Death to the midge! - Good news for all living in the H&I

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I was looking at the Stornoway Gazette (http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=StornowayGazette/Home) website when I cam accross this article (http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Newspaper/Article&pid=1034254631790&cid=1052745623435). I know I (unfortunately) don't actually live there any more, but I'm still more than slightly heartened to hear that there might soon be a lot less of the little buggers.

Also of interest is this (http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Newspaper/Article&pid=1034254631790&cid=1052745621594) - it gives you a pretty good idea of what the Hebrides is like.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Also of interest is this - it gives you a pretty good idea of what the Hebrides is like.[/quote:post_uid0]

They banned the maypole?

Most of what I know about the Hebrides is that the name was stolen for a concert band suite that turned out to be a ripoff of Holst suite (1st in F or 2nd in Eb or vice versa).

And that most people in my high school band class couldn't pronounce "Hebrides" properly.

Why anyone would want to live on a rainy, windswept pile of rocks in the middle of the ocean is beyond me. Silly Norse had to go and start a trend.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Maypole?? Don't be daft. Though knowing the Free Chruch they'd want that banned too if people started doing it.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Most of what I know about the Hebrides is that the name was stolen for a concert band suite that turned out to be a ripoff of Holst suite (1st in F or 2nd in Eb or vice versa).[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, there's Mendelssohn's [i:post_uid0]Fingal's Cave[/i:post_uid0] overture, which is also known as [i:post_uid0]The Hebrides[/i:post_uid0], but that predates Holst by quite a few years.

PHJ, I couldn't get your article links to work (MSN called it a "technical problem" with the publisher, but they're always trying to put the blame on someone else. :eyeroll: ) I'll try again later.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's not just you. I can't get the site up now either.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]What about midges? Are they like our West Nile-carrying mosquitos?[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Neek-breek, neek-breek.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:O

AHHHHH! Neekerbreekers![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Snh. Snh. Snh. :sniggers loudly:

:lol:[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's kinda sad that I get that. I've been reading my copy of the [i:post_uid0]Tolkien Bestiary[/i:post_uid0] waaay to much recently.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Haven't read that, but the Neekerbreekers (name coined by Sam Gamgee) are encountered in [i:post_uid0]FotR[/i:post_uid0] (the book) by Aragorn and the hobbits in the Midgewater Marshes on the trip from Bree to Rivendell.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Reliable sources tell me that the "What do they eat when they can't get hobbit?" line shows up in the deleted scenes on the DVD.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Absolutely barking, howling mad, the lot of you. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And so ... ? :p[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]...it begins.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Naaah. It's been going on for a long time, now. ;)

PHJ, was just looking at the thread title again. H&I? Assuming the H is for Hebrides, would the I be Iona?[/color:post_uid0]

[Anonymous]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Actually it stands for Highlands & Islands. It covers the Scottish Highlands (obvoiusly), the Inner and Outer Hebrides, and (I think, but I'm not 100% sure) the Shetlands and the Orkneys.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]That [i:post_uid0]would[/i:post_uid0] make more sense. "Highlands & Islands" did in fact occur to me a bit later, but for whatever reason, Iona was what popped into my head first.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]My first thought probably would have been Harris and Islay, which shows how random my brain can be.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Islay got into the process, too, which might have made a [i:post_uid0]little[/i:post_uid0] more sense than Iona, but not much.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]By the way, is there any particular reason you haven't registered again? I was just wondering.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I'm registered (check the member list.) It's just that the forum software has some hangup about me actually logging in and I haven't figured out what to do about it.[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Guest"]I'm registered (check the member list.) It's just that the forum software has some hangup about me actually logging in and I haven't figured out what to do about it.[/quote:post_uid0]
Try a different browser.

Look at your security/cookie options.

Threaten your computer with a two-by-four.

Get PHJ to send you a few gnats so you can offer a Burnt Sacrifice to the computer. (Note: It doesn't make much sense to try this immediately after the suggestion immediately preceding this one.) (But then, computers don't make much sense in these cases.)

Blame it on Zuke.[/color:post_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bad Zuke. No cookie.

Btw, about peoples names not showing up in the list of members online. It doesn't work for you if you're in Netscape, but it will work if you use IE. So Netscape hates everyone. :)[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Celeste"]Bad Zuke. No cookie.

Btw, about peoples names not showing up in the list of members online. It doesn't work for you if you're in Netscape, but it will work if you use IE. So Netscape hates everyone. :)[/quote:post_uid0]
I used to use Netscape until AwOL reset all my bookmarks as revenge when we escaped from their vile clutches. Plus now it takes half a minute to reset the screen after a window closes. :madder: It was better than the IE I have now.

May the AwOL executive offices be cursed with a plague of midges! :mad: :mad: :mad: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â :smile: ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="NAHTMMM"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Blame it on Zuke.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]*bursts into song* BLAME IT ON THE BLAAA-AAAA-CK STAARRRRRR!

Geez, I've really got to stop doing that. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]And if all that doesn't work, there's always subspace. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the ansible.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the Tories.

[quote:post_uid0]Or the ansible.[/quote:post_uid0]

Ansi-[i:post_uid0]what[/i:post_uid0]?[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the Tories.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Snarf.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, it's Mr Blair's favorite refrain. As opposed to Mr Bush, who prefers 'Blame it on Al Queda'.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Well, it's Mr Blair's favorite refrain. As opposed to Mr Bush, who prefers 'Blame it on Al Queda'.[/quote:post_uid0]

Round about the time of Gulf Wars I, there was a "Blame It On Hussein" tune making the rounds.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Black Star's funnier. And I like the tune anyway.

