Apologies if you can't hold on

One of our IT technicians sent an email this morning regarding some necessary maintenance that was required to one of our servers. His closing sentence:

"All should be completed by 11:30 and we apologies (okay, a simple left-hand-before-right-hand typo) for any incontinence"

I'm guessing the server was the one responsible for live streaming?

An "oldie but goldie" ...

... from the CEO's personal assistant.

"Drinks will be from 4pm onwards on the balcony outside IT on level 1 (whether permitting)."

Drinks might depend on whether the CEO assesses the weather with her.

Not bald...

Weird show, I didn't stay long - called "Shopping for love", another 'reality' show which says it all.
However, part of the beginning is the potential suitors go through the contestant's house sans contestant in an aim to get to know them. The contestant watches on a DVD player with inane host/ess. Asked how she felt about 3 strange men wondering through her home and underwear drawer the 21 yr old single for 6 months contestant replied:

"... I mean he ran the fine comb through everything."

I didn't stay for further gems.

sew sexy

Settling down to read my new dessert cookbook, doing the right thing and reading the foreword to set the tone, i had a quiet chuckle over this from one of the giants in my field about some of the rising stars,

"And, as for their approch to technique, well I would call it a seamless mating of art and science."

Art and science copulating with no visible stitching, in the end it must mean better desserts for you and me.

One from the Sun Herald!

On Yesterday's back page:

"Sam Stosur flew the flag for Australia yesterday with a gusty performance..."

Too many beans for lunch I reckon.

New Year, New Theme

hope y'all like it...

Spring Beans

My mother commenting on my hyper-active 11 month old son:

"He's really like a jack in the bean-box"

Suicide is painless

"Top Gear", the irreverend BBC motoring show is now on SBS, and if you haven't seen it yet I highly recommend it. On last night's show two of the hosts spent 24 hours inside a new compact car. They overnighted in a haunted forest, and in talking about one of the ghosts said:

"The schoolmaster was found hanging from a tree by his pupils"