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If you're still interested, I can put you in touch with someone who's in Japan doing this now; he might have decent info..

Email me: jstaylor100@msn.com (Away for weekend btw!)

In the mid-1990s I sent a letter to my academic father. I didn't actually know his address, but wrote: Name Mailslot in the blue door, first on left Alley next to Shop Name on Market St. St Andrews, Fife It was delivered no problem! And I sent part of my semi year mailing weird stuff and receiving w...

Quoting Lodestone from 14:09, 1st Aug 2006
No, ey pointed out that the two parcels cost *less*.

Oops, my mistake! (maybe I should work for the PO?!) That *is* bloody stupid!

Quoting munchingfoo from 13:53, 1st Aug 2006 My issue us with the logic behind it. How can it possibly cost more to deliver one 1.25kg package than it does to deliever one 1kg and one .25kg package? [hr] Well, in the latter case you have two packages to track and process through each stage of tehir...

Herpes I, Herpes II, Herpes--the Motion Picture!!

112 is a HELLUVA lot!!!

Who got the DLitt? The robes are fetching, as an an academic myself, I'd be interested to see what was required de facto, and not just de jure....

RBS are appalling. I kept my account with them and First Direct (HSBC now, I think) when I went to the US to do a PhD. RBS took two years to change my address, then, when I moved and informed them of this (by FAX and registered letter) they simply stopped sending my statements. Fine. A year passes a...

I wear mine frequently. It does serve rather well as a introduction tool at academic conferences, helping me to find others who wouldn't mind propping up the bar rather than listen to dull papers delivered in a monotone by people wearing polyester.

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Quoting Mr Comedy from 18:41, 18th Jan 2006
I'd keep him if he could make a half-decent gin and tonic.

You mean just with gin?

Quoting Paranoid from 18:53, 5th Jan 2006 You gotta wonder, in another 200 years will people still believe that there were 2 World Wars in the 20th Century, I mean someone in the future will still undertake the Remembrance service (hey it might become as commercialised as Christmas!) but how many w...

crestlets are a good idea. i would buy one!

Quoting exnihilo from 13:05, 20th Dec 2005 My local outfitters will vend you the tie in a range of lengths, to suit a range of heights. So should I wish to own something so astoundingly ugly, I can do so without fear, as they say around these parts, "o' bein' lift'd by the polis". Or, indeed, being...

Do they have them in silk?

Do they have them in silk?

I was thinking more along the lines of being thought of using it as a decoy...

Quoting exnihilo from 10:17, 15th Dec 2005 The straight tie's easier. There are about a hundred schools up and down the country who use the self same pattern as their school tie. There's one not three hundred yards from where I live. [hr] He [Julian the Apostate] had found by experience that no wil...

Quoting Steveo from 23:41, 12th Dec 2005 Off someone's neck would be the only place at the moment. I'm sure we could have flogged a load to freshers, and I need one as well, if there had been any made up. Laura - any chance of getting a batch for early next semester? I'd be ever so pleased if you c...

Quoting Sr. AGiC. from 13:05, 28th Nov 2005 Quoting The Dude from 17:53, 26th Nov 2005 Are all nobility on the civil list in Britain? I would think that if it were true a glance at the list would be enough to weed out the imposters. Look in Burkes Peerage, Baronettage and Knightage. This lists (fun...

Quoting from 16:13, 26th Nov 2005
I recall Matthew Stanhope claiming to be the Earl of Stanhope or related to some such person.

If he was, he wouldn't bother claiming this, I'm sure.