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Comment on How Google has ripped me off by Jonathan Morris

Jonathan Morris — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:14:30 +0000

Google has watermarked the pages with ‘copyrighted material’, which doesn’t make sense..

Comment on The ballad of Roger Dudman Way by Iain McGlade

Iain McGlade — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:20:09 +0000

Hello Mike
Nice ode to Roger Dudman Way. For your information The Save Port Meadow Campaign continues apace and we will be launching Save Port Meadow Beer later this month to boost funds for the CPRE High Court Case.
Any chance of a new verse about the beer.
Iain

Comment on Mick of Mick’s Cafe returns by madmikemagee

madmikemagee — Sat, 04 May 2013 19:08:29 +0000

I will next Tuesday :)

Comment on Oxford City Council appears “inept or corrupt” by karlsbad

karlsbad — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:42:37 +0000

Aye, they’re no “inept” at all, but highly skilled at graft_ serving up the people’s taxes and interests and assets for their private backers and own bent agendas. Labour is very adept at spinning and lulling the public into a resigned complaisance. After all, what is more insidious than the fact that they perpetrate their ongoing fetishisation of working class governance under guise of “Labour?” They should just rightly be called: Opportunists! And always in their wake is plenty Left too woefully undue (pun intended). Fact is, they beggar the poorer with [NO-] do-gooding sin taxes and by tares have spoilt the spirituous vine, and thus have lost the plot, vineyard and press. But in Oxford, a red rosette is as good as a tare. We do not exist merely to serve an agenda proposed by elitists. We must continually protect the roots of egalitarian democracy.

In contrast, I’ve always been fond of my Greens.

Why persist in allowing the sweat of your brow to be strained into the coffers of the rich? Sweaty Socks Untie! Rise your plowshares and beat them into S words.

Comment on Mick of Mick’s Cafe returns by karlsbad

karlsbad — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:29:22 +0000

Give a picture of your favorite dish, Mike. It’s been awhile since I drooled on the keyboard.

Comment on About Mad Mike by Rich Wargo

Rich Wargo — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:42:13 +0000

Mike, good to see you are still kicking around, causing no end of trouble in the computer industry. A comment on your TechEye article on XP upgrading. Company that currently employs my meager talents decided to supply engineers with VMWare Workstation on our Win7 based lappys and let us make all the XP virtual machines we needed. That way we keep semi-current and yet can still run all our XP-based specialized applications that may or may not get upgraded by vendors at some point.

Comment on The Rubaiyat of Omar Fitzgerald by madmikemagee

madmikemagee — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:50:39 +0000

Comment on The Rubaiyat of Omar Fitzgerald by karlsbad

karlsbad — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:36:12 +0000

They don’t like it up ‘em!
A Fatwa, a fat one and a phat one__
God must chuckle at everythin’,
or so He seems a convenient Human Being (with benefits).
Way down upon the Shani river
Far, far away…
Imagine Stephen Foster in that wold;
then he shoulda find some apt doo-dah
llike as which you couldn’t throw a rubaiyat:
“De Shanghai chicken, when you put him in de pit,
He’ll eat a loaf of bread up, but he can’t fight a bit…
I go to de fair for to see de funny fowls_
De double-headed pigion an de one-eyed owls
De old lame goose wid no web between his toes
He kills himself a laughing when de Shanghai crows.”
De Shanghai chicken won’t be caught a daid in China on any Saturday.
You’ll need to go to India, to find where he roosts on Satay.
I put him in a pot with Mandarin oranges, to warrant:
he feel at home.
“Bootleg Billy” I calls him by a name,
tho’ he only crows on Rufus; he’s an Orangeman just the same.
Shorely as Otto the Orange was the Saltine Warrior
o’ the Syracuse Orange. A supercoincidence, I dare to say,
but I think not. So let us kilt the lances in Mumbai and Bombay,
to Pyongyang, Tarshish, Pul, and Lud and where ever else you assay.
Even the mighty jinni-uine are often but tha faek.
Mercifully, we might fall back on the problematic evidence
of the inconsistent revelations. Tho many be culled, a few wilt dew.

Comment on The Rubaiyat of Omar Fitzgerald by sloefoxes

sloefoxes — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:48:28 +0000

i need to read this with my brain operational. did you catch the excellent BBC documentary on Omar Khayyam a few years ago? might be worth hunting down on YouTube, i’d certainly like to watch it again. & while Fitzgerald did mess about with Khayyam’s writing, feeding in a lot of Western assumptions about what being oriental meant, i do love his version(s). ‘Wine, wine, red wine’ the nightingale cries to the rose her yellow cheek to incarnidine’ sticks, even if the spelling doesn’t. (apologies if this post appears twice, i forgot to log into WordPress first).

Comment on The Rubaiyat of Omar Fitzgerald by Lucy Saunders

Lucy Saunders — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:46:19 +0000

i need to read this when my brain is operational. did you catch the excellent BBC documentary on Omar Khayyam? a few years ago, maybe worth searching on YouTube. & while Fitzgerald did mess around with it, i still love his version(s). ‘wine, wine, red wine, the nightingale cries to the rose, her yellow cheek to incarnidine’ sticks, even if the spelling doesn’t.