Regarding Macs, Cocks, Ligatures, Wikipedia, Shane McGowan and Hear'Say

Presented, in it's raw form (i.e. I couldn't be arsed to format it), an electronic discourse between myself and Ms. Siobhan Curran. Sincere apologies for mis-spellings and typographical errors.

Enjoy.

Siobhan Curran: Bah Humbug
beckyenverite: Ho ho ho!
Siobhan Curran: Don't you go all festive on me young lady
beckyenverite: I'm working on Advent Calendar day 24 as we speak, I have to be
Siobhan Curran: Go on, post a picture of your knob in a santa hat on Christmas eve
beckyenverite: Don't you love it when your computer lies to you? "Your pen tablet is installed and ready to use." SO WHY IS IT NOT WORKING THEN???
Siobhan Curran: I don't have these problems - I'm on a Mac remeber?
Siobhan Curran: It All Works
beckyenverite: Oh yes and macs never have any problems...
Siobhan Curran: None
Siobhan Curran: :-P
beckyenverite: That line only works on people who've never owned and run a mac
beckyenverite: It all Works for a given value of Works
Siobhan Curran: I know what I'm getting you for Christmas then
beckyenverite: A Psion Organiser!
Siobhan Curran: An Amstrad!
beckyenverite: Now THAT was an operating system that always worked
Siobhan Curran: "Worked" as in "bzzzed you can do fuck all on me"
beckyenverite: Sorry are we talking about Macs again?
Siobhan Curran: :-P
beckyenverite: Fished in!
Siobhan Curran: Dammit - get this hook out of my mouth
beckyenverite: Still at least you'll be spared the joys of Internet Explorer.
Siobhan Curran: People have been lamenting that - personally, Id like to say Good Riddance to the fucker
beckyenverite: Yeah I think it's A Good Thing.
Siobhan Curran: I am going to buy you a Mac - that is now my Quest
beckyenverite: Oooh
beckyenverite: I'm also quite agnostic about Lexus cars.
beckyenverite: If you fancied converting me.
Siobhan Curran: That's :Lexi"
beckyenverite: lol
Siobhan Curran: Aha!
beckyenverite: Aha?
beckyenverite: Oh i see.
Siobhan Curran: Alan Partridge
beckyenverite: The Partridge reference
Siobhan Curran: Yep
beckyenverite: And so we get back to Xmas
beckyenverite: What's a "Christmassy" font?
beckyenverite: Apart from Comic Sans, obviously.
Siobhan Curran: Don't - I succumbed and bought a ticket to Belfast today
beckyenverite: Nice, you can meet up with my work mate Darren, he's there for 2 weeks.
Siobhan Curran: I was asked "is that smoking, non-smoking, or anti-gay=zealous protest?"
beckyenverite: If you see a morbidly obese version of Bill Bailey, go up and say "I've been out in a frock with your workmate Simon!"
Siobhan Curran: Yeah, narrow it down for me a bit hon
Siobhan Curran: "morbidly obese version of Bill Bailey"
Siobhan Curran: That would be half the Province
beckyenverite: LOL
Siobhan Curran: THe other half just don;t have beards
beckyenverite: LOL
beckyenverite: You're all bah humbug now, but by Sunday you'll be belting out Fairytale of New York
Siobhan Curran: Yes, but by Sunday I might *just* be drunk enough
Siobhan Curran: I need to get to bed
beckyenverite: Siobhan Curran - Shane McGowan and Kirsty McCall in one handy package.
Siobhan Curran: Minus the rotar-blades
beckyenverite: Ow
Siobhan Curran: Indeed
beckyenverite: And with better teeth
Siobhan Curran: No, actually
Siobhan Curran:
beckyenverite: Well, if you ever need a costume for a party... the genetic combination of the two WOULD look quite cool
Siobhan Curran: Shane McGowan actually has better teeth than me
Siobhan Curran: I cold probably go as a combination of the two without much work
beckyenverite: He has no teeth... I saw him on something last night.
Siobhan Curran: Teeth get in the way of drink
Siobhan Curran: :-)
Siobhan Curran: Or so the boys from the NYPD CHoir tell me
beckyenverite: LOL
beckyenverite: I coulda bin sumwun!!!!
Siobhan Curran: Yeah, so could anyone
beckyenverite: lol
Siobhan Curran: But not with *that* blogger.com template
Siobhan Curran: You took my Dreamweaver from me...
beckyenverite: This conversation requires more creative processor time than I currently have available.
Siobhan Curran: Me too
beckyenverite: lol
Siobhan Curran: A complete Fairy Tale of New York rephrased to blog/html references takes time
Siobhan Curran: And it could be a CHristmas no. 1 2006
Siobhan Curran: Or perhaps not
beckyenverite: No, perhaps not. I doubt it would capture the public's imagination.
Siobhan Curran: It would if I got me cock out
Siobhan Curran: :-)
Siobhan Curran: No really
beckyenverite: Hmm, "Becky" looks horrible in Monotype Corsiva
