From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Jun 2010 11:11 Justin C <justin.0911(a)purestblue.com> wrote: > No, that's *my* wife. She keeps telling me that it's not pronounced > 'hermes', it's "ehrmez" (or similar). I'm scared to ask prices... If it's Hermes, be very afraid. Oh yes- and be afraid of scarves, too. -- Peter
From: Woody on 16 Jun 2010 11:11 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-16, Rowland McDonnell > <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >> That's the bottom of the wardrobe, right? Where the deep drifts of >> designer handbags conceal strata of hundreds of pairs of once-worn >> shoes, yes? >> >> I'm sure all of us have wives like that, even Sara. > > Nope. I don't. Mine's rather more tech-oriented. I'm fairly sure she > doesn't > possess even a single handbag. Shoes she buys once in a blue moon and > only > if she's going to wear them significantly more than just once. Sab doesn't have a chance. There isn't enough room with my shoe collection there -- Woody
From: Bruce Horrocks on 16 Jun 2010 13:21 On 16/06/2010 13:10, Adrian C wrote: > On 16/06/2010 12:00, John wrote: >> Bad: My faithfull old iMac G5 is dead. >> Good: Just ordered the 27" iMac 2.8GHz 8 gig (2x4). Delivery estimated >> end of next week. >> >> Miracle. Wife said " Oh, order what you like! " > > That's guilt. > > She has recently lashed rather more than you think out on her new > handbag ... Quite remarkable that the G5 gave up the ghost just after she bought a new bag... -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Bruce Horrocks on 16 Jun 2010 13:22 On 16/06/2010 15:05, Jim wrote: > On 2010-06-16, Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >> That's the bottom of the wardrobe, right? Where the deep drifts of >> designer handbags conceal strata of hundreds of pairs of once-worn >> shoes, yes? >> >> I'm sure all of us have wives like that, even Sara. > > Nope. I don't. Mine's rather more tech-oriented. I'm fairly sure she doesn't > possess even a single handbag. Shoes she buys once in a blue moon and only > if she's going to wear them significantly more than just once. Why would she want a handbag when your sporran is always at the ready? ;-) -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Rowland McDonnell on 16 Jun 2010 13:31
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > I'm sure all of us have wives like that, even Sara. > > I doubt that even the married people here have more than one wife. And I > don't believe Sara has any at all. Even you have lost your sense of irony? Is it the weather? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |