mc5 - Little pleasures

Watch 'Withnail' for that going-into-work-after-a-bank-holiday-with-a-surreal-feeling feeling.

[pen] not back to work till thursday

[Phil] If you're going to watch 'Withnail and I' you can play 'Spot the anachronistic road sign'.

[Phil] However, what I find with MsCdMJr is that any film that dates from before 2004 is greeted with a comment of "That's so old!"
[pen] That was cfm, not me. It is a good line, though. Mind you, we should remember that the author of Charlotte's Web was also a co-author of the odious Strunk and White Elements of Style, and so not someone that I particularly acknowledge as a judge of good writing. :-)
Sautéed mushrooms

Phil

[CdM] We've managed to avoid that. Both our little beasts will happily watch anything, so long as it's good, e.g. Psycho :)

CdM

[Phil] She'll watch and enjoy. She just complains first...

Moom

Tiling an irregularly-shaped bread roll with cheese, using the fewest possible cuts.

Simons Mith

Recreational mathematics

Rosie

(SM) Demonstrate, using longhand methods only, that 3987¹² + 4365¹² <> 4472¹². Then do it on a calculator.

cfm

Reprieves

Phil

The MD saying "In that case, I'll go away and let you get on with it"

Rosie

Breaking a pane of glass you no longer want. The first blow, with a club hammer, is the best.

Simons Mith

Being able to make a comment on a complete stranger's website/blog/whatever and get a reply from someone who lives potentially thousands of miles away.