Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: Why Doesn't Anybody Ever Help?

I'm a copy editor, if I got prissy about the way people wrote I wouldn't be able to read many blogs. Instead I make lots of errors myself and don't care.

If the blog is interesting,

If the blog isn't, it could be absolutely perfectly presented, it would still be boring.

You know yours are interesting because we all keep commenting on them!

RE: Simple question

Not for a liaison, no. Go for it.

Every interaction with another person is a 'relationship' - you can have an uneasy relationship with your colleagues. Are you talking, as so often these days, about lurve?

One of the saddest things is when people want a liaison but feel they have to pretend emotions to turn it into a faux relationship. Instead they muck up what was simple, uncomplicated, potentially good and could have grown naturally into something real.

Don't make that mistake.

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Over and out. Work tomorrow.

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Pedal - fighting words. Probably what he was hoping for, of course ...

Cracked up at your "delusional" comment on another blog, BTW

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Titania - yours would for sure be much more subtle. 'Infinite variety'? (From the Cleopatra description)

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Pick one line from your profile as your t-shirt. I'm going for 'picky but not prissy' - I think 'unshockable' might seem too much like throwing down a gauntlet

Does make me realize my profile needs work, though.

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Rapture - LOVE it

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Make it "the best 30 minutes of your lifetime", and I'd buy NOW you see why you're in R&D?

RE: The Lion Killer

Poor Cecil, but if he brings attention to those who will pay to kill endangered animals, his death could be a great thing.

Lions, I don't think, actually ARE endangered. Rhinos are, and hundreds are slaughtered every year by poachers AND by illegal hunters who pay through the nose for the privilege of ridding the world of one more irreplaceable animal. Gorillas are another.

I think thrill hunters should hunt each other. No shortage of them, they'll not be missed, and it would be way more fun. I doubt they'd like the danger, though.

Not smacking at hunters here. Just at the ones who target the rare and make them rarer.

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Blimey, no. Just a suggested way of putting some of our profile comments on our chests. Turns out no-one has had original slogans, though, although some of the ones out there have been brilliant.

I really should think these things out better up front.

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Crazy - going rate? this is a venture. The more we put in, the more we get out.

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Iotaoo, the shirts haven't been convincing enough yet. We need to change that

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Crazy, you're in the Research & Development part. And probably one of our models!

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Wallops! love it. My version would say ice-cream. And there's always the old classic, the sun's gone down somewhere, where's my sundowner?

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Lucy - perfect. EXACTLY the sort of thing

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I think we need about 20 good lines to start us off. And a marketing plan. Who's in?

Back later. Keep it clean. Well, cleanish.

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Okay, Fox, excellent way of finding women who like Irish setters!

Really, you like them? I think they are beautiful but seriously scatty, but maybe that's only Scottish ones

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Cat, that is undoubtedly true but CS shirts would be aimed at getting that wife who knows everything, not having one already ...

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Harry, we're talking specific messaging here. What would your shirt say now?

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Luke - neither do I.

The thing I miss MOST about living in Africa is Dorcas coming in once a week and turning chaos into order. 17 years of me being spoiled rotten and would she consider moving to Scotland? She would not. She would have made a fortune here. £8 an hour is what I save myself as I glumly do my own housework ...

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Candy, I'd go for the instant travel thing in a heartbeat. Love going to places, hate the getting there.

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Harry, speak for yourself, haha. I'm not old, I've just been young for a very long time. Age will catch up any day now.

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Nah, Molly, I think they changed the stuff in the dog food. They now have to be fit for human consumption, just in case.

My daughter left her Great Dane with her dad and gran for a weekend - gran is now decidedly dotty and ate a whole bag of Great Dane treats (5 kg) in 2 days, unnoticed. Her hair is looking great and her nose is beautifully cold.

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KN - 1985. I know! Actually the Delorean still looks pretty funky.

Funky. Sheesh. I just withered and turned grey.

That Delorean still looks pretty sick.

RE: What A Place! What A Joy!

Looks more interesting than Dull, which is twinned with Boring.

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Genetically modified organic men - what, that we could grow in the garden, keep for a year, while the next one is growing? Hmmmmm ...

I know that's not what you meant, but I did have a quick and pleasing vision of an agricultural show where we could go look at the prize pumpkins next to the prime studs.

Most farmers are still men (it's a tough life). Offer them the chance to grow humans and I don't think we'd see the gentlemen veggies for all those watermelon-fronted lady veggies

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When I watched the first film, back in 1985, I never thought I'd be around in 2015. Actually I never thought I'd make it to 2000, I've felt since then that I'm on borrowed time, it's very liberating.

What I learned in the last 30 years:

Life is short - break the rules.

Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you happy.

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No denying you can fit more people on a good old-fashioned Axminster.

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A pink hoverboard.

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Won't be around much so - as usual - putting comments in ahead, so that the blog looks Really Popular and Lively. But what did YOU think we'd have by 2015? Flying cars? video phones? teleporters? world peace? inter-galactic colonization - or at the very least a holiday destination on the moon?