Happy New Year
To all my readers, thanks for popping by during 2005, and all the best for 2006!
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Saturday, December 31, 2005
Thursday, December 29, 2005
All quiet on the Eastern Front
Things have been happening, as Things are wont to, but nothing that's eminently bloggable, hence the rather quiet period since Christmas. Also Jane's been over and keeping me amused all week, so I haven't had the time!
Some lists to keep you tiding over:
Christmas Haul:
Some lists to keep you tiding over:
Christmas Haul:
- Ickle camera tripod (groovy)
- Night scope (gadgety)
- Lots of monies (spendy)
- Books (wordy)
- Mikro-man thingy (designery)
- Jelly Bean tub (yummy)
- Spag Boll
- HUGE Chicken with all the trimmings.
- Trifle
- Cheese and biscuits.
- Beef burger pittas (a new invention involving the last thing I had in the fridge added to the only type of bread available in Tesco Extra on Boxing Day.)
- Cheesy breakfast pittas (gotta use up them pittas)
- GINORMOUS beef joint with all the trimmings
- Christmas pud.
- Leftover trifle.
- Spag Boll.
- Go on diet.
- Organise something to wear for Eighties-themed New Year's party at Sophie's.
- Get dressed today.
- Go and see a tranny friend of mine and Jane's who's staying in Norfolk. The "fun" part of this meeting is that his wife doesn't know that he's a tranny so we've gotta keep schtum, but everyone around the table will know that I'm tranny because he told his wife (who I've never met) in an attempt to broach the subject with her. Hmm, Evil Becky might make an appearance. Mwhahahahaha! ;-)
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Siobhan Curran Have fun on New Year's Eve hon :) Eighties-themed parties see to be de rigure this year - I'm off down to Warrington to one that night with Simon and Nikki from gwrb.
If I can find something truely hideous to wear that is ;-) - Rachel I dunno the lives you Trannie Celebs lead... and all my family are doing is going down to Essex to see the New Year in the rest of the tribe. Have fun, you and Jane as well as Evil Becky. ;) You too Siobhan.
- Victoria Fox Yer Beef Burger Pittas been their done that and quite nice too :-D
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Gemma Well, if anyone's in Manchester village over the New Year, look out for me. Three days of intense partying, dancing, flirting (did I say that?) and seeing out the year in style - especially when in the Dress That Jessica Spotted and Rachel threatened GBH over (though as I look fat in it I'm hoping she'll let me live).
Have great parties, girls - it's been so much fun meeting with you in 2005, I can't wait for 2006 :D
Hugs! Gemma xxx - Lana Have a good New year all, party hard and long but keep safe :)
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Karol Cross Hope you all have a super New Years Eve!
I too am heading off to a party, hopefully not an 80's one though!
And Siobhan I may have just the thing for you, as everything I've tried on tonight has indeed been truly hideous! So it looks like no photos from me this New Year.
I hope you all start 2006 in a happy and contented way.
See you next year! x
Monday, December 26, 2005
- The Humanity Critic Happy Holidays!!
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Freiya oooh! lovely pictures, there's nothing quite like a bracing boxing day walk eh?
happy belated christmas :) - Sylvia Nice Photos. I really enjoy sunsets.
Boxing Day
The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day in the UK and some other Commonwealth Countries, and is a national holiday.
It's tradionally spent either:
a) shopping in the sales
b) going for long walks in the vain belief that this will cancel out the huge amounts of food you ate the day before.
Jane and I opted for the latter, and went for a bracing walk on Holkham beach, on the North Norfolk coast. With a strong north-easterly and nothing between us and Norway it was exceptionally bracing!
Labels: photos
- Hope you weren't driving that close AND trying to take a photo at the same time. That could result in an ex-Becky.
- Siobhan Curran Is Norfolk Green a bit like an East Anglian version of Solyent Green?
- Becky Yes, hence their short lived and controversial advertising campaign "Norfolk Green is People!"
- Is that anything like 'Soylent Green'? That was people too.
- Becky Vic, I refer you to the comment Siobhan made some moments ago. (And I'll try to avoid adding "mehhh, duh brain!") ;-)
- As I found after I had written it - tart!
Saturday, December 24, 2005
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it's been said
many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you.
- Joanna Happy Xmas to you too!
- Paula Jay Have a wonderful Christmas - I have enjoyed your countdown to Xmas.
- Clarissa Merry Christmas to you as well and thanks for the weird and wonderful links over the last 24 days.
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Selina All the best Becky.
