I felt the need to contribute the the sibling blog-fest that is currently upon us! Okay, so only two of my siblings have actually blogged, but it's the best excuse I can come up with... If that's the best excuse I've got, imagine how poor the content of this post will be!
So as my oldest sibling gets ready to sail the seven seas (or at least shop them), my not so oldest whispers words of wisdom (and shows his age), and my not quite younger (but female) sibling trips the light fantasic (as in dancing... in checking the correctness of my terminology I discovered that the phrase has other meaning!), I sit here pondering Life, The Universe, and and how South Africa lost to Bangladesh...
Life can be fickle: We have two pieces of the same equipment in the lab. You can use either for an experiment, but you must stick to the same piece of equipment for the entire experiment. I was signed up to use one all of this week (as the other was out of order). Another person in the lab needed to finish an experiment they had started on the machine I was to use, and the broken machine has just been fixed, so I suggested she use the machine I signed up for and that I used the repaired machine. So yesterday the boss and I started work on the repaired machine... well we tried to start work, but the machine is still broken, or rather the part that was repaired is fine, but fixing it has just revealed another problem...
The Universe is unpredictable: Two weeks ago we started cricket season with a lovely sunny day and some entertaining and enoyable cricket. Last weekend we had a cold snap, resulting in freezing temperatures and no chance of play (mad dogs and Englishmen may go out in the mid-day sun, but no-one from the sub-continent will play in freezing temperatures!). This weekend? Rain is forecast...
So how did South Africa lose to Bangladesh? No idea!
As trivia seems to be a way to get comments on your blog, I thought I might finish with this:
What character, in which show, when told to "step up to red alert" replied...
"Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."?
(JollyRgr, give the others a chance first!)
11 comments:
It's not a Beatles question so can't answer. Could be from Firefly??
Hang on. No fair! This is almost certainly an English show post my moving to the US where I have no access to such things. Whine, whine, whine...
I shall not spoil it....but will say you should be Red with embarrassment if you don't know and I obviously need to lend the DVD's to 'PB'by the sounds of it
Oh smeg!!!!!!!!:-)
Red Dwarf!!!!!!!
Oh and never seen it!
You what.....hang your head in shame!!!!
consider it shamefully hung......
JollyRgr, after that hint even I could have guessed Red Dwarf, and I have absolutely no access to it... :-(
Odyssey, now you know how I feel playing 80s Trivial Pursuit!
Congratulations to"JollyCakes" for getting the right answer (Kryten from Red Dwarf), as JollyRgr's hints surely helped!
Mouthfulofpancakes, you should watch Red Dwarf... Very funny!
Your first ten-commenter! Well, it is now...
I'd like to thank the Academy...
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