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May 05, 2006 18:15

Ther were work drinks today, and good work drinks because five people, count 'em, are leaving. Fruit platter! Cheese! Chip butties! And everyone (well, several people) took care to point out the cheese to me, which I was nonplussed by until I remembered the last work function, at which I got drunk and talked at length about cheese and curling ( Read more... )

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shihadchick May 5 2006, 07:26:52 UTC
The best part about MCS-H39** wasn't so much the fact that - for once - no one was trying to shoot at them, at any point, or even that the natives had quite sensibly elevated the ceremonial cheese platter to a ritual that seemed (according to the anthropologists, who were having fits of glee all over the place) to fall somewhere between a Holy Rite and the Japanese Tea Ceremony, something of which Rodney approved quite strongly, no, it was that that also seemed to be the only system which had successfully hybridised and bred a variety of earth-descended vegetables, most of which ran out literal days after the Daedalus could bring them in ( ... )

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the_antichris May 5 2006, 07:39:01 UTC
I LOVE YOU. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S QUASI-INCESTUOUS AND WEIRD.

they'd been designed by biologists and nutritionists, so who knew what they'd missed Hee! And LEEKS. I love leeks.

i don't get it :( Also, I need an SGA icon.

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katrin May 5 2006, 07:41:36 UTC
Think about what letters the 3 and the 9 look like.

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the_antichris May 5 2006, 07:45:44 UTC
OH. I = dumb. (Also, I had to google DADT, and then I smacked myself in the head.)

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katrin May 5 2006, 07:46:22 UTC
Heh. I'm glad you figured it out, for both of those.

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the_antichris May 5 2006, 07:52:22 UTC
Hey, are you guys on AIM?

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katrin May 5 2006, 07:53:11 UTC
I am. Claire's currently having dinner.

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the_antichris May 5 2006, 07:56:30 UTC
Eating? How... misprioritising of her.

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shihadchick May 5 2006, 07:58:29 UTC
I tried to beg off! I got yelled at!

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shihadchick May 5 2006, 07:57:47 UTC
*grinny* I. Er. See what you people make me do??

Also, mum just asked me over dinner if I wanted pumpkin and I cracked my shit UP.

I figured leeks HAD to be scots-appropriate.

I'm glad Kat gave you a hand there. Me too. Oh dear. :D

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the_antichris May 5 2006, 08:24:24 UTC
Positive reinforcement only makes us ask for more!

Welsh, mostly, but I'm sure they have them in Scotland. I'm not sure what the stereotypical Scots vege is. (Chips? /cheap shot)

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