you I am Valery with a y not an ie?
Whatever - I humbly apologise for being implicated in Lissa's wailings and promise to be much less picky. It's best to get it right from the beginning though ain't it, otherwise she'd just get some other smart alecks bombarding her with posts (what a picture).
Re the Blog and the prog, my fave bit was the picture Eddie painted of 60 million UK citizens standing on each others' shoulders and reaching as far as 20 feet before they toppled over. I had to pull over in the car to wipe the tears from my eyes. Mind it had been a kind of stressful afternoon - I've taken today's pills though and have high hopes, if not I'll have to join Stephen on Pluto, when's the next bus? I'll bring the music....
Valery, before getting on a bus to Pluto, I need to know the colour of your shoes (see immigration policy - HA:55
Eddie, do you have pics or audio of Lissa's outburts?
I wonder, could the lack-of-webcam-pics-of-people-working be Lissa's revenge? If she can administrate the blogs, surely she could loop the webcam?
What is Bi-Media?
Perhaps Lissa's problem is in the job spec.
By one web dictionary to moderate is "to become less in size, strength, or force; to reduce something". At the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, is this what you do?
So perhaps the blog should be immoderated instead...
Yup I remember the immigration policy well - and it's fine I'm not a politician either. Shoes can be any colour you wish, I have plenty and don't have to bring them all (middle names are Imelda and Markos)
btw - what fun, pictures now too! I'm sure they weren't there yesterday were they?
I have the "crap" montage as the piece that's played when I get new email (which is quiet approrpriate, as most of it's spam, but if I turn on the spam filter, it filters out some real emails). But would be nice to cycle that with other suitable audio.
Surely the PM office must have recording facilities...
We all love you really, Lissa.
Oops - I would appear to have been immoderated. Must have been the shoes.
When is the next bus?
John W - how do you do that with the montage? I have Outlook Express and it's a bit clonky. It would be great to be reminded of happy blogging everytime instead of that stupid plinging noise.
Or is that the pills?
btw - ignore the complaining one of a couples of minutes ago - I would appear to have re-appeared again. Promise I won't mention it again. Eeeeeek!
Valery, will have to come back to you on that, I'm not running Windows. I'll reboot. ctrl alt del
Re today's interesting strapline - which of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's intelligentsia can't spell? Back to skool, you! But don't bother with GCSEs, they won't help you at all.
PS. Does the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ have any intelligentsia?
Watch out what colour you reboot in John W, otherwise you won't be able to join us on Pluto.
...right, back frolocking with the penguins again....
Valery,
This is based on Windows NT. You need to call up the control panel, which is done by clicking on the "Start", on "Settings", and then "Control Panel". In there there should be "Sounds". You then need to scroll find the section for Outlook Express (or for "new mail in inbox" or whatever it's called), and then change from the default sound to the crap montage.
I know this is brief, but hopefully you get the idea, or perhaps Stephen can help when you arrive at Pluto.
Honorary IT helpdesk.
For the strapline, how about:
"The thoughts of Chairman Mair".
... or will that just fuel Norman Tebitt's fire?
Careful Sara, don't upset Lissa again...
....actually....Eddie, got the web cam and the tape recorder ready?
Now Lissa, look at Not Waving: 17
Re: 9
I can only assume that "bi-media" is the journo equivalent of "bi-curious". That is, a spurious self-definition that shows that one is hip and cool, without actually committing oneself to changing one's lifestyle. Presumably, then, Tom Symonds talks a lot about fancying a stint on radio, but is only ever seen philandering with television.
Dear Lissa,
Please accept my sincere apologies for Not Waving 17. I in no way intended to malign your abilities. In fact, I'm sure it was all Helena's fault. Do have a large scotch, loosen your underpants, and please don't take it out on Eddie because I would like a peaceful drive home this evening.
Yours as ever, always, etc.
Eddie has written a secong blog
Abandon work all ye who enter here!
