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'Can I use your dictaphone?' 'No, use your finger like anyone else.'  (sorry) My smutty mind was with you all the way there, marts Tommooooooo missus |
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Car service  Ok, serves me right for having a sporty version Audi A4 Quattro, but listen to this. 55k miles the dashboard has been flashing me to get the 60k service done early. Took the car in this morning: "The main bit of the 60k service will replace every filter blah blah..." £414"The 60k service would also have a complete brake fluid service...." £101Yeah ok, I'll go for that lot. "At 60k we would normally change the cambelt £535....." Eh? Forget that mate! At lunch with the missus I said to her the service will be £515 but it could have been £1050....... moments later the mobile rings.... "Mr Wright you're back brake shoes are 77% worn...... " £153Brakes eh? Yeah OK "And your wipers are smeering the windshield....." £34Yeah OK "We're halfway through Mr Wright, should be ready after 4.00pm" That probably means they haven't checked the cambelt yet..... |
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« Reply #3633 on: 17:47:40, 09-11-2007 » |
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Do you know it took me ten minutes to get that joke? Luckily it seems to be the only dictaphone joke in existance. A pregnant nun was called in front of the Cardinals to explain her condition. "Tell me, my child" they enquired "What caused this?" "Ah, to be sure, to be sure" she replied "Benedictus" I'll get me habit. |
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« Reply #3634 on: 17:54:34, 09-11-2007 » |
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'Can I use your dictaphone?' 'No, use your finger like anyone else.' (sorry) Reminds me of the Homer Simpson sketch: a) Homer dials the number, b) automated message says: "The fingers used to dial this number were too fat. Please get someone else to try again." |
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« Reply #3636 on: 23:47:26, 11-11-2007 » |
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Just been copying something. Mozart KV 375 clarinet parts since you ask. So of course I've reached bar 125 and Sibelius 5.1 crashes when I ask it to do something as zany as a copy & paste. I reopen it and the best it can offer me is the last autosave. Which apparently occurred at bar... 18. I think that must mean it's time for bed. |
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« Reply #3637 on: 00:52:36, 12-11-2007 » |
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Oh, bad luck Ollie. How frustrating.  I, on the other hand, may be emerging from the Grumpy Room soon - my ears are beginning to make popping sounds, and I can feel the pressure changing at last. It's not quite right yet - it'll still probably be a day or two. And I sincerely hope they'll skip the angry-wasp-trapped-behind-eardrum phase that happened last time I had blocked ears starting to unblock... <fingers crossed emoticon> |
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« Reply #3638 on: 08:00:12, 12-11-2007 » |
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Ollie,
I understand exactly how frustrating that can be, although I must add in the software's defence that (as yet) 5.0 and 5.1 have not managed to do that to me: perhaps the speed, or rather lack of it, at which I proceed has something to do with that. I try and make myself save regularly anyway.
Strina,
I really sympathise with the ear problems, too: there was a period when this happened to me frequently, particularly come spring (very possibly an allergic reaction to birch pollen, apparently): obviously not the same cause as yours, but the same effect: miserable-making and very frustrating: I wish you clear ears as soon as possible.
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« Reply #3639 on: 09:55:10, 12-11-2007 » |
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Pah! Sibelius! These things will never catch on, I tell you!
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« Reply #3640 on: 10:03:04, 12-11-2007 » |
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Well I do wonder if it isn't the Sibelius but the Mac that's doing it. I ordered extra memory when I bought it and I'm wondering if someone might have skimped somewhere - I'm having too many programs prang for my taste just because I do something like type too fast...  How are the ears this morning, strina? |
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« Reply #3641 on: 10:27:05, 12-11-2007 » |
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That's an interesting point, Ollie, because although I'm running Sib 5 on both the Mac and the PC, I've mentioned before that on the Mac it seems to be far more troublesome, so I've used the PC pretty exclusively. The 5.1 version for Mac was a considerably smaller download than the PC, too. For the record, I'm using 2GB of RAM in the PC, but 2.5 in the Mac, so that shouldn''t be an issue, though, as has been noted before, it's a pre-Intel Mac (though that doesn't explain your problems ). |
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« Reply #3642 on: 11:48:15, 12-11-2007 » |
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How are the ears this morning, strina?
Huh? (sorry, had to be done  ) Better, I think, although still not right. The tubes are continuing to exhibit occassional signs of life, but the fluid in the middle ear isn't gone yet - there's still quite muffled. But psychologically it makes a huge difference to know that things are beginning to shift. |
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« Reply #3643 on: 17:55:12, 12-11-2007 » |
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I went back to work today after after three days off (plus the weekend meant I hadn't left the house for 5 days) with a middle ear problem which was causing Vertigo. Now, me postings are going beserk!!
Anyway, Little Miss Talons (who obviously had to do some of my work whilst I was away) although I thought she would enjoy schmoozing the handsome young Associate Partner in my absence has said not one word to me all day. Grump! Grump!
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« Reply #3644 on: 18:07:02, 12-11-2007 » |
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Why are your postings going berserk, Anna? That`s always been one of your best features  I think it`s time that someone took Little Miss Talons to the vet to deal with that pesky claw problem Or maybe Milly and I could mud wrestle her to the ground. She wouldn`t stand a chance! |
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