1. I prefer breasts to legs
2. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.
3. Smother the butter all over the breasts!
4. If I don't undo my trousers, I'll burst!
5. I've never seen a better spread!
6. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.
7. Are you ready for seconds yet?
8. It's a little dry; do you still want to eat it?
9. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!
10. Don't play with your meat.
11. Stuff it up between the legs as far as it will go.
12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?
13. I didn't expect everyone to come at the same time!
14. You still have a little bit on your chin.
15. How long will it take after you put it in?
16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up.
17. Just pull the end and wait for the bang.
18. That's the biggest bird I've ever had!
19. I'm so full, I've been gobbling nuts all morning
20. Wow, I didn't think I could handle all that and still want more!
21. I do like a good stuffing.
Saturday 23 December 2006
Thursday 21 December 2006
Verve is for life, not just for Christmas
"Remember, gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!"
~Winston Chrurchill
"I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty".
~Madame Lilly Bollinger
"Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!"
~Dom Perignon, at the moment he discovered Champagne
"Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the Champagne. The Champagne definitely improves the orange".
~Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
"I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate…and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself".
~Napoleon Bonaparte
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."
~Mark Twain
"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector..."
~Graham Greene
"Champagne is the only wine that enhances a woman's beauty".
~Madame Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV.
"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne."
John Maynard Keynes
"If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne." ~Rudyard Kipling
"Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"
~Noel Coward
“Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them,and Champagne makes you do them.”
~Brillat-Savarin
"Looks like it was a good year for IT!"
Anon, Juniper SKO 2006
"Robots could one day demand the same citizen's rights as humans, according to a study by the British government."
this is the link
this is the link
What does Christmas mean to me?
Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
I'm all for the pagan, "naked running round the stone circle" thing myself...
Bored...
The kids finished school for Xmas yesterday. This morning at 0730, after 30 minutes on his PSP, Richard declares "Dad, I'm bored"...
So it begins!
So it begins!
Oh I wish, oh yes it nearly is, Christmas!
Ho ho ho! Nuala meets Father Christmas for the first time and doesn't freak out!! (However, I fear an earlier encounter that same day with "Batman on stilts" may have scarred her for life!)
With just a team dinner and a half day of work to go until I finally get to embrace the festive season, I am trying furiously to get things finished before I head off so I can try to forget about work for a few days. I have started praying that people will be a bit more reasonable and take the "can it wait until Janaury" bait as I am getting to the canny be arsed stage with the year 2006. They may even forget about their requests come the New Year! So, I am plugged into my iPod listening to The Pogues to block out the distractions of the office and its chatter around me.
Some good things about Christmas this year
- I have a very tall (real) tree with dozens of fairy lights on it.
- Nuala has learned lots of new songs, and I love how cheesy and exciting Christmas is again.
- I am in Hong Kong, and it isn't even cold yet!
- I get to listen to Fairytale of New York, and remember Christmases past
- The Champagne quota has gone up- wha-hey!
- Get to shop for and ship lots of nice pressies back home
- Five glorious days in Phuket to look forward to
And not so good
- I have not been to one decent party this festive season/year
- I have not danced and made an arse of myself (yet!)
- I had one rotten hangover that was not a result of either of the above
- I will miss family again this year, crap as Christmas day can be, I miss that
- Missing another Christmas eve in a pub in Southampton (it's been 10 years...)
Monday 18 December 2006
Some call me Shirley...
Just in case you have never seen what my alter ego gets up to at the weekend...
http://catman-out-to-lunch.blogpsot.com/
I am telling you my friends, we are all doomed!
http://catman-out-to-lunch.blogpsot.com/
I am telling you my friends, we are all doomed!
Sunday 17 December 2006
Friday 15 December 2006
Thursday 14 December 2006
Quality
Been thinking about this recently, in the context of Six Sigma, TQM, etc. What does it mean?
Well, actually, it's all about how the recipient *feels* about the item and by "item", I mean product or service or whatever.
For sure, if you feel a service or product is great, then the quality is great regardless of *any* measurements... of course the reverse is also true!
The other thing is reputation... Reputation, good or bad, last longer than the reality, a classic example is Volkswagen, who's reputation for quality still persists even in the face of measurements to the contrary over the last 10 years...
Well, actually, it's all about how the recipient *feels* about the item and by "item", I mean product or service or whatever.
For sure, if you feel a service or product is great, then the quality is great regardless of *any* measurements... of course the reverse is also true!
The other thing is reputation... Reputation, good or bad, last longer than the reality, a classic example is Volkswagen, who's reputation for quality still persists even in the face of measurements to the contrary over the last 10 years...
Derek & Clive
http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/
I've been wondering which one I am today... maybe I'm still just "Shirley" (at weekends)
I've been wondering which one I am today... maybe I'm still just "Shirley" (at weekends)
A few words on...
…customer service.
In my team we all perform essentially the same task - "make our customers happy". It's something we would all do well to remember as the company gets bigger and at those times when "they" (the end-users, our customers) get on top of us (as it were).
Every time one of our users has a problem, they call us. Each call is an opportunity to improve our relationship with them! Think about this - anyone in the team that speaks to our end-users is an ambassador for all of IT, again an opportunity to improve our relationship with the customer.
"customer service? - it's what we do"
Go on, surprise and delight someone today, you know it makes sense!
Cheers,
Ian.
In my team we all perform essentially the same task - "make our customers happy". It's something we would all do well to remember as the company gets bigger and at those times when "they" (the end-users, our customers) get on top of us (as it were).
Every time one of our users has a problem, they call us. Each call is an opportunity to improve our relationship with them! Think about this - anyone in the team that speaks to our end-users is an ambassador for all of IT, again an opportunity to improve our relationship with the customer.
"customer service? - it's what we do"
Go on, surprise and delight someone today, you know it makes sense!
Cheers,
Ian.
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