And congrats on all 24 days. - Emilygrae Merry Christmas Becky! I haven't enjoyed a Christmas countdown as much for a long long time. =)
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Hope you have a great Christmas Becky. I've enjoyed your advent e-calendar too!
Becky T -
Lana Buon Natale, have a good one.
Nice pic and the advent calendars been a lot of fun :) - Merry Chrismakwaanzakkan, Charlie Brown!
- Lisa Lindstrom Merry Christmas to you also!
Friday, December 23, 2005
Badges
I’m a transvestite from Norfolk. What are you?
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be another blog entry about TV/TS/TG “labels”, I think that’s more or less been done to death. In fact let’s use a different word. Rather than talking about labels let’s talk about badges.
I’m interested in the cultural groups that people ascribe themselves to when they think about “what am I”. You choose the badges that apply to you and use them when asked “where are you from” or “why do you do that” or “what are you into”.
In many ways these badges provide a sense of belonging and purpose. I cross-dress because I’m a transvestite. I love open countryside because I’m from Norfolk. I can wear those badges with pride, and feel a sense of community with others who wear the badge too.
Plus, those two badges aren’t mutually exclusive. I can wear both because one of them is about location and one of them is about gender and sexuality. But it seems that many people wear more than one badge from each category.
Take the “where do you come from” badge. This might seem quite straightforward – you can only be born in one place – but for some people it seems quite fluid. Jane’s ability to change tribal roots to suit different situations always impresses and amuses me. She uses her three-quarters-Irish parentage to explain why she needs another glass of wine. A Northern upbringing is apparently responsible for her being a lot less sensitive to the cold than I am, me being a nesh Southerner and all. Of course she conveniently forgets that she was born in London, unless the conversation requires her to proudly boast of her Cockney heritage!
This brings me in a roundabout kind of way to the point I’m trying to make. What’s the minimum you have to do to get to wear the badge of membership? In particular, the transvestite badge that I and a lot of my friends wear.
Charlotte asked recently whether someone who was unwilling or unable to dress could be a “non-practicing transvestite”. I caught Siobhan the other day apologising for not posting more tranny-related stuff in her blog, as if her status as a tranny blogger would lapse if she didn’t mention frocks once a week. I do it too. If I haven’t posted a picture of Becky to my blog for a month or so I begin to feel like a bit of a fraud.
Which got me thinking what does constitute the minimum set of behaviours or characteristics that entitles someone to call themselves part of tranny culture?
When you start to think about it, it’s very hard to pin down. The simple answer is “you have to dress up like a woman”. Yes but, how often? How long can you go without dressing before your transvestite membership lapses? What about all the guys out there who’ve never worn more than bra and panties, or a bit of makeup, but still feel like a transvestite? And what about all the men who dress fully like women but don’t identify as transvestite at all?
The more I thought about it the more I realised there isn’t a minimum set of behaviours that entitles you to call yourself a transvestite, because there’s no one thing that identifies and is common to all of the transvestites I know.
Let me modify that. Theirs is one thing that entitles you to call yourself a transvestite: calling yourself a transvestite. If you’re willing to wear the badge then you should be allowed to wear it. You’re just as entitled to it as I am.
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be another blog entry about TV/TS/TG “labels”, I think that’s more or less been done to death. In fact let’s use a different word. Rather than talking about labels let’s talk about badges.
I’m interested in the cultural groups that people ascribe themselves to when they think about “what am I”. You choose the badges that apply to you and use them when asked “where are you from” or “why do you do that” or “what are you into”.
In many ways these badges provide a sense of belonging and purpose. I cross-dress because I’m a transvestite. I love open countryside because I’m from Norfolk. I can wear those badges with pride, and feel a sense of community with others who wear the badge too.
Plus, those two badges aren’t mutually exclusive. I can wear both because one of them is about location and one of them is about gender and sexuality. But it seems that many people wear more than one badge from each category.
Take the “where do you come from” badge. This might seem quite straightforward – you can only be born in one place – but for some people it seems quite fluid. Jane’s ability to change tribal roots to suit different situations always impresses and amuses me. She uses her three-quarters-Irish parentage to explain why she needs another glass of wine. A Northern upbringing is apparently responsible for her being a lot less sensitive to the cold than I am, me being a nesh Southerner and all. Of course she conveniently forgets that she was born in London, unless the conversation requires her to proudly boast of her Cockney heritage!
This brings me in a roundabout kind of way to the point I’m trying to make. What’s the minimum you have to do to get to wear the badge of membership? In particular, the transvestite badge that I and a lot of my friends wear.