Siobhan Curran: We'd seel in excess of *FIVE* copies
beckyenverite: The tails of the K and the Y get in a big fight.
beckyenverite: And by the time you've kerned them nicely they're miles apart.
beckyenverite: OH WHO'D BE ME? CANCEL CHRISTMAS!!
Siobhan Curran: Sorry, did you just go all typographic on me?
beckyenverite: Something I'm half-heartedly poking at in photoshop
Siobhan Curran: I was talking about my COCK
beckyenverite: I'm filtering that out at some level.
Siobhan Curran: And youre talking about kerning
Siobhan Curran: You;re weird
beckyenverite: I dunno, could be a good TV show
Siobhan Curran: :-)
beckyenverite: Cocks and Kerning
beckyenverite: Porn and typography, together at last
Siobhan Curran: Presented by Carol Smilie
beckyenverite: lol
beckyenverite: In a moment, rimming, but first here's Nigel with the latest ligatures.
Siobhan Curran: SO Lawrence - you cock is 72pt. With a 120pt leadning, yes?"
beckyenverite: And so on
Siobhan Curran: LOL!
Siobhan Curran: Blog that one
Siobhan Curran: It;s brilliant
beckyenverite: I dunno, it needs work
Siobhan Curran: Nah, "Latest ligatures" is raw gold
beckyenverite: Fi!
Siobhan Curran: fl?
beckyenverite: erm ... ae
Siobhan Curran: THat's not a ligature!
Siobhan Curran: THat's just a weird Scandinavian typo
Siobhan Curran: "put be chicken in de baesket..."
beckyenverite: lol
beckyenverite: it is a ligature if you join it together...
beckyenverite: i'm trying to find it in keycaps
Siobhan Curran: Only if the letters conflict when kerned
Siobhan Curran: ae is a letter
beckyenverite: gotcha
Siobhan Curran: isn't it?
Siobhan Curran: I don;t know BTW
beckyenverite: hmm... is ae a ligature...
Siobhan Curran: lets find out...
beckyenverite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AE_ligature
Siobhan Curran: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography)
Siobhan Curran: Oooh
beckyenverite: So now we know
Siobhan Curran: Wikiconflict
beckyenverite: I think we are both right
Siobhan Curran: DaMM
Siobhan Curran: I hate when we're bothright
Siobhan Curran: My favourite ligtature is &
beckyenverite: I just think it's ironic we needed an Encyclopædia to find it out.
Siobhan Curran: :-)
beckyenverite: (did that ligature work by the way)?
beckyenverite: & meaning et
Siobhan Curran: Yep
beckyenverite: ooh, we are so clever
Siobhan Curran: & Mean et c
beckyenverite: i thought it meant "et" as in "french for and"
Siobhan Curran: Trannies On The Edge
Siobhan Curran: It;s Latin - et cetera
Siobhan Curran: isn't it?
Siobhan Curran: no, you're right...
Siobhan Curran: The ampersand
Et ligature in Insular Minuscule script.
Perhaps the most common ligature is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand: "&". This was originally a ligature of 'Et', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin for 'and'.
beckyenverite: It's not a ligature, it's a logogram!
beckyenverite: We're learning tonight.
Siobhan Curran: Of course, Wikipedia is all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay
Siobhan Curran: logogram is my new favourite word
beckyenverite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear%27say ?
beckyenverite: logogram is a cool word, indeed
Siobhan Curran: That's what I was oping to link to
beckyenverite: heheh
beckyenverite: Wow...
Siobhan Curran: I'm going to trundle to bed
beckyenverite: The name derives from the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and".
Siobhan Curran: What
Siobhan Curran: Hear'say?
beckyenverite: No, the word "ampersand"
Siobhan Curran: That makes more sense
Siobhan Curran: :-)
beckyenverite: Goodnight... thanks for the informative and wide-ranging discourse.
Siobhan Curran: :-P
Siobhan Curran: And thank you for the intellect &c
Siobhan Curran: Which is odd, becuase my typing has been full of 1&2> recently
Siobhan Curran: 2&>! even
Siobhan Curran: 2>1
Siobhan Curran: Bugger
Siobhan Curran: 2>&1
beckyenverite: lol
Siobhan Curran: Something like that
Siobhan Curran: "Stream STDERR to STDIN" basically
beckyenverite: You've lost me now.
beckyenverite: Go to bed.
Siobhan Curran: I am a geek, but a pretty geek
beckyenverite: I'm going to blog this entire conversation.
Siobhan Curran: All of it?
Siobhan Curran: Every dingle word?
beckyenverite: except for this bit
beckyenverite: and i might edit out the typos
Siobhan Curran: Becky Enverite is a no-good whore who hangs around street corners looking for guys with manky knobs
Siobhan Curran: All of it?
Siobhan Curran: La la la