Did anybody else notice how Stephen, Leader of STROP made his Not Waving: 15 post all scrunched up? I'm supposing that he did this because Pluto is so ikkle and there's no spare room for unneeded lines and such like.
John W - I'm very curious how you could download a Real Media file at all! Any (legal) information you could impart?
I was intrigued by that too Jezetha. So much so that I had to play around - nothing at all to do with having work to do, oh no.
Anyway, I decided that you could capture it as a wav and do it that way. I just did that and emailed it to PM to see if they want to let people use it in the way that John W suggested. The quality wasn't very good so I don't know if they'll do anything with it.
re WAILING OUTBURSTS & TYPOS
aaaaaaaaaargrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh
Well spotted Sara...I can't even blame the typo on HTML coding so instead I will blame Helena who submitted it. I'll get it changed. I am keeping Tony the Coder busy.
I'm now getting hassled because I'm supposed to be editing this Sunday's The World this Weekend and the assistant editor, Nick, wants to know what we're doing and there's only half a programme and it's August Bank Holiday so everyone's away.
Tune in at 1pm Sunday.
Jezetha et al
I posted on Eddie's latest blog, but that now seems to take all entries and stop them. It's have 5 comments for ages, I've posted two that still have not appeared... what's happening, Lissa?
Lissa, I'd volunteer to come in (did a bit of work on TW2 many moons ago) but I'm stuck in Ladbroke Grove being Carnivalled at this weekend (batten down the hatches, collect rats, horses etc to eat)
And anyway, I can only edit with a razor blade and sticky tape. Were you born then?
Good luck!
Oh - back to the real world,of Not Waving. Glug was a bit too frightening. Good Friday to you at last John H. John W has been doing sterling service on the IT front, and I'm so glad all you Johnmen are so learned on this stuff. Think I may have to go to classes.
Stephen-my-Leader - If it's really that cramped on Pluto I may have to bring my red and white spotted shoes over from Glug as they may never get posted at all. Whadya think?
Then don't moderate it. Or maybe the word you seek is censor. After all, what kind of dialogue or interaction is it when one side is constantly censored by the other?
Yes, too right, ian (32). It's probably POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD as well.
Or perhaps not.
Where's Ian on 32? Gone the same way as all good posters, it seems.
Having two blogs on one day is too difficult for me to keep up with.
Regarding Sara's observation that maintaining two, er, separate blog entries (oo, pithy) is probably too much for most of us on here, I have a suggestion for Lizzy I meant to make earlier: could the "title" of the different blog entry pages contain the title of the blog in it (instead of just the generic "³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - Radio 4 - PM").
This would be particularly useful if you're using tabbed browsing in Firefox (does the new IE support tabs?) but even if you're using an older Internet Explorer, you could have multiple windows open for the different entries. It would be very helpful.
Mind you, I'm not sure it would help that much today. andycraft's recent entry on glug suggests something altogether more sinister is going on.
Hi Valery. I tried to post my missing 'e' but I think it went missing again.
Valery, you've given me the courage to say that I am wearing red shoes with white polka dots. They're sort of like sand shoes used to be when I were a lass. Can I come in, Leader Stephen?
John W.
The gap between Tuesday and Wednesday looks even bigger to me.
I heard earlier today that a load of Labour supporters were defecting to the Lib Dems because they don't like the way Margaret Beckett is handling the Lebanon crisis. Why isn't this being mentioned on PM?
Re post 39, it was just reported on the 6:00 news. Wakey, wakey, Eddie!
The appearance of the calendar has changed since this morning - presumably something to do with todays date being emboldened.
"38. At 05:45 PM on 25 Aug 2006, David McNickle wrote: John W.
The gap between Tuesday and Wednesday looks even bigger to me. "
And to me, too.
I blame proportional spacing and the "does my bum look big in this" W.
