General Chit Chat

[Gary the Enfield]

And - Arsenal's best player actually learned his trade at our place, and our best player still plays at our place. So that's that.

who he??

No. Chung Yong Lee.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Choices, choices. i've got a two-squidley coin and a box of charity sweets await. I've narrowed the choice down to two out of these three, but which to reject.

Jelly Babies - love Jelly babies but they ain't Bassetts
Jargonelle Pears - hard , might chip teeth
Blue Strawberry bonbons - delving into the unknown with that.

I've applied the rule of thumb "blue food is unnatural. It should be avoided".

[TANGODANCER]

Choices, choices. i've got a two-squidley coin and a box of charity sweets await. I've narrowed the choice down to two out of these three, but which to reject.

Jelly Babies - love Jelly babies but they ain't Bassetts
Jargonelle Pears - hard , might chip teeth
Blue Strawberry bonbons - delving into the unknown with that.

I've applied the rule of thumb "blue food is unnatural. It should be avoided".

Does that apply to a variety of cheeses?

[thebish]

Choices, choices. i've got a two-squidley coin and a box of charity sweets await. I've narrowed the choice down to two out of these three, but which to reject.

Jelly Babies - love Jelly babies but they ain't Bassetts
Jargonelle Pears - hard , might chip teeth
Blue Strawberry bonbons - delving into the unknown with that.

I've applied the rule of thumb "blue food is unnatural. It should be avoided".

nowt un-natural about bilberry pie...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Choices, choices. i've got a two-squidley coin and a box of charity sweets await. I've narrowed the choice down to two out of these three, but which to reject.

Jelly Babies - love Jelly babies but they ain't Bassetts
Jargonelle Pears - hard , might chip teeth
Blue Strawberry bonbons - delving into the unknown with that.

I've applied the rule of thumb "blue food is unnatural. It should be avoided".

Does that apply to a variety of cheeses?

some cheeses and certain berries are the exceptions that proves the rule.
I was once offered some blue fish with blue chips and blue mushy peas. I refused point blank to even consider the idea.

[thebish]

some cheeses and certain berries are the exceptions that proves the rule.

nope - they are the exceptions that show the rule to be in error...

[CrazyHorse]

What about blue Smarties?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

some cheeses and certain berries are the exceptions that proves the rule.

nope - they are the exceptions that show the rule to be in error...

No less a philosopher than Socrates formulated the rule. The original book he wrote it in has been lost, and no contemporary copies exist, and I've not yet gotten around to amending his wikipedia entry to add it in (so it's no good trying to google it), but he passed the wisdom on to Plato, who told Aristotle, who told my mum's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-nan, who passed it down the family.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What about blue Smarties?

[thebish]

some cheeses and certain berries are the exceptions that proves the rule.

nope - they are the exceptions that show the rule to be in error...

No less a philosopher than Socrates formulated the rule. The original book he wrote it in has been lost, and no contemporary copies exist, and I've not yet gotten around to amending his wikipedia entry to add it in (so it's no good trying to google it), but he passed the wisdom on to Plato, who told Aristotle, who told my mum's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-nan, who passed it down the family.

ahhh - but (fortunately) he was a member of this forum - and he admitted he got it wrong on here...

BTW - as well as being wrong about Nat Lofthouse being shite, I have also discovered (to my eternal shame) that I was wrong about that blue food rule... sorry guys!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

see that headband he's wearing, it's Portugese. Roughly translated it says "Blue food sucks"

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 15 mm (0.6 in). In one of the earlier ranges of colours, there was a light-brown Smartie. This was replaced in 1988 by the blue Smartie. They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, pink and brown, although the blue variety was replaced by a white variety in some countries, after it was discovered that the blue colour was extracted from plutonium rods.

[Gooner Girl]

Its cold and raining and i don't want to pull on shorts and go to work. I'm feeling very sleepy and would far rather curl up in bed. Moan over.

[thebish]

see that headband he's wearing, it's Portugese. Roughly translated it says "Blue food sucks"

although modern (and cunning) linguists have disputed that widely-repeated translation and pointed to recent discoveries of portuguese (with a "u") language extracts which put a very different spin on it...

A tradução é de facto: "A comida azul é absolutamente normal e muito gostosa!".

[Lost Leopard Spot]

see that headband he's wearing, it's Portugese. Roughly translated it says "Blue food sucks"

although modern (and cunning) linguists have disputed that widely-repeated translation and pointed to recent discoveries of portuguese (with a "u") language extracts which put a very different spin on it...

A tradução é de facto: "A comida azul é absolutamente normal e muito gostosa!".

"A tradução é de facto: "A comida azul é absolutamente normal e muito gostosa!".
"blue food is absolutely normal and very tasty".

He's off his rocker. I'm a follower of Descartes now.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

[thebish]

Oh, Edmund... can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest Blue?

[bobo the clown]

Its cold and raining and i don't want to pull on shorts and go to work. I'm feeling very sleepy and would far rather curl up in bed. Moan over.

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:58 pm !!!

Yer lazy mare.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Changing the subject for a bit:

I might be preaching to the converted, but have you come across Zinio? It's a magazine subscription service which allows the reading of magazines on or off-line. That's all well and good, but it involves paying the appropriate subscription fees.

However (information courtesy of my daughter who is a librarian) many libraries are associated with Zinio. Her library, of which I am now a member, is one of them. It's a brilliant concept. It's also free to library members! Libraries have for many years held magazines/periodicals for lending - this system not only does that but it allows you to download the publication and peruse it at your leisure (no seven day limitation, it's yours until you delete it).

I'm sure that Monty will be laughing up his sleeve, given his background and contacts, but to us mere mortals it is a gift from the gods. Of course the menu of available publications will depend on your local (or not) library. My daughter's library has currently some 147 items on its list. I await with bated breath for the day it subscribes to Nature.

No snide laughter, Dujon. Many companies like Zinio put together a selection of electronic journals and sell them to libraries. We call them aggregators (occasionally aggravators). Zinio offers a selection of popular magazines as opposed to scholarly journals, so their market is likely to be public libraries and individuals, rather than academic institutions. For example, they offer Playboy (for the articles of course which is what you wanted). These aggregators have been around for many years and there is much overlap between the products. For example, we have five different subscriptions to Nature (Nature Publishing Group, Academic Search Complete, ProQuest central, Expanded Academic Asap, and Ejournals). We have no choice because we need the other journals they offer. It leads to big rows over pricing. Different aggregators have different platforms and search functions - some give .pdf (as it appears in the published version) while some convert to html. Some journals only appear in e-versions now. It's the wave of the future. I'm glad you embrace it.

Edit: I just checked our statistics for paper versus e-versions and find:

Books (print): 3,609,340
E-books and E-theses: ebooks in catalogue (875,000) & e-theses (1,017,279) = 1,892,279
Journals (print) : 6,781
E-journals: 88,341

So we still have twice as many books in paper formats, but e-journals have completely taken over.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I used to work in life science publishing Monty. The attitude of the large publishers towards institutional customers with regards to pricing models was terrible. I left one of the larger publishers for a small one and regularly had librarians contacting me for help on my previous employers' journals! I left publishing many years ago, but I'm guessing not much has changed...