Another thing not to do with toner
Fill a bin bag with cold water and add a cartridge of toner
Shake and empty over a colleague who is handcuffed to the flagpole and,wearing few clothes
This was done as a prank before said colleague’s wedding
He spent days cleaning himself
Doncha love the thinking of junior peelers at times?
Excellent use of toner. And indeed of colleague. Bit mean to the flagpole.
That solar topee, Armers: you look strangely dashing…
Robust sense of humour describes most peelers
Think of Dennis the Menace in a place where the tools are available to carry out pranks that are a bit erm excessive
When they first appeared, I heard of more than one case of someone sending about a dozen copies of the same fax, because “it didn’t send”.
On further investigation:
“I put it in the top, like you showed me, but it just came out again at the bottom”"
There was an evil thing sometimes done by disaffected employees just before they left offices which they hated because of a particular client: you get three or four sheets of paper, paint them black, and set them to send as a loop over the weekend, to the office which made your life hell.
Apparently (I never did this myself) both fax machines will eventually (some time during Saturday, probably) overheat and die trying to perform the evolution expected of them. There is also considerable expense at both ends.
The worst naughtiness along those lines that I know of personally was someone who on his last Friday at a job managed to go home after everyone else in his bit of the company (Price Waterhouse) and dialled the speaking clock in New York from his immediate boss’s telephone as his final act, leaving the phone in the boss’s large desk-drawer so it would not be noticed by the cleaners.
Wear gloves.
In Other News, I have just despatched a wasp which was spotted crawling over an armchair
Sigh
Must locate me Wasp Toaster
Carinthia.xx
Am orff to Dunelm
Please pray that the Wickes next door to Dunelm has what I want, & that I don’t have to go to Bee & Poo…
Thank-you
Carinthia.xx
The largest user of fax machines in the world is now the NHS.
Feral was for a while involved with a tpc.int endpoint (send a suitably-formatted email and it gets delivered as a fax), but they shut it down because of lack of demand.
Here’s my fax story: I had to send a fax to the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and misdialled the number so it got through to a private phone at about four in the morning their time. The fax had a speaker as it could be used as a phone as well and we could hear a man shouting at us in - I assume - Mandarin. It sounded as if there was a tiny little Chinese man inside the machine. The office manager told me the machine was going to go on re-dialling at ten minute intervals for at least three more times and we had no idea how to stop it.
Poor man, but I’m afraid we laughed until the tears ran. It was a stressful time, moving season in the Canadian Foreign Service, so that’s me excuse.
There will be burgers, so I am making some buns using above naan recipe. Will report back later…
Anyone else doing anything similar, I do urge you to try Gus’s chilli tomato sauce - it is a thing of wonder
I like the sound of all that, Joe
I don’t like what are supposed to be burger buns sold in the shops
I didn’t have to go to Bee & Poo, thank-you Deity of Choice, but was so long in Wickes & Dunelm that I didn’t have time to go to Lidl
Chicken stirfry here tonight , but am going to put my feet up first . They are protesting
Carinthia.xx
I have just dined on wilted spinach with eggs bacon and fried soda farl
A treat that I enjoyed immensely
I fell asweep
Won’t the spinach Bugga up yer blood, Twellsy ?
Carinthia.xx
My blood is too thin just now so I am allowed spinach
We are having YMCA today: sausages which came out of the freezer yesterday and can’t be put back in, deadly attack potato salad, tomato raita, spinach-in-puff-party spiral, possibly a few chocolate chip cookies…
Oh
You found the tin then ?
Twellsy, what were your scan results ?
Gawds, I fancy deadly attack potato salad now
Carinthia.xx
Scan showed no clot or cyst so they just sent me home with orders to rest and use ibuprofen gel
Good. I am opposed to DVTs on general principles.
As am I Fishy
Blood clotting in any place but round a wound is NOT ON