I was waiting to be post number 80 (as yesterday) because I felt such a number added gravitas to my post or Blog. I have been stymied by a double blog day. If this is to become the norm will I either
a) have to stay awake all night
or
c) have to introduce some outrageous comment to get the blogging activity up
I have a concern about the photographs but the detail of this will have to wait for number 80 (the calendar continues to trouble me somewhat too)
if we are going to have pictures foisted on us could we not have one of the hapless Rupert? I'm sure there wmust be some way to turn this into a dartboard. We could all then throw darts at it to relieve our frustration when we missed the Newsletter, or got the newsletter 4 days late, or got multiple copies of the newsletter.
[green][b]U[/b][u]ntil[/u][b]l[/b][/green] now [blue]I have resisted [/blue] [orange]the offer to use HTML[/orange] tags. Perhaps I won't in the [i]future.[/i] [frown]
John W.,
The calendar looks the same to me. The dates have been 'emboldened' since the blog started.
anne,
My neighbor books satellite time for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. Any chance of a photo of her in the newsroom? Of course, thats TV.....
How embarrasing was that !!!
For concerned of Bognor, HTML codes use < > brackets. The [] brackets are for bulletin board codes, which won't work here as this is a blog.
If feel I should also point out that there is a preview button, so that one can double check that one is not going to have a D'Oh moment when posting.
But anyways, thanks for giving me a laugh on an otherwise quite dull day !!
Tim.C
I'm quite interested in the "tight underpants" theory. As a fan of tight underpants (wearing them, not looking at them), I'm concerned that I may be susceptible to starting a war. Lissa, snugness around this important area is surely more likely to lead to peace, not war. Please back-up your theory... ;o)
Jim
x
I believe my adventure into HTMLblogbrackets can possibly be ascribed to the Zen-like state achieved by wearing tight underpants. Jim's
comment about snugness is perhaps particularly true whilst working at the cutting edge of knowledge (mine that is, not mankinds).
I thank Tim C. for his sound advice, I did indeed press the preview button and, very kindly, Eric repeated back to me my Blog/post exactly as I had typed it, but as he did it so quickly, I thought he had not had time to colour in the letters ,add italics and a funny face. (I would add a smiling face here but I do not think either Eric or I are up to it)
For David@ #46 you will find your theory concerning emboldening does no stand up if you click 21 on the calendar.
An etherial white "Saturdays" has appeared in the Blogheading, another concern I am sure for us all.
Sorry, been away, surveying the planet. Why did noonw tell me it would be dark as well as cold!
Yes red shoes with white polka dots are acceptable.
Stephen
Great - shoes on - which bus again? You seem to get ther-and-back-again quite quickly?
NB i don't have an ethereal white Saturday, nor do I have an eccentrically spaced calendar, but I do rather like the most recent strapline thingy. Glad to see Blogworld is still open on a Sunday too - how did the lunchtime show go Lissa?
Did we get over being criticised for being too childish and not worthy enough on the blog? I can't remember if I'm still supposed to be feeling miffed about having my wrists slapped by an as yet undesignated comment. It looked very official though, and quite humbled me.
Hey, Valery, I'll put on my red-and-white-polka-dotted shoes, too. Got them for £5 in a sale at Office (oops, brand name). Hi, leader! No buses round here, all cancelled for Carnival
Frances, two Minnie Mouses (Mice?) go to Pluto then....
How obvious is it that everything grinds to a halt on Bank Holiday Monday - or do you think the others have been put off by the lack of a new Blog for today?
Up here in Mairland the only thing that's grinding to a halt is the Festival, and the traffic as per.
Nigel you were great today, enjoyed Des Browne's intermittent phone link. Another Scot in high places eh?
Well, here in da Grove (Ladbroke Gr) all is the opposite of grinding to a halt as Carnival rages all around.
Mind you, when I lived in Embra I felt great relief after the Festival, when 'my' city returned to pretty much its normal state.
Two Minnies for Pluto it is, then
Yes, Minnie 2, relief in many ways - but also regret that once again, the familiarity of having it on the doorstep has bred contempt, and consequently I haven't done nearly as much as intended!
Hope Carnival was fun and you didn't wear out those dancing shoes?