Who should we vote out of the Naim house?

Read all about it! Implosion alert! Bored lawyers blamed for global warming! CO2 still climbing! Do they ever draw breath?

May I express my deep hearted thanks to everybody that's contributed to this thread, which has so far been adult intercative discussion of the highest order, both lively, and informative, keep up the good work chaps.


Fritz Von Ooops I fink I is on der wrong forum !


Sarcastic ! Who Me ?

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May I express my deep hearted thanks to everybody that's contributed to this thread

It is truly a top thread, and much more fun than those along the lines of will my hifi sound better if I replace the fuse with a goldfish, etc, etc.

Nigel

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:

It is truly a top thread, and much more fun than those along the lines of will my hifi sound better if I replace the fuse with a goldfish, etc, etc.

Nigel

Thanks for the tip Nigel! We lost our largest goldfish during a recent thunderstorm. Oxygen depletion most likely cause. I'll exhume the poor sod first thing tomorrow. Any thoughts on best orientation? Should carry a good few amps before it's well baked. Now all we need is a decision from above on sauce.

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Thanks for the tip Nigel! We lost our largest goldfish during a recent thunderstorm. Oxygen depletion most likely cause. I'll exhume the poor sod first thing tomorrow. Any thoughts on best orientation? Should carry a good few amps before it's well baked.

Ye Gods!...That's it....smoked fish to order. Imagine you could produce a pair of piping hot kippers for breakfast merely by playing AC/DC at 11.00 on the volume control.

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Any thoughts on best orientation

Goldfish are great for hifi applications as the eye can be used as an inbuilt direction marker- head to the source.

In fact I once published a paper on golfish - 'The effects of increasing shoal size on handling time in goldfish, Carassius auratus L.' in the Journal of Fish Biology vol 25 pp561-566. A fascinating read (not).

Nigel

While I greatly admire your enthusiasm Geoff I can't help feeling we won't sneak this one under Adam's fishing line for very much longer.

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piping hot kippers for breakfast

Two conger eels would be a lot cheaper than Nordost too.

Nigel

Cut out the middle man and use electric eels.

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electric eels

Marvellous. Why didn't I think of that?

Nigel

<blush>

This is a marvellous new concept that naim should pay attention to. I mean we could use octopii with 8 voltage taps as a replacements for the toroidals and eliminate transformer hum and then the possibilty of using 007 jellyfish as output devices has potential. I would think Polarbear would be interested in this new design. The only problem would be he would have to avoid the temptation to eat his HiFi for dinner.

Don't worry it's cooling down outside now. We should all return to normal soon and look back on this as a moment of sanity

Mad Dogs and Englishmen rule supreme on this forum
Yap

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he would have to avoid the temptation to eat his HiFi for dinner

It's a good job that penguins live in the Antarctic, or he'd be munching my SL2s.

Nigel

Nah, not enough meat on SL2's for me Nigel

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Originally posted by hungryhalibut:

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"One day, a real rain's gonna come ..."

....and wash all the scum off the sidewalk......

Not necessarily - you might be floating in it:


A TEN-hour thunderstorm FFS!!!

BTW - I like the Smiths - do I get to stay too???

Maybe it would be cooler to make up a list like the one in the Mikado. Any lyricists out there?

Are the varying angles of the individual Portaloo's a reflection of the degree of usage?

Is that the best caption you can come up with?

See those "poor" humans in the back ground? Wanna pee or poo but how could we?

These are primitive toilets. So primitive that several billion members of the human race have never seen one and certainly never used one. They are strictly reserved for super-rich westerners who can still afford mudbath festival tickets.
I hear China is on the verge of a major epidemic thanks to a complete absence of sewage treatment for hundreds of its supercities. Their drinking water is now so polluted you'd rather drink from the puddle around these buoyant bogs! Deep innit?

Nime,

You said:

‘Thanks for the tip Nigel! We lost our largest goldfish during a recent thunderstorm. Oxygen depletion most likely cause. I'll exhume the poor sod first thing tomorrow. Any thoughts on best orientation? Should carry a good few amps before it's well baked. Now all we need is a decision from above on sauce.’

I find this truly disturbing. Everyone knows it should be: ‘sauce first!’. Unless, of course, it's not a goldfish but a ... (no, even I baulk at that one).


paul_g,

You said:

‘Mass hara kiri would seem to be the best solution.

Your place or mine ?’

Not for me. No matter how depressed I get at being regarded by society at large as a leper, pariah and parasite, there are two things that sustain me:

(1) at least I’m not an estate agent; and

(2) I know it won’t be long before I have the pleasure of scaring a client witless by pointing out massive legal exposure arising from their actions – and then depart with the memorable line: “chaos, panic and disorder … my work here is done”.

Gotta find the laughs wherever you can.

Dan

This is very true John, I personally get lots ov larfs from Messers Robinson & Parry's posts no matter what the subject, innit.



Fritz Von Hear about the Warsaw couple who've just split up ?

They're poles apart so they are

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Originally posted by Traveling Dan:

Gotta find the laughs wherever you can.

Dan

Thankyou Dan. The mention of "sauce" was a double entendre aimed at Adam. (A mains thingy)

The later quotes were (alas) not mine. Though I feel your pain where estate agents are concerned.

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2) I know it won’t be long before I have the pleasure of scaring a client witless by pointing out massive legal exposure arising from their actions – and then depart with the memorable line: “chaos, panic and disorder … my work here is done”.

Dan,

Your post reminded me of a school production of the Threepenny Opera, specifically one of the opening songs.

Peachum, who is both fence and thief-catcher, sets the tone with his song of self-justification as he sits at his account-book:

Through all the Employments of Life
Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
All Professions be-rogue one another:
The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
And the Statesman, because he's so great,
Thinks his Trade as honest as mine

He goes on to say:

"A Lawyer is an honest Employment, so is mine. Like me too he acts in a double Capacity, both against Rogues and for 'em; for 'tis but fitting that we should protect and encourage Cheats, since we live by them".

Brad