Happy Guy Fawkes Day/Night!

Making an official request for a new round of Clerihew poems. Always liked the metrical freedom they afforded me as a rookie MC'er.

[Juxtapose] Given the glacial pace of game turnover here, I feel obliged to point you gently in the direction of a Clerihew game currently taking place over at Orange.

You know you've been in a brace for too long when you reach for the velcro strap to haul your other (unbound, uninjured) leg around too.

Only two more days, i hope.

Fingers crossed for you, flerdle.

Fingers also crossed, flerdle.

Things are incredibly dangerous around here - a thick fog has enveloped the city and driving is an exciting adventure in remembering which is your exit as the signs have disappeared in the mist. Oh well.

I'm free! FREE! Ahahahahahah!

Oh sh!t. I have no muscle now. *crumples*

[Flerdle] Just get started on going for walks to build it up. When you're no longer walking in a circle, you're better.

lol - genuinely :)

mijn ook. Ik lollt. Oooh... converting txt-speak into Dutch is fun!

[pen] share the joke.

I make that either:
'Me too, I lol'd' or
'My Orang Utan is slumped in his chair'

[Softers] the Dutch have a fairly regular set of verb endings, and have co-opted quite a few English words, which they adapt by tampering with the verb endings. So, you'll get something like 'Checken' - to check; Ik checkt, u checkd, etc. And 'Springen' - to jump. Although I was disappointed to learn that they hadn't bothered to co-opt 'trampolinen' - to jump on a trampoline. Ik trampolint would be very useful, I thought.
[INJ] Correct.

[pen] Of course my experience of Dutch predates txtpraat.

French has done the same thing, except worse. They don't just text LOL, and write G instead of j'ai, they say LOL in conversation. No sign of 'j'ai LOLé' for the moment, but it's only a matter of time until I see my nieces again.

It's sop foggy here in Rotterdam this morning that from the window of my 6th floor office, I can see nothing but mist. But I can hear the pile-driver thud-thud-thudding away on the building site in the middle of campus.

Getting weathered on near Southampton. Walked from the hotel to the office (through woods) and in half an hour got a sharp shower, mist, a beautiful sunrise and mirky greyness. Plus a couple of roe deer - always a bonus.