Posts by Philip Alexander

BOFH: The paperless cafeteria

EVIL..........

Truly evil, but brilliant!!

NASA test rocket explodes

OOPS!

That was careless of them

Mine's the one with Fireball XL5 in the pocket

BOFH: Burying the hatchet

AAH! My Friday is complete

Yet again

Chinese takeaway biodiesel man in garage explosion horror

Scotch? who mentioned Scotch?

Yes please! a large one with just a single cube of ice please

BT breaks up families

@j-wick

SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed - the wife,or significant other!

Coined by me some 30 years ago on Compuserve after seeing the film She!

Naomi Campbell pleads guilty to assault

Please Please

Give her 6 months!!

I live close to Uxbridge I wish I'd had the time to go there and smile as she got sentenced

Croydon devil dog execution: Exclusive photo

Illegal parking?

Is that van in the background illegally parked, just wondering as the armed police are already there.

Mine's the coat with the dog hairs on it(I'm not kidding either)

BOFH: The Boss gets Grandpa Simpson syndrome

HUH! In my day...

We had a Honywell 3200 and a 2015 complete with SORT disks weighing 10kg each that needed to be moved around the systems, 6 2400ft tape drives on each partition and JOY of JOY nearly 100 punch girls, Christmas parties were great!!

Young operators don't know how well off they are these days!! Bring back the '70s that's what I say!!

Mine's the coat with the read/write rings in the pockets

No-fly list grounds US Air Marshals

I'm still trying to figure out....

Why US security checks a passengers shoes at the END of 3000 mile 8 hour journey - after immigration and customs!

I don't think there is a more pointless exercise

How BA handles lost luggage complaints: Shock picture

Just how.......

do you manage to get these exclusive pictures all the time without being caught by the security goons like those featured!!

BOFH: The Silence of the Servers

Brilliant

All I can do is echo everyone else's accolades, I kept looking round for the Chianti bottle

Lightsaber voted top movie weapon

Light-sabres are cool because........

I bought an FX one for my daughter in law, she'd bought one for her hubby's birthday- lots of squealing followed by the pair of them rushing into the garden to duel, the grandkids watching their parents behaving.....well, like kids!!

@AC 3 in the afternoon?

Ah! You Tube How do I love thee? Let me count the ways......... 6 in the morning, Rvd and RvD2.

For the those of you who are wondering what the Hell I'm talking about, these are movies made by amateurs? that are well worth the time taken to watch.

Yes that's my coat just next to Darth Vaders cape

UK.gov says no plans for FBI DNA database hookup

As if the FBI...

would allow Brit or any external access to their systems, they don't even allow other Federal agencies access. Part of the reason 9/11 succeeded was that all the different agencies didn't (and still don't) share information!!

Arthur C Clarke lists three wishes on 90th birthday

Grand old Man of Sci-Fi

All the contributers before me have said what I wanted to say!

I grew up on a diet of ACC and Isaac Asimov. To my mind they are the two finest Sci-Fi writers of the 20th Century, between them(and HG Wells)

they predicted almost every 'wonder' that we have today.

Happy Birthday!!

Net Asbo slap for boasting Bebo teen

Cops and Cars

I was watching TV last night and there was a programme on BBC showing a police operation using the number plate recognition system, nicking motorists.

There MUST have been at least 20 officers there with 2 pursuit cars, each person stopped was treated to at least 3 officers around them plus of course the camera crew - talk about intimidation, I think I would have been.

The point is, all those officers could have been better employed elsewhere, as could the cars

'I'll be back' is most-quoted movie line

It's not FU MANCHU

It was Emperor Ming the Merciless who said "The world shall hear from me again"

I'm old enough to have gone to the saturday morning pictures - can someone help me on with me coat

The Champions heads for the silver screen

Who else but..............

If it can't be PH then it just HAS to be Victoria Beckham!!!!

I've already got my coat on!!

Virgin Media stops the rot

Excuse the play on words

As a blueyonder user I never had problems.

With Virgin - it goes down on me almost every Friday afternoon, I'm married and it's always when she's there. you see my problem!??

Oz barmaid fined for crushing beer cans between jubs

IT angle?

The IT angle is glaringly obvious - it tok place in a pub!!!