Impact underestimation statement

[hirez]

It turns out that my cube at ex-work is now a shrine to odd behaviour and the Church of the Subgenius. Given the general level of oddness there, I consider that a great honour

Comments

[nalsa]

I am absurdly fond of the Green Dragon. As much as Hereford is full of coffin-dodgers and my grandmother-in-law, I do like visiting Cider Country because of the way it seems to have been nicely preserved, without fossilising. It also has the best cheese shop outside of Neal's Yard.

Also, Wye Valley beers are lovely.

[hirez]

Hm. Sounds like the sort of place one might think to visit with a set of like-minded chums...

[hirez]

Mentions Milligan, which is where I first heard the phrase:
http://caseyleaver.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/the-dreaded-cold-collation/

Arse-clenchingly expensive version:
http://www.duncombepark.com/cold_collation_1.shtml

[sarah_mum]

...and with one phrase I am transported to a hardware store in Winchcombe, with the whiff of parafin in the air and a wearly look on the face (like a slapped arse) of the 'assistant'.

[aoakley]

...who for some utterly unknown reason is American, or Canadian, or suchlike.

Americans moving to the Cotswolds? Fine, perfectly reasonable behaviour.

Americans moving to the Cotswolds to run a very small ironmongery, WHY?

[girfan]

Because the US doesn't have them anymore? Just about anywhere like that in the US has disappeared since the US versions of B&Q and Homebase (plus Walmart) have establised themselves.
*shrug* Why not ask them next time you stop in?

[hirez]

They submitted a manuscript that they think is so bad that moving to Lubbock isn't enough: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004307.html