Charlotte asked recently whether someone who was unwilling or unable to dress could be a “non-practicing transvestite”. I caught Siobhan the other day apologising for not posting more tranny-related stuff in her blog, as if her status as a tranny blogger would lapse if she didn’t mention frocks once a week. I do it too. If I haven’t posted a picture of Becky to my blog for a month or so I begin to feel like a bit of a fraud.
Which got me thinking what does constitute the minimum set of behaviours or characteristics that entitles someone to call themselves part of tranny culture?
When you start to think about it, it’s very hard to pin down. The simple answer is “you have to dress up like a woman”. Yes but, how often? How long can you go without dressing before your transvestite membership lapses? What about all the guys out there who’ve never worn more than bra and panties, or a bit of makeup, but still feel like a transvestite? And what about all the men who dress fully like women but don’t identify as transvestite at all?
The more I thought about it the more I realised there isn’t a minimum set of behaviours that entitles you to call yourself a transvestite, because there’s no one thing that identifies and is common to all of the transvestites I know.
Let me modify that. Theirs is one thing that entitles you to call yourself a transvestite: calling yourself a transvestite. If you’re willing to wear the badge then you should be allowed to wear it. You’re just as entitled to it as I am.
Labels: jane, transvestism
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Jane Of course she conveniently forgets that she was born in London
I was born in North London. That counts. - S Odd , I had been thinking this simular question the other day. My conclusion is you wear the hat around people that people expect to see and you will do it without thinking about it, but the little voice inside your head tells you what label really defines you. Practice or not that lable does not change.
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Karol Cross "you wear the hat around people that people expect to see"
I tend to agree. But it also made me wonder about trannie behaviour. Does the fact that we're all part of the tranniesphere actually influence our behavior as trannies?
That is, if we'd had no internet access, would we have developed in a significantly different direction? Or by wearing the label, are we buying into a certain set of preconditions? -
Lana I think it's an indiviual thing, we're all different and we all also change direction ourselves at times as in the way we dress eg.
Ive gone through the tacky glitzy tranny look, to Goth, to elegant and now I dress mostly androgynous unless Im going somewhere that I need to dress up more for. It suits me in that I can dress all the time and just need to vary the amount of femme I add to the mix.
Ive noticed a lot more Trannys here (NZ) doing the same.
Avere Buon Natale e felice un Nuovo Anno.
Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.
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Tabitha Wow. What an interesting concept! I suppose it all depends on how you look at it, but if you wear women's clothing on any sort of regular basis, I would think you would qualify.
But the question you posed by asking "How long can you go without dressing before your transvestite membership lapses?" is really a quite fascinating one!
If one has not 'dressed up' for the last year, maybe 2, does her TV license expire?
Definitely evokes some deep thought. Thanks!
And Merry Christmas! -
Fairly-Odd Short answer:
If you’re willing to wear the badge...
That about says it for me. Now if you happen to live in a locale where it's cool and the in thing to be a tranny, then please send me a postcard.
Otherwise, I think we all go through the things we go through before coming to terms, calling a spade a spade, and moving on about our business of dressing like girls... ;)
Oh, and Merry Christmas! -
Mia Ah. Calling a Spade a Spade. It takes what seems like forever to get there, but when you finally do it is great.
Now that I've let my parents in on the whole thing they're working that way. I've been there for a while now and I'm getting annoyed that they can't just up and accept it. Which is dumb. All I need to do is look back an remember what a hard time I had.....
- Lana LOL no comment!!!!
- steph_angel Weebl & Bob are THE BEST...We've got our son some Weebl & Bob stuff for xmas, and I can't wait to play with it :-)
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Becky I love Weebl and Bob too. Particularly when Bob's allowed to excercise his Flash skills, as in this example.
"PING!" :-) -
Jane "I think inside the box"
utter brill again -
I prefer the Toast King! He's brilliant.
"Yeeeeehhhhh!! Fine moon cheese!
Thursday, December 22, 2005
- Lana Well having had a few trips to Rome there probably would be some transvestites near the Nativity scene :)
- Siobhan Curran Two results above "Giant cock". Now that's something to be proud of...
- Becky Yes, I thought so. :grins inanely:
- Clarissa "Giant cock" is the next one down now.... so own up, whose been clicking on it?
A novel way of spamming
In the never-ending war between spammers and spam-filterers, the latest trick seems to be to start messages with a passage of unrelated fiction. This fools the spam filter into allowing it. They then do some HTML trickery to hide this passage and replace it with the hard-sell spam or phishing one when you view it.
