...Simon would learn to avoid lifts where the PFY's involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_(locomotive)

At last, something decent to read on this dull, dull day. I was beginning to think I'd read the whole internet over the holiday period. It seems to be most full of pictures of American peoples' pets.

State-sider here ... what's tippex?

is that Americans have it right in the way we number the floors in a building!

what you'd call whiteout or liquid paper. Tippex is the brand name.

I smells nasty but when I were a lad you could get a few seconds of dizziness from a vapour snort. They've removed that ingredient now though.

Do you have white out?

Referred to as idiot ink, for use on an old fashioned medium lacking such things as a delete key. White paint, found about offices for blanking out words on paper. Full of all sorts of exciting chemicals, which if pissed enough some one my try to get high on...

Tippex is white paint in a small bottle with a brush attached to the cap that one uses to paint over to be corrected parts of a document. After drying you can write / type the correction over it.

It has a distinct solvent smell and probably contains enough chemicals to make an entire generation infertile.

Tippex is what users put on their monitor when they make a typo

The thing that made Tippex so popular was the inclusion of 1-1-1 trichloroethane, a chlorocarbon based solvent that had some interesting effects on health and perceptions when inhaled. Another solvent in the same group is Carbon Tetrachloride, which was used in some spot removers (think of those lovely little sprays that form a white crusty that you brush off along with your stain). Some maintain that carbon-tet was used in Tippex, but it wasn't. The trichloroethane was quite potent enough.

... you can't outbastard your own trainee, you taught him too well for that!!

Stir fry... just turned on my soldering iron.

All the best to you and yours Simon.

I'm assuming this makes us Brits better programmers then ...? ;)

No, it isn't. The correct question is 'What's *right* with Slough?'

At least there's /something/ right with Leeds.

Barnsley, on the other hand...

> At least there's /something/ right with Leeds.

Only the M621 Westbound..... ;)

Oooh, ooh, please sir, I know the answer to this one!

When I spent a one-week course in Slough given by the vendors of a market-leading stochastic discrete-event simulation product for telecomms whose name I shall forbear to mention, I had the opportunity, unmatched in my experience, of taking lunch in a pub wherein stood a life-sized figurine of a man made ENTIRELY OF SPOONS.

I doubt anyone could say the same of any other town in the kingdom.

All the best,

John.

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html