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]Ansi-[i:post_uid0]what[/i:post_uid0]?[/quote:post_uid0]

Ever read Orson Scott Card? :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Y'know how you keep thinking the same thing as me, Pointy? That's a somewhat ansible-like behaviour.

Except we aren't twinned subatomic particles.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Ever read Orson Scott Card?[/quote:post_uid0]

No. And before you start, I did try to register at my local library, but they weren't having any of it. I know I could buy it (though it would have to be from Amazon), but my cash is being saved up for the next two [i:post_uid0]Legends of Dune[/i:post_uid0] prequels.

[quote:post_uid0]Y'know how you keep thinking the same thing as me, Pointy? Â That's a somewhat ansible-like behaviour.

Except we aren't twinned subatomic particles.[/quote:post_uid0]

That sounds too quantum for my liking.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]No. And before you start, I did try to register at my local library, but they weren't having any of it.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]They WHAAAAAT?

This calls for severe reaction with a baguette.

How could they! How COULD they!

Sorry, rant over :D[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I need something that has proof of my name, address and signature. Something with at least some combination of two of each, which I don't have. The Stornoway library was much better.[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Two pieces of ID?

What did they think, you were going to make a jolly habit of nicking their books? ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Probably. Mind you, who knows what the Sassenach round here are like? It is Stoke, after all.[/color:post_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[quote:post_uid0="taya17"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Sorry, rant over :D[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]You know you work too hard and have a fever when you read that as "run Sax over."[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Do they make you wear one of those prison anklets that continually monitor position? ;)

"Run Sax over"? hehehe. Hey, Sax, sleeping of fthat fever may be an idea worthy of consideration. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[quote:post_uid0="Saxamaphone"][color=#000000:post_uid0]You know you work too hard and have a fever when you read that as "run Sax over."[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh I wouldn't do that. I'd either baguette you or sit on you. The latter isn't all that much different from getting run over, though.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]The latter isn't all that much different from getting run over, though.[/quote:post_uid0]

I hardly think you mass as much as any sort of automobile.

Maybe getting run over by a tricycle.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the Defiant from "One Little Ship" going at full impulse.[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]A sackfull of Tribbles maybe?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]AAAAAAAAHHHHH! TRIBBLES![/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]You afraid of them, CM? :looks evil:

TRIBBLE FIGHT!

*throws tribbles at random people passing by*

Aw, nobody's throwing them back at me. You guys are no fun! :D[/color:post_uid0]

[NeoMatrix]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]*throws one back at you, which ends up to be 5 by the time it hits you*[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Ooh tribble cluster bomb!
*throws Precious Ming Vase at Neo and RUUUNNNNS*[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]I do not condone the pointless destruction of priceless art forms. Throwing them at Neo however, is funny, and therefore has a point. Tomatoes are better though. They splatter more.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Oh well. I could always use the Super Banana Bomb. There's something truly satisfying about watching a banana break into several smaller bananas and then all exploding at once. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Or the Concrete Donkey. I only saw that once, and I was laughing too hard to see what it did, really.[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]If you have a fever, sax i would recomend that you not watch ST:TMP, i did and it gave me nightmares[/color:post_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="taya17"]*throws tribbles at random people passing by*

Aw, nobody's throwing them back at me. You guys are no fun! :D[/quote:post_uid0]
It's called "treating my commandos with respect". :eyeroll: You would do well to treat them with respect as well, hint hint... :O


[i:post_uid0]Bwahahaha--[/i:post_uid0] er, 'scuse me. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Propaganda is effective as well. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]... which ends up to be 5 by the time it hits you*[/quote:post_uid0]
See? That's why there scary. And btw, could you [i:post_uid0]please[/i:post_uid0] do that on Qo'nos or something?[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Is there some kind of equation for the multiplication of tribbles?
(confusing maths mixup, but you understand, right?)

And Catalina, do you like Kingdom Hearts?[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Never heard of it.

Of course I understand the math. I just don't understand the English words for it. Oh, well, with a dictionary, everything is great. :D

And yes, probably something like
y=2^x
y is the number of tribbles and x is the time... in hours... or minutes... I don't know!

But something like that. Easy, no?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yeah, but the ammount of food they consume has to be factored in surely?

There must be a formula of some sort - otherwise Spock wouldn't have been to figure out the numbers that he did.[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]There must be a formula of some sort - otherwise Spock wouldn't have been to figure out the numbers that he did.[/quote:post_uid0]

Perhaps he just made it up, and nobody bothered to check anything in order to gainsay him.

Possibly he assumed that every tribble on the Enterprise was being gorged by adoring crewmen, and that the food supply was infinite, or at least orders of magnitude greater than required. They did have access to a starbase stuffed to the gunwales with grain, after all.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]There must be a formula of some sort - otherwise Spock wouldn't have been to figure out the numbers that he did.[/quote:post_uid0]

Perhaps he just made it up, and nobody bothered to check anything in order to gainsay him.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]But then again, Dax came up with the same answer. ;)[/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]But then again, Dax came up with the same answer. [/quote:post_uid0]

She probably watched the episode beforehand.[/color:post_uid0]

[AKAArzosah]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Catalina, the reason i asked about Kingdom Hearts is 'cos your Avatar is Kairi.
KH is a playstation game, by Disney.

Oh my god, continuity![/color:post_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]KH is a playstation game, by Disney.
[/quote:post_uid0]

Great googley moogley...never thought I'd see the day.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Well, now you have. Live with it :D[/color:post_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]Catalina, the reason i asked about Kingdom Hearts is 'cos your Avatar is Kairi.
KH is a playstation game, by Disney.[/quote:post_uid0]
Really? I had no idea.
The thing is, my friend draws these, and I just liked this one. I knew she was called Kairi, but I didn't know who she is.[/color:post_uid0]