The passages they start with, while apperently random, seem to be stitched together from real literary works. Here's an example I extracted from a piece of spam I got earlier today:
In my opinion, that's a mini masterpiece! It's like reading 10 different novels at once!
I find myself wanting to know what happened to Paul. Who was on the lawnmower? What was the reason for the terrible thundery feeling??
I'm considering accepting the offer for a managerial post at Honda, that was attached below the story. Just to find out what happens next. All I have to do is give them my bank account details...
The passages they start with, while apperently random, seem to be stitched together from real literary works. Here's an example I extracted from a piece of spam I got earlier today:
Paul could smell frying skin, burning fat. I'm half-unclad!
She put her arms about his neck, bringing the firm of her breast more fully into his hand. Poor things. Suddenly the noise of the riding lawnmower was louder. Then she led them into the kitchen. If your sinuses closed up tight and you couldn't breathe through your mouth. And suddenly she knew the reason for that terrible thundery feeling that had been inside her ever since Saturday Night. Millions might scoff, but only because they failed to realize how pervasive the influence of art - even of such a degenerate sort as popular fiction - could become.
In my opinion, that's a mini masterpiece! It's like reading 10 different novels at once!
I find myself wanting to know what happened to Paul. Who was on the lawnmower? What was the reason for the terrible thundery feeling??
I'm considering accepting the offer for a managerial post at Honda, that was attached below the story. Just to find out what happens next. All I have to do is give them my bank account details...
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Mother Damnable ...so that's how you spell pervasive!
Goggled in after a search on the Pogues!
Hey Becky - I got the same spam and googled some of the lines. If you want to find out what happens to Paul, read Steven King's "Misery."
Booze
There are times when the slow shutter speed on my mobile really annoys me. But it's accurately captured the blur of frenzied bottle-removing that occured a few seconds after my boss dropped this crate of wine on my desk.
Labels: photos
- Jane mmmm splishy splashy
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Siobhan Curran Swap you that lot for my Captain Jack picture
(kidding) - Becky LOL, I almost made that the tagline to the picture Siobhan. I was going to ask how many bottles it would take. :)
The next big TV re-invention
I think someone should re-invent Mr Ben for the millenium.
Think about it, re-do Mr Ben in live action with a proper American TV show budget. Make it like Quantum Leap!
Imagine the credit sequence, quick cuts through Mr Ben riding a horse as a cowboy, kissing a lady as a twenties private detective, being punched in the face during a boxing match. All with a pumping and catchy version of the theme tune and “MR BEN” scrolling across the screen in huge letters! How cool would that be?!
Each week Mr Ben goes to the clothes shop and chooses a fancy-dress outfit, and when he puts it on and steps through the other door of the changing room, he’s transported in time and space to a place where he’s really living the life of the person who would wear that costume. He then faces challenges, like saving the wild west town from Red Indians, or killing the medieval dragon, ably assisted by the Shop-keeper (played by Harry Hill) who appears occasionally to offer sage advice. At the end he steps back through a door and finds himself back in the clothes shop.
The recurring baddie is Mr Steve, an evil genius with his own magical costume shop who ransacks history for his own ends. Other recurring characters are the gang of street-wise kids on Festive Row and Mr Ben’s love interest, the feisty Miss George.
This stuff writes itself! If any TV producer is reading this, get in contact. I’ll have a treatment on your desk before Christmas.
Think about it, re-do Mr Ben in live action with a proper American TV show budget. Make it like Quantum Leap!
Imagine the credit sequence, quick cuts through Mr Ben riding a horse as a cowboy, kissing a lady as a twenties private detective, being punched in the face during a boxing match. All with a pumping and catchy version of the theme tune and “MR BEN” scrolling across the screen in huge letters! How cool would that be?!
Each week Mr Ben goes to the clothes shop and chooses a fancy-dress outfit, and when he puts it on and steps through the other door of the changing room, he’s transported in time and space to a place where he’s really living the life of the person who would wear that costume. He then faces challenges, like saving the wild west town from Red Indians, or killing the medieval dragon, ably assisted by the Shop-keeper (played by Harry Hill) who appears occasionally to offer sage advice. At the end he steps back through a door and finds himself back in the clothes shop.
The recurring baddie is Mr Steve, an evil genius with his own magical costume shop who ransacks history for his own ends. Other recurring characters are the gang of street-wise kids on Festive Row and Mr Ben’s love interest, the feisty Miss George.
This stuff writes itself! If any TV producer is reading this, get in contact. I’ll have a treatment on your desk before Christmas.
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Siobhan Curran I was always hoping for an episode in which this happened...
As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeard. "What would you like to try on today?" he asked. Mr Ben hesitated for a moment. "That one" he said, pointing to a French Maids outfit -
Becky Snap. :-)
Expected result...
The shopkeeper fixed Mr Ben with a hard stare. His voice became a low growl.
"Get out," he said, pointing firmly at the door. - Pandora Caitiff Harry Hill as the shopkeeper? Inspired casting. Damn you EnVeritie! I want to watch this show now!
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sim Now theres a show with potential.
Billy Connolly in the lead please.
I always wanted Mr Benn to swear a little more.
It beats my idea for getting Sami Raimi to remake Rainbow Xena Style.
Jane : Warrior minstral. - Joanna Apparently there were plans for a live action Mr Benn movie a year or so ago. With John Hannah as Mr Benn and Ben Kingsley as the Shopkeeper. Think it died in development hell...
- You owe me a new keyboard... I've just coughed up half an Easter egg laughing at Mr Benn and the French Maid outfit, and it's all yeuccchhh and phlegm, with odd keys peeking out...
The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Park and Pride
"It is spacious, well-lit and adorned with beautiful red brickwork, complemented by slinky silver vertical aluminium fins that create a rippling wave effect."
London may have The Gherkin, Cardiff may have it's Stadium, and Edinburgh it's Parliament, but now King's Lynn has it's own modern architectural claim to fame.
For now we are officially home to Britain's Best Car Park.
It beat out strong competition from Liverpool and Edinburgh to take the coveted number one spot in a poll of the UK's best parking locations. The judge, who is an expert in these matters having written two books on roundabouts, said: "When I saw the St James multi-storey car park in King's Lynn it was love at first sight."
I've made a pilgrimage to the new building myself a couple of weeks ago and I must admit it does have a spacious feel. You don't have to take any bumper-scraping sharp corners to navigate it, perhaps because the architects knew that most Norfolk cars are used to long straight country roads and not this new fangled "steering".
So I urge you, visit King's Lynn in 2006! You'll not find an amazing night-life, our culinary, shopping and cultural highlights are nothing to write home about, but at least you'll have somewhere nice to park.
Before it was famous. The car park being built, way back in May.
London may have The Gherkin, Cardiff may have it's Stadium, and Edinburgh it's Parliament, but now King's Lynn has it's own modern architectural claim to fame.
For now we are officially home to Britain's Best Car Park.
It beat out strong competition from Liverpool and Edinburgh to take the coveted number one spot in a poll of the UK's best parking locations. The judge, who is an expert in these matters having written two books on roundabouts, said: "When I saw the St James multi-storey car park in King's Lynn it was love at first sight."
I've made a pilgrimage to the new building myself a couple of weeks ago and I must admit it does have a spacious feel. You don't have to take any bumper-scraping sharp corners to navigate it, perhaps because the architects knew that most Norfolk cars are used to long straight country roads and not this new fangled "steering".
So I urge you, visit King's Lynn in 2006! You'll not find an amazing night-life, our culinary, shopping and cultural highlights are nothing to write home about, but at least you'll have somewhere nice to park.
Before it was famous. The car park being built, way back in May.
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- steph_angel Here in little Derby, we may not have the Best car park, but we do have the Safest. It's soooooooooo safe that it recently appeared in a list of the 10 most secure buildings in the world...Yes, the World!!! It came in just behind Area 51... Not too sure what that says about Derby???
- Joanna Does it have special bays for tractors?
- It doesn't need them, Steph rarely drives into town...
From base to summit, gay and bright,
There's only splendor for the sight.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy candles shine so brightly!
- Becky Thanks to Jessica for finding this one. I've always loved the other Grow puzzles. Once you've got the hang of the tree, try the other ones! :-)
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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
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
- Jessica god that looks boring, glad i didn't read too much of it
-
Becky is a Psion fan!
Those things really did always work, no matter how hard I tried to break it....
I miss my Revo. :( - Gemma Yeah, it's horrible what trannies get up to in private, isn't it? Far worse than I thought.
-
Jane I was going to say you two seriously need to get out more, but then I remembered that Bex has had the fun filled packed excitement stuffed last 4 weekends and she is still getting excited about typography.
I worry, really I do.... ;-)
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning.
- Becky Oh and happy birthday Karol!! I know how much you love... er... battleships.
Have a good New Year and all the best for 2006.
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